The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1772-04-30
April 3o

appear 10 nave good or oac aipect to-
wards his country, il being often eaGer to
fruhrate fcheme before tits complicated
than after. 1t is necehary alfo he ihonld
be well verified in paR treaties, and hay.
great quicknets in the application of them;
it isfcandalous for an enbahador to depend
on his lecretary. TO GO his buGBeis for him;
and yet it is wei known, that fome of our
ScoTcH mlnIftefs abroad cannot write
dlpltch without ailiffance.
lsit not furpr zing then, thar the King
lhould employ flch wretches, when i, is a
matter of the laf Importance to have able
slen in foreign courts where there every
action and expreiion is taken notice of.
and applied TO their advantage or difadvan-
tage to the honour or dlihonour of their
country. But why fhould we wonder at
any thing man doas, who takes every
thing upon credit, and never examines
into the affairs of fate
IL is a melancholy truth that the KIM
has not chofen one minif-r during rhe
whole courfe of his reign only on sccoun,
Of rls ignorance and incapaclty, an1 being
proper nfruments for Carrying into sx-cu1
ZION Lord Bute's plan of arbitrary power.
/ ne mercenarY W etcheS, AMI abi.d tools
employed by the minifry, may fay what
they p!eaie to g'ois over che blemih.s (not
10 lay woile) of this reign, but | do Unfit
on it, that GOOD KING will ue everv
eafonable metho1 to peaf- his people and
gain their affection 1--WE have unfortunate
y sxp:risnced the reverfe for eleven years,
M,nrtters have been notoriouny chofcn
whom the people dia k, and his Maicffy
las deleIvedIy drawn on himielf the con-
empt of his fubjects, and hated on their
ninittratIon. When let of men have
made themielves obnoxious throus hout
the kingdom, BY their arbitrary unjuR pro-
ceeiings, and majority of all forts of
pc pie cali for. change, il is the duty of
every KING to deliver them up to the pu-
nifhment they defelve and he certainly
viii, If he be not, like Pharaoh, hardned
to his own dettruction. When this is nor
done, dilafeetion, rebellion, and civil war
nave generally been the confequenee. A
prince, If it was put to him, either to change
MS mnlfters, or loie the affections of his
people; if more generous motives will not
influence him, ne ought to conlider the I'M
happy fate of feveral princes, who ultimate
ly protected wicked defgning fet of mn.
Our minifters, (ecure in the confidence
of their Sovereign and a corrupt majority
in the houfe of commons, are determined
to purfuc their deftruaive meafures, fatisfi-
ed that they are ar pytlSnt beyond the reach
OF punlihment, and much to be lamented
it is, that men, by dint of impu5ence, bril-
berry and villainy, ihould be able TO with
itAnd the recruitment of an injured nation.
II IS the prayer of all good msn, that the
time may not be far off, when the King
viii be no longer able 10 protea thefe milf
creants, the ill-iudged objects of royal ia
gour. Princes however ultimate, wicked
OF fooliih, have generally fooner or lateI
rspented of their conduct. | cannot con-
ude this paper better than by giving the
"a ac-er f an evil maeiitrate from the
writings o. nat great defender OF public
liberty, AgsJaon Sidney, who fell martyr
10 the c ute of freedom, thro' the inhu-
man JfErrH, the Mas6eN of his time,
IN the prcai ate reign of Charles the
leornd.
6 When a magiRrate fancies he is not
made for the people, but the people, for him |;
that he does MT govern for them, but for
himfelf that the people live only to en-
create his glory, or TO furnih matter for
his Pleafure he does not enquire what he
may do for them, but what he may draw
tom them by this means be fsts up an
intereif of profit, peafure, or ponp in
himfelf, repugnant to the good of the pub
lie, for which he is made to be what ne
is. Thefe contrary ends certainly divide