Pamphlets and Parodies on Political Subjects

man came from h

ree, and at h

light of natu

nature's err

vernment were

rnish'd to di

rring light

atent cause an

ge of God stamped u

eathed into him with

ation of which alon

and his own physic

ral world, the soul

the pillar of societ

nations, the golde

all animated and all

tem-and, in the v

nd fauatic prejudice

of the world, to b

this fair co-lumn,

!-Hazlitt's Polit

o regulat

as means purs

an could nev

fe without

nt has alway

o be govern'd,

other schemes

owers the people

ng which can tho

eople too th

rnal rule was

nd increas'd

s grow quarrel

r little govern

ence of right, Urge on the

ess to brute

rages, hone

ay to power, an

sal slaver

ose, and thus

Wars and und

late, exempli

d, in many a

hoop and whistli

ves from ev'ry

foeman's bull ha

ge th' obedien

rge, and baske

ood decide th

ight, because t

ion rules th' u

s, at first, wil

se mankind they

, Captains, Chi

the natural co

aged most coul

g that first su

rce his guilty

to please thems

ngcraft calls i

estcraft sanct

[priest and craft

ked priests to ga

[king and craf

wicked kings

ods."-Indeed!-w

acred,-but li

a vicious l

it, and the G

when rulers have a

cegerents, and ha

by the servile cr

wn by despotism fr

d driven, by fear,

ll superstition, th

creature.-After al

he praises of poet

ts erected to their

eir actions prove

tors against the im

ce. What were their

of exercising thi

, dishonest arts, o

ire and sword. Th

ning of Heaven, a

grand adversary of

nces for destructi

ginal. Their imperi

r from human blood

iadems were accumul

owels of the poor,

ed, to be wounded,

n in an early grav

ed the age of three

of youth and healt

and sorrow. Heaven

npon them, except w

or to force them to

Where God caused the

over the land, his

. The valley, which

e tear of artificial

as bright with ver

ed red with gore.

of an east wind, as

lagration.-It is

are born into tlie

t as the un-avoidab

rdered passions wi

government, of all

must be to promote

dual in its attainm

anxious about the e

in augmenting i

sequious instrument

ty of individuals in

ui-sance. It is fou

, like the freaks

around, without be-i

nt and duration.

al, let it be cosr

Despotis

curses any

om the temple,

from kings a

aid, and consec

bject might be

nnder a new w

lious, might

dow'r a titl

l a Right Divine! Hor. Walp

acred' then,-t

tence a joke

his crimes he

don'd too, b

ian Monarch tu

rant, and as

ke from Maje

e laugh-a jest! Let us to

uths its ancien

thority which

ming, will con

th unheard of

gent Heaven the

scorn'd his

lves their chil

anter, futur

lavery at thei

arguments did

Tyrant's cha

lust of an u

anger, preach t

etched things th

asing name of

'wilder'd crowds

the dangers o

t ruin with un

fetters, slav

heaven heard its

the King, and p

le's right, and f

and not the p

claim of right

ings be Kings b

King by God's

fflict the land! In granti

them, but wit

they pretend

ft he punish'

gue, the very

en they petiti

arkable when

King in spite

consequences

chiefs that the

Kings were instr

e, but to cor

yrant would ins

hem of all th

Kings were but

st, and then woul

picture of a m

such a villain

ike him, and the

Yes:-let such

, that a king scar

ver the people, but

himself. Men of v

n tyrants. Despotic

the errors of gover

er. It is the high

hness.-A king of F

ed that the axe was

d said; 'My dear fr

hill in Richmond P

ing been the stati

ed out for the asc

to the impatient

his wives was suf

ffo

nt King your

lague!" said the

ighty curse he

ael's terror, mo

parallel with

ion was this m

ar'd him, heaven

Postulata o

n'd first th

s the substan

coronation-o

ch the throne an

future Kings u

ople, mighty ve

people the manner

k and laid it up

is plain, the word

government, or the

, namely, according

n frequent expressi

ferring to justice

d war; the king was

her. This manner of

nd that implied, tha

to make him king, w

him, he was not owne

private affairs til

. Then the manner

a token of its bei

; and Samuel's layi

to an oath recorde

itness between the

heir oath of allegia

is being done, wha

al, and there they

.-(l Samu

eedful steps to

, concurring me

intment, not t

King, nor force

ike not his

eatness in his

onarch shall o

esign to rule

abbies cry! "W

as no merit

ad the glorious

thousands of

alour must our

n we want, and

, reject his

choice could force

, adjourns the

King he offer

like's a high

ent alone could

od displeasur

ght, and punis

ence by expr

choice by his

bels with his

ly treason wit

unders his new

rembling tribes

w it was the c

that men should

early dictat

acted from h

at the vulgar are no

les of government;

beiug guilty of tran

capacity of judgm

gerous argument, m

iolence of every on

have no defence a

esolute, except su

t frighten a man wh

ny degree of natur

r that there is an

will soon perceive

m. But when you te

uvres of state, the

ansgress what they

f them more than t

oses; for he requi

to judge of his law

ach of their

s, ( Ministers

s the Almighty P

are the words

consequences

anguage is the

s he, "the peopl

ars it, can des

ke my choice

m fit for the

eason my exa

ing by all the

oops my people

embling sons, t

vancing legions

walls embrace

ul, and arm hi

orn, shall in t

inexperienced

with the slaug

ffrage then li

eople he know

oices all the t

hosen hero be

d all the hig

ice of Nature

Ammon Israel's

hting sons, to

vancing squadro

walls embrac

od had arm'd h

ored does in th

erit now bespe

enemy, and we

es their purchas

al voice proc

call had been

proper minute,

ain, and prope

ll The People

of B

NE OF KINGS TO

OK

ing i

to guard, t'

o warp or

ference, ye that

ween your Loy

rinciple, and

s judicious,

instinct, crouc

oot, that tread

istance to Tyra

he Custom of Ki

People to dethrone

ehoboam-Roy

tted to insp

chives, hid be

causes could

consequences

first of all th

ow, the bounds

ls beneath the

on sets her

ws her ill-des

triumphs over

mits the worst

wise man to ob

nder does not s

ols of pow'r thr

the murd'rer'

xalted crimi

t to avoid laugh

wned heads thems

contrasts it with

p and splendour wit

from place to plac

se the men, occupi

est trifles and

us that the govern

rfect system, an

not how to govern

ess and security, so

have been in youth

to their vices, and

e, and their ambiti

y kings in despotic

possess less abili

to read and write. Spirit of Despotism

. It appears from t

liance against Napl

l as from a letter

at his Majesty ha

t when the Profess

ted to him, he made

udents of Carniola

their progress in

avour to preserve

Boeotians). Remain

ny); for what is a

and onr ancestors

hould it not be th

(tyrant-hater's) a

notions (principles

approve, (cannot he

l death). From such

urselves, (God pre

s to nothing bnt

not want learned m

king's birth-day,

the soldiers, not u

posing the student

hem with their sab

ger than Latin). I

licitly obedient sl

l serjeants, and) fo

icitly obeys), will

stupid) accordin

lf incapable of tha

ideas, (knowledge,)

ve him, (by putting

ine and perfect spe

another:-At the Mu

iversity shewed this

safety lamps, and

ntor, had, by his n

ion in science. At

f the Emperor cha

the King of England

of his condescens

to himself, he sho

of his subjects to

s good." Stick to

e your Majesties, g

at you may, till

limitations,

d-because mank

t against thei

yranny with

od what God ex

ought to do, l

'd the duties w

nds they shoul

st no more mi

ll be slaves, H

l our base pe

avours supers

n; but nation'

bondage ever

have His power t

ower they have, t

od, God makes

Nature never

es, for'tis pre

laws to man-i

aw to man, fro

ive-or unre

by means, and me

tion, often

r tears will r

own, or irksom

usiness; and H

siness, he exp

ings and oppressors,

his instruments, Th

e has ever made an

or to

times in Rev

struction's not

, when they from

ructify, and

orrent, if a

od that drowns h

say, because a

owning, we mus

who live most

that his lib

trample law an

justice truckl

ster-spring o

Ditine that hea

order of th

essings from t

VIII., by making hi

at the Right Divine

e Bishops could gi

th of our nostrils,

ng of himself and br

ainly spoke the tru

ads of the Church

ome-times the Churc

; since that time,

he King can do no

ity of his Minis-ter

of language, is wi

of this kingly pri

hop leaped from p

casuistry worthy an

n. The Abbe de Choi

British Father in G

ed an edition of Tho

t' to Madame de Mai

is XIV., prefixing

ider, and incline t

and thy father's h

ire thy beauty!"

golden but a

gic skirts a

rms, sit temp

rly virtue fr

oted by

e-blood of the

to law is

agistrate ab

error and c

that's not pre

ect, but govern

ority for R

worst, for ev

rn Ignorance

life to coz

ustom; and, fo

l, to still ca

Bench, and so t

age commits, n

maintain'd by

aft in error's

e, with loose and

ud has plagued t

hments on our

ith our father

rence, to thei

d their crimes

tom, this mere

wretch, and helps

to believe i

, becomes the

preaches, and t

e, to call

boasted, ever

int-fails to su

stom, kings have

ions, to suppo

ways have opp

their custo

of the people

and customs

s one mighty t

w tyrants, nat

y, for custom

man, to save

the practic

England for

ht Divine of ki

marks of sla

ins, but'twas in

d conceal'd t

r, the great champ

in print, Algerno

power, and governme

and reason. Before

ight seized the man

un-answerable, they

man; -so they cut

could not an-

mountebank, the

eedling priest! James proved the

ate their loy

tune, churchmen b

l men's freedo

yalty is charming

Doddington, drawn

e was by trade a Bo

f six Members in t

ut and sold to the

n and sale of the w

or the king's servi

painting a fiue an

ho had been in di

here, said to tlie

of offence, but that

; that it was enoug

make me think that

forget it: I would

The duke was delig

sion. Bubb says, "

me twice!" and Bu

rs of the honorable

e price he stipula

he navy, and a pee

t impressively rela

exible John Hunt

ce, on the trial

ds in the Examiner

ous on the Ho

colour or pr

victims to th

coundrel Chief

jury in the

ences-justice

ear-a verdict

ssell and bra

s rung, out Law'

own destructi

naves cried L

best of Kings

ed fealty t

cedent, dropp'd

est of words be

symbol, that t

hoice, or form

irs, and this ha

ffice sacred,

yrant on the

cant, and the c

ived from Law founde

t is mere force. Th

while engaged in ma

nsisting in his

rliaments of France

lly, the king went

drawn by oxen, wh

he parliament hous

seated there, rob

eed, in that place

onwealth are transac

oes truly and prope

, or dances, or prat

re always styling

Franco-gal

ient tribes to

tribute, and d

and with impos

ghting-money!

r wise, disturb

or his sumpt

omen and his

p and show, and

rojects, and h

ll the gold of

ts dismay'd, thei

led, and their tr

e but two occasions

s, the other for hi

rs. To the expense

ntries contributed

excesses in women,

caused him to oppr

urdens

igorous monarc

came they lo

racious majest

s, and let them

Solomon wit

e to offer him

ress, his rage n

ves his answer

eaven the ensi

s to rule, an

scandalous Ad

d, and my comm

s from seeds

lways snarls

hrone from God

e my counci

ns he has ma

ow my actions

toop, to let

l the taxes

iscontents an

I'll double

ection which

e people he de

en, but had you

his easy cle

eople, treate

etitions and

made submissio

love of Liber

ask'd of God ha

self foretol

exhausted all

ses, and more

bb'd by his e

hose to die,

olving, by a

lted, and their

his sceptred

d and blood

altar in a r

his tale, than ma

taken a poetical

say that Rehoboam

e, "the slaves,

pow'r I had fr

iner rule th

chisms both in C

ions are, with

lion in its ea

fronts of my i

injured honou

unsels did my

lp, who does the

gs, ye people

nswer of th' A

rants, read th

the sacred se

thy new-rais'd

rnal;-"it is

athers to the

ut you yoursel

hem I Israel'

chosen peop

nd no such com

nts, though I

eople vilely

the powers wh

laws the peo

peaks, I neve

word, thy bret

they have, t

osed, and I

may enjoy, th

erted from a

m Me"-the crime

es revolted from Re

is no doubt they li

rds king Aliab, on

n near to his own pa

offered him either

money; but Naboth w

ab returned home so

ot eat any thing.

ng, the courtiers

ition against him

n purpose; he was

ot possession of the

e crown. It is cle

estrained by law,

under the forms o

man's property. A

n as the murder wa

rden, there was an

ng 'the king could d

d him with the crim

pened accordingly,

siastics, and his f

hop of London shoul

formed that he may f

ngs,

re be flatter'

e, the knaves th

ees for uses

limited

on will its

, and all re

ations shall

easy, and the

ace embrace j

eased, the peo

is hoodwink'

lind obedienc

long, before h

tice give their

e picklock of tende

hath borne high upo

y and authority to

deed, men could nev

springes of other

f they did but rem

erness of truth wer

whorish voice, whi

is come to that e

h some, that he tha

ngly, is thought

Jo

re so tiugled with

they have scarce an

o do with the great

no way to take adva

It is because he is

to imply that he

come. This quality

es-sential qualitie

e kin

tai

ghty dams kee

current, and it

rising wate

es to glide

ver is restra

silence to re

orce breaks op

native freedo

may govern

ns the tyrants w

f Boo

NE OF KINGS TO

K I

ns woul

truncheons fro

hose infirm

with mischief;

ffer it, their

ht line any where-Difference between Tyrants and Kings-Government instituted by the People for their oivn g

long records

ar as antient

oldest his

d people, peop

nce there has be

tyrants to pres

ture then, as

eir rights and

who should pro

ll the sancti

nation ever

gs opprest them,

ovidence has

est the actio

ted with the r

right the peo

nd some stubbo

ttle wit, they

n again when t

oil the gay t

ature, Laws of

ms, and with the

ousands fall be

ie at the im

elding, self-

ist, will rave

engines of op

w'r beneath th

natural for

casion offe

else to truth a

o the laws o

h to say, they

cessity decla

upreme command

est who that

ho shall be judge?

ge. If a king make

he general good, ma

exclaim a junta of

at is Bl

osed the Mero

ildrick * lost

their sacred

counsel to

ne must still

st the right t

arbitrary

ry Favila *

ngs deposed, an

one-and-twenty

us banish'd fro

pull'd young

at deserves th

aws above th

self-advancing

e, his govern

son of Merovius, fo

great men, and one

ildeiic II. was ban

ing Pepin reigned i

Meroving

ed Henry III. and d

ncapable to reign

pope's legate and

, and several prop

imes on the infant

nal of Boubon, the

he

tyrant, was depose

o administer the g

ted an

anishment of Demet

sickening catalogue

other. During the de

February, 1821, Lor

the Holy Alliance

objections to the

e but ungracefull

who ascended a thro

ather: and as this

rown to the murder

lection, that since

ign had ascended t

stained with the bl

ome other member

t, the steps of

sacred titles

rly kings of B

num in our n

pacts, form the

uman, both uns

to continge

ship of them p

hrones the great

tolen, or the

olonel Cnute, *

e roving Saxo

orsa, Woden's

ord, not right

he invading Saxons

, pretending to no

Horsa were Saxon

e themselves kings.

ader of the Goths

d to be thought of

stard, how di

is heav'nly h

tions, long a

and domesti

ength unfit to g

sed to ev'ry

to pirates,

ders, grew a

aged long our

ains fed Caesar

aised that rav'no

ot his fam'ly, f

man eagles spre

tions, and they p

mph o'er the w

nquest half the

ur sires in a

red name with

ers buy their

their bones lie

arrows still remain

graves of the sold

r Stevenage in Hert

s in Wiltshire and

of the valorous a

efence of th

work of slaught

itish blood be

an Goths, worse t

an Friths, an

fruitful, now a

tured victims i

atives, helple

nder'd, ravish'd

es from the rude

f the little

done, the work

hemselves, an

ife their freed

h fury, but the

aeus, every t

th rage and in

inued losses

fiercer battle

ood the Saxon

oes strew th' en

leave the world, t

ives, but not th

years of blood

irst, and disp

, with freedom

untains, to r

don'd country t

eir thirst of

aceful bonda

o man without

ht one hundred and

t well be said to b

traggles for their

hey fought as long

he Saxons swarming

ntries, the few Bri

he wes-tern mountai

s, poor and distres

ds and excursions u

filled with accou

nglish histories fr

elsh, till, at last

corporated with th

ent

ation-fell a de

island, Saxo

oops their vict

chiefs with r

their triumphs

, and rabble pu

ll the merit t

retch appear'd

kingship any

e more powerful

ood was fix'd t

enced the roy

vanquish'd inn

ush'd the banish'

ubdivides the

t soldier king

strive to date

t help us to

buried in e

rought, to fix t

t, always on th

gs should walk, tha

ief his fello

more, the weepi

* English mo

hty-sword-th

originally from Fra

ince of the West Sa

king

ert? Search his

ancestors di

inces form'd h

wn to him the

rooper, sent a

blood, and in hi

erary Hols

om at home, se

* mercenary,

rpose to be kn

ier was his

siness, plund

alued, despi

ation, and b

me over were from Ju

the Saxons lived

mbers of the people

nd habitations in fr

nd

udes to their b

narch glories

f to-morrow kn

fancied right

that 'rightful

reason triump

title, makes p

tes obey, the

st of all that

cent of prin

editary right

ne has forty t

ons in the worl

rue succession

, with men of

ce of tyrants

ling, seeks at

monsters, igno

ine was so de

t out a beggi

reed, of unr

cutcheon, tyra

rth, and inter

aws nor langu

early summon

his sails, his

es, and fata

ons Britain's sh

s the claim, the

nquering tyr

rpation gain'

urpation pul

ience then coul

f'ring, suff'rin

rant William q

better usage

tyrants gave h

ion, and recei

n the crown by forc

eritance, being the

her's ill got

s of mother-ch

llion with the

ergy, and sedu

irst with ro

e, and treaso

the lust of

ght, on Rufus'

grasp'd his elde

rd, maintain'd

nry fights, and

rince's titl

ean conclusio

be a base us

gnominious gr

bad as Stephen'

ksters thus di

wds the jugglers

another branch

rone, in spite

hty Edward's d

, whose conques

hero of righ

l alive, usurp'

rpers, for the true

g. of the race o

liged to compromise

a prudent agreemen

itary

of Henry I. the ma

ssion has ever sinc

to the third heir

by, or receiving

inction of the mal

tannici,

the youngest son of

osed. Henry was the

d the murderer of h

igned, his father,

d was afterw

his parent's

rant reign was

rder'd, Edward

der'd-thus the

enry from his

ch'd, and wore

ame by due suc

ds the right o

aughter, for thi

nt, but waded

ed, three times r

nry's title*** y

right the conque

e his new-crown'

mson hand of

wn, and fate

ust of gover

ers, next that

ords trumpet-t

raves of prince

ld, the crookba

t, and then the v

char

dwar

Henr

was succeeded by

the crown from blood

ularity, although u

ary right was as va

liament granted to

succession by wi

se a similar power u

the unprincipled No

f Lady Jane Grey. E

rtuned to appoin

he last twenty year

King of Scotland

incidents for the

this wretched theo

he days of James

e of the precions f

Church and State,

the foun-dation.

eadily on an English

hat such men ever

a finished gentle-

e, and shewed himse

waged war with the

hts of the people

er to weak, ineffi

he anger of a distr

ey were beheaded, a

ood, incited

urged on, laid

hen upon opp

retch anoth

otball of the

rant brother-k

bberies reven

of crime out

ore-the tangle

s claim to bi

ine they say t

isted?-then t

otted, spliced

ey the inter

iolations, s

ions, spurious b

such frauds, t

t blush their a

ssion superse

ng, as king, ha

cession fled

ation as di

de Jure, a

that steals i

nd from these i

title of the

s (Court slang) th

has been the worst

best. In 1683, the

n, in which Lord

re murdered under

the king's passive

in blood, and the

gust-ingly sensual

M. A. in his 'Eccl

harles the title of

reign virtuous! and

s of Heaven!-This

an reader's "beloved

harles II., Horace

ter in his Epistl

llection, vol

ir, or frownin

virtue, and n

rals, gratit

ripen'd age, no

ions left to wh

ritain, pensio

oons, to min

atheist, and

ites and praise; the

sterity gives t

ession, or wh

rule, by wha

l'd, by whom

le's right of

People's, and th

n duty to obe

ll, the only

office, or div

wn from off the

ng to govern

g are vastly d

tyrants, but o

, how the dist

ks him out-the

s, the cries o

s by all men

respect for humanit

th it; taught to be

s, they really bec

their kind; and, in

rute! Blind with p

s with scorpions,

a boil, their min

ated humours, a dis

of its life-blood a

m mankind as their p

face of the earth

survey the common dr

tion got up for tli

ggravated, intolera

ble self-will that

blind fatuity and

that, transmitted

nfirmed by regal in

them i

olitical Es

liberty make

ranny are self

e transformed into

e still a despot. H

ppress at his pleas

ise 'the Right Divin

s the doctrine that

In the reign of Ric

the Duke of Heref

their des

d!-He has sworn by

to me and

often sworn to me

t him the m

t has become an unbl

there in history an

Despot, and al

the only King in o

ment, and seeing it

ledge his crime b

reign he seemed to

pation from restrain

dst his struggles

sity of his passions

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