The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-21 00:00:00

ling, and ins;doterrnination to be final ; which Lord
ELLENBOROI.IOII said was the wisest course the par-
,ties could take, else the spirit of litiazion brink; in-
flamed, they might be driven into a Court of Equity
for injunction, &c.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,

through the medium of your Paper, the fol-
lowing hint could be submitted: to the viewof. the
Public and of Mernbers of Parliament in particular,
perhaps their attention to it may be full as am-
ioentons as that to 'their own Reform. That it has
not novelty to plead is rather in its favour, as a tried
fast has always advantage over specious, theory.

" tarn nunc munificentia, mea (Constantin:o omnibus
Veteranis, id esse concessum, perspicuutn, sit, ne quis iliorurn
ullo munere civili, ueque operibus publicis conveniatur
cantes tcrras aecipiant easque perperua habeant
COD:. TAton„ lib. 7. tom. to. •

Already,by my bounty (says Cotstantine) it very evi-
dent, so .much is granted to all the Veterans, that none of
them require any civil donation or public employments—they
receive the Waste Lands, and them fret' for ever,"

Glory, renown, eminence, emulation, will always
supply an army with meritorious Leaders and ardent
Officers; but though an army may not be able,
should it chance to be under 'an incompetent Gene-
ral, to achieve • great matters, yet Abe---most skilful
Commander cannot achieve imy thing without an
adequate force. If the means= of increasing and
keeping up that military force which public affairs
now require, can by any means be facilitated, surely
it is incumbent on us to adopt every plan for that
purpose which prudeace can suggest or the national
funds can afford. That great statesman, Cicero. well
observes—" pro murena.. ,'-.ortmes urban* res, ont,
nia studia, amnia forensis law et industria latent in
tuteba et przeiidia bellic4 virtutis."---s" AO army
stands -instead of a wall our civil affairs, all
our cares, all our pleadings* our estimation, our ins
dustry, lie under the protection of warlike valour."
In his time, soldiers were thought of as much
consequence to the State as the husbandman who
makes the land produce she first necessaries of life.
It must he obvious, that at this moment, without an
army and navy, not only ‘all our trades would be un-
employed, but agriculture be also negteCted or else
carried on for foreign masters. Recruiting our army
has of late met with difficulties; not from a want of
population, but from a variety of other causes,
among which one may be reckoned, which, at first
view, will appear rather an extraordinary one, viz.
too high a boun4'. The- very great bounty-
for regular service, and the still greater offerca for
substitutes in the militia, besides little additional in-
ducements held out by
.private offers, makes every
man who is willing to enter the service, hesitate,
and consider what service he will enter into, and
where he is'likely to 'receive the greatest -gratuity.
There should be but one service for young men, and
that should be wherever their country required' it I
A national militia, in name, is certainly one of the
defences apparently the most to be resorted' to ; but
experience teaches us that regular troops are as
much attached to their native soil as the militia man
can be;- and that our fire-sides may be better de,
fended-by exertion (thread than waiting to repulse
an enemy attacking us at /tame, If, instead of an
high bounty on entering into the service,, which is
almost. always dissipated very unprofitably to the
soldier, to society, and to good morals, a- future re-
ward was held out, which would insure the warrior
a peaceful asylum on the expiration of his labours in
the field, is it not to be expected thiii he would
more readily-enter on, and- cheerfully proCeed in his
campaigns, when he is conscious this:, after a certain
period of service in his country's cause, he himself
will be entitled to a landed property in it, free froth
all taxation during his life; and that he can also
leave that property to his family for ever, sul*aCt„
however, to the customary taxes, which past services
bad liberated himself from The sums gr,inted
for what •have been improperly called volunteers
-(by -which should only be comprehended volun-
.tary service; performed. without. any cost to Govern-
ment) ; the different militia expellees employed for
this purpose; besides doing away many objections
attending that service, in withdrawing from his
family the industrious poor . man who can not
provide a substitute; and leaving the rich super-
annt.lated bousejiolder, and the old maiden, pos,
sessing, perhaps, extensive manors, totally free
from all its inconveniences. These sums combined
would long since have purchased for the nation as
much waste and other lands as,would have reintme,
rated an army full as numerous as has been hitherto
enrolled, or could be entitled to_reward after twenty
years service,• The youth of 18, fond of novelty,
sanguine in his expectations, will eagerly adopt a
profession, at all_ tithes honourable, when he is cer,.
taro, that if he arrives at the age of 38, he can com-
mand an estate sufficient to entitle him to bring up
independently a family, or which he can dispose of
.again to Government at a fixed price, if he cannot
procure more from others. A cottage and a few acres
of land, af present waste, under the cultivation of a
man who had seen different countries, would exhi-
bit such a change of landscape and specimen of rural
comfort, that it would be found more-difficult to re-
strain young men from, than entice them into the
army. Nothing need be said of Our Navy ; sea-
men are not by any means liable to The same incli-
nations, or calculated for the same: pursuits as lands-
men ; Greenwich, or some such receptacle, must be
always afforded uathem. But if a Chelsea-pension,
or a retreat such as now hinted at, was to be offered
to a man of 40 years of age, after 20 years service,
there can be little doubt of his choice, if he posses-
sed his limbs. Ilhis military ardour should still in-
cline him to continue his services, his estate is at his
disposal. Privates and non-commissioned persons
only, Would have these allowances, Love of
,their
Country, and that rank in the army, w every
officer of merit and long service may aspire to, and
which, -even if they should not obtain, is still ac-
companied with Its full meed of dislyintlion and re-
nown, are and always will be incentives sufficient to
those to enter the service, in wham magnanimity
'preponderates. over love of wealth, Let the avarf-
eioos follow other pursuits than arms ! 'glory is the
object of, heroesl,—,-hyglory is meant that true sort
which has always justice as its tusis ;—when any
nation, however great, takes up arms for sake of