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You,s.ow Couserstireata —A ,Frenehman,
ego, eery truly tad ea, " that the King of Regional'
if the man -of his .Peopte, was the greatest
Netterrolk on Earth ; and if he would be more, be
sapid be nothing V* This fact is abundantly proved
le our history. how many of oar Kings have suf-
fered fcom a *oak or vicious Attire Of being more---1
Ifilesrarchy has neiertheless 'loess been a favourite
with Englishmen. The single attempt, to establish a
Rriorialiratt forte of Government planted the
coomsy into a despotism as degrading and intolerable
Airs that from shirts rbwapirit of John Hampden help-
ed to free it. Wiktiee *sr King, as beloeging to a
Orreso which ere erwrsetvee meshed to the Throne. We
- bees him as the King of emir choice, placed by us
inisettp be sits, and booed by solemn enegeoreets to
• fplii the principles,; by virtue of labich he reigns.—
ei it • Kira& of this country should ones `disclaim
Or list Pre matt -.Peuple's voices and assert his right to
well& the sceptts oa any other grounds, we should
boldly pim the ..4roth .of that assertiont and If he
persisted rit- 1
~ be tree to thew, as we glowed the
Stotrts heretofore, Oreille wab • •••
Allow me to show yoga,- that fo. a Divine in-
' • deice:dole right to govern I Pee". is noknowii to'
ear Constitution, and inconsfetent . With our history.
Sense of our Kings hate traced their title to Blades i
'4.-sense to cpstijoit..--other, to testamentary dispisither
—sod others to coneeest.—HAßOLD held the
Crown in defiance of the hereditary right of Edger
Atiteling. WILLIAM THE CONQUER6lt.clsiut-
ed Iles the gift by will of Edward tin, Confelsor.-:-
WILLIAM TIIE SECOND was elected, elthough
his eider brother, Robert, was living. STEPHEN
seknowledged that his right spraeg frog election ' •
and ho set aside the hereditary pretension of Maid.
JOHN hyenas King, although Arthur Plantagenet,
the of his elder brother, was the person who
Joists kaveseeceederl„ according to the law of divine
ialisfessible right. EDWARD the THIRD iris eluded
;ewerlft depOsed father-Was Is existence. HENRY
the FOURTH coald only make a this by election,
Edmond Mortimer, Earl of March, being nest heir.
RICHARD the THIRD reigned by an elective right.
MARY and ELIZA LlETlLgrounded their title on
liasiiamentsr y recognition; by Pao liamentary swim,
lity both of them had 'brew declared illegitimate.--
.WILLIAM, out great deliverer, was ELECTED,
to crush for ever the chain of hereditary and divine
.alght, which so lout propped up tyranny sod popery,
In thrr.oosous of the Stuarts. The title of the
Prince's Sephis, and the whole Ilanoveriau succes-
sion tested on •ELF,CTION, to the discrediting of
asere_tban 30 persons of a nearer kin to the
legiti-
Nte Royal Family. Where their will legitimacy
Idled divine right bide their heads in the face of these
°Wises facts in oise history ? What was thought of
this doctrine in the reign of Anne, when it was made
High Tress*" maliciously and advisedly to unite or
print, that the Kings or Queens of this realm, with
the authority of Parliament, are not able to make
• laws of sollicisart force and validity to 'limit and bind
the descent of (heCroton I (Gilt Anne cap. 7.) It is
anctrine iocessistent with our liberties and laws fit
issey for sieves, born in ignorance, and supported
knavery. Fitter, ages will scarcely believe it possi-
ble, that Eoglithmen could be found in the 19th
-trentory, so unmindful. of the generous principles of
their forefathers, so regardless of the dictates of
justice, so estranged from the happiness of mankind,
es to assist in supporting this deletion.'
Would you look to; the bible, where old women
' and children road of the anointing of Kings, and
fancy something sacred and mysterious ? You will
find share that Kings arose from no command of
Gard, but from the discontent and murmurings of
lb* People. The People asked for a King, in imi-
latioe of the idolatress nations, whose laws and
?manners the Lord commanded them to abjure and
Avoid: Be granted their prayer—not before' s: so-
.itino prate'! had been made against it by hit servant
.Samuel, who is most enooortly language tells them,
.that their King " will take your sons and-appoint
them for himself, for his chariots, sod to be his
horsemen; sad to make his instruments of war; that
,he OW take your daughters to be confectionaries,
and to be cooks and to be bakers; that he will take
your fields, even the best of them, and give them to
his servants, pet year goodliest young men to his
work, one Iskethe tenth of your seed and of your
vieeyards, tad that they shall cry out in that 16y
bassets of the Lies they shall hare choseutt. "A fine
prophetical view is indeed taken by Samuel of
.the
tyrannical season* white irhoold be resorted jo by
the race-of Kluge. And even here in the first choice
of a King by the Israelitei, every thing arhil tary and
violent waaavoided. The matter Will decided by lot
before An the Tribes. A Tithe was test-Chosen.
then a family of that 'frays -woad; lastly, a member
of that- family, which Wise Saul. This King was
elected by air assembled People? There is nothing
in Holy Writ, on which Kings con ground is Divine
Commission. 'this is the Pope's plea, which we re-
jtct—and if we abjure his claim as damnable in a
r#ligides, and tyrannical in a political,,sence, on the
same
.prinelphis we west also abjure the chain of any,
person whatever toe:act obedience on the pretext of
• Divine rdght A human right, says Lord tioling.
• brOket, -that nonnot be controverted, is preferable
-surely to a Pretended DivOte right, which every man
must believe leiplicitlyt u lei will 'do, or not believe
at all.
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I promised:rin a " word-or two" oh this subject,
and I hive.setitten a great many. Rellect,buwever,
nit the purpose. Os tree, indeed, that oar King
atelma neotberthan a llamas right to reign, bet
other people do for tsim,. or for his soccetiors.--
With the Bourhonsi Miperstition and a !eve of wilful
power, hare'crepC hick upon Europe; from those
biding holes when, we bad hoped they had died a
natural death. Tbe interested end the ambitions, rind
the knavish, end- tbe superstitious, even in this
country, astute and the divine right of Kings
is no limiter regarded as a false and exploded doc-
trine. Ost governors have helped to set it up again,
end would willingly lull asleep thejeslous vigilance
of the People: This- oncoucealed hankering after
the forbidden tree, and its golden but pernicious fruit,
• is a bad symptom, and forebodes nothing but dan-
gers to your liberties. What end bat this hes been

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brought aMos isyst:Westfer in lb. years, by it.,
of the Wei bleOa* 8.60614fiii1, by'on'expendit‘
of nine hundred milliont,te nearly as inch of fond.
sid debt? How can ae cantole ourselves for these
prodigious sacrilials s • Hate the religion' and. Judi.
Ware of the Cutitiortit been' improied? Have Go.
ermine's,' been purited of their shadthil Mid
Kings and. Ministers abroad and at hotter leettstAtteigl
cognize their'PeoPle'slest righti? • Pixie all flibillea.
of tyreasy end of dissatisfaction been sent' to Be
Helens with Napoleon ?—So fel from it, that olsai
powers here been lavlsted- fin every Crown; mit
every People, who rose 'to 'throw off the French
yoke, now Ind as bad a one at Iforire` tender Kuhn*,
who refbfe to Make good the promisei which they so
solemnly vowed in the flea garrulity of their joy.
And we, tei of all People in the world, and owr Go.
vernmeot, have helped all MO. IFC lift up the
Bourbons to a Throne, froth which an angry People
once pulled them down ; roe, who ought so well to
remember the Stuarts, and to blush fur an interfer.
epee, which we ourselves wouk not have suffered!
We, in fact, are now in strict league with alt the
despotic, faithless Prisiell of tbe Continent, for the
purpose of "exalting Popery and arbitrary power, to
prevent a greet Nation Irani shaking off a Governs
went they abhor, and to compel rheas to maintain •
foreign army to secure the dominion of their op.
pressors!. Ana to show, that our Ministers suspect
they are wrong, but yet hare no intention of reform.
ittg their errors, we are obliged to feed and clothe,
in time of profound peace, a moat numerous vete.
ran easy, whose bayonets wortkl be is our sides io
one moment, if any Hampden started" up to resist
Ilie injustice, -or to expose the dishonour.
CABER. HOMO.

L4W INTic LLI(3 ENGE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, Juana 4.
DILLON V. PARKER, BART.
The Master of the Salle rive a iorig sad elieliswaies
jsdgmeot in this cause, in favour of Sir W:-Pereher,
Bart. establishing his right to the family estates it
Talton, and other places in Worcestershire, and io
London, which were strictly entailed by the late Sir
11. J. Parker to accompany his title, end which de.
wended to Sir W. Parker on the death of the late
Mr 4. Ann Parker, the only sotViving daughter of Sir
Henry John; to which estates Mr. Dillon had set
up a claim as heir at law (through a female branch of
the limn)) to Mrs. Parker.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH. ittailt 4.
At the sitting of the Court, Lord Et.t.lteeettottatt
said, that the Judgus had received an application
Irons a person of the name of Brace, .1w bad speed
some days ago, under a Habeas Corm, to be die.
charged from imprisonment. That motion had, beets.
refused ; but Mr. Bruce had new laid berate the
Court a new fact, which !night make some altered**,
in tite decision, viz. the depositing of certain Eichek,
quer Bills in the hands of bookers for the siderite-
tion of various creditors. lie batt also alleged what
his Lordship was well.ronvinced was * slander upon
the Bar, viz. that there was a cembinatiou against.
him, and that he could get no Counsel to appear on
behalf, because on one (revision be bed stood be-
-fore the Court in his own person. In consequence•
of this assertion, their Lordships felt themselves
called upon to adopt some mode by which the. Matter:
Could be brought again before Omar, and that wieipa
was to request some Gentleman to pet his name open
the back of an affidavit, on which a role to show
cause might be granted. Ilad Mr. Scariett been prew Ii
sent, the Court would hare selected him for that pet-
pose, as it could not of itself originate a esollon, 10,1
order that it might be freed from the lien siege It
had endured upon this subject.
Mr. RAINS said, that, though Mr. Sctrlett was
Stilt sow in Court,. he would probably be in bit, place
to-morrow.
Mr. Tovetwd observed, that he could not pilt
name to the motion, as he had been Counsel *Oast
Mr. Brace.
Mr. CLARKE offered to do what the Coed wished
upon the subject.
Mr. GURNEY added, that in former sod beler
days he had known Mr. Brute, and should be ha PY•
to render him any assistance.
Lord ELLENBOROUGII said, Mutt the Court was
anzions that-it should not again be pestered with iv.
relevant matters, and therefore it wished that Me.
Bruce should not appear before them again in person.
On a future day it could he ascertained whether he
was or was not entitled to his discharge. •
Mr. CLARKE Thew endorsed the affidavit, and it
was banded to the proper officer. .
le a. WEUENER.

THE KINt,
The Defendant has frequently been before the
Court for various libels upon Mr. Chippendall, en
attorney; The last time he woo beeoglat up titionai-
ter was postponed for the purpose of basing arldte
tional affidavits filed. Mr. Wegener war•d+w again.
placed on the floor, on the motion of Mr. I911,1:14
to receive judgment.
Mr. READER, on his behalf, applied that &amt.
ter should he postponed until neat Term.
Mr. TOPPING complained that the addevits filed
by the Defendant were in troth new libels, and be
could not consent to a postponement, unless he en-
tered into security no further to persecute Mr. Chip.
peodall.
After some conversation, 4t was agreed that the
matter should be discussed nest Term, the Deese&
ant undertaking in the mean time to write woof*
letters to or of the Prosecutor, under pain of ad..
ditionil punishment.
• LITTLE-CO.
Mr. lineages applied fur a Habeas Corpse, to
bring up a person, named J. Frampton, in order to
his being discharged. It appeared that Framptetri.
ttad been committed by i Magistrate, ender the
tie-go Act, for making illegal insurances. The Aei
gives power to two Magistrates to issue their warrant,
upon deposition of any person ippon oath, and that
on the authority of that warrant, the officer was ad-
thorised to break and enter any house to search fee
illegal Little.gom, and to mite into custody any hie
habitant found with books or papers on his personi,
connected with the Little-ge, and the Magistrate .41E11
authorised to commit such person as a memo to the
Sessions. Information had been given, that a little•
go had been carried on at the house of a person,
I named Thicklett. • The Magistrate granted his war-
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