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A25777	The argument against a standing army, discuss'd by a true lover of his country.; Argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government	Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.; Moyle, Walter, 1672-1721.	1698 (1698)	Wing A3631; ESTC R15603	27,307	44

truly great and Glorious that the same Prince with the advantage of a much greater power was not able to oppose him Does any one desire a reason for it why it was in brief a National Cause he came to support our Liberty and Property most inestimable Jewels were his attendants and he had the reward of a just Cause For that Army which was raised and kept on foot as many Imagine for our destruction these very Men turn'd to the Protestant side From hence then let us draw this Natural Inference That when a King of England endeavours to destroy our established Constitution the which he is Sworn to maintain the Army like true English Patriots will never consent to it Remember Sir the fate of Ship money and end your fears for Englishmen will never consent to ruine themselves Thus I have I think fairly accounted for the great Phaenomenon that without Force to back it Tyranny cannot be accomplished let us be so fair to him to whom we owe our eternal acknowledgments as not to mistrust without Cause and let this also be remarked that when a Prince in possession has an Antagonist alive who was himself in the Throne he will not fail to take all the advantage he can of the misrepresentation of Things Nay he has also one whom he calls his Lawful Son who may in time grow to be Ambitious This is enough to prove that it will be to the Nations Honour to have a setled Army so proportioned as may seem best to the Judgment of our August Assembly Those who ruined the Blessed Martyr King Charls the First took occasion to clip his Wings by lessening the Military Power and then did an Act of Barbarity which I wish had reach'd no further then our Native Country But my Author calls me again and tells me that the Party who have thus veered about say that if they do not comply with this method of a standing Force another Party will be ready to gratify the Court in this affair Truly I am sorry any Party shou'd be against so modest a Request as a few standing Forces at least let them be established 'till the Projectors Friends can find out a way to make the Militia useful to their Country and not oppressive to the People let not the Kings Enemies have oppertunity to take away his Life whilst we want a Force to keep the next Successor in the Throne I am sure then 't will be too late to deplore our Folly or our Oversight And I differagain from our Author in this page also where he says that Arbitrary Power is the same in whose hands soever it falls for hereby he insinuates that all those who value the preservation of his Majesties Life are no better than Valet de Cambres to an ill design I know none of them but I am not so uncharitable He tells them also that the Party they fear will out flatter them being Darlings of Arbitrary power and whose principles and Practices teach them to be Enemies to all Legal Rights To this Point such as know his meaning are fittest to answer him because he goes a step higher for he says they bring the Materials of Tyranny and are to give place to more expert Architects to finish the Building I understand not his Intentions and so Iam silent But now he is in good humour and tells us we are free from any such attempts in this Reign and gives our Prince Epithets of Praise which all good Subjects know how well he deserves But streight the Hypochondriac Fit seizes him and he tells us That the King must Pay a Debt to Nature and he knows not what may follow Pray Sir to what purpose has the Parliament taken such care to Point us out a Successor or Do you doubt of Common Justice I think our Moses has brought us within the sight of our Promised Land then let us not murmur 'till we have Cause What made so few go into the Land of Promise with Caleb and Joshua Sure it was Fearing where no Fear was Let us not report our Enemies to be Giants but glory that we have a David to defend us Why then shou'd we mistrust a few Regulated Forces It is not proposed to have the Army as big as Xerxes's nor so formidable as Alexander's only a competent number big enough to oblige such Officers with Preferment whose Bravery in their Countries Defence does justly claim our good Esteem Has not Ireland more Cause to complain a Country which tho' for some Years it was the Seat of War yet has not requested to be Released the Irish keep Forces in their own Country without murmuring and we who have so precious a King's Life to preserve wou'd hazard all that is dear to us to save a little Charges It reflects much upon us I mean such of us as are not Thoughtful Do not impose on us the Fate of the Israelites Athenians and other your beloved Commonwealths who tho' they had wise Laws yet wanted many Advantages that we enjoy Perhaps he has given us some Reasons for their Decay it might be from thinking their Citizens understood this Province One Trade is enough to one Man and 't is likely that if they had not trusted to other Methods they had met with better Success Then he tells us That they Fought pro Aris Focis and that their Arms were lodg'd in their own Hands but the Event did not answer Expectation for their Discipline cou'd not preserve them He farther adds That the Romans had good Generals who were taken from the Plough and when all was over returned thither again This if the Time wou'd have allow'd wou'd have look'd like an accomplishment of Isaiah's Prophecy That they turn'd their Swords into Plough-shares But it seems before they cou'd reduce them again into Swords they were in danger of being destroyed We need not argue the Difference of our Constitutions but all agree that our Caesar will never pass the forbidden Rubicon to invade our Priviledges and so let Surmises cease But he comes presently powring in upon us and tells us That Pisistratus by an Artificial Sham brought Athens into Tyranny and from the Favour of those that were of his Guards increased his Number to their Destruction Let the Beef-Eaters mind that But it looks as if the Citizens Courage was not great or the Inhabitants but a few You have sure in your Reading met with King Lear his Story has been so often represented on the Stage and acted with such Advantage that 't is probable most Men of Understanding know his Case his yielding too fast to the Temper of a designing Party reduced him at last to such low Circumstances that his Misery was deplored by his Friends who cou'd not be capable to remedy the same There is an excellent Story written in Italian and from the Original Translated into our Mother-Tongue by a Person of Honour now living and Dedicated to our late Queen it is

Claudian yet their stiffness herein puts me in mind of the Happiness which he describes as peculiar to the Man that never went beyond his Parish-Bounds These are their Sentiments and so you must look out for other Methods to supply the Militia to have them useful One Project is That out of the Disbanded Forces Men may be procured to enter your Service But let me ask you a plain Question What Reason have I to venture my Arms in the Hands of a Man you dare not trust Or what better Security can I have that one who proffers me his Service and is a Stranger will be more for my dear Property than if he were Listed in a Standing Force And so to use his own Words this Constitution must either ruin the Army or the Army ruin the Constitution which is offering a violence to Nature He goes on to tell us That where-ever the Militia is there is or will be the Government in a short time I will not be so Dogmatical as to prescribe to my Betters but if you wou'd procure an Interest to bring in a Bill to make the Militia useful those who send Men to it wou'd be pleased with the Project to have the Gentlemen of the Country without the addition of Inferior Officers to be appointed by the King And the Reason for it is plain which is this it is commonly a Trust which divers Lieutenants of Counties have to serve as Representatives in Parliament either for the County or some Burrough-Town to which they may be Neighbours Now it must be granted That a Gentleman has a greater Regard to the County of his Nativity than a Stranger can be presumed to have and those whom they Muster in order to make useful will with greater Alacrity undergo the Fatigue of Learning the Military Art when many of those under whom they serve had their Votes and their Interest to send them to Parliament They will then have more Patience to Learn what a Stranger might by Blows endeavour to Insinuate So that upon the whole it appears plain That those who fear Arbitrary Power ought to find out Means to put this Project in Practice But perhaps a Man may object against this Proposition tho' I might think it fair He may perhaps say it gives too much Authority to the People and may prove detrimental to future Princes shou'd the Commons not approve of a Prince's Administration Liberty is a Popular Argument and they will be apt to say that we have no Cause to Mistrust and therefore may banish our Fears If there be any thing in the Argument so good an Historian is capable of Answering it But alas you fear a small Number may awe Elections The next time you Print furnish your self with better Arguments or else most People will be apt to conclude That a small Number of Standing Forces may be convenient in our present Circumstances That the Number intended or proposed is to be small 't is plain for Orders are given to Disband divers Regiments already No notice is taken of the Wounds of such who suffered on so Publick an Occasion but it were well if at the Head of their Regiments when they are Disbanded some Speech were made in Acknowledgement of their former Service and to tell them That the Necessity of the Crown did not longer require their Aid This Custom wou'd not deviate from those Commonwealths which you admire for their Prudence But now having proved my Point I must endeavour to be Friends with the Inn-keepers who by this time will begin to Pray for me backwards Why then Gentlemen I have this to say That the Number can never oppress you It is proposed to be but a Few and your Representatives in Parliament will give but what is necessary So pray be content and thank God you are rid of some and in time I hope your Arrears will be Paid And now having sufficiently proved that our Author has started Chimaera's which enter not into other Peoples Heads and therein proved that if he shot at the White he is far beyond the Mark I come now to his Gothick Ballance which I think is sufficiently observed by the Laws of England and the Constitution in all Matters so exactly adjusted that he might have acquiesced in that Confidence but since he goes on to assert a new Proposition viz. That no Nation can preserve its Liberties which maintains an Army otherwise established I hope he will give me liberty to make some material Objections to his Hypothesis Pray what was the Occasion of the 23 Pitcht Battels betwixt the two Houses of York and Lancaster but their confiding too much on the fickle Populace and we find that sometimes one House succeeded and then another but these many Revolutions were always owing to the want of a sufficient Power at home to suppress the strength of Foreiners which made it often end to the Advantage of the Invader By which we may see that Military Discipline is an excellent thing and that the want of Standing Forces has been the Cause of sundry Revolutions An English Army will always be for Property Sure that which wou'd make our Enemies dread us abroad ought not to be a Bugbear to our selves Let us pause a while and consider and then we shall find that Richard the Third a King of admirable Prowess wanting Strength at Bosworth-Field proportionable to encounter his invading Antagonist lost his Life and Crown in the Cause And a few Years before Edward the Fourth put that pusillanimous Prince King Henry the Sixth to the Expence of his Life for want of an Equality in Power This is certain that York and Lancaster cou'd not be both in the Right and yet Success favoured both their Pretensions and those frequent Changes are attributed by Historians to the Misfortune of Princes that wanted a Land-Army in number sufficient to quell such un happy Tumults By these Examples and more I could add were I not stinted in Time it plainly appears That a small Number is for the Security of the Kingdom And now I shall Methodically follow him He talks of some Men who in the late Reigns asserted Liberty so vigorously that they denied Royal Prerogatives and so very zealously that they would scarce allow of the King 's ordinary Guards but since he names not who they are we may believe it or not as we please But if such there were perhaps they sooner pried into the Court-Designs than other Men and so took care to prevent what might be Destructive by ill Management to the whole Constitution Here he forgets to make a Distinction betwixt Circumstances that happened at that time and how the Case is now We had then successively two Princes on the Throne that had no pretenders to their Title and tho' the last had a Perkin started upto give a defiance yet the Ridiculous Power he brought made him a Scoff among his Friends but when his present Majesty arrived the Cause he came to maintain was so