The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-02 00:00:00

TO THE I. DIToR OP THE MAIDsTotcP. JoIYMNAL.

Sitt,---There beims at present a Combination among the.
Nlereliants, Consumers, and De.ilers in Hops here, and gene-
t ngtiow, to force down the price of
at tide, the Planters! wou! d ti 6 Weil fur theinselves•
in sernlio4 their Hops to _marl e 1 in .small quantities, and
those that can. do so, not for tht present, other wise the co.ri-
scquencei preciiiitanc will lie •ruinous to themselves.
, sir, your-IPA-hie-Servant, ;./•s
A Vit.MICI) HOP 'PLANTER.
Loudon, August :SI S.

There is something very praise-worthy, whets a young
Nobleman enters into some consistent • professiOn, 'Nr the'
honours more than the emoluments of it. This ynitOg turd
is a good soldier, and is not afraid to leave 'the repose of 'his
'whin to mingle in the dangers and hardships of war. His
regiment is one of the best-disciplined in the Britishsehice,
and gives a pattern to the_ rest of the i:%rnsy. America bear;
witnes* to his prowess and military knowledge, and'Englatiii
shall reward it. I wish the Nobility, in general, lhad some
regular, indispensable duty to perform, to the neglect
whereof a certain stigma was annexed : there would not then
be so many wretched, vicious, impoverished, and disgraceful
characters among them.

E— of P— —.

This is another of King Charles the Second's Lords of the
Berl-Chamber ! He is, however, a spirited Officer; and his
regiment is managed with great discretion and good sense.-....
I am much disposed to favour the Professional Nobility.

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A difference of character among men totally unconnected
with each other, is by no means an object of admiration :
but the contrasted disposition of those who are allied by
blood, and the opposite bias which may prevail between
Ancestors and their. Descendants, is•frequently a matter of
surprise, as if the
.qup.lities of men were as hereditary as
their estates and titles. Yet so it is, that, when we hare been
accustomed to consider particular men under the idea appro-
priated to their characters; especially when they may have
been marked by particular talents and qualifications, or par-
ticular exertions of them, so as to render their names, as it
were, synonimous to their pursuits-or employments ;we find
a kind of disappointment, when they who succeed to their
titles do nut possess their talents and dispositions, and the
name is no longer a cliareteristic name, but becomes-merely
distinctive and titular. The less known and more tranquil
character may be of equal or greater utility to Society, than
that to which fame and.celebrity are annexed. The popular
cry has followed the Villain as well as the Man of Virtue :
but still we are disposed to expect something of active dispo-
sitions in those who are descended.fromille'n with whose name
the World has resounded. It Wilt admit, therefore, of excuse_
in those who suffer souse signs of admiration to escape them,
when they are informed, that the descendant of a Man, Who'
for abilities as a statesman and a General has been unrivalled
in modern times, and pet haps 'never 'surpassed in any time,
should tremble at engaging in the cOmaion conviviality of
social intercourse, •be :absolutely in a tremor amidst the
functions of an high office at Court, and be only known by
the magnificent palace wherein he lives, and the splendid im-
provements with which tic adorns it.

In Turkey, every man follows the trade of his father. In
ordinary and mechanical professions this may answer ; hut it
is certainly oppressive to all Genius, and, perhaps, might be
so intended by the art ful Legislator. Yet, notwithstanding
the acknowledged and manifest impropriety of such a re-
straint upon Disposition and Genius, and the daily exauiples
of their 'variety, such is the caprice and prejudice of Man-
kind, that they will never be satisfied with a'Duke of
Nl though he may be perfectly amiable, and make
the most noble use of his great fortune, if be does not posses:
sOmething of an active genius, by whitl. his character who
first obtained the title may, as it were, be sustained andscon-
tinued.

I hart already called this idea, caprice and prejudice, and I
hare culled it aright ;—❑erertheless, I feel myself in wan de-
gree ender its influence.

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I have every reason to be satisfied with this Prelate,.in tl.e
character of Preceptor to my —. As a common Father,
I trust that I should be ever attentive to the true interests of
niy children; but, as a—, I bare been continually and
fearfully awake to the due and right formation of characters,
on whom so moth depends. I cannot accuse myself of any the
least deficiency in paternal regard, either` to my children
.or
my whose interests are so blended.witlf each other.—
Nevertheless,: the unexpected ignoianci of the.
which, to my.intinite ctincern, 'fps made known to all the
world by the public proceedings o( 0 Court of Justice,
,has,
if possible, quickened my attention to prevent a similar dis-.
grace upon the --. The care of those who..tu-
perintend this important education, is, in every respect, sa7
tisfact*,ry to me; They who teecii.,6, children wisdom, de-
serve the highest rewards of their Country; and they shall
have. then..

* "As THE
..Sutsl passes through various hands, and as many
Of its Reade`rs may not have seen the foregoin►; S!CETCHEs, or
know"to whom tliey are ascribed, it may he proper to notice
again that they are supposed to have been written by stn
lostriOus ,Personage, and in sentiments and abilities they
certainly are nit unworthy of the reputed Anthor. '4 may
fairly be questioned whether the Sovereign of any other
Country could so well discern and .describe the respective
qttalities of his Ministers and Courtiers.

CANINE SAGACITY.-Last Week a lady going
°vet Lansdown was overtaken by a large dog,which
had left two men that were travelli4 the same road
with a horse and cart, and followed by the anintal
for some distance, the creature endeavouring to
make her sen,lble of something, by looking in, her
face, and then pointing w it h his nose behind.' Failing
iu his object, he next placed himself so completely
in front of the object of his solicitude-, as to,pre;.
vent her proceeding any fin thp-, still looking sted-
fastly, in her face. Tice Lady became rather
alarmed; Inn judging,from the manner of the dog,
. who did not appear vicious, that there was sonie-.
thing about her which engaged hi% attention, she
examined her dress, and found that her tare
shawl was gone. The dog, perceiving
*that he
was at length undet stood. immediately turned
back ; the Lady followed bits ; and he,cpndocted.
her to the spot where her shawl lay--some dis-
tance back in the road, _ On her taking it nii,and
replacing it
.on .her person-, the interesting Ana-
- druped instantly ran soft at full speed after his
'twister, apparen!ly much delikjitea !--:(Rath He-
rald)

If we concirlet sour 1-I.Titt: of 'Commons as A IDE•
itOCRACYr we
.11aUtt. stitilit it In be by touch ;be
gitater part,Mr, .Sovereign and, the Itss, the
subject; or', to other owe rdsi that-the'nmiority
exerpfraes. the- auvereigotY, and • time minority
of it.
a people iltey may-have ability to choose,
hut not to be thus. n„..and. of cdlline .those who
have to Recount for their athninistrat •though
incapable theisiselvei. of, auy. department with-
in it.

If we consider AN' ARISTOCRACY, we molt ad-
mit that a certain .number of :persons is invested .
with both legislative and executive :power, and
that the test of the people. are to them what sub-
jects are to Monarchy.
It we considectituva.ocnv, we must stlinit that
there are intermediate, subordinate, and depend-
ant powees in the very nature .0t it, where the ,
Noce is the fountain of all. Intermediate, but
subordinate, is in the Nobility and Clergy. Abo-
lish their privileges, and•l he goveromcnt Seth soon
he popular and DESPOTIC. Monarchy as such,
requires no overshare of wisdom or integrity, be-
cause it is limited and checked by laws ; but if
it be absolute, it would require force to.direct.it.
The English people,,ou t he. downtal of Monarchy,
strove to raise a. Democracy on its ruins, but as
-those who„,directed public affairs had no virtue,
as-their ambition incceased with the successes of
one of their own body, _and as wilts were in-
fluenced by faction, •the Govesument was a mere
quagmire, and the people, astonished, at it, con-
templated a Conimonwealth j When however
their country, from contemling,pavies, pursuing
opposite interests,• :had_ ,been shaken to its base,
they returned, of necessitr,nto -that only Govern-
ment, a limited Monarchy, which they had wan-
tonly laughed unto scorn. Their ambition in-
vaded virtue, and , avarice .was their
j While restrained by laws they were tree, but they
rioted on the public:Bl)A and found the strength
or -a• Commonwealth to be. only the power of a
few, and the licentiousness of. the many. Iu a
,limited Monarchy rite hews supply the place of
virtue, because. the bulk. of ihe people are vicious
-and mischievous. They give it ,spirits, and by a
restraining force keep it trom danger. They
have a power of repulsion from the center, and
attraction towards it, as :a -gravitation. Honour

enlivens it.
Now, seeiug. the principles and moving springs
of these several forms ol,o.nvermornt, how great
ought to he our admiration of the British, H 5 com-
pounded of them Mi. Where are those. varlets
who wish for plunder, under plans of reform, and
who know far less the nature arid end of any,Go-
vernment, than how to overturn the best, if they
had it in their power ? Where are these liberty
boys who delight in bedaubing Ministers of State
with their slime, and would devour them as ea-
gerly as botIMIS won't: carrion Who are tln
They are the refuse of the people, the idle and
disorderly, who vainly ignorant, and envious. of
the cootrary,are lead and mislead by a factious
opposition in-Parliament, no less blind to the de-
strnetive coriseqtrences -of their own measures,
should successuunder Divine wrath, at any time
attend them. V.VouI4l they ,but reflect on the
hy-
.pocrittcal oppressions that the political righteous
suffered in their deskruction of Choich and State,
untler the ill-guided CHARLES, they would disco-
ver,that, nothing but It Mewled Monarchy can pre-
serye our free Constit ationirom irreparable ruin.
Here education- elevates and enables the mind.
Despotism, or the tyranny of a few, over many, in
a.Deepocrsey, or Republic, tends at all times .to-
debase it ; but to a Monarchy education is an ad-
•wanttige, every tyrant being in,fact a slave.
Truly, ,theretore, does_ NI r. CANNING say, tbat
we. have a Monarchy and Nobility, with a Popal..
lar Assembly, which give life and vigour to the
whole frame of our Government. In this assembly
it is that all our malcontents, all on; evil-thinkers,
al} bur evil-doers, callitag..theniselves. reformers.
,have found 'diseases that have hitherto baffled all
:remedies by Unsktlfol doctors. They only can
put it muter a proper course o.f medicine, prepa-
ratory to, a, radical cure. In .t heir unsavory pre-
scriptions they discredit and dtride rill the privi-
leged orders of-society, for -whom, ail the poison
in their shops is t(). be p- administered in salutary
bolusses. They tire •consiing in their designs, and
are silent over our Monarchy and .Aristocracy.—
It is on the Democracy they. pounce.like Ogh s:and
fill their phials with alkali, wLich on their labels
they nick-name cordial juleps.. Ex supe, ‘tnogis
egrescitque medendo. Their patients become drut—
sical, and their physic. increases the dis'emper
meaning is to turn our unrivalled Monarchy
into a base DemorFat.y, in which pre roe, w iv, and
privilege would moulder into dust. This is their
reform.. To cure, they must kill, and the legislas
live and executive power most he in one hand.—
These ate our daiing ph}sicians, who, by app;y-
in remedies for, desperate di•orders,
eionidmake the one an antidote for the other,
neither could be ft,untl but in their own dis-
tempered braht,weak in folly, and wild in madness.
MAYNARD.
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The''Rottnida Ball-room, in the gat dens of
Carlton House, is taking down, great part of the
t.intber:irainc-work being found in a decayed
state. When this building was erected, it vtas
said 'to he so constructed, that it could be taken
dOyelland put up again in,three days, but a great
number. of. workmen have been
.employed in its
dilapidation pow for neatly_ a week, and appear to
have much tv do.