Protefl: T. Thrte Glaufes n. The Petitio Lords: III. Their Lordfbi IV. Another Proteft of their Lorddiips : And, V. Another Proteft of their Lord(hip% on Attacking the Spxnilh Fleet. The Claufei if! the QMreM:nc-A^t VII. G E O R G 11> ND he it further Enacted., That if any^tt^on iiife^Ved witli tJi« Pligue, or ohtiged to perform Quxrentittey Jhall wilfully refufe or negleB' to repair within convenient time^ after due Notice for that Purpofe given to him, her^ or them., by the proper Officer, to the Ship, Houfe, Zutxatret, or other Place duly appointed for him, her, or them', or having been placed in fuch Ship, Houfe, Laxjtret, or other Place, floall efcape, or attempt to efcape out of the fame, whtlft he, Jhe, or they ffiall continue »»- fePled, or before Qwrentine fully performed refpeBively', It fjoll and may be Lawful to and for tbelVatchmrn and other Perfons, appointed to fee Quarentine performed, by any kind of Violence that the Cafe ffiall re¬ quire, to compel every fuch Perfon fo refufing or neglecting, as aforefaid, and every fuch Perfon fo efcaping, or attempting to efcape, as aforefaid, to repair or return into fuch Ship, Houfe, Lataret, or other Place, fo ap¬ pointed for him, or her, as aforefaid , and every fuch Perfon fo refufing or neglecting to repair within convenient time after fuch Nctice, as afore¬ faid, into fuch Ship, Houfe, LazAret, or ether Place appointed for him, or hdey OY OTders-y wade ot to be ?ndde afid ? 7 oti£pd Pffnl? 'tS 1 i zfJZ’ f'llfpt tri r(T “■ ZZZYZ Lines or Trenchesl and in cafe anZperfonZZt acluaip come out of fuch Lines or Trenches, or any of them t lie Pttition of the City of London to the Houfi of Lords A Petition of the Lord Mayor Vki- SelCon of P^rliam^’t, J" ’V “? ' $• (3 ) ij/" Gufifftfey, I$»fey, Aldemefi, Saric or Mirii and tahirf der the fpreadmg rf iMfe^Hori:'] That the Petitioners conceive, that in fohie Claufes of that A^ft, not only the Rights, Privileges, and Imniu- nifies, hut the Trade, Safety, and Profperity of the City of London are highly concerned j and praying. That they may be heard by their Council, or otherwife, in relation to the faid Act, at fnch Time, and in fueh Manner, as their Lordihips (hall judss moil: proper a^d expedient. And a Motion being, made, That the faid Petition be rejeAed. After Debate, The Qjjeftion was put, Whether the laid Petition Oiall be re^eited ? ' ' It vvas relblved in the Affirmative. I. Their Lord/bipt Protejl on rcjeUiag the faid Pttition, ■ Dipemient, ' ‘ ' B Ecaufe the Liberty of Petitioning the King (^much more that of Petitioning either Houfe of Parliament, is the Birth-rieht of the Free People of this Realm, claimed by them, a"nd conhrmed to them, foon after the Revolution, in an Aff, Declaring Rights and Lihrtiesof the Suhjellj and fettling the Succeffion >of th'e Crown: And, whenever'any remarkabTe-Check hath been given to ^ free Exercife of this Right, it hath always been attended with ill Confequences to the Publiclf. ’ ynnu-nm II. Becaufe the Petition fo rejefted was,; in our Opinion, every Way proper and unexceptionable, both as to the Manner of Wording and Prefenting it, and the Matter to which it refer’d; nothing being niore natural and reafonable, than that any Corporate Body Ihould, il .they defireit, be heard upon any Bill under the Confideration of i arliamenf, whereby they judge their particular Interefts to be high¬ ly, tho not folely aftfted. This Liberty, we remember to have been gianted, m a late Sedion, to the Traders of AWVh, upon their Pe- tition touching the CalhcorBill : Nor are we aware, that it hath ever, m like Lircuniftances. been refufed to the raeaneft Corporation in the it had, we humbly conceive, that in this Cafe, a UiltincRion might have been made in favour of the 'City of London- which being the Centre of Credit, of the Trade and Money’d-Inirereft of the and the Place where the Plague, Ihould we be vi/ited rffFVdLT? to appear: And having alio remarkable ,• r ^ ^‘tuth-Sea-Scheme^ was, we think ill ^titled to apply for Relief againft fome Qaufes m the and deferved to have been treated, on that Occafion, with more Indulgence and Tendernefs. III. Becaufe the rejcfting the faid Petition tends, we conceive, to difcountenance all Petitions for the future, in Cafes of a publick and general ( 4 ; teneral Concern i and, by that Means, to deprive the Leglflatufe of pjoper Lights, which th^ might othcrwire receive v it being no ways probable that Subjects, or Societies of lefs Confideration, will vdfitare to reprefent their Senfe, in Cafes of like Nature, after the City of London have been thus refufed to be heard. IV. Becaufe as the Receiving this Petition could have no ill Confe- quetices.as we conceive, nor have given any great Interruption to the Bufinefs of Pailianitnt \ fo the rejcfling it, may, we think, widen the unhappy Differences that have arilen, and increafe the Diflatisfaftion to the Government, which hath already too much prevailed in this Kingdom. V. Becaufe the Arguments ufed on the Debate, feem to us not to be of fufficient Force; For we cannot conceive, that, becaufe the faid AH of Quarentine is a general Act, therefore no particular Commu¬ nity or City, who think they may, in a diftinguiihing Manner, be prejudiced by it, have a Right to be heard in relation to it i and that, at a Time, when it is under the C^nfid«ration of Parliament. Nor can we be of Opinion, That a Petition agreed on by the Lord Mayor t Aldermen, and Citiz,ens of London, in Common-Council affembled, and prefented, not even by the Numbers allowed by Law, but by a Lord of this Houfe, can poflSbly be a Prelude or Example toioards in. traducing Tumultuous Petitions ^ much lefs can we fee, why it ought the rather to be rejefled, becaufe it came from fo great a Body as the City of London. On the contrary, we apprehend'that a'ri univerfa\ Grievance, which may be occafioued by any general Aft, muft be re- prefented to the Legiflature, by particular Perfons, or Bodies ^r- porate, or elfe it cannot be reprelented at all j That the Rejecting fuch Petitions, and not the Receiving them, is the Way to otcafion Diforders and Tumults ^ and. That the more Confiderable the Body is, the more Regard fhould be had to any Applications they make ^ ef^ially for Matters, wherein not only the Rights, Privileges, and Immunities, but alfo their Trade, Safety, and Profpetity are, as the Petition avers, highly concerned* Brsflol, St.Jchti de Fratt. Cejlrkttt, Cdwper, BstkurftM BvfUy Ailetfori,\ Strafford, Jkrdeetty Gomr, . Fratt. Rafftrtf Litthftdd, North and Crtj Trtvor, Ghilford, 'Vaebridge. A r 5; Die Merturii, Detemiris, 1711, ( A Motion was made, and the Queftion being put. That 4 Bill he brought in for the Refed of fo much of the JiH fafs'd lafi Tear relating to the Rlaguey as rivet a Power to remove to a Laz.a- retf or Peft-Houfty any Perfons vohatfoever Jnfelted with the Plague, or healthy Perlbns out of an InfeSled Family., from their Habitatioas (tho* dif ant from any other Dwelling-houfe :) j 4 nd atfo fo much of the [aid Ati as gives Power for the Drawing Lines or Trenches round any City, Town, or Place InfeSled. It was reiblved in the Negative. Dtjfemient. 1.0 E C A U S E the Powers fpecify’d in the Qiieftion, ftem to J) us fuch, as can never wifely or ufefully be put in Execu¬ tion. For by the Firft of them, Perfons of what Rank or Condition Ibever, either adually infeded, or being insthc fame Habitation, tho’ in Lone-houfts, where they are well accommo¬ dated, and from whence there is no danger of propagating the Infection, may be forcibly remov’d into common l-azarets or Peft- houfes. And it does not appear to us, that fuch a Power could at any Time be reafonably executed, and therefore we conceive ifi fhould be Repealed. The other Power extends to the drawing of Lines around any City, Tom, or Place, and confequently around theC*f III. Becaule wc take it, thefe Methods were copy’d from Kihadom w:hofe Pattern, in Tuch fiafes, Great Brit am fh^uli not foiicrw ; the Goveriimeat there, being conduiffed bv Ar^travy Tomr, abd fupported by Standing Armies rand to fuch a Cpufirrv, fuch Methods do, in our Opinion, feera inoll fuita- Me. And yec even ia thar-Kingdom the Powers, thus exercif d or. htc, have been as unfuccefsful as they were unprecedented So that no Nughhounng State hath any Encouragement from thence to fohow lb fatal an Example.' In the lafl; plague with which we wcie Vihted, Dom. 1(555, though none of theft Methods vvere made uft of, much iefs Authorifed by Varliament yet the Infedion, however great, was kept from fprcading itftlf into the lemote Parts of the Kingdom : Nor did the OVy «/ZX v/heie It firll appear’d, and chiefly rag’d, fuffer fo long or fo rhfts Pl^POftion to the Number of its Inhabitants, another Cities and Towns in Frmce have fulFer’d, where theft cruel Expel rtmtnts have been try’d. tv ^aiift, had fuch Part of the Aft, as we think Ihould be Repealed^ been accordingly Repealed, there would ftill have re¬ mained in It a general Oaufe, which gives the Crown all Powers neceflary to prevent the Spreading of Infedion, and confcquert- ly theft very Powers among tlie reft, if they Ihall be fouSd ne- cclTury . And therefore there is no need, we conceive, to have them exprefly granted in the fame Aft of Parliament, which . feems in a particular manner to pre- fertbe and dirsti the XJfb of them. ^ V. Becaufe the great Argument urg’d for continuing theft Powers fpecified in the Q.uefl:ion ( that they would pilbablv never be pat in Execution in the Gafts objefted to)fteras to ,s a clear Reafon, why they fhould not be continued ; for we cannot imagine why they Ihould Hand enailed, unlefs they are intended tobe^t.,,p orofwha< Ure it will be to the PulS, to keel the Minds of theTeople perpetually alarmed with •thofe'Appre^ henfions under which they now labour, as appears by Ui? K mson from the Oty of London, lately RejeBcd. It may^be lir ftance of our great Confidence in His Majefty’s W^ifdom and Goodnefs, when we truft him with fuch Powers J tu Confitution ; but We think it ill becomes us to repoft^S when u tends, in our Opinion, rather to render him ^ vV than JmM, to his Snbjefls, and when the only AdvanSge he can ( 1 ) W. Ehory SoyUj Trevofy St. John of Bletfoey Strajfordy \^eJlQn Aherdeeny F. Cefirienjisy Z)xhridgey Nerth and Greyy Bitigleyy Bathurfiy F. Rojftrty GuUfordy Gower y Ailesfordj Cowpery T'ftfrt." r’’' A the rLone Gracious Speech 7?;i/ grtcloujiy pleafed togdOrders, Mcditefraneaif ff Spaailh Fleet ti, the ivtcaiterrane^, may be Uid before this HoaCe. IM thereupiu after Debate, the It was Refolved in ’the Negative; , Content 24. Content DiJferJtierit.’ ''B 1o™h\L"h',i?"‘*'l’? ‘°l ™ i*«'ch of Ohr ftriufhionsafa li'te Precedents of In- SSSaaE-S'SS blamed b-fnrp ntrh ino- - • ’ ftamirals, had or had not been uivtuica Uwiore ii-icii inicrnctions worf* rv .t o* i ii™Ti 2 'z,r'whShe^tirSnf^^^^^ 11. B-caiife We’ ,S ■ 'rfr Condua he braiiMablcor not, llr.'aio;“t„rhi'’ d b.fo,l'’'Ls'l'tl^''*-’ -'"f Afti)ii of rh- ^ Honk, upon which the rJacl" wi, ttodef -vS'"; '’-'i’”- ful eve, wlrtlll a „ War, A,.«crhiy treating a. k« " l.ic Con '-In ■ i'i it dude kfclf Ccurc from any Hoftile Attade during the contiaU* aflce of fuch Negotiations. III. Becauie till We have a Sight of thofe Inftruftions, and are able to Judge of the Reafons on which they are founded, the War with in which that Aftion of our Fleet involved Us, does net appear to Us fo juftifiable as We could jwilh; And yet it vas plainly prejudicial to the Nation in fundry Re* Ipeds, for i occafioned an entire Interruption of Our molt valuable Conroerce with SjMirt, at a Time when Great Britain needed all tie Advantages of Peace to extricate kfolf, trom that heavy National Debt it lay under, and as it deprived Us of the Friendllip of (not eafily to be Retrieved ) fo it gave Our Ri/als in Trade, an Opportunity to infinuate theni- ll'lves into their Affb^ions; And We conceive, that to that War alone is owing the ftridf Union there is at prefont be* twixt the Crowns of France and Spain, which it was the In- tereft of G^eat Britain to have always dividedan Union which in its Conlequences may prove fatal to thefo Kingdoms. Nor does it appear, that Great Britain has had any Fruits from this War, btyond its being reftored to the l^me Trade, We had with Sfoitt before we began it. W. Ebet. Fr. Cefi^enjts, Strt0ora, Gtdiford, ytylesforif Trevor, Cotter. Aberdeen, Brifitl, 5t. John Bietjbt Bathtub, CoKpen Fafey, North aai Grty, Boyle, Wefion, ScaefiiBt, Vxbridfe, Compton,