The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-24 00:00:00

GRAMPOUND.

MR. EDITOR—.I know not whether my neW
adversary, VINDEX, will not or can not under'
stand me. When I spoil" of the Borough of Gram'
pound, I of course described its Electors under Os
general term, Burgesses:—without extending 011
description to their specific kind. Be the Borough
close or open, the electoral right is therein, and i$
exercised by certain persons having therein a car'
lain property; who vote by virtue of that burgage'
holding. In the case of Grampound, the test of
their right may be " the paying scot and lot
but tint it VINDEX shall teach me how scot and 101
can be paid by any one who possesses no ground,
must continue to think that property—landed pro'
pert y—is at once the object and the test of Repro'
sentation.

This " hasty" inditer froni Dick's Coffee-house,
is somewhat premature in arraigning me of in•
advertency. I could almost have said, that Ile
had answered me before he had read your paper,
instead of after, as he kindly assures us;—since
moment's perusal would have shewn him, that.i
intended " Burgess" in the liberal sense, wherein
all our writers have expounded it. I speak 01
GRAMPOUND, as of any other Borough; eon'
ceiving that the British Law recognizes 00
right of voting, other than in Corporation"
or in virtue of land, or of some edifice
upon land ; and that property, not population, is
represented in Parliament. Habit and interest
may have commercialized the country • but .her
representation still continues upon the good old
principle of territorial possession. Forty shillings
annual value in the soil is still worth more than
forty thou.sand pounds annual value in the marvel
of England. And fitly so. The land remains;
but the gold may vanish. lam glad that we bast
preserved our ancient feudal dignity,—that nre
are still Gentlemen and Soldiers.

Thus thinking, arid fearing also the use which
may be made of its concession, I do set my facie
and lift al y hand against all of that new-tangled
nonsense of Reform, which knaves have raised
and fools have echoed. I have already said, Sir.
that I am neither Whig nor Tory; and I shall
not re-enter on a subject which my former
adversaries have relinquished. I will, how
ever inform VINDEX, -that I advocate the doe..
trines of " passive obedience and non-resist•
ance"—to the Constitution; the imperial will of
the three Estates expressed by the Legisly.
tore. With " the people at large," if he mean,
the Radicals, i certainly have not mixed ; but I

have lived in that England, which I trust will
ever pay allegiance to her Constitution. Mont
the change in society, its increase of know•
ledge and of property, and other such Re"
voliltionary jargon, I know only that impli"
cit submission is well worth paying to that Go'
vernment, under which " knowledge and pro"
" perry have increased.—l dispute not the right'
" and liberties of the people."—Fornsing 9 third
part of the Constitution, they can lose nothing
without their own consents They need neither
my defence nor my " tact."

I will not perplex your Correspondent with anf
question how he is so liberal to one species of
Dissenters from the Established Church, and so
penurious to another. 1 must know him to be $
Churchman, before I enter on that discoscion.--"

That he is not a Papist, I am tolerably eertain:—'
that he is not a Sectary of some sort or other, os
well as a Reformer, is beyond my undertaking.
I am happy to hear, upon VINDEX'S
that Me SUN is regularly taken in at DICK'S Cof-
fee-house. Hoping that it way long illume
worthy Co-coffee-sippers,
I remain, Sir, your's,

TENAX.

RECORDER'S REPORT.-Yesterday the RECOS*
DER made his Report to his Royal Highness
the PRINCE REGENT in Council, of the following
prisoners under sentence of Death in Newgateo
t iz. :

John Booth, for secreting a letter, containing a 51. Banff
note ; Ann Smith, for stealing goods privately in a shop
Emma Davis, for a rolibeiy on the highway; Ann Pearsoot
for stealing goods in a dwelling-bause ; John Church, Nt
housebreaking in the day-time ; John Markham, for cum'
nutting au unnatural offence; John Stubbs, for disposing °`
and putting away a forged 11. Bank note; Thomas M‘Dcr:
mot, for a like offence ; Thomas Wildish, for uttering 3na
putting away a forged 101. note of the Bank of Dover ;
Alartin, for housebreaking ; and Mathias Maher, for fir.
fiery—when John Markham was ordered for execution oil
Wednesday next ; and John Booth and Thomas frildish f4';
execution on the Friday following.—The others were respiLc*
during pleasure.

The regimentals of the two regiments of Roysi
Horse Guards, and the 10th regiment of Hussars,
are about to undergo a considerable alteration ;
the short jackets now worn by the former are f°
be discarded, and the laciagsof the latter changed:
The 4th Dragoons are immediately to be equipped
as a light regiment,

BIRTH.
Yesterday, at his house in Russell-square, the Lady °I
Thomas Denman, Esq., M.P., of a son.

DIED.
On the 33t11 inst., in her 70th year, Mrs. Priscilla King'
relict of the late George King, Esq., of Haverhill, Suffolk•

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