The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-21 00:00:00

THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

FOR 'IIIE SUN.

CARDt-
MR. EDITOR,—Your Correspondent
Dus, in a good, honest, upright, downright,
strait-forward letter, defends The Chronicle against
he attacks of Tit v, SuN, on the ground that its
'roprietor and Editor is a sound Whig, but he
as not told us whether he he an old or a new
'The disttuction widens the ditittence es-
sentially,

--- nil fuit unquam
Sic impar sibi.
The whole spirit of his Paper proves him not
obe a whig of the old school. A little know-
iedge of English History would inform hint of
the rise, progress, and mutation of the name,
which, that it might be well and generally tinder-
stOod, induced Governmeut, under Queen ANNE,
to notice a silly Sermon of SACHEVERELL's, and
try it as a libel on the Constitution. Whoever
eonsiders the arguments of the most learned men
then living, will discover the principles of an old
Whig, which brought on our quiescent and glo-
rious Revolution, and which fixed an undevious
stannard to future generations of Englishmen.
It placed their supremacy with the supreme ; and
placed the supreme in King, Lords, and Com-
mons, as the essence of the community. It esta-
blished the doctrine of resistance front necessity;
fixed the limits of Monarchy, the powers of
Aristocracy, and the rights of Democracy, each
uniting with the other for the benefit of all.—
So true is this definition of an old Whig in 1688,
contradistinguislied from the versatile idea of it
that was ever known before, that we see it in
the statutes of King Wientmq, who succeeded to
the throne by a Parliamentary, not an elective
title ; but particularly in the Act of Settlement.
Such a Whig was the late Mr. PITT, as was his
Father before him, and such Whigs are out pre-
sent Ministers, who look down with high scorn
on the distorted beggarly definition given by a
Club opened by a political pretender to the name,
which they hold forth in derision of the true otie,
and those who glory in it. But who and what
is an old ‘Vhig In his negative character he
is no member of a society for constitutional infor-
mation, nor a corresponding one. lie is neither
a friend nor an enemy to the Whig Club of
Foxites, set up by an inflammatory Leader. Af-
fir natively, he comes within the noquestionable
meaning of the term, explained and amplified by
the late masterly Mr. Boaxu, whose black in-
dictment of 54 counts against a modern CATALINE
have never been refuted.
Let us now inquire who and what is a new
‘Vbigl By an inverted proposition, his heels are
above his head ; be is below the size of -a Re-
publican. and he is king and ruler in himself,
while those “rho reign and govern are his servants,
subject to his comma and removal, censure and
chastisement ; as he is paramount to the Parlia-
ment, which be may set aside as he pleases. A
doctrine so preposterous is a perversion of all
the little that is laid down, or meant, by MILTON,
Locxe, and other theoretical writers on the subject.
Positions so stale are the contempt of a trite sob-
stautial old Whig, and it is believed secretly of The
Morning Chronicle ; a paper which, choosing Mr.
Fox for its archetype, because self-called the Man
of the People, has wormed itself into their re-
gard, and all those sinful reforming levellers who
have lung been offensive to all loyal and well-
affected title Britons. To this sacrifice The
Morning Chronicle owes its profit. Its merit is,
that it is well printed, ou good paper, its con-
tents are well assorted, not badly expressed, and
is tree from scandal. Why, however, it should
continue to vomit torth its political bile, now its
false whiggism is exploded, may result from the
obstinacy of prejudice, or the stubbornness of an
evil spirit, which will not suffer it to confess its
sins, usk pardon, and promise not to sin again.
It was not so with the uld Morning Chronicle, first
published in 1770, be the late WILLIAM WOOO-
- On the death of his father. Mild, inform-
ing, and judicious, it contained no flashes to
please ignorance, or infuse sedition, but being
too good to live, it sunk in the arms of its in-
dustrious parent. Resuscitated with a spirit less
pure, but much more venal and mercenary, about
the time Mr. Fox rushed into the notice of the
rabble, for him and his party it dashed througi

nick and thin, mindful chiefly of patronage and
money, which came in as fast as it pampered
faction and made the mob throw up their greasy
caps and cry out liberty.
This solution for the Editor of THE SUN, added
to his own COMITICIII on the letter of CANDIDUS,
may afford him useful information. It is so re-
spectfully intended, and not at all to offend the
Editor of The Morning Chronicle, of whose head
and heart, no one, though a stranger, is more
willing to believe are sound and good than an
OLD WHIG.

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