Volume 1

A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's magazine / By John Walker.

Date:
1814
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Credit: A selection of curious articles from the Gentleman's magazine / By John Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f Debate with Cronrvwell. 23. reason it is restored, then providence again smiles upon it, and the sanction of heaven renews its validity. If royalty was destroyed by providence, who can deny Onslow, that the same providence directs it to be revived? Broghill, 1s not the resolution of the parliament equally fines. a proof on either side; or have we any argu- ments to prove that the people co-operate with providence less when they require than when they reject a King? Let us wave such inconclusive arguments and dubious conjectures, and guide ourselves by the steady light of re- ligion, reason, and experience. That a just demand is not to be refused, religion will inform us: reason Broghill. will teach us that the magistrate is to conform to the laws, and not the laws yield to the ma- gistrate : and the experience of many ages may instruct us, that the King has nothing to fear from compliance with the parliament. At least if any danger should arise from the measures now proposed, it will arise from the performance, not neglect of our duty; and we may therefore encounter it with that resolution which a consciousness of the appro bation of God ought to inspire. é THE PROTECTOR’S REPLY. [The reply ts in many parts remarkably obscure, as well from the negligence and tgnorance of the Copiers and Printers, - as from frequent allusions to occurrences known to the persons with whom Cromwell was conferring, but not mentioned in any History which it ts now in our power to consult ; we have therefore collected such of the arguments as we can apprehend the full meaning of, and have omitted some unintelligible passages, and others which related to other articles in the Petition.] ! On the 26th of April, (and in another conference, May 11,) the Protector made the following reply. My Lorps, 7 HavinG seriously reflected on the demand of the parlia- ment, and the learned arguments produced by the com- mittee to support it, I think it unreasonable any longer to delay such a reply as it is in my power to make; because it is both due to the great body by whom you are deputed, and necessary to the dispatch of public affairs, which seem to be entirely suspended, and to wait for the decision of this question; a question which I cannot yet think of so- much importance as it is represented and conceived. € 4