48. The Hiftory of Briss 
proclaimed in publick, but with Surprize and 
Pleafure will you fee the happy Change ; in- 
expreflible Joy reigning thro’ the whole 
Empire; all Hands are immediately em: 
ployed, and their future, cheafful, faithful, 
and conftant Labours will abundantly recom- 
penfe your tender and compafiionate Re- 
gard, your moft charitable, kind, generous 
Affiftance and Relief, in their moft forrow- 
ful and diftreffing Circumftances, And by | 
this one kind Act and Office, you prevent 
the total (or .otherwife inevitable) Deftruc- 
tion of many thoufands of thefe excellent 
Creatures; nay of an entire Kingdom of 
Empire. ‘Delightful Thought ! 
Here it muft be obferved, that this Regent 
afcends' not the Throne as an Ufurper; gains 
not the regal Power and Authority by Con- 
queft or Force of Arms; nor by Adts of 
Tyranny, Injuttice, Oppreflion and Cruelty ; 
nor again by Election (as fome fuppofe,) but 
by hereditary Right; Nature having entitled 
and advanced her to this fovereign Domi- 
nion, and imperial Dignity. So that her 
Claim is indifputable and unalienable. Butler 
obferves that the Queen comes to the Supre- 
macy by Succeflion, or a judicious, prudent 
Election ; alfo by Birth- right and Seniority. 
If that Right be hereditary, why fhould it 
not be conftant and immutable ? 
As they cannot fubfift, much lefs prof 
per, without a Guide or Ruler, fo neither 
will 
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