The Sun. — 1821-08-22 (London, England)

NEW TIMES.] The Radical Press has been sorely disr.ppointed by the candour and manliness which admitted the witnesses to see the individual soldiers  who were on duty at Cumberland-gate. The Editors were sure that no such permission would ever he granted : they even asserted that it had been tefused ; but, lo! the fact puts them to shame, if shame it be in their natures to feel. Let us now see whether the 44 Escort" will act with  the same manliness. Let us see whether they wi 1 dare to submit themselves to the inspection o the Police Officers. We can assert, on the mos i►►disputable authority, that some of these me►  began the riot. They struck the Civil Authorities ; they threatened to ride over them ; they encouraged the mob to beat, wound, and cruelly maltreat them, and at length, they raised the sanguinary cry—" The City-, or Death." This, we say, was the cause of the bloodshed which afterwards ensued. These, if murder was perpetrated, were the real Murderers! To identify, them, therefore, is much more the duty of the Coroner than to identify the particular individuals who may happen to have fired off the pistols that killed some individuals ; for  nothing can be clearer than that those pistols would never have been fired, had it not been for the atrocious and almost treasonable audacity of the villains who first obstructed the progress of the Royal Corpse. The contest arose about shutting Cumberland-gate ; but the parties would never have been at Cuml)erland-gate except for the riot which turned the procession out of its due course; it would , have gone up Churchstreet, and so got into the Uxbridge road.—" It is certain," say the law books, " that the Coroner may and ought to inquire of all the circumstances of the party's death, and also of all things which occasioned it." Now it cannot be denied that the riot excited by the horsemen at Kensington occasioned the death of the men at Cumberland-gate ; for it was the cause, and the sole cause, of their being there : it was the cause of that ferocious spirit in the mob which led them to adopt and act upon the resolution implied in the, words— The City or Death !" Not till these horsemen arrived did the mob overturn the carts in Churchstreet ; nor till they arrived did the mob proceed to violence against the police-officers ; but then, incited by the horsemen, they fell Upon these unfortunate persons with the most brutal fury. We ourselves have seen a stone of several pounds weight, which struck one of them on the back, knocked him down, and rendered him quite senseless. Another policeofficer was wounded in the eye with the point of an umbrella; another was beaten severely with sticks and umbrellas ; another received a very violent blow on the back of his head ;, another, it! attempting to - remove the carts, was pelted with large stones and beaten with sticks and umbrellas ; another was struck on the head ; another was beaten both by horsemen and pedestrians ; another was often Struck and much ill used ; and all were hooted, hissed, insulted, and prevented from discharging the duty to which they were appointed. A cla.mour is raised against employing a military police; but all these savage barbarities were exercised on the civil polie-9. -.Who reoilerelthe employment of a military police necessary ? Those who not only had refused lawful obedience to the civil police, but almost murdered the civil officers.—'What we have been speaking of, happened at Church-street,,Kensington. The interference of the military was first called 'in at Kensiugton-gate ; but. there Sir Robert I3aker thought fit to yield to the rioters. It has been said that his perseverance would only have occasioned bloodshed ; and he listened to the humane horsemen, who interfered to persuade him to abandon his public duty. In our humble opinion, he ought to have committed these advisers of crime ; and if he did not, the Sheriff should : but of one thing we are contident, that had the soldiers forced Kensingtongate there would have been no lives lost at all. Two or three rioters, who rashly held the gate together, would have been knocked down, and the resolution of the Magistrate to compel obedience to the law, in one instanceovould have deterred the offenders from a second attempt.  Two oxen were recently slau%htered at Hamburgh, one weighing 3,6001b5, the other 33 800Ihp. They were both bred in nolsteinlund fed merely on grass.