The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-20 00:00:00

[Tile Times.)

As loyal Addresses are the order of the day, our readers
will excuse us if we resume the subject, and briefly describe
the persons by whom and the manner in which these ad-
dresses are got' up. But we would first premise a remark
upon the terfl loyal, which seems to have excited some
difficulty in the interpretation. We onderstood. by the
phrase, a loyal man, one who is attached to the Law,
and Constitution of his Ceuntry! to the King, theref;ire,,
as faithfully executing that law, If the Sovereign he mar-.
, tied, dutiful respect for the same reason attaches to iris curt-
sort ; -rot the Lord ChaOcvllor only echoed the wte(ds of our
Chittylts when, oddly' eliongh fur hi. disltnted, view. the,
Queen's ca•e,, he said, ''wbom God has joined together let
no man put asunder ;" and, therefke, the. worthy Members of
the M'ard of Cheap, and the snug, meetings' in various parts
of the Metropolis and irf the Kiugdojit, make 'an egre.gions
blunder in denominating their laboured strains t,f fujonle
adulation and irieJesusrit declarations hsyal addresses : it would
he more doOsire of their contracted and specific views if they
denominated them Addresses for the preservation of the:pre-
sent ministers. To these acuoainted with the City it will I!E
sufficiently alit arettt who are-the men there. engaged in pro:-
motSug and carrying these snug addres'ces.; the actors in the
parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, were noticed in yesterday's
paper, with their several substantial reasons for flattering;
the throne. In the country, the expectants of ('sown pa-
tronage (for even those who enjoy comfiatable or digni-
fied appointments always hope for something more) the ex-
pectants, we say, of livings and dignities—receivers of taxes,
assessors, stamp-distributors, half-pay officers, and, in a
word, all the retainers of Governmemt, directlY or indirectly
employed and encouraged, wish not only to outvie their fel-
low-subjects in expressions of dutiful regard to the King, but
to exclude them altogether. By a species of papistical ap-
propriation, they seem anxious to secure to' themselves the
heaven of Royal favonr, by Insuring before the throne a
budget of truisms which the Sovereign never doubted, though
so many pharisaical repetitions might perhaps excite a rea-
sonable question as to Omit since' ity. Tie unparalleled insults
offered to the Queen-Consort—her escape from Italian per-
jury and Ministerial aggression—has naturdly Called forth
the ebullition of generous and truly British feelings. Ad-
dresses hare been presented to her Majesty front almost every
city, town, village, and association in this great empire;—ad-
dresses spontaneous and disinterested; spontaneous, for they,
have been carried by universal accbuQatiott whenever pro-
posed; disinterest -d, because were the Queen restored, as
she ought to be immediately, to all her rights and privileges,
she would possess the appointment of no offices—no C 1,121.•
f(irtnlile sinecures—no fat deaneries—no episcopal prefer-
ments—to reward those who hare followed her "through good.

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report and Oil report:" .As The. great mass of the nation.
has exhibited its genuine loyalty in this most praiseworthy.
manner, the class of personages above mentioned considered
that 'hey too must not remain inactive—that they too must de-
monstrate loyal feeling to the though it teas not called
for, in opposition to the declarations of their neighboUrs to
the Queen, which were necessary; and though the Ministers
repeatedly -declined in the House of Lords that his Majesty
W 3 3 not•personally concerned in the Queen's trial, these Ul-
tra-Loyalists—these Candidates for exclusive favonr, sup-
pressing indeed the Queen's name with the saine religions
forbearance as they do the conduct of Ministers, dole out their
parcborents fold of love, zeal, and attachment.