The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-06 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

POLITICAL CONCILIATION.

MR. EDITOR—There is no set of men rd.()
lave more advice offered to them thsn

le sty's present Ministers ; and I believe there are
none vrbn take less of it,--but why ? Simply Sir,
because though much is offered none is giren. Their
afteiiers always tell them—" This is trrong,"—
hut if asked " what will he right %"—those no-
Chalcascs—now tell your Devil not to phy
the Devil with that word by printittg it Cilrons•es,
howerer appropriate the mistake might be—those
Cita/eases, I say, are instantly ail, or, as
if a certain place were the Cave of Taornogit's,
instead of the Temple of Dst.Puos. `lii but
Cother day, that one of those oracles propnsed
Conciliation, as the only means of saving the
Countrs.. He was asked to explain, " No,"
replied the Conjuror, " 1 am' not houni to tell
you what it is; but I will tell you what
it is not !"

Now, Sir, amongst all the ancient and modern
modes 'cif conveying information, from the Ques-
tions of the patient SOCRATES down to the Com-
tnandspf triend LANCASTER, there is not one that
call be said to resemble this. It is not only origi-
nal, hut, like their %vire-drawn speeehifieations,
in-
conrlrisire—Excuse the pnn, if you luinnen ro 411).
serve it—j.ist as if I were to he asked,

" whAt

ig tt Horse ?" 1-IARRY I;cirse Bop, for
instance, trho no longer bears his waster, nor
his waster him—Oleic is knottier pun, catch it it

you can—qnd shook{ answtr, through the gra-
dntiol of Qnadrnpedes, Tripedvs, Birries, and
" he is not an ast, like his master ;
nor a three leggcd stool like an Isle ot Man

Penny; nor a tvotn4ll, like I\l,s not ith-

Etanding any privve analogy which you wags
r,F4y suppose to exist thereby ; nor a one legged
tlincer like Vestris."—Now, Sir, all this nonsense
; might repeat, end a great deal more; and yet
both you and I, like the FapiPiit Civoaclß alluded
to, rni2ht j.tst know as little about u hor,e, as a
horse knows about us.

In fact, the answer.aboni CotzciLation rPminds
me of an n1:1 JOE Mtr.Lrk 4tOry Abollt Ermtenteni.
An old fellow, who in his youth bad been n short
time in the army, and who, though he had really
never seen service, Was always fond of talking as
if he had, happened one day, amongst other terns
of forification, to use the kv ord Epoulement. He

was asked what it meant ; his answer was ready,
and equally conclusive wiih that alluded to :
" Sir, wl,ien I was in Flanders, the Duke wanted
to take a tour, and the engineers stated that it
could not he taken in less than six weeks, when
I instantly stepped Hp, and said, ' Please your
Grace, it may be taken in a fornight by an epaule-
went. his Grace tha►►ked me ; the epaulement
was made, and the town taken. Good night,
Sir !"—But to the point of Conciliation.

One species of it cert2tOy has been proposed ;
namely, that HUNT, HARRISON, &Z. should have
been allowed to go on quietly, without any inter-
ference OD the part of Ministers. Well, Sir, this
is very plain and simple advice, and I dare say
much approved of by HUNT and his gang ; but
there is a learned proverb which says, '' Expe-
riencia docet," and I recollect a •case in point,
where at buxom country Isis prosecuted a young
fellow at the Old Bailey, for cutting off het poc-
kets in St. Paul's Church-yard, or rather in one
sf the passages leading from it. ilcr conduct
seems to have been pretty much like that vecnm-
mended to Government ; for site said in evidence,
" that he began to pull her about, and got her
nil against the wall ;" attdiiu " that she rt,ad.. no
resistance, as she wished to see how
.for Ypipti-
dence would carry hint l" How far his impudence
went, I don't know ; hot I hope THEIR IMPLY..
DENCES will never be tittle to get a hand into
the pocket-hole of the Blitish Constitution, nor
touch its tinder garments ;—if they do, then in-
(lced it will be all Dickey ! .
Bat now, Sir, for MY PLAN, which most please
oil parties. Let Parliament instantly repeal all
Taxes, Customs, and Excises, prohibitory or ope-
rative; but at the same time let rtlinisters settle
pensions on all Custom and Excise Officers, &c.
who, with large families, must otherwise be
thrown into starvation ; Parliament also granting
ample remunerations to the Farmers, Merchants,
Distillers, Silk Weavers, &c. &c. who must other-
wise sillier from a free importation of corn, Dutch
gin, French silks and' laces, cum inultis aliis.
Let Parliament instantly pay off the National
D,!ht ; or if that shall be found inconvenient, let
them adopt the plan of the great Hampshire
Transatlantic Reformer, and ask the National
Creditors if they are such jack-asses as to suppose
that the nation will continue to pay them interest
for money long since spent. Should they grum-
ble, let Ministers buy up all the unsold numbers
t,l COBBIsTT'S Parliamentary Register, and divide