The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-04 00:00:00

!lagers.

You say very properly, that if the Law is al-
ready strong enough, let it check these scound-
rels; if not, let it be made sufficiently strung.
They are capable of producing mischief, and they
do produce it, beyond their character, their sta-
tion, or their talent ; mischief,•not so violent nor
so eepeditious as they would desire ; but ulti-
mately not less effective. They paralyze trade,
by the alarms which every shopkeeper feels of
being plundered, and every purchaser of being
assassinated in the radical confusion. Terror and
distrust pervade our city ; and it is in the power
of fury miricreant who climes, to keep the Metro-
polis in prospective agitation by the announce-
ment of another Meeting. That common com-
munication of society, which is the vitality of our
City, is suspended ; and you might as well ex-
pect animal life to continue without the current
of blood, as political or commercial existence
without the intercourse of business. Fellows,
who in any other country upon the face of Got's
earth, ‘Yonld be taken up and summarily flogged
gild chucked into prison, are here suffered to die-
hit b the 'whole nation at their own pleasure,
when, where, and how they think proper,
I shall be told by your Radical Correspondent
STEEL, I suppose, that England is a free State ;
and that this is freedom. Perhaps so; but 'it it
is, I like it not, and care not how soon I am re-
lieved of such uncomfortable frer,dom. I would
barter it all for a little security ; and beg that
those who relish it world seek its pleasures among
the CAribs or Cherokees.

Freedom, Sir ! There is no legitimate freedom,
cxcs pt the frcedom of holding one's person and
properly in safety. For my part, I think the
Englih Tradesman who is obliged to shut up his
shop on a Monday for "fear of its being rolebed or•
fired, mid his family perhaps murdered j'i the
heroes of a Radical Meeting ; is as rery Vslave as
the wretch who closes his shop in Cons4ntinople,
for fear of being stripped by the Grand Turk. Thlk
not to me of such freedom, while I in not sure
of holding my life or my goods 'for half an
hour !

Sir, I pay the State for protecting me, and I
have a right to its ptiooo,oll.Al call upon our
Governors to enlotee thiLawixaml, as yOU say,
if that be not strong etioli::sll,Vinake it so:: If,
in their reverend 'care .of':;11;adfp:al Liberty, they

will not, then they Mast expect tii,at every peaceable
man will remove- his family an-dhis property to
some other State, where liberty is rather less
abundant, and security rather less scarce.
Another Meeting is culled for the 15th. Just
long enough off to exhibit preparations, and to
keep up alarms, and not too long off. to let us
attend to our business in the interim. A flue
time this, truly, to cry out against the danger of
being imprisoned Wrongfully, when a prison seems
to be the only side place in the whole Country I
And pray, Sir, what injury, or even what re-
straint, could the r everest Laws occasion to any
honest and quiet man ?—Suppose all Public Meet-
ings were prohibit ed,what need I care ?--I do not
want to attend them. Or all Blasphemous Libels
punished with transportation 3 Ido not want to
write them. Or , all Seditious Agitators sent to
Newgate without bail Ido not want to imi-
tate them. I want but one thing ; and the severer
the Laws are, the better it is ensured to me---Se-
CURSTY. If that can be had, consistently with the
Constitution—well ; it not, it must be had ht all
events. I like the Constitution, Sir, as heartily,
and would defend it as warmly as would any other
Mall ; more so, perhaps, than nine in tea of those
who make such a noise about it. I never thought,
however, that it was, like Troth, to be valued for
its own saife, but for the sake of the good it brings
it.—That good, 3 say agnin,
Tell me of the Constitution, quotha, when the
knife is at My throat and the torch at my win-
dow 1.

They say that our Legislators will enact some
very severe Laws. I hope they will, Sir ; and
among them, those which your Correspondent
TENAX has suggested. There will be a rare cla.
moor, of course, when they come to be proposed.
The Radical Knaves, who have no hope but in
confusion and plunder, will bawl lustily for the
Constitution ; aye, Sir, for that very Constitution
which they would make accessary to its own de-
struction, by the continuance of its most danger-
ous privileges.
It is the best Constitution in the world, Sir, for
gniet times ; and in such, every body has an inte-
rest in keeping it unaltered. 'or t'':►t precise lea- ,

son it ij sure of escaping alteration. But in times
like the present, it must surely have the power of
defending itself, else, in good truth, it is not
worth being defended. Besides, Sir, when the
danger is over, the precaution may be laid aside.
I do not like going in armour when there is no
enemy in the way ; but I should still less like
going naked, when a cut-throat is at every

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