The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-05 00:00:00

FOR HE SUN.

TO .1011 N BULL, ESQ.

HONEST JohN--,-Your esteemed favour of the
25th ult.-came bate to hand ; in reply, 1 have to
-inform you., that whalever-cbarges 1 have brought
forward were not against you personally, for you
are an honest painstaking fellow, as Mrs. Butt
well knows ; ssor against the majotity of your
`family, for -they are a fine set of chubby boys and
girls, thotrgh a little out at elbows and at heels,
which I hope Mrs. Butt., if sbe goes to Church of
a Sunday, and attends to the advice of the Minis-
ter, to be sober and industrious through the week,
will be able to mend, by
,a little patching and
darning, instead of pulling the old garments to
pieces, in the vain hope of getting a remnant of
she wy French cloth that was spoilt in the weav-
ing.

But Mind, JOHNNY, When I talk of so-

briety, I don't mean that your good woman ever
.had A drop too much.• I don't wish to refuse her
little drop, nor a pinch of snuff, to relieve her
toils at time washing tub, nor a pot of Bohea,
when the day's toil is over—such deprivations,
think, would be rrodically wrong ; but though I
actpit you and:the best part of your family of all
blame, yet you Lave yourself acknowledged that
there are some naughty buys and girls thaPt require
correction, amid, therefore, I still address you,
JOHNKY, as Lead of time house, in hopes you will
talk to them like a Father, and bring tears to their

eyes !
Now, my good Fellow, you know I have al-
ready hinted to you that the most troublesome
part of your family would never have bad exist-
ence had it not been for those very events of
which they now COtnplain ; but that gives them
no right to object to -the social regulations under
which they have ia;ien. They have no right to
change things with which the majority are con-
tented ; but if these things can be improved for
the good of the whole, they are permitted both to
talk anti to act for that improvement, provider'
they injure no antecedent rights. For though the
Laws of Society do away with those of Nature as
paramount, yet they do not go in opposition to
those of Nature. In fact, the rights which Na-
ture gives we bring into society, and social or.
41 e r destroys them not, but eveu strengthens whilst
it regulates.
Under Natural Law, before the aggregate
power of all is delegated to a few for the advan-
tage of all,a strong man sloes himself justice by.
his superior powers ; but theta, JOHNNY, he uu.
happily does more, for the history of past ages and
the voyages of recent Navigators of all Natibus,
ineontestibly and invariably prove, that wherever
little advance has been made beyond the state of
Moore, there the women and the weak are forced
to be the slaves of men.

In Society, however, this is not the ease. His
right Injustice is not, indeed, there ref,ised ; bGt
then it is controlled. To have fair and impartial
justice is secured to the strong man ; but not to
him alone. It is also secured for-others. Here,
then, is the great advantage of SOCIAL ORDER
over a STATE of NATURE !
In fact, the state of mere Nature never can
exist for any period in regard to an indiuidual—
to talk of restoring it to a Nation is absurd—you
might as well pi cent! to clothe the Irish Giant
with your little boy's first cast off suit of short
coats !

ROUSSEAU, indeed, tells you that the moment
m►an leaves the forest to join society, that moment
be gives up his independence ; but 'remember,
JOHNNY, that ROUGSEAU was a Philosopher, who
chose not to work but to write—a fellow who
swinged upon the liberality of others, and yet
could not eat his pudding and hold his tongue,
but quarrelled successively with each of his bcne-
tactorsL—a precious Philosopher to talk of. inde-
pendence! But inch a statiof Nature is impossible.
The very first act of a man's life, ht' entrance into
this world, is an art of Society. What would Mrs.
Bou. say if her little one's were to be set up as
Independent Patriots in Epping Forest as soon
as born ? What Would she say to yott JOHNNY,
if she was to find you in a state of Nature ?
In a state of nature, every mall has his rights
indeed ; but then they must necessarily be very
few. In nature, every man has a right to food, if
be can possess himself of it ; but none to that
which others possess, except the claim of nature
between parent and child. But if the child has
claims, be also, as I have already shewn to you,
Joutcsor, has his duties, which soon turn the state
of nature into a state of society, every advance in
which tends to advance the progress of popula-
tion.

But you are told that in a state of Society the
People have rights, and so they have, and Save-
reig.nty also, but who are the Peoput ?—not the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Weavers and Fustian-
cutters, nor the Dealers in Fustinn in Pahce-ya,d
and Finsbury-market ; no, the Port s of Great