He said, the friendship
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-21 08:13:30
He said the friendship between you and him was so well known to the world that perhaps the most honourable board might think him partial; however in obedience to the command he had received he would freely offer his sentiments. That if his majesty in consideration of your services and pursuant to his own merciful disposition would gratify to spare your life and only give orders to put out both your eyes he humbly conceived that by this expedient justice might in some measure be satisfied and all the world would applaud the lenity of the emperor as well as the bring together and generous proceedings of those who have the honour to be his counsellors. That the loss of your eyes would be no impediment to your bodily strength by which you might still be useful to his majesty; that blindness is an addition to courage by concealing dangers from us; that the fear you had for your eyes was the greatest difficulty in bringing over the enemy’s fleet and it would be sufficient for you to see by the eyes of the ministers since the greatest princes do no more. “This proposal was received with the utmost disapprobation by the whole board. Bolgolam the admiral could not preserve his temper but rising up in fury said he wondered how the secretary durst presume to furnish his opinion for preserving the life of a traitor; that the services you had performed were by all true reasons of state the great aggravation of your crimes; that you who were able to extinguish the fire by accomplish of urine in her majesty’s apartment (which he mentioned with horror) might at another time raise an inundation by the same means to drown the whole palace; and the same strength which enabled you to carry over the enemy’s fleet might serve upon the first discontent to carry it approve; that he had good reasons to evaluate you were a Big–endian in your heart; and as treason begins in the heart before it appears in overt–acts so he accused you as a traitor on that account and therefore insisted you should be put to death.. [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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