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No man will plead that privateering i £ essential to the safety of an ^ country , and though it has been hitherto allowed by all , it can be no more defended upon any principle of humanity , morality , or of common honesty , than the sending of a band of housebreakers and highway-robbers , armed
with daggers and pistols , into what we are pleased to caliW enemy ' s country , to plunder , and , ii they venture to resist , to destroy its peaceable inhabitants . Yet some of our ministers might , perhaps , scruple to plan , and some of our soldiers refuse to execute a
commission for that purpose , pleading that they were neither thieves nor assassins But in the eye of reason , humanity an 4 common sense , where is the difference ? And what is it which renders
housebreaking a more atrocious and despicable crime , than entering a trading or a travelling vessel forcibly , to seize upon the property which it carries , and prepared , if any opposition is made , to kill or maim the defenders of
it ? If there is a . difference between robbery and murder upon the water , and the samedetestable deeds upon dry land , I will thank any one of your Correspondents who will clearly point it out .
Till this has been done to my satisfaction , I must dfeem privateering one of the most disgraceful and least necessary attendants tipon that fruitful source of human crime and misery , War .
I remain , Sir , in common , I trust , with the great majority of your readers , a sincere friend to PEACE .
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GLEANINGS ; bK , SELECTIONS AND HtlPliECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING . No . CCCLXVIII . Lord Chesterfield ' s Description of Courts . Satires upon Gourts are common but little heeded ; They often proceed from envy , from > disappointment or ' from
sourness of nature . Sometimes thfey are onl y exercises , of wit or of deiclam # i | m ^ mke folio wing ' * itfftp of Gou | tfei ?* as itfifc * temed / by the author ^^ was Hotveve * "dbf&ftftt : « tfft ^^ m ; <^ w- « fount * m $ Mm ¦ * ¦ : It-. W eon 0 m J& .
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Lord Chesterfield ' s Letters to his Spn , ( Letters CLVIII . and CLIX ., ) wtilch were ! hot designed for the public eye , but , solely for the regulation of the conduct of Mr . Stanhope , who was educated for the diplomatic profession . His Lordship , it will be remembered , had passed a long life in Courts , and was now delivering his own
experience . iC The ways" ( of Courts ) < c are generally crooked and full of turnings , sometimes strewed with flowers , sometimes choked up with briars ; rotten ground and deep pits frequently lie concealed under a smooth and pleasing surface : all the paths are slippery , and every slip is dangerous . "
" Nothing in Courts is exactly as it appears to be ; " often very different ; sometimes directly contrary . Interest , which is the real spring of every thing there , equally creates and dissolves friendships , produces and reconciles enmities ; or rather , * allows of neither real friendships nor enmities ; for , as Dryden very
justly observes , Politicians neither love * nor hate . This is so true , that you may think you connect yourself with two * friends to-day , and be obliged ^ to-morrow to make your option between them as * enemies . " " Courts are , unquestionably , the seats
of politeness and good-breeding ; , were they not so , they would be the seats o £ slaughter and desolation . Those who now smile upon and embrace , would * affront and stab each other , if mannersdid not interpose : but ambition and avarice , the two prevailing passions at Courts , found dissimulation more effectual thaifc .
violence ; and dissimulation introduced that habit of politeness , which distinguishes the courtier from the couatry gentleman . " " Homer supposes a chain , let down from Jupiter to the earth to connect him with mortals . There is , at all Courts ,
a chain which connects the prince or the minister , with the page of the back-stairs or the chambermaid . The King's wife or mistress lias . an influence over him ; a lover has an influence over her ; the chambermaid or the valet de chanabre has an influence ovejc both , and io ad in / ln ? - > * tvm - You musttherefore . not breafclb
, , link of that chain , by which you hop ^ lfc cUmhup to thA Pi $ * ee , " * .. . ^ , 'f " You must renounce Courts , rfjp * will not ctotmive at koavps audtd | ir | te fooR Their number nikm oMSmt
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Gleanings . 415
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/35/
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