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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46081	An impartial account of some remarkable passages in the life of Arthur Earl of Torrington together with some modest remarks on his tryal and acquitment.		1691 (1691)	Wing I66; ESTC R19182	18,966	31

of Affairs and well it had been had it been Demolished that very day in which 't was Delivered to the English However it being then thought of great Concern to the Nation in respect of our Streights Trade we maintained for that end a strong Garrison in it and had at last something of Trade but enlarging our Borders a little further in the Countrey than the Moors were willing to give us leave we drew down all their Force upon us who with Numerous Armys invested the Place and assisted by some Wicked Renegades press'd it very vigorously For the relief whereof the brave Earl of Ossery designing was taken sick and Dyed as much lamented as 't was possible just as he was entering on the Voyage Hither then was Admiral Herbert sent with a Fleet under his Command to assist our People there And action enough he found both by Sea and Land attending him by Sea in a very smart Rencounter with several Turkish Men of War most or all of which were there Taken Burnt or Stranded after a Desperate Resistance But by Land the Service was if possible yet warmers for upon some Sally and other action between the Moors and the Town the Admiral not only drew his Ships near the Shoar firing incessantly on the Infidels and doing thereby very good Service but also I ended a good number of Seamen who Sallied with the Garrison against the Besiegers and gave the Black Gentlemen such Entertainment as they never before met with in their Lives throwing themselves into and over all their Lines and Trenches and piercing into the very Heart of their Camp afterwards Retreating again though not without loss yet with Incomparable Bravery and much Honour being favour'd by the Spanish Horse who really stood to it to some purpose or else they had probably been very ill dealt with by the Enemy After business there dispatch'd the Admiral 's returned with his Fleet for England continuing in the same Station till King James his Reign All Europe rung of King James's Famous Declaration for Liberty of Conscience about this time published to the World and of those methods he used in porsuance thereof to get all those Laws Repeal'd which were inseperable Obstacles to the same Officers Civil and Military were every where Canvass'd and now was the time when this King who is Notorious for having never been worse than his word was resolved to requite all the old Faithful Servants to the Crown and him He was indeed resolved to have two Strings to his Bow to alter the Government as hath been said both Civil and Military That if he cou'd not by the Gown he might by the Sword obtain his Desires Nay so fully bent were they on these Pernicious Councils that some of the fam'd Regulators themselves have no Blush to say though 't is hoped they may to read this since they are yet alive That if the Parliament wou'd not Repeal the Penal Laws the King had another way and Forty Thousand Men should do it without him To this end Sea-Officers were attackt as well as those at Land and among many other great Men and great Favourites for the Truth is the Court had then small respect of Persons Vice-Admiral Herbert lost his place and kept his Honour being proof against all the Insinuations that could be made to oblige him to betray the Nation And some time after left his Ungrateful Master for good and all and betook himself to the Court of the then Prince of Orange together with other Nobler Lords for indeed that then seemed the English Court and Whitehall one of the old Irish Kings Tendragee or some of their Forlorn Mountains In whose Court at the Hague he remain'd till the happy Fate of England required the Princes presence here with whom he came into the Quality of an Admiral Whatever has happen'd since 't is Notorious no man cou'd be better beloved by the Seamen than he was at that time His Health was drank by Sea and Land and the Prince of Orange himself was seldom named but Admiral Herbert was with him whose Letter after the Princes to the English Fleet may be supposed to have had no small Influence on them both to prevent their Engaging the Dutch and hasten their joyning the Princes as many of 'em afterwards did And indeed so memorable a piece of History is that Letter of his that it ought not to be omitted in a piece of this Nature and one of the very Original Printed Letters sent then to some Officer in the Fleet coming to our hands we shall here verbatim insert the same TO ALL Commanders of Ships and Seamen in His Majesty's Fleet. Gentlemen I Have little to add to what His Highness has exprest in general Terms besides laying before you the Dangerous way you are at present in where Ruine or Infamy must inevitably attend you if you do not joyn with the Prince in the Common Cause for the defence of your Religion and Liberties for should it please God for the Sins of the English Nation to suffer your Arms to prevail to what can your Victory serve you but to inslave you deeper and overthrow the true Religion in which you have Lived and your Fathers Dye of which I beg you as a Friend to consider the Consequences and to reflect on the Blot and Infamy it will bring on you not only now but in all after-Ages that by your means the Protestant Religion was destroy'd and your Country depriv'd of its Ancient Liberties and if it pleases God to Bless the Princes Endeavours with Success as I do not doubs but he will consider then what their Condition will be that oppose him in this so good a Design where the greatest Favour they can hope for is their being suffer'd to end their Days in Misery and Want Detested and Despised by all good Men. It is therefore and for many more Reasons too long to insert here that I as a true Englishman and your Friend exhort you to joyn your Arms to the Prince for the defence of the Common Cause the Protestant Religion and the Liberties of your Countries It is what I am well assured the Major and best part of the Army as well as the Nation will do so soon as convenience is offer'd Prevent them in so good an Action while it is in your power and make it appear That as the Kingdom has always depended on the Navy for its defence so you will yet go further by making it as much as in you lies the Protection of her Religion and Liberties and then you may assure your self of all Marks of Favour and Honour suitable to the Merits of so Glorious an Action After this I ought not to add so inconsiderable a thing as that it will for ever engage me to be in a most particular Manner Your Faithful Friend and Humble Servant AR. Herbert Aboard the Leyden in the Gorce What effect this handsome Letter had upon the Fleet has been already observed and

already Printed in that Language tells us expressing his Dissatisfaction in terms something warm and passionate How the whole Dutch Nation will resent it is not yet known but must be left to time to unravel This is certain that the Dutch Embassader immediately sent an account of the whole to his Masters However it is certain an English Man can only be Tryed by English Laws and though there may be many even of our own Nation as well as theirs who might be so reasonable as to think it fit he should Die whether or no he deserved it and others may be displeased with what has happen'd meerly because they are resolved they will be so with all the Actions of the Government yet we cannot say things have been otherwise than fairly managed when they have been brought on a fair Tryal nor is the Government so weak God be praised as to be put to the sad necessity of making State-Sacrifices of innocent men on account of some politick Maxim contrary perhaps both to Honour Justice and common Reason And for our Forreign Neighbours it is certain the best and wisest of them are not very great favourers of the Dewitting way of Execution nor can we think they would be willing any man especially a person of Honour in so high a Station should be condemn'd when it did not in the least appear by the Evidence that he deserved it But whatever this present resentment may be it is not much question'd but the appearance of His Britanick Majesty among them in that Splender and Glory which is designed at that Illustrious Congress there which already all Europe have their Hearts and Eyes upon but that it will effectually all causeless heats and discontents if any such should there arise from what has happened and that the Presence of such a Prince as has more than once saved their Liberties and whatever they had dear or valuable will break through greater obstacles than these mentioned and cement much more closely than ever the Union both between all the Confederates and particularly between the States and England by whose conjoynt care it s not much to be doubted that early this next Spring we may have a Fleet at Sea more Formidable than ever to regain that Honour which the late unfortunate Summer we may in some measure have seem'd to have lost for really we cann't be said to have done it our unhappy Retreat doing us much more injury than all the French Cannon being the cause of the loss of most if not all the Ships which Perish'd in the late Engagement Nor in the mean time can I see what great reason the French have to boast their own Fortune or Victory since 't was sufficiently visible they could hardly sustain the least part of our Fleet with all their own and besides the Ships they had sunk or disabled lost so many men by their own Confusion in the very Fight and afterwards while upon our Coast so many more by sickness with no greater Atchievements to boast of at home than Conquering half-a-dozen Boats and Hoys with no man to defend 'em and Burning a few Fishers Huts at Tin● mouth though as their Custom is running away again before our Forces could come to Engage 'em whereof they make so glorious a business in their own Gazettes not carrying home so much as one Man of War nor Merchant from our Channel as Trophies of their Valour nor daring abide us when our Fleet was Re-fitted and would so willingly have spoke with them once more before they parted And 't is as pleasant that their Admiral Tourville should be in Disgrace as well as ours for the same Action it being a long time questioned whether he should have had his Commission continued or taken from him his King being extreamly angry that he did not beat us any more when we our selves fought him with one Hand ty'd behind us And yet he was himself in so fair a way of being soundly beaten To return from this Digression on Thursday the day after the Lord Torrington's Tryal he came up the River again in a Yatcht and passing through Bridge went immediately to his own House and in a few days after took his usual place in the House of Lords but we do not hear that he has yet been at Court or seen His Majesty only his Commission is superseeded and he no longer Admiral And now let every man make what Reflections he pleases on what passages we have there presented him in the Life of this Noble Lord. In the mean time thoughts are free and I know what I 'll think let others think what they will That Fortune 's a Jade if she 's any thing at all that she 's as deceitful as her Sex and as slippery as her Wheel That the most powting Lip she can make is not enough to fright a brave Man and that the very best of her Ogelings and Smiles are not worth whistling after FINIS Books Newly Publish'd ☞ The Triennial Mayor Or the New-Rapparees a Poem sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster Price 6 d. The Anti-Weesils a Poem sold by Randal Taylor Price 6 d. A Treatise of Fornication Written upon an extraordinary occasion to which is added a Sermon Preached before the Guilty Persons upon their doing PENNANCE in the Publick Congregation By WB. M.A.