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Show Of Wttr 4nd Peate Stlluft. to Rome , but to LiciniuJ : ~nd th~ t.C•rol~M-~in· Meffeng~s of Iugurtha were commanded tU4'ln1p Lega- d 1 l t . h' d ·i~oi G;lli~t, . to epart t~ry WJ~ 1p .t~n .ays, excep.t J"elfetorum & their ~omtl)mg were ~o ddlVer up the 'Flottntinorm'! ·Kingdom , an61 the King. As for thofe ~4 ~ellu"! fib• afliduous Legations which are now it ufe, •1ft!.~eendutn . they may with very oood rioht be reJ·e· 111i_ff'os ded1W o o juj]it in loc11~, t!ed; for t?e no-ceffity of them appear~ qui a cotmt•- by the ancten~ cufiom , whereto they ar~ tr~ fuoabeffet unknown. triginta mill•- ria.Guiec.l.18. VII If . . tJtllAill4lib. 3. LX , OJ not Vtolatzng JimbajfadtJrs. • Me,n2nder oF not violating * Embaifadors, is Pro~ea:or de a more difficult que£tion, and va- JuO:mo :z..Imp, i1 h dl d b t.h II · llllAv4romm riouuy an e y emofl:e~ce entwJts Leg•tos contr~ of this Age. And firft we muG: confider of i"s ~egat~=~ the perfons of Embaffadors, then of their ~ •6nu z'!t' 111v'1~ dleu E. r., . Trai· n· an·d their Goods. Of their perfonsf cothmarmum • fome think thus, that , by the Law o re(p. 3~. n. 2.9, Nations, onely unjuft force is kept from ~ fcq. vot. r. the bod yes qf Embaffadors ; fm; th~y conG ceive priviledges are to be underfl:ood by Common right. Others think, force may not be offerd to an Embaffador, for every caufe, but on this around, if the Law of Nations be broke~ by him; which is a yery large ground :for, in the Law ofNa• tions the Law of Nature is included, fo that the Embaffad()r. m~y nqw be puniih:t for all faults , except thofe which arife ~eerly out of the Civil Law. Others' 7efl:rain this to thofe Crimes which ar.~ done .'1ht fecond P11rr~ ~one againfl: the State of the Common~ -vvealth, orhis Dignity ~to whom the Embaff~ clor. is fem .. Which alfo fome hold perillous ,,, and woul(l have complaint made· to him that fent him$ and the Em- · ' paffador left to his -Malter's judgment. There ;tr~ [orne too t~at fay, the Kings or Nations unconcerned are to be coniulted with: which indeed may be a point of prudence , cannot be of right. The reafens which every one brings for his opipion conclude nothing .definitely:bec;a~fe ~his riehr, nor, like natura/right, certain .. ~y ariieth out of certain reafon, but is determined by the will ofNations. Now, it was in th~ power of Nations, either ah .. folutely to provide for the fafety of Em-baLfadors, or with certain exceptions ; for on this fide rna y be alleged the utility of punifhing great offenders , and on the o .. ther fide the utility of Embaffages,the fa• cility whereof is befl: pr,:)moted by fecu ... ring them_as ~uch as may be. We muft ~he.refore fee, how far Nations have con-fen ted;· wpich canne~ be evinced by ex~ a.mpies only 1 for many are extant on both fides. Wherefore we muH have re- ~o1;1rfe both unto the judgments of wife men, and unto conjeCtures. Two judo ... l!lents I have mofl: ill ufl:dous; one of lL . vy, another of Sa!/uft.· Livy, if the Em-j{;?:::,i~ .. baffadors of Tarquin, who had raifed trea- fijJe ut ho(lium fon at Ro1!Je, fa1th : ~/though they fee-toeo tj]'ent ,_jtt~ rneJ to ha?;~ CO~tnmitted that' for which tamtJ? gtn:INtn · theJ v•fu1t. L1v. |