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" Such Confufion and Dread dwell on the " daftard Faces of An, who fold to " B n Interefts, ftand branded in the " Forehead with the White Horfe^ the *' Ignominious Mark of Slavery." See Letter the Thirds Page 59. LONDON: Printed for M. Cooper, at the GMfe in Pater- Nojler-Row. M DCC LVI. 1 % >{ M '.'•' i' . f /' ... > 1 > . 4 \ 'T - ^ \'y ■'! ^ J. . 4. ' • <: !' J i X i- - ,(\ * .', ■-. 1 1-Z<:>:2. •mmmmtm .■»!>* TO THE O F F I C E R S AND Private Gentlemen o F HIS MAJESTY'S FOOT- GRENADIERS. Gen tlemen, I Take the Liberty to Addrefs thefe Sheets to you, not as Subjeds in a general Senfe, but as a particular, Military ', f, Epistle Dedicatory. Military Corps': I fake the Liberty to recommend them to your Perufal : And if I mention not in this Place a fufEcient Reafon ^for your perufing them, it is, bec^ufe I would ;iot fore- ftal your Attention.* Be p^rfuaded they were wrote with a good Intent, and that they materially concern your Welfare and Reputation. I have the Honour to be, '"' ' "^ ' ' '* ' ^^ ^ G E N T L E M E^ N, a' _ Tour vigilant Serviiory - V . T O O 'I ~ . -. • ■> , , , ^ C O M M I L E S.' r, t i-v, i ", r 1 7 i »-j A' !»» « A « ^ *• y , - . • I TO THE J t ..i OFFICERS i ;,A. i. V .1 AND Private Gentlemen ( : O F i •; ^ 'I HIS M A JE ST Y's .■T f FOOT-GUARDS. » I 1 • < .( • f . • WH E N . I confider * ye as the imme- diate Body-Guards of our King, and that ye merit not fo diftinguiflied, fo important a Station, but. through your undoubted Fidelity, and fcnown perfonal Courage : k Wi i [ 8 1 Courage : When I csnfidcr ye only as mi- litary Men, and that as fuch ye have a pub- lick Charader to fuftain ; that y€ cannot be too delicate in Points of Honour ; that it becomes ye, nay, that it is your Duty, to refent every the minuteft Indignity, of- fered either to yourfelves or your Royal Mailer: When I confider ye fikewife as Natives of Gre^f Britain^ to whom Liberty is dearer thaiA Fortune, Health, or even Life itfelf; judge how great muft be my Surprize to fee, in a Letter, lately written to your Fellow-Subjcdts, the People dt England, that ye are there fligmatized as Daftards; that ye are fold to H — « Interefts; and that ye are branded in the mod confpicuou« Part of your Face with the Mark of ignominious Slavery. Or rather judge how much greater muft be my Sur- prize, to find that thirty Days arc clppji^d, fince the Publication of that Letter, and yc have not yet made the leaft Enquiry after the Author of fo infamous a R^proAch, C^ tainly there can be no other Reafo^, but that ye aie totally igaorant any fuch Defa- msLtlpn has appeared in Print. ^ ^ , - ;; CA This T 9 } This, Gentlemen, is the only Excufc can be alledged for your otherwifc unpar- donable Supinencfs. But this Excufe can no longer be pleaded; if it was the only Bar to your juft Refentment, it is now re- moved J and ye are at full Liberty to take the readieft and moft advifeable Mcafures to exculpate yourfelves from fo fcandalous an Imputation* r , That ye may not think I hnve exagge- rated any Expreflions on this Occalion, merely to prejudice you againft the Author, permit me to tranfcribe his own Words. ** Such Confufion and Dread dwell on " the D.aftard Faces of All, who, fold to « jj ;/ Interefts, fland branded in " the Forehead with the White Horfey tiie " ignominious Mark of Slavery." The Strok it 10 1 I SAY a Soldiers Reputation^ for with him Valour is to be cor ^dered as a private Pro- perty, and never- failing Ladder to Prefer- ment. Whoever then (hall tax him with Pufillanimity^ ipfofaSfOy annihilates the very Means of all future Promotion, and puts his prefent daily Suftenance on a very pre- carious tottering Foundation. Yet, Gentle- men, in this Predicament do ye now ftand. For ye are loudly proclaimed to be Daf- tards J the White Horfey your military Enfign, which ye wear in the Front of your Caps, Is fliamefully reviled j and as if to be called- purchafed Slanjes were not a fufficient Appellation of Difgrace, this Author has luperadded to your Slavery, the harfh Epi- thet of ignominious. ml This, Gentlemen, is an Affront particu- larly levelled at you, and you only. For the Exprellion here introduced is by no Means vague, or equivocating i it isabfolute- ly definite in itfelf, and cannot be applied to any other Body of Men in the Kingdom, but to hisMajefly's Foot Grenadiers : For of all the King's Britijh Subjeds, you alone are per- 1 1 i ith him te Pro- Prefer- lim with the very nd puts ery pre- Gentle- w ftand. be Daf- military t of your s if to be fufficient hor has irfh Epi- particu- ly. For i by no ibfolute- 3plied to ingdom, : For of lone are per- t "I permitted to blazon your Cap of Maintain- ance with that honorary Diftindtion. Having then amply {hewn, that your Corps in particular has been grofsly and pal- pably affronted, it may not be amifs to en- quire whether, by any previous Mifcondudt, ye have merited fo injurious a Treatment from the Hands of this abufive Author. Indeed where Men, or even Women (for the Difference of Sex makes no mate- rial Difference in this Confideration) give themfelves up to vicious Habits, where their whole Condud is invariably repugnant to the Jlated Rules of piiblick Decency, fuch Perfons become fit Obje6ls for ftiblick Cen- Jiire. But where a Body of People, gallant in Time of War, obedient in Time of Peace, are treated in exprefs Terms as daflard, ig- nominious Slaves, certainly the Author of fuch Abufe can be no virtuous Citizen him- felf, nor a Wcll-wifher to that Commu- nity, of which he appears fo unworthy u Member. B a Let t "1 I '< I ^1 t \-y Lei us then farther examine this Au- tlior ; let us confider quo animOj ad qucmjl- ncniy with what Intention and to what End he has uttered thefe violent, defamatory ExprefTions. That the Infignalia of Royalty ought to be rerpe(5ted, and honoured by every Subjedl, is a Fadl no one in his Senfes will prefume to deny. That the White Horjcy by a legal Engrafture, is become a Part of the Britijh Arms, is likt^vife a Fadl equally undeniable. How tranfcendently flagitious then mull: be the Intention of that Repro- bate, who fhall have the Effrontery to aflert, that any Part of the Britijh Arms is a Type and Symbol of ignominious Slavery ! Befides, how weak, how puerile mufl: fuch an Argument appear. Might he not as well pretend to quarrel with the for- mer Sovereigns of England for quartering xho. Arms of France, Wales, Ireland^ and Scotland with thofe of this Kingdom ? Or fhall it be deemed a glorious Atchievement in Hcn?'y V. that he added the Arms of Fra?Ke to the Arm^ 'of Evghmd, and an illaudable [ i3l jllaudablc Ad in George I. that he likevvife added thofc of his hereditary Dominions ? What Imbecility, what Inconfiftency of Reafoning were this ! ' Light very will lorjcy irtof tially itious epro- iffert, is a /cry ! . muft not for- ring and Or ent s of an able But you fee, Gentlemen, it is not literally the White Horfe^ it is not literally the Arms of Hajiover^ that exafperates this diftempered, ulcerated, gangrened Author. A Prince of the Bninfwick Family is feated on the Britijfj Throne: It is againft that Prince thefe outrage-r ous Anathema's are thundered. Hinc nice Lacryma, Hence arifes all his Male- volence: Hence all the bitter Overflow- ings of his Gall. Would ye be more fully convinced ? Perufe the Incendiary Letter itfelf. No — perufe it not : For the whole Contents are one continued Chain of Maledidion and Difloyalty. Was you there to fee your King openly upbraided for entering into an Alliance with the Court of Berlin : Was you to learn that his Majefty, in fo doing, apparently neg- kdfed and poftponed the Safety of this Na- tion ; how would ye comport yourfelves ? Would ye have fufRcient Patience to wait for i '4l for the infufFcrably-tcdious Dccifion of the Law to obtain due Juftice and ample Satif- fa^ion I Or would ye not rather, fpurning all Reftfaint, impetuoufly rufh in upon this enormous Columniator with your naked Swords, and, in the Fury of your Zeal, facrifice him to yout juft Refentmcnt ? . J ■ :, Think not that I mean to irritate and provoke you to fo precipitate a Mcafurc. Ye neither can Want a Provocatibn: Nor is there any Necefllty for me to aggravate the Circumftances : Permit me but to tranfcribe a Paffage from this inflammatory Letter, and I make no Doubt but ye will be fufR- ciently incenfed againft the Author, with- out any additional Irritation. (( (C <. cc (C cc c< ** Be not amufed with fpecious Tales of Conventions made with the Prujian King, and vaft Advantages obtained ; what is this hut farther Proof of Atten- tion to H — n Weal, whilft the Safety OF THIS Nation is still neglect- ed and poftponed. Whatever be the concealed Condition, be allured, the Price of your Labour, the Works of your " Hands, if- his eal, and furc. for is e the fcribe .etter, ;fuffi- with- ales of niffian ained ; Atten- AFETY Iglect- be the :iQ Price of your Hands, [ 15] '* Hands, the Produce of your Manufac- " torics purchafe him to the Engagetnent; " whatever the Advantage, it can accrue " to H r alone. Of what other Con- " fequences can thefe Treaties be to this " Land, faving th^t of compleating your •« Perdition." I CANNOT take upon me to forefee how you, who are his Majefty's Body-Guards, will demean yourfelves on this Occafion. But I can eafily conceive how a French Gens d*Armerie would have aded in a fimi- lar Crifis. Would they not inftantly have ranfack'd the whole City and Suburbs of Paris to find out the Author ? Would they not immediately have offered a publick Re- ward for difcovering him ? Or would they not procure an Edidl to be publifhed, making it Death for any one that fhould knowingly harbour or entertain him ? In ihort, would they have left any Corner unfearched, any Stone unturned, or any Expedient untried, till they had brought him to condign Punidiment ? What then ? Shall we conclude from thefe Premife?, that the Gens d'Armes of France are more cordially I r6] cordially affedled to the French King, than the Britip Foot-Grenadiers are to the King of Great Britain F It were ungenerous, it were unjuft, nay it were criminal to give the leaft Appearance of Credit to fo falfe, fo groundlefs a Conclulion. But the Diffe- rence between the Forms of the two Go- vernments, makes it more advifeable in a Britip Subjedt to take no Steps that may Ie.-/e behind them the vifible Traces of Violence. Vefliges of this Kind are not only impolitical, but always odious in a free Country : And no one fure that enjoys the Blefling of being born a Briton, will defend an Adt that is, in its natural Ten- dency, an apparent Injury to the Rights and Liberties of a ' Brother Subjedl. And that too, more efpecially, as the common Courts of Juftice are conftantly open, in which if a Delinquent be awarded in an adequate Proportion to his Delinquency, he cannot then reafonably complain, either againft his Accufers or his Judge ; having nothing he can juftly vituperate, expeding his own Demerit, his own Mifcondud, his own Fatuity, Let> I r^^j r - L?.v I 17 ] Let us take then a flight Review of the Paragraph above-cited, and impartially ex- amine if there be any Expreflions in it, which for the Scandal they infin aate, or for the Malignancy they difperfe abroad, are as fuch amenable to our common Courts q{ Judicature. But before we enter into a farther En- quiry, it may be worth our Notice to pre- obfcrve the great Caution the Letter Writer has taken, throughout the whole Para- graph, not to mention the King in pofitive exprefs Terms, intending, in all Probabi- lity, to fcreen himfelf under that Subter- fuge agairift any legal Profecution. Were this his only Refuge, his fole Afylum, how egregioufly unacquainted muft he be with the Nature of our Laws in ge- neral, and the Dodlrine of Libels in parti- cular. Would it not bring the utmoft Contempt upon our Law, to fufFer its Juftice to be eluded by fuch trifling Eva- fions ? Would it not be the moft ridiculous Abfurdity imaginable to fay, that a Writ- ing, which IS underftood by every the C meanefl ft meaned Gapackj, cannot pofTxbly be under- ilood by a Jvktge and Jury ? Let v^e aik th(s Author, whatPcffon in an aggtfgate Stn(ej or what Perfon Jngfy has n)ade this Con- tention with Prul/i&l it catirtCt -be this jGonmpn of this jCiogdonij for they clainpi no fuch Right : It cannot be the Peers, for they pretend to no fuch Privilege : It mufl: then, indisputably be the X/>z| : Nay, it is ioipoiiible it ihpuld be apy 0tJipj:.P?rfonftge whatever: For the Power of making Trea- ties, War, and Peace is folely inveiled in the Cf own : And it were the, e^ctremeft Iniuf- tip^ to deny the Crown this Prerogative, fince it is by far the biighteft and moft valuable Ornament in the Brit^ Diadem. .,■■ What Opinion, are we -then'to entertain of that Writer, who, falfe in his Quota- tions, unequal in his Style, incoherent in his Arguments, virulent in bis Language, difloyal in his Principles, feditious in his Dod:rines, romantick. in his Praife, unwy- rantable in his Cenlure j who, tho' unpro- fecQted for repeated Offences of a fimilar Complexion, yet incorrigibly infenfible to the Mercy that has already been fhewn ^ . him. under- age this is Gofl- y claim ers, for Itmuft y, it is rfonage xTrcft- i in the I Injuf- jgative, d moft iadem* ntertain Quota- rent in iguage, in his unw^- unpro- £milar fible to fhewn him. [ 19 1 him, has ftill the matchlefs unparallclled Aflurance, to aflert, that his Majefty, by this late Treaty with Pnijiay has mani- feftly negledtcd the Safety of Great Britain^ /,< \ < 1 1 • • Would not any one imagine, that this Author muft certainly have feen the Trea- ty itfelf, that he had read it Article by Ar- ticle 5 that he had informed himfelf of the I Nature of the reciprocal Obligations con- tained in it ; and that, from a perfonal I Knowledge of the two cont racing Pow- ers, he might cafily pre-dctermine tlie 1 unavoidable Confequences of it. . ' But what fhall we fay, when he him- felf declares, that he has not (ttn the Treaty 5 that he has not read fo much a? one Article of it, and that he is totally ig- norant of the Conditions of the Compad. Amazing ! aftonilhing Effrontery ! to de- clare himfelf ignorant of the Conditions,' and yet confidently aflert, that the Produce of our Manufadlories muft not only pur-^ chafe the Engagement, but that, when, purchafed, it can have no other Confe- ■•■ ' quence, [20] qucncc, faving that of complcating our Perdition. ■■■..,. But let this daring Infolent tremble aC his Prcfumption, and know, that no later than the Reign of Henry VII. the Solomon of England, who efteemed it (is his Hif- torian, Lord Verulam, fays of him) his chief Pride to govern this Kingdom \>y the known Laws of the Land; I repeat it a- gain, let this daring Infolent tremble, and learn, that in the ninth Year of this re- markably prudent iEra, Thomas Bagnaland Others were indiBedy and had Judgment to be Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered, for contri'ving the Death of the King : And let it be remembered, that the Jirongejl Overt- AB of the Treafon charged in their Indictment , *was the difperfng a certain Pamphlet or Writing, written againji the King and Others of his Privy Council, which had a Tendency to alienate the SubjeBs Love from their Monarch. If the reciting the above Report be not fufficient to terrify and reform this ob- ftinately-infatuated Party-Bigot, let me fur- ther our (2. J thcr tell him, that in the thirty-firft Year of Charles II. the Lord Chief Juftice Ho/t, then on the Bench, declared, that all the Judges in England had refolved, and given it as their Opinion to the King and Council, " That whoever publickly printed any Thing " any wife relating to the Government, " without particular Licence from the Go- " vernment for fo doing, was guilty of a ** great Offence and Mifdemeanor, and^t'- " verely punifliable." And what indeed can be a greater Offence againfl the State, than carting odious Reflexions on the Crown'd Head, giving out general Mifreprefentations of the Government, and fpreading abroad mutinous Hints and Innuendo's ; all which evidently tend to excite Difcontent and Se- dition in the People. K not ob- fur- ther Bur, Gentlemen, the Paragraph which I have already extradled from the third Letter to the People, is not the only one in that Pamphlet which deplds your Royal Mafter, as a Sovereign that negledts the Weal and Profperity of this Nation : Turn but your Eyes to the thirty-ninth Page, and read, with Patience, if you can, the following Sentence f'^ I [aaj Sentence j " We know that our moft gracious «« S-^ n on the T > -e is abfolutely di- " veiled of all fuch partial Inclinaticnt, pre- «* ferring the national Blifs of this I/lanJ, and " its Inhabitants, to whom he was born a «* Stranger, to the Welfare of that People; ^* amongjl nvbom he Jirji df-ev) bis vital ''Breath:* ' . .. ^ r • , :, I f %. i Gentlemen, I appeal to you, I appeal to the People, nay I appeal to their Repre- fcntatives in Parliament, if ever there yet was known, in a well-ordered Government, where the Subjeds are Really well-af- fciSted to their King, that Expreffions of fo vindictive and farcaftic a Turn were per- mitted to be publilhed ; or, when publiftied, permitted to pafs unpunished, unreproved, unnoticed. If it be anfwered me, that the Words above-cited amount not to a Libel; let me afk the Author, what fantaftick Rea- fon then might induce him to print only the Initial and final Letters S-^ n and T e ? Had he intended to convey no fmifter, indire<5t Meaning, had he in- tended the Phrafe to be taken in its fimple, natural Signitication, what Occafion would there I «.;, ; > there have been for any Abbreviation ? But it is plain a latent Poifon was to be convey- ed j it is plain the Phrafe cannot be con- Arued in its dirciH:, and moft obvious Signi- fication, for the Rcfiilt would be the groflcft \bfurdity imaginable. In iliort, what could be a greater or more bare- faced Im- pofition on our Underftanding, than to attempt to convince us that his Majefly prc- fcr'd the Welfare of Great Britain to the Welfare of Hancvsr, ttierely becaufe he was born a Stranger to Great Britain: And Jikewife, that he ftill prefer'd his Britijh to liis Hanoveri/in Subjects, for no other Rea- fon, but that he firft drew hk vital Breath amongft the Hanoverians f Is not this Rea- foning contradi<5lory to common Senfe ? Is it not ridiculing, nay is it not wantonly cri» minating that laudable Paflion, which in a certain Degree every one ought to have for the Country that g^ave hirr* Birth, Let me then, or^ce for all, obferve, that the Sentence above-mentioned cannot, with any Propriety, be interpreted otherwife than as a poignant, ironical Invet^ive. The Au- thor will have us plainly underlland it as fuch i ':^ [42] fuch himfelf ; for, in Page 51 of the fame Letter, fpeaking of a late Tranfadlion, the immediate Aft and Deed of our Sovereign^, " What is this (fays he) but farther Proctf " of Attention to R n Weal, whilft the *' Safety of this Nation is neglefted?" Is not the Word farther a relative Term ? Does it not imply, tl at his Ma- jefty had given a prior Proof of a fimilat* Nature ? No one, fure, that has the leaft Glimmering of Difcernment, will prefumc to doubt it : So that thefe two Sentences, if compared together, amount to what the Laws of this Land always conlider as a Libel. And, what is dill worfe, they amount to a Libel of the blacked Nature. For by as much as the Perfon of the King is of greater Confequencc to the Kingdom, than that of a private Subjedl, fo much greater is the Oficnce of libelling a Crown'd Head, than that of libelling a limple Individual. - - •- 1' k Nevfrtheless, I very plainly perceive, the Author thinks he has fecured himfelf from a legal Prolccution, by having very artfully, UiCi e fame 311 j the ereign', ^ Proof lilft the I?" <• relative lis Ma- firnila)- le leafl refumc itences, hat the T as a » they STature. e King igdom, much ing a iling a jrceive, liimfelf g very rtfully, [25] artfully, as he imagines, wrapp'd up his Poifon in the Difguife of Irony. But was I to refer him to Popham*s Reports, Pa^e 39, I am fully perfuaded he would find him- -elf fatally millaken. For the Slander con- vey'd in Hich*s Cafe, which he will there fee, was wholly ironical, and that foo in the Negative : And although no Publica- tion of the Slander was proved, yet the Court held Plea of it, and puniflied the Offender accordingly. I SHOULD fay very little more on the prefent Occafion, but that I am fufficient- ly appriz'd, there will not be wanting fome over-ofHcious, unlkilful Scribler, that will endeavour to retort my own Arguments againft myfeix', relying on that generally- received Notion, " T/jat he who applies a Libely makes it 5 " which, indeed, in fome Refpeds is true, in others again, erro- neous. For Inflance, where a Perfon explains a Libel, if it be done malicioufly, that is, to hurt the Reputation of the Party libel- D led. t tm.v^'^^'m-rm [26] led, fuch Pcrfon, to all Intents and Pur- pofes, is deemed by Law a Libeller, be- caufe he is a Publi(her and Promoter of Scandal : But, on the contrary, were it to be explained with no other View but to bring the Libeller to Light, in order that he may be legally profecuted, this Ad: cer- tainly can never be tortured into a Breach of the Peace, and confequcntly cannot be cfteemed an Offence. I THOUGHT it neceflary to clear this Point, to vindicate the Part which I have taken, in cenfuring the Author of this de- famatory Letter, and likewife, Gentlemen, to chalk-out that Road which would be moil advifcable for you to take, in cafe you think it worthy your Notice to call him to a publick Account. vl ■» 4 1 4! i I I t m ii.-' Before I conclude thefe Sheets, I cannot but obfcrve, there is a Circumflance (not generally known) which highly aggravates the Affront this Letter-Writer has given you, Gentlemen, and that is, the great Contempt in which he fecms to hold your Dif- Pur- , be- er of : it to ut to r that t cer- rcach ot be r this [ have lis de- iemen, lid be ti cafe call cannot (not avates given great I your Dif- f 27] Difpleafure, by fubmiffively paying a Defe- rence to the Refentment of the People of Scotland^ and as notorioully refufing to pay the leaft Refpedt to you. For in the In- fult he threw out againft the Scotch, calling them a Country remarkable for their D^f- loyalty ; fearful, I fuppofe, of incurring their Enmity, he not only erazed the privative Prepofition Dis out of every printed Copy, with his Pen ; but, as if ftill confcious to himfelf he had not made that wife Nation ample Amends, he even con- defcended to reprint the whole Page, and in the Place of fo opprobrious a Term he very prudently fubftituted the Word Lcy^ aliy, ; / fay very prudently , for the Scotch are a People too deeply verfed in Politics, and too knowing in the fecret Springs and Sources of Preferment, to permit (o grofs, fo public an Infult to have pafled long un- rcvenged. With Refpeifl to your Corps, Gentlemen, the Cafe is quite different; for he makes no Erazure, no Recantation ; but, on the contrary, implicitly confiding in D 2 your p! !' :f X 'I' 'iij . -h •; » [28 ] your flegmatick, infenfible, inanimate Dif- poiition, he hugs himfelf in the plenary Enjoyment of an undiflurbed, unmolefted Repofe, at a Time when he is propagating the mod atrocious of Scandals againft you. The only Point now remaining, is, to find out the Author ; a Tafk, perhaps, that will be attended with no fmall Difficulty ; fince, in all Probability, a Perfon that has dared to be fo flagrant in his Abufe, will have taken every neceflary Precaution to baffle the ftridefl Refearchcs of Juftice. And yet, with relation to the Puniihment to be infli(fled, nothing certain can be pre- determined, till the Identity of the Perfon be fully proved. For mei^e Perfonality in this (and indeed in moft judicial Proceed- ings) is a Circumftance that either greatly alleviates, or greatly aggrevates the Of- fence, and confequently may be confidered as the difcretionary Rule or Standard, by which a Jury is to fquare and proportionate their VerdicS^. An Inftance of this Kind, we have in the Cafe of Mr. Prytif for libelling the '1 ( te Dif- plenary lolefted tagating againft ;, is, to ips, that fficulty ; that has ife, will LUtion to Juftice. iment to be pre- e Perfon )nality in Pioceed- IV greatly the Of- onfidered dard, by )ortionate Kind, we libelling the [29 J the King and Government: For, I very well remember, that the * Sentence pro- nounced againft him was univerfally allowed to be too fevere ; and the chief Reafons urged for mitigating the Severity, were, that he was a Gentleman by Birth, a Gentleman by Profeflion, and a Scholar of the deepeft Erudition* , - Now (f we are to judge by the Rule of Reverfe, //'the ^'bird Letter to the People be found an infamous Libel againft the State, and if the Author likewife is found to be neither a Gentleman by Birth, a Gen- tleman by Profeflion, nor yet a Scholar with the Icaft Tinfture of Erudition, it fol- lows, that, he can be no ways entitled to jw Lenity, no Favour, no Mercy, efpecially ?s that fingle Letter contains infinitely more Rancor ■ ■ *i ' 1 " " * Mr. Pryn was fentcnced to be put from tKe B.ir, expelled the Society of Lincoln^ Inn^ to be degraded and expelled the Univeifity of Oxford, to have his Book burnt by the Common Hangman, to fland twice in the Pillory, to lii.ve both his Ears cut off, to pa/ a Fine of Five Thoiif.ind Pounds, anJ to iufter per- petual Iij.jiiifonmcnt. I fr »l- • 11 t i i 1 1 I" It Ml !',ll it, 1^ •1' i r ;!! fiti i [30] Rancor and perfonal Scurrility, than the whole Hijlrio-majiix of Mr. Pryn. But, after all your Enquiries, Gentlemen, if this unhappy Author, fo far from being either a Gentleman or a Scholar, (hould prove to be one of the very Scum or Dregs of the common Rabble, againft whom gravely and judicially to proceed, might fully and demean the Dignity of your Sta- tion, permit me to remind you, there is ftill a fuitable Punifliment in petto, which the Populace, Time immemorially, have, of their own Accord, always inflidted on fuch Offenders, by a kind of cuftomary, prefcriptive Right j and that is, where the Culprit is of bafe Birth, and very mean Condition, not to drag him to the publick Courts 01 Juftice, but as it were fuojure, to hurry him away in Triumph to the nearefl Pump, or moft convenient Horfe- pond. But, Gentlemen, not to trifle in an Ar- gument of fo ferious a Confideration, and to convince you, that you cannot be too deeply i ^ [31 ] Jan iick :he •fe- Ind loo )lv deeply incenfed at the convitiatory Stigma, with which this Author has impudently dared to brand your military Enfign, per- mit me to give you Scripture Proof, as an inconteftable Authority, that this military Enfign, which ye bear in the Centre of your Foreheads; this military Enfign, which this impious, blafpheming Author has called the Mark of ignominious Slavery, is the exprefs Typification and Symbol of a Monarch highly favoured by Heaven, and prophetically promifed to us by no lefs an Evidence than one of the Infpired Writers. For he tells us, " That he faw the Heavens opened, and behold a JVhite liorfey and he that fat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in Righte- oufnefs he doth judge and make War ; his Eyes were as a Flame of Fire, and on his Head were many Crowns 5 the cc Armies which were in Heaven followed " him upon White Horfes ; out of his Mouth goeth a (harp Sword ; and he hath on his Vefture and on his Thigh a " Name written, King of Kings, and *' Lord of Lords." Certainly no one can read (( cc cc