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The House of Lords and that of the Commons divide the legislative power under the king but the Romans had no such balance The patricians and plebeians in Rome were perpetually at variance and there was no intermediate power to reconcile them The Roman senate who were so unjustly so criminally proud as not to suffer the plebeians to share with them in anything could find no other artifice to keep the latter out of the administration than by employing them in foreign wars They considered the plebeians as a wild beast whom it behoved them to let loose upon their neighbours for fear they should devour their masters Thus the greatest defect in the Government of the Romans raised them to be conquerors By being unhappy at home they triumphed over and possessed themselves of the world till at last their divisions sunk them to slavery The Government of England will never rise to so exalted a pitch of glory nor will its end be so fatal The English are not fired with the splendid folly of making conquests but would only prevent their neighbours from conquering They are not only jealous of their own liberty but even of that of other nations The English were exasperated against Louis XIV for no other reason but because he was ambitious and declared war against him merely out of levity not from any interested motives The English have doubtless purchased their liberties at a very high price and waded through seas of blood to drown the idol of arbitrary power Other nations have been involved in as great calamities and have shed as much blood but then the blood they spilt in defence of their liberties only enslaved them the more That which rises to a revolution in England is no more than a sedition in other countries A city in Spain in Barbary or in Turkey takes up arms in defence of its privileges when immediately it is stormed by mercenary troops it is punished by executioners and the rest of the nation kiss the chains they are loaded with The French are of opinion that the government of this island is more tempestuous than the sea which surrounds it which indeed is true but then it is never so but when the king raises the stormwhen he attempts to seize the ship of which he is only the chief pilot The civil wars of France lasted longer were more cruel and productive of greater evils than those of England but none of these civil wars had a wise and prudent liberty for their object In the detestable reigns of Charles IX and Henry III the whole affair was only whether the people should be slaves to the Guises With regard to the last war of Paris it deserves only to be hooted at Methinks I see a crowd of schoolboys rising up in arms against their master and afterwards whipped for it Cardinal de Retz who was witty and brave but to no purpose rebellious without a cause factious without design and head of a defenceless party caballed for caballing sake and seemed to foment the civil war merely out of diversion The Parliament did not know what he intended nor what he did not intend He levied troops by Act of Parliament and the next moment cashiered them He threatened he begged pardon he set a price upon Cardinal Mazarins head and afterwards congratulated him in a public manner Our civil wars under Charles VI were bloody and cruel those of the League execrable and that of the Frondeurs ridiculous That for which the French chiefly reproach the English nation is the murder of King Charles I whom his subjects treated exactly as he would have treated them had his reign been prosperous After all consider on one side Charles I defeated in a pitched battle imprisoned tried sentenced to die in Westminster Hall and then beheaded And on the other the Emperor Henry VII poisoned by his chaplain at his receiving the Sacrament Henry III stabbed by a monk thirty assassinations projected against Henry IV several of them put in execution and the last bereaving that great monarch of his life Weigh I say all these wicked attempts and then judge This is you way to Let go 108 washington st newell wv 26050-1120

LETTER IXON THE GOVERNMENT That mixture in the English Government that harmony between King Lords and commons did not always subsist England was enslaved for a long series of years by the Romans the Saxons the Danes and the French successively William the Conqueror particularly ruled them with a rod of iron He disposed as absolutely of the lives and fortunes of his conquered subjects as an eastern monarch and forbade upon pain of the English either fire or candle in their houses after eight oclock whether was this to prevent their nocturnal meetings or only to try by an odd and whimsical prohibition how far it was possible for one man to extend his power over his fellowcreatures It is true indeed that the English had Parliaments before and after William the Conqueror and they boast of them as though these assemblies then called Parliaments composed of ecclesiastical tyrants and of plunderers entitled barons had been the guardians of the public liberty and happiness The barbarians who came from the shores of the Baltic and settled in the rest of Europe brought with them the form of government called States or Parliaments about which so much noise is made and which are so little understood Kings indeed were not absolute in those days but then the people were more wretched upon that very account and more completely enslaved The chiefs of these savages who had laid waste France Italy Spain and England made themselves monarchs Their generals divided among themselves the several countries they had conquered whence sprung those margraves those peers those barons those petty tyrants who often contested with their sovereigns for the spoils of whole nations These were birds of prey fighting with an eagle for doves whose blood the victorious was to suck Every nation instead of being governed by one master was trampled upon by a tyrants The priests soon played a part among them Before this it had been the fate of the Gauls the Germans and the Britons to be always governed by their Druids and the chiefs of their villages an ancient kind of barons not so tyrannical as their successors These Druids pretended to be mediators between God and man They enacted laws they fulminated their excommunications and sentenced to The bishops succeeded by insensible degrees to their temporal authority in the Goth and Vandal government The popes set themselves at their head and armed with their briefs their bulls and reinforced by monks they made even kings tremble deposed and assassinated them at pleasure and employed every artifice to draw into their own purses s from all parts of Europe The weak Ina one of the tyrants of the Saxon Heptarchy in England was the first monarch who submitted in his pilgrimage to Rome to pay St Peters penny equivalent very near to a French crown for every house in his dominions The whole island soon followed his example England became insensibly one of the Popes provinces and the Holy Father used to send from time to time his legates thither to levy exorbitant taxes At last King John delivered up by a public instrument the kingdom of England to the Pope who had excommunicated him but the barons not finding their account in this resignation dethroned the wretched King John and seated Louis father to St Louis King of France in his place However they were soon weary of their new monarch and accordingly obliged him to return to France