The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-12 00:00:00

A itADICAL

Is a civil fanatic ; au Utopian liPgislator, who
builds Constitutions in the air, and shapes Own
with his fancy, as fouls do figures in the clouds.
Ile is but a nominal politician ; a faithful subject
to an ideal Government, but a rebel toe real one.

Not having wit enough to distinguish bet weert
speculation and practice., be throws away the sub-
stance of liberty and grasps at its shadow. lie
contrives very judiciously what might be and while
ought to be, if Providence were hut as wise as
himself. He follows his own inclination to a
form of Governnsent, as a bowler follows his
bowl, when he mistakes the ground, and screws
his body the way he would have it run. He for-
gets that Coustilittions grow like trees; and'fau-
cies they are built like houses. He reduces men
to subjection by proving their equality. His Con-
stitutions ale idiots, who can never be admitted to
the management of their own estates, because they
can never arrive at years of discretion. He is 4
sate empiric, who has a nostrum for the maladies
of all Governments $ but being ignorant of tilde
frame, he cannot prOportion the dose. He is
wonderfully enamoured of a Commonwealth, be-
cause it is like a common woman, whom every
man may solicit ; but he hares a monarchy, be-
cause it it like an honest wife, tine to one. His
service to the people is like that of the idolatrous
priests to lid and the Dragon—to eat op their
meat and drink up !heir liquor for them When
he begs a subscription, be is like an ladle!' jug-
gler, who extracts money front his throat. Upou
the (Listings or in the Chair, he will hold any ar-
goineot rather than.-hiS tongue, which is like t
street bag-pipe, that never stops its drone, while
the performer can squeeze. wind out of his own
gullet. or cash out of his bearers' fobs. His ora-
tory is the most difficult to cure of all diseases.
tie drowns you with it, as a Water•spaniel makes
a duck dive at his balking. ‘Vbeit you congra-
tulate yourself on his speech being ended, it be-
gins again ; like a patent gout, tl. di,4oaraes
nine times for one loading. His eltopte C is
leplosy, more pestilent and more adhesive Hein
that of NH3III/111 the Syrian. It is an itch. sa •ielt
must he cured rather by Mars than by Aiereui y ;
though it may bring him at last into a ea urse of
solphur. He is a true ren,gado, he abjures alle-
giance tai his Prince, to tare himself opoil-his
ruin. He is a rebel of great antiquity ; for his
family were Pi eS, whereof Lucifer was
the founder. He endeavours to raise himself as at
school-boy does his kite ; by pallina against :he
wind. He points out pre•ended titws in the Con-
stitution, as sharp housewives spew cracks in a
pipkin ; that he may get it the more easily into
Iris own bands. lie would repair it, as knavish
tankers meod kettles for the increase of their own
custom ; by enlarging a. fracture or wotking !vv,,
for one. Fie is !he dis,ased part of the Bo ly
Politic, in which all its bail humours art gather-.
; end when he is lanced, they s!e All let out,
and the body-is sound again. He is like the walls
of 'he Royal Exchange, hung with every man's
bosiness, public nod private ; and, like them, he
promises more !ball can he performed. His tongue
is like a Mail Coach ; time less weight it carries,
the faster it goes. Bat unlike a Mail Coach, it
runs without a guard. He delights in nothing so
much as in confeision ; and like a porpoise, be
always tumbles before a storm.
Manchester,- Jan. C. E

OLD BAILEY, J.N. 12.—This -morning these
Sessions commenced before the Lora) MAYOR,
ALDERMEN, RECORDER, &c. At a quarter past ten
Mr. Justice Ho" Amyl) and Mr. Justice Bußnouon
entered the Court, the.tormer attended by Mr.
Sheriff ROTHWELL, the latter by Mr. Under-
Sher lf TURNER ; Mr. Sheriff enter-
ed immediately afterwards. About 25 prisoners
were atraigned, and the pleas were recorded,
John Ridley was indicted for a highway robbery,
in stealing from the person of Wm. Mold, a silver
watch, his property ; it appealed the prisoner is
one of a gang that infests the streets of the Me-
tropolis, that on the :23i1 of December, he, in
company wi!h two others, knocked the pre'seco-
tor down in Holhorn, and stole his wa vit. The
prisoner made lie tisttA defence, that lie was as
innocent as the child unborn, but the Jury did
not believe him, and hound him Guilty—Death.

IMPORTANT INVeNTION iN HYDRAULICS.-There
is at present cieculated in Paris, the prospectus of
a new machine which, if we may bel:eve the-Au-
thors, will overturn all our present system- of
hydraulics. They engage to supply a small port-
able steam engine, which will raise the water to
the height of sixty feet at the rate of fifteen
quarts per minute. Tire machine will consume
no more than the value of one pennyworth of
coals in an hour, to raise nine hundred quarts
of water to this height. It will cost six hun-
dred francs, and will last more than a hundred
years. No payment is required until the en-
gine has been tried, and given satisfaction ;
till it is fixed, and raises the water from the well to
the roof of the house, which will thus be securtd
against fire.—They offer for progressive prices.
machines which will raise duuhle, triple, decnple
qmantlties of v. a:cr, to donYe, triple, decuple
heights e. 100, ISO. or 600 feet) and this its
infinite progression. The authors keep their dis“
covers a secret, and will nor dividife it till they
have raised subsetiptions for 20,000 itches of
water, according to their way of I tckoning.