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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ... verdict of mankind, and even in the estimate of our own laws! And is the sin so black and scandalous, when it is personal; and is it less so, when it is national? No, certainly it is not; for it is such a most formidable piece of wickedness, such a horrid crime, a piaculum, as may well be judged to forfeit the divine protection, and leave a people and nation, guilty of it, open to all the rage and malice of the devil, to be hurried on by him, at his pleasure, from sin to sin, till they fill up the measure of their iniquity, and the wrath of God come upon them to the uttermost; and therefore, to this purpose, most applicable is the admonition of St. James, wherewith I shall conclude, " but, above all things, my brethren, swear not." ¡, THE DEC LA RATI O N OF THE MOST CHRISTIAN KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE, Against the most horrid Proceedings of a rebellious Party of Parlia ment-men and Soldiers in England, against their King and Country. 'X ranslated out of French by P. B. Lewis the fourteenth, by the Grace of God, the most Christian King of Franee and Navarre, to all Christian. Kings; Princes States, and People sendeth greeting.!-...'.:.-i.', WHEREAS we are informed, by our dear aunt, the queen of England, of the distressed estate of the king her husband, forced upon him by a rebellious party of his meanest subjects, under the command of. the Baron of Fairfax, who is likewise countenanced by a small handful of the basest of the people, crept into the lower house of parliament,.but not being a tenth part thereof, the worthiest being either imprisoned, or banished by the tyranny of the army, have a design to proceed against the person, and life of their king; which is an action so detestable, and so destructive to the national rights of princes ...