The Sun. — 1819-09-29 (London, England)

FOR THE SU'J.  " This is the day, t speak it with great sorrow, " That we were all t' hare been blown up to-morrow." Michaelsna3 Ere.  Ma. EDlTOR—Passing alongSouthwark7bridge, a few evenings since, I observed several' parties waiting, as I ascertained, to see a boat-race; of which ,1 wns most pompously informed by an honest Cockney, ‘vho assured me that this is the season for " !towering Matches," and truly, Sir, 1 think lie was pretty right, as we ROW have little else but Roaring Matches from your four-footed neighbours, who assert and exercise their natural right of Roaring in Exeter 'Change, Eastward IIo! to the bipeds who claim the civil right of  Roaring to-morrow, in a most uncivil manner, in presence of the two great blockheads of the Corporation, Gog and Magog to wit—two Gentlemen who had long looked down upon the Citizens in Common Hall assembled, until the Alderman, who by his name is made of the same flesh and blood with themselves, thought proper to bring them down to the level of other blockheads, whe ther in fur, sarsnet, or grogram. Sir, I fear for the fate of these Civic Veterans, for if they escape being elected Lords Mayor, or Sheriffs, or Members of Parliament, still may they suffer that which time and weather have as yet been linable to inflict upon them. HAMLET'S advice, " not to roar so as to split the ears of the Ground Hugs," will, I fear, not be attended to on the aweful morrow ; and they now are Groundlingo, and should their ears be split either by HUNT'S or ‘VAITHAIAN'S Oratory, by the Bull or the Bully, why, Sir, their heads may be split too, for they are not so hard as other blocks which will be exposed to the same operation.— Then, Sir, if they are not only to be split, but to be bored also during the two hours and a half of the " Wordy Haldermates" Oration, they will he as full of holes as a Reformer's White Hat or a Sintiggler's.Conscience ! Alas, Sir, whilst I am penning these lines, and expressing those fears, the speeches are perhaps preparing which are to du, the job. Perhaps the  patriotic haberdasher is now measuring out by wholesale the stuff which he means to offer on the altar of liberty, and retail inch by inch to his gaping audito►s, who, in the privacy of their allies, courts, and cul-de-sacs, are doubtless practising a roar which shall last until—until dinner's on the table, when all ideas of rights and wrongs shall be neutralized by Turtle and Madeira ! Those of the Corporate Body who have already  talked loudly on the subject, say their voices shall be heard all over the Empire ; but surely, Mr. Editor, they ought to he taught to roar so as not to disturb those who prefer quiet and tranquillity. Bottom says, "I'll roar ynu like any nightingale— I warrant ye, I'll roar so sweet that the Duke will say, Let him roar again, let him roar again !" —and truly, as the civic linen-draper is evidently the Bottom of to-morrow's roar, it he cannot imitate the nightingale, I trust he will not go beyond the whistle of a Whitechapel hird•catcher, so that the Duke, if he were in town, or the patriotic Major, or the aldermanic Miner, may cry, " Let him roar again !" As the roar will be over when this Epistle makes  s appearance to an admiring world, it will be  needless to recommend the stopping of cars with cotton ; but as part of the roar is to be about the Manchester affair, I shall close with a short illustration of that business, in reply to all that has been sung and said, in churches and out of them, respecting it.  If a stout, hale, sturdy beggar implores my charity with an humble accent and his hat in his band, his requisition and his mode of petitioning may be said to be agreeable to the st,rictest rules and practice of mendicity. But if, whilst he holds his bat in one band (that hat a white bat), he holds a pistol or a dagger in the other, even though he does not present it at me, and if at the same time he has a paper stuck upon his breast in the modern style, will) the inscription, '' Your money or your life," why then, Mr. Editor, I humbly surmise, that instead of a beggar, he must be taken for a highwayman, and that I have a right to give him into charge of the Civil Power, nay to shoot him, if I am armed, and have no other immediate and ready mode of opposing his designs upon my purse, and threats against my life  This, Sir, with (hie tibmission to the Lew of The Tinses and Chronicle, I consider as sound Law, aye, as " Crowner's Qaest Law ;"—Hnd so, if people will go to the meeting, as the meeting does not go to them, we need not a grave-digger to prove that it is willy nifty felo de se.  I !co►st, however, Sir, that we shall speedily be able to give Christian burial to all our political  squabbles ; but it is a grave subject, Mi. Editor, and tbetetore I close it.—Yours,