The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-07 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]
The proceedings on the Mock-constitutional
Association are various, and begin now to obtain
a degree of interest which the more respectable
members, we learn, would be glad to decline.
Of the persons prosecuted, or attempted to be
prosecuted, we know nothing ; and therefore, so
far as personal motives are concerned, our judg-
ment is unbiassed : indeed, were we to speak
our opinions freely—though, like most impartial
people, we tnay.give double offence—we should
say, that between the original concoctors of this
Soctety t'we exclude their dupes of course) and
those against whom they profess to wage war,
there is not " one chip to choose." However,
as some from either side may be brought
to take their trials before a Jury of their
Country, we press this matter gently. The
Public will have seen the letter which we pub-
lished yesterday from Mr. King, whom this
Society attempted to prosecute, and whom one of
its agents (as Mr. K. stated) endeavoured to seduce
into the offence for which it was intended to at-
tack him. This was a very dark transaction, as
desCribed by Mr. king ; and its blackness is
not diminished by the affidavit of Orton,
the boy-informer, published in this day's jour-
nal. Was not this youth aware (or if he
was not, were not his employers aware) that
even the most practised Bow Street Runners
:shrink from the employment of entrapping a man
into the offence, :for the commission of which

they are afterwards to become his accusers? and
how much less is this a befitting duty for a solici-
tor's. clerk ? The celebrated Lord Hard wicke
was articled to an attorney in Shire-lane, we be-
lieve; and his mistress wanting only to employ
him on some .menial household errand, the boy
hired a coach, and charged his master with the
fare, saying it was improper that.one bred to a
respectable profession should -be seen bringing
home a leg of "mutton and turnips :" and the attor-
ney acquiesced in the propriety of the clerk's con.
duct. But in what way must the career of a boy ter-
minates.whose early life, like that of Orton's, is
dedicated to employments such as are de-
scribed in the affidavit,and who has the means of
acquiring a certain degree of technical knowledge
in an Attorney's office ? We are-of opinion, that
if this youth, Orton, has parents, there is. suffi-
tient ground in this affidavit for demanding his.
indentures of his master.

CORONATION.—The dress allotted to the
Band of Gentlemen Pensioners for the Corona-

lion is particularly gay. The original picture
exhibiting the dress was painted by VERTUE, re-
presenting Lord HUDSON in the dress, and is now
at Sherborne Castle. His MAJESTY has been
very particular in ordering 'theirs to be ex-
actly like it. The jacket and short breeches
are of scarlet cloth, covered with several hun-
dred yards of narrow gold lace, and have be-
sides twelve thousand small sugar-loaf buttons on
each dress.* The puffs or sashes are of light blue
velvet; scarlet silk stockings, black.shoes, with
rosettes ; straight antique looking sword; a
short mantle, edged with gold bullion, and
fastened by an immense bow of gold cord on the
left shoulder, something like an aiguillett ;
EDi-
ZABETIS'S ruff round the neck, and a bonnet with
three white feathers, with scarlet satin puckered
round the crown, and turned up in front with a
gold loop. The dresses are all ready, and it is
said will 'cost 2001. The above dress is to be
worn on State occasions only, and the 'present
uniform at levees, &c. which is a full dress of a
Captain, of the Guards.—(Morning Paper.)

The Select Committee. of the House of Com-
mons appointed to -take into consideration the
existing Laws relating to Vagrants, have made
their Report. They suggest the expediency of
revising an& consolidating the different Acts upon
Vagrancy ; and for this purpose, and various
others connected with the subject, they recom-
mend the revival of the Committee in a future
Session. -In the mean time they have directed
their •Chairman to move for leave to bring in a
Bill for amending the present Laws relative to'
the apprehension, punishment, and passing of
Vagrants. This Bill has, in consequence, been
brought in by Mr. CHETW Y/CD. The Report;
among other suggestions, recommends that the
practice of passing vagrants to their places of
settlethent be suspended for one year from the
Ist of September next.

POPULATION RrrunNs.---The population of
the City of Gloucester, according to the return,
made last week, amounted to 9771 souls ; in
1811, •it amounted to, $lBl souls; the increases
in ten years, having been 1590.
Woofer, Edmunds, and Maddocks, who were
sentenced on Friday last to different periods of
imprisonment in Warwick Gaol, were on Tues-
day removed to that place from the King's Bench
_prison.

Martin and Turner both shewed yesterday,
and both bear marks of a hard combat. Martin
is hit the worst about the head, but Turner has
suffered -severely by right-handed body hits.
Martin has challenged Rjandal to a second combat.

"ties in the commuisity. For these persons we
profess the sincerest respect, and although with
many of them we have the misfortune of differing
in opinion Upon the greater number of those poli-
tical questions which for some years have em-
ploye4 the public mind of this country, we can
yet esteem the purity of their principles, and
give them credit for sincerity and integrity. We
hope, in return, that our motives and principles
will be treated with the•same candour and indul-
gence. But in the view which we have taken of
this Society, it matters nothing who may have
sanctioned it by the authority of, their names ;
it is with the principle of such an AssOciation
that we quarrel, and not with its particular mem-
bers. The respectability of many or of all of them
does net relieve them from the imputation of
having committed an error in judgment ; and we
doubt not that the greater part of them sub-
scribed their names to the conditions or terms of
the Association as they would to a kmple avowal
of loyalty, &c. without having prhiously con-
sidered with attention the injurious effects which
such a Society may be calculated to produce when
"put into active operation.