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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44787	Observations upon a late libel, called A letter from a person of quality to his friend, concerning the Kings declaration, &c.	Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of, 1633-1695.	1681 (1681)	Wing H316; ESTC R11992	13,588	8

where is the Justice of doing that for which they have no authority or the Wisdom of doing that which hath no effect only it sheweth their good will by throwing the greatest indignity they could upon the Government Men will lend still notwithstanding this mighty Vote and perhaps upon easier terms than these Gentlemen would require for any money they part with in Parliament In the mean time would these equitable men take it well if by their example the King should send to all the Burroughs and Counties in England not to chuse such and such men nor to trust those with a share in making Laws who have in the late Parliaments assumed to themselves the priviledge of breaking them The argument is at least as strong on the Kings side without any Complement to Majesty as they can pretend to make theirs upon the pretence of distrust or the mis-application of the Publick Money and yet I persuade my self they would hardly allow such a proceeding or commend it as they do their own to be wise and justifiable They take so much care of the Houshold that one would ordinarily suspect they had some Correspondence with the discontented Reformadoes of the Green-Cloth I who live in the Country will never speak against the smell of Beef no more than I will recommend that of Match to be at White-Hall instead of it But I am far from apprehending the Country Farmer to be concerned in the late Retrenchments for ever since the Tables were removed out of the Hall and the Brewis turned into Fricassees they have lost their part in them and especially since the Kings coming in not only the Country Farmer but the Country Gentleman and if you will the Country Lord too might have been shrewdly disappointed if they had depended upon the Hospitality of the White-Staves for a Dinner That whole business was brought into so unpopular a shape that the Nation will hardly take up Arms to restore three or four Tables they are rather pleased to see them put down since they were so transformed and wholly altered from their first institution The Bankers are called the Bane of the Nation if so I have a great mind to believe if it was possible it was for that reason alone the Earl of Shaftsbury broke them I never was partial to that sort of men and so will leave them to make their own Apologies but I must say it seemeth a little hard to me to make these Positions The Bankers nor any body else must lend the King Money The Kings Wants are only to be supplied by Parliament The Parliament is not to give the King a farthing These laid together have in my judgment a very odd appearance Ay but the King shall have money enough upon good terms from the Parliament Shall he so These good terms are to come for those that have hitherto been offered are so far from tempting that they may rather fright the King from dealing with the same Chapmen Would these Gentlemen grow a little kinder and treat for a Mortgage of the Crown allowing equity of Redemption it might incline the King to hearken to them but by all that appeareth yet we may conclude nothing less will satisfie than a total surrender and passing away his title to them In the case of 35 Eliz. it is pretended the Commons did not assume the power of suspending Acts of Parliament what was it then They did a thing they had a mind to in a manner they cannot justifie they have as much right to make a Law as they have singly to declare what is Law but because they seem to give up the cause by the flatness of their answer I will only add that as their zeal in this case transported them beyond their bounds it is to be hoped time and second thoughts will reduce them to a better temper against the next Meeting In Mr. Fitz-barrls's Case it is said the Commons could not come to a Conference before they came to a Resolution suppose it what then must that Resolution of necessity produce such Votes If they had upon a cool Debate resolved that they were in the right and sent to confer with the Lords either to have brought them to their opinion or laid it aside if the Lords could have used arguments strong enough to convince them they had prevented all objection But to say the Commons could not resolve this amongst themselves without such injurious and unparliamentary terms as they were pleased to make use of in their Votes is to say if I have a difference with another man and would discourse with him to compose it I must needs for the better asserting my own right send him word beforehand he is a Rogue and a Villain as a fitting Preliminary for a friendly Conference in order to an Agreement For their Votes upon this occasion have as much as in them lay put the House of Lords under an Interdict and fixed such a Character upon their whole Body that if were not a little sanctified by that chosen Remnant of Protesting Lords I do not know but it might bear an Action to be called by the Scandalous name of a Peer after a Sentence that putteth all the Lords in as i● a condition as those few that in the former Parliament they bestowed their Votes upon How much soever these Gentlemen may flatter themselves in this matter I can assure them we in the Country understand it otherwise than they would have us for by the infinite heat and strugling to put off his Tryal both in and since the Parliament and by the Character of the Persons who principally appear in it we are apt to conclude so warm a Contention must be grounded upon something very considerable and we take it to be that could this point be gained men might either speak or act Treason with impunity and that would be of such excellent use to some men that no wonder if they are very earnest to compass it I am very glad to hear there is nothing to be said for those angry Men who have particular designs if any thing could have been said I am confident it might concern some of those who have had a hand in this Paper so far as to have persuaded them to venture at their Apology There is an Assertion made with the modesty and truth which belongeth to their Party viz. That all who are out of their places might have kept them If I am either rightly informed or may be allowed to guess from what they deserved it is perhaps the only excuse those men have for their ill manners that from the prospect they had of being turned out they chose to prevent the Kings Justice and to gain popularity by endeavouring asmuch as in them lay to threw the affront upon him The Court hath long lain under the scandal of Popery but it was news to me that they were for a Common-wealth too This is so very unlikely that for the sake of our Religion which dependeth so much upon their credit I must give them warning to be a little more cautious in their Accusations and take care that one part of their charge may agree with another else as it happeneth to their Mufti Dr. Oats men will be tempted by their alledging things impossible to have doubts even of that part of their Evidence which may be true The last Paragraph telleth us how we shall be happy and the King be himself I was eager to know this receipt having a great mind for my own sake and for every bodies else to have such a thing compassed but by taking the sense of the words as well as I can it is no more than this in short All will be well if the King will be entirely governed by the House of Commons for we know they alone signifie the Parliament as they have more than once given us to understand by their Votes and that their Advices are to be Commands is no more a doubt than that their Orders are to be Laws I shall give no answer to this but may be permitted to guess the Kings will be 〈◊〉 Roy s'avisera In the mean time I have so great a desire to be happy my self and that the Nation may be so too that if any thing may be received under the unwelcome name of Expedients I would beg leave to offer a few to their better consideration I. That no man who hath by notoriety of the fact within seven years last past promoted or connived at Popery be thought now in earnest when he bawleth against it or ever be admitted into Publick Employment II. That no man who hath Principles against all Kings may pretend to advise Ours III. That none who would have Places for themselves shall have any Vote to put others out of them IV. That none who have thought fit to leave the Council should ever so disparage themselves as to return into it V. That none may ever be thought fit for Counsellors or any other Employment who have so little wit as to expect the Nation should be angry with the King because they are afraid for themselves VI. That no Member of either House who in former Parliaments never consulted his Conscience be now allowed to be a Martyr for it VII That no man who is a known Ass in his own business may be thought fit to meddle with the Kings These things being granted it is clearly my opinion the King should stick at nothing the next Parliament can ask of him Mens minds would be so quieted when they saw a Foundation laid of such impartial Justice that we might hope for Peace and Union and when the Vizzard of Popularity is taken off to see England look like it self again This is to be desired for many reasons and besides those which relate to the Publick I wish it for a particular satisfaction to my self who being void either of the ambition or the merit of pretending to any share in business should think my self very happy in the enjoyment of those mens Conversations whose Politicks I cannot so well agree with being confident that this would be a kind of Act of Exclusion upon these measures and that the greatest number of the complaining men would be at liberty and unemployed Printed for C. M. 1681.