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king of France going in state to the " solemn . general council / ' held " once every year , ' * and " called a Parliament of the three Estates . " " The king was conducted to the parliament-house with a ; sort of pomp
and ceremony , more adapted to popular moderation , than to regal magnificence , which I shall not scruple to give a just account of out of our own public records ; it being a sort of piety to . be pleased with the wisdom of our ancestors ; though in these most
profligate times , I doubt not but it would appear ridiculous to our flattering courtiers . The king then was seated iu a waggon and drawn by oxeny which a waggoner drove with his goad to the place of assembly . But as soon as he was arrived at the court , or rather ,
indeed , the venerable palace of the republic , the nobles conducted the king to the golden throne , and the rest took their places according to their degrees . This state and in this place was what was called Regia Majestas . And indeed , in that place only it can be « aid that Royal
Majest 2 / does truly and properly reside , where the great affairs of the commonwealth are transacted j and not as the unskilful vulgar use to profane the word ; and whether the king plays or
dances , or prattles with his women , always to stile him Your Majesty . " ( P . 73 . ) Then follow the authorities from different writers , beginning with CEginhart , who says of Charlemagne , that " wherever he went about the
public affairs , he was drawn in a waggon by a pair of oxen , which an ordinary waggoner drove after his rustical manner . " Having proved that " the people of France were wont to be bound by
such laws onl y * as they had publicly agreed to in their parliaments , " the author , in his concluding chapter , shews haw " whatever power or authority liad anciently been lodged in the general council of the nation ,
during so many years , was at length usurped by that counterfeit council ^ the Juridical Parliament , which the kings took care to fill with such persons as would be most subservient to their ends . "
. Neither my leisure nor your limits will allow me to send you more of Franqo-Gallia ; a work whose subjects are at this moment peculiarly seasonable . The translator was Lord Moles-
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worth , the friend of Locke and the correspondent of Shaftesbury VERMICULUS .
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85 S- Prince Blucher * s Oxford Degree .
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Sin , - * foy 24 , 1815 DURING the royal and imperial visit to Oxford , last year , I Was
puzzled to guess how-the University would contrive to make that hardy veteran , Prince Blucher , a member of their learned and religious bodv . I knew there was a royal road which bad been unknown to an ancient
philosopher , but discovered by the moderns , a primrose path , leading , without any consumption of midnight oil , immediately to academical distinction . But Prince Blucher had no claim to travel this royal road .
I lately , however , discovered a solution of the difficulty , which is at your service . Conversing on the subject with a clergyman of Oxford , long resident in the University , and acquainted with all its forms , my friend assured me , that Prince Blucher was
created neither a Theologian ^ nor a Civilian , but , with verbal , if not literal propriety , a doctor of Canon Law , BREVIS .
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Sir , May 3 , 1815 . N common , no doubt , with many Iif not all the readers of the Monthly Repository , I feel great obligation to Mr . Cogan , for two excellent papers in vindication of the character of the
benevolent Father and Ruler of mankind , from the libellous aspersions cast upon it * not , I believe , intentionally , by the late Dr . Williams and the Reviewer in the Evangelical Magazine , [ Pp . 76 and 143 . ] In common also , no doubt , with all who
have attentively perused those papers , I feel considerable regret at the intimation which he has given , that he means not to resume his pen upon such subjects . Similar communications from so able a writer , w ould
greatly enhance the value of your very useful miscellany , and tend to the credit and the diffusion of rational , that is , of scriptural religion . I sincerely hope , therefore , that Mr- L .
will be induced to alter his purpose , and not think it necessary for a lear ned minister of the gospel to offer an apology for appearing as the advocate or sacred truth , and a defender of tne justice and benevolence ^ ** od ; » indulge the groundless fear that m i *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/30/
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