The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-26 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

Mr.EDITOR,—A Foreigner who sigrs tie name
of FRANCIS MACIRONE to a silly attack upon THE
QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vices appeared in The
British Monitor on the igih instant, and is repeat-
ed in The Morning Chronicle of this day, seems to
have thrust himself forward without any necessil
upon public notice. He is charged with having
procured a passport from the Allied Powers for
one purpOse, and to have employed it for ano-
ther. All his attempts to convict The Quarterly
Review of falsehood, in having brought this charge
against him, have failed, and he has even admitted
the truth of this charge in his long and tedious
letter. Now what is the fact ? The contemptible
upstart JOACIIIM MURAT, the Usurper of the
throne of Naples, after he bad lost that throne,
and when he must have been an ;dent if he had
thought that he could regain it, since the lawful
Monarch bad returned, was more kindly than
wisely offered an asylum in Austria. A passport
was given to this said FRANCIS MACIRONE, tvho
had been Aid-de-Comp to the Usurper, for the
purpose of enabling that Usurper to pass into
Austria, if he accepted the asylum so indiscteetly
offered to one of the asiistant Butchers and Pion-
derers in the service of the execrable Usurper of
France, Mr. MACIRONE tells the public, that he
used all possible means of persuasion to induce the
wretched joactum to accept the offered asylum,
but the silly fellow wanted once more to play the
part of Mock Monarch, and positively refused it.
What did Mr. Mactaona then do but furnish him
with the-passport, which was given for no other
purpose than to clear the way of Mr. MURAT to
the Austrian dominion', not to enable. him to en-
deavour to disturb the Kingdom of Naples, and
to attempt again to drive its lawful Mount eh from
his throne! Now, Sir, let Mr. MACIRone answer
this simple question,—Would the Allied Powers
have granted this passport, if they could have
conceived it possible that- it would have been
perverted from its obvious intent ? Common sense
says No ; and all Mr. MACIRONF'S reasoning on
the subject is but "thin air."—Now a wort' or
two on this Mr. MACIRONE. Why is he permit-
ted to find an asylum in this country, and to ob-
trude himself upon public attention ? By his con-
stant appellation of King to the despicable Usurper
MURAT, it is plain that Mr. Mactaotla has no
kind of respect for legitimate authority, and there-
fore having been the Aid-de-Camp to a.Revolu-
tionary Upstart, one of BUONAPARTE'S gang of
Myrmidons and Murderers, he cannot be a fit
person to find shelter among a loyal people. But
I am glad that the man has thus come forward,
because he may draw the attention of those to
whom the superintendence of ALIEN, is inttosted;
and surely upon clue refittctioo on his principles,
it may be thought that sufficient attention has not
been observed with regard to so officious an indivi-
dual. But perhaps he has laid out a few shillings
in the Batik of Scotland, and thereby -tendered
himself a subject of that realm which

" Suclis in the dregs of each exhausted Sta,te."

And looking at the mul►itude of dangerous F.
reigners who are suffered to harbour in this Ale.
tropolis, we may borrow a few more words from
the same Poet,

" LoNpor4, the needy villain's general home,
" The common sewer of Paris and of Rowe "
Let us then hear no more of such persons as have
been the agents of Revolutionary Upstarts, but
clear the country of them as soon as possible, that
they may not spread a baneful contagion among a
people who, notwithstanding the depravity of the
times, chiefly owing to the fatal principles of Ja-
cobinical France, have drill a firm regard to loyalty
and religion.
Oct. 54. . A TRUE BRITON.