The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-07 00:00:00

PARSON HARRISON.

The trial of Harrison is fixed.for this day. The
following is an abstract of the indictment against
him :—Atter setting forth that the defendant is a
" wicked, seditious, and evil-disposed person," it
proceeds to state, that on the 15th of August, at
Stockport, " its the presence and heating of a
great not her of his Majesty's liege sitbiects,
he maliciously, unlawfully, wickedly, and sedi-
tiously, did publish, utter, -and declare of and
concerning the Government, established ceithin
this realm, and of and concerning ti,e ivy', Houses
of Parliament, the wicked and seditir•us words
following, that is to say :—" The Government has
starved the people, and it . the people
should starve the Government. It is necessary
for the consent of all Three Estates to make laws,
which cannot he altered but by the saute con-
sent. The Commons House, or House of As-
sembly of the People, should watch their inte-
rests, but a few designing persons have the whole
sway there, and when the people a: k for their
rights by a Reform in their own House, they
threaten to make war on the people. Cats laws
proceeding from such a source be called the law
of the land, or is it fit we should obey (him ?"
The indictment also charges the defendant with
saying, " it is a corrupt Goveinntent," and with
endeavonring to " excite ins,urrection, sedition,
and to overawe the Ie.() [louses of Parliament."

Sir CHARLES WoLsELEY's trial will come on,
we understand, at Knotsford Quarter Sessions, iu
die third week of Oc:ohcr Dem.

The ,7offin containing the remains of Dr. RAD••
CLIFF H, the notnifieent benef-ictnr In the Univei-
y uf Oxford, was disf.!oVel ed; last to erk, drpo-
sitrd in of tile vAillts of ,t. Mary's Chinch in
that University. The spot where he was bulled
wgs not before known.

The fishermen of Plymntith, liave lately caught
an Albicore (a fish peculiar to• the Tropics),
shark (ight feet long, with a conger hook, and a
Sturgeon seven feet eight inches long, and weigh-
ing 1001bs. The two first-mentioned were puh7
liely shown, at one Kenny etich pet Eon; the last WdS
sold at Gel. per lb.

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rOR THE SUN.

TO JOHN BULL, ESQ.

LETTER VII.

nor, agreeable to the common adage,

HONISIT JOHN—Your Bible
,tells you " that
the Labourer is worthy of his hire,"—a sentence
Nvivich has been too often quoted, and misquoted,
as- a salvo to the consciences of the idle, or as a
stimulus to discontent on the unthinking.

Taking the phrase, I will not frighten you,
JOHNNY, by calling it a Text ; singly and uncon-
nected, it will not be borne out by contmon ob-
servation. 'to►, yourself, knoW well that there
ere many labourers who are not worth their

g' worth

their salt,"—but, if we take it with the context,
it conveys the plain, moral, and social truth, that
he who executes well what he undertakes; has a
right to his stipulated reward.
It happens, however; at the ptesent moment,
that the agents of discontent are labouring to im-
press upon your mind a different conviction, not
Merely insinuating, but asserting, that the la-
bourer bas a right, even an abstract right, " to
a certain sum,7—" to a sufficient sum,"—to
wages that he can live by, &c. &c. j forgetting,
or attempting to' make others forget, that labour
and its hire must form the basis of agreement be-
tween two individuals, 'voluntarily, and that there
is no more obligation on the part of one to hire,
than there is on the other to work ; &eve and ex-
eept that be who ceases to hire, must cease all
*orks but those executed by his own hands, and
that be who ceases to work, if he possesses no

property, must cease to eat,—the one losing his
profits, the other missing his daily wages,
The late amiable Dr. PALEY, in a valuable
little work of his, called " Reasons for Content.
meat,`' one page of Vt'ilieb, JOHNNY, would do
you more good than half a bundred Black
Dwarfs, or the whole of COBBETT'S unsold Re-
gisters—be, my honest friend, tells you very
justly, that " the labour of the world is carried
on by service, that is, by one man working under
another's dieection ;."--,that " servile in Eng-
land is, as' it ought to be, voluntary and by con-
tract, a fair exchange of work for wages, an
equal bargain, in which each has his rights and
his redress; wherein every servant chooses his
master, and makes his own terms for money and

Do you never observe the constant succession of
advertisements in certain Papers, where 1-1. L. M.;
or or various other letters of the Alpha--
bet., dater acknowledge a Letter being received,
or a Letter being sent, or that somebody is at the
old place, or is goneito Geneva, or sonfething of
that half-cypher order of infoimation.
If you do, JOHNNY, you may boast that yon
have the honour of reading the secret correspond-
ence of the Great NAroLuoN--.-the idol of modern
Refortnefs—the man to whom they look up fo7
the tank of Dukes and Marshal % Prefects and
Princes

Now these labourers may be worthy of thei
hire, at least they do much for it, and mom
dirty work too—you, however, I trust, my goad
old ft lend, will now examine their actions geld
their words a little more narrowly, and will lo
longer consent to be the cat-paw of discontett,
ignorance, and venal sedition, but work honesly
and faithfully, and work For such wages as you
can get, knowing that a temporary cessation of
demand for manufactured goods must always
produce a commensurate fall in price, and that
the manufacturer must either give lower wages,
or cease to work entirely.

You may stand out for wages if you will, but
you cannot force the manufacturer to work at a
loss. Yortmay demand higher wages for weaving
a piece, or you may ask what you please for your
web, when wove, in Leeds' Cloth-hall, but yon
cannot oblige the manufacturer to employ you,
nor the merchant to purchase. In either case
your bargain is mutual ; and as you once lived
rep to your wages, you must now learn the, I
will own, hard lesson of living down to them,
since you cannot raise them to your living : but
with the certainty that the benevolence of your
richer fellow citizens, I don't mean the Reformers,
will always secure you from absolute want, and
with the cheering hope of better times when the
wages of industry will be more commensurate to
-necessary cApenslitute„ though you must never
expect that the two extremes will meet, of high
wages and el►eap provisions.
have now, my worthy old friend, touched
upon all your political glievauces; and as, after
so long a correspondence, I have become a little
acquainted with your family, r shall, with your
leave, next week address a Letter to your Wife.
Your's,

IGNOTUi.

-THEATRICAL REGISTER. -
Performed Last Night.
TEUATIZE ItnYA 1.-, COVENT-GA HDEN.—Macbetit: Macbeth,
Mr. C. Kemhle ; Marduff, Mr. Yates; Lady Macbeth, Mrs.
Bonn (late Miss Stnorrville). After which, Moe Beard.
THEATIIE Royal, HAYMARKET.—Pigeons and Craws : Prin-
cipal Characters by Mr. Terry and Miss E. Blanchard.
After which, A Day after the Wedding. Tu which was
added, The Travellers Benighted.
THEATITE RoVAL, ENGLISH OrF.Ri4•HousE.—The Brown
Man : Bernardo, Mr. Dowton ; Cecile, Miss Kelly. After
which, The Tailors. To which was added, The Death of
Captain Cook.

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