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Show ,,. ,. n r. _. ..w‘.___._.._..-_‘-.___..‘~.‘ . - ~ _ I». (45 44) kingdom. But by dexteroufly ufing terror and in. of the treaty, force and forbearance, the refractory cities were brought to compliance. The nobles thus, while delayed, no fubfequent {truggles have accomplilhed. The wifdom of refylanre at tlie beginning has been repeatedly inculcated by the wife and liberal-minded of all nations, and the expe- rience of every age hath confirmed their infirue- tion. But no Precept or example can make the bulk of mankind wife for t/Jfliyl‘l‘vc‘r. Tho' cautioned (as we have feen) * againll the projects of Cellar, t/Jc futile..- of his benignity deceived the R0- driven to defperate reiolutions by the Cardinal's military movements, at a perfonal interview were warm and intemperate. When the Arch-prelate infenfibly led them towards a balcony from which they had a view of a large body of troops under arms, and a formidable train of artillery. " Behold, fays he, pointing to thefe and raifing his " voice, the powers whichl have recieved from " his Catholick majelly." " Will) they? I got/cm Cq/z'ilc qnd will; dig? I will govern it". Nobles and people difcovered it was now [00 [are for refifiance :---to regret paft folly and dread future calamities was , the remaining fate of the wretched Caitilians. Af- ter the Romans quitted the illand of Britain, the iirit appearance of a {landing army was under Ri- chard the fecond. The luppreflion of his enemies in lreland calling him out of England, his fubjeéts, feized the Opportunity and dethroned him. Henry the 7th, a character odious for rapacityand fraud, was the firflKing of England who obtained a permanent military band in that kingdom. It was only a band of fifty archers :--with the harmlefs appellation of Tamer: qf the guards. This apparently trivial infiitution was a precedent for the reateit political evil that ever infelted the inhabitants of Britain. The oftenlible pretext was tlae dignity of got'ez-mne7zt--" the grandeur of majelly " :- * the alteration of the conltitution and an increafe of power was the aim of the prince. An early "op- man new-railed forces, which Common-wealth, being a little till the increafe of his power bid defiance to oppolition. Celebrated for his generolity and magnificence, his complacency and compallion, f the complaifant courtier .made his way into the hearts of his countrymen. They would not believe, tho' admonifhed by the belt of men and firft of patriots, I that the failing Cafar would fileh away their liberties, that .a native-born and bred a Roman-would enflave his country-the land of his fathers-the land of his birth-the land of his potterity. § But the ambitious CCClilI‘ aiming at authority, and Czefar *See before p. 31 1 M T Cicero. 1* See Sallufl. See Plut. Life of foar. § A fimilar infatuation hath, oftner than once, prevailed in this Province; an infiance of which we Governor Dudlev. This Gentleman" " for the Country, taeke'l about, and " ments that overthrew the charter, have in the time of after he had been agent joined with the infiru? and acc:ptcd;m illegal " and arbitrary Commillion from Kingjames, by which he held " the Government, until the arrival of Sir Edmund Androfs ; " and then was, " judge (as pr;,'i.1:at of of the territory,) 3 the Council, and Chz'gf of all the [11th- Cliff tool tho ) no doubt " ing, barbarous and infamous adminifiration. " After his " appointment to the Government, his condutl was of the fame his favourite ,t'ubalter us would have fiiled it ‘-‘ 1L1." Tern", {r had eafily eilcéted that difbanding " texture with his former life: (it was his Son Paul, who " ' , e" _ .x ‘ n .pugnatzorz oft/.5 lung : cutlacrzty , of Ce: Fagin. It See the late Gover, Bernard's Speeches. " wrote to Englmd, that this Country would never be worth " living in, for lawyers and Gentlemen, till an. CHA rtrr 1:. XS TAKEN A‘.va*{.")---yet fuel: was the dul-tlion at that day, |
