The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-20 00:00:00

Ft,:t.,t.ow COUNTRYMEN,--Tile Reformers,
since the riws in London, arc at " sixes and
* sevens- amongst themselves ! There have been
there as elsewhere, not only violent wrangliogs
amongst thrill, respecting' the merits or demerits,
of ilmmut, ‘Valsons, rind Co, hut there haite been
not a few fistic determinations of the disputes,
They %vim caul(' never agree monoogst themselves,
es to the prim!? object of their principles, have
tlitfeted still inure widely as to the nmeans--;s:the
physical meatms—by which their principles were
sott-mp ed :0 be reduced to practice.—lt is all very
well. The jarring materials of which their holly
teas comPosed—Whigs and Revolutionists—P.e-
formers and Button part eaus-;-11.otua Cat h es
and Protestants—knaves aniools—have at length
conic io discordant collision; arid the cause of
older LI nil of peace (as they themselves are al-
VA!ly a ,I.C) will be served by the dissensiont of
its enemies.
" The " ambitious knaves,'' as Cnbbett used
to call the flatterers and deluders of the ,people,
are already sensible t)f their error; and will soon
effilcavour to re-unite thetnielyes, for the purpose
of relormiug that fornmidable mass of their dis-
con telted mind credulous countrymen, whom they
ao iiVciy had at their command. But the eyes of
the people—of the working classes in partienlar,
are at ltugth opened to the real character of their
leadeic, who have for twebtv yea's been labour-
iutermk:sioii, to excite the,populace
to open acis of outi age. The poisott,;which they
diss,minated, has, at length, pro-
dliCed its 0111111i:dye 'direct ; amid the-giniclis, by
whom it was administered, finding the state still
too healthy to he de,troyed by their nostrums,
lave (f 4 time sake of their oven worthleSS neeles)'
fairly turned tht'irliacktialli, et their miserable paw'.
thoits—ishitudoneil the unhappy 'lien, whom they
have po.soned and deluded, to tlirir fate -anal
evvu been active in seizing them, thongli
they r‘,ll ilie risk of enosigument la the gallows
" lie tilt hurry all(' voilincon of. our feelings of
itut;:!iiation, oft time one panel, aim:l of pity for the
victim, of slimly, on the other, we can scarcely so
far command 011t'SdVeti Wi to give exisreio;iots to
tho.,gtmis, by the f..pi/li'y of whichitie are
is,rroe dowo. We hate much---ect y
say to. the low,r oidi.rs, but, like ail who tvel
they have more to do than they. arc well able to
pertolut, we scarcely know where so begin.: One
thing the people isttlist be seusitile of—that ,the
pen whose dorm riTtes they have so
,eagerly and ilia-adoptvd, are either too cowardly and
wortiiletss to abide by the cousequetices or their.
proccediogs ; that their remit viewr. and
objects have been different, indeed, frotja thetsc
they have led thex followers, and especially
.the elAsses, to believe.. who,
bat the inhev day, rejoipetrthat the pimpitla;;C. ii
employed a -species of argintiemit, '' which could
'• limit well be rehistoll,"—Wllo were perpetually
assuring time lower da's,les, that the evils, owlet•
which they labouccd, were "'intolerable ;" that
those evils, were owing cc) time " misrmile of•their
Covertiors".,---to corrapt Partiament,"—a "
raiinic Ministry," antl t‘'' profligate Cotirt,'—
supported by the
,bayonets of' art " tisteoustitu-
' tiniial standing ?trimly,- 'and by•trA' inimense load
(if taxatitm, " unjustly 'wrong Irmo the pockets
of the .puoi'"—lie very men 'who were coo-
timmindly asOrtirig all this,, rrow affect to con-
demn the outrimgm.s to which they themselves
have given birth ; to stigmatise the Hulot.-
Innate nmen whoni they. have deluded (wtil
whoc,, they:were ever ready formerly to flatter)
" 1160 r Wrak4leatied enthusiasts," as" sage
pot-!iimse 'conspirators ;" att "-pad zealots, and
insane fools, whose premattire•proreedings Omit-
Tiately ruined their diahOlical desigus•;l* a a tea
persons of the " lowest orders to societY,"—
, itl despicable conspirators," whose " folly and
Wieketiness, extravaeltnt in conception, and eOll-
- iu she romans of execution," had harried
theta on to attempt premuturely their " nefarious
designs't " * -4.11)ti itrongest epithets
by which the loyal ever ventured to designate die
instigators of pofoslar tumult, were never
-to the terms of reproach now lavished by the po-
' ,liar leaders upon 'their misled tmdlowers., The
leaders add,- too, that " they trust they' (mean-
ing thetiiiielves) will in future see the indispen-
sable necessity of abstaining from whatever has
the least. tendency to itifiante the public mind !'?
—" that they will avoid the virulence, and that
senselessilml noisy declamation, which makes imp,
in the grossness of ita epithets, for its deficiency
in sound reasoning!" • -
" Against the inflammatory, virulent, senseless;
end gross lattgitae of the self-styled patHOis and
reformers, the Ititia/al cress has for a quarter of ii
Century exerted itself, without any effect being
.apparent, but that oPiiscreased perversion and
falschutor on the pact, of the promoters 14t out.
rap:. They have been told, again aud raggedy, taint
the vis.,krice. ;of their, lahot.ge, -,(1:1110:11ce of
their p,ii5.4111, would at length prodtice tan exPlo-
; %ion, atoi endanger time pence of the comintinitv
The work of mischief was , vie erthelesi', contirmed
interruislion, till the wislied-for explOsion
'ttelliallytookplace;ottartow,biOniethat explOsiott
did not prnitore the ctintequences anticipated. its-
Anilines .indetivosir to cll'anvow it, and-Id:0i to he
alloued shme nmerit-fOr alptaining from " issilatn
inatory language in'itiitur.el" But, they have done
their worst. The storm, which they laboured so
_assiduously to.gritlier, has burst, and has passed
11,t,ty, after a 1110fliCIttary entailer ; Old they may
rit.ty now, use Whett language they' please,----rmtve
to the wiiids till they are sick of their omen folly,
—or sit tiOWli 'quietly to enjoy' that-security isli,Cll
others beVe preserved for thefts; ivititotts either
their seritithents, their language, car their in-
torrions,-exCitiog another •trixiotia feeling in the
rolnniuniiy. Lire ;lave heatvil to the gronntil
our foteitt enclitics, fiat kvithitantling the support
afforded theta ity-a vicious 'faction AT nom a, We
bare preserved the luttrual peace of tlie 'Empire,
triter the 1 abittle9 tli}df. fele( rou'ito'rfisitirb it, hod
strived at a point ; -and both' those who always
dreaded,Obeir designs and despised 'theife.
eipte s, ain't those lvlsont they deltided-tO become
their '' dupes. Arid` 500140" having formed a.com,
moo opinion? of their printiplei,, their -projects;