. The craftsman. he moft outragious * Treatment and violent Oppofition could never in-<* ftigate to advife his royal Majier to any one A61 of<* Se<verity, or Revenge i but who hath, on the con-« trary, behaved, during the whole Courfe of his^« long and peaceful Adminiftration, with Juftice,<* Moderation, and Affability to all Men ; Fidelity** to his Prince I Gratitude to his Friends ; Pity and*< Compaffion to his Enemies; and an unalterable< Attachment to the Caufe of Liberty, and the true** Intereft of his Country. I am SIR, ^c, K N°430. Saturday, SeptemberiS, i734 Salvd Lib
. The craftsman. he moft outragious * Treatment and violent Oppofition could never in-<* ftigate to advife his royal Majier to any one A61 of<* Se<verity, or Revenge i but who hath, on the con-« trary, behaved, during the whole Courfe of his^« long and peaceful Adminiftration, with Juftice,<* Moderation, and Affability to all Men ; Fidelity** to his Prince I Gratitude to his Friends ; Pity and*< Compaffion to his Enemies; and an unalterable< Attachment to the Caufe of Liberty, and the true** Intereft of his Country. I am SIR, ^c, K N°430. Saturday, SeptemberiS, i734 Salvd Libertate all Governments there are, either ex-, prefly or tacitly, certain Conditions be-I tween the F^o/)/^ and their i?«/^rj, whichin Confcience They are both bound topreferve. In the more arbitrary King-doms, the Traces of an original Com-paa are lefs difcernible ; and by Length of Time,Deftruaion of Records, or the Artifice of Princes,the Monuments of ancient Liberty may be deftroyed;Vol. XIIL C 26 Ti^ Craftsman. N^43o. or, which is worfe, the Minds of the People preparedto imagine that either They never had a Right toLiberty, or that it hath been cancelled by Pre-fcription. T/:e/e DoSirines have been always incul-cated, with great Art, by dejlgning Princes ; and,upon the Strength of the Invafion of their Predecef-fors, moft Kings afterwards think Themfelvcs juftlyintided to the fame Povvers, which Thofe, who wentbefore Them, had notorioufly ufurpd. In order topreferve their arbitrary Sway, They are reduced tomaintain an Opinion, which draws after it greatDanger, and is the ftrongell Invitation to the At-tempts of their ambitious Subje<^s. This Opinion is,that Princes are in Themfelves sac rep, when onceThey mount the Throne, though the Means, bywhich They rofe to it, were ever fo flagitious. The Princes of Antiquity, particularly the heathenEmperors, ufed to deify Themfelves, with a View ofobliging the People, from a religious Reverence, tofubmit patientl
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