The Massachusetts Spy, 1770-12-17

Frun the Gentleman's Mag azine, for Aug. 1770. Mr. Urban, I SEND you a Letter which was written by the ce celebrated - lebrated celebrated Sir Walter Raleigh, to that excellent young Prince, Henry, the eldest lon of James the firft. It was published fume years ago, in a colle&ion that has got into but few hands; and without faying that it has any relation to the Court Principles of the present time, I may recommend it to your numerous readers, not only as a literary curiosity, but as containing sentiments which will always bedear to a good man, a good fuh fuhjedt, - jedt, fuhjedt, and a good King. I am, &c. 1. B. To Prince HENRY. May it plea ft your Highne/s, THE following lines are addrefled to your Highness, from a man who values his Liberty, and a very small fortune in a remote part of this Island, under the present constitution, above all the riches and honours that he could any where enjoy under any other esta establishment. - blishment. establishment. You fee, Sir, the doctrines that are lately com£OTU the world, and how far the phrase has obtained* ing your Royal father, God's Vicegerent; which ill men have turned both to the difhonour of God, and thuinUb thuinUbpeachrnent - peachrnent thuinUbpeachrnent of his Majesty's goodness. I hey adjoin vicegerency to the idea of being a'l-powerful, and not to that of being alb good. His Majeftv's wisdom, it is to be hoped, will save h'm from the inare may lie under gr >fs adulations ; but your youth, anu the thir Jof ptane, which I have observed in you, may poflib y mil millead - lead millead you to hearken to those charmers, who would con condudl - dudl condudl your nobie nature into tyranny. Be careful, Omy Prince ! Hear them not, fly from their deceits; you aie in the fucceflion to a throne, from whence no evil can be imputed to you, but all good must be conveyed from ycu. Your father is called the Vicegerent of heaven ; while he is good, he is the Vicegerent of heaven. Shall man have authority from the fountain of good to do evil ? No, my Prince : Let mean and degeneiate fplrits, which benevolence, suppose your power impaired by a cif cifability - ability cifability of doing injuries. If want of power to do iI, be an incapacity in a Piince, wi;h reverence be it fpuken, it is an incapacity he hath in common with the Diety. Let me not doubt but all pleas, which do not carry in them the mutual happiness of Prince and people, wi; ap appear - pear appear as absurd to your great under Handing, as difagree difagreeabie - abie difagreeabie to your noble nature. Exert yourfeif, O generous Prince, against such fyeo fyeophaots - phaots fyeophaots in the glorious cause of liberty; and aflume such an ambition worthy of you, to fccuie your tehow cro

tures from fisvery ; from a condition as much below that of brutes, as to act without reason is less miserable than to act against it. Pieferve to your future fubjecb the divine right of being free agents; and to your own rojal house the divine light of being their Be Believe - lieve Believe me, my Prince, there is no other right can flow from God. While your highness is forming yourfeif for a throne, confider the laws as so many common p'aces in your Hudy of the science of government; when you mean nothing but justice, they are an ease and help to you. This way of thinking is what gave mtn the glorious ap appellation - pellation appellation of Deliverers and Fathers cf their country ; this made the fight of them rouse their beholders into accla acclamations, - mations, acclamations, and mankind incapable of beai ing their very ap appearance, - pearance, appearance, without applauding it as a benefit. Confider the inexpreflibie advantages which will ever attend jour Highness, while you nuke the power cf rendering men happy the measure of your actions. V\ hde this is jour impulse, how caiily will that power be extended. The glance of your eye will give gladness, and your fenrecce have a force '»f bounty. V hatever feme wou'd insinuate, you have loft your fubjedfs when -Wu have loft then inclinations. You aie to preside (he minds, not the bodies of men ; the fcul is the cflence of the man, and you cannot have the true man against his inclinations. Choose therefore to be the King or the Coi queior of your people ; it may be fub fubmiflion, - miflion, fubmiflion, but it cannot be obedience that is paflive. 1 am, Sir, your Highness's most fai hful servant, WAL lER RALEIGH. Augijl 12, 1611.

From a late London News-Paper. Tg the Printer. IT seems to be a prevailing opinion in Great-Britain, that the Parliament have a right to tax the Ameri Americans, - cans, Americans, and that, unless they have such a light, America would be inJependant of Great-Biitain. And it seems to be a prevailing opinion in America, that by taxing them without their confenr, and where they are not, and cannot be represented, you deprive them of the Rights of Engliihmen, nay, in time, w ith the loss of the constitution, will deprive them of Liberty and Property altogether. . 7 his is a very inteiefling fubjeft, the consequence? in each caw very important, though neither io alarming n>r so dangerous to Biitain as to America. With regard to Great Britain, if it Ihcu'd not prove so as is claimed, the consequence can caly be this, dut dutthen - then dutthen no tax can be laid, or revenue tailed, on the An e ericans, - ricans, ericans, inconfiftcnt with their natural rights as men, and