The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-15 00:00:00

confirmed the sta! etnen t in at Courier. The
Times maintained the falsehoot a day or two, and
theta skulked into evasion. let us see what it
says this day on a subject wts.h it is too proud
to drop, and is wholly unabl: to support. In
reply to the Courier it says—" He denies the
wicked project of increasing he Civil List.—
Does he It his denial he tiu,, he is most un-
fortunate in his character, fur no one believes
him ; and we would advise Muisters, if, not-
withstanding the abuse which they heap upon
him, they still mean to retain bin in their service,
to establish two Journals—the Courier for lies,
and another for nut!) ;'' and then the Times
attempts by the assistance, no doubt, of some
pour Usher of a School, to alley' his scholarship
by a reference to VIROILIS gates of ivory, and
horn. But is this such an answer to the accu-
sation of falsehood as the people have a right to
demand of a public Journal that bas imposed
upon them by false intelligence ? And this an-
swer, such as it is, is confined to the Courier, and
takes no notice of the more ample contradiction
of the Morning Post. As to the establishment of
a new Journal for which the Times recom-
mends to Ministers, it would be indeed a wanton,
prodigal, and needless waste of public money for
that purpose while there is such a Journal as the
Old Times.

We have the pleasure to congratulate the Public
on the termination of all the Election tumults in
the City of London. The result is nut such as
we wished, but upon the whole it is satisfactory.
We feel great respect fur 'Mr. Wicsote, and ere
glad that so very respectable a character is sigain
one of the Representatives of the great Capital of
the 1Vorld; but we should have been snore glad if
so very faithful and active a servant as Sir
WILLIAM CURTIS had been at the head of the
Poll, as the worthy Baronet has been a faithful
servant of the Publie. He has acted with an in-
dependent spirit, that spirit which has characterized
uirn through life in all its relations. His dispo-

sition is friendly, and his hospitality is the flow of

a generous and benevolent nature. Mr.WiLsoN is,
by all accounts, a very eatitnahle man, but how-
ever he may be respected in private, he had not an
opportunity of showing his regard to the interests
of the City to the same extent as the worthy
Baronet, and though he may be laudably proud
of being at the head of the Poll, he cannot
but feel conscious that it was rather the
situation which Sir XVILLIAN CURTIS ought to
have occupied. The LORD MAYOR is another
of the Representatives on whom the ehoice.of the
City has very properly fallen.—He has given a
' good specimen of lois conduct as the first Magis-
trate of the City, and we trust that he support
his character with equal credit as a Legislator.
As to Mr. WAITIISIAN, we never objected to him
as a Retail Tradesman. This is a free Country,
in which men of talents, knowledge, and industry
may rise to any height in the State below
Royalty. It would be hard indeed if a respect-

able Tradesman, who bad raised himselt to
a state of independence, should be denied
the power of assisting in Legislative Coun•
cils because be keeps a shop. Such preju-

dices would show a narrow, bigotted, mind.—
Some of the noblest families in the Country
had their origin in a shop, and we hope, for the
honour or our free Constitution, that many others
may hereafter rise from the same source. We
object to Mr. WAITIIMAN on account of his temper,
his principles and his views. We think that they are
of too radical a description, and though we are
persuaded that be would be little efficient in Par-
liament, yet we wish not to see the slightest
tinge of nadicalioa, if possible, in that Assenshly,
the great hal wark.of the Constitution in Church
and State.

We feel no Plight degree of pleasure in finding,
by a Letter which we received this morning, that
the ancient and respectable City of Coventry,
though it is not likely to possess Parliamentary
Representatives worthy of its commercial credit,
will yet be able to rescue itself from the odium of
being represented by such a roan as CQBedvrx,
who has rendered himself the object of detesta-
tion and horror to all but the very lowest and
most abandoned of mankind, iu this country and
America. We agree with our Corretpundent,
whose Letter we insert this day, that the other
two Candidates are not such men as we wish to
see represent Coventry, or any other place, but,
as old Lear says,

" Those w;cked creatures yet do look well-farour'd,
" When others are more: uicked ;—uot being the worst
" Stands in some rank of praise."

Bat the most gratifying inference to be drawn
from the prospect is, that Cossevr is now so
generally despised that he will oniy be able to
hold up his head moug the veriest ►cntn of
Radicals, who not only disgsace this country but
human nature itself.—ile " will not ►much
tirough Coventry with iheru—tbc'g tia;."