The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1818.

441,. T. SHELDRAKE has removed from
No. 50, STRAND, to No. I=2, ADANT,STREET,
ADELPHI, and coutinues to make every Article for which
be has acquired relintation,yiz. TRUSSES of known supe
rlority cur .every liiod of Rupture : Instruments to remove or
Luisist every kind of Persooal Distortion ; besides' others,
which have the additional advantage of not being visible to
asly Olo,erver ; these can .only be had of him, in Adam-street.
It is necessary to give this Caution, as many Persons still in-
quire for him in the Strand, and are deceived by Persons
who pretend to imitate his Inventions, of which they have,
in fact, no knowledge. His Treatises on the Cure of Dis-
torted Spine, on Distortions on the Legs .and Feet, and Use-
ful Hints to those who are afflicted with Ruptures, &c. may
be had in Adam-street.

BRADBERRY'S PATENT SPECTACLES.
'l'o all who value their SIGHT.—The Sight of the
aged restored, the weals Sight strengthened, and the perfect
Sight preserved to extreme old .age, by BRA OpERILY'S PA-
TENT SPECTACLES, on the same unerring principles that
have given such general satisfaction for. more than twenty'
years., in London. and all parts of thu Kingdom. Lists of mare
tetp' thousand persons may he it'.ivected, who have re-
ceived ttta greatest benefit and satisfaction. The New Street
Improvements having required the PremiSes, 332, Oxford-
street, the busineskis removed to 27, Holler-street, two doors
nut of Oxford-street, on the left-IL-aid, where Mr.BradLerry's
Patent Spectacles are only to be sand.

IRISH LINEN COMPANY, No. 4, BLOOMSBUItY-
SQUARE, ESTABLISHED EIGHTEEN YEARS,

THE Public are respectfully invited to an In-
spection of the very large and ch'eotpSTOCK of mtsrl
SLUR VING and SHEETING CLOTHS',...iriow on Sate at No.
4, the South-side of Bloomsbury-square. The Company.
from the nature of their Egtablishineirt'sliere and in
,Ireland,
offer to the Community the above Articles.much cheaper and
hitter than they can be procured through•any other medium ;
their Linens are bleached under their own inspection, with-
out the help of Acids; theywarrant their durability and co,
lour, and engage to return the Money should a fault appear.
Country Orders faithfully attended to. Agents, John Do-
novan, 4, Illoomsbury-square' London; John Doyle, 31, St.
Mary's Abbey, Dublin. Good Bills on Ireland, or'lrish Bank
Notes, taken in payment fur Linen, or discounted.

CAUTION.—The extensive demand for the
following Articles having occasioned numerous Imita-
tions, the Public are respectfully informed that the Genuine
has the signature. and address (Attie Proprietor. on the label.
ATKINSON'S FLUID, for the growth of the Hair, found-
ed on adi :covcry of the causes Which occasion baldness. It
prevents the Hair falling off or turning grey; and where bald-
ness has already taken place, either froa, illness, perspiration,
'ange of climate, or hereditary causes, it will restore it
to its original strength and thickness. Ittspectabk re-
ferences to this fact are given in a pamphlet enclosed round
each bottle. It also frees tho'Hair from scurf, makes it soft
and glossy as silk,and keeps it jig corlduring exercise iii minc-
ing or Balking. or in damp Feather; price 35.,64. a bottle.
ATKINSON'S VEGETAtILK DYE changes grey or red
hair on the head or whiskers to a brown or black; warranted
perfectly innocent, and to give a permanent colour, Price 55.,
los. 64., and 11. is.

ATKINSON'S AMBROSIAL SOAP, prepared by a new
Process, which frqcs it from all irritating qualities,. removes
freckles, redness, and hardness. fri.nn the skin, prevents its
chapping, and makes it soft, white, and even. Price ts. the
square ; and, prepared with Naples Soup, for shaving, prie,
itt:---1-szt. 641. each, •
Sold' by'JAMES ATKINSON, Perfumer,,No.44, fiertarssttee..:
Soho-square, London, and by roost Perfumer's ,4nd
larr-
dressers in Town and Country.

A MERICAN SOOTHING SYRUP,- for Chil-
dren while Cutting theirTeeth.—A more singularAn-
i staoce of the effielcy of this invaluable Medicine Ca .not he
found, than in the case of a Child of Mrs. Smith's, :"VO. 20.'
Peal-tree-street, Waterloo-road, the child at 19 .:iftiflfifs' o/0
having only four teeth, and suffering under the most alarming
waste of body, it was emaciated to such a degree that its arms
appeared to contain only a fibrous substance, no bone being
fen; in this state the child lingered for many months,incapable
of being moved, when Providence directed her to try the
SOOTHING SYRUP, which'i
,ri obe.week produced four more
teeth and destroyed the fever which had so long threatened
tlit life of the Child, who is now four years old, having cut all
his teeth, and,the bones seem to be restored to their natural
substance, and the Child is able to walk about with the as-
sistance of a go-cart. The mother having another child three
uninths old, lost no Lime itt applying i be7SyruP to its gums,
which broughlts teeth through witJ ease, and therefore pre-
Vented those alarming symptoms which so often attend denti-
tion. The above singular case may be proved by applying as
above, where the child may hr seen.
To be had of the Proptietorf:,',Tolinson and Williams, 94,
Newman-street, Oxford-street, ,London ; and,. by their ap-
pointment,. of all the principal Medicine Venders and Per-
fumers in Toy, n and Country, at 25. 9d. per Bottle.
N.B.—Airs. JOHNSON relieves the Poor, as usual, at her
bruise, every Tuesday and!Satorday morning, from Nine till
Ten o'clock, by brin.zing a Letter from a respectable House-
keeper, to certify that they are real objects of charity. - •

FOR THE SUN.

POLITIC.II, SOCIETY.

SECT. V.

Many writers on political affairs have laid it
down as a' sort of rule, that in forming any Go-
vcritmentthe people should be deemed all rogues,
who have nothing in thew but private interest, by
which they must be governed, and their avarice
and ambition be made to operate for the public
good: if this be true in politics, it is surely false
in tact? though the people in general are more
honest in their private than their public conduct,
and. will
.do more to serve aparty than themselves.
Whatever restraints honour may afford, when
they act in a body it is in a great degree lost, and
if they are approved by promoting the common
interest, they despise the clamours of their adver-
saries. Where power is distributed among seve-
ral orders•of-them, separate interest should be con-
sidered, and if it concur with the public, we may
call the Go`vernment wise and happy; but if the
separate interest be not directed to the public, we
may say that the consequence will be FACTION,.
DISORDER, 311(1 TYRANNY.

A Cicero or a Tacitus, therefore, if living,
would be surprised, to see a regular system of
mixed'Government, where authority was so dis-
tributed that one puler, like Aaron's roll, might
swallow up all the rest. They might say that
such a Government, instead of being mixed, was
ratherunder the furious ambition of men who are
never satisfied uith power, and that it was or
might bi'ari absolute one, it one, order of men
'could, Whett it pleased, usurp over another. They
hOweVer, be in an error, and the British
'Constitutiou proves-it.. _ The power of our House
of Commons commanes the wner parts of th#
Government, notwithstanding the Veto of the
King, whiCh he finds unnecessary o'er to give,
and his assent to a Stature is little more than
form. His chief weight is in his executive office,
which is subordinate to the legislative, and cannot
be employedavithout Yn enormous expence, to be
defrayed by the Commons, who may refuse to
grant it. Just so would it he were they depend-
ant on him, and possessed nothing but from his
gift: He would then command. all their results-
itmis, and he 'sibsolute. The Lords support the
Crown, and tltetrowis.sopports the Laws ; but
neither cars support themselves separately, with-
out tiie Mutual aid of each. Thus the interest of
'the body is here restrained by its parts, and the
Commons coofine their power to the interest of
their maj;rities:. The Crown, indeed, has much
to!lisn.'t:o t t :)i-;,1 iicxrieil by the honest
par, s:. f'ir command their
,:iz,erve the Constitutiun iron} Abwve,
en,144./1 urt hut it is Wilk:ally wise.
It may be ca:lcd corroplOn and (14einiei..t rta,
it so.. It is inseparable from time spirit of the
Constitution, and necessary' to the preservation
of i mixed Government. lie power of the
Crown is lodged .fn a single person, who may
have more or leSs, ambitia;' ,ability, courage,
popularity, or fortune. if too, great in one hand
isk'may be; too little in another.. Itt Republics,
where anthOrity is divided, control is more regu-
lar in' its operation, because numerous assem-
blies are supposed to be nearly equal in knowledge
and virtue, but in a limited Monarchy such poser
cannot be assigned a) tire Crown; as wo,dd on
every hand he a counterbalance to the other mem7
bers of the Constitution. 2-- L

NION'ITSQUIEU.
(To be continued in Sect.',`!.)

scoTcH an Gus.'

MEETING OF THE GENERAL CONVENTION.

EDINBURGH, JULY Is,—The Gentral Conven-
tion of Royal Burghs met this day, when the Re-
port of the Committee was read, stating that the
Conyentiori had been in the use of altering the
secs of Royal Burghs on what appelred just and
reasonable grounds, and with`consent of all par-
ties interested.

Mr. HENDEasoN, Member for girkwall, ad-
dreseti the Convention at considerable length, and
endeavoured to point out, from numerous prece- •
dents, the power of the Convention to alter the
sets ofburghs. The question, he contended,
was one of the greatest importance to every Royal
Burgb•in Scotland. The usage had lasted for
259 years, and if .the Convention now found that
they had no power to ito so, they would disfran—
chise• every. litn'gh whose set they-had altered,
emong which-the Burgh of Glasgow would be
one to which the Convention, nor many yeqrs ago,
had given two additional Mies:
z ,
Mr. KIRKMAN FINLAY .vnel Dora Provost of
'Glasgow) observed, that the•Uarned Qcniletnan
who.had just sat down, ',and' wbuirad displayed so
much legal knowledge on this occasion, had no.
'connection with the Surgh he, ,represented—had,
been btit a few bays. a- Burgess of it, `antlike sup-
posed lla been returned a Member :for the very
purpose of supporting these Petitions. , •
[Here the. Han. Gent. was Gaited to order byXr.Burnes.l
The LORD. PRoVOST of EDINBUAGH declared he
~was not out of order.
Mr. Giasox contended, that' Mr. Finlay was
out of -order--:such e.xpressions., could not be al-
_Lowed. • The Member for• 'Kirkwall had
,produced
a regular cominission, and riprescutecl that Burgh
as legitimately as any M4nber in the Convention.
He would ask Mr. Finlay. if suck expressions
would be tolerated kor one‘Thotnent in• the House
of Commons, or if Any Meniber there would be
alloWed . to' ask.:him-(lttrAviniay):wha,t4rtotives
had 14ee'd the Burgh of Maltusbury ter send
biro to the House of Commons as their Repre-
sentative? •
I'Ve LORD PROVOST of EDINBURGH roae and
said, -that if such proceedings should take place
again, be would ordcrltll strangers to be put out
of the Hall.

Mr. FINLAY proceeded and said, that he had no

[PRICE SEVENPtNCE,

wish to throw any refketions upon the Honoura-
ble Member for Kirkwall. He rhen conte,l,n-.Cat
considerable length that all the authori ies qt»ted
by the Learned Gentleman only sheaved that the
power lay- in the Convention, when all parties
were satisfied.

Mr. BunNes, before proceeding to give his 4014
nion on this point, observed, that, to prevent ant
interruption from the Lord- Provost of Gla,gow,
he would tell hint %vim he was. .He had been 20
years a burgess and freeman in Aiontrose—vos-
sessed ten times as much property in the• Burgh
as qualified hint to be a Member of ,the Conven-
tion. He hart also the honour to lie one Of the
Magistrates of that Burgh, elected, he was prom('
to say, by an unanimous poll of his fellow Ifur-
gesses ; and it would be gratifying if the Nlagis.
t,rates of Edinburgh and Glasgow could say as •
much. Mr. Burnes supported the propositions
Mid-down by the iU mberfoi Kirkwall, and eon..
eluded by calling upon every Memhtr of the Con.
vention, if they valued the memory of their an.,
cestors, to defend and sum.ott the powers that had
been handed down to rh,rn through a long s. ribs'
of years.

Mr. WA LTE R COOK contended that the Conven-
tion haci not the powers, unless all parties in..
terested were satisfied.

Mr, GIBSON con! eti:!ed that the Convention had
the powers, and hail exercised I ter 250 years
—that their rit;ht had been recognized oy repeated
decisions of the Supreme Court , :111 by u opi-
uiau .of every constitutional lawyer wt.. "tad
writtm upon the subject. He con.
,
submitting a motion, in terms of his Nicety), lo
the Convention. 4 •
Mr. CooK submitted an amendment, thy the.
Report of the Committee should be simplY Op-
proved.
.The roll was then called, when there voted fort
Mr. Gibson's motion 23—For the anaentimen2s.