The Sun.
London, England, 1816-10-12 00:00:00

CCU .D'ESI~RIT.

[Prwn the Timm}
We have already bestow ed a word or two pon
the Petition enured and carried in the Common
lialluf London, and intended to have been pre-
sented, it the Prince Regent would have received
it in the way the,authorS of the Petition wished,
which was, indeed, not very Pkrily ; for if such
stuff were to be receiwil on the throrte, respect-
able bodies would an doubt wish to have their
Petitions received in any other waV. However,
we must nut be misunderstood : a Petition ought
not to iie rejected because it is drawn up by ig-
norant or illiterate persons. It is a diSgrace to
the Livery of London, certainly, not to be able to
write It Petition in good English : but if the Pe-
tition, such as it is, makes the wants of that
Body known, it ought tint to be rejected on ac-
count of the Petitioners not having had a proper,
or tiny education which enabled, them tot write
better. So much for this Petition: the rejection
of which was not occasioned by its being nonsense,
but by the • Petit loners requesting, that their non-
.sellse should be received with peculiar forms.
But now as to the resolutions, which, the Srmie
citizens and liverymen who framed the Petition
have determined should be preseeted 6'om Re-
gent at the levee, in the place of that their Peti-
tion we fear they have not succeeded' much
better in this instance than the •forwer : we at
least doubt Whether we have ever bawd: of Reso-
- being presented to the Sovereign before.
What has the Prince Regent to do with the reso-
lutions of the Livery of. Lawton 2 In all cases of
access to the throne, or to the. King, something
is reriuired or prayed for, (we except, of course,
addresses of congratulation or condolence) ; bat
II simple resolution prays for, or requires, no-
ihiug : it Inertly stairs fact, or something sup-
posed to be so. We do not see therefore how,
consistently with, torte and precedent, the Prince
can receive resolutions which.sitnply tell him what
a tew of the Li% y hat do not request his
interrerenee. We shall put a similar case or two:
Citiieu Hoist might resolve, for example,
1. That it appears by the report of the Com-
mittee of the floose,of
,Con mons on the Police of
the Metropolis, that gin-shops, anti all places of
resort where spirits are sold in 341a1l ClUtitaities,
hare the most pernicious e9'ect upon the health
nod morals of the poor ; and am.; in fact, public
nu:sum:es.

2. Resolved, That --Thompson, citizen and
vintner, heels gin-shop on llolborn-hill.
We say, that Mr. Hunt might propose and
carry these resolutions- in the next Common nal%
if he pleased; hut tve do not think ir'would he
rational to pia client hi this naked form into the
hands of the Prince Regent for his Royal High-
ness would verf naturally reply, " Very w'elt I
know that giii-shops are public tini,nsnees, and
now you tell Me that Citizen Thompson keeps'a
gin-shop. lint what then A Petition, indie,M,
toundtd an tnoie resolutions, that Citizen TilOn:p•
soli'd gin-shop should he put down, wo,lid be in-
telligible ; and the Prince Regent might naturally
reply, " not try to put doWn nr.Thomp.son't
gin-shop, by reason 111,4( it supplies tbUSre wort
citizens and liverymen, who are now tARin4 the
lead in aildfrs,' with their morning's dturn ;
And sil enables them to get through the tatigiks
of•Thitv.." _ _ _

'Again—Mr. Hunt might resolve, that iletija%
min Flower, cititen and Patten-nraktr, was- so
deal and stupid, that he could not hear the " bni)rs
4illti exeerarions" with which his speeches were
received ; but except there were athietl'to the re-
solution petition thitt the Regent would give
Benjamin a large ear-trumpet,' what-sense would
there be in presenting the resolution a?
And lastly, citizens Flower. and Thomson, to
be even with citizen 4tint, [night resuive as fol-
lows :---Resolved,

That the prostitutes and pickpockets Who
frequent citizen Thompson's gin-shop ..tlo not
swear so horribly as cilizen Hunt is heard to du
on, all public occasions.
2. Re.sOlved-,---That though tleaffiess is a great
evil, yet it is some di i itt.titit.on of it, aad consola-
tion tinder it in the cave of citizen Flutter, that he
is thereby disqualified front beating the dreadful
execrations 'tool hlasphetnies uttered by the atore.
said citizen Hunt.

Still, we say, that these resolut ions simply mean
nothing, and could not be pre,ented, except a
titian were appended, that a stop might be put to
citizen Hunt's profane swearing.
Its like manner do we doubt, whether, in the
case of which the above are illustrations, the
Prittee Regent can with propriety ckr common sense
receive the Resolutions of the Liverymen, which
are note writing mit lot him,. and which.Resolu-
ai such, request or pray for nothing of his
Royal Highness.
Before .we conclude, we must notice and tee:-
tify 'a mistake, which seems to have sprung np oyj
a part of Mr. Thompson's speech at the fait Oink-
iitho Hall: In the passage where he says, " that
if Mr. Ilunt's'Criiduct were imitated, at coo&
deuce would be reposed by public men in one an-
other,—in this passage, we say, it has been ge-
nerally thought, tiro by public me* Mr. Thornip.
son meant ptihtic•hoose heepers, and persons to
his own line of busitiess tinit.this is an error ; the
worthy Liveryman meant, such kind ,of patltlic
men as took the lead in the. last Continuo Hall,
who, with the exception of hitnself,.are paner
fropeotels awl beeper; of taverns and gin-strops.

. Lately four young Well, belonging to the town of
Cut hernaultl,
,thoughtlessly went to tut illegal
distillery, about tWQ 11)ilel irony that town, where
they .were so liberally supplied with' new matic
,spirits, direct from 'the still, that they. became
,very 011, their return home, one of them only
being able to reach Cumhernauld. On represent-
ing the cane of his companions,' cart' and horse
were immediately sent to their af,sistdute. They
were brought home 'with thifieolty. A surgeon
'being sent he gave each of them an truck,
which had the 'desired tireet upon- them sit, ex-
cept one of the name of Stalk, who died in the
greatest agorl..
Mr. Arr. S lISON
respectable merchant in Newburgh, wai missing
for eight days PreVions tO Stituitty last,- on s'ioltiell
day he was accidentally ,found, by the. MUM_
maid, dead iu the garret.