The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

EARL

The following judicions, apposite, and perti.
tient observations on 'the extraordinary Revcdh-
tion which took 'place, within the course of a
feW 'months, in the mind of tbis Nobleman
as to the designs of the •di'safiectet4 and the
danger attending their movements, are taken
frOm The Leeds Intelligencer of 'Monday last, a
Per to which hav'e often been indented Im
many Stainable articles. We may ako for our-
selves venture to ask the Noble Earl, who:se i-
Vafe elittracCer we hold high reriert, what he
would have thought it Governibent had neglected
fo adcipt the 'very measures ivhich he now con-
densns, after the strong ier'ini in • Which he had
expressed his sense of the dastgers impending
froth the Violence of a ditring multitude, ionstant-
iy increisini; in numbers, and prompted by the
most Sedition's and rebellious designs ?

Whaesn Mitch noise has been Made about Oliver and
Co. none Of whom gave any information to Government,
until April, 1617, it is worthy of remark, that Earl Fitz-
so early as DeerMber, in the preceding year, con-
cludes a communication to Cover-i-Oita, on the state of this
district, by stating it t,) be hiS birdship's convictiou, that a
conspiracy was organiiced, the leaders of which contemplated
nothing less than a complete overthrow of the tiornnient.---
The Noble Earl added, that the conspiracy was not the effect
of distress, want of employment, scarcity or dearness of pro-
visions; but was the offspring of a revolutionary spirit! It
is said, that notwithstanding this official declaration of his
opinion, as to the state of the country, and the views of the
Conspirators, his Lordship did not think the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act necessary ; meaning, we presume,
that his Lordship thought any insurrection might have been
put down by military force, and its authors punished by the
ordinary powers of the law.

" Allowing to this alleged change of opinion by Earl Fitz-
williatn all the weight to which it is entitled, still it ought
:to be remembered that his Lordship's knowledge was necesi
sarily confined to the danger likely to arise from the unsound
state of this district; and that if his Majesty's Government
were furnished with similar authentic information as to the
state of other districts, the view which they were thus enabled
to take of the whole extent of the disaffection, might impe-
riously demand those salutary measures of prevention, which
some might think disproportioned to the degree of danger to
be apprehended front the threatening aspect of one disaf-
fected quarter only.

" Further:—His Lordship at least pronounces that a settled
determination existed to attempt -the complete overthrow of
the Government. If he thinks the suspensi.in of the Habeas
Corpus was unnecessary, because it was improbable that so
-chimerical an attempt could have any chance of success, there
is no one, we believe, who will dispute the accuracy-of his
conclusion. But, if ins Lordship means that the tranquil-
lity of the country has been -purchased at a dearer price, by
a short suspension of the Constitution, than by the employ-
nrent wf military force fur the defeat of open rebellion, we
can only congratulate the country, that Government and the
Legislature thought otherwise. If the Suspension Act has
saved but one family from butchery, one home from demoli-
tion, or even one criminal from the commission of offences
which Would have forfeited his life to the Law (to say nothing
of its having perhaps preserved entire villages, towns, and
districts, from desolation and' bloodshed—from rapine, and
fires,. and plunder—from .all ;the horrors of civil war)—we
think we can assure his Lordship that the peaceable people of
those districts, -so threatened, according to his Lordship's
own shewing, cannot but rejoice that any Legislative mea-
sure was found sufficient to avert such dreadful calamities,
and that they would have had just ground of complaint
against their 'Rulers, if they had been left exposed to all
these treaters, rather than a law should be passed enabling
Government to take some thirty of the wretches, who medi-
tated so much mischief, into safe keeping.
" Lastly—Whatever may be the present sentiments of Earl
Fitzwilliam, it is quite cledr, from prooft furnished by him-
self, that a traitorous conspiracy existed in this district be-
fore the, end of the year 18 If; ; and therefore we trust he is
prepared, as a Peer of Parliament, to declare that " plots
and conspiracies" existed previous to the appearance of
Oliver in the ensuing spring, and that they did . not apt ing
up, as the good and worthy souls who have esca,.ed the halter
would make us believe, me ely wheresoever the footsteps of
that Government Agent could be traced."

-We cannot conclude this article more properly
than by the following observations on the con-
duct Of OPPOSITION, which exactly coincide with
our own' opinions. They are taken from The
(Dublin) Correspondent of the 14th instant, ano-
ther loyal and spirited Journal, the. Editor of
which, as a sound Politician and a real Patriot,
may well make the Opposition Writers of- this
Metropolis " hide their diminished heads" with
spleen and envy.

" The Opposition in Parliament seem more anxious to re-
present the discontented minority of the public, than the
people at large, if their partialities may be inferred from the
eltaracter and course of their political hostility. All their
motions appear destined to incomnoule those, whose vigour
and wisdom have succeeded in rebuking the frantic spirit of
democracy, in preserving itiviolate.t he sauctuary of the Con-
stitntion, and in yoking down the Fiend of Revolution, by the,
main strength of its laws. If any judgment may be rested
upon such' precarious foundations, many of the Opposition
do not seem unwilling to comfort, if possible, the baffled and
defeated zealots in Reform, that are nut yet reclaimed from
their phrerizies, by endeavouring to embarrass, in every
possible way, the Ministry, to which those refractory and
pertinacious spirits owe so much of their disappointment.
Though another sort of conduct would rellonnd more to the
honour of any political party, yet, after all, the public have
no great reason to he dejected. It is much better to stm the
Opposition unreasonable and. impolitic, and all the aspirants
after Revolution foaming in mortification and rase, than to
see the noblest country that ever flourished, the finest race
that ever conferred honour upon human ',attire, plunged into
a bottomless abyss of uproar and blood, and groping their
way, during a night of crimes, after the ignis fainns of
Jacobin philosophy. We hope the public may comfort them-
selves, as they real our reports of those debates, with the
coosciousness of the causes to which they owe their present
escape from the misery and w6e, towards which so many
stimulants were endeavouring to dr;ve thew but a few
months ago."

2 0 E T Y.

S ONNE T.

FEELINGS DURING CHURCH SERVICE.

*A
Prayer first breatli'dt that God may all engross
My thoughts.,—and make me to salvation wise.
,
Then to tht:"Priest I turn my ears and eyes;—
Deeds—many bad—the best mix'd with that dross
Which marks in men of innocer.ce the hiss,
Iview: my soul in self-abasement lies,
Till Mercy-checks my penitential sighs,
And En;ints to ..11.:173 dyidg on the Cross.
Now comes the CinUforter, once like a dove
Descending seen:—Redeinption now no inure
Appears a mystery ;—the Joys above,
Forfeit by Sin, atonement must restore :
Se think I, whilst toreiilins of heavenly Love',
Weiie On the wings of fervent Faith, 1 soar.
MILECCISSIAST.
•

ittGITER OED FAsinoN.

FASHION-113LE ARRIVALS.

Duchess Dowager of Roxburgh and Mr. Manners, in Port-
land-square; Lady Cecilia. Buggins, in Great Cumberland-
place; Earl ref Bridgwater, prom Ashridgr, Ruts', in Gro3-
Venor-sqUare ; Sir Thomas and Lady I.)adell, in Purtland-
place, from the Continent ; Countess Of Essex, in Stinhope•
street, May fair, from Cashiohnry:park ; Mr. Rowley, in
Berkeley-square ; Mrs. and Miss Hornhy, in Portland-place ;
Countess of Fancoriberg zinc]Miss Cheshire, in Welbeck-street ;
Captain Le Biane, in Lincoln's-inn-fields; Miss Curtis, in
Park-lane; Lieut.-General Phrpps,.in Mount-street; Mrs. And
Miss Davenport, in Lower Brook-street: Lady Francis,
in St. James 'S-square ; Hon. Capt. Powlett, of the Royal
Navy,'in Hertford-street, Mayfair; Lady Charlotte Fitzroy,
at the Duchess of 'Grafton's, in Lower Brook-street ; Mrs.
Frankland Lewis, in South Audley-street ; Mr. and Mrs.
William Hale, in GroSvenor-place; Rev. Mr. and Lidy
Augusta Fare'', in Lower Brook-street; Hon. Miss Hobart,
at Lady Stewart's, at Whitehall ; the Misses Russell, in Wini-
pole-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Pepioe, in New Burlington-street;
Mr. Mrs. and Miss Mitchell, in Charles-street, Berkeley-
square; Mr. Bulmer Lytton, in Piccadilly; Miss Montague,
in Upper Brook-street; Countess of Alornington, in Hen-
rietta-street, Cavendish-square; Lord Carrington, at the St.
Petershurgh Hotel, Dover-street, from the Continent: John
Dingwall, Esq.' and family, fruit's Brucklay Castle, to St.
James's-street; Sir Masse') and Lady Lopes, at their resi-
dence, in Arlington-street, front their seat, Maristow House,
Devonshire.

The Marquis of CitoilvioNneLEY gives, a grand
entertainment on the 27th instant to, the PRINCE
REGENT, at Cholniondelev House.' • m

The Marquis of ANGLESBA will entertain the
PRINCB REGENT and a numerous party o( dktiu-
gnished personages, on the 25th bison*, at Ux-
bridge House.

The Duchess Of PEvoNsntßE, by accounts re-
ceived yesterday from Nome, has enjoyed very
good health since her residence there.
LADY Louts ERSKINE.—A malevoknt TlTO-
graph haying appeared in some of the Public
Prints, Slating that this Lady now in Pails,
and conveyitig mo,t fallacious insinuations-against
her, we feel pleastve in saving,' that she is nnw
in Scotland with her husband, Sir JAMES ER-
SKINE, at 'l'o:lie House.

rS. THACKERY.--This Lady, whn Was at.
tended by the late Sir IZ !CHARD •CROFT, whose
lamentable end took plat e at the horse of her
sister, Alios COTTON, in Wimpole-street, we are
much concerned to state died yesterday. After
the deplorable death of Sir IticnAliD, another Pro-
fessor attended, and the case seemed likely to
terminate hapirily.

HAmenati's Swonn is mentioned as one or the
rarities at Carltou-house. The Morning Chronicle
stiles it " the most interesting object of curiosity"
in that place. Qiere, is it so. very " interesting
an object" to tlo writer, bccanse HAMPDEN de-
clared-that if i.e met tits kiNG in battle, he would
rather have thrust his sword into the heart of the
Monarch than of any other man ?
BANK TOKENS.—Itka-been sng,gested that the
cheapest mode of exchanging. the bank tokens
would he through the
.several country banks, as
tne whole expellee of carriage, insurance, and
bank commission, might come within one per
cent., and it is absolutely necessary that .new
silver should be procured for the old, to prevent a
scarcity of chairge.

A onbl;cation having appeared in several of the
Newspapers, that the ATToIiNEY-GENRRAI, had
given it as his decided opinion, that the Corpora-
tion of Dublin have- no right, in Law or E►luity,
to the tolls which they have claimed and exacted,
the cause for which the tolls were originally
granted having long-since ceased to exist, we have
authmitytostate,tbattheATTOßNEY-G.ENERALIIaS
not giVen auy such ►pinion. -(Correspondent.)
TROTTING MATCH-A roan galloway belong-
ing to Nlr'. Adams, of Broad-street, St. James's,
aged eleven years, trotted fourteen miles within
an hour, yesterday, on the Ashford road, for iOO,
guineas. The match was won by six seconds
only, and the gelding was rode by feather weight.
6 to 4 On time.

HORRID OUTRAGR.—OD the night of Saturday
last, some mousters in human share broke into
the house of Michael Flatly, resident at Water-
park, near Castle-Connell, county of Limerick,
when they drageed: him from the bed, and %ebb
huiyes laid open the flesh on the front of the
arms, and with anatomical precision drew the
reeking sinews from their place—they then pro-
ceeded to chop the fingers from the hands, and
with remorseless, unrelenting cruelty, tore
the tongue
.from its root. The perusal of
such barabarities as these must congeal the
hest blond of the beast ; for our parts, Ours
is nearly frozen in the recital httt their insatiate
thiist for blood did not permit them to stop here—
with the same ins:-rotnents they made several deep
incisions ni such parts as they coi)eei'ved most
vital, and at length glutted with blood, and the
supposed forfeit of life of rieir unhappy victim,
they quitted the house with dreadful imprecations.
TIIIS only consolation rein ins—" that murder,
though it has no toritote, will speak with mOut
miraculous organ." We understand.that, on Sun-
day last, the Circumstances above stated were
commented on, with .Much feeling, by the Rev.
Mr. Crotty, from the Chronicle.)