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Hon, George Townjbendl^ Elq;
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A 1 I h ^
LETTER
To the Honourable
George Tozvnpendy Elq;
Kn IGHT of the Shire for the County of Norfolk
during the laft Parliament,
In Akswbr to
" The NORFOLK FARMER'S SENTI-
** MENTS on a Bill to be brought into
Parliament for doubling the Qt^ification
of Sportfmen. With a Hint upon Com-
" PROM I s E s, &c.
By RICHARD GARDINER, Eff,
^ot capitum 'oivunt^ totidemJludiorum
Millia» Hor«
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LONDON:
Printed for J. Swan, near Northumberland-llouj\.
in the Strand.
M.DCC,LIV.
A
LETTER
t
T O T H E
Hon. George TorjonJhend^ Efq;
A Very ingenious Performance hav-
ing lately made its Appearance^
wrote great Fire, and greater Im-
partiality^ and entitled, Fhe Norfolk
Farmer s Sentiments^ ^c. I take the
Liberty to recommend it to your Pe-
rufal; and this I am the more inclined
to do, as I know you are a Friend to
the Farmers J and, without Flattery,
will venture to fay, as much beloved by
them as ftny Gentleman in the Coun-
ty, one who would oppofe, to the ut-
moft, any Infringement upon their par-
ticular Rights and Privileges, and with
the lame noble Warmth you have ever
B Ihewn
t4l
fliewA in Uie Defetice of the Liberties
of your Country in general.
To give you my Sentiments fully
upon this Pamphlet, would take up too
much of that Time you fo much better
employ to the Advantage of all who
know you, and this, I believe, will
include the whole County of Norfolk ;
In PUBLicA commoda peccem
Si longo fermone morer tua tempora ;
befides that, it would be a great De-
gree of Impertinence to offer my Ob-
fervations at large to you, who are fo
much a better Judge of writing than 1
dm. I fliall omy therefore make a few
Remarks upon this Author, who, I will
take upon m^ to fay, is no Farmery and
v^o-ites under a Charader his Violence
of Imaginationy and Hurry of Sentir
menty would not permit him to pre-
ferve for the Length of eight and twenty
Pages together*
To begin with his Preface. " Was
" I to fet my Name to the following
" Tradj
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** Trad, fays he, it might become nje
to affix an Apology to it," and in
this I entirely agree with him; for a
Man, who affronts my Underflanding,
is equally bound to afk my Pardon
with one, who infults my Perfon, and
I could fooner forgive the latter than
the forma-. I was pleafed to find he
fet out with Truth, and expeded En-
tertainment accordingly in the Periifal
of his Work 5
Dimidium faSity qui bene ccepity hahet,
Tut, ala« I I was fbon difappointed,
for, as I continued to read on, I found
Truth and he Jhook Hands with one
another, and took Leave in the very
jirft Page, for there he tells us, " He
" is totally ignorant of all Languages,
laving that of his own Country," to
which he adds a modeft Remark
enough; " Perhaps it will be thoyght
I might have Ipared this Excepticm,
" as it muft appear how little I am ac-
^ quainted with that." I flatter myfelf
B 2 a few
[&]
a few C^otaticjns only will convince yoU'
of; the Truth of the one, apd FaUhood
qf the other \ and that the Qentleman iSf
altogetJ^er ignorant of other Languages,
equally as falfe, as that he does not
thoroughly underftand hi^ pifOfiy h true^
^very impartial Petfoq mull agree, whq
takes the following Paflages into Con-
liberation. r
Some Y^ars ago, being in Com-j
pany with a German^ pur L)ifcourfe
happened to fall on the Topic of
H Spoyting^. and in the Gourfe of it hq
took Occahon to admire the Excel-
hmy of our Qovernmenty^ ^c.''
^o pafs oyer the ImprobatuKty of \
Farmer s being qualified to talk' upon
Excellency - of Govermnent^ who
pjTofefies bimfelf to. be altogether illite-^
rgi^y f y^puld a^, where he found a.
i^e^mcut^ Malfer of fo much Englifh^ as
to carry on a Converfation of that Kind,
vyhoni 'tis likely for a Farmer to have'
n^t with ? r do believe I have, in my
'tin^Cj been acquainted with as many>
Gertrams as he, both 2i% home and abroady
at
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Ha^er and in England^ and tho'
^ h^ye ,Hnown many, who were very
goo4 Proficients in our JJanguage, very
few. of could do more than read
it to'themfelves, ^n^ underftand what
they read \ not that I deny there are
to be found who both fpeak ^nd. read it
well, but they are rarely tp be met
with j a German^ fa gr^at a Mafter of
our Language, is.a .
Rara avis in urns ; i .
But,that our Author was not a Stranger,
to '(inother Li^ngnage, I mean the La-
tin,, will further appear in Page 17.-
Are not our Commoners the Am-*
hajfadors of the People ? And are
they not, or, i2ith.tT, Jhould they not
be, bound by the moft folemn En-
" gagements, to fee that they receive no
E)etriment^ &c."
If any Man will, fay that this is not a
moft fufpicious Allulion to the videant
Confules ne quid detriments capiat Refpub^
licay* of the Rom a n s , or that 'tis probable
the
I
'■ • Itaq«c tpiod pkruraque in atroci Negotio folet, Senatus
DECREV1T, " Darent opcram Confules ne quid Refpublica
" Detrimenti caperct." Sall.
[8 }
the Author knew nothing of fiich aii
Order of Senate amongft them, given
their Confuhy in Times of Danger onfyy
and invefting them with greater Power
than ufual in Times of Peace and Quiet,
I will give up the Argument, and fiib-
fcribe to all the impertinent Infinuati*
ons in this Treatife for TraBy as he ra-
ther chufes to call it) from Beginning
tp End.
That he is little acquainted with his
own Language, I fhall only cite one
Paflage to prove, for the whole of his
Performance is, in Fa<3:, one continued
Proof of that.
Page 18. " Deprived of Liberty^
** bur Condition were worfe than the
" Brutes; the Power of Reflection
would but aggravate our Miferies,
it is better to be hung than the Pro-
perty of any Man,^^
If this is Englijhy 2Xi6. allowed to be
fo, I am lincerely lorry our great Men
are fo partial as to encourage a School,,
in which I was taught to form the little
Judgment I have in our own, or the
Latin
[9]
Latin Language, for I am very furii
the Difdpline of Eton College would
liave correded either your Knowledge
or mine, had either of us have dared
to lay before Dr. G—rge a Tranflation
of which this Sentence had been a Part;
" It is better to be hung than the
Property of any Man."
For the Elegance of his Expreflions,
you will be pleafed to obferve an Ex-
traft or two more.
Page 6. " Whatever Dignity may
cloath thefe Catalines" Cata-
lines he means the Preventers of Poach-*
ing.)-Thele Hundred-a-Year Chaps,
Page 7. " A Man cannot eat his
** Cake, and have it.*'
Page 8. " A curled Crew of moll
" inhuman Tyrants."
(Thele are only Sovereign Princes
in Germany >)
Page II. " Give the Devil his Due."
Page 12. " The prefent Age is
" more profligate than all that are
paft, at leaft flnce the Deftrudion
" of Gomorrah'^ Bad enough to be
" fure
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fure we ar€, but,' as there ii a Righ-
teous Farmer or two aiiiorigft us ftifl
left, peradventure ^ the Lord Will fere
the Land.
Page ,14. " A pemiciouSj wiet^d,
" diabolical Motion," that is, a Mo^
tion for the Preferration of the <jame ;
one would have thought it had been a
Motion to eftablifli an iNQuisiTtON in
England^ and fct the Pope Upon the
Throne of thele Kingdoms.
Page 21, " Where is the tnde-
" cency in comparing a great R---e
to a little one." Great Delicacy in
this I efpecially when we confider who
are the Kind of People, &c. he would
be underftood to fpeak of. Nothing
exceeds his Delicacy indeed but his
Courage, " Fear I am a Stranger
to 1 am wholly unconcerned,
who takes Offence hereat; whoever
" the Cap JitSy is welconie to wear it-"
For my part, I am apt to believe it Jits
Nobody, unlefs he took Meafure at
Home, And fo much for the Preface
of our Author, and his Aflertions
th&yje, ♦ I come
[" ]
1 come now to look a little into the
Book itfejf, and Ihall firft confider the
Delign, which appears to me, and, I
think, to every impartial Reader muft
appear^ to be wrote with no other View
than, to make a Noife, and create a
Difturbancc. With Regard to the Sub-
je<St-Matter of the Gomplaint, namely,
" That a Bill is intended to be brought
into P— 1 to double the Qua-
" lification of Sportfmen,*' by the Au-
thor's Account it is no more than
a Report,, and, by his own Account
too, (Poftfcript, p. 27!) a Report that
has been dropped Ibme Time. Why
. fliould he then be the jirfi to revive
it ? But, allowing the Report Jlill
continued, I fee no Reafon to take Oc-
cafion from thence to Ipread . Alarms
throughout a Kingdom (tho' the Au-
thor's more immediate Intention is ma-
nifeftly to alarm our Gounty, or other-
wife why Jfhould he call himfelf a Nor-
folk Farmer in particular?) as if the
Libjerty of the Subject was in Dan-
G^R, or why is a Diilertation on a Com-
G promife
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promife introduced, for I do not ^ow
it is a Term in /porting f You, Sir,
who are a Sportfman, can beft tell if
in the Chace you ufe it, or when your
Hounds are at a Lofs^ the Hunthnan
calls it a Compromife between the Dogs
and the Fox; if fo, perhaps, the Au-
thor is in the right; if not, he might
.as well have introduced a Rope-dancing
at Sadler s-Wellsy and Mr. Maddoxy as
a Bill for the Prefervation of Gatne,
and a Compromife at an Ele&ion, The
Confuhon and Incoherence that every
where appears throughout this laboured
Work, and his thrufting in Circum-
fiances altogether foreign to his Sub-
jed, has frequently made me think of
a celebrated Speaker in one of the laji
Parliaments, who, whether the Debate
ran upon cha7igingaRoady2il^^LC^\.^[i\\^}ar-
ing a Turnpike, or any other more
diftant Occurrence, was fure never to
clofe his Speech without bringing in
Carthagena and the WeJi-lndieSy
Adtniral F'er72ony and his Six Ships only,
fo that I never favv his Coach without
wifhing
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wifliing the Motto ofF, and, in its Place,
his favourite Allufion,
"Ef olcip ptivai, *
Hom.
I fhall not take upon me to deter-
mine how far the Noblemen and Gen-
tiemen's Club is to be cenfured or ap-
plauded ; but this I will venture to fay,
that no very had Conlequences have
already accrued to the Freedom-t of
Property of the Subjed, and if a few
of the Authors Friends in Fondon have
not had Jo many Hares at their Tables
a Winter or two paft as formerly, the
worft Inconvenience that has attended
him, and the reft of his Acquaintance
in Norfolk^ on this Account, is, I be-
lieve, their being difappointed of a lit-
tie London -Lamb at Chrijlmas; to be
fure that is fbmething cruel^ becaule
the Farmer kills a Hare upon his
Landlord's Eftate for Nothings and his
Friend in London fends him in Return
3. Charter of I^amh that cofts him Half
C 2 a Guinea},
C Hi
Guima; and this is one Inftance toa
how, the poor People in Town are in-^
jured by fuch a Subfcription to put the
Laws, relating to Game, in Lxecu--
tion.
But I lhall not dwell upon this Ar-
tkle any longer, as every unprejudiced
Reader will foon fee, that what is. faid
on the Subjed of Game, is,only as ai
Cloak to cover fomething ehe that
may make a Stiry and kMle a Flama
throughout a County, which is now at
Peace, and almoft unanimous, in return-*
jng their two old Members to Parlia-.
ment, whofe Condud has been univer-
(ally approved of, . who have fhewn
themfelves entirely independent, and
purfued no other pnds, and had no
other Ambition, but to promote the
eublck Welfare, and the true In--
terest of the Nation, fo' that all
Infinuations fo prodigally dilperfed
throughout this Pamphlet, as if the
Liihertks of the Kingdom were going to.
be given upy are not only falfe in them-^
felyesy but, as far as they relate to the
Members
C*s]
Members of N-^f-lk^ altogether imper-
tinent.
I am not furprifed, however, that a
Pamphlet of this Kind was wrote, and
Jent out of this County, for I am fen-
ilble there are People^ who would be
glad to lay Hold of any the moft /Wi-
confiderable Circumfiance to raife a Dif^
turbanccy and create an Opposition at
the enfuing Eledtiom I remember my-
felf, before the laft October Meeting,
which was, undoubtedly, as. ore at a
one as ever was known on fuch an Oc-
cahon, and I need not mention that
Men of the largest Property were
affembled at it, I remember being in
Company where a Council learned m
/>^^Z/^w"invdghed moft bitterly at the
Advertifementy which gave Notice of
fuch a publick Meeting, and demanded,
who had Authority to call the Cpunty to-'
gether, and why it was to meet at a
Time when the P— 1 Was fittings
when Men were afraid to fpeak their
Minds for Fear of being fent for up to
the Bar of the Houfe to anfwer a
Breach
t"'6]
Breach of Privilege^ As far as a Fear
of the Latter prevented us. the Pleafure
of an eloquent Oration from that fame
learned Gendeman, I do think it was
a Pity that the Count)' met^ fb fbon,
and it might be wrong; but that all
other Counties .have followed the Ex-
ample, and met upon a common Ad-
vertijement^ without any Names figned
to call them together, is evident to all
the World. This was made a great
Offence in you and Mr. JVodehoufei and
thefe Promoters of the public Peace^
and Defenders of the Liberty of the'
SubjeEf. txcXdiimtdi greatly againft you,
with what Succefs the Event has fhewn
them, and that attended too with no'
little Mortification.
But as neither of your Names were
to it, you were not chargeable on that
Account; it is the Right of every
Freeholder, of every Individual in the
County, to call a Meeting if he thinks
proper ; the City of London, the
great Metropolis of the Kingdom,
was called to a Common Hall by an
.anonymous
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anonymous Advertifement, and a Day
appointed for "a previous Meeting of
the Livery at Guild-Hall, without
the Sanction of any one Officer or
Magiflrate whatever. If the Livery of
London had not thought it a proper
Call, and approved it in general-^ they
would not have met there. The Meet-
ing fhews whether the Advertifer a£Ied
with Judgment or not, for Authority is
out of the Queftion. Suppofe a Man
with more Money than Brains (and fome
fuch People have lived in Norfolk-^ tho'
not of late Years) fhould be at the Ex-
pence of a puhlick Advertife7nent^ and
call the County together to the Shire-
House to eat an Apple-Dumplin ;
why, the County may chufe to meet or
not, and, as the County is faid to be
fond of Dumplins^i probably vfoxAdt.
meet. In fuch a Cafe we will fuppofe
this learned Gentleman very near as
angry as he was before, though not
with fo much Reafbn, becaufe, at this
Meeting, he might get a Dinner^
whereas, I am afrajd, the other Meet-
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mgfpoiled his Dinnery I will fuppofe
him demanding aloud, by what Autho^
rit^ the County was fummoned tot_
meety 'and which of the Gentlemen pre-
lent did lummon it, and his Reafon for fb
doing f Why might not a rich filly FeU
low reply, " 'Twas I did it, my Au^
thority was Half a Crown, and my
Reafony becaulc I had a Mind to lee
an Apple-Dumplin eat in good Com"
panyT
Solventur rifu tabultSy tu mifius ahihis\
Hor.
I have dwelt the longer upon this,
becaule omt honefi Farmer infinuatesi
(\yhich is rather too foft an Exprellion)
that the lafl OAoher Meeting in Norfolk
Was a Compromise,; whereas nothing
is ihore notorioully falle ; the County
Was called together to think on proper
Perlbiis to reprefent them in Parliament^
and they were iInAnimous at that gc-^
fieral Meeting in naming their old
Members; no new Candidates were fo
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much 2spropofed; ind Meeting (as
has been obferved) was one of theLAR-^
GEST ever known on fuch an Occa-
fion, and not " A Handful of Men
" (to ule the Expreflions of our Au-«
" thor, Page 15.) that in a Cafe of
" the greateft Importance, in the
grofleft Manner without Hefitation,
" or Fear of Confequences, forge the
Names of a whole County."
If the Gentlemen that met that Day,
and who came to forge the Names of a
whole County, were but a Handful^ our
Author muft own they were a Hand-
ful of the prettiefl Fellows he ever faw ;
few as they were, I quellion much
but they would hsive filed the largeft
^arn he has; But we fhall fee what
Crowds will attend our Anti-Com-
promising Farmer on the Day of Elec-
TioN, when they are to be told, by
I<mie Cat aline of xhtGame, feme Leader
of the Mighty (p. 16.) fome Betrayer
of the Liberties of the Commonwealthy
fbme Forger of Names, that there is
flQthing for them to do^ and they may
D go
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go ^ as they came about their Bujinefs i
or, to ufe the Author's more elegant
Harangue, to which few Men amongft
your Friends, it mufl be Confefs'd, are
equaly
Gentlemen,
We gratefully remember " ybur
kind Intentions, but, for this Time,
we have no Occafion for your Ser-
tt •
vices.
The Author in this Speech^ puts me
in Mind of a merry Gentleman I once at
the Play-Houfe the firft Night xheSufpt*-
cious Hujhand was aded. The Critics^
as ufual, were affemhled in the P//,
many of whom, like Milton's z)m/,
grinn'd horribly a ghaflly Smile,"
in Hopes of a Scene of Damnatiorft
Many others, more inoffenjive^ of which
Party I was one, joined in making a
Noife to fweat the Author a little, who,*
as we knew him to be a Man of Learn-*
ing, we were fenhble would fuffer snore
on
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on the Occafion than a Blockhead, and 1
were not at all apprehenfive of prevent-
ing the Succefs of a Play,^ which we
were very fure, from Dr. Hoadley's-
known Abilities, would command At-,
tention whenever the Curtain was drawn
up. In the Midft of Cat-calls, HilTes, 1
and Noifes of all Kinds, up ftarts a
very pretty Figure of a Man, mounts a
Bench, and Bands in oEi to Ipeak; the
Houfe w^iS 'huJFd in a Moment, ql pro-:
found Silence enfued; in this Attitude,
he continued about Half a Minute
without opening his Mouthy which an'
honeft Trunk-maker in the Gal-.
Ury taking Notice of, cried out, in a
Boatfwains Voice, Amazing Elo-
qijence ! An univerfal\enfued,
and the Gentleman on the Bench was
every where confidered as a Man of
true Humour, who could thus call off
the Attention of the Audience from
Riots and Diflurha7tces^ relieve the Au-
thor, and put every body in good Tem^
per J without a Word faying, I don't
much love ComplimentSy nor would wil-
P 2 hugly
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lihgly 'l)e guUty of Flattery^ but I am >
a little inclined to believe this merry
Gentleman on the Bench that Night.
was th^honefl Norfolk Farmer''^ for the*
Style of both, (if I may iife that Ex^
prellion with Propriety^ when applying
it to a Man who fmd Nothing^ feems
to be pretty much the famey and if the
Farmer has the Advantage of him in
having made Ufe of Wordsy we may
ftill venture to fay he. has made as
httle of his Words 2&poJfthle,
I, But that mayV be owing, perhaps, to
his fpeaking in Piofe, for the Sentintem
is undoubtedly znd-fuhlime-y for
once, we'll feehow it will look in Ferfe,
Let us fuppofe/the Chairman at a
Michaelmas Sessions of the Peace
addrelling the County in the Farmer's
heauiifid Manner, and adopting ■ his
ThoughtVy Prole will not do, ^tis plain.
#
A . '
Gentlemen,
We gratefully remember your kind
Intentions, but, for this Time, w^
■ have
[ " 3
have no Occaiion for your Ser-
te ' **
Vices.. • ,
This is JlaS fure enough, the Smtt^
ment creeps,. but fhall lend it
Wings, as thus,
Gentlemen,
" Your kind Intentions we remember,
And (o^good bye till next September^
< I
; There's Fire and Spirit in this, and
it fliews great Meaning of the^/v-*^
tior^ "which cannot be fufficiently ad^
mired,.
'Tis this alarming Idea of a Compro^
mifey and not the Dread of a new Bill
about the Gamey that difturbs our in*
Countryman; and that his Fears
are well foundedy and as well timedy
will appear to every one at firft VieWy
who confiders that the Interefis in Nor*
folk are now unitedy and the Nomina*
tion ofourReprefentatives^/r^^ over;
that no different Candidates applied, no
new Interell was let on Footj and if I
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have any Idea of a Compromifey it is
this; that, where contending Interefts,'
and contending Candidates harrafs and
diftrdS^ d.'CounX.yy take ofF the induf-
trious Jfrdha their Labour,, the Farmer:
from his Plough^ the Shepherd from his
Flock, where venerable Juftices drink
Aky and Landladies prelent
ther Bowl Frenzy to .pailmg Peers
^tA Privy-CounJeUorsy^ at fuch a Time,'
to heal the Breaches of the puhlick
l^iety bid Piot and 'Diforder ceaie', and
to refrbre and Induftry to the
Community^ M one Candidate from^<^c;&
Party is propofed, and fuch a Nomi-s
li'Sition^univerfMy aflented: to, I* call
'that a ^Compromise, and Nothing elle
but jMbr the Word itjelf implies
a RkomiUattoh. of ^ Parties at Variance
ivith' each." other ; that this is mt the
Cafe oi'Norfolk is evident beyond .Con-
tradi£fion, and, to fay. more, would
be an Affront to common Underftand-
ing* • ' "
« How the Idea has wholly if
not whojly the. Head. of .our
- ' Author,
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Author, I leave to any impartial Per-
fon to determine,
** Let us then remember what be-
longs to Freeborn Englijhmen<i and
never acknowledge any one impofed
on us by that infamous Pradice of
compromiling: Should fuch Men
offer themfelves as are moft fit for
us, let us chufe them in a regular
** Manner. Some Forms are lacred,
no Government can fublift without
them; and whether a Compromile
** is, or is not threatned, it will ever be
the fafeft Way to meet at the Time
and Place appointed, in Readinefs to
** chufe, and to refufe.
" On doing this, or fbmething like
it, hangs all our Hopes of leaving to
our Children the moft valuable BlefT-
ing our Anceftors have tranfmitted
to us, and than not do it, it would
« fcarce be more criminal to fend them
to our foreign Plantations at once,
for this might anfwer a reafbnable
End; it would not only eafe us of
the Burthen of maintaining them,
" but,
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" but, if the Markets proved tolerably
good, many of us might raife con-
fidefable Sums by the Sale of j our
Families : Moreover, it would,' at
the fame Time, rid many a Man of
a ftill heavier Clog, moft Women
being fo foolifhly fond of their Chil-
dren, that few would confent to ftay
behind them. This, you lee, might
tnrn to Ibme Account/*
The laft Sentence is a Compliment to
the Ladiesy which they are much
Ugedto him for; but, perhaps, the h(h-
fiefi Farmer has a litigious Wife,, and
'tis not improbable Ihe might put him
out of Temper at the Time he had^a
Mind to turn Authory and, if lb, ^ his
Spleen againft Compromifes is rationally
accounted for.
To be more ferious. Sir ; hnce our
Author has faid fo much upon the Sub-
jed of Libertyy and would infer that it
is in Dangery becaule there are a Set of
Gentlemeny who will not fuffer Shep-
herds to fnare Haresy nor Coachmen
to carry \m to Londony nor every ViU
lager
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lager to fl>oot Partridges who can level
a Gun^ I fhall only oblerve, that there
never was a Time in which the Sub-
jedts of England enjoy'd greater Free^
donty in every Senfe of the Word, than
they do at this Day \ no Infringe^
ment upon their Rights and Privi-
leges have ever been attempted
by the Crown ; no Adts of OppreJJion
been authorifed by Sanction of either
Houfe of Parliament* The KinG|
long may he live and reign over a
People that love him, and whom he
lovesy in all his Royal Defigns, and
gracious Intentions, he has ever had
the Welfare of the Nation at his
Heart %
" Happy indeed we are, thrice
'" happy, in a Prince, ambitious of no
Extent of Power, but in the Hearts
" of his People, whole Reign, unful-
lied by Attempts againft the Free-
dom of England, will Ihine for
ever beautifully bright in the immor-
E " tal
' t is ]
tal Annals of our Ifland, a FRtfeND
to Liberty, a Patriot King/' *'
The Hpufe of Lords and Commons
-Jiave been the Guardians of the pub-
lick Honour, and, withhisfacred Ma-
jefty, ^uppo^ted the Dignity and Power
of the Nation againft fuperior Ar-
miesin the Field abroad, andfecuredthe
Liberty of the Subjed; from more dan-
gerous defigning Enemies at Home;
•ftill flourifhes the independant Pa^
TRioT, unterrified, unthreatned ; he
has no Tower to dread, no Ax to fear;
there are no Minijlers of Vengeance to
^tear him from his Wife and Children ;
no Spies of Power to lie in wait againft
the Innocent; no fervih perjured Vil-
lains to bring our Nobles to the Scaf-r-
fold J and fpill the choicefl Blood of all
the Land, to extend the Prerogative of
an ambitious Sovereign.
Happy ! beyond Expreftion happy !
and long are we likely to continue fa.
We
* Sir Andrew Freeporfs First Address to the Livery
of London on the enfuing EUt ion,'
[ 29 ]
We have the pleafing Profped of ^
numerous Offspring from the fame
RbYALLoins, who promife Peace and
Security for Ages to this Ifland. We
have a Prince^ ari Heir-apparent to
thefe Crowns, of whom Mankind al-
ready forms the greatefl: Expectations,
and who will hereafter be a Blefling to
thele Kingdoms; influenced by the
'great Example before his Eyes, and
under the Tuition of a' Princefs^^
"whofe Life of Virtue has endeared her
to the whole Body of Nobles and
Commons of England, and to whole
Wifdom they have entrufted, with one
Voice, the moft precious Charge the
Nation can beftow, Tht Heir and Re-
gency of the Realm, in Cafe of a Minority:
^ Thus influenced, his Royal High^
nefs, whenever he fucceeds to the fu-
preme Power of the Land, will have no
other Object but to blefs the Land; to
Tpread Terror abroad, and to give De-
light at Home; to confirm his Subjects
'in the Poffeflion of their Rights and
Properties, and to proteCt them from
foreign Infults, 2ax^ iiovsx French Inva-
lions ; Nequi
[ 30 ]
JVeque imhellem ferocei
Progenerant Aquilae Columbanty
DoSirina fed vim promovet infitam^
Re^que Cultus PeBora roborant.
Hor. L,4 4. O. 4<
In his Reign, Concord will ap-
pear, brooding Peace and Profperity
" on the Happy Land; Joy fitting in
every Face, Content in every Heart;
a People unopprcjfed^ undijiurbed^
unalarmt .
Stock ; Fleets covering the Ocean,
bringing Home Wealth by the Re-
turns of Induflry; carrying Afliftance,
or Terror abroad by the Direflion
of Great Britain^ as fai: as Waters
roll^ and as Winds can waft themP *
1 amy S I Ry
Tour mofi obedient humble Servant^
private
of Wifdom'y and aflerting, trium-
phantfyy the Righty and the Honour
i/ondok»
Jpril
Richard Gardiner.
* Idea of a Patriot King.
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