The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-08 00:00:00

[Morning Post.]

VIFCOUNT TURRINGT(;t4.—A most unfounded
report prevails, that the above much respected
Nobleman is in a daugerons state of health, anal
farther, that the contingency of his Lordship's
demise would cause an immediate vacancy in the
Representation of Middlesex, by the consequent
accession of Mr. Byng to the Peerage. This re-
port is altogether most erroneous. In the first
place, the Noble Lord in question, who is a Flag
Officer in the Royal Navy, in which he served
with the greatest credit, is only just turned of
50, and,. we are •happy to learn, in an excellent
state of .health, loss been many years married, and
has issue. Independently of this, the present gal-
lant Viscount is the eldest of thirteen brothers and
sisters, most of whom are living and have issue.
Farther, the Member of Middlesex, who is, on the
verge of 56 years of age, is of a (Osten( and colla-
teral branch of the House of 13yug. From this
brief and plain statement it will at once be seen,
how very vague and visionary is the prospect of
the Melt opolitan County's peace being disturbed,
through' the accession by descent of Mr. I3yng to
the honours of the Peerage.

We almost wonder that Sir Francis Burdett is
not ashamed of lending himself out, after every
to be dragged through the streets, like a
raree-show ; there is something in such nt:m-
-m.7ly from which manliness of feeling shrinks.—
The old English praci ice of chairing ihe success-
ful Candidate on the day when the election closes
is as it should be. But " Westminster's Pride"
must have a thy to himself, and a car to tide in,
and a procession from Knightsbiidge to the Strand;
and silken bannet ; and job-coaches ; and street
musicians; at all which wise men laugh, and thy
rabble roar. Anil this is called popularity
(Mid )

It has been our sincere pride to give full ere-,1
dit to the Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry at
Manchester, ao the necessity of the measures
which they adopted for the restoration of public
tranquillity, and we cannot doubt that every li-
beral and judicious Person throughout the United
Kingdom entertained the same opinion. At all
events, no honest mind would prejudge the ques-
tion, and condemn without trial, as all the Oppo-
sition Papers have done. But we have received
such intormation front lite most authentic sources
respecting the real principles, objects, and cha-
racter of the miscreants who assembled on the
16.thadt. at Manchester, as fully justifies alt the
measures to which the Authorities, Civil and 'Mi.,
litany, were obliged to resort on that memorable
as,well as lamentable occasion. IVe shall detail
a few particulars, upon which we solemnly as--
sure the Public that they may implicitly rely,
in order to shew the disposition, spirit, designs,
and expectations of the Reformers, %vim, flow 1
various quarters, assembled then at Manchester.—
In the first place, it wits the full hope of the
Rabble in general that their numbers would be
so much increased as they proceeded to their
head-quarters, Manchester, as to enable them
wholly to overpower any Civil and Military
Force that could be brought to oppose them.—
This vast accession of power was so confi-
dently expected by them, that for many days
before the Meeting specie haul vanished, and it
was impossible to get a bank-note changed
Those •who were in debt (erased payment, and
theirlangitage was, that" the 16th would settle
every thing." The men were armeal with blud-
geons, and hooked sticks, so strong that a
blow would have fractured the skull, and
have pulled a horseman off.—They had be-
sides short pikes concealed, of a most destruc-
tive nature. Not less than seven hundred bad
been regularly trained to the military exercise, in
which they were very expert. They were called
to this training every mornh!g, as punctually
'as if they had been in the regul.r service. When
ever they saw a portly man, they insultingly ad-
dressed him in. the following r ruts : " Your belly
is worth a pike." To the women with decent
gowns, who observed them from curiosity, they
said, " Aye, we worked for that gown, but you
shall work for us." To a Gentleman and Lady
who were riding in a gig, they bawled " Come
Out, you have. ridden long enough ; it is our
turn now." In their progress some of them
stopped at SLAT'iUCK'S limn, between Middleton
and Rochdale, and devoured the breakfast pre-
pared for stage passengers, refusing to pay, and
seizing whatever they could lay hands on, The
shooting at BIRCH, the Constable, was described
as " a glorious deed," and it was signified that
all the great men of the Country should share the
same fate. Wherever they saw a better hat than ,
their own it was taken, and the old one con-
temptuously cast at the person robbed. The 16111
they uniformly considered as what they styled
" the settling day," which was to overthrow the
GOvernment of the Country, and give HUNT and
hiS gang full command. As a proof that all sense
of Religion was extinguished, they burnt all their
Bibles, and with a kind of wanton superstition,
they were slowly burnt, as was said, to prolong
their torture. Can it be doubted that such exe-
crable miscreants would have served all persons of
opposite principles in the same manner ? Was Re-
form to be expected from such desperate wretches,
or from their Leaders, who must have been fully
apprized of all the horrible views of their de-
hided followers ? We can %roach for the truth
of all that we haVe now stated,
,nor can any
parts of it be considered as trifling or indifferent,
as they all co-operate in sheaving the de-
termined diabolical spirit, by which the whole
of the immense mass was actuated. Those
who returned from the Meeting of the 16th,
being disappointed in finding that the " settling
clay" passed off without the expected conse-
quences, veuted bitter curses on their own
cowardice, and on that of the mob in general,
for not having wholly destroyed the Military, the
Magistrates, and all :silo opposed their designs.—
The Magistrates were fully apprised of the
desperate views of these miscreants, and, by firm
ant; timely vigour, prevented the destruction of
themselves and all opulent and respectable.
Inhabitanttt of Manchester and the neighbour-

hood. ;Manchester was to be given up to plun-
der and carnage. tVI this, as we have said, is
founded on truth ; and if The. Morning Chro-
nicle and 'The Times had any regard to
truth, candour, and justice, they would re-
voke their calumnies against that Government
whiCh'hati:.due intormation of the full magnitude
of the dangle.; end guarded against it with as
much humanity and forbearance as possible,
consistently with the safety of the State• Fur
this reason the PRINCE REGENT justly thanked
those who had been instrumental, on the spot, its
averting the formidable evils that impended, and
for this reason his Royal Highness so properly
rebuked those area who disgrace the situation to
which theirfelloiv-citizeas have raised them, by
prejudging those who have performed the most
meritorious services, at the utmost hazard to
themselves, and who, besides this shameless pre-
indication, insulted the Throne, by obtrusive
counsel and presumptuous censure.

LFrom THE SUN of Stpkinbcr 1819.1

We are desired to say, in addlitio❑ to our an-

theutic statement ,of yesterday, as to the trite
character and designs of the atrocious desperadoes
who assembled at Manchester on the 16th ult.
that the seven hundred Persons, whom we men-
tioned as having been regularly trained to Mili-
tary discipline, were only a detachment o those
who had been thus prepared to hazard an encoun-
ter of the. Regular 'Troop•, anti to overthrow the
Civil Powers of the Stare, and that a much larger
number had undergone the seine Military Train-
ing, particularly at Tandle Hill, about a mile from
Slattuck's- Jun. There were also .many other

places, where the same dating preparations were
making. At Lees, another party of these Mili-
tary Students, were called. every day to their ex•
ercise, and the whole of these various bodies,
according to report, have attained a consider-
able degree of martial dexterity. All they ap-
peared to want was arms, but it was questioned
whether they had nut some secret repository
for guns as well as pikes, which would be fotth.
coming when the day of final contest should
arrive. The Times and The Morning Chronicle,
however, have taken these Reformers into favour,
and think they ought to have been pevinitted to
proceed in their course. Even IIuNT, who was
abused in The Times for the-vulgar indecency of
his conduct, is now represented in that Paper
as a Gentleman. But it i 3 by no means asto-
nishing that the daring Ruffians of Man-
chester and the neighbourhood should enter-
tain the most diabolical intentions, for they have
treated the Church and the Sabbath with con-
tempt and ridicule. The Sundays were wholly
employed in reading the iofatuous productions of
the CARLILES, the Wooeees, the SHERWINS, and
other theoretical systems which are so well calcu•
laced to poison the unreflecting mind, and to lead
to practical consequences of the most horrible de-
scription.. The Morning chronicle and the Times
still persevere in their unjust and infamous asper-
sions on the Magistrates and Yeomanry of Man-
chester, and affect to think more favourably of
those of paisley, but the latter, we conceive, con-
scious of having discharged their duty, must hold
in disdain any commendation from such polluted
solaces. Indeed,. those Papers must be cOnsi-
- tiered as having an interest in the defence of the
riotous Reformers, as their insidious and inflam-
tnatoty doctrines have tended to loosen the poli-
tical, moral, and religious principles of the lower
orders, and to makithem desert their respective
callings in order to improve the Constitution of
tile State —The Chronicle of this day, alluding to
the Paisley RiOts, says, "What is meant by Law-
ful Authority, and whether the mere assembling
of persons without such authority constitutes at
once sedition, or whether it be necessary that the
language held, should tend to disturb the Public
Peace, we are not sufficiently a( (painted with the
Law of Scotland to determine." We believe that
it is no better acquainted with the Law of Eng-
land, or it thinks proper to coliceal its know-
ledge, in order to prolong its abuse of Govern-
ment, and to palliate, if -not encourage, Rebel.
lion. •

MAGISTERIAL APPoiriTmENTs.I--Yesterday, At
Marlborough-street Office, Mr. MAINWARING,
late Nagist,ate of I'Vorship-street Police-Office,
attended And toifilletl the dutirs of his Magisterial
office, in the scat which .becttrne vacant in conse-
quence of Mr. BAKER'S appointment of Chief Ma-
gistrate of Bow•street.

k'Olt THE SUN.

EQUALITY—No.II.

AIR. EDITOR--I have Undertaken to chew in

my Essays on this subject, the danger., to the ho-
nour and credit of the British Nation, of increas-
iog democracy ; hot I may go still further and
declare that the equalizing system which some
propose as a substitute for a justly balanced Alia-
tocricy, is altogether at vatiance with the ex-
ample ot past ages, and with the press tit condi-
tion of utue-tenths of the human rare in the ci-
vilized parts of the terrestrial Globe. This consi-
deration is not, however, of itself an argument
against the claims of the Refornters, for man
should be guided by what ought to be, rather
than by what really ig, and precedent is never
quoted by the truly s man but as an illus-
tration ot hit might he, rathrr than as a conclu-
sive demonstration of actual experience. It may,
neveitheless, be as well to remind those who cla-
mour for Reform and Equality in this Country,
that the English. Nation, notwithstanding certain
miptarances of aristocratical pride is, when coin-
pared ,rith wher Kingdoms, comparatively de-
mocratic. Ihe very aristocratical pride, ton, of
sehiclr. Democrats complain, springs, let it be re-
ti t from the great spirit of equality which
enables men ot mean intellects, but with large for-
ittne!,, acqnired by industry, to enter the ranks of
the old Nobility, and sit those who have honour-
ably earned their titles by splendid talents and
long • tried loyalty. Generally speaking, the Aria-
tociatic Nobleman is a mats of fine teeliogs and
extcrisiee opacity, and cons(cittently incapable of
that foolish assumption of splendour and over-
beating haughtinesq, which create envy and insult
burnility. It, therefore, there he any thing in the
upper ranks which truly deserves censure, it will
be found to have hail its origin in Democratic
rather than Aristocratic influence. The People
ut Euglatid are as free and as equal as they can
properly be for their mutual comfort ; but the
demonstration of this fact most be made in all•
o• tier Essay. 1. will endeavour now, by placing
before them the actual state of the Sovereigns, the
Nobility, and the • Pe-ople of other liingdonas
and Empires, to excite a feeling of satisfaction
at the little sitnilitude that exists between their
sate and that of hundreds of millions of their
frllow•createres, and as I proceed in my subject,
I may be able to sbew also that in Republics,
where Atistoeracy does not exist in name, there
are tyranny and despotism, tottitoed upon and to-
mei), ed by a Democracy, which is more baneful
to society than the most pure and unbalanc-
ed Aristocracy of the most despotic Covet-n-
-u), s.

All rho know any thing of the sloe of society
in this country, know the degrees of distance
which gradually lead the lowest suliject to the
taeoee and distinction of the :..soveteign. There
have been instances in every country, of caprice
and pi epossessmns in the Ruler which have raised
the humblest to diStiection ; but it is only in
England that merit is the -sure rortho dis, inction,
and that, by the fondameival priucinles of the
Constitution, virtue and talents, unless retarded
by some enpropitious circumstances over which
the Constitution has nocontroul,aresure to lead to
place and power. The Judicial Bench, tbeChurch,
the Court, at this moment present maw/ iesiNnees
of elevation of persons who were ,once ranked
amongst what are vulgatiy called the tome; classes.
In other countries, these men, from their titles
aid places, would have the privilege of exacting
the most servile hoinage from the tuuliitude. Here,
however, they, the Nobility ih common. and the
King himself, can exact no homage which is re-
'regnant to the most sensible mied, or at variance
with the just spirit of equality which may be sup-
posed to exist in a tree Government. lit China,
which is sometimes spoken of as the hied of wis-
dom, the Emperor is styled, by his subjects, the
Son of Heaven, the Holy Emperor, and the Grand
Governor of the World; not even his first Minis-
ter or his nearest relation must presume to ap-
proach hint without tailing on his knees, and his
other subjects always prostrate.themeelves before
the throne, even if he be not sitting there ; and if
they see either his girdle or his robes, they must
also fall prostrate. The Nobles, also, exact the
most profound homage. When a Mandarin of
inferior rank meets his superior, he makes a most
profound reverence, and if an individual meets a
person of rank, he crosses his hands, raises them
up, and then lowers them almost to the ground, at
the,same time crying with the greatest humility,
Happiness !" The King of Corea, who is a
mere vassal to the Emperor of China, requires al-
most as much reverence as his superior. If any
one happens to be in the way when he is passing,
he must instantly turn aside, and not presume to
look at his Majesty ; and the people all shut
their doors and windows ; and should any one be
discovered peeping, be would receive the bastina-
do. He is Lord ef all the lands in the kingdom,
and no private subject can have the least pro-
perty.
lit Persia, which is so absolute Monarchy, the
lives and properties of the people are at the dis-
posal of the Sovereign. The Prime Minister's
chief business is to flatter his master, and to ad•
minister to all his caprices, and, above all, to keep
from his knowledge the distremsts of the country;
tile Nobility are therefore permitted to exercise
the most unbounded tyranny over the people, with
whom complaint would be the immediate signal
for destruction.

In the diffurent States of Turkey, despotism
stud oppression ate the distinguishing features of
political and religious government ; but it is in
Mtnlostan that these dreadful scourge's are seen in
the full perfection of their growth, whilst nature
withers under their pestilential influence. The
hves and fortunes of the people arc at the dis-
posal of the Sovereign ; the oppressed subject
has no law t.) protect hint, the faculties of the
soul are destroyed, a:“: despotism debases or
evety scrtimcnr, 'The subject is nut mas-
ter of his ovit field, the lauds and their produce
belong to the t.,:overrign. Eves y artist who has
so imhdppy as to beitay his talents, byes in
circdti of being trok.d to serve ,ouie powerful Cour-
tier ; the people ate forced to conceal their money
;11 tlrr eaftl), to secure it from the tyrithiliC 112 D::

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Wednesday last. The Chamber of Deputies on
'Tuesday were c;cupied a considerable time
with a Report from the Committee of Petitions.
The only Petition worthy of remark is one from

an praying the abrogation of the
Saligue Law, upon which, however, the Cham-
ber, in conformity with the repommetadation of
the Committee, palled to the Order of the Ddy,
and not a word was said upon it. The Chamber
afterwards proceeded to the dintlB3ioll Of the
Projet respecting the Financial Accounts, upon
which an adjoinnment took place till Wednesday.
The Gazette de France contains the following
article respecting Spain :

" MADRID, MARCH 27.
Extract of a Private Letter.

" Wet are far from enjoying tranquillity in
Spaiu. The excesses which have been committed
have on several points been renewed, and the
minds of men are plunged into a mournful dis-
quietude.
" Several men of property have put themselves
at the bead of the revolutionary movement in the
hope of riding it ; will they succeed, distrust
awaits them, the storm every where threatens
***a* )

'• The day before yesterday the Revolution be-
gan to work; a decree of the Junta has nronounced
the confiscation of all the property of tht Inqui-
sition; it is the prelude to a spoliation much more
considerable, as regarding the first classes of the
State, and of which the plan, it is said, is already
determined upon.

" A Club of Liberals (Jacobins) has been openly
established at Madrid ; it exercises its influence
over the Provisional Junta it is an exact imita-
tion of your Breton Club, of 1759. Several Mem-
bers of the Junta receive their instructions at the
Club.

" Terror is general ; the Liberty of the Press
is the exclusive property of a party ; misfortune to
him who uses it to publish reflexions on what is
passing. Revolution or death ; such is Cie Tole.
ration which is the order of the day * *
We are not without feats for ihe lives of the most
august Personages."
['lite blanks in the above are the same as in
the French Journal.]
GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY of the 25th :Ifarl.

" By a Dispatch received yest el day evening float
the King has had the satisitetion of learning that the 0:111i
to the Coustitrtion WAS talieu ou the 20Ih b;, the Garrison

" A Dispatch from General O'Donoju, dated the 23d,
states, that there would be little difficulty in restoring the
discipline of the troops.
" The Cortes is to be assembled the 9th July ; it is to con-
sist of 149 Members for the Peninsula, exclusive of those for
America, for whom will be substituted for the present thirty
Deputies taken from among the Americans now in Spain.
" The King, in conformity with the Constitution, has taken
the title of King of the Spains.
" PARIS, APRIL s.—The King confines himself to his apart-
ments. Ells Majesty received yesterday the Ambassadors and

Foreign Ministers, and transacted business with the Duke de
Richelieu.

We are assured that the responsible Editors of the Cen-
sear, the Constilutionnel, the hulependant, the Courier, and
the Rcnontmnee,• have been summoned to appear before the
Juge d'lnstruction, to account for the publication, in -these
Journals, of the establishment of a pretended Committee
of Assurance in favour of the victims of arbitrary in3pri-
sormaent.—(Journal de Paris.)

FIVE PER CENTS.

Tuesday
DEFERRED STOCK '

Of the 9.2 d March 1820, BB f. —c."

The accounts in the French Papers, received
this day, are of a threatening aspect respecting
the state of Spain. We forebode the worst, and
shall not be snrprized at the reading of such a
dreadful tragedy as that of the French Revolu-
tion, in that Country. If once a Jacobin
Club, as is reported to be the case, should
be established in Madrid, its affiliated So-
cieties will doubtless be extended over the king-
dom, then the work of plunder will begin., then
will all Nobility be destroyed, and then a similar
fate may be soon after expected to attend the Mo-
narchy.

LLOYDS', MARCH B.—We lately mentioned an
Expedition having been fitted out at Bombay,
consisting of several merchant vessels, manned
and armed, to cruize against the Pirates in the
Persian Gulp!, who had assumed a most for•
midable appearance, attacking and plunder-
ing all vessels that they fell in with.--We
have this morning received further advices
from Bombay, to the beginning of November,
which state, that on the 31st of October another
Expedition, consisting of the Ann, THATCHER,
Jamaica, DAUBY j Hannah, HEATHORN, and the
Orpheus, MILNES, sailed with troops destined for

the Gulph of Persia ; and it was confidently anti-
cipated, that ere long those Seas would be per-
fectly clear of these daring marauders.