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-Pure’d by the sword, and purified by fire, 
Then had we seen proud London’s 
hated walls; 
Owls might have hooted in St. Peter's choir, 
And foxes stunk and littered in St.Paul’s. 
ON THE STATE OF ASECRETARY’S PLACE, 
BY ROBERT CECIL EARL OF SALISBURY. 
All officers of state, and counsellors - 
of princes, havea prescribed authority, 
either by patent, by oath, or by custom, 
the secretaries’ place only excepted ; 
but to them tbere is allowed a liberty 
to negociate at discretion, both at 
home and abroad, with friends and 
with enemies, in all matters of enquiry 
to gain intelligence. All servants of 
princes deal upon strange and cau- 
tious authority, and. warrants for it; 
as in disbursements, &c. only a Se- 
erctary hath no warrant or commission, 
in matters of his own greatest danger, 
but must rely on the word and inte- 
grity of his sovereign. For, such is 
the multiplicity of occasions, and the 
yatiable motives and intentions of fo- 
reign princes, and their daily practices 
in so many parts and places, that se- 
cretariecs never can have any commis- 
sion so large as to ensure them. So 
that a secretary must either conceive 
or dive into tue thoughts of a king, 
(which is only the prerogative of God 
Almighty,) or else a king must either 
exercise the painful office of a secre- 
tary himself, (which is contrary to 
majesty and liberty,) or choose such a 
secretary that he may repose his con- 
fidence in. 
All foreign princes hate another 
prince’s secretary, as well as all ambi- 
tious aspirers and conspirators; be- 
cause, for the most part, they cither 
kill these monsters in their cradles, or 
track them to a discovery where no 
other person could find the print of 
their feet. All persons in offices and 
laces of trust malign them, unless 
they wink at their frauds and cheating 
the king; all their fellow-counsellors 
envy them, because they see and do 
most, have freest access to their sove- 
reign; and, on all occasions, that the 
prinee has to enquire into offences, to 
deny, prefer, or punish, none are so 
much employed, or bear the burden so 
much, as the secretaries. 
Kings are advised to observe three 
things, especially, in. a’ secretary :— 
1. That he be created by himself, and 
be of his owm raising and preferring. 
2. That he match not into a family 
that is accounted factious. 3. Thathe 
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has a reasonable capacity, and conve- 
nient ability both of friends and estate: 
that by the first he may be able to get 
to the depth of what is committed to 
his charge; secondly, that by the 
second he might not be led away with 
any vain or idle conceit, to wrong his 
prince, or abuse the trust committed 
to him; and, by the last, that he might 
be able to serve his majesty without 
wropging any man, out uf a coyetous 
principle. i 
On the other hand, a secretary had 
need serve a prince that is constant to 
his own orders, and steady in his com- 
mands, otherwise he is:in a dreadful 
condition, &c. Now, if theré bea se- 
cretary whose estate can witness he 
has not served for profit; that he has 
preferred the honour and safety of his 
master, and despised his own advan- 
tage; and, after all this, he finds his 
fidelity and diligence cannot secure 
him against the clandestine insinua- 
tions and slanders of his malicious 
enemies,—’'tis time to resign his: place. 
For, as, if he had not been fit to be 
trusted, he was unworthy of his life ; 
so this keeping. of his office, after 
such an assurance, shows he is weary 
of it; for the first day of a secretary’s 
being suspected is the birth-day of his 
misery, for at this same moment he is 
tried, judged, and condemned. 
MOTTOES. 
The Corsicans never fire at random: 
*T} Corso non tira, si non é sicuro 
del suo cojpo.’—The Genoese say of 
them, ‘‘ I Corsi meritano la fureca e la 
sanno soffrire” (The Corsicans deserve 
the gallows, and are not afraid of it), 
—A dreadful species of revenge exists 
in Corsica, called Vendetta étrasversa, 
or collateral revenge, it exteuding to 
relatious. 
Jacobinism is justified by Hobbesin 
the following words :—‘ Propler ma- 
lorum pravitatem recurrendum etiam 
bonis est, si se tueri volunt, ad virtutes 
bellicas, vimet dolum, id estad ferinam 
rapacitatem.” 
The Clergy. 
Nihil habentes, et onmia possidenter, 
For a Water-closet. 
- Sine necessitate, i 
. Hunc non intrate. 
Paoli, §e. 
 Vincit amor patriz laudamque mimasa 
cupido. 
Duke of Q. 
Deim a 
Noctes ceenequc. 
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