The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-27 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

tat ie extract with pleasure the following Obser-
"' itorn The Sheffieid Mercury of the 24th
• r.l4t.' and the Friends of the Constitution must be
trace 1 ,
pull. 1 knowing t us
1-t' In 1 t so loy-.1 a Journal is
181)ell in the neighbourhood of the disaffected
rches who want to overwhelm us with a
r ~
'ne.h Revolution :-
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th, I here is not a reflecting person in the
violent
241 %sho does not view with disgust the violes
itC.recolotionaty conduct of the demagoguere,
tlo'.°' taking advantage of ;he public pressore,,a
Orders alt in their power to stimulate the lower.
tr. ers of fL _
p, ue People, iu various parts of the coon
YI
'it° -cis of insubordination, clot, and rebellion.
t
tar, ter t
„ ine pretenee.of petitioning. for Parlia nen
itlt "gorrn, these factions Miscreants have
. got
ia
pie the habit of calling meetings at different
.and disorderly
of course are assembled all the Ile disorderly part of the population, and where
11:j liave.:" opportunity of instigating them, by
' n'c'st `Baail t -v speeches, against the reli-
c A • "I" ("' •
iiiia nd etvil,institutions of their ,
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login ous conduct i, i„ity appreciated by all tri:.
oul 4nd respectable part of the community, and
*Nth Y,calle for the interposition of magisterial
tile ,Qt,iYs
•to check and dontrol it. Indeed,
ri
of all indignation—if the contempt and scd n
cao, g,ood nien--if the mischief they have already
.the"., or the ruin they are likely to cause. to
lii :it deluded followers, could have had any effect
kiiirlhecking the course of revolutionary violence
'so ,-,7, these men are pursuing, and which they are
ere ti:ve in recommending to others, they must
trt
ii,s have stopped in their career; aad paused
that
Nay iheY precipitated others into crimes,. , s
111, if
ead to their destruction. But it seem
1) no • consideration of this sort
"e loftwould
an oh-
itet uence with them. The!, "vie
11)eini!O .gain, and is matters not oy what
104ktortnoils
Ited -- It is acquired, It is in the storms
of revolutionary vicissitude that they
seeitn,lt)t e chance of obtaining what they are con;
sw they never can acquire in the regular ant
tpliiiell course of public life. Despairing of ac-
Nrtin,g distinction by supesiority of talent
.m tiiin it'it,beir meretricious ambition seeks to on
ti►e -Yittescending to flatter the worst passions
t,it ill ntoo, and by insulting, as tar as they dare,
1, '4l it dionifi d and in the land.—
or tilis s e venerable
lite 1, P"Pose they instigate the lower orders of
I'lift'l,"la to assemble in public meetings, at
I'lltl .t.:,,Qt. course,
they are invite 4 to preside,
tth,re 1 'e most violent resolutions ate glassed---anti" Jelly of speech is so free, that be who 0p-
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-potet the prai:earlins most dc) it at thz ria of ills
ltfe ! Buz the popular Orators are heard with
delightoo memoir breaks in upoo the hold
flights of a fluntno hiss interrupts the decla-
matory invective of a Woofer ! The most ames-
ing pait of it is, that while these Patriots are in-
veighing agains the tyranny of the Government,
they are exercising the etuaost freedoM, and are
seffered, in this enslaved conntry, to eniplriy with
impunity a language that would, in any other, send
them to the gallows
" We are disposed to believe, hOwever, that a
considerable share of the present discontent which
pervades the mantitactering districts, is to be at-
tributed to the pressure that has fallen so heavily
Ott I hose parts of the country, and that if that Was
relieved we should hear less of Annual Parliaments
or Universal Suffrage. People who are suffering
the hard,hips and privations of poverty, are not
in a very fit stare for reasoniug on the subject.—
They feel too acutely to he capable of impartial in-
quiry. At all emviots they are generally ready,
enaagh to at-quit themselves of all blame in pro-
ducing their own misfortunes,, and find it the
easiest and the pleasaryest way to lay the fault
somewhere else. They are ready enough to be-
lieve, what so many take care to tell them, that
rile whole of their sufferings is to be ascribed to
the Government, anti that if it were not for the
taxes, &c. etC. they would always have plenty to
eat and drink, and might be as idle and- as happy
as any Gentleman in the lands! The natural cure
of all their evils, therefore, is to he found in the
election of a dernotratical house of Commons, by
a-hich, we suppose, all the taxes would be re-
pealed—the natioruti debt cancelled—and neither
army nor navy, nor indeed any establishment, suf-
fered to exist that might create expellee By such
a Reform', too, is it not probable that the work-
ing classes (having the greatest influence in this
new order of things) would take care of their
own interests, so far as to insist upon having *ork
at what they might deem reasonable wages, and
not leave so important a part of their concerns to
the arbitrary will of tyraenical masters ? With a
House of Commons filled with such men as Hunt,
Cnbbett, ‘Volseley, or Wooller, our cotton-tnills,
for instance, never could stand still ; our shuttles
would never pause, nor our treaters cease from
work, even though no customers should be found
to purchase what they wove ! Such a wonderful
thing is this Reform, and such miracles is it ca-
pable of per'orming.
" Connected with this subject, we cannot help
recalling to the memory of our readers an exhi-
bition of female patriotism, which occurred lately
at Blackburn, and which, as it is both new and
extraordinary, deserves some attention, and will
.afford 801112 amusement. At a meeting held at
that place, a deputation of female reformers was
adinitted, who with great ceremony pronounced
an address suitable to the occasion, and presented
the company with the appropriate ensign, a cap
of liberty ! There was something so ludicrous in
the whole affair, that we should suspect it bad
been invented for the purpose of exposing the
folly and extravagance of the whole party. It
marks, however, the gross infatuation that, has
seized upon great numbers in that part of the
country. To what a pitch their revolutionary
phrenzy must have arisen, when we find English
women, forgetting the characteristics of their sex
and nation, and rivalling in effrontery the in-
famous Poissards of Paris, (hating the heat of re-
volution, thus coming forward with unblushing
faces—neglecting their families aud hearths—and
assuming the language and tone of the most aban-
doned met)! What the 'peculiar principles of
those Ladies are, we arc at a loss to guess, but
we suspect that their claims will constitute an-
other modification, in the various plans of Re-
form that have been offered. lire fancy it has
!,,tt yet entered the heads of those enlightened le-
gislators, Huta and Wolseley, to admit females
to an equal participation of political privilege
with the tnen,but the Ladies of Blackburn will no
doubt lay claim to it, and we do not see how, oil
the principles of' those Gentlemen, they can he re-
fused ; and the Lady Reformers of Blackburn, no
doubt, are anxious to enjoy emancipation from the
thraldom and tyranny of the men, and from all
the restraints which the manners and instite-
tions of our country so unjustly impose on the
sex !

" It it amusing to observe, that the leading
orators, at the meetings we are talking of, are
schoolmasters ! half-witted pedants, who, from
being accustomed to give the law to the trembling
tochins of their schook, have got it into their
heads that they are the fittest persons to legislate
for the nation ! From the principles which these
men preach, one, would suppose that their schools
were scenes of riot and misrule ; but it is generally
found that those who prate most of the rights of
meo, and contend inost keenly for popular privi-
lege, are the very last to grant it. As far as our
acquaintance extends, the severest instances of
domestic tyranny and oppression are to be found
amongst tilose, who are must loud in their clamour
for pubiie freedom. All this clamour, indeed,
does not impose upon those who know them, and
who look upon it as the mere effusion of disap-
pointed ambition, or a discontented spirit. Did
• \lr. Cobbett's neighbours, at Bosley, discover in
that gentleman's treatment of the surrounding
poor, any traces of that deep interest he expresses
tur the people in his wtitings on the contrary,
is it not known that he was hated by the labour-
ing poor,, whom he oppressed and treated in the
harshest manner ? And this is the general feature
of the party—to respect. no rights but their own.
They are ready enough to stimulate the poor to
acts of violence against the laws, but we never
find them suggesting plans for the amelioration of
their situation, or lending their assistance to those
who do.

" We are glad to find that government has de-
termined to act with vigour against these agita-
tors, and that the local magistracy has already in-
terfered. These will be supported by all men of
worth, talent, and respectability in the country,
who cannot but see, in the accomplishment of the
designs of these furious men, the destruction of
every thing valuable in the kingdom. The laws
are powerful enough,to preserve the peace, and if
they are put in force, with the vigour the•occa-
sion requires, we sball soon see an end put to
this system of anarchy %us) Popular vivience,",