The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES-oer. to.

J. Serjeant, Great %Varner-st rert, Clerkrnwell, brewer—J.
Rogerson, Hardshaw-within-Windle, Lancashire, auctioneer
—D. Hawkins, Sheffield, innkeeper—J. Cooper, Scholes,
Yorkshire, slate-merchant---G. White, Great Driffiebl, YOrk-
shire,, cabinet-maker—A. Howard, St. Swithin's-lane, incr.
eltant,--J. Swift, Leeds, dyer.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—Yesterday the LORD
MAYOR held a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall,
for the general dispatch of public busiiiess. Mr.
Alderman Waithman, Sheriff Elect, attended,
and gave bond in the penalty of 10001. to take
upon himself that office on Michaelmas-day next.
The Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the si-
tuation of Beadle of the Court of Requests,
which was appointed to be filled up at the next
Court.—Joseph Isreal Brandon, a Jew Broker of
the city, attended, and surrendered his office,
when Lewis Cohen, of the Jewish nation, was
admitted, and sworn into that office in his stead.
—The Inquests of the Wards of Coleman-street,
Bishopsgate, and Aldersgate, and of the parish
of St. Sepulchre's, in the Ward of Farringdon
Without, attended, and made presentments of
sundry ruinous houses and non-freemen. The
Solicitor was directed to put the Act of Parlia-
ment, of the 14 Geo. 111. into execution, in re-
lation to ruinous houses, and the non-freemen
were referred to the Chamberla'i'n.—Sundry
brokers were sworn and allowed, and others dis-
charged from that office. Sundry bills were or-
dered for payment.

ELDER.— the leaves of the elder-tree are often
put into the subterraneous paths of the moles, to
drive them from the garden. If fruit trees,
flowering shrubs, corn, or vegetables, be wiped
with the green leaves of elder branches, insects
will not attach to them. An infusion of these
leaves in water is good to sprinkle over rose-
buds and other flowers subject to blights and the
devastations of caterpillars.

At half-past two yesterday morning a fire
broke out in the premises of Mr. CUTIIEN, hatter,
in the Minories. The fire- burned with great
fury, communicating to the house of im
—r. BERRY,
which,n,
ed.
together with Mr. tiUTIIEN's, was entirely
Yesterday morning, one of the Twickenham
was overturned opposite St. Clement's
sCtlaigeurcsh, Strand. It was full of passenger?, seve-
ral of whom were much hurt, but none danger-
ously. The accident 0t.,.....red by one of the
wheels coming off.

Louis the 16th was a diligent reader of History. But the
very lamp of prudence blinded him. The- guide of lit are
life led him astray. A silent revolution in the moral world.
preceded the political, and prepared it. !ti:came of .ntore.
importance than ever what examples were given, and what
measures were adopted. Their causes no longer lurked itt
the recesses of Cabinets, or in the private conspiracies of the
factious. They were no longer to be controlled by the forte
and influence of the Grandees, who formerly had been able
to stir up discontents, and to quiet them by their corruption.
The chain of subordination, even in cabal and sedition, was
broken in its most important links. It was no longer the grege
and the poptlouS. Other interests were formed, other de-
pendencies, other connexions, other communications. no
middle classes bad swelled far beyond theirformer proportion..
like whatever is the most effectively rich and great in society,
these classes became the seat of the active politics; and thts
preponderatiwz, weight to decide on them. These were a!t
the energies by which fortune is acquired; these the conse-
quence of their success. These were all the talents which
assert their pretensions, and are impatient of the place which
settled society prescribes to them. These descriptins bait
got between tbe great and the populace; and the influence ets
the lower classes was with them. The spirit of anthilitr: bad
taken possession of this class as violently as ever it bad done
of any ot her. They felt the importance of this situation,—
The correspondence of the monied and the mercantile world,
the literary intercourse of Academies ; hut, above all, the)
press, of which they had in a manner entire possessior‘„
press,
ina kind of
teliescutriaicdecoemvetruyungi,cnti.i.nlineeis:te,riyn e
its srpeirit'f.bie.
most 'democratic. _ _

Without the Great, the first movements in ibis revolution
could -not, perhaps,-hare been given. But the spirit of
ambition, now fur the first time connected with the spirit of
3'peczticaic-n, was not to he restrained at will. There was no
longer any means of arresting a principle in its course. When
Louis the 16th, under the influence of the enemies to Mo-
narchy, meant to found but one Republic, he set up two.
Wben..he toeant to take away half the Crown of his nergn-
hour, he lost the whole of his own. Louis the it;th could not
impunity .eountenance -a new Republic, yet between
his throne and that dangerous lodgment for an enemy, whic4
he,had erected, be had the whole Atlantic for a ditch. He
_had for an outwork the English Nation itself, friendly to lie
-betty, adverse to that mode of it., He was surrounded by ;s
rampart of Monarchies. most of them allied to him, and ge-
nerally under his influence. Yet, even thus secnrod, a repub-
lic erected under his auspices, :Ind dependent on his power,
became fatal to his throne. The very no.may which he Lail
lent to support this Republic, by a good faith which operated
as perfidy, was punctually paid to his enenzies, and' becarne•ia
rest/puree in the hands It-ht -.,..rassins.—Such is the charac-
ter of Louis the 16th, as poortrayed by this ,vritcr.
Upon another uppnrtutlity we shall insert our comments
and reflections upon it ; and by explaining inferences that
may be drawn from the History of that period, endeavour 'is
awaken the energiet of Britons, to foresee the danger which,
'they ate abant to incur.

DuPa..—A duel, which it is feared will prove
fatal in its consequences, took place on Ascot
Heath Race Course on Monday, between two
young Gentlemen, of the names of FENt--,naw and
II ARTINGER. The parties were distantly related,
and the subject in dispute was respecting a
male relative, more nearly to the latter
Gentleman, whose conduct as aspersed by Mr.
F. for countenancing the visits of a Capt. G-6.
The parties, after the ?,econd fire, refused a con-
ciliation, and in the third fire both were woir.d-
ed, Mr. F. in the arrn, and Mr. 11. in the body.,
where the ball had lodged. A surgeoa accom-
I panied Mr. H. off the ground in a
.pest-chaisc.—
' (Morning Paper>)
RoßurnY.-00 the night cf Friday last, the
house of „Tons Tnott:vrolz, Esq. of Allam's-terL.
race, Kensington, was broken into, and a consi-
derable quantity of plate stolen therefrom. Ti,e
entry WUS effected by
means of perfmating with
a centre-bit several hales in the shutters of one of
the rooms on the ground-floor, and breaking tit;`
holes into one, an was 'thereby made of
sufficient magnitude to admit the hand and arm
of a man,- and the bar which fa!teried the shut:
tern' was then easily displaced.