The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-23 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

We copy s's ith much Eeasure the following
article from The York ChroNicle of Thursday last,
and are rejoiced to see such sound Constitutional
doctrines as those which it upholds circulated, by
means of so respectable a Journal, throughout so
extensive a County as that in which the Paper in
question has been so long and so deservedly sup-
ported

" The recent establishment 'of a Whig Cltib,
in this 'City, has been followed by that of a King
and Constitution Club ; they have evidently
spilling from the late Contested Election, and we
confess the teepediency of thus keeping alive Party
spirit is very questionable. Both Clubs profess
to support our Constitution, but disagree in loto
as to Parliamentary Reform. The presentation
of ri piece of Plate to the unsuccessful Candidate
at the Election, has afforded a fresh opportunity for
theolisseminarion of Parry Principles, and in the
Speeches on tit it occasion some opiuions were
hazarded in which we cannot acquiesce. Insen-
sible of the gradation from dissatisfaetion to dis-
affection, onkoowing where liberty ends and li-
centiousness commences, many rush from dislik-
iog It:ea:ones into bating persons, and many are
lorio.issi into practices which reason and religion
disc!,,itio—Looking back to the ianetoroe of the
Sl;a-14"ields Orators, to the opinions of a Godwin
and a WOH:toneraft, and connecting these with
the Arse of Reason, the Proeress Of the Mind to
Pet fectibility, and its at umlaut Reform, alluded
to in Statue of tire Speeches at this Meeting, it
bring, to our recollection the faral ussult of the
principles on the Continent ; they destroyed the
Govererosnt, the Religion, and the happiness of
every coontry into which they loom! admission,
end they shook to the tonodation the fabric of re-'
War society throughout the world. The Gallic.
Embrace annihilated the comforts of the rich and
the poor. The Rights of Man, the basis of the
rely Constitution, encouraged. an universal jea-
lousy and hatred towards the rich, who, menaced
on every side with persecution and pillage, driven
from their horses by the lawless violence of men
estranged Irons every moral and social habit, their
houses burnt and their families butchered, wan-
dered wretched out-casts from the land which
gave them bird,. The efforts of Industry were
paralyzed, tire occupation of the poor man was
gone, the horrible spectre of Famine planted
itself at his threshold, destroyed the olive branches
of tranquillity and peace which surrounded his
humble door, and caused the cries of his
desolated family to pierce his soul with all
the bitterness of misery and despair.' We
who have beheld these results with attention,
astonishment arid a we—we who have witnessed
these scenes of madness, misery :and blood, shall
we not profit by this dear-bought experience ?
Had not the people of this Country stood forward
at that period in • opposing the dissemination of
these prior Ales, this happy laud would at present
have bete, groaning under the monstrous load of
a despotism, which laid the whole Continent of
Europe at tire feet of one individual, who no
longer now has the power to tyrannise. The torch
of discontent has however appeared again,—in-
flammatory writings have been distributed, and
speeches have been delivered, by those perturbed
spirits; who wish to raise themselves to distinction
upon their Country's ruin. The doctrines at-
tempted to be propagated by the Reformers of the
present day, ate alike destructive to all quiet arid
peaceable habits, to all social o as well as moral
obligations, and to the titre Liberties of the
People. They assail not tine King or the Lords,
the House of Commons is the seat of disease,—
give them one of their own formation, and the
first angry vote of such a House will sweep away
the two other component parts of the Constitu-
tion. They seek to draw invidious distinctions
between the People and the Government, though
they are well aware that the interests of the people
and of Government are the same,—they pretend
that the Commons are not the true Representa-
tives of the People,—they are not the Delegates of
the Seditious, but they are the Representatives
of the greater majority of the people of this
country,—they support that which maintains the
rights of the people and protects the wealthy, the
industrious, and the loyal. The doctrines of these
Reformers conspire to drive the people to an act
of national perfidy—a revolution in a Government
conspicuous for lenity, wisdom, and freedom.—
If you annihilate the- Boroughs and extend the
right of voting to the multitude, you will have no
others returned to Parliament but men who will
oppose the Government, profane every thing that
is sacred, reverberate outrage, kindle conflagra-
tion, anti destroy the fabric of all national justice.
To stern this torrent what are our resources ?
None—none but the Members of Boroughs and
the Members returned from influences distinct
from the general system of our national Elections.
We are taught wisdom by the dark assassinating
vices of our enemies. They would trample on the
Boroughs which they have shewn to be the strong
pillars of Our defence, and they would introdoce
into 0111 Constitution, principles which would soon
involve it in disorder, humiliation, and disgrace.
We must concede nothiug—ehe least trespass to
the tight or to the left from the oid and well-
Itnosn road will hurry us down the precipice,
into an abyss of blood and confusion, where there
is no reserve, ,no, exception, no debate, no dis-
cussion. Their promises anti their offers, their
flatteries and their menaces, we must alike despise;
-from war and blood they proceed to supplication
and submission, kin& from submission of this na-
ture they won't! return to their former outrage
and violence, determined to desolate or to be de-
solated,—without measure, hope, or end. How
great then is the infirmity of man, who prefers
the black and bloody character of revolution to
the mild and amiable features of our Couetitu-
tion, that venerable fabric which has sheltered
us for so many ages, and stood unshaken through
so -many storms, unimpaired and holy—sacred
icon, the rash frenzy of that innovator who
would tear it down, careless and incapable of sub-
stitution.' "

Fourteen boys were, la3t week, f,ned 3s. Gd.
each, by the Rev. T. 1). Whitaker, of Blackburn,
Sur praylag at fout•bull on the Sabbath•thiy.

SAW INTELLIGitN,E.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 21.

CRIMINAL INFORMATION.

Mr. CLARKE, the King's "Counsel, moved for
and obtained a rule w shew cause why a criminal
information should not be filed o,t,ainst William
Allday, a butcher in Birmingham, for a libel pub.
lished in a letter addressed to -- Bedford, Esq.
a Magistrate of that town. The same Learned
Council now applied for another criininal infor-
mation against this person, for addressing a simi-
lar libelous letter to another Magkrrate of the
same town. It appeared thi:t had been
convicted before Mr. Bedford and Mr. Spooner,..
Magistrates of Birmingham, muter the Excise,.
Laws, in a Mitigated-penalty of 4es. for not duly,
certifying the skins of beasts killed by him, to the
Excise Office ; and he attertvards wrote the lettera
in question to the convicting Magistrates, im-
puting to them the most corrupt motives for their
adjudication ; that they trod decided the case
investigacion, and had pocketed die
penaliy for ttitir own 115 C.
l'he Court, alter hearing the affidavits and the
libel, granted a rule to shew cause, and directed
that both rules should be bronght on together.

At tkvo o'clock the Lotto ClitEr JUSTICtt went
to Guildhall, to hold his first Loudon Sitting,%.

SECONDARIES' OFFICE, Cor,rmAN-ST:terr,

EIIOWN V. ALLEN.

It %yin be in the recollection of our readers,
that the delendaot, who is Lord Spencer's game-
keeper, was tried :it the List K.ogston Assizes,
',inter Lord Ellenborough's Act, for shooting at
and wounding the present plaintiff, on high the road
between Wimbledon and London, upon which
tile deleudant was acqnitted. The plaintiff sub-
sequently brought an action for the injury he had
sustained in consequence of the defendant's wan-
tonly shootin!A at him, upon which the defendant
suffered judgment to go by default ; and this day
the Inquisition upon the Writ of Inquiry was
taken to assess the damages, before WILLIAM
COLLINGRIDGE, En;. the Stcoadary of London,
and a Jury impannelled upon the occasion.
The Jury retired for a short tine, and gave a
verdict—Damages 501. and costs.