The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

From the North-Briton, No. 93. 1769.

A MEMORIAL of several Noblemen and Gentlemen of the first Rank and Fortune, presented to the late KING in 1762.

The Memorialists represent THAT the education of a prince of Wales is of the utmost importance to the whole nation : that it ought always to be intrusted to noblemen of the most unblemished honour, and to prelates of the most distinguished virtue, of the most accomplished learning, & of the most unsuspected principles with regard to government both in church & state ; that the misfortunes which this nation suffer'd or escaped under king Charles I. King Charles II. were owing to the bad education of those princes,who were early initiated in the odious maxims of arbitrary power : that, for a faction to engross the education of the prince of Wales to themselves, excluding men of probity, property, and wholesome learning; is unwarrantable, dangerous and illegal ; that to place men about a prince of Wales, whose principles are suspected, and whose belief in the mysteries of our faith is doubtful. has the most mischievous tendency, and ought justly to alarm the friends of their country. and of the Protestant succession : that. for ministers to support low men, who were originally improper for the high trust to which they were advanced, after complaints made of dark, suspicious, and unwarrantable methods made use of by such men, in their plan of education, and to protect and countenance such men in their insolent and unheard-of behaviour to their superiors, is a foundation for suspecting the worst designs in such ministers. and ought to make all good men apprehensive of the ambition of those ministers :- -that, it being notorious that books *, inculcating the worst maxims of government, and defending the most avowed tyrannies: have been put into the hands of the prince of Wales. it cannot but affect the Memorialists. when they find that the men. who had the honesty and resolution to complain of such astonishing methods of instruction, are driven away from court t. & the men who have dared to teach such doctrines. are continued in trust and favour : e that the security of this government being built upon Whig principles, is alone supported by Whig zeal : That the establishment of the present royal family being settled in the timely overthrow of queen Anne's last ministry. it cannot but alarm all true Whigs, to hear of schoolmasters, of very contrary principles being thought of for preceptors ; and to see none but the friends and pupils of the late lord Bolingbroke intrusted with the education of a prince, whose family that lord endeavoured, by his measures to exclude, and by his writings to expel, from the throne of these kingdoms : that there being great reason to believe, that a noble lord has accused one of his preceptors of Jacobitism, it is astonishing that no notice has been taken of a complaint of so high a nature ; but that, on the contrary, the accused person continues in the same trust. without any enquiry into the grounds of the charge, or any steps taken, by the accused. to purge himself of a crime of so black a dye :-that no satisfaction being given to the governor and preceptor, who, though a nobleman of the most unblemished honour. and a prelate of the most unbiased virtue, have both been treated in the grossest terms of abuse by a menial servant of the family, is derogatory to his majesty's authority. under which they acted ;. is an affront to peerage; and an outrage to the dignity of the church. That whoever advised the refusal of an audience to the bishop of Norwich: who was so justly alarmed at the wrong methods which he saw taken in the education of the prince of Wales. is an enemy to his country, and can only mean, at least, to govern by a faction, or is himself influenced by a more dangerous faction. who intend to overthrow the government, and restore the exiled & arbitrary house of Stuart. But that to have a Scotchman of the most disaffected family. allied in the nearest manner to the Pretender's first minister, consulted in the education of the prince of Wales, and intrusted with the most important secrets of the government, must tend to alarm and disgust the friends of the present royal family, and to encourage the hopes and attempts of the Jacobites.--Lastly, the Memorialists cannot help remarking, that three or four low, dark. suspected persons are the only men whose stations are fixed and permanent ; but that all the great offices and officers are so constantly varied and shuffled about. to the disgrace of this country, that the best affected apprehend, that there is a settled design in those low and suspected persons to infuse such jealousies, caprices, and fickleness. into the two ministers whose confidence they engross, as may render this government ridiculous and contemptible. and facilitate the. revolution which the Memorialists think they have but too much reason to fear is, meditating.

GOD PRESERVE THE KING.

* In 1752, Lord Harcourt and Dr. Hayter, were dismissed, and succeeded by Lord Waldegrave and Dr. Stone.

Father Orleans's Revolutions of the House of Stuart.…- Ramay's Travels of Cyrus, Sir Robert Filmer's Treatise on Government, for some Strictures on which, found concealed in the Custody of Algernon Sidney that Great Man lost his Head.