The Sun. — 1821-10-23 (London, England)

CHRONICLE.] The Ministerial Prints have now abandoned all idea of making out even the shadow of a case against Sir Robert Wilson, and finding the most infatuated of their readers growing impatient of their " doubtful phrases, as, well we know ; or, we could, if we would ; or, if we list to speak; or, there be; and if there might ;" they now complacently repose on the grand proposition of despotism that might makes right. One of them, The Courier, in all the daring of profound ignorance, made an appeal to Blackstone, on the subject of Prerogative; had he read he would have forborne the allusion. " The King," says Finch, " bath a prerogative in all things, that are not injurious to the subject ; for in them all it must be remembered, that the King's prerogative stretches not to the doing of any wrong."— Wherever, therefore, we can trace any wrong, we may be assured that the cause is not the just exercise of prerogative. Our two great rights are the enjoyment of personal liberty and private property. Sir Robert Wilson purchased his commissions at the expence of his private fortune, and has been deprived of ahem without accusation or inquiry—but by that which cannot extend to the doing of a wrong ! it is true that every officer is well aware of the very precarious tenure on which he holds his commission, and of the comprehensive latitude, which can he given to certain rules of ntilitary conduct ; but he might still-be ignorant that the genuine mark of servitude was to be affixed to him, which Coke defines to be, having the law, which is our rule of conduct; concealed or precarious—that without trial, by an act of the Prerogative, he could be punished for having trap pressed against rules, the observance of which is no where laid down in his own guide, the Articles of War. Had the promulgation of tine crime, and the infliction of, the punishment issued together, the cause would indeed have been one of sufficient oppression ; but the sufferer is, in this instance, denied the poor consolation of knowing that he does not fall the victim of vindictive feelings,but is punished as a warning to others. He may exclaim, in the language of Strafford, " If I sail on the Thames, and split my vessel on an anchor ; in case there be no buoy to give warning, the party shall pay me damages. But if the anchor be marked out, then is the striking on it at my own peril. Where is the mark set upon this crime ? Where the token by which I should discover it ? It has lain concealed under water : and no human prudence, no human innocence could save me from the destruction with which I am at present threatened."  [BRITISH PaESS.] The accounts from Ire Wad continue to offer distressing proofs of the mischievous spirit of in subordination wlikh has heen•so.long suffered to disgrace the county of LimeriCk. The lives and properties of the peaceable portion of the community are still exposed to the wanton violence of an active gang of ruffians who infect the county, yet no efforts commensurate with the serious nature of the evil have to the latest accounts been made by the Government of Ireland to restore the public tranquility. We read of another murder having been committed, and the houses of country gentlemen are still repeatedly attacked by considerable gangs of armed men for the purpose of obtaining possession of fire-arms. When the evil shall have advanced some steps farther, and have assumed an appearance somewhat more alarming, the Government will then perhaps, according to its custom, condescend to interfere, and a Special Commission will be put into action for the purpose of inflicting exemplary punishments on account of offences which might have been either 'wholly prevented by ordinary care, or have been at least so far checked in their origin as to have preserved society from many of their eflects.