The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

PATRIOTIC CANDOUR.

" When Ike Cnt's awny, the neic•e will plan."
Vide HISI. WHITT. and CAT, Passion.
Mr. EDITOR—The proverb which forms my
motto was never so strictly fulfilled in the
history of the work). as at the present era.—
We all remember the old story when even
the -Ass, that four-footed representative of
". not Absolute Wisdom," had a kick at the
Lion, but then the Lion • was dead But if the
Lion is dead, the Ass yet lives ;- at least his spi-
rit is not extinct, as may be hewn in various
passing incidents.
When a certain person was heard boldly de-
nouncing Baron OmeTED.A. to the Peers, and add-
ing the charge of cowardice to a long tissue of
vituperation, who would have supposed that the
Baron lies very quiet in his grave, has doge so
for these twelve months, and of course cannot
hear of the liberal, candid, bold, yet safe re-
marks of that learned Gentleman? .
Then comes. forward " not Absolute Wisdom"

hitnself, in propria persona, with the atEdaNit of
%fellow convicted of felony, and now lying un-
der sentence of transportation in Newgate, mak-
ing bold assertions respecting the charge against
Mr. QUENTIN at Naples, first brought forward.
by the Chronicled Macaroni. The worthy Al-
derman must, however, baie labouredelong with

for,it is dated two months. before its ap-
pearance, which just took '.place the day after
Mr. QuENTJN left town for Hanover
But Mr. QUENTIN •has come back and contra-
dicted this wonderful oath or the Alderil-ran's
jail-bird; mid the notable patriot is left to rake
up some other story from the kennels of infamy.
Next-comes the great Moon E—not Moor of
Moorhall, who slew the Dragon of Wantley—no,
nor
.MoortE the Conjuror—but_ the great ex-
dramatic Director, who) being ' enough of a geo-
grapher to know the distance between LoNnox
and ITIF,NNA, ventures to disseminate his won-
derful stories at Pancras about Madam DEmoyr
and the gallant Lord STEWART, absent flow
England on the Austrian Embassy.
That Nobleman, for some time past, has been
the mark for the stupid scurrility of The Times,
and for the more nice sneers and insinuations of
The Morning Chronicle. But it is not surprising
that the NVhigs should be Inimical to a man who
has several times shed his blood in assisting to put_
down the God of their idolatry, now sulking in
St. Helena ; a man who is brother to Lord CAS-.
T LEREAGII ; and, above all, the man who swept
off an heiress, who, they hoped, would have been
so much of a witch as to fly on a Broom to . a
Bird's nest!

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This is not, indeed, their first declaration of
ar against that Nobleman. The first w.as a
safe one, however, with John Doe. and Richard
Roe for their seconds in the Court of Chancery ;

then came the malignant parallel in The limos,.
where the rapid rise of that minion, BERGA.MT,
from a sordid livery to be the Companion of
Royalty, was compared to the military and poli-
tical elevation of Lord STEwAnT, born of au an.
cient and honourable family, the,son of a Noble.
man of high rank, with the first connections in
the Empire, and passing through scenes'of blood-
shed and diplomacy that would have graced a
longer life than his has been.
Last of all comes PETER MOORE with his gro-
velling about Madame DEMONT ; and it is
very remarkable, that almost with the .same
breath in Which he denounces her evidence en
oath as false, he states a mere. hearsay of her sy,
as a fact for public opinion! Can such low ri-
baldry deserve a serious .confutatiy 1 to
the liberal and the candid, surely not ! As for
the intellects 'to which it was addressed, they
were of a class not very likely to listen to rea-
son, and we must leave the orator and his au-
dience as meet companionslor each other.
'Your's,
IGNOTUS.