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Show ulna} < "64" ('65) lour of the municipal law of" the land. Thus Ra. man armier were more terrible to the Roman 50/0711", than an " enemy's army." * Valor has {cope for action againlt an open enemy, but the molt pre- cious liberties of a kingdom are maflhcred in cold blood by the difeiplined Janizaries of the llate, and there is little hope of a general refillanee. The natural inherent right of the conquered is to throw ofl'the yoke, as foon as they are able; but tub- Jeels entlaved by the military forces of their own lovereign, become fpiritlels and defpondent; and fcaffolds and axes, the gibbet and the halter, too often terrify them from thofe noble exertions which would end in their deliverance by a glorio us vi-ptry ry or an illullrious death. ' .Yf‘t. mfu/l [)L'JIL‘C without any iufi anprehenlions pt iiihil‘i‘CCT iOhS at home or invalions from abroad, it was the IllllChICVOUS policy of. the l‘lnqlilh minis llry, in 1717, to procure an all owance of near double the forces to what had ever before been cita- bhlhed by the lhnftion of par liament in times of public tranquillity. \Vell miqht manv of the nobility‘of Britain conceive, that as to niany for. ces were. no ways necellary to fupport, they had reafon to fear danger to the communion, which way nev er entirely lbbvertcd but by a llanding army. f lhc linglilh military bands have lincc been much anginentetl;--aml whether this difgraceful'lubverlion has already taken place, or is ilill verging to it's accomplifhme nt, may be refol- ved, after a further inf‘pecl ion into memorials of the prelent More than halfa century finee, the dil'cerning~ members of the hon e of Lords difcovered the ten. den cy of thefe extraordinary armaments to be no other, than 1‘0 overt/"0w the civil power of (/30 lizzgdom, and 10 turn it into a military government. '* A very lhort period after this, many of the fame noble houfe, bore open tellimony, that they were "jolts " 1y jealous from the experience of former times, " that [by (row): igfe/ , as well as the [flier/{ex of Ii"; " [Jeep/e might be found at f/J: (li/jmfm'o/aflwzd/ng " army at home." Jr But as if one {landing army was not enough to ruin a nation of Eng/ij/mmz, a new kind of forces was railed againll the Commen-wealth. 'l'he officers eianOyed in the cullonm, th'ilc, in other branches of the revenue, and other parts of public fervice compole in efl'ecl; A SECOND STAND. we; ARMY in England, and in fome refpects are more dangerous, than that body of men properly to called. The influence which this order have in the elections of members to ferve in parliament, hath been too often felt in Great Britain to be de- nied. And we have good authority to lay, " that' " examples are not hard to find, where the mi- " litary forces have withdrawn to create an up. " pearance ofa free election, and theflanding cry 1 L‘ "ferret of [/Jii‘ Hm] have been [wt to tale that "freedom (110.9y.1--sls a houfe of commons thus Chofcn the reprefentative of-the people,-- or of the adininifiration,---or of a-fingle minilter ? S age. Lewis ‘ "' See Cordon s llifr. on Sallult 6. f7: T lrol. Ld': l'i'ot. .184 " i * More p 1‘9. i. i i See 1. vol. Ld's Prot. 31;. Anno 1721. + See 2. Vol. Ld's Prot. 80. I See 2 VOL. lid's Prot. 83. 9 See fame Book and page, the Reader l3 dcfired to read Igaia p. 56 and the note at p. 57: See alfo hereafter p. 68 |