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Show o{War and Peace LXIV. Of the r1ght of Embaj[ages. AMong the Obligations which that Law of Nations' which we call VO• ' lnmary ,hath by it felf ~ntroduced,a principal head is of the right of Embaffages. For we frequently read of the facred privileges ofEmba£fagcs, the fanchmony of Embaffadors. the right of Nations , right t SA'ntlum po• divine and ~uman d,ue unto the~, and INtis per fecula many fuch hke expreffions. t Ctcero de n~men: Pap!· Earufpicum refr-nfis : My judgment is, niUs. San6l& that the riuht of £mbajfadors is {ecured "abentur Lega- b h6 li:Pompon.l.both y t e r .c d f d rr: ' 1aJeguar ~ _men, an a~ovy {t quis D. de the protcefion of Law dzvme. Therefore to Legationib. violate this , is not only un jufl , but im· ltaq; eum qui pious too, by the confeffion of all , faith tffi~:u;J;~;. Philip in his epiflle to the Athenians. (libus quorum trA71t Ltg•ti, ~· MuciuJ re[pftndit. ib. Santla {unt twpora Ug4tO· rMm:Var. l.J. &t l.l.Tutiqj regrejJtJs Let,ato: Papin. Toti_las ~pud' Procopium G.ot. 3• BarbariJ ommbt~ mos,Legatos 'tlenerdn. _Aim<: nius .: Exuitho{lem, p4i Legatione fungitur. Vid7 & Ra~tv_,cumlll Appc-ntl. De P•lonis 'flide'Cr()merum l.2.o. De tuws LeMzelav:uiiJ/,8. &l. 17. D1Mauris MariAnam lib. Jl.. ·1 XV. t.fimong whom the righto{ Embajfagos hath place. HEre we mufl know , whatever tb'ts right of Nations ~e , it per~ains to thofe Lcoats which are ient from lupreme Rulers ,0by ~ne to another. For , ~e.fides them Provincial Leoats, and Mumc1pa1, ' 0 and The focDnt!,ft~rt~ 211 :and .others ar~ dir~Cled,not by the Law o£ Nations, wh1ch ts between one Nation and another, but by the Civil Law. An Embaffador in Livy calls himfelf the pub· . . -, like meffenger ·of the 'l{gm~n people. In !.lb. r., th.efame Li~y elf where the ~oman Senat Lib.IJ fa1th, Th~ nght of Legation was provided for a foremer, not a Citizen. And Cicero that he rna y fuew ' Lega ts are not to b~ fent to tAntonius, faith, For we have not to do with tAnnibal an enemy of the Commonwealth, but with one of our own Coun-tr!. ~ho are to be accounted foreine,rs Vtrgtl hath fo expre£fed 'that none of the Law.yers can -mo1·e clearly : That I Juppofo a for1in Land Which is not under our (om:n.and. They then that are joind in an unequal Croaicrjs J • ·; league,becaufe they ceafe not to be in, their own power ' have a right of Leo a tion • and thefealfo,whoare partly fubjea,part~ ~y ~ot' for that part wherein they are not ub)e6t But ~ings, conquerd in a folemn war, and deprived of their Kinodom with . other Royalties' have loft alfg the,rioht dof Le.g ath~o n. Therefore d1'd p • e. /EL -mz. ltJ?H J etem t e f-!~ralds of Perfeus whom he" Pi,ittleLeJA; hfd .conquer d. Yet, in Civil wars ne- tu civitatur,.; ~effity fometimes ' maketh place for' this leti«dR.e~em ~ rtght ' betide the rule • as when h . ]o. MArJAn«ll# ple is fo di . d d * . ' ' t e peo~ t. u. a. de • . Vl e Into equal parts , that Fl•ndru Cr1111r.: H 1$ doubtfull on whic, h fide the f1· ol f ':{.ium Saxonifit 0 1t o . _ T 3 - Empir"e u.u" |