The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-05-30

uSPlCilCu duu IulllSO dS tnCJ WCiCs Wy tiIi'
help. defeated the meafures Of tyranny, arC
by placing The Duke If Biaganza on The
throne, itcured their contribution. The fame
happened in 1912 TO the united provinces.
I'll this is true, but we muf coniider, the
Commons though thus depIefed, never loi
the equilibrium they arf pcflefed. The
regal part cfthe government, though by force
| it feemed to bring the rights Of the people to
low ebb, yet as it was force not wei
founded, it was at l,a repealed. By pre-.
frrving the political balance, the Commons
at length roie TO their former eminence. But
ihould this balance be dearoyed, it is better
TO be without Houle of Commons. When
there is no Houfe, and when ruler ex.ir-
psies il b. bold froke, the contribution is
70 Aagrantly at an end, that the people viii
go into fome violent meafures TO retrieve IL
But when it ifands, though it has no pop
and though it fdes with the monarch in iuo-
verting the liberties of the people, yet asihe
forms Of the contribution remain, the people
are deceived Hence they omit taking thofe
meafures to preierve, their freedom in the.
alter cafe, they may do in the foEpar
though in both, the contribution is equally f6A !
An auful prince therefore always axes tafe
not q demolih me HouGe Of Cont1oss.
though he means to ruin his people. In
France, the fra monarchs of that kingdom
wcrr not dcfpotic, nay we are tod, "that
they had not 70 great power as ours" The.
aGambly of the fa,es Of that nation. which
is the fame as our parliament, could keep
them down. Under their kings, though of
different families, and different difpoGtions,
they were however free. Thus they con
tlnued til the days of that famous miniller
Cardinal Richieu. He artfully ran into that
fatal mealu'e we are now on. To deilroy
parliaments would have been palpably inn
polite. EIetook care to keep them, but he
has lhiftcd their balance, and the king of
France is now defpotic. Hence fays an au-
thor, I" in fpite of parliaments, rather by the
help of his parliaments, he can force the laft
man into the field, and the laf penny out
of the pockets OF his people" And Pafquier,l
French writer, Jays, fpeaking Of their ediets,
Css Jonf bales topiDsries, qai jirVent jSHlement
de parade. a me pgqerits Iheie ordinances
are like fine pieces of tapeGry, hung up TO
make thew to poiierity. This was the
cafe of Spain, which once was in great
neafure free, but it has fell victim to this
mode of proceeding and the Cvtss of Spain,
like the ldfes OF France, are only engines 10
fupport the tyranny of their fovereign. Is
the Czarina of Rufia defpotic' even fhe
takes care to keep up parliament, and 70
makes herielf fecure. This lenate has the
colour of much authority, but in reality has
none. and under the lhade of this canopy,
tie Czarina independently governs a great
kingdom.
To confirm this point, LET us look into the
reign of our Henry the 9Th. Hume tells us.
Il was the unhappy fituation of the En-
9Th, during thar age, that whenthey laboured
under any grievance, they had not the fats
faction Of expecting aredre6 from parliament;
on the contrary, they had reafon to dread
each meeting Of thai afembly, and were then
fure of having tyranny converted into law.
This abjea fertility, never more eminently
appeared than in a new parliament. which
the King now afIembied, and which If he
had been 70 pieafed, might have been the laif
tina, ever fat in England Bm be fund them
TOO gjStni igfrnmsnts Of dominion. e0r TO en-
srtGiafb'sgbfss q giving than a fSiOlexeigeSz." "