The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-22 00:00:00

PAISLEY, SEPT. IC.

A Meeting of the Deputy. Lieutenants of the
County was held here uu Tuesday forenoon, when
they came to the following Resolution :

Resolved—That the Lieutenancy approve of
the active measures taken by the Sheriff of the
County and Magistrates of Paisley, to put a stop
to the outrageous proceedings of the mot', which
have occurred here since Saturday last ; and they
offer their thanks to them for their activ►ty in
suppressing the tumults, and for their temperate
conduct in preventing the effusion of blood. The
Lieutenancy also request, in a particular manner,
the Special Constables of Paisley and the Abbey
who acted or the occasion, to accept their
Thanks for their activity and good behaviour in
aid of the Sheriff and Magistrates.
4fhe Lieutenancy beg leave to give their
Thanks to Major Kingdon, and the Officers, Non-
comthissioned Officers, art.(' Privates of the two
Companies of the 80th Regiment, and to Lieu-
tenant Hodgson, and the Non-commissioned Of-
ficers and Men of the detachment of the 10th Hus-
sars, for their excellent conduct on the occasion
of the disturbances that have occurred."

RESOLUTIONS OF COMMON SENSE,
TOR THE PREVENTING OF POPULAR DELUSION
PROM POLITICAL ORATORS.

COMMON SENSE RESOLVES,

J. That Subjects have no common rights; be-
cause all men are not fit for all things :—l. In
their natural capacity. Ti►e fool has no right to
sit at the Council-board ; nor the coward to be
the leader of an army.-2. In their moral cape.-
city. The thief has no right to be a steward for
the public; the idle man has no right to the
wages of the industrious.-3. Least of 'all in
their religious capacity. The Jew has no right
to be a Bishop; the Turk has no right to be a
Schoolmaster for the teaching of Christian Chil-
dren. Men have been guilty of more cruelty, in-
justice, and robbery, on motives of false reli-
gion, than on any others whotsoever—Heathens
against Christians—Papists against Protestants--
Puritans against the Church and Government
of England. Mutual. religio poluit suadere ma-
lorum

kleav'ns! That inch base, such horrid deeds sbould.claim,
The sanction of Religion's sacred name.

'2. That, the natural rights of man, are the
rights of man in a state of nature onlq ; that is,
of a man considered as an unsociable independent
savage. These are, the rights of eating, drink-
ing, sleeping, bunting, fishing, propagating his
species, whipping his children, and defending him-
self against wild men and wild beasts.
3. That as soon as a man becomes a member
of society, and property is divided by authority,
and secured by laws, be is bound as a moral
agent. All his natural rights are under restraint,
and be cannot exercise them at his will, for fear
of an executive power, ordained to prevent it.
They are now no longer natural, but are changed
into civil rights.
4. That upon the reception of the Christian
Religion, natural rights are further restrained by
the divine authority of the ten commandments, as
explained in the New Testament ; which forbid
robbery, murder, false witness, disobedience,
and even the desire of another man's property ;
and man himself rises from a moral into a reli-
gious agent.

- 5. That, therefore, if any member of a Chris-
tian society now pleads his natural rights, he
thereby declares, that he intends (or wishes) to
break through the laws of civil society, and the
restraints of religion, and go back as fast as he
can, on atheistical principles to the state of na-
ture ; that is, to reduce things, if be and his
fellows shall be able, to a political chaos, or
state of anarchy, under which there shall be no
distinction of right or property, but such as
they themselves shall be graciously pleased to
settle.

It all the beasts of the forest and the desert
were mingled into one bociety With sheep, pats,

oxen, and horses (against which God's providence
haft wisely provided), Common Sense foresees
what must happen when they begin to pursue
and exercise their common rights. And the same
will hold good in human society; for mankind,
like other creatures, are distinguished by birth,
humour, and education, into the wild and the
tame, the conning and the simple, the peaceable
and the rebellious, the temperate and the insa-
tiahle, the harmless and the blood-thirsty; and
have no more claim to ti►e exercise of commoo
rights than the beasts have;

Therefore, as beasts are under man,'man is
under law, human and divine; and it he knows
his own interest, he will plead for a due distinc-
tion of rights, and do all he can to strengthen
the hands of the Government tinder which lilt
lives, in return for the security he enjoys.
Happy is he who is made wise by seeing
misery in others, rather than by feeling it in bias'
self..--(Birmirigharn Chronicle, Sept. 16.)