The Spirit Of Liberty Or Juniuss Loyal Address Being A Key To The English Cabinet Or An Humble Dissertation Upon The Rights And Liberties Of The Ancient Britons

Download or read book The Spirit of Liberty, Or Junius's Loyal Address written by John Allen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Spirit of Liberty, or Junius's Loyal Address: Being a Key to the English Cabinet, or an Humble Dissertation Upon the Rights and Liberties of the Ancient Britons And as your Majesty has been pleased not only to engage himself, by all the solemn ties-of his coronation oath, to maintain inviolably firm the rights of the people, but to te new those engagements by h1s royal word and promise afresh, in his last most gracious speech, that at all events it should be your Majesty's first and constant care to watch over the interests, and to preserve undiminished the rights of your people, permit me, royal S111, with humble reverence to say to your Majesty, as the Patriarch Jacob did to a migh tier monarch, when pleading his promise, do as thou hast said for it is not, most Gracious Sovereign, suspicious and groundless complaints, but matters of fact proved again and again, by reason, by argument, and by law, which is the cause of the discontents and complaints of the people. They are robbed of their dearest right - of their being a free people - of their dearest privilege of having a free represent ation - and of their dearest enjoyment of having a free de termination by the law - of their dearest liberty in having free access to the ear and heart of their royal Sovereign and father - all which at present is almost lest by the undue zeal and force of1r1 - r - l power. But as your Majesty has directed them, to make younmajesty's subjects sensible, that it is your Majesty's constant attention to promote their happi. Ness, it may be (but, Oh how happy if) they they will hearken to your Majesty this sessions, in promoting your Majesty's gracious desire, in restoring the first rate liberties of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.