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CLASSICS.

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VOL. I.

LIFE, MEMOIRS, &c.*

ALGERNON SYDNEY.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR D. I. EATON, AT THE COCK AND SWINE,

NO. 74, NEWGATE-STREET.

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favours and employments. Who can think that they who imprifon them would employ me, or fuffer me to live when they are put to death? If I might live and be employed, can it be expected that I fhould ferve a go• vernment that seeks fuch deteftable ways of establishing • itfelf? Ah! no; I have not learnt to make my own peace, by perfecuting and betraying my brethren, more • innocent and worthy than myfelf. I muft live by just ⚫ means, and ferve to juft ends, or not at all. After such • a manifeftation of the ways by which it is intended the • king shall govern, I should have renounced any place of favour, into which the kindness and induftry of my friends might have advanced me, when I found thofe, that were better than I, were only fit to be deftroyed. I had formerly fome jealoufies; the fraudulent procla ⚫mation for indemnity increafed them; the imprifoning of

in questions muching the ficceffion, they comfantly refort to the fame narrow rules and maxies of loto and juffice, by which questions of meer property, the tite to a p give or a at, are govered. And thence conclude, that the Legislature the f cannot, without manifest injuftice, interrupt the antient, legal, established order of faccetiion. it cannot, fay they, without injustice, give to one branch of the royal family, what by right of blood belongeth to another.

Thus they argut. And if I could conceive of the Crown as of an inheritance of mar propern, I thould be tempted to argue in the fame manner. But and they sizädered the croton and resal dignity, as a descendable. OFFICE, 44 TRUST for millions, and extending its influence to generations yet unborn ; hand they comitered it in that ght, they could joom bave discovered the principle upon which the right of the legislature to interpole in cafes of neceffity is manifeftly foambui. And that is the SALVS POPVII already mentioned [p. 382] upon a ike actakin, etc, etc. etc. which the ingenuous reader should purfue.

Oservations on fome paffages in the writings of L. C. J. Hale; re-
lative to the principles on which the Revolution and present HAPPY
Etablishment are rounded. By [that faithful judge and friend to
Koerty] Sir Michaei Futter.

There is an original and good picture of this extraordinary but unfor
Gentleman, Sir Hory Vase, in the Britib Mujacum,

thofe three men, and turning out of all the officers of the army, contrary to promife, confirmed me in my re⚫ folutions not to return. To conclude, the tide is not

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to be diverted nor the oppreffed delivered; but God, in his time, will have mercy on his people. He will save ⚫ and defend them, and avenge the blood of those who fhall now perish, upon the heaps of thofe, who, in their pride, think nothing is able to oppofe them. Happy are thofe, whom God fhall make inftruments of his juftice ⚫ in fo blessed a work! If I can live to see that day, I fhall

be ripe for the grave, and able to fay with joy, "Lord, "now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace." Farewel. My thoughts as to king and flate depending upon their actions, no man fhall be a more faithful fervant to him ◄ than I, * if he make the good and profperity of his < people his glory; none more his enemy, if he doth the 'contrary.

[* If be make the good and prosperity of his people bis glory ;】

Of a tall ftature and of fable hue
Much like the fon of Kifh that lofty Jew;
Twelve years compleat he fuffer'd in exile,
And kept his father's affes all the while.
At length by wonderful impulfe of fate,
The people call him home to mend the state;
And, what is more, they fend him money too,
And cloath him all, from head to foot, anew.
Nor did he fuch small favors then difdain,
Who in his thirtieth year began his reign.
In a flash'd doublet then he came ath

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