The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

duct of the Government"- -the causes, nay the very essence
qt ttle-agitation. This is viblning with a vengeance but it
is all of a piece. :fhe .addresi-makers dare nut
openly touch upon the only real gm:stint:. Therttutuhle
ittlt
to hint at. the cause of that national indignation.against the
consequences of which they are so anxious to provide : and
while the Ministers bring- in a Bill of Pains and Penalties—
and, in revenge for the de..., tt:of it, are didtrginK the kingdom
with 4a,kiy slanders upon the Qom) mot threats against the
people—there is nut a man aniung all these servile courtiers-
, and :fddress-movers wlto:has the courage so notch asto name—
though but. in a }<Yet:thesis—the odious Bill, the triumphint
Queen, or tte baffled and frightened Ministers—the three
topics whicti engress the whole attention Of the country ; and
' but for one address or resolutiOn about:loyalty
would ever have been thaught of;

r Moriung Post.]
Though we must ever deplore the unhappy event* which
have tartly occupied the whole attention of the nation, there
are some circumstances growing out of what has occurred
that must've noticed With satisfaction. We have to thank
her Majesty that she (though to do her jostle:: we have no
reason to suspect that suet% was her intention) has made the
people in many parts of the country forget those distress.es
about whict; they were clamorously loud before her arrival.
The pressure of the Natirtnal. Debt, tilt it was lately revived
b.) that protouod and accomplished politiCian,Mr. P. Moore,
bas been wholly lost sight of. There has been it remarkable
lack of distress from the Ridings of Yorkshire—an absence of
tumult in the mannlacrurrng districts—no new casualties
have lately reached town trout Manchester---and all the en-
ergies of Major Cartwright have failed to make the people
very sore )I.t the subject of Parliamentary Reform.—lf, these
things afford pleasure to- those who are, like us, disposed
to be
" Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies,"
what must be the joy.uf each Irked to his country, when he
contemplates the opulence which the inhabitants
.of this. vast
Metropolis, and the parts immediately adjacent, are proved
to have obtained ? it a year ago we had proposed that a De-
putation from each of the Trades—frum each of the Benefit
Clubs—nay, from every Parish within some miles ot London,
to congratulate the King on the prospect of a continuance
of peace, or on any other great National blessing,. what
should we have been told All the sneers and reproaches
with which we were honoured for fayooring the Jubilee of
ISO 9, when a revered Monarch entered his fiftieth year,
and that of 1514., when British Victories had given the world
repose, would have been' revived. However indisputable the
good which we might have suggested, called for such a mani-
testatioo of public feeling, we sherd(' have been assured that
it .was in vain to address such a recommendation to an im-
poverished people,- ruined by taxation, and stripped of the
last guinea by the warrt of a Reform in the House of Com-
mons. " What !" they worild have said, " you want Its to
send up processions in open landaus and carriages, each
drawn by four horses—you want the Temple to decorate
themselves will. ribbons; to ,dress themselves in finery:
to put cbase Hags nod. banners ; and to .illominate their
windows; lint where is the money to collie from ? There
is every disposition on the part of the people to mark their
gratitude far the good accomplished ; but, unhappily, the re-
lentless hand of the tax-gatherer has taken frost them the,
fueans cut doing'so.--ln other times—in the good old days of
.Queen Bess—the people of England might amuse themselves
with pageantS, rejoicings, and illuminations.; but now they
are so'ground down by Mioisters and their satellites, that they
must take less ostentatious methods of stressing their joy and
proving their gratitude. !'his is the sort of lecture we
should have received ; and we should have been referred to
the depressed state of agriculture, and the general .stag-
nation of. trade, to prove that, compliance with such a
recommendation would have been tkut only difficult,
teat iurpossilde. But look at the fact ; look at the
display which the. Queen has been the means of calling
forth ; nerd then we should like to know what people
on earth, but the suffering, and oppressed, and exhausted
inhabitants of London and its vicinity, could afford to waste
such enormous sums as have been expended in these amuse-
ments. That many of the Ladies, in their borrowed gowns
and slippers, were any thing but respectable in appearance,
we cannot deny; bin in what other country in Europe, or the
world, could the basket-women and stall-keepers atlord to
leave their hninble industry, and pay even for the luau of gew-
gaais, like those in which the tripe-sellers and apple women
of England have lately been bedizened for a day ? It would
puzzle a greater traveller than Mr. Hobbouse to give a sa-
ti,factory :SUMO' to this qivestion. Not even in Turkey,
where, according to lsim, the people ate strangers to the
want of a Parliamentary Reform, did Mr. John Cam Hob-
house ever discoser anwne the lower classes the means of
indulging in such expensive foolez ies. While we lament that
such air exhibition should have been mauls on .cipaclt iset occa-
Sant—Veil le we are indignant that the nation should tie. de-
graded by such doings in honour of a convicted criMinal,
still exult—that bad as our affairs may be in some instances
—that great vas the distress- unhappily existing among many
of the labouring and must meritorious classes undoubtedly
is, there still remains so much of opulence to the-lower orders
as to enable them thus to celebrate any event that affords
them pleasure; and we sincerely rejoice in the practical re•
futation it kirri to Sir F. Burdett, Samuel Waddington, Sir
It. Wilson, Gate Juno% 3liti Co., and to all those who de-
seg Rue the whole nation, the suoporters •of the Government
excepted, to loser been consigned to utter ruin, abject want,
and hopeless misery.

[Morning Chronkle.]
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The inconsistency of the advocates of Ministers is tru
amusing,. Lt one moment ate are threatened with an abso-
lute inundation of Loyal Addresses- front all parts of
the
country—we are told of -4` the declarations of loyalty, which
are pouring like all impetuous tide
.round the throne ;"
Itiat the conviction of the citteeti's iiThocence is only enter-
tained by a few of. the veriest rabbleiliat the machinery
of the .Addrits;:es is worked by a very few hands," 'who
" continue IW)Ving round and round in their circle, and giv-
ing us duplieates.and triplicates of themselves in these their
• vat loos cApacitieS." I-happy filinistry,—enviable prospects,
it these accounts are to be relied on! Supported by a deveit-
-seth, a confiding and united People, what have they to fear
front the descrintion.of persons who alone are opposed to
them, tiannly those-who according to a certain EVellifrg Pa-
per,.go to announce to her Majesty, " that they think her
much more innocenter now than before?" This is an xtra-
ordiri3ry conjuncture indeed ! But then unluckily we are
,• immediately told, that •• the Press of the present moment is
I, not free ; it is under the domination of One of the most base,
barb:4loas and brutal factions ever' banded together against
the freedom nod happiness of mankind—a faction which deals
in unmeasured calumny, and enforeei its sovereign enact-
ments by the outrages of a tool). The press is rapidly ap-
airuaching the state in which it was at the opening of the
bloody Revolution in France, when it was free to utter every
reproach; every calumny, every falsehoodt that malignity could
devise against the King, the Nobility, or the Clergy; but •
Whin to be a loyal, an honourable, or a religious writer was
to become a'-mark for the most shameless slander, the most
unrelenting persecution, to be driven into exile, in dragged
to the Lanterne." What then, this handful of rabble,
which to appear any thing must give us duplicates and
tripliCates •of itself, is at the same-Aime-ass--turrnidable„ as
to lord it with sovereign authority over a united nation, the
tide of *Wise declarations of loyalty " are trarying beneath its
waters the unclean things which have been crawling over the
land !”- Is it by way uf 'favouring the former doctrine of-the
paramount ascendancy of the mob, and to impress it the more
forcibly, on the timid, that thieves and ruffians seem at pre-
sent. to be openly connived at:by the Government Police? :for
Where the City Polide acts, a very -different .state of things is
seen. The light-fingered gentry and street robbet:k are cer-
tainly allowed to duplicate and triplicate themselves in a won-
derful .manner, and to matte themselves visible:to all but those
'whoouglit tosee them. But let that pass. The Press is not free !
What ! a pitiful rabble has the power .to force the Press to
utter sentiments different front those which are acceptable to
-its readers I The respectable part of the Press, to borrow the
compiiment of Lord .Castiereagb, fenced in and protected by
.taaes and high duties in such a manner, as to have its circu-
lationnearly 'confined to the opulent and middle classes of
seiCiety, disregards their •sentiments, and attends.to nothing
but the wishes of R.:rabble contemptible in numbers as intel-
lect All this is certainly very strange, hut we art required
nevertheleis-to believe. it. We are required to believe that
the People of England, whose intrepidity has hitherto been
as unquestioned as their intelligence, suffer themselves to lie
prostrate at that feet of an ignorant and conteMptible rabble,
that, throngh fear of this rabble, therpitichase News•
pa-Viers breathing sentlthents which. they not only do not ap-
prove of, lint hold in absolute abhorrence. People of a plain
stay of thinking can hardly help feeling somewhat-startled
at
these contradictions and paradoxes. They might 'be apt to
believe, indeed; that there is some constraint sin the liberty
of the Press: a constraint which the supporters Of Ministers
feel extremely, inconvenient. They arc, no. doubt, at. liberty
to support Minister's; lint they thereby lose their readers
Now, the support. of Ministers is often not without its-
advanta,es, but, to have • readers, is also a goOd thing;
, and,
.tnifortunately, the former and the latter are. some-
irrecorictlahle at the present nonnent. The Press,
therefore, is not free ; it is—under'• constraint, .To this
they must come at last in spite- of all .their :Corporation