vol 1 [ 121 ] no 16 the north-carolina magazine or universal intelligencer from friday september 14 to friday september 21 3 1764 extract from the Ramifications of the parliament of toulouse about the violent proceedings against the parliament if grenoble Subjects a criminal obedience when by a circfitct of i.iipoiing upon their love of justice their wilj runs counter to the inttrett of their iuthonty humbly recq?nm*ndcd to the con idcration of all britijh megi/lrates 0®3§fr$§i principle of monarchy is y v corrupted when force protects i t 1 on tn o!e *" at are amcneiblc to i i lattice ; when zeal for the ftate ■**^ . . jt is looked upon as a crime to &&€*©«* w-rdb the sovereign the principle c,f monarchy is ftill more corrupted when honour is fct in contraft with honours and men may he at the fame time covered with infamy and dignities ; when fouls angularly puiillanimous an v^in of the grandeur they fienvc from ervility and thinjk that every thin they owe to the prince cancels all that tbc,v owe to their couiicry >' 4 1 hefe sire are the maxims that f)roe i)crp!c arc endeavouring to get into vogue and which have already taken root in too ma ny heaits mad men who think to frrvc the monarch ty fubverrjng the monarchy who boaft of finding the her and eafy ro.id to ar bitrary power without thinking it hiads to d.e ftrudlion ! what dyke hull flop this torrent ready to eve flow every thing if force is from henceforth to he looked upon as the fole law f the ltate if honour fidelity liberty are but barren names made to yield to the ca prices of a loc.<.l defpot ; if even the fundamen tal laws may with in purity be violated by an auducious fubjedv equally guilty whether he pretend to have orders deftru&ive of thefe liws or has fiuiiruej your m^jefly of the moft glorious prerogative of monarchs whicb qonfifts in not being able to cxad from their verfaihs march 24 the nohle behaviour of the frcfident oi the parliament of ton loisfe is at prefent the fubject of all conven tions this gre«;t man \» h -> ta attended with the remonftrance againk ; ! : due do firs jame being purpofcly afked by feme of thole favourite inkcts that always buz about the feat of royalty if he did not look upon it as pre fumptuous to difpute the orders of the king replied " my lord the qucfiion is both ig nomnt^nd impertinent ; for i am hound by no law to obey any command which is repugnant to the intcreft of my country my love and veneration for his mi>jc£tj are founded upon his attachment to the welfare of the kingdom and as that welfare is inseparably connected with his ojvo honour 1 can never fhew.a greater ipoance of duty znd ufredtion than in cotnplaining of any mimfter who acls diametri cally opposite to the fafcty of the publick 9ic humbling to human pride \ or rather to popijh principles / — that thofe very men uho afted jo nobly in their natural rights fhouldin another inftanu violate them fo hor > riiffy as appears from the following letter a letter frcm paris alarch 6 " the afr-ir of the virtuous and unfortunate prqtelrant john cils who was broken upon th wheel at touloufe about two years ago in confluence of the fuicide of one of his tons whom he was falfely accufcd of having put t o death