84 LETTER IIL 



Borgia was Pope Alexander the fixth*s Natural 

 Son y and Olivaretto de Fermo one of the Urjijii 

 Family ; Ufurpers and Tyrants both ; but for a 

 more ample account of them, fee Machiaver^ 

 Prince^ chapters 7^^ and 8^^. 



In a Word. Ever fince the contagious Exam- 

 ple of Nmrod (the ambitious Founder of the 

 Ajyrian Empire ) the World has been pretty 

 well flocked with Tyrants and Ufurpers of all 

 forts, who were fent by divine Providence as a 

 Scourge for the Irreligion and Vices of depraved 

 Mankind, and of courfe are my abhorrence. Be- 

 fides a multitude of other inconveniences, De- 

 ipotick Power is predominant in all Republicks^ 

 which create in my heart a kind of natural 

 averlion to their Government. So that our own 

 mixed Monarchy is by far the moft eligible State 

 in Europe , and that it may be preferved as free 

 as poffible from all Filth of Corruption^ till 

 Timers latefl period^ is the fincere wifh of, 



T'otir affured Friend^ 



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