The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-28 00:00:00

ne';teral declined praying to.r judgment this Terri on Sir
Ftancis Burdett, •
• The King's' Attorney General having resolved to file haw-
motions ca;-officio against-the -Proprietors of;reertain public
Pipers for libels respecting Goveraftoent,-; we wOuld sug-
gest to the Queen's Attortley•General the expediency•of fol-
lowing the.example with respect to the, ministerial writers;
who are inces'saotty employed in insulting her Majesty. t4uch.
a proceeding is due to the outraged character of the country,
for the vindication .of its taste, loyalty, and humanity. We
are perfectly aware that the Queen herself is extremely
averse to the adoption of any measures which Tight savour
of hardship or severity, even towards her revilers or persecu-
tors; hut it is a mistaken principle of clemency and mercy to
suffer the bintal malignity of 'persons to riot in the con-
scionsin'ss of imptinity. It tray, indeed, he urged, in proof
of the futility Of any proceedings against them, that in tirses
of conviction the Ministers, who encourage •their rile trash,
will indemnify them front the effects of airy sentence which
May he pronounced by the King's Bench ; but the assurance
of this, while It removes the difficulty arising from the tert7
dernels of her Majesty's natdre, ought riot to prevent the
exposure.oft heir indecent ribaldry, nor deprive aJury
of honest Englishmen of .the satittAction they most feel ill
openly rspressing to the world, 4in behalf Of their errantry,
their hearty deteStation of tire.disgraceint means Wooled, or
at least permitt,ff hy the Ministers of the Crown, to enact Co
.her :11,6r51 ).'s reputa.tion and pervert every action of her life
into a topic fur ectindal or reprOach.—(

[The Times.]
• A-
rn
g e Addresses. of ,corporate .bodies to his Majesty
which find then way into 'l'ke Gazette, there is one from the
Corpot ation of South:it-wow, containing a prayer iii these
wards, Vile.-.—" that yocir Majesty will not otti-
ciats.ervants to re-agitate a question which can only trod to
alleuale the affection's of your dutiful Mid loyal Sub,.c.ei 5."
It does not appear that the Tatar, who•presided Mien this Ad-
drerSs was voted, nor iodectl t !fat the,Tttwif C /elks who sent it tip
to Lord Sufism:tits, "tat recei,,cl the luniour of Kni;;lithisoil
uu
the occasion--; though if services %vete estimated by tlwir real
value, we know lint any piildic officer who better merits a
Royal revs:„ lice I ban by that conVeys advice to' his So-
vereign at time v..ben the'ilitii!.le is less abundant thani usual
at. Court. rust, the- corpotattoti of, Southampton deserve
praise and honour. not lileYelp for the wisdom of %hose rot-in--
sets which they have adopted, but for Ilii it rejection eo twit
yv cirsnicahle as they are wicked. A Comity P.iper slates that
a _different s:wt of Address from that chic h we have :chose
tnicitril now lies for signatures at the A nail-I-louse of Sciiiih-
mptole; nod Icing way it lie there before it' cats boast of ally
tireS flit "base of the wretched • minions *lto have beets
oiminand yet to get it tip. One passage sift lA'tsprOcinction
stilt
..19 for till t.7-t• We do'nftt' tape 'upon out 4eltes .sitg.gest
what steps it May be pritp,r to, adopt, %%ilk a civw to
.the Progress of 'lsis • rapidly-increasing evil'
`lift
we feel ourselves •cailect tender to' stair,
a-
t
jesty, with all buniility. respect, and dot ifn I c-
tion, our hest exertions- for the presets:Mims df the
existing Laws and Povernment."—The rapidiv-increthsing
Vil" lit re complained of in the language of • the-
° a faction _catching at every passing event to inflame the
passions of the•peeiplc:".-7We believe that such a faction does
exist ; and if it, does more than exist—if it sisrealls and
strengthens every hour—whom has the nation to thank
liut.those who supply the incendiariei with perpetual 111,1
t crusts fur ex:tsperating the minds of the People ? It this
faction catches at every nassciig event, why are event; Allowed
" to Pass" which a seditious faction will he sure to catch lit ?
The persecution of the Queen was surely not an accident—it
was not a contingency which Ministers were linable to fore--
see, nor a natural visitation which they had not the" means
of averting ; it WAS ilieir deliberate ate. The Ministers have,
of their own
,provident free-will, fdruished food for the growth •
Of section. But we are menaced, it seems, with "new rc-
stsictive measures'—more new tileasiti es against the liberty•
of the subject-,becatise Ministers are unable to destruv the
Queen. 'fbe public. will recollect that the outrage at Man-
chester was followed up by no fetter than five penal fates,
heretofore unknown to the British Constitution ; and now
because one Bin against the Quenti has failed, there-are, ye
see, persi:hs ready turcverge themselves for their disappoint-
ment by culling for twent) others against the nation ;it large.
The time is gone by when such ineicits'etiuld he resorted t at
a protection to a tottering Ministry the thitigis wolfs out
the country lotows well that, 'Minis ti these-Nlinissers have.
heeu-in ilitiwer of falling, t•hry have saved themselvet
by
frightening the t iMid part of the coinniiinity out of I heir.senses
with the watchword of the " Radicals." " The Radii ails It
.
will, however, on this occasion, be a vain attempt to 'dis-
tract the public attention -by raising a false clamour
against tbertatiut itself, iii the hope of drowning the
recie-
rat murmur at the late proceedings against the Queen. The
most prurient man in is single instance inay thus, peril-cps.
ben thrown otf his guard ; but he insist be it dope, indeed,
on whom, not once, but a doyen time's, the same nick can
be played of successfully, and by the
.saute persons. We
are led to believe that Wirer Addresses (tom corporrte"hodies.
besides that horn the loyal Corporation of Ztouthanit tan,
trill contain the salutary prayer whic't we Mate quoted
iii
the early part of this article,,namely, a;4ai list re-agitating the
country by opening ag_ain, in either 1-louse of I"arliauseitt,
tin
frtglitiol persecution at its lawfal and suffering Quern.
!t cannot he forgotten that at the beginning of these pro-
ceedings Lord liverpoOl defended the prosecution iii words
to this effect-7." Tbere is no alternative—this judicial pro-
" reeding must be instituted; and the Bill founded on it mast
at be carried against the Queen, or site must ,be treated to
" all intents and purposes as the Queeu-Consort of Eng.-
" land." 'The institution of tire charge was thus explicitly
stated as a ground fur not paying her Majesty the respect
which was her clue as Queen-Consort. Well, then, the Bill
is lost—the charge is withdrawn—and is she now treated by
Lord Liverpool as " Queen-Consort of England?

[New Tirres.]
•
The numberless Communications which. we hare received,
expressive of the horroV and disgust excited by the Queen's
proposed Procession to St. Paul's, for a purpose so notorious y
nconsistent with the truthand the remonstrances of the
Citizens against the sanction given to this aniust robs proceed-
ing by the Lord Mayor, leave no doubt on our mind as to the
Public Opinion' on thew subjects. Want 14 toorn compels
us' unoillingly to omit .many energetic statements which
we have received. We are happy, however; to announce,
that the Lord Mayor himself appears to have taken a
salutary alarm. He has not only called together all the Ward
Constables, but he has issued tt general notice to all the Litho-
bitant Householders, of his desire " to preserve the peace
- and good order of the. City" to morrow, when her Majesty the
Queen has resolved " to attend liivinc Service" at St. P
aul's
Cathedral, and therefore informing them, that they [nay all.
if so disposed , be sworn in us Special Constables. Two things
arc very observable in this notice; first', that it gives up the
impious pretence of athanksgiving,and pot= her Majesly's visit
to the Church on its proper footing, that of a common attend-
ance on Divine service! Seeondly,thenotiectacitly adiults what
every good citizen has perceived from the first' mention of
this miserable project, namely, that it is pregoaht ,vie, ex-
treme danger to the 'peace and good order of the City I In -
this latter point of view the matter is manifestly regard-
rd by the Bank Directors, vim, as well as the UalikYrs
in genisral, hare advised Vie presenting- of bills to-day
which not be due till •tu-motrow, in • order to
• ovoid the great risk of plunder attendant- on such mobs
as those which usually grace her Majesty's primelisioi)s.
The Lord. Mayor, towever, ought to TainSider, that neither
Constables nor Special Constables may possibly he sufficient ;
and it is to tie hoped that be will not he more sernpulooq in
applying for military aid than Mr. Alderman Wood was at the
time of .he Spa-fields riots; though it might be advisahly not
exactly to imitate the " Absolute Wisdom" of his worthy
Pr'edecessov, in waiting till he himself was entrapped and
.fired• at, within the-Royal Exchange.

prornivg "Jerald]
TIIE, TREASONABLE roicAans.—We understand that the
Grand Jury for the County of Middlesex, yesterday, found a
true Bill implicating an individual, whose 11RI/le for the pre-
sent we forbear to mention, as an accomplice • of-the tngitive
Franklin alias Fletcher; and- that, a Judge's Warrant fur his
apprehension was issued last ftight.

[The Public Ledger.]
Malts arrived yesterday morning from Hamborgh with
Pipers to the ttst.; and from Holland with Journals to the
lid inst ; from which we hose given extracts in itiot her part
of our Paper. Several arrests fur political ot!enres have taken
place at Copenhagen. The' proposed new Civil Code of the
Netherlands has been laid betore the Second Chamber of the
States General. The-Emperor Alexander was expected -to re;
turn to the Russian Capital towards the close of the present
wont h.
Oporto Papers •received yesterday, state, that by the last
accounts from .the Brazils the King had decreed that iron
manufactured in Portugal should be admitted, free of ditty.
into the kingdom of Brazil, till the new regulation of the
duties. On the 23d of October the body of merchants of
Oporto solemnly returned :politic thanks to Gird for the great
blessing conferred on the Kingdom by the consolidation of
n
the great work of the salvatio -of tbs.... f gloriously
so ogoriously
L began its that city.—(lbid.)