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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96967	Considerations on Mr. Harrington's Common-wealth of Oceana: restrained to the first part of the preliminaries.	Wren, M. (Matthew), 1629-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3676B; Thomason E1659_2; ESTC R204148	28,805	109

but to the power of the person whose Will creates those laws without which power he might be as as safely disobeyed as that Gunner may be contemn'd who hath neither powder nor Bullet in his Piece The whole force of the next Objection against Mr. Hobs amounts but to this That because Hervey in his Circulation hath followed the principles of nature therefore Aristotle and Cicero have done so in their Discourses of Government Page 3. Government according to the Ancients is of three kinds the government of one man or of the better sort or of the whole People which by their more learned Names are called Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy Legislators having found these three Governments at best to be naught have invented another consisting of a mixture of them all which only is good The partition of Government with reference to the persons in whose hands it is into Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy without Question is very natural for necessarily either One or All or some number between both must have the power nor do I see how we can have a Conception of any other Government unless at the same time we can conceive the power may be resident in more then All or less then One. It is not to be denied but that in History the names of Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy are to be found applied to such governments the parts of which severally taken may serve to compound a new individual Government differing from all of them But this Mixture and Difference is no more then this which not being enough attended to hath been the cause of great Mistakes that some points of the Government are administred by one or few persons or by the body of the people as perhaps one single person governs the Militia some select few dispatch affairs of State the whole people meet for Election of Officers And yet the Soveraignty or supreme power belongs but to one of these three and the Actions in which it is truly seated are no waies communicable to the other two Page 3. The Principles of Government are twofold the goods of the Mind and the goods of Fortune The goods of the mind are natural or acquired virtues as Wisdome Courage c. The goods of Fortune are Riches To the goods of Mind answers Authority to the goods of Fortune Power or Empire In considering the Principles of Government Mr. Harrington gives us cause to complain of a great Disappointment We hoped to receive from his hand that satisfaction about them which several great Wits have in vain studied to derive to us but we find him instead of the first principles thrusting upon us such things as are at best but fair endowments of persons fit to be intrusted with a Government already settled or resolved on The Wisdome Courage or Riches of another man can never give him a Title to my obedience nor take from me that liberty with which I was born There must be something before all these in the Nature of Government without which it will be as unjust to define Soveraignty and subjection as it would be to oblige Mr. Harrington to give his cloaths or money to the next man he meets wiser or richer then himself Page 4. Empire is of two kinds Domestick and National or Forraign and Provincial Domestick Empire is founded on Dominion Dominion is Propriety Reall or Personall that is to say in Lands or in money and goods Lands are held by the Proprietors in some Proportion and such as is the Proportion or Ballance of Dominion or Property in Land such is the nature of the Empire Pag. 5. Vnto Propriety producing Empire it is required that it should have some certain root or foothold which except in Land it cannot have being otherwise as it were upon the Wing Nevertheless in such Cities as subsist most by Trade and have little or no land as Hollandand Genoa the Ballance of treasure may be equal to that of Land There is a great Contention between Leviathan and Oceana whose names might seem to promise a better Agreement whether power or propriety be the Foundation of Dominion but they seem to me to mean the same things For what is propriety but Riches and Riches are Pag. 3. confest to be power The Difference then is only in Words and propriety the Ballance the Agrarian c. make up onely a new Lexicon to express those things we knew before But the Assertion will appear too positive that propriety producing Empire consists only in land except in such places as Holland and Genoa which have little or no land Experience instructs us that it is not a large possession in lands but an Estate in ready mony which is proper for carrying on a great and sudden Enterprise And we know of what importance Banks or Monti are even in other places besides Amsterdam and Genoa I will propose a Case which was once so neer being a true one that I presume it canot be rejected as improbable England is defined to have been under the Gothick Ballance that is having the propriety in the hands of a Nobility and Clergy and consequently to have been a mixt Monarchy where the King was not absolute To a King of England Hen. 7. was the first proposition of discovering America made by Columbus which if it had been embraced the Silver of Potosi had sailed up the Thames instead of the Guadalquivir and by this the Kings Revenue would annually have been encreased above a Million the rest comming into the hands of private Merchants and Adventurers and not of the principall Nobility In this case I ask whether this Accession of Revenue would not have preponderated on the Kings part and changed the Ballance though the Lands at home had still been possest by the Nobility in the same Proportion as before It is not to be doubted but that a Revenue sufficient to maintain a Force able to bear down all Opposition does equally conduce to Empire whither it arises from the Rents of lands the Profits of ready moneys the Duties payable upon Manufactures and Traffique or any other kind of Income That Empire is well divided into National and Provincial shall be admitted without Opposition if I may be satisfied in this demand whether there may not be a mixture of these two by which the Ballance of Government shall receive Alteration which in effect differs little from this That the severall parts of a Nationall Empire may so poise one another as to produce a new Ballance For example The Crowns of Castile and Arragon were of a differing Ballance the power of the King being more absolute in the former and the interest of the Communalty greater in the latter The union of these two Crowns did not render the Government of Arragon purely forrain or provincial And yet the Ballance in Arragon hath been so far changed by it that the power of the King hath devoured the Interest of the people This is no nice and unprofitable speculation for it