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 to him, which, at length, iued in the los of his crown, and of that head which was unworthy to wear it.

by whom was this reitance made? Not by a private junta;—not by a mall editious party;—not by a few deperadoes, who, to mend their fortunes, would embroil the tate;—but by the LORDS and COMMONS of England. It was they that almot unanimouly oppoed the king's meaures for overturning the contitution, and changing that free and happy government into a wretched, abolute monarchy. It was they that when the king was about levying forces againt his ubjects, in order to make himelf abolute, commiioned officers, and raied an army to defend themelves and the public: And it was they that maintained the war againt him all along, till he was made a prioner. This is indiputable. Though it was not properly peaking the parliament, but the army, which put him to death afterwards. And it ought to be freely acknowledged, that mot of their proceeding, in order to get this matter effected; and particularly the court by which the king was at lat tried and condemned, was little better than a mere mockery of jutice.—

next quetion which naturally aries, is, whether this reitance which was made to the king by the parliament, was properly rebellion, or not? The anwer to which is plain, that it was not; but a mot righteous and glorious tand, made in defene of the natural and legal rights of the people, againt the unnatural and illegal encroachments of arbitrary power. Nor was this a rah