o Terr-Filiu 9 ?ot plea?d to o?ey_ their orders. A full ac�ollrlt this fhall be the ?ubje& of Come future papers, l ?e a proper opportunity. By l?yal7 is generafly underaoo3 a firm and dy afie&ion to the lawful prince of our country, Co as ?o be ready, upon all juff occafions, to ven?re our iives and tortunes in h?s ?rvice: but finee, in thef? days of ?k?ion and divJfion, there are alway? two and rometimes more contendin ?rties, and fince bo?h or all o? thcte parties call their own caufe the ?u? caufe, and their own tide the right fide, the word 1oyaby, like innumerable other words, is come a meet found, without any certain meaning for as there is no common point agreed upon, where t?alty ought to centeri or, which is the time, as me rights and titles, and powers of Kings are eve- ry day dit?uted, upon which only the meafures loyalty depcnd? lo alt and d?ioyalty, proceeding out of d}?rent mouths, have a? equivocal fignification, and ?e pe?etually jumbled and confus'd. Thus 0 x v o a n was always remarkable for it? loyalty; that is, it always ef?uk8 one fide or was always warm and a&ive, and meddling ?n the intereR o? tbme ?h. ourire prince, or tyrant, or ufur- per, or rebel, or inva&r, or pretender; (in defiance? many times, o? oaths, abjurations, and deeee$ to the ?ontrary,) who beh? thus honour? with its trona e, was immediately dubb'd a ?nter patrie? ? g and became the anointea of the Lord. To tflk of Oxvo? loyalty in any other fenfe dull banter and wimace? the En?iflJ hi?ry of black in?ances of its per:'erfene?s and difobedien? to good princes? and oF its tartly and adulation to bad ones ? of its perpetual murmurings again? all governments that did not make much of them, and of its humble fubmi?on, and dutifd refignation to thole which were flways adding to its chaters privileges.
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