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GEORGE R.

HEREAS Our trufty and well-beloved Richard Baldwin, of Pater

humbly reprefented unto Us, that he is the Proprietor of a Work that is publifhed monthly, entitled,

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In which is contained many original Pieces, that were never before printed ; and that he is at a great expence in paying Authors for their Labours in writing and compiling the faid Work, which has been published once a Month for near Thirty Years paft, and hath met with great approbation from the Publick,That he is now publishing therein

An Impartial and Succinct HISTORY of the Origin and Progress of the PRESENT WAR,

To be illuftrated with many Maps and Charts, which hath already been fo well received, as to induce feveral Perfons to reprint it in other periodical Publications; and being defirous of reaping the Fruits of his very great Expence and Labour, in the Prosecution of this Work, and enjoying the full Profit and Benefit that may arise from printing and vending the fame, without any other Perfon interfering in his juft Property, he most humbly prays Us, to grant him Our Royal Licence and Protection, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Work. And We do, therefore, by thefe Prefents, fo far as may. be agreeable to the Statute in that cafe made and provided, grant unto him, the faid Richard Baldwin, his Executors, Administrators, and Affigns, our Licence for the fole printing, publishing, and vending the faid Work, for the Term of Fourteen Years, strictly forbidding all Our Subjects, within Our Kingdoms and Dominions, to reprint, abridge, or, publish the fame, either in the like or any other Volume, or Volumes whatfoever, or to import, buy, vend, utter, oṛ diftribute, any Copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Seas, during the aforefaid Term of Fourteen Years, without the Confent and Approbation of the faid Richard Baldwin, his Heirs, Executors, or Affigns, under their Hands and Seals first had and obtained, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils. Whereof, the Commissioners, and other Officers of Our Customs, the Master, Wardens, and Company of Stationers, are to take Notice, That due Obedience may be rendered to Our Will and Pleasure herein declared. Given at Our Court at Kenfington, the 23d Day of October, 1759, in the Thirty-Third Year of Our Reign.

By His MAJESTY's Command.

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LONDON MAGAZINE:

For JANUARY, 1771.

DEBATES OF A POLITICAL CLUB.

Lucius Læna (L-d S―h) in Answer to Aurelius Atticus (L-d L-n) continued from our Appendix p. 652.

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T is not the house, my lords, we ever objected a to, but to the papists of the house. In the moments of our warmeft indignation against the bigot James the Second, we loved his family, we placed his daughters on the throne, and as I before obferved it was our love for the proteftant part of his family, that led us to apply to the electrefs Sophia, in the fettlement of the regal fucceffion. The noble lord withes, he tells us, to abolish all party-diftinctions, yet he is greatly offended that the diftinction of whig and tory is not inflexibly kept up; the king muft govern by a faction to please his lordship; he must not be the common father of his people, but the monarch only of the whigs; at a time that thefe deftructive diftinctions are happily haftening to oblivion, they must be revived by a judicious fovereign, and to conciliate the affections of all to the government of a Brun/wick prince, the unoffending pofterity of the tories must be held in a state of eternal proscription ! What weight, what regard, my lords, is due to the reasonings of fuch wretched politicians; thefe mountebanks in government, who prescribe the revival of parties as the means of restoring domeftic peace, and when they paint us on the brink of ruin declaim on the neceffity of our commencing an immediate war? To your Jordihips I fubmit the debate, and defire the previous queftion may now deride the force of our refpective argu

ments.

Jan. 1771.

The previous question was accordingly put, and the original motion for the papers was rejected by fixty five against twenty-one.

Having thus given the public, with our customary fidelity, the debates on the demand made by Lucius Verus Paterculus, in the upper club-room, for all the papers neceflary to elucidate the dispute with Spain, we now proceed to the motion made in the fame room on the 28th of Nov. by Victor Americanus to afcertain the rights of election; but as the argument on this fubject was barely a repetition of what the reader will find in the political debates in our Magazines of February, March and April, we fhall confine ourfelves to that part of the reafoning, which branched into a digreffive retrofpection of our law courts, and the mode of adminiftring juftice in fome late decifions of popular caufes, on which Victor Americanus animadverting with much feverity, Horatius Tullius (Lord M―d) made the following reply.

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THE opinion of this houfe has been fo repeatedly and fo fully taken on the bufinefs of the Middlefex elec, tion, that it is utterly needlefs for me to make any answer to what the noble lord has now been pleased to urge upon the fubject; I therefore rife only to correct thefe mistakes with refpect to his charges against me in a judicial character, charges quite remote from the purport of his motion, and introduced merely as a fresh tub to amuse the wretched whale of popularity.

It is extremely painful, my lords, where a man is publickly attacked,not only to have prejudice to contend with, but ignorance; I fay ignorance, becaufe highly as I refpect the abilities of

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my accufer in other matters, this is a point upon which he is entirely deftitute of information, indeed fo deftitute, that was I not apprehenfive my filence might be liable to mifconftruction, I fhould not have diftinguished him with the attention of a reply. The noble lord is pleased to say, that the conftitution of this country has not only been wounded in the House of Commons in the material right of election, but in the court of King's Bench by the immediate difpenfers of the law. His lordfhip tells the houfe, that doctrines no lefs new, than dangerous in their nature have been inculcated in this court, and that particularly in a charge which I delivered to the jury on Mr. Woodfall's trial, my directions were contrary to law, repugnant to practice, and injurious to the dearest liberties of the people.This is an alarming picture, my lords, it is drawn with great parade, and coloured to affect the paffions amazingly. Unhappily, however, for the painter, it wants the effential circumftance of truth in the defign, and muft like many other political pictures be thrown, notwithstanding the reputation of the artist, among the miserable daubings of faction.

So far in fact, my lords, is the charge without foundation, that the directions now given to juries are the fame that ever have been. There is no novelty introduced; no chicanery attempted; nor has there, till to ferve fome interested purposes of late, been any outcry raised against the integrity of the King's Bench. When indeed the abettors of fedition found, that the judges were neither to be flattered from their duty by fulfome adulation, nor intimidated by the daring voice of licentioufnefs; when they found that Juftice was not afraid of drawing her fword against the greatest favourite of an inconfiderate multitude, they had no refource but to impeach the probity of her minifters; to acknowledge the equity of any fentence against themfelves, would be to give up their pretenfions to patriotifm; and to acknowledge their disregard of those laws, upon an attachment to which, they founded all their reputation with the people. What, therefore, was to be done? to traduce the judges; to reprefent them as the fervile tools of every arbitrary minister to repre

fent every criminal of a popular nature, a martyr to the public good, and to excite a general abhorrence of all legal fubordination.

The noble lord will probably obferve, that apt as the populace are to imbibe injurious opinions with respect to men in office, there must neverthelefs be fome foundation for these opinions before they can be univerfally believed.-This, however, manifeftly contradicts his own declaration upon a very recent occafion; where speaking of the late Lord Anfon, he faid, that to the wisdom, experience and care of that nobleman the nation was indebted for all the naval glories of the last war. -Yet Lord Anfon according to his account was fo obnoxious to the million, that my accufer thanks God he had fortitude enough to place him at the head of the admiralty, in spite of all the popular clamours raised against him; in direct oppofition to the claniours of the merchants, and the whole city of London.

If this is not fufficient to serve the noble lord, what shall we fay of Sir Robert Walpole's adminiftration, which he himself oppofed, though he now favours us with fo many compliments on the wisdom, on the rectitude of that celebrated statesman? Or what will he fay to the late Lord Granville's continued want of popularity, to whofe abilities, to whose patronage he confeffed himself indebted for every thing he is in politics?-Here are proofs of his own producing in favour of unpopular characters; and I do not despair on future occasions to hear a multiplication of the inftances.

In the law particularly, my lords, it is well worth obferving that some of the names most esteemed by the accufers of the present judges, have been eminent for maintaining the very doctrines, which now expofe the King's Bench to a torrent of unremitted obloquy.-I could quote numerous authorities, equally juft and refpectable, of this opinion, but I will only mention three: Mr. Justice Dennison, Mr. Juftice Forster, and Mr. Juftice Yates, all independent men; the noble lord has mifconceived the matter, by implicitly believing, as many others do, what has appeared in print respecting the nature of libels, and directions to juries, whereas much is often print

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