The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-30 00:00:00

[New_ Times.]

NVe remember that a'ite'r tne 111'0 four or fire Addresses to
the King bad appeared, a err! a in. malignant Journalist artfully
insinuated that they were all very ritneh alike, and,-thefefore,
probably carte from a common source. There was; more
truth in this remark than it was inttmied to convey. All
these Addresses and all these beclarations have a certain
family likeness—

facie9 non omnibus una,
Nec diversa tamen, qualem decet esse Sororom ;

, .
All come from tue.s.ame source, from the same spirit of Loy-
alty winds animates all Britons whir' know and prize the
Constitution, and who venerate the Throne. as time hey-
stone of that Constitution,. Such Men most of course speak
in the saute strain, and touch on nearly the same topics,
whether their -Address fit, sent-up from Aberdeenshire or
from -Exeter, whether their sentiments be uttered at Man-
chester or at Norwich.—What is there in those sentiments
which so much irritates and annoys the miN/eartiitg Edi-
tor ? Is he grieved: and mortified to _find that not-
withstanding all his 'leading articles, all the doggrel of
Hone, and all the audacious earictittires of Benbow,' still
the respectable classes of society feel and avow their attach-
ment to his Majesty's Person and Government ? It there
had been the slightest ground formic-fiftieth par't of the lilicls
so lavishly poured hull) in those leading articles against tlra
King--*-if his Wife. had been innocent and persecuted—himself
a suborner and a conspirator
,against her life, the thousands
who sign these Addresses and Declarations must he titterly
destitute Of all homier and principle. But if (as is no-,
totionsly the case) these, arPmsers comprise nine-tenths of
the respectability of the country, tlien the converse of the
former proposition lutist be true, and the man who by im-
plication throws out these vile and shameless charges against
a Magnanimous Soveretgri is the foulest of slanderers, the
most infamous of traitors. There is no way to avoid this
dilemma"; either the immellSe majority of: the Gentry, the
Clergy,. the Magistrates, the Merchants, and the Traders of
Great Britain, deser% e all the abuse of the Editor in girestion
(he calls them, in his 'yesterday's Paper, Moeli-Loyalisrs,
Snug-Loyalists, and Ultra-Loyalists), or he himself is at once

the most insolent atld the most cerht-i-ii‘pt.rble.of libelle.rs; be
libels the nation when he libels eveiy tiling in it ►hat deserves
and commands 'veneration and esteem. -

[British Press,].
It was boasted sonic ria)s since, by the Treasury .Papers,
though the subject of congrattilation seemed somewhat, inju-
clicitinslY chosen, that at none of the public meetings held
throntiqut the coqiituy for the purpose of condemtnng the
conduct
.of the Ministers, did the advocates of the party iu
power ever interrupt by clamour the speeches'of persons who
held- opinions contrary to. their own ; 011 the *con-
trary, -it was atlirtired that should airy Individual venture
to utter one word in favour of the poor abused members
of the Cabinet, its speech Was '.instantly inter-mined by
tumult.. . Upon this
,point our readers %will: obtain -softie
light from a Connitunicatiim which we received Yesterday
"from a Corre'spond,nt at 'LieerpOol, respecting the public
i»eeting which was attempted. Sc, .be,'held in 'that . town on
Wednesday; for the.pitt poss. ofcollectinz the sense of .the iik-
hal,irants upon the conduct Of the Min,isters, in their recent
proceodings,against the Qoeen. The Town Hall, which xvas-
.ipptinited by the Mayor fin this purpose, was unfortunately
too,small,to accoinurdate any considerable umnber of pro-
ill', alit! 'advantage was Wien of this circumstance by ,ine
1 !act,-holders and place hunters residing in Liverpoollo
cupy large ptirtion of. the Hall at all early hour. with
two or three hundred of their own immediate servants and
win klitep, anti by the clamorous exercise if their powerful
ungS to prevent thelny.sibility not merely oftliseitssion in ge-
tieral, but even oflopening to the meeting the purpose for which
it had been convened. Generally' speaking, when a meet-
ing is fairly collected, wit hout any attempt at selecting
the 'persons, or preventing any class or portion of the peopte,
flout attending it, aef:oritini; to their own convenience and
.416 the interruption of speaker by an evidc tit majority
tit't he “ssembly, atfoids as eertaitt a means of collccling the
.pr,vailitig sentiments of 1 htfit majority, as icany one person
o,•re deputed by the rest to express their united opinions,
It is in fart by the loud expression of appladse or censure at the
ele.ilvery of 01111/16113 .ple;ting'th them or .otherwise. that a, vast
li,dy 'of people, and i»4re particniarly of illiterate people, alone
can convey their individual hind collective sentiments.-Nu
personh
'who as ever ventured to address a Coveut-garden
meeting, or even the Livery tif Londfin, "can long be doubt'
respecting the prevailing sentiments of his audience.
lint packed as the Town Hall of Liverpool evidently was on
Vi'ednestlay, -no Conclusion can lie drawn . trout the,thmult :
concerning the actual sentiment of the majority. The Mayor
himself could not succeed' in making himself heard with the
respectful silence doe tutus.station; and hd vras'obliged to point
out a little party in one corner of the Hall, whonehe observed
to he di•ternaiiiiol in preventing all discussion. The boast
of politeness wine!), with all ether virtues, the Treasury prints
.arro!:ate for their blends, can now, no longer be .urged‘; it
has vanished, but without leaning the substantial and valu-
able '11:41,101011 which in most other cases of popular
meetings. mi-Jit he drawn from the clamour of the assembly..
•An opportuinty will, -wetruit, 'soon he given in Liverpool of
trying the real strength of the Ministerialists in that town,.
for the Mayor having heen obliged-by the rude iitrbulence of
the weaker party, " the active `ninfority" in this instance. to
disolve the nice tin g, a requisition is in course of preparatiOri,
requesting his Mirship-to ciiil another meeting of the inhabi-
tants, and to appoint some More Capacious place where the
inhabit tints may asemble with more convenience, alai where
the properoilicers may he enabled tb preserve order during '
the discossion.

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