The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

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133. The King v. Watling, • For publishing No. 2 of The
Repuldican, containing a
Litter to the Prince Re-
gent, on thanking '' the
• assassins of 'Manchester fur
rourders," &c.
131.

135. . v. Shorie^ The Caine.

136. - S.. Whithdrn.... The -same.

157.
138.
to the Prince Regent. on his
Answer to•theCity,,lddress.
329: v. Shorter The same.
140. ----- v. Watlinz .The same.
11!. - V. Sainsbury....The same.

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14?. --- t'..Dolby For publishing Sheruid,e's Re-
gis Per, containing an Ad-
dress to the Soldiers.
i 13. - v. sVeddert►urn This is; he man (4/ colour ; he
has been called l'aniox
AVoldertiian. This pro-
feeding k for a blasphe-
.
mops libel, in words ut-
teretf at his Poirtical De-

bating roton, called Hop-
ki tis-coul t Chapel.
ir,Jobbins For publishing The Keie,
i ay.

The notices' of trial have al been regularly
served in _ these cases, the defendants baviug
pleaded; ami the Juries have been regularly re-
duced. The. preset,t Sittings after Term, •which
have just comtneoced- in Westminster Ilail, must
neeessarfly be of short duration, as the Judges
mill soon have to proceed to the Assizes ; and the
shortness of the Sittings may account fOr sonic
of the notices of trial haring been '' counter•
mandcd."— (iVorning Paper.)

IloisEsT lonsy—You and I have been strangerS
to each other for some time past, during whicn
our loss and our sorrows have been mutual.--,We
have lost Him whose fortitude in supporting his
own Rights was the best safeguard for those of
his People-111N who accounted it his highest
Privilege to maintain, those of his subjects as the
basis of his own. But BE has left behind hint a
spirit, which, I trust, will for ages yet to come,
be embalm ,in the indepeodence of Britain.—
Ha ha; left behind him ,osilf who has already
roved Jiffs Right to Wield the sceptre of his august
Parent, acid if I therefore, my old friend, tesunie
the chain of our ioterrapted investigation, it is
not from any fear of *diminution of your Privileges,
hut from au apprehension that you may be led by
interested Demagogues to catch at the shadow,
whilst they seize upon the substance. For you
are now, JOHNNY, on the eve of a GerccaAL acc-
Ttost, when every man is as great as any Elector
Of the ancient Germanic Empire, nay, as great as
a King, particularly after attending the Committee
for. the good of the Blue, Buff, Green, or, Yellow
Cause, as may -suit the colour of his politics.
You remember the story, JOHNNY, of an En•
OA Wit, who, findiog souse difficulty in making
way through the etiquette of entry at a German
Cow t, announced himself as " Elector of ;Middle-
sex," a title which not only made way for him,
hut procured military salutes which had been
withheld from Grand Dukes, Landgraves, and
Princes; and you, no doubt, whether Elector of
Westminster, or of Coventry, will be exposed to
as many salutes from the light troops of faction.
and the bombardiers of reform, who will talk to
you about your independence, just as swindlers
talk to country farmers about their purses, in
hopes of getting hold of them.either by force or
fraud.

Yon will hear of Elective Franchises, of Uni-
versal Sntbage, 14.1,1 of the frinenagernoles of the
Older time when every man was a Memb,r of Par-
liament ; b,it you will 'not be easily led astray
when you shill be informed of the origin, and
state of that so much boasted political assemblage,
frotn which ,critr modern tight of Representation
has been deduced with more fancy than historical
HCCUttley.

Thelfact is cleared, proved by the Annals of the
Saxon Invasfon and Settlement of Britain,' that
the cOniptered lands were nut only granted in con-
siderable portion to the Chiefs, but also in
smaller ones of plough lands to .the great body of
adventurers, whose 'descendants bei,,g free, but
possessing no Tarns's, were aecststomed to cultivate
those of the Thanes, by ti,e year or for a longer
Now it has been asset ted by wine writers:,
arnd by many speakerS,'that ell those freemen had
a jight of assembling in the National Wittenage-
mote, or rather.in the Wittenagemote each of
the Kingdoms'of the Saxon flepiat city ; whilst
others contend that this ptivile.ge was merely con-
fined to the Thanes ; or, if pOssesed- at first
.by
ele Childs, was lnst by disuse, their poverty •not
Permitting tbem to attend at 'a 'distance front their,
homes. • But 'of these opinions there exist no
precise or direct historical proofs ; :whilst we
!'now beyond a doubt thit the small freeholders
slid not form any part of the Wittenagemote in the
reign of EDWARD the Confessor, immediateLy
before the Norman Invasion, for by the laws and
customs of- that reign, even the lesser Thane,
possessing' five hides of land, wis debarred from
that ptivilege, and the qualification fixed at forty
hides, by which means the Assembly was small
and select. • I'll fact it is known that its Members
consisted of Bishops, Abbots; Abbesses, Eads ors
Lorldermen, and the Wiles, or Wise nrin, sup-
posed to have been the Judges. But then these-;
all sat in one (louse, and 'there were no elected
Representatives. lo short, Jo 11 s NY, Mss. Bail
-might as well etaitn a tight to sit in Peril:lntent,
because Clergyfromen sat in tile I,7ittenagentote, as
ail thsise who esteem •thent.2elves to be 'Wiles or
Wise men can justly. set up a similar cilial.

!el 111.

It is fortunate thing however, Jont‘;NY, thatr
before the Ladie3 ran claim a tight to sit in either
lion,e, they must lake ordets—bw, you know, my
woriby old ft lend, that is a subject ito which Mrs
lIVLL and
.hrr fair friends are more inclined to
give than take, so that thCre is the less chance of
tne ranks of Opposition being.crowded
Snub was the state of the much-hoasttd Wit;
tenagcmote in its most petlist fo:m j but crL ft it)

In fact, ioittoli, the rights of Men even at
that Period, were. little More than power and sub-
jection, Whilst the manners and customs were
but little adapted to general or individual Liberty;
but that portion of the subject we must now
postpone for future investigation.

Yo u t's,

IGNOIVS.

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