145 A Patriot King must be a pious King. ing of injury, without a legal and certain protection; that their claim was a clain of right, upon which the Court of King's-bench had full authority to inquire, and must deternine; that if his clients were injured, he fhould always bring them to that Court for redrefs, let who would have committed the injury, and he would take care that that Court should do them justice; that his motion was proper, and should not be withdrawn. Judge Yates then faid, that the reafons offered by Sir Fletcher Norton had clearly convinced him, that he had not the leaft doubt of the authority of the Court to protect his Majetty's fubjects; and that, for his part, he fhould never refer them either to a foreign minister or to an officer of the Crown; that he thought the motion perfectly regular, and that it ought to be granted. Judge Afton then began to recant. He faid, that he was always glad to be convinced of a mistake, and hap py in having an early opportunity of acknowledging it; that from what his brother Yates and Sir Fletcher Norton had faid, he faw clearly that his firft opinion had been erroneous, and that he agreed the motion ought to be granted. Lord Md then, in great confufion, faid, that he should take time to confider of it. To this Sir Fletcher Norton replied, that, as two of the three Judges were of the fame opinion, the motion must be granted; but that, for his part, if his Lordship wanted any time to confider, whether, when a subject applied to the Court of King's-bench for redrefs, he was or was not to be referred to a foreign Minifter, or to an Attorney General, he had no objection to allowing him all the time he wanted. Thus wickedness and fully were defeated, and the unhappy foreign Minifter, in fpite of the law of nations, was obliged to comply with the law of nature, and to provide for his child. A Patriot KING must be a Pious KING. ERHAPS there is not a man in the PERHA British dominions, who wishes the welfare of his Majesty more than his humble fervant: And, for this reafon, none can be more difgufted than he is, at reading or hearing unjust and abufive reprefentations made of him: For either fuch opprobrious or applauding addrefs, must be unpardonably wrong; fince the one as well as the other will be criminal, because it has no truth for its fupport. Great, unspeakably great evils do derive from mifreprefentations of the fupreme, executive power in its exertions. This might be illuftrated in the high encomiums given to Charles 1. as a religious King, at the time he had no regard to his coronation-oath; but was hockingly openly perverting the end of government, by a conftant, uniform aim at enslaving the people, whofe laws and liberties he was moft folemnly obliged to defend: A contradiction in terms, and by no rule of reafon, or maxim of truth to be re conciled. What religious principles could the man poffefs, who lived an open lie, in all the great actions of his reign? and who, in repeated promifes made to the people of reforming the plan of his administration, only fought to betray them into a falfe confidence in him, whom, even his advocates are obliged to confefs, was notoriously guilty of perfidy and prevarication reiterated, and with many aggravations. If the idea of religion can confift with the most flagrant and unpardonable violations of truth and right, in the very highest of entrustments, with the laws, the liberties, the privileges and immunities of mankind; then it must be ac knowledged, "that fatan, when transformed into an angel of light, has a legal claim to homage, and should be looked upon as a divinity." It is extremely abufive in any to compliment a reigning prince, who can indulge himself in trampling on the rightful, capital claims of his peo Mr. Gerrard de Brahm's Letter to the Editor. ple, with the divine appellation, religious, whilft he is, both in the eye of God and man, perverting the first end of government; which are, his being a terror only to evil doers, and the praije of well doers. He affuredly is none of God's minifter, who ufes the power with which he is entrusted by the people, wantonly to opprefs them. Neither can we reasonably or justly afcribe piety to a prince, who takes into his favour, and honours with his confidence, the notoriously lewd and impious, men of profligate lives, gamefters, gamblers, and debauchees; to do it, would be extremely abfurd and unjuftifiable; for David has fhewn that this is not confiftent with a religious character. See that fine ode, wherein he defcribes the behaviour of a prince who knows his duty. Pl. ci. "Mine eyes fhall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: He that walketh perfect in the way, he fhall ferve me." And it has been a proverb among men of all nations, "A man may be known by his company."--" Birds of a feather flock together." It is impoffible a prince fhould be pious, whofe delight is to confer honours on the lewd and the profligate. Certain it is, that a truly patriot king must be a pious king. He will not know how to fway the fceptre in wifdom, if he does not fear God, and reverence his laws: For the prince who wanteth understanding, will ever be a great oppreffor. See Solomon's reports. For which reafon, no doubt, he faid, "Wo to thee, O land, 147 when thy king is a child ;" i. e. when he fuffers himfelf to be under the lead and guidance of his minifter, or is under the blind lead of his tutor, who is to him even as the north-pole star, or as the axis of his government. See Ecclef. x. 16. He is a child, when he is carried away by his paffions, and will not be an healer: For fo Ifaiah defcribes an unfkilful ruler. Ifai. iii. 7. which the feptuagint reads, I will not be thy prince. For Plutarch obferves, that a king hath his name in Greek from healing; becaufe he is to be the phyfician of the common-wealth. At ver. 4. "I will give them children to be their princes, and babes fhail rule over them." All wilful princes, fuch as Charles I. make woful people. For babes, the feptuagint read, mockers; and fome read, foxes. Under fuch a rule," the people fhall be oppreffed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: The child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the bate against the honourable," ver. v. i. e. the great devour the finall. This diffipation and perverfion of order is the mother of diffolution*. A patriot king must therefore be a pious king. But if the king be a child, "the princes will eat in the morning," i. e. his ftate officers will be luxurious, wanton, and luftful; and, “like morning wolves devour the prey." So fays, The PREACHER. Trapp. in loco. To the EDITOR of the OXFORD MAGAZINE. INCE my laft, of Sept. 8, to you, S Qctober 14, 1771. encies and inconveniencies attending the navigation about them, which I have carefully laid down in draughts, and marked in the defcription of my. difcoveries, of which, as foon as it will be in my power, fhall give the interesting public a full account; mean while, cannot, without tranfgreffing the laws of humanity, fufpend annexing an extract of my obfervations of the principal p'aces, their latitudes, longitudes from London, and magne tical variations, in hopes, that the chy T 2 navigator 148 Some Account of As You Like It. navigators (after they have, by good obfervations, obtained both altitude and azimuth, or amplitude) will know. how to account for their longitudes; to which I add, by way of direction, that the moon's full and change, as alfo the winds between north and east fet the gulph ftream immediately upon the fhore martiers, and the thore of the main, along the whole Atlantic coaft; but all other winds fet the ftream off the martiers and coaft, on which the ftream returns in an eddy S. and S. W. taking in the whole breadth of the foundings, which in many places extend out of fight of the martier islands and the main. Huefo (in common called Key West) due north of the Havannah, is fituated four miles northward of the Sombreros, 20 miles west of Key Loup, and 25 miles west of Dartmouth Inlet (which leads from the gulph ftream through the fhoals and rifs into Hawke Channel) under the zenith of latitude 24-25, and of 82-53-29 weft longitude from London, with 6-25 eaft variation. Matame (by the Providence people called Key Comfort) between Old and Young Matacombe Ifles, north of Spencer Inlet, leading from the gulph ftream, between the rifs, into Hawke Channel, lays in latitude 24-47, and in 81-39 weft from London, with 7-30 ea variation. The north end of all martier iflands, fhoals and rifs, is Cape Flo rida, at the mouth of the New Bahama Channel, fituated in latitude 25-42-42, and in 81-00-19 weft from London, with an east variation of fix degrees. Cape Carnaveral lays in latitude 28-20, and in 81-30 welt from London, with no variation. And, St. Auguftine Bar is in latitude 29 40, and 82-08 weft from London, with 5-59 eaft variation. More particular information may be had, as far as is compatible with the obligations of, SIR, Your very humble fervant, W. G. DE BRAHM. To the EDITOR of the OXFORD MAGAZINE. (With an Engraving of a curious Bird annexed.) T Some Account of AS YOU LIKE IT. HIS inimitable Comedy does great honour to its immortal Author, as it is one of the most pleafing Paltoral Dramas on the English Stage. The Incidents are numerous, and though few of them are ftriking, they are in general pleafing. New Characters appear from time to time in continual fucceffion, and moft of them are well fupported. The Scenes arc |