The Sun.
London, England, 1819-07-21 00:00:00

THE ARNIY.

The following article appeared in only a part
of our impression yesterday
" The following is ae.present distribution of the
forces in the West Indies :

2d Regiment (or Queen's)—Demerara.
4th Ditto—l-lead-gnarters, Gienada, five Com-
panies ; Trinidad, three Companies ;'and Tobago,
two Companies. '
sth Ditto—Head.rinarters, Antigua, five Com-
panies ; Saint Christopher's, four Companies ;
Montserrat, one Company.

9th Ditto—l-lead-quarters, St. Vincent's, five
Companies; Dominica, three Collipanies ; St.
t wo Companies.'
21st Ditto (Fosileet's)—liarbatloes.

Ist West India Regiim nt—Head-qoarters,
Barbadoes, six Companies ; St. Lucia, one. Com-
pany ; Dominica, two CoMpanivs ; Antigua, one
Company..
3rd I)itto—llead-quarters, Trinidad, five Com-
panies till fin thur orders..
In Jamaica are the 50th, 58th, 61st, and 92d
Regiments.
In Honduras, the Cuntp3nies of the 2d West
India It,ginKut.

The professed end of all this revolutionary
bustle is, Universal Suffrage, Annual 'Elections,
and. Vote
.by .Ballot,i—hut how are the industri-
ous to find employment, the poor consolation and
support, and the cornmonity its first blessing,
tranquillity, though this professed end should he
-obieined ? As a commercial nation, Ueivt real
Suffrage will not- regulate the demands of for . igrs
countries, or iecrease !heir call for our comma.
diries ; and, it it do not, our unemployed can oh-
tain Imo employment, nor our pocir ameliorai ion—
and, as for Annual Elections,: they. must be just
as unavailing: Those changes in the shape and
substance of -our Constitution cannot place m4t_
ters in. peace,,eXittly as they stood when we Were
at war—cannot.7cast the population into soldiers,
manufacturers, and agriculturists. The cons imp.
lion of war cannot be preserved in peace, nor came
society be protected against having the disbanded
.soldiers and seamen thrown upon them, and Iliss
unproductive population increased, as employ•
twin decreases.. Annual Elections cannot Coun-
tervail the moral- necessity of things, nor Univer-
la! Suffrage either.
" Saute complain that time expenditure is tore
great. But though the expenditure be great, howr
is it to be contracted by those favourite measures
of the old .Spafields',Reformers ?. Should the No.
bility be abolished as an order, and, together wide
the Gentry, doomed to confiscation ; yet, there
must be some sort of Government when murder
becomes weary, and there -is no longer any thing;
to plunder ;—and who can tell what the relative
expellee of such a Government may be, after more
was suffered than an Algerine Government could
inflict in an age ? The State Will not, dare -nor,
he . base enough to submit. There Hoist he a
struggle if the Reformers persevere--a struggle..
wit-Vibe lacy, or a struggle With the lawful force
of the State. What is the good, it it were goad,
worth .obtaining at .such a sacrifice AN that is
suffered now, would be balm
.and comtort coin•
pared ivith the scourges and woes of such a col.
lision But, suppose society to be inverted its
the struggle—suppose rank and- property to-be
put down, ,and meanness, ignorance, and violenco
to be ascendant, can any body dream of liberty,
honour, Or. security, in such a State ? Or, it inicli•
a dreadful inversion be desired out of economy; the
cry for which . contriving treason turns to its ac•
count, what chance is there that Wooller, oc
Watson, or Fhint, or the three Schoolmasters,
who harangued at. Birmingham on the 12th, oc
any other of their despicable and untoward fra-.
ternity, would be more frugal, than the Ministers
selected, out of the Nobility and Gentry of the
United Kingdom ?
We breve examples in the general history of the
country, which should warn us against politicalr
hypocrites. Every body recollects the self-denying;
Ordinance-mere of Charles the First's time—mere
who disclaimed all views of interest whatever ;
but men who, notwithstanding, robbed the coon-.
try, and sunk it to a state of beggary, by the
most unbounded rapine. What ado antage would
Annual
.Elections or Universal Suffrage, if they
were as good as they happen to be absent, be,
under a Junta like the self-denying Ordinance..
men ?

" .But the unemployed artisan' is told, by at
strong popular movement, pursuing the favourite
end in view, the public debt may lie abolished.—
But what is this" it it could be effected, but to
destroy those innocent thousands, whose pioperty.-
consist in what the Nation owes them > Whet•
would it be to destroy the debt, but to destroy
those whose fathers had lent their property to the
State, when it was struggling to assert the public
honour, or to maintain the public interest, against
foreign enmity or envy ? What would it be, but
to add, by an atrocious injustice, to the already
over-proportioned numbers of the poor ? What
would this this'be, hut to iuipoverish the Nation by a
deadly act of ruitral .? and what would be
the advantage of having no taxes, when general
beggary• 'embraced the land, and the property
once paid imposts to the State, was crum-
bled or dissipated away, in a bloody and savage
scramble ? God protect the Country avtinst
those hideous phrenzies, vrltich have been raised
by designing miscreants heretofore ; and which
the same descliption of men, by means of an in-
fernal Press, ate seeking. to, rouse again in the
great body of the pour, and ignorant, and des,
petatt.",