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The joyful news of opening the exchequer to the gold-smiths of Lombard-street, and their creditors as it was celebrated in a letter to the same friend in the countrey, to whom the bankers case was formerly sent / by the author of the same case.
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Turner, Thomas, d. 1679.
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mind a singular Deference and Veneration for the Action And withall I must tell you Sir That the Envy and Discontents are great and in no wise to be excused when the most laudable Actions of a Prince or State and which ought to give the greatest Satisfaction are yet taken in ill sense and not thought worthy of that Applause and Remarque which is due unto them Especially when it hath also been sometime seen that the best Governments yea and the best Men are like the choicest precious Stones wherein the least Flaw or Speck is presently discover'd when as those that are generally foul and corrupted are not observ'd with the same Niceness and Curiosity Sir The People of Egypt they say do presage the Fertility of the ensuing year from the gradual Inundations of their River Nilus I think a man may with equal reason prognosticate a great Harvest of Felicity to this Nation from this late fructifying Overflow of his Majesty's Justice I pretend not to foretel Futurities but in so plain a case I think a very weak person may undertake to be a Prophet You will give me leave then to instance in two or three particulars which come first to my mind In the first place then this Action will in all probability conduce to the Sedation and Quieting of mens minds when they shall observe His Majesty's so singular Regard and Tenderness to His Subjects Property a word which hath been always Precious and Sacred in this Nation and I doubt not will for ever so continue that so Vast and Immense a Debt a Debt humanely speaking long ago dead and buried that a Debt of this nature I say should be thus honourably reviv'd and secur'd and yet with such Difficulties too and Hare Shifts to the Crown as His Majesty was lately pleas'd to express himself in an Audience of the whole Kingdom This this Sir is a matter not altogether to be neglected and as my Lord Chancellor then also said None but a Just and Generous Prince would ever have undergone it I remember * In Prafatione ad Vitam Jul. Agricolae Tacitus doth tell us not without some Ostentation that his Divus Nerva and Divus Trajanus two excellent Emperours it must be confest had the knack of rightly mixing and tempering Principatum Libertatem Sovereignty and Liberty two things he adds which before those times did not often keep company together Our King hath in this Action discover'd himself a great Master in the same Art and therefore deserves equal Glory with them And his Majesty seems to have acted herein according to that Great Saying of His Royal Grandfather King James which my Lord Chancellor * Advancement of Learning lib. 7. cap. 2. Bacon could not be persuaded but that King spake by nothing less than a Divine Inspiration viz. That Kings should rule by the Laws of their Kingdoms as God did by the Laws of Nature and ought as rarely to put in use their Prerogative which transcends Laws as we see God put in Vse his power of working Miracles Secondly This Action will undoubtedly have a sweet Influence upon the Nation in point of Trade Commerce and indeed all Negotiations and Business of what nature soever I have observ'd to you heretofore That Money is the Bloud of the Body Politick and that if the Circulation thereof he stopt in one Member that Blood can never be transmitted to the Neighbouring Veins and thereupon not only that part but the whole Body in fine becomes fev'rish and distemper'd But this Gratious Act of His Majesty hath remov'd the Obstruction open'd again the Passages and Current of the Blood and thereupon the Body will be restor'd to its pristine Health and Vigor To say nothing that as the Sea will now feed the Rivers and little Brooks so these again will in good measure disburthen themselves into the Sea in matter of Parliamentary Taxes Customs Imposts and other Returns of that Nature the Advantage being reciprocal both to King and People Lastly and which perhaps will be more considerable than all the rest in the opinion of all good Englishmen The Sacred Honour and Declarations of the King the Common Faith and Laws of the Nation which were indeed the Hostages and Guaranty for this Debt and ought to be as immoveable as the Centre of the Earth will be hereby preserv'd Chaste and Inviolate States and Communities Sir are supported by Fame and Reputation as well as Individuals and single Bodies And the honourable Performances of publick Sanctions are the Arteries and Ligaments which hold together a Body Politick which may not be cut assunder or loosed without a manifest Peril to the Whole This Royal Balsome Sir hath now perfectly heal'd up the Wound and a new and more vigorous Phoenix of Credit and Reputation will arise again as it were out of its own Ashes Sir After the time of that excellent Prince Trajan there was amongst the Romans under every renowned Emperor a form of Acclamation of this kind Long may'st thou live Antonius Long may'st thou reign Theodosius happier than Augustus better than Trajan I am sure we of England may with much more reason proclaim Long may'st Thou live CHARLES THE SECOND the grand Exemplar of Clemency to all the Potentates of the Earth Long may'st Thou Reign here in Happiness and Glory and make a slow though sure Return to Heaven And let this Illustrious and Immortal Act of Thy Justice fill the mouth of Fame and be resounded with loud Applause throughout the whole Vniverse as long as the Sun and Moon endure So prayeth SIR Your affectionate Friend and Servant THO. TURNOR Grays-Inn May 7th 1677.