alhamed or afraid to be feen; and when he is fhy of being feen; the People in a fhort time will as little value the fight of him, as he is willing to expofe himfelf to view: To be quick of difpatch and eafie of accefs is the Character of a right StatesMan, and no Prince ever loft ground by practifing it himself, for the contrary Method ruines Friendfhip amongst private Perfons, and a King will quickly find the ill Effects of it. It may be ob jected that familiarity breeds contempt; but that King is very ill skilled in Mediums, who is ignorant of the time and manner of receiving his Subjects, fo as to difmifs them from his prefence with content and fatisfaction, without loofing that due distance that ought to be kept betwixt him and them: And the lowest condefcentions and meaneft 2familiarity cannot loofe a Prince fo much as too smuch retiredness, or being over-referved. And Ithis retiredness, like Twins born together, is ufually attended with fuch a flownefs in every thing that half the Effect is loft before they are put in Execution. As in beftowing Imployments or other Favours, the Party does for the most part attend fo long, till thereby the thing receives fo great an allay, and comes with fo ill a Grace, that half the obligation is loft before it is given. And the delatorinefs in all other, Matters loofes much of the advantage that might, have been had by a squicker difpatch, and often creates a neceffity to dupply by a fecond Act what was loft by the deday in the firft, and though at laft the point may be gain'd, yet being forc't to do that at twice which might have bin done at once, is no great reputation to fuch Methods. Difpatch being the life of Execution as fteddinefs is of Council: And this

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flow progress is almost unavoidable; for these Perfons who have hemmed the King in, will not loofe the advantage that is to be had in difpofing of Imployments; they will keep the Candidates as long as they can in fufpence to fee who will bid higheft, whereas a greater difpatch in the difpofing of them would be the lofs of feveral Vifions of Angels, which elfe they may hope to fee, and much more hafte cannot well be expected in other things, by reafon that the proceedings are in a new way, more uncertain and round about,and fo very much depending upon every step. Its no wonder if there be fo much Caution and Jealoufie as to make the refolutions and execution far flower, than if they had been managed in the Old Track.

What has bin faid does not argue against a due Care and Circumfpection, fo as not to prevent all precipitancy, rafhnefs, or indifcreet hafte, and yet the Caution, that goes further than fo, is needlefs, and that which turns to the prejudice of it, is in no fort to be juftified: And though by an unusual flownels a point may have bin gain'd, yet there is no more reafon for the future to take that Method in other Cafes, than to make ufe of a defperate remedy in all Cafes, because it once had good fuccefs, and there is as little reafon to obferve the fame Rules and Methods in all Governments, for that Prince who does fo, it argues his infufficiency to govern. But the moft fatal confequence of a Cabinet Council is, that in a fhort time it 'difposes the King to be weary and uneafie with Men of Intereft and Defert, their Room being more welcome to him than their Company, and then he lays hold on every occafion, to put flights upon them, and to fhuffle them out of their Imployments

ployments for his Appetite being depraved by thofe of the Cabinet, he cannot rellifh, thofe wholesome Advicee which the others think they are bound in duty to offer him; but when the King makes himfelf strange to fuch Men, the People won't believe that he has any good meaning to them: They may fufpect that their Properties are in danger, when 'those that have bin the great Defenders of them are in no credit with him: No Man ever got the good Opinion of the Nation, till by the whole Courfe of his Actions he had made it evident, that he preferved the Publick good to his own private Advantage; and therefore if the King does account the Publick Good and his Interest to be the fame thing, who ought he then fo much to esteem as thofe who are in the good liking of the Nation, who ought he fo much to incourage, or on whom fo much to depend as they: For their Advice will be faithful, and he may be fure as none are fo able to ferve him as they, fo none will be more ready and forward: When he imploys none but fuch as thefe, and values every Man according to the rate that the Nation fets upon him; he then at once bows the hearts of all the People, as one Man; and thereby becomes as fafe and great, both at home and abroad, as the Wisdom, Blood and Treasure of the Land can make him; it makes every Man believe that it is more his Interest to preferve the Kings Life, than to fecure his own, and that it is his duty to make the King eafie in every respect, rather than to increase the Wealth and Profperity of his own Family; that which ufed to be fo tedious and uneafie to other Kings, will be laid upon the fhoulders of the whole Nation, for every Man will make it his business that

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no detriment shall befal the Kings Affairs; Informations for Libels and Reflections upon the Government will then be useless, for neither his Name nor Administration, will never be mention'd but with all refpect and befeeming expreffions, and thofe hours which thofe at Court ufed to fpend in undermining each other, will be wholly imploy'd in his Service, and in fhort he may be gratified in every thing that his heart can defire: But if he lay fuch Men afide, then as Naturally as Corruption fuceeds Death, their rooms must be supply'd by others, who have neither Interest, Principle, nor Morality, but are Compounded of Knave and Fool, the very Scum of the Land, and will do any thing without asking a question, provided they be well paid, and the refult of all their Advice will be to eftrange his Heart from his People: But when the Nation fhall perceive him to be thus encompaffed, they will not be fo prone to trust him as to obferve his proceedings, for under fuch Circumstances his afpect must be very Malevolent, what good can be hoped for, when he accounts them the fittest to ferve him, and the propereft object of his favour, whom the People may juftly repute their Enemies; but well may they be alarum'd, when fuch are imploy'd as were obnoxious in the time of his Predeceffor; for it's a certain argument either of the unskilfulnefs or foulness of a Gamefter, when he defires to play with marked Cards, fo neceffary it is for Kings to confider well who they imploy, because the People Judge of the King according to the Com plexion of thofe that are about him. Wifely therefore did H. IV. upon an addrefs of the Commons remove feveral Perfons that he was very tender of faying he did it not that he could accufe

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them of any thing, but because the People had an ill Opinion of them, for he knew that they were competent Judges in the cafe. And as Politick was it of H. VIII. to give up Empfon and Dudley to Juftice, who might have done as much for him as they had done for his Father, but he confidered. that to part with the hearts of the People for all the Wealth they could procure him would be a very ill bargain, for he understood he might command all that was his Subjects, fo long as he and they were upon good terms, and that King is not much difpofed to be well with his People; when he is fond of a few Men, who cannot pretend to any great merit, But when the King fhall once in good earneft take Men of dependance by the hand, he'll quickly find himself alone with them: For all Men of worth and honour will of their own accord be as forward to quit their Imployments, as he is willing to put them out; because the tendernefs that they have for their reputations will not allow them to mingle with worfer men than them. felves, and the rather because it would give coun tenance to the irregular and difobliging Methods which may be advised to by the other fort of men ; And for this they will not be the worle thought on by their Country, but like Gold ten times purified; they return home with all the advantage that can be, and those who honoured them before, will then fall down and worship them; no Man ever has loft the esteem he had got with the People; for being turn'd out at Court, it being a great miftake that any Man will be leffen'd in the Opinion of the Nation by being turn'd out of his Imployment either because he gave bold Advice, or would not comply against his Judgment, or elfe

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