ADVERTISEMENT. AFTER I had finished the preceding tract, to the fatisfaction of feveral friends, but not to my own, I was informed, that the learned CHRISTIAN THOMASIUS had publifhed a differtation on the fame fubject with the following title: De Ufu Practico Doctrinæ difficillime Juris Romani de Culparum Præftatione in Contractibus ; HALE, MDCcv. The fame of the author, and the high applaufe, which the very sensible Bynkershoek beftows on him, impreffed me with a most favourable idea of his work, and with a ftrong defire to procure it; but, to my extreme disappointment, I cannot find it in any library, publick or private, in the Metropolis or in either of our Universities: I have fent for it, however, to Germany, and, when I receive it, fhall take a fincere pleasure, either in correcting fuch errors, as it may enable me to detect in my effay, or in confirming the fyftem, which I have adopted, by so respectable an authority. THE CASES. Amies and Stevens, Barcroft's Cafe, Bonion's Cafe, Coggs and Bernard, Gibbon and Paynton, Cafe of Gravefend Barge, Lane and Cotton, Mors and Slew, Mofley and Foffet, Mulgrave and Ogden, Powtuary and Walton, Ratcliff and Davis, 408 Rich and Kneeland, 437 Countess of Shrewsbury's Cafe, 372 Southcote's Cafe, 368 Titchburne and White, 436 Vere and Smith, 429 Wheatly and Low, 378 Woodliefe and Curties, 434 AN INQUIRY INTO THE LEGAL MODE OP SUPPRESSING RIOT S, WITH A CONSTITUTIONAL PLAN OF FUTURE DEFENCE. Res videas quo modo fe habeant: orbem terrarum, imperiis diftributis, ardere bello; urbem fine legibus, fine judiciis, Gne jure, fine fide, relictam direptioni et incendiis. CIC. Epift. ad Fam. 4. 1. AN INQUIRY INTO THE LEGAL MODE OF SUPPRESSING RIOTS. IT has long been my opinion, that, in times of national adversity, those citizens are entitled to the highest praise, who, by perfonal exertions and active valour, promote at their private hazard the general welfare; that the second rank in the scale of honour is due to thofe, who, in the great council of the nation, or in other af femblies, legally convened, propose and enforce with manly eloquence what they conceive to be falutary or expedient on the occafion; and that the third place remains for those persons, who, when they have neither a neceffity to act, nor a fair opportunity to fpeak, impart in writing to their countrymen fuch opinions as their reafon approves, and fuch knowlege as their painful researches have enabled them to acquire. |