The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

Piaui° TIC DDRESS.

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[Trois the Leeds Litelligewer of.,llonday, Dec. MI
'' FELLow CouNTRYMEN,—In again address-
ing: von (we svish we could move every pen and
every toilette in the Empire in. your behalf), it
may be proper to correct a mistake, into which,
we understand, a few of you have fallen. The
abusive I ermsin which you are spoken of,la our last,
are not the epithets by which we thank you ought
to be distinguished, or by which we have called you,
hut ale the voted language of the, persorie who
'used to pretend they were-your friends ; and who
intw -stigmatize that portion of you who engaged,,
or were ready to engage, in insurrection, as all
the low, despicably, mad, and worthless wretches
they can imagine. Alit they themselves, in •corn-
mou with others who have tints first
,deceived and
efterwards deserted and abused yon, are the really
worthless and despicable characters
,(as far as
their public character is coneerned,=--for it is with
that only we Imve to do), upon whom the con-
tempt of al; giood men ought to fall. It has been
kith thou, and not with you, that the loyal press
_bas for so many, years been cootendiug, ; and
though they artfully couttieed to make you believe
that every expression of indignation, which was
directed egaiest their dangerous principles, was
levelled,,not against themselves, hot .against you,
this was by no means the case, Jr was one of their
usual artifices, in 'which they are so freitt el, to
make you believe that, and which, no doubt, they
will speedily have recourse to again,:for your de-
struction. We hare been contending with, and
opposing, and stiginatiziog, as they deserved, the
misleinlers of the people, not *the people theme
rtelees. The people are time pride and" ornament;
not only of their country, but of the world; and,
'if left to obey the impulse of their own better spi-
would sieve r lono w thte;e delusive principles,
which' (the ill-omened beacons of rebellion) are
I)cm-equally held up, in their path, by time restless
ispil'et, of an evil ambition, glaring, with pesthole
Gil influence, on all the best regulations, feeliegs,
tied ez-tablislonents of civiliFed society. We ap-
peal to your own recollection, whether it has
Clot beett uniformly again t this spirit, against
those who fomosted it, and not against you. that
all tyre efforts of the friends to good order andtrue
liee'lotu were directed. Every exertion wits used
to destroy the monster himself, not those whom
he was preparing to deVour—whom he was lick-
ing, end cos et ing with.llis nauseous slime,' 'that
lie might oue day take his opportunity to gorge
them wish his destrmetire jaws. Yost yourselves
were seldom, IF ever, addressed at all by your real
friends. The truth is (for we will always speak
,to you with candour, even at the risk of giving
offence) you were considered so completely under
the iefhteoce of your seducers,,that all tlneight of
your recovery, till they wire, put down, was deem-
. ed hopeless: But the day of a better reason has
begun to iiatve, thanks to the imprudence of the
demagogues who held you in thraldom. We can
now speak to you wills the hope, almost with the
certainty, of being listeeed to, and of making that
impression which may be due to What is said ;
it'd you may rely on it, we shall not neglect the
Lappyolopport unity. Oitething, however, we must
premise, natnely—that we are tar from wishing
to excite you against the dangerous men who are
mow known to yeti, or even to makethem objects
cut your detestation. Weave not ernongst those,
Whit, to grutify their owu passions, could first
work upon your feelings, till you were roltsed to
some act of out rege, and wroth( then deny that
we hattever taitl any thing to -lead you to its per-
peti'atiert ; and proceed to call: you by elinsire
Wallies foe doieg that of which we ourselves should
InAve been the real ant hots. All we *wish IS, alter
having completely 'Stripped the mask front 'your
enemies, to stew theta to you in their naked
dr-
fermity,and afterwards:to send them quietly, front
yoer presence, into their native nothingness nod
obscurity; not to hanish them, with Mies. and
blows, and in angel---hut to dismiss them with a
blesking, under the hope that even they may, one
day tern theta from their course of wickedness,
and become worthy of the name of that country,
the asyfum of liberty, 'the pride of the world, in
which they live,
" lt, is a most important fact, that all dart-
, a
gerons writings re now rapidly falling into tbs.
repute. So seesible are their conductors of this
truth, that they are in .the greatest haste, and
evince the utmost anxiety, to convince the public
they are to be quite moderate, and peaceable, and
'well-behaved, in future We shall be very happy
if they should prove sincerein their professions,
riot for your sake—for you are freed front their
tlfraidom—but for their own. Those who are in
immediate neighbourhotad:have:the vanity in
think, that our last address was directed entirely
against them, and have, under that impression,
attempted a reply—in which the principal feature
is, redoubled assurances of their future good cone
duct. This is nosy their sheet anchor. They
rely upon it for their very existence, They ate
to carry all their schemes of reform, in future,
by leaving them to the good sense of the country !
if they had left them tce the good ;sense of the
cothetry twenty- years ago, instead of 'trimming
day
.and night to peeve that good sense, their
schemes would have long since been doomed to
oblivioe---et tate, they may rest assured, which
is ill spee,stily overtake' them, unless, the revoln-
.tiottaly eclat which has beett given to them by
the Route and the'Watsons, should attach an in.;
(aMons h'uniortalits to them,.in common with that
of the mactucss of the one, tuutthe crimes of the
others, 'Before, we dismiss our neighbours, we
beg to give them a hint for-the regulation of ano-
th,r part of their future conduct, which may save
them Some,,tronble. We do assere them, that
ottr observations are by no means confined ex-
clusively to them ; but are directed against the
whole host of their fellow-lahourers, so that they
may feel no wneasiness.respecting arty thing we
-happen to say, excepting that, which, front time,
to time, they find pinches their own totes.-
It
was not by them only that you were formerly
goaded to acts- or outrage—so live you been by
-their whole fraternity of scribes and orators,
throughout the empire.. It is not by. them only,
that, wilco matters came to thui point, you lur.ti
been deserted, and abused, end slandered, and
t turned over, without mercy, to the rigorous pu-
nisinni,nt of time law—fOr it.m have you been de-

triotic brethren. It is :tut by them aloneAliat we.
arc now assured of their future moderation, and
that we are 2shed to believe they were always mo-
derate in times past—the same effrontery of denial,
and :.meanness of prostration, -are exhibited.hy
till
the rest. Nlife do not stigmatize, therefore, inertly
one or two of theta, hat the whole—and we wish
'it to he distinctly tinderstoodo hat it is only against
them all, collectively,. we think it worth white to
exert ourselves ; and not against one poor mi-
serable representative of their hotly,. whose
feeble voice is scarcely to be heard amidst the ge-
neral din.
They endeavour to sneak off from the charge !
of having called you by the most schrrilons terms.'
by saying, that they, only vilified that portion of
you who actually engaged in insurrection. But,
when they abused them, did they not, of, course,
abuse all the others of you, who then entertained
similar opinions with your brethren in London ?
To be sure they did ; and it is impossible for the
most skilful of them, masters as they are of every
art of .subterfuge and evasioo, to escape from
the conclusion. 0, hut, say.they, if these were the
sentiments of the lowest orders—of the despicable
pot-house-conspirators, wedeny theme ever enters
taitieo any opinions in conimon with them ; they,
the scum, form no portion of our pure, peaceable,
and well-disposed coniiminity of loyalreformers !
If they now exclude the working daises, how-
ever, whom they had seduced from their reform-
ing community,, we apprehend the community
will be'fountl to consist of very few bands ! They
wobld'find it difficult, we: fear, if their schemes
succeeded, to find amongst them men ,enotn.;h for
their posts and places, instead of a deficiency of
the latter, for gratifying the rapaeibus eagerness
of the former to enjoy. them !--And the best. of
the joke is—your principles are not their prin-
ciples ! 0, not at all ! They, good souls, uevet
'dreamt of such a thing as that physical force
should he resorted to for the redress us grivahees,
apatite removal of oppression ! We believe so—
they are not, we dare say, very fond of exerting
their physical 'force ; and for this plain reason,
they had always a sort of presentiment that their
physical force would be met by physical force on
the other side ; and they just -know enough of:the
laws which regulate these matters, to be prudently
sensible that the lesser force must inevitably yielo
to the greater, by which some of their own pre-
cious constitutions might be subjected to a shock,
that ,would rather unpleasautlyrevolutiOnize their
whole animal 'system, which, in that case, all:-the
quacks in. the empire would be unable to le-form!
0! it is delightful to witness in them the rodent,
wholesome workings of •a peaceable spirit ! The
Patriots of South America—the Insurgents of
Spain—the revolutionary heroes of Modern France
—the bold and free-assertors of the liberties of
Old England—even our Yankee brethren, across
the Atlantic, have all been a Set of fools, com-
pared with our blessed reformers ; and instead of
accomplishing their objects at the expence of
cracked crowns and gaping wounds, might have
succeeded more effectually, by leaving, the exe-
cution of all their projects to the good sense of
the people!
" But what (to be serious) do they. mean by
denying that they have at all, conttibuted, by their
principles, to the late outrages ? Have they not
continually assured you, as you all well remem-
ber, that you were an enslaved, a vilely treated,
and an oppressed, suffering people ? Is it not
evident, that the perpetual repetition of .suci as-
sertions was certain to render men, whose bottoms
ever bounded at the very name of:liberty, and in
whose, estimation shivery is the greatest of- Human
calamities—is it not evident that the inevitable ef-
feet. 131 such language, on sect] men, was to render
them disaffected to their rulers, impatient of the
necessary restraints of law, and to rouse them to
open insubordination ? It is impossible to deny
that these are the natural cause, and the 'littoral
effect. ;And-have they. not been duly wanied, day
after' day, week after week, year after year,' that
the effect would follow, amless the cause were
removed They haVe been so warned—but, un-
fortunately, without effect. You know this to
he true,--they know it-4-..the world knows it. This,
then, is the single and irresistible answer to all
their attempts at disavowal and denial. The et-
feet has 'followed ; and they most be answerable
for it. From this they cannot by any possibility
escape. They may deny, indeed, that they in-
tended to stimulate the people to insurrection.—
After all the warnings they bad, such a :denial
comes too late. Butt, even on their own
big, they are clearly convicted, either of having
been actuated by the most dangerous principles
and designs, or, of having exhibited a degree of
folly and presumption, Which, is Unparalleled, by
remaining so long blind to those necessary Con.-
sequences of their conduct, whiehe cry one else
foresaw and predicted. If. they were ,not ", am-
bitious knaveS,", they were most certainly "irre-
clatneable fouls ;" and they are welcome to either
appellation during their future career of reforma-
m
tion, on which, if it should fortunately lead the
o France or America, we heartily wish them lair
weather anti a prosperous journey.
" As we intend, from time to time, to lay open
the most hidden springs, and the darkest secrets
of their system, it is hat right that we should first
refute the chief, and indeed the only charge, they
have ever brought against that portion of the
press which devotes itself to the true interests of
the country, The charge Was always considered
ton contemptible, and too palpably untrue, to be
deserviug of notice. Besidesilt was well known
to be false,
.by the leaders of insubordlnatiou ;
and, as we have observed before, the leaders only
were at any time addressed. But however con-
temptible and ridiculous any charge may be, it is
perhaps impolitic to let it pass uneontradicted,
Ca-
pecially as it behoves those who stand forward to
oppose the designs of others,. to take care that
they be above suspicion---anti .that ,they be able
rO thew, that what they do is with clean,hands.
Amongst the innumerable falsehoods with which
you have been abused, you have been continually
assured that every writer who supported the mot-,
:sures of.Governinent, was a corrupt libeling, the
`fawning sycophant of the power by which he was
paid—the base tool of the Ministry—the pander,
slave, and apologist of profligacy and tyranny.
Now, we do most solemnly assure you—that no
assertion can be mote completely, and in all re-

that is most sacred in the estimation of Britons,
that it does not consist with our knowledge, that'
tiny proprietor or editor ofonewspaper, in the Bri-
tish dontinions, receives, directly or indirectly, a
single shilling from Gt?Vernment forhis services.
So far from the loyal press being in the par of-
Government, it has not infrequently cause to coin•
plain of an excess of liberality, on the part of the
servants of the Crown, towards their opponents:
It is a notorious fact, that an ample share of the
printing of Government Offices, in almost every
to-Wit of the kingdoni, is enjoyed by the proprie-
tors of Opposition Papers. Though we might
say, it. is but 'reasonable that those who disin-
terestly devote their days and their nights to the
true service of the country, should receive from
the servants' of Government all those advantages
which can with honour and justice be afforded_
them, we by no means condemn that. liberalitrof
principle, which judges and acts differently; but
we do think, tinder all the facts and circum-
stances of the case, that the assertion of the loyal
press being a corrupt, Rod hireling press, is the
most impudent wad daring falsehood ever put up-
on record. It carries with it, ton, internal evi-
dence of its falsehood. Every individual, on esta-
blishing a newspaper, commences it on those
principles which he thinks most proper. if it be
conducted with ability, and get into circulation,-
the prow ietor is sufficiently remunerated by the
usual profits of his concern ;. and it would be ab-
surd in Government to pay a man, for doing that
which every motive of duty and interest have al.
ready combined, to induce him to perform well..
It it do not get into circulation, it would, it is
obvious to you, be still more absurd in Govern-
'tient to pay any man for, writing, who had no
readers !---When you consider with how much
,pertinacity your misleaders have assured you of
the mob of this absurd assertion, you will he sen-
sible that very little dependance indeed (if .any)
Can 1,),! placed tot what they say.
" They tellsyou that what they want is a reform
its Pailiatnent, acid that a Reform will not only
answer their purpose, hot yotics also. Now,
iii
the fits. pl,tce, this impossihle. Nothing can be
truly .beneficial, at one ant) the same time, both
to the ambitious t'eniselves, Wit( to their tools--
to those who would wade through blood anticOn-
Intim', to tl.e atlaininent of power, and to those
°vet whom they, must trample to reach their end,
and upon whose necks they must set their feet, in
order to secure themselves in the possession of
their ill-gotten seats. That, they do not Want mere
Reform, is evident from the manner in which they
ter about obtaining it, of which we shall endea-
vour to convince you, in a tuture article;."

hM.PEROII. OF RUStiIA.

CELEBRATION OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER'S
BIRTH-DAY.
On Tuesday night the Commanders and Officers
of his Imperial Majesty's Russian ships - the
Mercury arid Philadelphia gave a splendid hall and
anppir, on board the Mercury,
lying off .Wool-
Wich, in commemoration of the birth of the Bul-
pert)! ALEXANDER, who was born on the 12th of
ecember, 1777, (old style) invitation
was in the following terms '.. he Commandos
and Officers of his Imperial Russian 'Majesty's
ships./licrcury and Philadelphia request the honour
of company to a ball on board the
Mercury, at seven, on Tuesday, the l2th, old
style—(24th new style) instant." The
tions were not confined to the military and naval
charactera, but were sent to most of the -distin-
guished persons in Woolwich and
.its environs ;
and:,t)ie liveliest interest was excited amongst the
inhabitants of WoOlwich, particularly the female
part of them. In order to give, an idea of the
manner in Which the vessel' was converted into a
place of splendid amusement, we must select each
apartment.
THIS SUPPER7ROOM.—The supper-room was in
the captain's cabin and main-deck. The tables
were in the form of the letter H, and were deco-
rated with vases indicative of military and naval
hat durs ; around it were Ming wreaths of laurel,
olive branches, ette.; pine-apples, and every de-
scription of fruit that could be procured, were to
be seen in great profusion. The supper consisted
of chickens, • tongues, hams, Wild' fowl, jellies,
Umuch-mange, &c. • •
Tuc BAct,-Roots.----The.' ball-room was placed
upon the quarter-deck, it was 69 feet in length
at thetop was an
releonqy executed transparency.
representing Fame crowning the Prince Regent of
England and the Emperor of Russia ;` opposite to
th,ern were the arms of each nation, snpported by a
lion and an imperial Emblematical figures of
Peace, Plenty, and Concord, and the triangle of
unity. Underneath the initials of the Prince Re-
gent was a scroll, upon which was written,
4, The Prince and Old England for ever."
And under those of Alexander (the following
lines from Shakspeare, thought taken out of their
metrical form) :--
" May he live as tang as I have time to tell hif years, anll
d
when Old Time shall lead hint to his end, goodness and be fi
up one monument."
Tbe,eye of Providence was placed at the top of
the rransparenty, and other symbolic representa-
tions rendm'ed the exhibition a complete picture
and a chef diceuvre of the artist, Whot, we under-
stand, is Monsieur Rand°. The mizen-mast was
decorated with laurels, olive-branches, &c. on
either side were six transparent pedestals richly
iliaminated, upon which were the initials of the
Imperial.family of the Emperor. The letters were,
M. E. K. N. M. C. M. A. W.- F. C. A , and they
represented—
Marie, Dowager Empress, Grand Duchess Marie,
Empress Elizabeth, Grand Duchess Ann,
Grand Duke Constantine, William, Prince of drange,
Grand Doke Nicholas, rt Frederick, King of Wirteni-
Grand Duke Michael, berg,
Grand Duchess Constantina. Charles, Prince_ of Weymar.
The deck was elegantly chalked, as time Officers
were willing to attend to EngliSh fashions in
ever}, principle ; but on .the artist proposing to
chalk the Russian anus upon the door, they
thought the indignity so great to tread upon the
arms of their country, that they rejected it witl
horror ; it wars accordingly ordered to he chalke,
in a diversified manner. The sides of the roor
were decorated with laurels, ike. At the bottom.
was a place enclosed for the band's, ornamente
with scarlet. cloth, and richly illuminated.
Tn E STATE, CABlN.—Nearly in the centre was
* platform, upon which was placed the bust of

and trophies, mid it WCT, etre:
Emperor and Empress. The laureli; &c. around
the bust of Alexander represented an arbour;---
round his bead was a wreath entwined. There
were, besides these rooms, several others of a mi-
nor consideration, set :apart for tea, coffee, le-
monade, orgeot, &c:
At eight o'clock the company began to arrive
in boats from the shore ; and although the night
was tempestuous and the water rough, the ladies
were not in the remotest :degree dismayed.
At the approach of every boat a trumpet was
sounded, in ,the true ancient baronial manner, and
the Captain (Katchaloff) ushered the company into
the ball-room. Dancing was commenced at half-
past eight o'clock, led off. by
,C;aptain Katchaloff
and a lady whose name we could not obtain.
The double sound of a trumpet announced the
arrival of the patriot Francis, who fought so glo-
riously in our cause America he win dressed
in a most splendid suit of red and gold, and by
his side he wore a tomahawk, mounted in gold,
presented to him by the Prince Regent ; he ap-
peared much delighted with the appearance of the

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frigate. • ,
The High Priest, who is a most, reverential-
looking person, walked up and down the ban!.
room, and shook hands with many of the nobility:,
he is a most zealous deirotee, and at intervals he
retired to his cabin k. he performtd all the cere-
monies of their religion in the morning to the
whole of the crew—it was solemn and jrnpre*Sive.
By ten o'clock 'not less than 200 persons were
tripping it " the light- fantasicaccompa-
nied alternate), by the Russian and Royal Artil-
lery hands.
At one o'clock yesterday morning the company
were summoned- to supper between decks, where
every delicacy the season ndould afford was provid-
ed, upon massy plate belonging to the frigate.—
The apartments, ..however,. were found to be too
confined for the company, and many gentlemen
were under the necessity of eating their supper
standing..Dnring supper Capt. Katchaloff gave—
" The Rtnprror Alexantler."--" The Prince Regentifi-
-1" The Grand Duke Nichnlas"--4ed finally, " the Ladies:"
all of which were drank in bumpers of chret.
One of the, Officers then proposed the health of
the Gentlemen who honoured them with their
company, and one of the Commissioners of the
Royal Dock-yard returned thanks for the ohliga-
.

Linn. • ,
After supper, waltzing and dancing Were re-
commenced with additional vigoor. Part of the
company, hoWever, retired to the State cabin,
and made, says our Reporter, liberal libations :It
the shrine of Bacchus.
At five o'clock dancing ceased, and the
piny began to separate ; not,• however, before
the Band sang a national Anthem, which was es- .
cored by the company. It was 'nearly six o'clock
cam.
before the whole of the company had separated._
The Russian Consul amused himself during tho
:evening by playing at cards.
....
Tile frigate mounts 46 guns, and has onloarfl
620 men,'who are well disciplined berth in loud.,
cal and military tactics. k .
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CORoNERS' INQUESTS. •

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At: Inquisition was held on Tuesday afternoon
at the Barley Mow, Dorset-street, Mary-le-bone,
teisanodfiTorhdo...mst
uftrrtinAelbeewbso, arbgei nd,
..Isll2o .y4e
a,
rI3B ! a na‘ci,4.
John Brooks, the son of Mr. Brooks, of East.
arseept,u
street, aged lO years, .I.vho were drowned OW 5a4 :,
whose body is
deceased boys, and another boy
turday last in the Prince Regent's .Conal. VA
not yet found,,were
_playing on tise ice at what 00
children call horses, the , above boys were
tied together with a cord, and the boy who
is not. found ,was driving them, when the. ice
broke, and- lit'. .all three ..in. ; Durbin and }lmola
were got out di the water the next day. They
were totnict tied to a cord as described by ii "Y
silio'saw them drowned.—" Verdict of 'Accident-
al Death." .
Another Inquest was taken the same day, fm!
~the Crown Tavern, Clerkenvvell-close, upon the
body of .Ed ward Vernon, of ClerkenWell, whic4
had-beets found in" the New River, isliugton. a
Monday morning. The deceased was a carpenter*
and lived in Clerkenwell ; he,was missing trout bill
home about three . weeks ago, and was not Negri
of till Monday evening. He had been very tie'
sonding for '.some time before his death. The
Ig)eetlitimaat
nth, efilinflo(wll4l.
Jury found a verdict of—" Drowned hitnSelf 01
auisoSts4aptnieiteaol:d
(al yin:ataini:eit
bodyYlnquest.l:
fwaans . a
who was
as found writer his leg and arm broken,iYiti
La the
wleVelna t eecilet avpe enl Church,ontw eilaciss;
o'clock. Verdict—" Accidental Death." .*

Another Inquest was held the same day, OAS
Alfred's Head, Silver-street, Stepney Green, 03
the body of John Morgan, aged three years, who
died by his clothes catching fire. Verciiei—€€
cidental Death."

BIRTHS.

On Tuesday last, the Lady of Jaynes Paterson, Esq. of WO'
pole-street, of a daughter.
On the Nth inst. at Brisbane-place, Largs, Scotland, Mrs.
Douglas, of a sun.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at Little Parntion, EAsex. 'John Carta, f:)4i
M.P. for Portsmouth, td Joanna Maria, fourth daughter
William Smith, Esq. M.P. a Niai"
On Friday, at Bedford, the Rev. John Brenton, ifea t` ;01
ter of Bedford Schools to Miss Laura Abbot Harris, of
Linton.

DIED.
On Wednesday, the 18th inst. Mrs. Elizabeth
row, of Charlotte-street, Blaclifriars-road, datlghter
late Rev. Dr. Trotter, of Swallow-street Chapel. ter
On the 4th inst. at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Williankrar
Gißiess, Esq. in the tilth year of his age. JOll3
On the itst inst. in Princes-street, Hanover-villa"'
Bagwell, Esq. of Marbleld, County of Tipperary. •
ar-g-'
On the 9.3.11 oh. at F.Aeter, Mr. Charles Willies, S
On the 11th, in Sachrille-street, Dublin, aged
R thB/ruall
' the Rev. Henry Maxwell, Rector of". DrOnOte, °
of Down, and of Maryhorou±l:l2ie...=:C:
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