Public Register Or Freemans Journal, The (Newspaper) - December 26, 1764, Dublin, Dublin VOL H eeman s u R o Numb Or Journal From SATURDAY DECEMBER the a ad to WEDNESDAY DECEMBER the DISCOURSE III Concluded Sea V Public Frugality and public compared brought by Extravagance of the People pk great Frugality that creates Plenty bit want of Thrift that the Firll with a few Taxes was rich tho i i for fo many Demands fo many Ex- Ion with Taxes were poor ilii even in Peace the War We fee how well he profited by LOO management nr any public Exi home or y U The nour him He was accounted at belt but a King in Law not upon the Affections of his People It was reckoned that his Minions coil England more than Queen Elizabeth had in all her Wars He was fond of all new Waya of Money and his People fond of all Forfeitures and his Parliament fo that they cared net to oblige him ed them fo that they would rio longer him denied their Demands or granted and then eluded them j to all low Shifts and was at laft thought unworthy of all Confidence to have the ney granted by Parliament in the Hands of Com- appointed by Parliament yet afterwards forced it from theie all Fuith and Honour plighted A Prince muit be extremely of whom it could be faid as it was of him That he had no to hurt any People but his own j and was fevere but indulgent to fince so Murder was when the Murderer had Money In Return for all his Prodigality and he was hated and lived in and In his Reign began which terwards involved the Nation in the long Civil War Seft VI The Revenues under ill this to the P ople how ro the State The true Liberality of a Prince what The vile Spn it or ing Armies revolting and he Expedition in to them hw I a Fund to on Foot aud commanded all Orders of to bung in fuch a of Money But Men to any Thing and lanl A fowl of the public is a of well governed State which can never be well n ri anil nor M and to her Honour too much never car be hn Court and Thrift drove lor Pre-eminence No upon the n upon the Queen She never had nor her No Wonder he had s which Mr call truly the of a Prince who was always was always n eve hunting aiter new tor Money did he any that offered however heavy er Hence lo many to the Ruin and the of vexatious to many ex- and arbitrary Fines The about bun continually preying upon him and forcing him to wev Upon the Public created Want and Want which tempts private Men to be Knaves makes public All his regular Revenue all the Supplies which he had from Parliaments with all the Ad- from many mean Device's many op- Tricks 10 get Money were hardly to and Favourites and Could the Public like fuch aa or NO Revenue whatever is large enough to bear con- Embezzlement The Wealth of the new World the Mines of Mexico and Peru by the Spaniards couki not keep their Monarchy riom during a long of Years in the late Reigns the Finances were managed in and enormous Penfions and diverted horn the Service of the State By this Means in a great fure that proud Monarchy which had aimed at being was become to impotent and that far from conquering other Countries could not defend her own faw fome of her molt torn from her and had it not been for fome of her Neighbours even fuch as he had formerly aimed up but now for their own obliged to that their flie had followed the Fortune of her Frontiers and been the Sport and of a A few Provinces once her own not very large but very frugal as they had at fir it beaten hei in her beft Days her in her word and in the their Fleets and Aimies employed in her Defence quite her as well as in and city to fit them out Can there be a greater of the different of Management and Under the 01 Mazarin during the Minority of Lewis the Fourteenth when Money was wanted Vrom the Finances lor the Service of the State the Superintendents were wont to That there was none in the but the Cardinal would lend tke King fome With Management the King could not have been fo nor the Cardinal fo abounding When the Emperor Claudius was once complaining of the Poverty and ol his Exchequer it was ly ob That he might be abundantly rich if his two governing would him for a Sharer with them and Pallas were the two meant they who to ravage and with all No matter what the Public paid no O tcr what their Ma tier wanted the Fourteenth who was extremely magnificent thut is throwed away vail Sums in Pomp and Vanity when he heard of the Confederacy forming One to abridge ins prodigious Expence in Building Gardens Jewels For that very Year he had in Building only fifteen Millions Nor could he hold his to retrench the public fo the private Poverty fo melancholy and affecting He went on with ty and Taxing What the poor had he would not want for his Pity was by no Means fo bit Power To to and to enrich the People is the true and chief Liberality of a Prince is that Bounty which impoverishes all Men It was truly faid of that greatly deceived were they with whom his and Extravagances a's he would have had them under the Name and of Thf Man might know how to and confound but to thq and beneficent Rules of Liberality he muft been an utter Stranger 1 admire a Saying of Great who in was a glorious Prince that he hoped to ice the Time when the Man in would be able to have a Pullet in his Pot j or Words to that This the true and paternal of a King fuch a Spirit as every King ought to have eife I know no he has with What has any King to Jo but to make the People happy Wlm have People to do with a King who makes them Yet to fome of our Princes they often claimed Payment of the People and had it even for Laws and and never parted with any Exactions without an Equivalent They were paid for graining what it was infamous to deny I was out of Countenance lor a late one who affected the Title of Great in my Opinion very upon meeting with the following Story He told a or his what great Peace of Mind he had jult received from his to whom he had ed his Anxiety about his grinding and his ple in fo grievous a Manner and how readily the good Man had removed all his Scruples by afluring him that whatever they had was his own and whatever was his own he might take She ii faid to have replied very freely but juiUy And were you fuch a Fool as to believe him there was no tery no no View to Favour and Preferment in the State of this Holy hard-hearted Knave who by the Law of God could authorize and the Enormities of a Tyrant Surely than no on Religion which Humanity and rants Barbarity as wicked as Tyrants are who tenance Tyranny and of all Sycophants fuch who cajole in the Name of the Lord ara the molt and odious When King James the alked AW whether he might not take his People's Money without tke mony and Content of Parliaments the roundly that he might God Sir but you You arc the Breath ef our By Cant and the impious of he would have warranted the overthrow of the and let the King to rob his Subjects contrary to the Duty of a King contrary to his Coronation Oath and Law and the Had the Law provided no for fuch a ed Enemy to Law and Liberty and all To of the Kim is High The was for killing the To fuch and tis probable this was led only out pf Regard to King tiality to and chiefly being Source of I know not in what other he could be the Breath of the Sun I am it would very out
