The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-10 00:00:00

Toil 'ME SUN.

Ma. EOrrott---Ai a plain individual, a well-,
-wisher to the best interests of my Country, may
7.1 venture to -claimllrelndOlgence of yourself, and
or the Readers of your truly loyal Paper, while
3 offer my sentiments 'upon the present times,
Although, perlans tltey 'may be presented in an
Imperfect order rt,n,l manner.—Mtlt respect to'the
Almnehrc'erNieeting, 1 think the Reformers have
acted inn way nnt.to he justified by thelf,a ws cif our
Country. They have assembled organiied Bo-
dies, marching to the sorted of music-, with flags
find inscriptions calculated to create disorder, and
in irritate the public mind.. Their leaders are
identified with the rest in the same extent of in-
famy nod guilt, by carrying in tire 'carriages that
ronveyed them to the scene of action flags and
inscriptions of the same irritating nature. They
have met, it is true. tor n lawful purpose—to pe-
tition, hit in an illegal manner to attain that ob-
ject. They have calculated how close they (*mild
approach to riot, sedition, and disturbance, tinder
the specious pretext of a legal meeting, and a legal
ohj• et, and it remains for the judgments of our
Courts of Law to decide, whether they have not
transgressed the boutuls of a legitimate Meeting.
That 'he civil and mititary power might have wed
nith more precisiot: and judgment at Manchester,
pethaps may still he dubious. I, might have
been hotter if they had declared with firmness
their actions and motives that led to theta; but
in :he silence of the "accnsed party we may cha-
ritably hope, that they will be able, in a complete
manner, to vindicate themselves from the asper-
sions that have been so industriously circulated
to their prejudice. And, T think, were my Coun-
trymen to act with impartiality, they would not
precipitately pass judgment upon any persons or
body of men unheard.
'1 hat it is titne such Meetings were put an end

to, must be allowed by every unpreindiced mind.
For although every person should, and ought to
have liberty to assemble to petition for any
grievance under which they may labour, yet
they have no right to exercise that privilege to
the danger and risk of the liberty and comfort of

others. Now, it is evident that the liberty of
Reformers arrived at Spa-fields, not only to licen-
tiousness, but to actual ruin and disorder, anti has
since frequently approached to it to the actual de-
triment and inconvenience of their fellow-sub-
j,scts.. Experience teaches us that 60,000 per-
sons, principally of the lower orders of Society,
cannot assemble without exciting a fear that they
should proceed to some acts of violence, and it
measures are not, taken to protect property, evi-
dent danger is to he apprehended ; to meet
which, it is necessary for persons to take some
means to protect their property from any antici-
pated danger. The consequences. are our shops
are closed, and the days of such Alretin;zs abridge
the liberties of the peaceable and well-disposed
inhabitants, and deprive them of a portion of
their time appropriated to the obtaining a living,
and their property for the time is placed in jeo-
pardy. The multitudes may, perhaps, separate,
without- committing disorderly acts, yet that does
not prove that no guard is requisite to protect the
weak and inoffensive. It may be argued that the
Poor may assemble as quietly as the Rich, and so
they would, were they addressed by men of judg-
ment, loyalty, integrity, and credit; bort when they
are exposed to the ill-judged, violent, and I in4y
add, seditious Speeches, of, misguided, if not wil-
fully corrupt men, we know not what effect
their 'language may have upon the poor ignorant
unlettered man who takes every thing for- truth
that is uttered from any Demagogue that. may
appear ; and when the Government of the Coun-
try is vilified, and every engine employed of se-
dition and of blasphemy, to loosen the sffec:ions
of the people from their Laws, their. King, and
their God. It is high time to put a slop to such
disgraceful proceedings, and for the loyal men of
the Country to rally round the Throne, anti pro-
tect its best interesfs,---the Religion and the Laws
of the Country. To put down at once every Meet-
ir.g that is held in contempt of the Law upon the
declared principle, that no Meeting can be justi-
fied that is .assembled. to vilify the Government
under whatever pretext it may be held ; that the
carrying such flags, &c. shall of itself be evidence
of the illegality of such Meetings ; and that every
person speaking in a contemptuous and seditious
manner of Government, be at once taken into
custody. Let 'every act of the civil and military
power be carried. into execution with great deli-
beration, with moderation, with firmness, and
upon such declared principles, as that each distinct
act and procedure may. be acknowledged at once,
that the cause and the effect may result from legal
principles.
It may be asked, May not the people meet for
Reform? 'Certainly; they may represent their griev-
ances too, but not to exercise this liberty to vilify
Government, not to make this liberty an engine
of ttlsvratc~, aucirchy, and confosion. To the poor
man who takes. up Reform, I would recommend
him to reform I himself; if every man in his own
private fatally were to regulate it in the hest man-

ter, might he not in many things redeem the
evils to which he is exposed. If the Labouring
man in our manufactures were to work every day
in the week (Sunday excepted), and spend his
earnings in supplying his family with meat, drink,
and clothing, he would wiz!' care and industry be
enabled to do it. Should he fail in accomplishing
this desirable object, might not he reasonably hope,
if he exerted himself to the best of his abilities, that
his employers or the parish in which he lives, or
the charitable and. well-disposed, would endeavour
to make up the deficiences that might occur after
his best efforts to support himself. And would
be not then live happily in the faithful discharge
of his duty. But can he expect, if he spends half
his time in the public-house, if he neglects his
work, if be abuses his employer, and threatens
hi. property with distruction, that they can then
hive the power of supplying his wants, increased
as they are by his own negligence and inattention.
But let the Poor make the experiment, return to
their duty, they will soon find their best interests
are to support the interests of their employers.—
Aud their employers will very soon.avail them-
aelves of the opportunity thus afforded them of
adding to the comforts and happiness of the roor.

'if, by the seditioilS Siiecelres Of your nthenifle4l''
Leaders, you are
.led to destroy tire propei le of
your neighbows,-what ilOyou expect so-gain ? You
Will be like the Man in the Fable, that loti
goose that laid him golden eggs, one every day
he thought it lie destroyed the goose 'then he
should at once get rich, and have all the 'golden
eggs at once but, alasl whets he opened the
goose, he found none.; so would it be with you if
you covet the property of the rich. If you destroy
their houses, their property, avid their Illettlia of
yielding support to you, you gain nothing,' but
Islace it out of their power to administer to your
wants and necessities.; you plate it out ,Of their ,
Power, without any advantage to yoOrself. But,
perhaps, you reply, We are told that it
sary to have a Reform in Pat liament 5. and that
Annual ParliaMents would make an admirable
change, remove all your wantsl, and restore you
to every comfort. You are mistaken—the
very reverse would be the result. Abuses
will creep into the best regulated Governments
we must admit, and every Government would do
well to pay a proper etteution to the interests of
the People, and it is incumbent upon the Govern-
ment as well 23 the governed to discharge their
Buries---faithfully to expend the politic money,
not lavishly, but with caution, and to act with due
regard to the sentiments of moderation. Vet
wha'ever abuses may exist, Anneal Pediments
arc not calculated to remove thent. Every man
most be sensible, that if 'he undertakes a 'new .ems
ploy's/esti, or a new office, .or a diErent kind of
work or labour, to what he has been accustomed,
he feels himself for some considerable time un-
eqeal to the discharge of the duties attached to
them, but by degrees he obtains the requisite ex-
perience, and the longer he continues the more
fitted he becomes for the situation he may fill.
Thus it is ascertained, by experience, in the small
circle of almost every parish, that a permanent
Manager of its funds is much more desirable than
int rusting its distribution to men who are scarcely
aware of the task they have undertaken, until
their office is about to be filled by another person,
as incompetent as he himself was when he first
was intrusted with its management ; so would
the affairs of the State be annually subjected, tin-
der the contront of a capricious People, to new,
Managers, incompetent to the weighty task coin-
mit led to them. The consequences would be
inevitable ruin, a total disorganization of the
country, and an entire want of confidence be-
' tween this and other States. Imbecility would
reign, liberty" would cease, and the native courage
of Englishmen would sink for want of concentra-
tion and regularity in the Councils of the Coun- -
try. England would internally be divided by
broils and confusion ; the edministration of the
Laws would be impeded, if not destroyed, and
every channel of usefulness would cease ; com-
merce could not exist ; agriculture am! manlike-
tore would feel the blight ; the High could not
support their dignity ; the Rich could not main-
tain their situations ; the Tradesmen could not be
paid ; the Mechanic could not find employ, and
the Poor would starve for want of the assistance
that now is abundantly provided for them, and
the end would be Revolution—Starvation. Uni-
versal Suffrage would be attended with the like
consequences.
It would- be pleasing in theory to imagine such
a state of things as to adatit every man to have
voice in the election of his Representative, but in
the present corrupted state of Iluman Nature,
such a Measure could not be allowed with public
safety. The powers of bribes and other induce-
ments arc too great for the Poor to resist ; and
the more extended you open the door of Election,,
the more peculation and corruption will take
place, and the-same consequences would ensue as
with Annual Patliaments. Men of integrity and
character would be disgusted, and retire with con-
scions indignation 'at the inconveniences and
troubles they would experience in offering them-
seivea to the Counsels of their Country, and the ad-
ministration of the Laws would fall into the hands
of those who, though incompetent to tbe ma-
nagement of their own affairs, would have impu-
dence, bombast, or other °ram ial qualifications,
sufficient to amuse the populace for a time, at
the expence of their best interests, as, well as of
the best interests of their country. lam afraid I
have already trespassed too much upon your pa-
Jience ; therefore shall only conclude with an ob-
servation or two, to the respectable Noblemen and
Getitkmen who have, by Public Meetings, or
otherwise, given encouragement to the disgrece-
ftil proceedings which the present times province.
Beware that you do not foster in your bosom that
viper, which, when you have comforted and sup-
ported twit it has obtained strength to injure
you, will turn round, and in turn destroy its Be-
nefactor and Supporter ; for Revolution, when
once it attains its strength, will indisciiminately
destroy both moderate Reformers and the Loyal,
without regard to principles or practice ; for the
object of the disaffected is not to obtain a mode-
rate
Reform. but toohtain riches and power, at
tha.expence of every thine that may impede the
attainment of. it ; and riches, in such a period as
these Radical RefOrmers should gain the ascen-
dancy, would be esteemed a crime, such as to call
forth their most inveterate hatred against the per-
sons possessing it, Therefore it behoVes every men
who has property at stake, or is in a situation to
obtain his living by industry and attention, to
forget all minor differences, to support the Go-
vernment of the Country, and to counteract, as
far as his influence will admit,
.every thing that
baS 'a tendency to weaken the attachment of the
People to the Government under which they live.
I have neither space nor time to add more, or
peruse with attention what I have stated, so as to
correct any grammatical inaccuracies ; but enter-
taining these sentiments, 1 submit them to the
Public, in hopes that may be Round of some ser-
vice to my countrymen ; and thOugh I have but
little leisure to turn my attention to public af-
fairs, yet, perhaps, my crude and imperfect ob.ser-
vations may call forth or give some additional
{firsts to those who are more competent t'o wield a
pen. For obvious reasons, in these times,
wish no notice to be taken of my statue or place
of residence ; for as they would not give 'dignity
to the subject, yet they might expose me to un-
necessary danger.--In haste, I remain your much
obliged Servant,

A FRIEND TO THE CONSTITUTION.