The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-13 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. tDITOR,—.-S0 much sophistry has lately
'been resorted to for the mystification of HONEST
JOHN'S plain understanding on the subjects of the
'abeas Corpus Suspension and its attendant fill
of Indemnity, both by party writers and party
Ipetaktrt=to say. nothing of those public, yet noc-
turnal scribes who prove their deep political
acumen -by chalking " No Indemnity—No Ha-
beas Corpus," on all the dead walls of the Nletro-
polis=that it 'will be an acr of friendship towards
that worthy personage to present him with the
plain unvarnished arguments of both sides of the
House, in a short dialogue divested of the persi-
flage, the verbiage, and all the other French terms,
with which' the common sense of the nation has
been of late so much anooyed-let us enter then
at once into the very centre of discmsion.
OPPOSITION.—" The Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus is the deitruction of the Constitution, and
of all the rights'of Britons !I"
MINISTERS.—" The Constitution anal all the

tights of Britons were-in danger of total subver-
sion by the machinations of treason and sedition;
and therefore we called for the Suspension of the
Habeas Corpus in certain cases only, to enable us
to arrest and imprison for a time the agitators
and instigators of riot and revolution, but leaving
the rules of public justice to take their usual
course in all other points of our political system.
We asked for power to enable us to preserve the
Constitution—but a power far short of that with
which the Romans, a people jealous of their
liberties, found it sometimes necessary to invest
their Dictators !"

OPPOSITION.—" Such power, in our recent si-
tuation, was unnecessary and ❑ncalled for. The

existing laws were sufficient for every purpose.
You ought to have taken up the suspected persons,
and to have tried them by the usual forms of the

Constitiltion.”

MINISTERS. •—•" That world have been un-
availing. The information which we had re-
cei',•ed, though sufficient to prove, morally
speaklng, th 6 guilt of the suspected persons, was
not sufficient for legal conviction. The most

dangerous of the agitators kept carefully in the
back ground, and avoided all overt acts, whilst
the thousands whom they were leading on to re-
bellion were by no means aware of the objects
Which these instigators had in view."
OPPosmoti.—" Then, instead of infringing
the Constitution, you ought to have waited until
you could bring forward sufficient evidence fur
conviction at the Assizes." .

MINISTERs.—" IVe must again repeat, that we
did not infringe. the Constitution : we only asked
for, and received the power of suspending a cer-
tain part of it towards such indivitluals, pointed
out to us upon oath, as might he engaged in re-
bellious practices, and in traitoron3 machinations.
But to have waited for legal proofs, agreeable to
the strict tenour of the practice of our Courts of
Justice, would have been to permit the machina-
tions of the instigators to proceed until they had
doubled, trebled,- perhaps quadrupled their mis-
guided followers, the great majority of whom,
though ignorant of the ultiMate objects to which
they might be impelled, would have been ripe for
any acts, however atrocious, particularly for riot
and plunder, as the very system by which they
were led into the snare was a system that struck
at the root of their personal industry, by taking
them from their homes at unseasonable hours of the
night, and from their work during the day. Then,
indeed, we might have had legal proofs for a
Jury—but where would have been the Juries,
when the principal manufacturing towns were in
.flames,when the 14ml-owners, the wealthy and the
industrious master manufacturers, and, in short,
all the loyal-and well-disposed, would have been
driven from their homes by tire and sword ? We
thought it better, therefore, to prevent than to
punish—better to imprison a few active agitators,
and thus deprive sedition of its sinews, than to
suffer blood to be shed by the rioters, to risk the
loss of life by military operations, and to be
forced to load the public sciktfolds with inis4oided
victims, whilst the contrivers of the mischief were
sitting secure from the arm of public justice."
OpPosmoN—(aided by some new Speakers)—
'' Pooh ! Pont! l'ooh !—rights—wrongs—prisons
—Governor Aris—robinredbreasts—petitions—
flutes--parodies--Common Conneils--brace-
snakers—penny subscriptions—visiting magistrates
—coercion—heavy irons—black eyes—OUTEß—
law prosecutions—and no indt.mnity."
• MINISTeRS.—" We ask no indemnity for our-
selves, because we can justify every act we have
committed under the suspension of the Habeas
Corpus : but, whilst doing so, we must bring
our informants before the public, and expose them
to the malice of the rioter and the assassin ! We
therefore seek a general Bill of Indemnity."

OrrosiTioN.—" You shan't have it.
divide the House."
111INISTFRS.--.-" Do so ! we are content !"
Such, Mr. Editor, is, I believe, a pretty fair
specimen of the subject before us.

IGNOTUS.

We have received repeated information, from several
quarters, that some Persons who pretend to have an in-
fluence over Tut: Su`, and even to possess a share in it,
are in the habit of using that pretended influence in appli-
cations to the Theatres, and Places of Public Entertainment,
as well as on various other occasions. The Editor, there-
fore, deems it. hi; duty to state, that lie is the sole Pro-
prietor of the Paper, and to caution all whom it may con-
cern against an artifice which has been commonly practised
by those who have any kind of connexion with Public
Journals. We earnestly assure our Readers, that all such
applications are wholly unauthorized, and are gross and
shameless impositions.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Night.
THEATRE Rorm„ DRUHY-LANE.—A New Way To Pay Old
Debts : Sir Giles ()set:reach, Mr. Kean ; Lady Allworthy,
Mrs. Knight. After which, The Innkeeper's Daughter.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GAuDEN.--(first time), Rob Roy
Macgregor: Francis Oshaidistone, Mr. Sinclair Diana
Vernon, Miss Stephens. After which, Husbands and Wives.

MAILS.

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THE SUN.

SOW( QU/S DICERE FAIMIN AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1818.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, which were
due this morning, have not come to hand.

Some further Atherican Papers arrived this
morning.—The following are Extracts :

(From TLe Boston Patriot, Feb. 11)
MISSION TO CAPE HENRY.

We understand from a correct source (says a
Baltimore Paper of February 3), that the United
States' sloop of war Hornet is under sailing orders
for Cape Henry (Hayti), and that an ambassador
will proceed in her to demand from the King of
Hayti indemnification for sequestered American

property.
Extract of a Letter from Washington to the Editor of the

Baltimore Patriot, dated

" WASHINGTON, JAN. 30.

" It is reported that adbices have been receiv-
ed at the War Department from Amelia Island,
that a Spanish fleet had left St. Augustine, with
2000 troops on board. Whether those troops are
to be employed against the Americans at Amelia,
is yet to be ascertained ; or whether the Covet n-
Hunt of the United States intends to hold that
post longer than a Spanish force sufficient to hold
it is sent to occupy it, is not known out of
wen I tkors.

" General JACKSON is taping efficient measures
to chastise the hostile (Seminole) Indians. He
has called fur 1,000 mounted volunteers from Ten-
nessee, which it is to be presumed have been

We refer our Readers.to the emphatic compres-
sion of the arguments, pro and con, of OPPOSI•
TION and MINISTgRS, in the Letter from our old
and respectable Correspondent IGNoTUs, which
we have inserted this day, on the subject of THE
INDEMNITY BILL, as a humourous as well as an im-
partial and satisfactory summary of all that arose
from the long-winded discussions on that conduct
of Government which preserved the Country from
the danger of Rebellion, excited and stimulated
by the arts of factious Orators and Scribblers.

TH6 DUKE OF BEDFORD.—We have inserted
the puerile whine of this Nobleman in our Paper
of to-day. It appeared first in The Morning
chronicle of Wednesday, which, under the pre-
text of its not having then been correct, and being
considered as a good Party MAD-rigal, is encored
in the same Paper of this day. It is a pity that
his Grace has not discretion enough to hide his
soreness from the Public, who will only laugh at
him for complaining of disappointment when he
had no right to indulge any expectation. The
late Duke of NORFOLK was dispossessed of his
Lord Lieutenancy in Yorkshire, because.he gave
a mischievous and silly democratical toast at a
drunken party revel. Can the Duke of BED-
FORD suppose that,
,while lie is one of the
most active Opponents of Government, he
has any claim to its favours ? The Duke,
after such a ridiculous and useless lamentation,
may fairly be supposed not to understand, the
principles of THE PARTY whom he patronizes,
andi the probable aims of that Party, for, other-
wise, it may he presumed that he would withdraw
his countenance from them, but those who, igno-
rantly or knowingly, patronise such a Party, have
no right to complain that Government does not
commit to them offices of high and important trust.
The British Press says, " the Noble Duke has acted
with the spirit which might be expected from a
descendant of the immortal RUSSELL." 'We refer
our Readers to Mr. BURKE for the origin of
the House of RUSSELL. As to " the INV.IOR-
TAL RUSSELL," his character and conduct, to say
the best of them, were very doubtful, and as to
the Grandfather of the present Duke, we have only
to refer for an account of his character and con-
duct to the Letters of JUNUJS. For any other
Descendants of the House of RUSSELL, except the
amiable father of the present Duke, we know not
where to look for any splendid ornament in the
annals of Great Britain.

It has been stated in a respectable Morning
Print that the PRINCE REGENT's answer to the
letters notifying the death of King CHARLES
XIII., the late King, or rather the late Usurper
of Sweden, aryl also new credentials for Lord
STRANGFORD, as Minister to the present King
CHARLES JOHN, have been dispatched to that
country. We did not notice this statement when
it was first issued, because we were doubtful
of its truth, and, from what we have since heard,
we are not disposed to rclingziish our doubts.—

that, as a matter of etiquette between tour% an
answer might be sent to the notification of the
late Usurper's death, is very probable but that
our Government would commit itself.by standing
new Credentials to our Ambassador, in the present
critical posture of affairs in Sweden, we shall never
believe, till the fact is too well-authenticated for
contradiction. In our opinion such a measure
would be hasty and iudi,creet. It is easy to ine
vent excuses for delay on any matter of national
importance, till events will justify some decisive
conduct, and, surely, before we know whether
the People of Sweden will get rid of the Intruder
upon the Throne of their rightful line of Moe
narchs, or whether they will degrade themselves
by submitting to his Sovereignty, it becomes the
dignity of the Britsh Empire to pause, and to
wait the result.—The respectable Paper to which
we have alluded, proceeds to say, adverting to the
supposed new credentials, " the same line-of cone
duct, we are assured, will be pursued by all the
other Sovereigns of Europe."—lt must be con-
fessed that the assurances on this point, which
the Paper in question has received, must have
come very early, and, as we may fairly presume,
before most of the other Courts of Europe cat),
to use a common expression, have " made oP
their minds " as to the conduct which it would be
most wise and expedient to pursue. The Conti-
nental Governments are not quite sohasty as to
have resolved on a measure of such importance,
without due deliberation and concert, and tve pot
it to the common sense of mankind, if it be pos-
sible, or probable, that the several Courts of
Europe have made their intentions so public that
they have already reached the channel of aft
English Journal. The report is incredibll
absurd, and the respectable English Journalist
must have admitted it without suffering his usu 4
good sense to reflect on its extreme improbability:
We trust that our Government will oot be less
cautious than all others are likely to be, flit 4
have any pretensions to wisdom, and have beco
enlightened by experience. For our oet n part, it
is our decided conviction, that the elevation 01
BERNADOTTE to the Throne of Sweden will be is
greater shock to legitimate Sovereignty than all tbs-
fatal principles which produced the French Rev"'
lotion. The horrors, the consternation, and 114
general insecurity which that dreadful event
casioned, were imputed, by the world at large, 0
the temporary madness of a multitude, infiamel
by artful demagogues, and it was generally con'
ceiverl, that when all the evils had subsided, ths
People in every other State would see the (lenge(
of throwing off /indent and revered auebvrity, 8114
would be glad to repose again under its establish-
ed protection. But if a low-born Upstart, svil°se
history throughout is 'very far front tending t°
his honour upon any occasion, should moony'
Throne, and receive the sanction of all surrouod'
ing Monarchs, they trill fix tie stamp of ade
thoriry on Usurpation, and give a deeper stab
to Legitimate Sovereignty than it ever be
fore suffered. For these reasons, and 't

are persuaded that they will appear to lig

convincing to all the friends of regular authoritYl
all who know the value of legitimate descent, in

private as well as national concerns, and all w"
are aware of the evils to which every country is el('
posed in elective Monarchies, who must revolt fr
nz
the elevation of 13ERNADoTTE, and rejoice to ste
the throne of Sweden return to its lawful ClojuP.
ant. Poland was ruined because it was an cleci
tine Monarchy, and lust its rank as an indepe°4
ent nation, and if BERNADOTTE should receive ti'd
assistance and sanction of other Monarchial 6(''
vernments, they will probably, in turn, beco°l6
the dependant vassals of some overbearing on"'
overwhelming convulsion.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARCH 13.—The wind hay'
ing changed, large arrivals of Grain maybe ex`
pected on Monday, consequently buyers are bang'
ing off; a few 3al::s made in fine Oats were or:
full as good terms as on Monday, but Ore price
generally may be considered nominally the 63°10
as on that day.

The Prince of flessa HOMBERG yesterdaYfid
sited the PRINCE FIF.GENT and several of the j74°;
bility.Lie intends to sit immediately for 111

portrait.
Lord CASTLEREAGH had yesterday an auwc—anG
of the PLINCE REGENT.,
Duer...—A meeting took place yesterday, 8t
early hour, between Captain B-- and bietlrgt
T--, in consequence of a dispute at plaY 17}e,
T uesday night. %Vimbledon Common was f-e
ground, and the parties fired twice, when t'iji
Lieutenant was slightly %wounded in the Pi'iroe.
hand, the ball grazing the right side, and
the affair ended. heel
DUEL PREVENTEl3.—lniormation having v
received at the Hatton Garden Office that a Illeerie
ing was intended to take place yesterday ronrni-di
between R. J—, Esq and B. A--, EiSq' htt,),
of Windsor Terrace, City-road, Wm. Reid' .1- 4
one of the officers, will,proper flSSistanCey
inunediately dispatched to prevent their fighti`!',
The officers succeeded in apprehending the
cipals, both of whom wve;-e bound over tY
the peace.