The Sun.
London, England, 1816-02-08 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

As there is nothing tonitigh,.so neither is there
any thing too low for Party purposes, The elec-
tion of the Duke of SUssEx: to be ['resident-of the
SocieTy of Aare, bas been ingenionsly converted
into nn Opposition triumph, and to the end of a
puerile trade against the Earl of LlYettrool.,
whose character, if the venom Of ,faction spared
any tliin;.; good or respectable, as rickno;vltolged
by a his 'political 'opprtents,, might halm pre-
served' him actin such tin iusnit, is tagged the
'fiillowit,g very silly. piece of bravado
tVetrust the experience of this event will
have its dice effect, nut only on the Noble .1:.141.1-;
but on everyone of the 14ntycH ItcGENT's
Minis-
tees; and that they will nut submit their pretep..
sinus. to office to the judgment of enlightened and
independent men,"
Whether the Noble Earl, or the Poixce Re-
GRNT'S Ministers, supported as they 86: by the
greatest majority Of the British population which
has been witnessed on the side of-Goverument for
a century, will feel inclined to attend to this dis•
interested counsel, We shall not take the trouble
to inticre. Probably, the cirettmstaneis of all the
independence and all the illuntinatiOn being ar-
rogated to the disappointed jets, the quondam
possessors of all the Talents, &c. may be insufli-
tient to work them to the wished for conviction.
We only take op our pen to protest against this
vile conver,l:on of every thing into party ,conten-
tion-4atal above all to,the Arts',, which it is the
general object to promote, is such conduct. It is
in peace anti haimouy that they are from their
nature doomed to flourish, and discord mid dis-
sentiOn are their.batte. We wish the Society joy
or its new President. May lie greatly wend its
influence, and augment its utility, and may he
have discretion enough to banish the voice of im-
pel intent faction from its walls; remembering how
good it is for 3101 Institutions to be in unison
with, and not its hostility against the Government
of 00:Cotintry.
As for the assertions that the Earl of ,LIV:M•
POot. canvassed sepreq, or canvassed arall, it is
most unequivocally a falsehood. The political
inclination of this society did not 'warrant sucks a
pursuit on the, art of a Purr Minister ;. and it is
•nOttitious that it was not till tate on the evening
before the election, that the Noble Void was even
rirofWed by one of the Members,' while the most
indastr.ious,solicitationt for Votes for the Duke of
SUbititx.ltve been carried on fur months.

'fit Indict Captain il3ll declared, that of all
the-dishes it, the tvorltl his greatest, objection is to
a. stew of GO/rts.

Lard ERSKINE having got sixteen. Hawkers.
licences, vrill,"it is thought; now be able to sweep'
betore him. Uad it not been a family alftir
Counullor B---m ought to have defended. W
,Lordship. 4 Major C_ARTWRIGI-Pi'A petitions' for Parlianien.-
.
tary vie are told., amount to' 1,500 !
This seenrs a mistake ! Ills trumpeters must mean
Pei itiqn- E;RS! .

. It lip perry from a paragraph in one. of, ,the
French Papers, that the Actors at Paris ltiiv
custom of ile'mantling treble in ices for admission
on the night of their retiring frmn the Stage.
This n!oile of taximg the ettrioiry or the mice- '
tioliate regret of public hieets, it seems, with
its Proper .recompence ; for*the Actors who have.
ittrvlY wade the indelicate exPeriinent, have hid,
the ntortilieation to play
n to.liiilf7entyty benches.
ett: burlesque p.tiltonimie is in. preparation
at one Ot the minor Paris theAtres, chatted .s:cocho4
~G,lOO, Vila .<!/ Beira/aria.