The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-04 00:00:00

'RIGHTS AND Pit VI LEGES.

TO JOHN BULI,, ESQ.

LEflElt 11.

krioNEs‘i• JoHN dot! Afraid we shall 'Fuld but
, •
few Rights and Ptivileges amongst the earliest
ins-
habitants of BRITAIN, that are at all applicable to
the present day, or to the existing state of so-
ciety. Previous to the invasion of JULIUS
CiESAR, a Gentleman who like Napoleon Buona-
parte, thought ha hail a right to invade every
country within his reach, and the privilege to take
whatever he could lay his hands on, this Country
was almost totally unkoown to the world of let-
ters, though there are some slight notices of it in
works written before CiESAR'S time, about half a
century prior to the commencement of the Chris-
)
Ilan Era.

The Phenicians and Carthagenians certainly did vi-
sit the South-western parts of the Island previously,
in search of tin and lead ; and, no doubt, sailor-
like, may have assived in the great work of pro-
creation about Falmouth and l'enzaice ; but I
know not of any particular rights either you or
the Cornish Boroughs ciu inherit front them, on-
less you claim the right of passing your-'citildren
through the fire of Moloch, or of whipping them
severely at every mile-stone, a custom still com-
memorated in London on that day ,vhen the
Churchwardens and Parish-bovs, with long white
%vands, like a Committee of Radicals, traverse the
bounds of each parish, striking their ro,k, not
upon those places where they might be felt, but
upon the brick-walls of some corner, which,
like fat Aldermen and Cominon-council-men, has
been " widened at the expence of the Corrora-

(lull.
,~

Boney, however, who was a great Genealogist,
seems to have laid great stress upon your Cartha-
genian blood, it we may judge from his cry of
" Delenda est Carthago ;" but, instead of his
pulling clown the Modern Carthage, it has both
pulled hint up And pulled him down; so that de-
prived of sitting, like Marius, upon the ruins of
Carthage, as he flattered himself he would do, not
as an Exile indeed, but As a Conqueror, dropping
a few crocodile tears, end uttering a lea' Corsican
sentiments, the great little Man was obliged to
attempt getting up the part of Theinistocles, and
even to drop that for General Bombastes Furioio,
which he now performs to empty benches, but
with a full 'for the bent fit of the
world at large, a minor Theatre of the Southern
Hemisphere
I believe the:t, JOIINNY, since Mrs. Boat. is
anxious that her little ones should not butyl their
fingers, and you ate not fond of fioggi:lg them
except when they deserve it, that we most give
up all Cartbagenian rights, and look to the period
efLesatt's arrival,when the inhabitants of this Isle
were merely a fesv wandering tribes, possessing
little •beyond their arms and a strong spirit
of independence, the latter of" which you hap-
pily inherit to the full extent of all the o1•.1 Brie
fish blood that is in your veins. At that period,
however, Britain was neither an agricultural, a
commercial, nor a manufacturing country, even
in proportion to its small number of inhabitants,
whatever has been advanced by legendary histo-
rians, who taljt of cities, ships, commerce, &c.
if our Manchester and Yorkshire weavers had
lived at that happy era, they might perhaps have
enjoyed their natural rights in a country that pos-
sessed scarcely one .indigenous. Fruit or vegetable,
though they would have been rather puzzled to
find spades or shovels to work up their four acres.
—Nay even our Radicals • would have heel' saved
the taste and smell of tea, gin, and other Excise-
able articles, whilst Ho :ST would have had his
full swing, not indeed where he ought to have it,
but in that delightful 'communit y of wives which
is said to have then been prevalent.

-As for spinning and ry ving, he land his friends
might have spun out long spe.ches and woven
Manchester fabric—alions.; but doilies were un-
known in a country where every body made his
birth-day suit last him f.r life, contenting himself
with painting it agreeable to the newest fashion.
One Daody indeed, about thkt time, is described
by Sir RICHARD BLACI:MORE as having invented
the first Spencer that ever was worn

" A painted rrst Prince Vortig,ern I,ad on,
Which from a nal:cif Pict his grandsire wutt."

Some people, however, have accused poor
BtacKmoaa of a Bull in these two lines ; but'the
thing is clear and easily explained. Prince \TOR-
grandsire having killed a baked Pict,
whose skin was painted agreeable to the tashiom
of the times, whence the names of Brit and Pict,
thought proper to flay him, to make a Spencer ut
his skin, Just as you, JOHNNY, sometimes make a
waistcoat out of a c4if's skin, something like the
patent shoes that are cnt without a seam.

Unfortunately these precious liberties were of
short duration ; for the Romans soon over-run
the country, mining domestic slaves of souse of
the &irons, whilst the remainder fled into the
fa-stnes,e6 of Wales and Cornwall, and even at rosy
the Tweed.

So much. JOHNNY, for ancient British Rights—
to ,‘ hich I believe, in generml, the g rtnt est palm
of your family can in butt
few ancestorial
claims. Holy much you inherit from the Romans
shall be dilcusied iu illy next
‘Y.Quiso
IGNOTUS.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Performed Last Night. •
Tut.% IRP: ROYAL, Dun ItY-LANE.—The Siege of Belgrade t
The Seraskier, Mr. Brabant; Lila, Miss - After
Jack and tie 13eatt Jtalh
,„
1 IingATttEAOYALi : ari ft:
CeleestaiAlr. Macreatly ; EllYabeti , •MN. Burni.2 After •
which, Harlequin and on Quixote.

PRICE OF STOCKS

TlllB DAY AT TwELvE u•CL(CK.

3 per Cent. Red. G 7 ii 68 67
31 per Cent., %Hit
4 per Cents.... Bl4 iii
Bank Lung Ann. 17 D-Ittits i
Imp. 3 per Cent. Ann... C6l

India Bonds ... Is. 34. 4s. pr.
Exch. Bills, 2d. Ss. 4s. 2s. des..
If dis.
Cons. for Account. 69 68

MAILS.
ANRIVF.D-2 Waterford, I Lisbon.
Due—l Qui)lin, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Ciuttenburgh,
I France, I Hamburglt.

HIGH VATER AT LONIMN BRIDGE TO-NIORItOW.
mmnimg, 35 minutes after G. j Evening, 5 minutes after 7.

TH_E S IT.

SOLEM LUIS MCEREI FALSUM AII IJEAT ?

LONDON,
T(TESDAY, JAAU.IRY 4, 1820.

The Paris Papers of Saturday last, which were
due this morning, have not arrived.

There is so laudable a spirit of patriotism iii
The Morning Chronicle, that it is not only distress.
ed by the pressure of present evils, but over.
‘l.lielmed with apprehension of future calamities.
The " alarming debt on the Consolideed Fund''

is a great source of anxiety to the ritriotic Con-.
doctor of that Paper, this day, and he is not cooes
tent with enquiring what the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER will do to lessen the present
load, hut is full of terror lest " the Speech
of the President of the United States thould
be of a hostile n2ture respecting the Ho-
ridas." " SufT►cient lor the day is the evilthere-
of it too narrow-uniuded a 'election for this

profound politician, ‘vho can see events in their
causes, and who, to use his own words, on a for-.

Fuer occAsio►►, seen►s to have returned to hi,

" prognosticating predictions:" " That we must
be mixed up vitb the question Kett;•een Spain anti
the United States there can be no doubt." The

idea of mixing up a question with a people is a
rhetorical figure worthy of so ,enlightened and
profound a Politician ; but surely it would be
wise in him to wait till ore and the question with
which we are mixed up (tor we presume his poeti.
ea! (apey will give ealS tv the question) shall
hear what the PIZEt,IDENT will say. After
such a leap to the Vloridas, the Havanna!), and
our Nest India Possessions, (for :he good Gentle-
man is alarmed for their safety,) he comes back
in a literary balluon, resumes his notice of the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFCIUSR, and asks this

emphatic it'nd porten►ous question, " Ought we
(the prorertial apples) to be placed in s►►ch a sip
Nation with respect to fiaance by any Minis-
ter )" And here his Iseroism rises, and he ex..
" We boldly say-,-we ought not ;" anti
concludes with this sagacious truism avoidi.

" .we should he always in a situation ur
" repel it, which we never shall be by pursuing;
' temporary Measures of expedients with res-pec;
" to Our fillanccS."—Pca y • Mr. VAN SITTA HT, da
relieve the distressed mind of this truly patriotic
Journalist, and tell him what yo.l will do to taisd
the supplies whets AmeriFir gets the Floridas, tiler
Havanna!), and our Wtst India Possessions

The dispute between the Party Chronicle, artd•
the Times-serving Journal respectiog the intro-
ceoce or merit (For guilt seems out of their view-
of the question) of the threatttiel assassination
of Mr. Canning, may he resolved into this—
that it is perfectly lawiad to minder an English
Mini'ter, but damnable to attompt the life 0.4, the
most atrocious foreign tyrant that ever exiwt..
cd !--One would really think they hail forgo!ittk
tie practical illustratirm of their doctrine in the
hot rid murder of the great and amiable Peuca-
vAL !!—Their opinions are any thing but specu•
Wive and abstract 3 How many constables have
been assassinated, %vitnesses and jurymen fired at
already ? The controversy is doubtless well-
limed, and may prove usctul !—(.llorning Post)
DlJNlnuttlEtt, the once celebrated French Re-
publican (it neva!, now in the 801 It year of his age,
is at this 11011• Loudon, and sitting to an Artist;
for his Portrait. This vetcrau, in ;be course of
his n,:merous campaign:, irasi hven wounded at
least twenty times ---(Norning Paper.)
A letter from Sierra Uone, dated Sept. 24 •
ISI9, says--." His Majesty's brig Thistle, Vent,
ihu.vs, is artived nom Portsmouth nod the Cape
de Verdi and will proceed in a few days, to
ice-
ward, to cluck; if possible, the inci-eusing trada
in slawo, caitied on by the Pot Inguese and Spa..
ttialds. Within these few (I.iys two of the above
description have been sent iu by his Majesty's,
ships Motgiatra and Peasant. This colony ha*
been very unheal,hy tigring tie rainy season, tind,,
I regret to say, many lives were. lost, principally
Enropeans.'.

Our colic() tnaric.ct this r.-ee« has been rather
br4ker thHil of Isle, fl) the ii,:itter
of seventy-Fours litive experienced a rise of ,itlf),it
30, to 641, ; in the course of JAnuary R coosider.4l
hie advtioce is entici:,Hted by the mantitßct„,e„,
and we sincerely with (11,14 their expectationi.
way be reedited. —(_lla,tchestei 4azeicv,)