The Sun.
London, England, 1816-11-27 00:00:00

rani tto piecittcts ilvitor,,defti.4.v!.--
Like the fabled 11irpies of Idolatry, our Modern
Patriots have power, to poison even celestial en-
terthintnents ; and we have seen the blessed Cause
9f Charity withered and blasted by their pestilen-
tial presence. Filthy and obscene creatures,
loathsome and disgusting, they will ultimately
provoke a similar vengeance, and be swept into
the regions or darkness, suited to their foul *-
poses and noxious habits.

We have given a very full report of the pro-
ceedings in the Egyptian-Ilan. It is pleasing to
dwell on pictures of this kind, where all the baser
passions ate absorbed, and only the glow of phi-
lanthropy irradiates theseene. Politics, Polemics,
at best but ungracious topics, were dismissed from
this well-conducted and rightly-feeling Assembly,
which seemed animated with One merciful and com-
passnmate heart. Nothing was proposed but what
had the relief of our suffering fellow mortals for
its object ; nothing was clone but what advanced
the cause of humanity. Nearly eight thousand
pounds, :43 we are informed, were contributed on the
spot. Twice eight thousand pounds would soon he
swallowed up in mere donations; but the spirit of
all the plans suggested at the Meeting is of an infi-
nittlymdre beneficial as well as `
rational descript ion.
It is not to aid pauperism alone, but to chelisb
and reward industry, to furnish labour and repay
it: this is the true mode of alleviating distress,
and by it there ,'s a machine of, reproductiVeness
put in motion which must multiply the original
fund a hundred and a hundred ,fold, moderating
misery at every outlet, and scattering comfort at

every ton. •
May the most unbounded success attend this
s,
beneficent %%01K, and may the example herein set,
which we safely predict from our knowledge of
the Moral virtue and humane feeling of the British
Ptonle %vitt be generally followed, unite in closer
11011(15 of union and love the Rich who give boun-
tifully and the Poor who receive thankfully.

The high pticeof Corn and Bread is so evidently
the result of Forestalling, that we
our voice against
_the monopoly which a great
command of Capital enables a junta of indivi-
dads to exercise with such severity upon all
Orders,. and dreadful consequences to the l'oor.
Had the harvest been much worse than it has
been, it would be impossible to assign yufiicient
growl for thepresent appalling price.of bread so
immediately after its close.
The most disingenuous arts are'resorted to in
order to keep up the exorbitant rates which are
row extortrd. Of these false .news forms a pro-
minent feature. Exaggerated accounts of scar-
city ; unfounded rumours of measures said to
be adopted by .a,verninent in consequence of
the alletzed buundless Atress; invented; sto-
ries of Ineetioys and riots at home, and•of the
shutting of ports or high price of provisions in
those places abroad to which we may look for
supplies ; these, and a multitude of great and lit-
tle artifices, all tending to the same end, are un-
ceasingly employed; not a day passes without
them, and a Newspaper, which did nothing but
Correct these falsehoods, might fill its columns
with exposing thern.—A Morning Paper of this
date notices an hist flice as follows

"It is difficult to be always on our guard
against such manceuvres ; yet we are 'WMOIIIII3
enabled' to detect anti expose them, and we hope
with good effect. Yesterday-. information was
handed to us, purporting that grain bad become
extremely scarce in Holland; that
_the prices were
rising there ; and that the pure ases lately made
there for this country would certainly enhance
those prices still more Fortunately, we bad the
means of checking this statement, by reference
to the EICIIIAI prices current : and upon investiga-
tion we find that corn, fai from rising in price
there, has been gradually falling from the 21st of
October, when it was 595 florins per last, down
to the last adviees.of the 19th instant, when it
Was 540 florins."
It also denies the revived fable that distillation
from Grain was about to be prohibited. Our
Readers will recollect that we officially' contra-
dicted this rumour when it was first Fropagated
three weeks ago.

Prptow bas, it seems, found out by the ex-
ample of CIIRISTOPHR, that the " Methodist
Connexion" is a good political alliance. The
.Phitip, Capt. ---, sailed from Bristol last week,
Laving on board Messrs. BROWN and CATS, ap-
pointed on a missica to St. Domingo, in conse-
q'tence of an invitation lately sent by PrrioN3
Government to the Methodist Conference.

We are concerned to 3ny tfie report of the
Duchess of CUMBERLAND teas unfavourable yes-
terday, viz. her Royal Highness had a bad night,
and was not better.

Gait bight Mr. WILLRMS, the King's Mes-
senger, left Downing-street with dispatches fur
CatubrAy.