The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-15 00:00:00

[THE MORNING HERALD.]

Of all human beings, a Patriot by profession is the
most difficult to please. if we are to have a dispute,
give us a Tory—gives us a courtier, a churchman, a
religionist, but save us from a red-hot patriot. He is
constantly speaking of the services he has rendered his
country, of the triumph of his principles and public
virtue, yet he is often the greatest despot in existence. I
So long as you flatter his vanity, report his speeches
at full length, interlard them at every other sentence
with " loud cheers ;", a immense applause ;" << deafen-
ing applause ;" and repreacnt him as the most vir-
tuous and patriotic of men, he will he on the beet
terms with you, and even praise you for your discern-
ment. But if you find fault with him in any way
whatever; if you do not place all his good qualities in
the fullest light ; if you do not say that all eyes are
turned towards him, and hundreds, and thousands,
and hundreds of thousands are trusting to his indivi-
dual exertion ; that Government itself cannot go on
without him—hi short, if you do not worship him as
a god, and flatter him more than any other human
being, he becomes your bitterest enemy, and will do
every thing in his power, openly. or covertly, to injure
you, No language can be too violent for his purpose
—no punishment van equal the ()Once. The Majesty
of the people has been dishonoured in his person, and
the most' cruel and degrading punishment would
hardly be regarded as an atonement. ' A patriot by
profession, in fact, is the bitterest enemy, and the
Most dangerous of human beings. No wonder that
Kings, and well-bred, people hate them. Their self-
sufficiency and abominable arrogance are ouch that a
well-bred King, like George IV. would sooner come
in contact with a coal-heaver than with a profesied
patriot, whose energies are all on fire, and who,
according to his speeches, has nothing in view,
and disregards every other consideration but the
good of the people. Woe to him who has
patriot by profession for his patron I He will find
little equality exemplified in his conduct—little hu-
manity, and few of those mutual kind offices and
attentions which are the distinguishing marks of good
breeding. He imagines himself the bead—the King
of the people, and puts in practice that very system
of Government which he reprobates as tyrannical and
degrading. 'the histories of Charles I. and Lewis
XVI. afford fine instances of the emuluet of those
patriots, and of the cruelty and tyranny which they
exercised on two men, whose. virtues at least were
above mediocrity, and who exhibited in the bosom of
their families a picture of domeetie happiness and
peace, of which these patriots could hardly forty an
idea. Cromwell, who began, his career by railing
against taxation and tyranny, ended by leaving the
Excise laws as a legacy to the people, and by exhi-
biting in his own person the model of a tyrant. Too
many such instances might be adduced; but the arro.
price, and violence, and aelf-aufliciency of these pro,
fesimed atriots are even more offensive than their
.
,nconststowy. For these reasons we prefer coming
contact with a Tory. Ileiv a better bred gentleman;
he is less soured with disappointment ; he is ingre
the way of receiving; the good things in Church, and
Mate, which the other as eagerly pants after ; has
no claims to exclusive gout! qualities, or to be, looked
people ; and conse-
th
up to as the only Itiend of
(randy, has less of that vanity, that self-complaeency,

;hat acrimony, and vulgarity which render the red-hot
patriot such a disagreeable enemy. The latter is too
often soured by disappointment ; he despairs of ob-
taining places and pensions, and, as the last resource,
joins the multitude, who flatter his vanity, impart, a
little of their vulgarity, and render, him an unwelcome
guest in every company where good breeding and gen-
tlemanly language are regarded as virtues.

We have observed in some of the Country Papers
lately, paragraphs stating that the leading manufactu-
rers have it in contemplation to apply to his Majesty's
Government for a sum of money, to relieve the wants
of the poor weavers, who are suffering so severely
from the stagnation of trade. It is unfortunate, how-
ever, that the. Government can afford no relief. Time
alone can provide a remedy. The great manufactu-
rers must leave off' work, 'and the warehouses, now so
overstocked, must be nearly emptied, before we can
expect an increased demand for goods, or such a rise
of wages as will repay the operative weaver. The num-
ber of those who have invested their capital in the
manufacture of cotton goods is by far too great.—
Perhaps at this moment there are as many master ma-
nufacturers as there were operative weavers thirty or
forty years ago, and every one of them has been stri-
ving, year after year, which shall bring the greatest
quantity of goods into the market. Can there be any
wonder, then, that there should be such a glut in the
market ? We would dissuade such men from making,
any application to Mr. Peel, or to any of his Majes-
ty's Ministers. The latter can do nothing for them.
We would advise the manufacturers to remain at home ;
to retire from business, such of them particularly -as
have realized tontines, and spend their money among
those unhappy people who have been reduced to their
present condition partly by the overdoing of things on
the part of their masters. Let such of them as have es-
tateslive ilium them, and employ these men in making
improvements. Let them spend their incomes in
giving work to as many as possible of those helpless
people who were attracted to them at first sight by
high wages, and the prospect of continued employ-
ment. These master manufactnrers acted, in fact, as
loadstones. They attracted from town and country
such numbers of men and women, that various trades
were, in a manner, deserted. Those that remained
obtained exorbitant wages, and in some departments
of agriculture, as well us in the paving of streets, the
building of houses, the making of roads and canals,
we should have been without labourers at all, but for
the peasantry of the sister island. This was not to be
wondered at. Men that can gain a livelihood by the
easy business of spinning and weaving, will not sub-
ject themselves to the labour of filling up valleys,
levelling mountains, draining lakes, or breaking
waste land. When, there is no demand for them,
however, in the former species of employment, they
must find out means of subsistence from these or
other sources of labour. Any thing, in fact., ought to
be preferred to a grant from Gruverninent ; (» to any
thing like a continued relief from the public, without
some return in labour be made for the money re-
ceived.—/bid.