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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1768. Excerpt: ... whenever they are in their wits. But God be thanked, our populace is more merciful in their nature, and at present under better direction; and the orators among us have attempted to confound both prerogative and law in their sovereign's presence, and before the highest court of judicature, without any hazard to their persons. NUMBER XXXII. Thursday, March 15, 1710-11. Json eft ea medicina, cum same parti corporis fcalpellum adhibetur, atque integrae camificina eft ifta, et crudelitas. Hi medentur reipublicae, qui exfecant pestem aliquam, tanquam ftrumam civitatis. IAM diverted from the general subject of my discourses to reflect upon an event of a very extraordinary and surprising nature. A great minister, in high confidence with the Queen, under whofe management the weight of affairs at present is in a great measure suppofed to lie; sitting in council, in a royal palace, with a dozen dozen of the chief officers of the state, is stabbed at the very board, in the execution of his office, by the hand of a French pa. sift, , then under examination for hightreason; the assassin redoubles his blow to make sure work; and, concluding the chancellor f was dispatched, goes on with the fame rage to murder a principal secretary of state X: ani that whole noble as. sembly are forced to rise and draw their swords in their own desence, as if a wild beast had been let loofe among them. This fact hath some circumstances of aggravation, not to be paralleled by any of the like kind we meet with in history. Cęsars murder being performed in the senate comes nearest to the case; but that was an affair concerted by great numbers The abbot dt Bourlie, make his peace at home, by-who, having quitted his native acting here as a spy: and corncountry, solicited to be em-menced...
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