The Sun. — 1822-08-31 (London, England)

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.  ( From the Birmingham and Lichfield Chroniek, Aug. 29.) Did space permit, we should be tempted to run over the several grounds of popular objection to the political life of the late Lord .Lor‘rnoN DE Ma' ; and the result, as we think, would raise a very serious doubt, as to how far the " unsophisticated classes" can, by any probability, be qualified to give an opinion concerning them. At a "Westminster election, Mr. Sheridan, on the hustings, was vociferously assailed, by a politician in the crowd, with the cry of " Remember the Carnatic Question !" But the wit speedily silenced his antagonist with this natural inquiry, " And what do you know about the Carnatic Question ?"—The tactics, in the mean time, of the Jacobin press, as discovered upon this, as upon so many other occasions, are greatly deserving of notice. It first sophisticates the " unsophisticated classes" by every falsehood of reptesentation, by every fallacy in argument, and by every excitement, to violence of temper and conduct ; and, when the natural fruit of all this malignity presents itself, it turns round, and "appeals to the existence of that very fruit, as proof of the truth of its statements, of the soundness of its argument, and of the universality of its own sentiments ! It first corrupts the public mind by its own act, :and then triumphs in the visible corruption ! Was not the outrage at Westminster Abbey prepared by the Jacobin press ? Did not the monster, Cobbett—the same who has more than once talked of tram. piing and spitting upon Burdett—who swore himself to drive the Baronet to suicide—to a burial in the cross-roads—and who has lately been seeking a few infamous pence by means of covering the walls of London with the grossest posting-bills, relating to the Bishop of Clogher ;—did not the monster, Cob, bett, attempt to demonise the multitude with his exultations at " Castlereagh's throat-cutting," printed in large letters, and thrust into every one's sight ;_and did not the News, one of the lowest and most infuriate of the Sunday papers which at once disgrace and deprave the metropolis, contain, on the Sunday preceding the funeral, an article, recommending a subscription to buy faggots to consume the body of Lord Londonderry, instead of depositing it in Westminster Abbey ? And it is warm from the perusal of flagitious writings like these, that the " unsophisticated classes" come to express their sentiments ! How much is to be forgiven, or, rather, how much is not to be forgiven, to the ignorant dupes of such proceedings, we forbear to determine; but in what terms are we t 6 speak of the miscreants by whom their understandings and feelings are misled ? The great evil, however, is, that the whole tendency of what we speak of, is to a mob and printingpress government. The press is to sway the mob, and the mob the state. Listen, says the Times, to what we have taught the mob, and direct your measures accordingly. It has come within our knowledge that some of the "great ;agar" 91 the country at large have been nearly as indecent, and quite as unwise, in the exultation at the death of the late Marquis, as the " small vulgar" of Westminster. The joy of these former Is founded on their constitutional, and therefore habitual, cre• dulity, which now expects from our accomplished statesman's fall, the rise of their own party and politics. But let the friends of the system under which we prosper take cmrage. We have lost a limb of the tree, but not the root. We •sliallhave no change.  PAItISIT of ST.