The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-14 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1820.

FOR TIIE SUN.

MR. EDITOR-1 perceive by your Paper of this
evening that my last communication was accep-
table, and I thank you fur its insertion ; your
kindness has led me to offer you the production
of my imagination in my sleep, " after the witch-
ing hour o' night."
It is very generally believed that the transac-
tions of the day often operate on the human mind
so forcibly as to produce dreams, bearing some
analogy to them. Be that as it may, I had scarcely
retired to my bed, and " tir'd nature's sweet re-
storer,• balmy sleep," taken possession of me,
when I dreamed that I was surrounded by a band
of assassins, whose hands were busy rivettiug me
down under the chains of Slavery, against whom
they were bitterly declaiming, while nothing
scarcely was heard from them but dreadful im-
precations, and now and then the word Liberty
issued from their foaming mouths. I thought I
beheld the Mountain Goddess, whom they were
thus reviling, standing before me, Brest in all the
" habiliments of woe," weeping at the wretches
who dare thus pollute and prostitute her fair
name, by using it for purposes the most diabo-
lical and nefarious. She stretched forth her be-
nignant hand and raised the up from beneath the
bands which these fiends had heaped upon me.—
' " Behold," said she, " that diminutive person-
age, wit is haggard look and cadaveroas aspect ; he
is the mouthpiece of Anarchy and Cabal, who
have lately deputed him as their Representative to
one of my Temples, where he never fails disturb-
ing the devotions of my best followers by his
impious and obtrusive loquacity, by his low and
plebean vulgarity, though it sometimes affords
merriment to see him retailing oar his flimsy and
unfinished pieces of oratorical stuff, with the
most platonic gravity. He is continually sound-
ing my praises, and pretends to pay me adoration;
his praises I despise—his adoration I reject. His
system, tinder the specious disguise of my name,
is calculated to destroy our best privileges, the
impartiality of our laws, the prosperity of our
commerce, and the natural subordination of
the different classes which compose this free
country." 1 rhdught at this moment that some-
thing not unlike a bag of hops rolled upon me,
and pressed upon my breast. I laboured
hard to extricate myself from this load, when
something said, " You are now under the
influence of the NIGHT MARE."—The prin-
cipal inconvenience I suffered was from the
intolerable and suffocating smell of narcotic
drugs coming from the same Night Mare. On
one side of the bag, I thought I could discern,
written in golden letters, '' The Brewer's Friend,"
or " An infallible Mode of rendering Poison pa-
latable ;" and, on the other side, I plainly saw a
human face, sshich appeared en►ilitng like one of
those silly creatures called simpletons. 1 never
beheld such a mixture of self complacency, pride,
superciliousness, vanity, and vacuity, as this face
exhibited. On a sudden the Night Mare, which
until now had oppressed me in the shape of some-
liitig (as I said before) like a Hop Bag, changed
its form, and now assumed the appearance of a
slender Log of painted Woud. I felt inexpressible
indignation at finding myself confined beneath
such a contemptible object as this, and seizing it
in my arms, 1 made an extraordinary effort, and
hurled this painted Log of Wood headlong into a
Copper-mine which lay at hand. At this moment
I awoke, and found that " 'truss but a dream."
For the present, I am,
Mr. Editor,
Your obedient Servant,
March 8. A PATLANDER.

FROM SATURDAY'S GAZETTE.

DIVIDENDS.

July IS, J. West and T. J. Culliford, Great Winchester-
street, insurance-brokers—April 1, W. Blackburn, City-road,
Finsbury-square, corn-dealer—April I, G. Laing, Commer-
cial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, merchant—April 8, W. Jar-
man. jun. Knightsbridge, paper-hanger—April 10, W.
Whitehouse and .1. Galan, Liverpool, merchants—April 8, T.
Herbert, Chequer-yard, Dov..gate hill, cotton-merchant—
April 8, J. King, Neath, Glatuorganshire, ironmonger—April
18, W. Dickie, Little Saint Thomas Ap. stle, merchant—
April 8, G. Elmer, Mistley, Essex, merchant—April 8, T.
Norris, White Hart-yard, Drury-lane, victualler—April I, J.
Budgets, Dartford, paper-maker—April 6, J. Atherton, Li-
verpool, busier—April 8, D. Griffiths, Canterbury, draper—
April 4, .1. Berrey, Exeter, carpenter—April 4, G. and T.
Wood, Oldswitkford, Worcester, spade and shovel-makers.—
April 11, 13. Gray, Liverpool, merchant.

CERTIFICATES-APRIL l.

J. S. Carter, Liverpool, merchant—J. Nl‘Lean, Larnl)-street,
Spitalfields, potatoe-merchant—T. Collins, Drury-lane, gro-
cer—W. ‘Vorrall, Liverpool, merchant—J. and W. Gaily—
C. Wallis, Cheltenham, builder—T. D. St. G. Smith, Bother-
hithe, cork-manufacturer--M. Bass, Ashbourne, Derbyshire,
tnaltster—W. %Vest, Feversham, Kent, carpenter--C. Eard-
ley, :god:port, cmtton- cpinner—.l. Barlow, Manchester, inn-
keeper—J. Potter, Ashbourne, Derbyshire, rt,•aler.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

H. and T. Weatherald and J. Pepuock, Whitby, York-
shire, flax-dressers—J. Cookson, J Cookson, J. Cookson,
W. Whitten, H. Whitte:l arid T. Goinerson, Whinney
Your, Yorkshire, colliers, as far as relates to the said T.
Goinerson—William and W. B, Gaston, Coxes quay, Lower
Thames-street, lighterinen—W. Bailey, S. Yarwood itrid
T. P. Attrell, Rotherhithe, ship-breakers--J. Jackson,
',Manchester, and J. Jackson, Pat ricrott, Lancashire,
black lead pencil-manufacturers—W. arid R. Eachus,
Nliddlewich, Cheshire, letter-press-printers—J. Schofield,
.1. Sturges, J. G. Paley and 'l'. la,.•ort, Gawber Hall,
Yorkshire, coal-dealers—lL. Warren, J. Leese, 'l'. and It.
Millington, Manchester, fustian-manufacturers—W. and
G. Grove, Watling-street, hoot-makers—R. Rhodes, W.
Hartley, E. Brooke and K. Clark, Idle, Yorkshire, stooe-
delvers—J. Smith, P. and C. King, Basinghall-strict,
clothiers—T. Dean, J. Dance and W. Leach, Hampstead,
coach-masters—G. and T. Turiniclitfe, Stone, Staffordshire,
grocers—H. Fisher, Leeds, and J. Whalley, Holheck, York-
shire, woolstaplers—J. Simpstrn and G. Hailes, Bury St. Ed-
mund's, grocers-I'. and Ti Billings, join. of Cheltenham.
estate-agents—H. and B. Floud, London, brokers—J.
Gray and J. Woodward, of West 11am, Essex, ale-brewers.
SCOTCHSI7S7.I.ATIONS.
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March 9. James M'Gow•au and Co. manufacturers, Glas-
gowti•—Creditors to nit-et in the Lyceum Rooms there, 17th
March and 14th April, at 2.
Forrester stud Buchanan, wood-merchants, Glas•
row—Creditor, to meet in the Buck's Head inn there, ititti
and L'Oth March, at 12

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[PRICE SEVENPENCFO

PUBLIC MEASURES.

ADDRESSED TO THE ELECTORS OF THE UNITED

KINGDOM.

The anxious circumstances of our Country, at
this period, are generally considered to demand
the most strenuous exertions, while to raise the
labouring community from the condition of de-
basement into which they have lapsed, is evi-
dently the road through which our prosliecilly
must be restored. To accomplish this, all are
convinced of the indispensable necessity of creat-
ing employment for the unoccupied, and which
can alone be decidedly effected by the cultivation
of the soil. It has also been demonstrably proved,
that labourers generally should be supplied with
small portions of land for the occupation of lei-
sure-hours.

For these purposes it is certain that the Repre-
sentative Body should be impressed with the na-
tional mind. The following is therefore pro-

posed :

That every Candidate be retptired to give his
assurance of using his utmost endeavours to ob-
tain the necessary legislative enactment for this

essential object.
Thus will our distresses vanish, comfort be re•
stored, every rank benefited, Trade revived, and
the frame of British Society placed on the most
firm anti stable basis.

B. W.

FROM THE WESTMINSTER POLL-BOOK.

SECOND VOTES.

On the occurrence of a General Election, it is
of the highest importance to call the attention of
the Electors to the application of their second
votes, which, without very particular care and
consideration, may be so used as to defeat the
intention of their possessors, and exclude their
favourite Candidate. To explain this by ex-
ample :—Suppose three competitors, wholly
connected with.the others, and two Members to
be returned ; one may be the particular object of
an Elector, and the other two wholly indifferent
to him ; but by the application of his second vote
to either of them, he may render his first vote
useless, and raise the Candidate about whom he
is wholly indifferent to the head or second place
on the poll. This unintended evil was fully proved
at the last General Election, when Sir MuratAY
)MAXWELL, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, and Sir SA-
MUEL ROMILLY, were Candidates. Sir MURRAY
and Sir FRANCIS were particularly opposed to
each other ; but the Electors who supported the
former and approved his principles, while they re-
sisted and disapproved the latter, gave their second
votes to the less obnoxious principles of Sir Sa-
muel. RomILLY, and thereby conferred on him a
majority, and secured his return,—to the exclu-
sion of their own favourite, whose election they
desired. [Jag they been more provident, and
given plumpers (as single votes are technically
called) to Sir MURRAY Mi.xwELL, he would have
been, if not at the head ef the poll, assuredly
second, and consequently returned. We do not
observe this, with any feeling of disrespect to
the lamented Gentleman who was thereby re-
turned, to the exelusioo of Sir MURRAY, but to
slew that by such an indiscretion of Sir MUR-
RAY MAXWELL'S friends, their favourite Candi-
date was wholly excluded, and an indifferent,
if not an obnoxious one, put in his place. We
earnestly hope that, in similar cases, the Electors
will be more careful, and at the present elec-
tion not neutralize their own votes by splitting
them between Candidates of opposite principles.—
To do thin, is worse than staying away from the
election altogether; as much as a positive is
worse than a negative mischief. Unless two of
the Candidees meet his approbation, let the
Elector gibe his single vote to his favourite, anti
pass by unveted the Candidate who is indifferent to
nim For an obnoxious one, he will not vote of

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