Effay on Woman being in red, which this deponent faid to evade, although the proofs were in black; that Farmer told this deponent, he wanted it to oblige a roman catholick gentleman, and that he would give two guineas, or any thing, to get it, that he actually laid down two guineas, which this deponent refufed, and told Farmer that he was not upon an honeft defign; that he could not conceive for what reafon a roman catholick gentleman particularly fhould offer two guineas, or any fum, for what Farmer muft know was not from the quantity worth fix-pence; that this deponent then paid for the pint of beer before him, telling Farmer that if he would call the funday morning following this deponent would speak to the purpose, and then quitted the houfe; that this deponent then discovered the affair to a friend, and when Farmer came to this deponent on the funday, this deponent told him that he had destroyed the copy, and that he hoped that would end any further vifit on that head; that the next day this deponent waited on Mr. Churchill; that this deponent asked him if any harm could come to Mr. Wilkes, or this deponent, for the Effay on Woman; that Mr. Churchill faid there could not, but for any thing the people in power could do they might be damn'd; that however he would write to Mr. Wilkes, who was then in France; that the next application was by Haffell, the overfeer of Mr. Faden, who defired this deponent would go to the globe tavern, as Mr. Faden wanted to speak to this deponent on fome bufinefs; that this deponent accordingly went; that when Faden and this deponent were alone, Faden informed him, that Farmer had given him a few pages of an Essay on Woman which the faid Faden had fhewn to a clergyman, and that clergyman to a nobleman, and that if this deponent would oblige him with a copy of the whole for that nobleman he would be this deponent's friend, and was pofitive, that the perfon, as he was in power, would make an ample provifion for him this deponent; that this deponent pretended ignorance of the whole at this meeting, that another meeting was soon after had with the faid Faden at the faid globe tavern; that the faid Faden promised this deponent he fhould be taken care of, and if he would give the said Faden a copy of the Effay on Woman, this deponent might have any fum he named, or any place he fhould name, which it was in their power to get; that several other meetings were had between the faid Faden and this deponent; that the fame offers were repeated, and ten, twenty, a hundred guincas, or any fum, would be given as a fecurity that the copy fhould be returned; that Mr. Wilkes was all this time in France; that there was a ftrong report that Mr. Wilkes intended to profecute this deponent for felony, in

having

having ftolen a copy of the Effay on Woman; that this depo nent applied to fee Mr. Wilkes on his return from France, and was refused by his fervant; that foon after, the applications to this deponent were renewed by the faid Faden and the faid Haffel; that he was defired to name any fum ; that he might depend on being fupported from any injury he might apprehend, and firmly rely on being protected by thofe in power; that otherwiie he might be profecuted for having printed the copy; that afterwards the reports of this deponent's being to be profecuted by Mr. Wilkes for felony gaining ground, this deponent in a paffion went to the faid globe tavern, fent for the faid Faden, and gave him the copy, faying, he hoped that he should be taken care of, as he found he was not fafe either in keeping or destroying the copy; that the said Faden then gave him five guineas as a fecurity to return him the copy, and promised him protection; that this deponent went with the faid Faden on the fame evening to the house of Philip Carteret Webb, Efq; folicitor to the treasury, in Great Queen-ftreet, where was the rev. Mr. Kidgel; that the faid Webb bid this deponent be easy, for that he should be provided for; that this deponent afterwards for feveral weeks lodged and boarded in the faid Webb's houfe; that this deponent was often told by the faid Webb that government would take care of him, if he would give evidence on the trials against Mr. Wilkes; that he muft remain ftaunch, and that directions, as to what this deponent should say on the trials, were given him by the faid Webb; that a few days before the meeting of the parliament, the faid Webb bid the faid Faden take this deponent out of town; that accordingly the faid Faden and this deponent went first to Hounflow, then to Hampton-Court, and afterwards to Knightsbridge, till the morning the house fat, when they went to the horn tavern in Westminster, where were the faid Webb and the said Kidgell, and from thence to give evidence before the house of lords; that the said Webb a few days afterwards carried this deponent to the Earl of Sandwich, who was then fecretary of ftate; that his lordship faid to this deponent, You have faved the nation, and you may depend on any thing that is in my power; that this deponent faid he was without money, to which his lordship replied, he must not hear that; that the faid Webb added you had no occafion to mention that; that at the bottom of his lordship's ftairs the faid Webb ordered this deponent to go to Mr. Carrington, one of the king's meffengers; that this deponent accordingly went to the faid Carrington's, who gave him a guinea and an half, for which this deponent gave a receipt in thefe words, For fubfiftence, for which I shall be accountable, or

to that effect; that the fame payment of a guinea and an half was continued for about twenty-five weeks by the faid Carrington; that the faid Carrington faid the reason why he took receipts was, that he was answerable to the government for that money; that this deponent was affured by the faid Webb, from time to time, that he should be amply provided for; that this deponent was afterwards employed by the faid Webb to compromise the edicts with the other Printers, which this deponent did for the other Printers at the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds each; that this deponent had received nothing from the faid Carrington for fome time before the verdicts were compromised; that he received for his own share two hundred thirty-three pounds fix fhillings and eight-pence, which the faid Webb declared was for the trouble, and fatisfaction for what had been done; that then this deponent finding no more money coming from the faid Carrington, and his life being made very uneafy to him at London, retired into the north." MICHAEL CURRY,

Sworn at the Manfion-house,

in London, the 3d of Auguft,

1768, before THOMAS HARLEY, Mayor.

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For the POLITICAL REGISTER.

MAXI M S.

Qui capit ille facit.

People may forfake their king, and still continue a people; but if a king lofes his people, he is no more a king. If a king fuffers his paffions to get the afcendant of his reafon, he is like a fhip without a rudder or a pilot, and is as much exposed to his minifters as a veffel to the winds.

The king who sets up his will against the laws of the land, wages war with his best friends.

If kings would confider how liable they are to be misled by their minifters, they would be more circumfpect in the choice of them than they generally are,

When the king changes minifters and not measures, he is like a fot who only changes his liquors and not his manner of living. The king who confides in a minifter that has once deceived him, is like a dupe in the hands of sharpers.

A wife king will never confer his favours on his courtiers in fuch a manner as to lose the favour of his fubjects; nor will he protect a villain at the hazard of lofing the hearts of all honeft men.

The king who wakes for his people's good, fleeps in fecu ity without a guard.

For the POLITICAL REGISTER.

TRANSLATION of a treaty for appeafing the troubles of the Republic of Geneva, approved of by the Sovereign General Council, March 11, 1768. By a majority of 1204 to 23.

Nunc Patriæ Pietas exhibetur: Cujus Majeftati, etiam illa quæ Deorum Numinibus æquatur, Auctoritas Parentum, Vires fuas fubjicit: Fraterna quoque Charitas æquo Animo ac libenti cedit, fumma quidem cum Ratione. Quia everfa Domo, intentatus Reipublicæ Status manere poteft: Urbis Ruina Penates omnium trahat fecum neceffe eft. Verùm quid attinet verbis ifta complecti? Quorum tanta Vis eft ut tam multi ea Salutis fuæ Impendio testati fint.

MY

VALER MAX.

Y Lords the Syndics, the lefs and grand council, defiring with the greatest ardour to put an end, as foon as poffible, to the diffentions, which have fo long disturbed the Republic, and to procure the return of confidence and harmony, have been obliged to take into confideration the propofitions made for fo falutary an end, and which were prefented to my lords the Syndics, the fifteenth day of the prefent month. The faid Syndics of the leffer and the grand councils, after having deliberated thereon at the two separate times, have approved of the following articles; and have been of opinion to propose them to the magnificent, and fovereign general council, which fhall be convoked for that purpose on Friday the eleventh of this month, to know whether they approve thereof, and give their confent there

unto,

ARTICLE.

I.

1. The lieutenant and treasurer fhall not be elected but from fuch of the leffer council, as are actual members, or liable to be elected; and the auditors and the attorney general fhall not be chosen but from fuch citizens, as are actual members of the council of two hundred, or qualified to be elected among them.

$2. In cafe all the actual members of the leffer council, eligible and approved by the bench for the office of lieutenant or that of the treasurer, fhall have been rejected by the general council, or there fhall not remain a number fufficient to compleat the nomination; they fhall proceed as for the election of Syndics, by prefenting together to the general council, all the actual and eligible members of the leffer counVOL. III.

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cil; without a new election; in which cafe the approbation of the bench fhall not be renewed; and all the counfellors that are eligible, fhall be prefented to the council-general, in the same manner as has been the custom of former benches, for approbation,

$3. The council of two hundred, may grant to the counfellors of the leffer council their exemption from being nominated for the office of Syndic; but in cafe it is neceffary to prefent together, to the general council, all the actual and eligible members of the leffer council, without a new election, the exemptions which shall have been granted, fhall have no effect. The council of two hundred may likewife grant to the counsellors of the leffer council, their exemption from being nominated to the offices of lieutenant and treasurer, and that exemption fhall be valid, even though all the members, actual or eligible of the leffer council, muft be prefented to the general council, without proceeding to a new election for either of thofe offices.

§ 4 With refpect to the election of auditors and the attorney-general; in cafe that the actual and eligible members of the two hundred, which fhall be approved of by the bench, fhall be rejected; or there fhall not remain a number sufficient to compleat the nomination; they fhall be presented altogether to the general council without a new election; in which cafe, the bench of approbation shall not be renewed; and all the members that are eligible fhall be prefented to the general council, according to the custom of preceding benches, provided nevertheless, with refpect to thefe offices, the leffer and grand councils fhall not be obliged to prefent fuch, two whom the two hundred fhall have granted their discharge, and such as shall have fubmitted to the penalty of those who decline the office.

5. To remedy the inconvenience, which has place in the election of Syndics and Auditors, with refpect to casting up the lifts, in which an elector has given one or more votes, at the fame time croffing the line for a new election; for the future in the cafting up the lifts, they shall not as heretofore, give the votes of a new election against all the candidates without diftinction, but only against thofe which the electors would reject. For this end, inftead of the general column of a new election, which was heretofore fet upon the papers for ballotting, every candidate fhall have upon the faid papers his particular column for rejection, upon which fhall be marked the votes of a new election, which are against him. And to determine whether he fhall be rejected they fhall balance the faid votes of rejection with the votes of approbation, which he fhall have had,

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