The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-16 00:00:00

IN.

LITERARY REVIEW.•

IA LETTER TO .EARL. I'Z I,LIAM, ON RECENT

'VENTS.
A small pampblet, bearing_the above title, has
, lately Published. 1 is 'written with great tem-
per, and throughout preserves all the respect which
:it due to the.raok,aod,years Qf Vic peysonage mtelmonm,
concur with mhe,writer, that
errors proceeding; from an elevated and respected
source are rendered more dangerous
,by its re-
spect and elevation A. end though we should.not
ourselves, perhapl,,have addressed the Ex-Lord
Lieutenant quite so
pforbearingly, we cannot in
;tbe**: times qnes,tion the moderation, which re-
fuses for retOrt
.uptstm his Lordship the equality
which he encourages.
We should extract very freely from this excel-
lent pamphlet, but that we fed it would be an
injustice to it's loyal and spirited publisher, to
gratify more curiosity in our Readers than will in-
duce, then] to :peruse entire work. In an
hour's perusal, they mvill find much strong, and
decisive argument; 'such as is far more easily
passed over in silence than answered.
We cannot, however, abstain from the follow-
ing extract, lung as it is; it brings back on our
minds the atrocities of the French Radicals, and
awfully warns against their English imitators.

" lf,At hnndred years since, when the horrors
-of the French Revolution will be only known as
a matter of stale history, such an opinion were
to be maintained by any set of men in an elevated
rank of Jife, it cannot he doubted but this would
excite the amazement and reproof of the wise and
enlightened friends of with-Hod liberty : but that,
in our day. and by, men who lived, in the times of
that awfol. Revolution, whose minds must even
now sicken when they reflect on the horrors which
theyhttrember, that such an opinion shonld be
entertaiiii4,l, avowed and promulgated, is perhaps.
the most ;extraordinary and monstrous political
phenomenon which has appeared in our time. Can
we forget how the French Revolutiou began? How
the popolace of Paris and Lyons, and of all.the
great and small towns of France, were excited to
their weak of blood and massacre ? Was k ridt'hy
inflammatory declaimers, convoking and inforiat-
log the .people ? Assembling theist in irresistible
masses; exasperating them witb details of teal and
imaginary grievances ; and exciting them to vin-
dicate, what they termed, their natural rights and
liberties—leading them on first with revolutionary
banners aud devices„as in this country, and alter-
wards with pikes surmounted with the heads of
murdered citizens ? The satire principles, the
same practices,- if not contronted, will always lead
to the same or similar consequences. Iltotn +n
nature is much the sante every where, and the en-
lightened populace of England, if allowed to be
put-in motion, not Withstanding lily. Lord Gros•
venor's opinion, would, like the equally enlighten-
ed populace of France, visit, we may hope, for the
credit of our country, with less cruelty, btu not
with less fatal effect, destruction and devastation
upon this glorious Constitution and Country. Re-
collect how easily the lower orders of people are
misled—That on such occasions, it is the worst
and wkkedest' who command them—That there is
ak'ays a succession of leathers, each supplanting
and surpassing the other in crime and cruelty, and
Cien„, perhaps, it would not seem extravagant to
assert, that tt even the people of this country, now
so. mild and benigant in all their feelings, were
allowed to be worked up to a state of insurrection,
and wrought upon by all that infernal agency,
which Predominates-in such convulsions, especial-
ly where it is the effort of the lower to put down
the higher ranks of society, they woidd leave a
history, written in blood, at the idea of which,
the worst of them. it he could how anticipate it,
might turn from with hotror.
" Your Lordship now thinks that too strong
proceedings and too soon, were taken to repress
these risings in mass -f the people at Manchester
'er-but what was the error in France ? That the
governinent of that country WH3 too timid arid fur)
slow. It our government were too soon, it was at
least au error ou the safer side—but kV ho 'can pro-
nounce with certainty that it was too.soon ? Some-
assert, that the Meeting at Manchester, if un-
distnt bed, would have tliipetsed peaceably, and
harmless—hut who can be sure.of this?--Must nut
he be a very presumptuous and weak man who
can say with coofidence that 100,000 people, at
a tube of temporary distress, if harangued for hours
by infistuniatory speakers, Will disperse quietly
and peaceably ?-1 he same assertion might hase
been made, when Lunt George Gordou's assembly
in Mass began its march through L The
:reason was less irritating; the means employed
less inflammatory:—Yet what was the-result
London was set on fire in every quarter—the pr i-
sons were broken- open—the felons lilterated—the
lower and hank assailed anti neatly capinted, and,
but for the valair arid energy of the King, it is
impossible to say, where or when the destruction
would have ended. Atter such an example, my
Lord, do not credit those, who tell you, with
confidence, that a multitudinous assembly of the
people would terminate peaceably ; nr that: the
E.telislt populace; when collected in mass, Me
dilreren( from toy others, and int aprble of com-
mitting act!: of atrocity and destruetioa.
" Your Lordship recolleCts how short a time it
was, Hay how few days, how few blurs it

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front the first rising the poptilsee• in mass at'
Paris, to tlieir posesgion of superior power.in
that •metrOpolis, to their, storming dlr.:hostile,
toossacreing the Governor, oterconting thelcing,
;Government owl State at Versailles, potting to,
flight the young Princes of the •lilood, anti tnany
of the Nobility.. ,And, recollecting the magical
rapitliry of diese events, which in, fact overturned
the state before almost any one was aware, that it
Was ill. danger, you i.vould 'not'perlrtips be sure, as
you went lately to have been, :in thinking those
'Ministers; wrong, who are.not very tartly in their
proceedings, firr preveOting such assemblages anti
risings in mass of the populace of, a great .cation:'
A stirall-fOrce roigAit probably, in the.vely begirt-,•
oing, have pot ciciwtraitil dilre4ed ittsurgettf-ar
of Pat is hot, once allowed to head, they
beconie iriesisAhle." • •

The .‘iiiter 'firoeetids to
the procie`dings of the Manchester Mdb, and the'
obligation upon the Magisitates .their 11):
pression. 41e. plainly spews, 'that th'r privileges'
which Lord F. claims for the people, ,rte not:
only unrecognized by, hilt contrary to, even thos'a
Whiggish principles which his party aftecth to
vindicate ; and very convincingly he argues, that
those principles are all violated by the soi-dislant

'' If any doubt existed, on yosir Lordship's
mind, as to the ancient opinions of time IVhigs,
about multitudinous meetings of the people, the
Riot Act surely would remove them. The repeal
of that Act has never been attempted by any
‘l'hig Administrator since. 'f 14e object of it ust—,
doubtedly is to disperse, find speedily, all such
meetings. The awful punishment it subjects those
to, who do not disperse within the hour, proves
the magnitude of the crime in the view of those
who framed the law. And fixing the number of
people upon whom this Act mayoperate, so lose
as twelve, also proves hOw adverse thOse ancient
Whigs were to large assemblages of people."
Neither regard to the Publisher's interests, nor
to the space of our own columns; will permit a
longer extract ; but we earnestly refer our Read-
ers to the sequent pages of the Pamphlet, for a
masterly exposition of the real rights of the lowcr
orders ; which time Author skews to be consistent,
and indeed commeasgrate with their capacities,
and habits, and education. We have always in.,.
culcated, that the common people• have the right
to-which they were brought up, of making and
mending shoes, 'breeches, ploughs, anti saddles ;
but not of making and mending Constitutions.

" To tell such a etas; of people therefore, as
those assembled at Manchester, that their consti-
tutional rights are intracted, when they are pre-
vented from pursuing ;heir plans for new model-
ling our Constitution, is erroneous in fact, and
cruel in consequence."
We were about to extract the admirablc.para•
graph at page 24, in support of this doctrine ;
but we ryfrain.• The Author irrefragably shews
that the very spirit and pervading principle of the
British Constitution excludes the. commonalty'
from almost all its offices, unless upon terms
which when complied with, raise them above the
common class. We would add, upon a ground
which we
.have frequently urged, and which a
little Tract. which we lately noticed, " The Equa-
lity of the Constitution," sets in a very clear light,
(hat this exclusive principle is the best incentive
to the humbler ranks, and the beit basis of their
prosperity, because it prevents their hacing rights
which they have not earned by their industiy,
and spews that the Englishman who would be rich
and powerful, must first be diligent and honest.
The picture, so ltumiliatiug, of Earl Frrzwm-

LIAM and his Son's secondary importance at the
York Meeting to the .White-hatted Radical,
FRIEND WILLAN, is Winllni!`, and strongly dwelt
'on. Their Lordship,' will not contemplate Ic
with much pride or satisfaction. We must now,
however, send our Readers to the Pamphlet it-
self, the closing sentence
.of which should he
sounded and written wheresoever thole assemble
unto wlium the safety of tl4e Couutty is com-
mitted.

" LET Till 3 PRF.SI,;NT DANGER BE MET BOLDLY

AND DECIDEDLY, AND IT WILL sooN ISE OVER,

AND %VITH LITTLE OR NO LOS:. TEMPORISE, AND
THE COUNTRY Is UNDONE."

FALCON BY .—Lord GAGE, to vary his field
amusements, his lately introduced at File the
noble sport of 14-'4lconty, whicii in former tiitivi
wls confined ti) toylitty and wen of high distinc-
tion, being ,iutlevil top .expensive for the
of °theta. -,llojby..ii9le•ilt Jatties I. 8:r "Inoinas
Monson ibousaml pounds
1114 a cast 40 liatilti'j'aail hi such esteem was that
bird in 'Edviard ITI, that it was wade
'dotty In steal a 112Irrk ;1() 011ie its eggs, even in
a person's own ground, wnsptinishable with im-
prisonment for year awl a ftay, together with
a fine at the Kines will. His Lor(!slrp is at-
'coded in the field by a reollar lidt.oller, whose
command over his hawks in the pursuit of game,
has astonished nrany the-neiBhboulhoud.

FOR THE SUN.

RADICAL IMMORTALITY.

"Exegi monainentuni xre pei rnnitis"—
Q. H. F. Ode xxx. lib. ir.

Me. EDITOR,—That HENRY HUNT, Esquire,
Da. LADY, and DR. WATSON, together with Dn.
ERRE, MR. LOZENGE GREEN-ENOUGH, &C. have
sought immortality as far as Chalk, and Hyde• Park
wall can go, which is, I believe, about a mile
and a quarter, is notorious : but Sir, the renown-
ed HUNT has had his name recorded in a more
Radical manner, and in one so appropriate to him•
self generally, and most particularly at the present
moment, that 1 cannot forego the pleasure of
making it known to your Readers, and to his Ad-
mirers ! Not that I would insinuate, Mr. SUN,
that these are the same individuals—Oh no ! if his
admirers were able to read, I would send them to
a neighbour of yours, to inspect those columns,
which, report says, are valued at ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND POUNDS ! Spell it again Sir—but of
that more anon—to the. point then. Passing a
few days ago, near the Magdalen, I observed that
the mud had been scraped off the centre of the
road, and deposited at the sides. •It had lain long
enough to part with some of its moisture, and vas
sufficiently dry to retain an impression, which,
however, it was still wet enough to receive. 1
hope, Mr. Editor, I express myself with sufficient
philosophical accuracy, to be perfectly intelligible,
for the case is impote ant. On approaching one
of those tumuli more nearly, 1 noticed some very
decent graphic specimens ; on wbich 1 put on
my spectacles, and read with no less surprize than
delight, the name, perhaps the autograph, (or
what 1 can tell, of HENRY HUNT, ESQUIRE! ! !
just where it ought to be•---iN THE MUD !
Whether it still remains, I cannot positively
say ; because I know, that it any carriages pass-
ed, that were up to the k—nares, it may have been
obliterated, emblematic of that great character
himself. But, now Sir, to the 100,0001. Why
then, if any body gives that sum, or the hundredth
part of it, unless they also buy Mr. Somebody
along with it, they will be in the situation of a
silly Nobleman, who purchased PUNCH, hut for-
got to buy the gallantie showman ; so, that when
Punch came home as ordered, after dinner, he had
lost all vivacity, all his jokes, thumps, and other
more fun-dameut al witticisms, which had so
charmed MY LORD, ignorant of who was behind
she curtain ! ! !

Yours,

FOR THE SUN.

f` IT CANT RAIN BUT IT POURS."

I. G. N.

" Niisce 3tultitiam brevem."*
Q. H. F. Ode xii. lib. iv.
Ma. EDITOR--I am happy to find, that another
Nobleman—Noble Peer 1 would say—has been
" insulted" by Alinisters ; men who never do
Tight, and who were actually born after their
fathers.

By the way, it is a fortunate thing, that the
sapient Gazette of the Party eau tell, who their
fathers were. Had the research been made, e
contra, it might have puzzled even 77► e Chronicle.
Now Sir, I hope that liberal Paper will lengthen
its list, and tell us when l►e became a Peer, how
he became, and why he became so. It may be a
check upon some Folk's tone !

Yours, in a hurry,

808 SHORT.
P.S. Pray, Sir, can you tell me whether The
Chronicle is /iodic/11 or Aristocrotic
" Mr. CANNING i 9 the son of a tradesman"—
and pray,, what is ?Ir. Alderman WAITIINIAN ?
Paruos componere magnis—Oh ! be is the father
of tradesmen—" Why Mr. LINGO," says some-
body in the farce, " Yon seem to be a Seholar."—
LtNoo. " A Scholar ! Sir, 1 am the Master of
Scholars ! !"

Translated by Lingo for those whom it may concert)—
" ll:tve ON few fools as

APHORISMS.

Wherever faction succeer:s to such a degree as
to x‘eaken the Government and f,t-t loose popular
fury, a worse than savage barbaiiiy of manners
fullows, even in nations that before made a boast
of their urbanity.
The greatest blessing men can enjoy in society,
anti the only effectual seenru y thty have against
t lie evil of anarchy, is in the possession of a strong
and vigorous Government, by which, though in-
dividaal passions are r.str,ined by the curb of the
law, the geiieral tiarilitiility is thereby preserved.
Rebellion is a (Jim:: peculiar to that being who
has been favoured with a knowledge of his duty,
but which he does not SC, to violate when-
ever he !tillers his passions to gain the ascendancy
over him.

(i)stinacy and heat of opinion are the most cer-
tain marks of folly. Is there any thing so im-
moveable, resolute, regardless, coiltemplative,
Eel and grave, It% :ATI slss i Montague.
There is no stretching of po:ver ; 'tis a good
rule, eat within your stomach, 4Cr. Within your
comtnissions. Selden.

'Fhey that govern inw:t make least noise. Yon
see when they row in a barge, they that do drtni-
gery-work, slash, and ImU', and sweat ; but be
that governs, sits quietly at the stern, and is
triatce seen to stir. Belden.