and Solicitude for their Country? Certainly they ought
rather to succour her, when like a miserable oppressed Mother, she
implores her Childrens Help, and to seek all proper Remedies for the
Mischiefs that afflict her._

_But how fortunate are those Countries that have good and mild Princes!
how happy are those Subjects, who, thro' the Benignity of their Rulers
may quietly grow old on their Paternal Seats, in the sweet Society of
their Wives and Children! For very often it happens, that the Remedies
which are made use of prove worse than the Evils themselves. 'Tis now,
most Illustrious Prince, about Sixteen Years since God Almighty has
committed to your Rule and Government a considerable Part of_ Germany
_situate on the_ Rhine. _During which time, 'tis scarce conceivable what
a general Tranquility, what a Calm (as in a smooth Sea) has reigned in
the whole_ Palatinate; _how peaceable and quiet all things have
continued: How piously and religiously they have been governed: Go on
most Gracious Prince in the same Meekness of Spirit, which I to the
utmost of my Power must always extol. Proceed in the same Course of
gentle and peaceable Virtue_; Macte Virtute; _not in the Sense which_
Seneca _tells us the_ Romans _used this Exclamation in, to salute their
Generals when they return'd all stain'd with Gore Blood from the Field
of Battel, who were rather true_ Macellinus's: _But do you proceed in
that Moderation of Mind, Clemency, Piety, Justice, Affability, which
have occasion'd the Tranquility of your Territories. And because the
present Condition of your_ Germany _is such as we see it, Men now-a-days
run away from Countries infested with Plunderers and Oppressors, to take
Sanctuary in those that are quiet and peaceable; as Mariners, who
undertake a Voyage, forecast to avoid Streights, &c. and Rocky Seas, and
chase to sail a calm and open Course._

_There was indeed a Time, when young Gentlemen, desirous of Improvement,
flock'd from all Parts to the Schools and Academies of our_
Francogallia, _as to the publick Marts of good Literature. Now they
dread them as Men do Seas infested with Pyrates, and detest their
Tyrannous Barbarity. The Remembrance of this wounds me to the very Soul;
when I consider my unfortunate miserable Country has been for almost
twelve Years, burning in the Flames of Civil War. But much more am I
griev'd, when I reflect that so many have not only been idle Spectators
of these dreadful Fires (as_ Nero _was