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Show A. .-'-" ‘mq-_p--.‘hl 35 34 Bioty and blind {uhmitlion is the fcience' of the Camp. When luit, rapauty, or reientmcnt ineltc 'whole battallions proceed to Outrage. Do their leaders co"Imnand-obedience Inuit follow: " Pu" vate t'oldiers (laid Tiberius Gracchus from the " Roman roltrum) light and die to advance "the " wealth and luxury of the great".* " Soldiers (faid an eminent Puritan in his fermon preached in this country more than 130 years ago) are com; monly men who fight thcmlelves fearlelsly into the mouth ot~ hell for revenge, a booty, or ahttle ref venue :--a day of battle is a day of harvelt for the devil". Soldiers, like men, are much the fame in every age and country. " Heroes are much the fame, the point's agreed, " From Macedonia's madman to the Sweed". hat will theyr not; fight tor-whom will they not fight againlt l-Are thele men, who take up arms with a View to defend their country and its laws ? Do the ideas or the feelings of the citizen aftuate a Britilh private on entering the ‘camp ? f- Excitements, generous and noble like thele are far from being the y'z'z‘xmzl'i of a modern phalanx. The general of an army, habituated to uncontrouled command, feels himli'li', ahfolnte: he lorgetslu‘s fuperiors, i or rather deipiles that Civil authority, which is dellitute of an energy to compel his obé~ dience. llis foldiers (who look up to him as their Ibvereign, and to their ollicers as magiftrates) look: the fentimeuts of the citizen and contemn the laws. '* l'lut. Lil: 'l‘ib, Grac. "9 See 1 E14. Com. p. 307. f " l: is grown a principle among the army (an ill nurtery for young men) that Parliaments are roots of reLrllion." Sir John Hotham in the houfe (if comm-:77: 157;, Grey's debates in Parliame:,t 2 vol, :02" laws. Thus 12 will and a power to tyranize become united ; and Me £_' «an are as inevitaé /e and fatal in the political, as the moral world. The foldiers of Great Britain axe by the mutiny act deprived of thote legal rights which belon 9‘ to the meanelt of their fellow-lubjcéts, and evcii to the vilefi: malefitcltor. * Thus div efled ofthofe rights and privileges which render Britons the envy of all other nations, and liable to fuck hardlhips and punithments as the limits and mercy of our known laws utterlly dilallow ; it may well be thought they are pcrlons belt pre pared and molt eafily tempted to itrip others of their rights, having already loll: their own. f Excluded, therefore, from the enjoyments which others poHe is, like Eunuchs of an Eaitern feraglio, they envy and hate the relt of the community, and indulg e a malignant pleafure in dellroying tholc priv ile- ges to which they can never be admitted. 1 How eminently does modern obfervation verify that fentiment of Baron Montefquieu a Ilave living among free-men will foon become a beall. § A very finall knowledge of the human brcall, and a little confideration of the ends for which we form into focieties and common-wealths difco- ver the impropriety and danger of admitingfuch an order of men to obtain an ellablifliment in the {late : the annals and experience of every age thew, that it is not only abliu‘dity and folly-~but dillraction and madnels. But we in this region of the earth have not only to dread and ftruggle with the natural and conunou calamities rcfiilting from fueh military bodies, but the combined dan: gers * See-1 vol Lds. Prot. :80. A1130 i7r7. '1‘ lb. 283. l MOntefq. Sp, Laws. 1;. 12. and 1 E14. Com.4.16. 6' See Sp. Laws 348. 2 Edit. |
