The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN:

Mn. EDIT()R,—T he enemy has thrown off the
mask, and I heartily congratulate you upon it ;
hitherto they have fought under false colours, as
is common with such marauders, but now their
objects are avowed—" Annual Parliaments and
Universal Suffrage ;"—or, as a well-meaning, but
illiterate, man vu•ry 1141)1)4 expressed it—" Ani-
mal Parliaments and Universal Sufferings ;"
which-, he said, very wisely, he could not ap-
prove. I have been long endeavouring to con-
vince, not you (who did not require it), but your
Readers, that this was their real aim—a Republic ;
a stark staring Democracy. Now they,have con-
fessed it. For thiit Annual Parliaments and De-
mocracy are synonimous, not even a driveller can
doubt.

Sir F. BURDETT, just before the close of the
Session, deClared (for the first time) for Annual,
Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. This, it
seems, has gained him his Election. We are to
conclude, therefore, that the numerical majority
of the Electors for Westminster are for these
things. But that the majority in weight, pro-
perty, and respectability, are decidedly against
them, is no less clear. Sir S. Rosm.LY'S majority
may be supposed to consist chiefly of Whigs;
that is, of Constitutionalists, who wish to be in
power, but are not ; and thetefore call the Mi-
nisters Tories. These, therefore, for the most
part, are against BURDETT j though their coali-
tion has brought.them to divide votes with hitia
I trust, therefore, that the very great majority of
Electors are .against the abominations of BUR.-
DETT.—I believe, in fact, that 13URDETT himself
is against them ; if a man so infatuated with vanity
can have any real principles.
They, however, who doubt upon the question
may now be fully enlightened. What the late
Westminster Election has been, with all its dis-
graceful excesses, furies, and villanies, such would
be the state of every Town, Borough, and County
i❑ England and Ireland, under the influence of
Universal Suffrage; what it has been, after six
years of comparative tranquillity, would be per-
petually renewed by Annual Parliaments. The
only thing that saves Westminster from complete
degradation is its unanimous contempt of that
creature, HUNT.

You have lately given us, Sir, one of the ablest
and wisest political documents that ever passed
through the Press ; in the concluding election
speech of Mr. CANNING at Liverpool. It deserves
.•
to be printed and re-printed in every possible
form, and, circulated to every house and cottage
in the [Jolted Kingdom. From this document,
therefore, that I may contribute to the citeula-
tion of one part of it at least, 1 will draw the con-
clusion of my present Address. After observing
that the present pretended Reformers neither at-
tack the Crown nor the House of Lo.rds, he thus
wisely accounts for it :
" Gentlemen—This, though extraordinary, is
not unintelligible. The Reformers are wise in
their generation. They know well enough, and
have read plainly enough in our own History,
that the prerogatives of the Crown and the privi-
leges of the Peerage would be but as dust in the
balance against a preponderating Democraey.—
They mean Democracy, and nothing else. Give
them but a [louse of Commons constructed on
their (y') principles, the Peerage and the Throne
May be swept away by the first angry vote of such
a House of Commons."

You see, Sir, why the 13urdettites hate Mr.
CANNING. It is exactly as the Devil was suppos-
ed to hate Holy hater; because l►e counteracts
their magic, and renders their incantations inef-
fectual ! It is time for all who love our glorious
Constitution to rise in its behall like hint.

OLD SO:NIERS.

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