The Sun. — 1819-09-22 (London, England)

RESOLUTIONS OF COMMON SENSE, TOR THE PREVENTING OF POPULAR DELUSION PROM POLITICAL ORATORS.  COMMON SENSE RESOLVES,  J. That Subjects have no common rights; because 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 Children. Men have been guilty of more cruelty, injustice, and robbery, on motives of false religion, than on any others whotsoever—Heathens against Christians—Papists against Protestants-Puritans against the Church and Government of England. Mutual. religio poluit suadere malorum  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, drinking, sleeping, bunting, fishing, propagating his species, whipping his children, and defending himself 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 religious agent.  - 5. That, therefore, if any member of a Christian 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 nature ; 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 insatiahle, 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 distinction 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.)