The Sun. — 1821-08-30 (London, England)

HORNING CHRONICLE.] The unremitting sophistry of the Ministerial writers,- 'in their endeavour to confound all distinction between the rights of citizens and solcl. diem-,. deserves to excite public 'attention, since nothitig more seems iva.-nting to the quiet establishment of military despotism, than to acknowledge the doctrine, that the "soldier does not change . his character, even when embodied; mounted, armed in phalanx, and employed on actual ditty:- Nothing can be more clear than that the individual soldier possesses all the rights of tfte 'individual citizen, and that he is equally entitled to protect himself against personal attack;: but-the exercise of that right ceases when he is 'arrayed and Commanded. Ile has then no ' will of.. his, own. The duty of obedience imposed .on him, and if one of a. body employed' to quell a riot, or diverge a multitude, lie is justified only in executing the orders which ..he receives. No provocation, ,nor_ insult, nor danger, can authorise hini to act. from his Own mere motion—nay, so jealoUs is.the law Of the consequences of the power thtit would otherwise belong to the military when in battle array, that even his own officer cannot command him to. exert his murderous.-strength until a 'civil magistrate has sanctioned such officer by the formality;required "by law. Such is the deal- distinction between the rights. ot embodied troops _and of s.assembled citizens ; and every Englishman) -ceosible of the security which the ConstittiCon, has -granted to him by this salutary proviSion, :rntist regard' with abhorrence the insidious atterni)ts which are daily making to undermine, in .pu bliC.'opittion, this great principle of difference in th'e-two orders. of the community. If the Teopte camb.ecome so negligent of the value of liberty-as to countenance thii doctrine,- the blessing of domestic security has been wrested by our fosef4th,ers from prerogative-,_,in vain, and with ail our light and knowledge, we are ripe for'the degradation of slavery. -It cannot have .passed the Observation of our readers that the ailthors *of•thiS new doctrine are also the daily s:lan-. iff deretthe-peeple.:7,The great overWhelmitig' majority:Of-our population they stigmatise with the opprahriouS nickname of _rabble. All the rndus trious, skilful, and labOniing elassei of the corn munity.the artisans and mechanics of the me  -tropolts---the manufacturers Of the countrythe real, working, intelligent artificers of all our engines, instrume.nts and powers which contitute the strength and 'opulence -of .-the country, are branded with one general'dlsguSting- mark of rabble. ~And thus the whole multitude .ot.the produCti-ire Classes of the people are pointed out to the.,derision:of the military. " Such," say the Ministerial Journals," are the despiCable mob that attack the-Life. Guards !"—From what class then d-O- the. Life Guars proceed ? The wisdom of these journalists is not apparent in this divi'sionfcr'it is•not true that our army is recruited from the upper -.claSies of life. Do they thitlk that they can, by this miscreant abuse, stifle •in the.bteastsof the soldiery all remembrance of the refation which they bear to 'the order from whiCh they sprung.? But we will not iinitate'the mischievous example of thse writers by pursuing this subject through .the train of argument to Whichlt would lead.  INEw