39fi Cornucopia. 



protest against it. In esfablisliing com- laws, than 

 munitics, men have only renounced a 

 portion of the independence whicli they 

 inlierit from nature, to secure the ad- 

 vantages arising from a submission to 

 a reasonable and lawful authority. They 

 have never pretended to surrender tliem- 

 sclves williout reserve to arbitrary mas- 

 ters, or to acquiesce in tyranny and op- 

 pression, or confer on others the right 

 of rendering them miserable. 



"I'he object of all government is the 

 ■well-being of the society governed. To 

 prevent anarchy, to cause the laws to 

 be executed, to protect tiic people and 

 support the weak against the enterprizcs 

 of the strong, it was necessary that every 

 communitv should establish sovereigns 

 endowed with sufficient power to fulfil 

 all these objects. The impossibility of 

 foreseeing all the circumstances that 

 might happen in society, determined 

 nations on giving a greater or less extent 

 of ])ower to those charged with the cares 

 of government. Several nations, jea- 

 lous ot their liberties and their rights, 

 have affixed limits to that jwwer; yet 

 they felt that those limits ought not to 

 be too confined. 'J'hus, the Romans, 

 in the time of the republic, nominated 

 A dictator, whose power was as exten- 

 sive as that of the most absolute mo- 

 narch. In some monarchical states, the 

 power of the soa ereign is limited by the 

 laws which fix bounds wliich he is not 

 prrmittid i<f pass; t!ms, in England, 

 the, legislative power resides in the 

 King and the two houses of parliament. 

 In other countries, the monarch exer- 

 cises, with the cnuscnt of the jyeople, 

 absolute power, but it is always sub- 

 ordinate tixtlie fundamental laws of llic 

 state, whici) aiTbrd a^rcciprocal security 

 to the sovereign and the subjects. 



However unlimited niay be the power 

 that sovereigns enjoy, it never permits 

 them to violate the laws, oppress tlie 

 people, or trample reason and equity 

 underfoot, l^pwardsofa ccntiny since, 

 Deiicnavk fitriiislied an nnlieard-of ex- 

 ample, of a people who, by an authentic 

 and solemn Act, eonierrcd unlimited 

 power on their soveri'ign. The Danes, 

 wearied out with the tyranny of the 

 nobles, chose to surieuder tliemsehes 

 •without leservo. and as it were, bound 

 hand ant' foot, to the mercy of Frede- 

 rick III. Such conduct can oisly be 

 regardiHl as the efl'eet of despair; for- 

 tunately, the Kings of Denmark have 

 not been inclined to abuse that power, 

 they have tiw/?*n ratUr to leign by the 



[Not. 1, 



exercise that destructiv* 

 despotism which the steps of their sub- 

 jects authorized them to make use of. 



The Cardinal de Ketz, speaking of 

 Henry IV. said, "that he never dis- 

 trusted the laws, because lie always 

 confided in himself." Good princes 

 know that they are the depositaries of 

 power, merely for the happiness of the 

 state ; far from wishing to extend it, 

 they have ofleu, of themselves, sought 

 to liv limits to it, for fear that less vir- 

 tuous successors might abuse it. ^uch 

 sovereigns as Titus, Trajan, and Anto- 

 ninus, used power for the hapjiiness of 

 iiumafl kind. Such as Tiberius and 

 Xero abused it for the misery of th« 

 universe. 



UNITARIAN MARTYR. 



Francis I. King of France, had a 

 bastard son by Madame Curcau, of 

 Orleans, who was brought up and sent 

 to college by the name of Stephen 

 Dolet, He published Cummeiitarii 

 Lingua! Latintr, m two voliunes, folio, 

 ■which were beautifully printed at Lyons 

 in 1536, lie also w rote De Re Nava/i, 

 and a poem on his father's gcsts. Un- 

 fortunately he got acquainted at Lyons 

 with the celebrated Serveto, became a 

 zealous propagandist of his opinions, 

 sent heretical books to Paris, incurret^ 

 tirst an imprisomnent, and, alter relap- 

 sing, the condenuiation to be burnt 

 alive. This horrible sentence was ex- 

 ecuted at Paris in 1546, and was the 

 model and precursor of that whicU 

 Calvin inflicted on Serveto at Geneva. 



Calvin uicnlions Dolet in the same 

 phrase with Agrippa, and Serveto of 

 ^'illaH0va, as follows: — Agrippum, Vtl-> 

 lannvanum, Duletum, ct siniitcs vnlg» 

 noliini est tanquam Chjchpns qnospia/n 

 crangeliinn seyvper fastiiose sprevissc. 

 This is a singular ligure of vituperative 

 oratory, to repiesriit the Unitarians as 

 one-eyed, and to call them Cyclops. 



BAKISHMl NT, nEPORTATION, EXILE, 

 RELEGATION. 



Banishnirnt is the lot of !iim, wha 

 quits his native country miiler a ban, or 

 sentence of the law to that elTcct. The 

 banished man, who is transjiortcd at 

 tlip expense of the state, incurs depor- 

 tation. Exile is a vt)luntar} flight, or 

 jnm|)ing over the frontiers, (ex and 

 silio,) in order to prevent legal banislw. 

 ment, and the cpngequcnt confiscations 

 which usually aeoonipany such a sen-t 

 tonce. Relegation is an order to retire, 

 wliidi a {uuu cxeeutt's hinimlf ; it dofo 



