The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-01 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR—Upon opening your Paper to-
day, I eagerly turned to your Correspondent's
Letter signed A., which you so highly recon►-
mend to your Readers' attention, hut it did not
answer the expectation you had raised. He pro-
poses to have a great many irons in the fire with-
out a bellows, and to move a world by a lever
fixed on a heap of sand.

Money borrowed by the Land-owner upon his
estate (already deeply morgaged perhaps) is the
only means he suggests for carrying his great
works info execution, for he acknowledges the
Fonds of the Slate are too much exhausted to do
it. In the name of common sense I ask hin►, if
be can expect Land-owners to borrow money for
purposes that are likely to turn to so little ac-
eoont ; where Parishes have united to build pco
houscs, it has been attended With great expence,
and after all the difficulty of getting them well
lo►oked after, has been such that the contrac►ing
parties in the Union would be heartily glad to be
rid of their engagements, having found that they

could keep their poor separate at their respective
houle, at two thirds at least of what they cost
them in what is called the House of lutlist►y, but
whi:h it rather (to say no worse of a house
of Idtentss.

Your Correspondent is much mistaken if he
thi►:its these houses will make the spendthrift main-
tain himself' by the sweat of his brow. If the Laws
r Cre duly enforced with good order and regula-
tions, itirlevd they might do a great deal, but it
is next to iiupossible to accompUsh this among

the prcj.,dices and igno'rance of common farmers,

who some of them perhaps, may some way or

other he clumected Sri h the Governor, and iu-

teres,e4 so as to wink at Isis abuse.

But; Sir, at present the case does not turn on
this Hoge. Our POOR are willing to work ; it is

not industry but employment that is wanting; who
Can employ the Manufacturer if there be no
Market for his wares, and what Agriculturist can
employ the labourer if the price of Corn will not
make bins a fair return for raising it ? Should
that return become more favourable, the waste
lands might be cultivated to good effect, if the
.
xpences of our Acts of Parliament could be made
wore easy; for a friend of mine told me that he
lived in a Parish where they had lately had an In-

closure Act which, though it met with no opposi-
tion, cost 9001. Mr. A. expresses prettily enough
his romantic ideas of the mountains waving with
the trees of the forest, and being given in rrpetual
tenantry to the beasts of cline ; two things quite
incompatible. He might as well keep a fox in
bis poultry-yard as deer in a yonru,: plantation.—
With the same sort of consistency, be proposes
to turn our mechanics into agricultural labourers,

Aher► the faritiers have aheady inure than they

ktioW bow to employ.
Dec, 30, 1819.

P. S your Correspondent, PRUDENS, pro.
posed to pby,Cl- ore four h of the Stocks, I con-
clnfie he 1,,5, AUtile progiess, because I have
Tint seen the ),;,,e s the Five per Cents, in your
Pn)er ?inre. 1`.V.:3,;,; recommend to these two
Correspondents of y. ,o re-consider their sub-
jects, and I ,conit; recommend to Government to
tax the estates and money in Int Funds of its ab-
Atitee subjects pretty largely,

1101151?-5"-TVALING AND SWINDLING —Yester-
gay a wan oi)i)orseback went to th, shop of Mr.
Jennigt, a sa•:dler, in the Ci:y.toad, stating
bitucell to have been sent by Mr. Schwi;zrr, a
gentleman resoling at Lliglibury Terrace, and that
be was to have a new saddle, a saddle-cloth and
bridle for the horse, li•being a lie %‘' purchase, and
hone of the saddles they had would fit ; be was
also to have the bridle he had with bin) Co be re-
palled. Mr. Jennings knowing the bridle to be-
long to Mr. Schwitz,r, did not hesitate
91e man have the articles he wanted, which hav-
ing obtained, he immediately went away. In the
course of the day, the bridle was repaired and
tent home, when. it was discovered that Mr.
Jennings had been nicked out of the articles,
and that the bridle had been stolen out of Mr.
ebwitzer's stables a few evenings before. Ott
Inquiring in the neighbourhood, it was discover-
!(l that a stable bad been broken open that morn
Ng, and -a horse stolen, and, from the deferiv-
4ion, there can be little doubt but it was by the
lame. man who obtained the saddle, bridle, &c.

THE SERPENTINE RIVER.—The whole surface
of this fine piece of water was covered yesterday,
by one uniform sheet of ice, perfectly transparent.
A few adventurous skaters appeared at the east
end, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the
Alen belonging to the Humane Society, who
*tie in attendance the whole day with ropes and
bidders. Happily no accident happened. Whe-
ther it was owing to the absence front town of all
')pr most accomplished performers, we know not,
but the ice was but thinly attended. There were,
Lowever, some actors who went through the
usual evolutions, in figures, with peculiar ease and
grace. The Tink's cap was adm►rably cut by
many. The female pedestrians on the south side
of the River were very numerous ; many displayed
all the pomp of Siberia.

Wednesday mottling some villain, by means
°I a false key, entered the landlord's bPd-root'
6.1 the King's Arms, Houndsditeb, and slot,. five
,I4tr watches and twelve one-pound Bank of
i''gland note!.