The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-20 00:00:00

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FOR THE SUN:

To JOHN BULL, ESQ.

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HONEST JOHN—You are, no doubt, on the tip-
toe of 'expectation, breathless with anxiety, and
burning, with curiosity, for the opening of the
Grand National Arena of the Political Gladiators,
the speechifying liatterfeltos, who, whether as
IVltigs ar Whig-Radicals, as Radicals or Radical
Whigs, are now puffing out their cheeks to try
their trumpets, or bellowing forth, '' Walk in,
Ladies and Gemtnen—only a penny a-piece—here
see are, all alive and stuffed with straw—the
trampoline tricks are just a-going to begin, and
there is plenty of room !"
But, if there is plenty of room on one side of
the House, the clamour will not be less noisy ; and
as your son Jack says, " there will be longer yarns
drawn" to make up for the deficiency. It is true
101 l will have much of the old bill of fare over
again—the twice laid—the cranzbe repetita—the
bubble and squeak of the colt! Rump, instead of
the smoking hot round of old English fare ; but
"ell as you like good fare, or well as you like to
V), you don't like to be taken to the fair. I wish
therefore to put you on your guard against the
.Juggle which will not fail to be played off against
-'2°ll, until you shall scarcely .know whether your
.Iswo heart is upon your own shoulders.
As for the usual attack upon the PRINCE RE-
titENT'S, or the Ministers' Speech, as it is cOnye-
-Itiently taken to be, that, you know, JonNNy, is
t° apposition what the long roll is to a regiment
about to march ; it prepares them to fall into the
tsoks, and they may then march out, if they
Please, but I trust you have now no great IViSII
1° see them march in ! Yet they, doubtless, have
some hopes even as to that imuceuvre—one hope
at least they have, that is, a forlorn hope ; but
let them batter as they will, 1 trust that in the
lines of coinmunication between you and the old
friends who have stuck, fuithfullt by you in all
a'ssaults, even when your professed friends advised
You at once to bout the chamade and lay down
Four arms ingloriously, I trust, JOHNNY, that no
breach will exist large enough for any thing but a
/tar to creep through.
Let us now, JOHNNY, suppose them in their
ranks—a motley groove, for they will all hang to-
gether at the beginning of the Session, whatever
they may do towards the close. If I wished to
sketch a prophetic picture of the band—itti, I had
almost wri,tten—but I mean tli'e band of Patriots—
Verily I could not select a more appropriate prog-
tostication than the account of the last Finsbury
Illeeting in their own Gazette, entoneraling mud-
14sPattereil, half-shod Reformers, " with open.
tillooth swallowing a Cobler's news ;" though little
'disposed to the same operation in regard to the
'Lloetor's gallypots—or 1 might marshal them in
the style of the Bat badian ILlilitia Serjeant—" All
You who hub shocaod rocking, tan in front ! all you
laho bah shoe and no tocking, tan in centre !! all
You who hob no shoe, no tucking, tan in rear!!!
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• lint all this is in bad taste, and requires Re-
Arm—ah ! there's the rub ! Why, JOHNNY, the
Chronicle boasted of time famous York Meeting,
*here the Whigs were all assembled (without
l'ower, however, to enforce their requests for a
healing), that when the subject of REFORM WAS
4"ellyted to be introduced by the Radicals, they
*°,11(1 not permit it to be entered upon. Indeed!
and why ? Are they afraid the Radicals will carry
"ay all their stack in trade ? or do they look
4Pon Reform as the Irishman's snipe, which he
Often fired at but never hit, intending it should
last him for the winter ? Do they wish to keep it
for a stock-piece, or do they calculate, as last Ses-
ai"ne when, clamorous for a Reform of the Scot-
tish Burghs, they still resisted any thing which
eutdd touch upon the close English Boroughs.—
tell you a secret, JonNNi*—the Whigs know
that the Reform which they have so long talked
ahoot would be the ruin of their Party. They are
• cionseintts,-not withstanding their boasts, that they
have lost the popular hold, and that they worth)
"e trod ruder foot by the Radicals, should a
t,,haoge take place ; and therefore the Aristocratic
juuroughs are the only political anchors they have
t4t lo hold by.
You may therefore hear a little grumbling about
"torto—a little threatened engnity about LOPEZ
atttl B‘eaNN—and a few lor.g sreches abut
I,lle Burghs north of Twevd ; but the first grand
dish served up in the political charger, though no-
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)"(1Y now cares- tv,o-periee about it, will be a
lendont to Helton's daughter, a raw•head and
,4",1y-bottes from Manchester, with anxious at-
-1":"I'ls to bt lug ill HUNT, HARMER, Mill PEARSON,
wi,"Lrotvbeal the Speaker and laugh at his big
•lust as those worthies have insulted almost
try Court of Justice in the Realm. On this
'iteclsub-
then, JOHNNY, yon may expect to wade
• ti:kilY thiough eleven columns of close-printed
heat'er, without leads, for GOO knows it will be
10.crY enough without ; and Heaven preserve your
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" as for your patience—but I pray nor for
-I•Ti • will this be a suffer-
i4u. • tries ! )en re(
at.!,. Country. I wish you well through it, my old
it"; alter which you will shall again from,
Yours,
IGNOTUS,

FON, THE SUN.

TO J- T-, ESQ.

Mr. EDITOR—I spi red by the perusal of your
ADDRESS to ERIN, I have ventured to embody my
thoughts in a poetical shape, which, if you think
worthy of public perusal, I commit to your care.
Differing as I do with my absent friend on
many important subjects, I cannot bestow that
unqualified praise which I allow that his talents-
ikud,attainments deserve, and which from many
of his friends they receive. His ardency of cha-
racter may have led him into errors which his
cooler reflection may condemn ; but while those
errors are unacknowledged, neither the tongue,
110 r the pen of a true friend, should pass them
over in silence. Every liberal heart must how-
ever unite with me in deploring that a noble-
minded man should be injured through misplaced
confidence, and reliance on the recommendation
of those against whom he should have been by
prudence legally secured.
November 19. HIBERNICUS.