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Show of ~r iJml .Ptaie . Jbiy 'dN!ht to be in tb~ place of.~ntmieJ, ..t t 'tpl tight of Nllhons _p~e1Jd1led. We f~e 1:\ere the righ~ of dation$ extended even t~ tHtrb that d-6 hoftility. The faying_ 0£ Saitkft pdtltins to the Embaffadors ttiitt, ot whom we fiu.ll fpeak1non, not td the Etnbaffadtlrs themfelves : but the lt!iument ~m proc,eed right! y a ~ajori •l'1tHh~s , that iS, from a thing leis ere• o(b1-e td that whith is mbre. He faith:Bo- F'II ;1111 "''fll milcarthe '~otnpa-nitJ~ of him,who came to u •tJ'" bf?'OtJ~ R:~m-e ~~~ the p~Jbliek_faith, is made guiltJ , .. ~ tx JUT~ • r~ttb~r ;u:twl.iing to rul'es of ~qafty , th~n '"'taufi,BIJt!'ll b~ the taw of Nations. E~mty ' that JS, W CIIIIIJ IJ• , · fUi lomam ftdt t re tl'1eer La~ bf Nature ~ffeiS pumlh· . ldliCA'VIIJW.r. menl to be e:tat\ed, Where lS found a de· Sal, Jul. lihquent ; but the Law ofNat1?ns exce~ tetn Embaffadots and fuch hke , who cbnre up'on pub lick faith. Wher~fore,t.hat Emba{fadors be made guilty' ts agamft the Law of Natiom , whereby m:ny things are wont to be prohibited' w?Ich, b the La '9!l of Nature ' are permitte~~ ~on jeaure alfd goes on this fide ; for It is mo're true that privileges fhould be fo uhdei-tl:ood:. ~hat-they may gi'le ~omewh(.t b~'y'ond Commo'n'right. Now' 1f.Emb~ • tadbtS be only fecur" a from UnJ'Uft VIO· lc'nct therein 'Wtr'e no great matter, nr thing' of preeminence. Add~ that the ~: cu'ri'ty ot Embaifadors·outWetghs the Uti 1\ty 'arifino from puniihment. For teu· nitlrm·ent ~ay be taken by. h~m, that tf ~he Embaffador, being w'll"'t : an ~e the foe~'ll'd Pari. t8) he be unwi/lmg, it may by marl be eia- Cled of him , as an apptover of the crime. Sonie ob jed:, betLer one be punifht than tnahy ihvolv"d in war. But , if he that fem the Embaffador approve his deed,the Embafladors punHhment will not free us from the war. Now on the other fide,the fafety ofErrlbaffadors is in a flippry place. if they ought to render a reafon of their a6Hons to any other , but him by whom ~hey are (ent. For , when the Counfells of them that fend and receive Embaffa- ~ors are for the mofl: part divers , often ~ontrary , it can fcarce happen but al-ways Jomewhat may be faid againfi an pmbaffador, that may bear a foew o( a crime. And though fame are fo manifetl. t~at they have no doubt, yet is a gene-ra I danger fufficient for the equity and util~ty_ Of a general Law. Whe~efore my opinion clearly is, that it pleas'd the Nations,that the Common cuH:om,which tubjeCteth every one being in a firanoe land to the Law of that-land , lhould ad. lnit an exception in Emba{fadors, x. That, as they are accounted, by a certain fiCl:i- , ,. on, for the perfons of their Mafters ( Jle ~rought with him afal:eofthe Senate, the 'autbm'ity of the Commonwc~~t!th,(aith Tul- 1! of an. Embafiador ·= ) fo alfo, by the kerut~ faei~IH h~e fiCl:1on, they lhould be fet as it werefecuw aemte~ Wtthout the compafs of the land: where- rat, au.aomA:.., u~oun , h b d b tttn Rt•P"b. t ,ey are not oun . y tl:~ Civil TuiJ.l>hfHp. l-aw of that people·amongfl: whom they 7. live. |
