The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-22 00:00:00

The meeting to consider of. that Address was
called, as usual, by hand-bill distributed in the
town ; and 'Mr. BunnoN, the oldest magistrate
(I believe) in the county, was, invited by some of
the most respectable inhabitants to preside at the
meeting. l'llr.LAlunToN was likewise invited by Fair
Play, or some other friend, to attend on the'.oc-
casion. He of course, as was his duty, attended ;
and when Mr. 13011.00 N was proposed to take the
Chair, he wrose; Ond e:-pressed his surprise that
the meeting could not find a chairman amongst
them, without sending for Mr. BonßoN, who
had no interest in the town. Ile was se-
conded by neighbour li'mwicK., who asked,
" what Mr. Bunnor; had done for the town ?'LL-
This reminds Me of Joseph Surface's remark tO
Mr. Stakey, of the .zivadavats and Indian crackers
sent by his uncle. Irt order to.satisfy you of the
truth of this application, it may be necessary.to
state, that Mr. BufiboN had a turnpike-road
made from Stockton to this place, twenty-seven
miles, which (before) was nearly impassable ia.
summer ; and I have no doubt that it would- have
,remained in that state until this time, if it had •
not been for Mr. BUIOON. He likewise had Et;
cast iron bridge. thrown over the river (the first
I believe of the sort), although all the great men
in the county were against it, as well as every
engineer in the .kingdorn." He then had a turn-
pike road
.made to Newcastle, likewise one -to
Shields, both of which roads were nearly as•bad
as that from Stockton.
These hard Ip.ever-to-bP-equalled services done-
for this place, has raised it from an insignificant
sea-port, to ohe of great consequence. Unfor-,
tunately for Mr: Buithoi4 and, this port, he was
ruined, having been concerned in one of the NeW:,. '
castle Banks. NOM', Mr: Editor, mark the dif,
ference between us plebeian souls, and great
men. When any one-of us little tradesmen meets
with misfortunes, we'stretch out our'arms, and
gently raise him up, in order to try his forlune,
again, for the benefit of himself and , family, 4..
which many here are living examples ; but Lora
bless you, our Mealier knows better, for he pitt
the extinguisher on poor Mr. BenuoN at once,.
Fair Play might have 'added, that -his•voluminotis
Address was signed by all .sorti, not omitting,
butchers' boys, fourteen or fifteen years:of .age;
so much for Fair Play's Addresses. Having told
you what Mr. Buanwt has done, itmay not be
amiss to tell you what he has not done. lie did
not erect the bottle-houses at the foot of this"
wonderful bridge, which area daily nuisance to
the port, from the volumes of smoke which they
constantly emits to the great annoyanceof every
house near them. I think I hear. you exclaim,
why don't you get rid of the nuisance ? All, Mr.
Editor, the people do say, that our neighbour
is concerned'in them, and he sticks like a lee'cli
to Mr. LAmaToN„ whose ground they are partly
Wit on ; indeed it would be Very ungrateful, if
he did not:, as his father, Mr. LAMBTON'S grand fa-
ther raised to be one of his agents ; in which
capacity, it is supposed; he amassed a fortune
of a hundred thousand pounds.. As I know, Mr.
Editor, you like to shine on the little as well as.
the great, I have troubled you with this ; at the
same time, in apologizing fOr the length of it,:
beg leave to assure you,
'I am,
A LOVER OF :'.IY KING, COUNTRY,
AND 'MUTH.
Sunderland, 19 Dec. 1820.

•
ALDGATEA9SOC.IATI.ON.--fin TuesclaY
evening, at .half past ijx o'clock, the Seventh A;.:-
nivers'ary of the above laudable Association'was
held in. the Parish church, for the 'purpose of
presenting the Sahscri:.;ers and Patrons of the.
At3sociation with the:i.teport for the last ye ;r;.
when-it appeared "that during the fast year
Bibles and- 24 rl'Pstaments tad been distributed
among various families, mal.ing since the Coin.-
thencement of the Association 166'2 Bibles atml
Testaments. The Ladies' Committee had theiL-
selves circulated 36 Bibles and 6 Testatneras.
The subscriptions received since the commence-
meat of theAssociatien amounted to 9151.135.4 d.
out of. which the London Auxiliary Bible Asso-
ciation had, been, paid. 7 On. I.t farther appeared
that the Bible had been transtsi,ted into 130 dif-
ferent'langnafc,es -or dialects. The Ladies' Corn-
mittee had collected' during the last year
181. 19s. ; and- on talancing the accounts it
apparecl that the Treasurer had a balance of
17;.=. 6d. only in hand..


On. Friday latt, Air. jos. A w.r.m.soN, who died
in the With year of his age, in the, Goldsmiths'
Company's r::► i houses at Acton,
,was buried in
Acton church-yard. He was followed to the
grave by his svq4 and' five daughters, and their
husbands. On their return hone from the fone.:
ral, they foUnd his wife (about the .same age),
who was in .good health :whenJ they went• out,
lying cn hei bed, and she died the same night,
and was to te buried in the samegrave with her
liusband this day.