The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-01 00:00:00

FOR THE SU?.

Ma. EDITOR,--A paper containing the follow
ing fragment of a Memorandum Book was found
floating by my watery abode yesterday, and is to
all appearance the remarks of some person highly
interested for the honour of the British Navy,
which will, I feel persuaded, be sufficient to give
it a claim to your attention, and I trust the filthy
practice of spitting upon persons at elections, so
properly reprobated therein, will meet a powerful
check by your public opinion of its unmanliness
and indelicacy. The recognition of your old and
now almost water-logged Correspondent, will at
once rescue this communication from any suspi•
don of being made with sinister views, or to
serve any party purpose whatever—while your
conthinted aid in behalf of every bumble effort
(feeble as mine are, yet reiterated rhos they shall
be, while a wave washes or hoop holds me to-
gether) to uphold the good and glory of Old
England's Navy, demands the grateful thanks of
Your's,
THE BUOY OF THE NORE.

November 25, 1818.

Mem.—Sir Samuel Romilly dead. Vacancy for
Westminster. Good man gone; some say a great
man, but good, great, either one, the other, or
both, availtth now but little in this norld—De
mortuis nihil nisi bonum:

Mertz.—The politicians of Westminster busily
employed in search of a successor.
Mem. Should the gallant' Sea Captain, former-
ly Candidate, become again so, it is devoutly
to be hoped that he may not sacrifice the good and
dory of his profession by exposing its uniform
to daily insult, from the vile practice that pre-
vailed last Election, of spitting at the Candidates
through tubes ; so filthily bedauding and disfi-
guring them. Can such a practice be-too publicly
or too pointedly reprObated, let who will be can-
didate?

Mem.—Westminster in the political world has
been ever considered as a high civic reward for
some distinguished Sea Officpr:—Why not conti-
nue so ? The renowned Rodney—the venerable
Hood—the gallant Gardner—and late lamented
Sir Samuel Hood—must be names dear in
the memory to a majority of the Electors. Mu-
tual obligations seem to tender it desirable that a
Sea Officer should form one of the Representa-
tives of this populous City. Can the Electors of
IVestminsterio soon forget the frequent sotind'of
the Park and Tower guns, summoning them froth
their counterS to learn the joyful tidings of will&
their discharge proclaimed the arriiall. Can the,.
forget the emotions of delight with which they
nightly paced the great Metropolis, voluntarily
illuminated, blazing high the'to,rch to British va-
lour ; or the multitude of transparencies, adorn-
ed with suitable mottoes, setting forth the he-
roic deeds they were displayed to celebrate, de-
manding admiration from the thoughtless, and
gratitude from .the thoughtful ? Can they forge;
what this vast country might have beets, but tot
the decisive victory of the, Ist of Jnne—what t.
must have been,.but for the fortunate llth of U.
sober—what it was made in the eyes of the whol
people(' world by the glorious Batik of the Nile
How might the Walls of Copenhagen alt ak
prowess, as it still displays the dire efires, o
British thunder in the Danish conflict ? How
the multitude of minor, yet masculine an
mighty conflicts were. obscured. in the bla-e.
of Tratalgar's glory, will be a brilliant theme itt
this happy Country's future history. Can the
Electors of Westminster forget all this, and not
select some Hero, who has fought in one or wort- '
of these eventful battles ? Do they not know,
that the sweetest sensation to a warrior's bosom:
after the shouts of victory shall have subsided,
and the glory of conquest ceased to charm, is,
besides,contemplating the peace lie fought for,
and blessed his ukcive land with, to receive the
civic meed of. his approving fellow-citizens, and
calmly under its wreath to wear out life in views
and wishes for his Country's welfare ? Or, on
the other side, is it to be supposed that men like
the gallant Gardner, who (while Member for
Westminster), when nobly contending on
.the,
glorious First of June against the fearful odds of
five to one, having his flag then on board the
Queen, dismasted and a wreck, displaying daunt,
less fortitude and obstinate resistance—despising
alike the perils of the deep and the battering of
the-enemy—his mind intent and fixed op death or
victory—l say, is it to be supposed that such a
man, at such a moment, had not ‘Vestminster in
his view, as well as the good and glory of his
Country at his heart ?

Let not then the Electors of Westminster suffer
the British naval uniform to be tarnished on their
h►stings. Let no tubes be used to bedaub any
Candidate in a way disgusting to see and indeli-
cate to think of : the only tube should be Nature's;
thence let the Stentorian voice rail. Let abuse
be lavished—let freedom of tongue, with freedom
of election, take its swing; nay, even a harm-
less clod of dirt or patch of mud, raised by fury,
disappointment, drunkenness, or despair, might,
bad as such proceedings are, be palliated or ex-
cused ; but so hid)), and so vile a practice as spit-
ting should be exploded for ever from a British
populace. It is unworthy a. generous people ; it
is the height of 4iegradation to receive such an
insult, and the climax of ferocity, filthy ferocity,
to offer it. Banish it for ever from the annals of
Covent-garden ; let it be placarded by all parties
at the eosuilig Election, that " No tubes but Na-
ture's are to be used—no spitting, but at dogs."

-LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CtiANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov :30.

lionota the rviasTga of the ROLLS held his
'Sittings in the above Court this day, his own
'being under I epair.-Che business ofthe daycon-
siscecl principally of the 'presentation of iwtitions,
bone of which possessed any feature of interest
save to the parties concerned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 30.
SITTINGS AFTER TERM.
13Rpott v. rags.
The plaintiff, an historical painter. lodging in
the house of the defendant, brought his actiou to
'recover chrnagcs for an asQault. It appeared that
di,pute had occurred between the parties, re-
specting some furniture which the plaintiff %vas
taking into his apartment.—The Jury gave hi►u
a verdict, with One Farthing daniages.