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A93214	A short discourse upon the desires of a friend: wherein, upon observation of the late governments and revolutions, it is made evident, what alone can be the perfect settlement of this nation, and the composure of all differences.		1660 (1660)	Wing S3590; Thomason E1016_15; ESTC R205202	9,980	16

no more then house-keeping is to be made lesse chargeable and the family still left uncontracted The General cannot but see this If he design 's to make himself great he must surely reflect upon the certain ruine he run's into if he remembers but what successe others had in the pursuit of it and how much more faire it stood when Oliver Protector attempted it than it now do's for him The reasons I have laid down before and in short they are to be thus reduc'd The Nation is grown wiser and poorer and therefore the unlikelier to be cousen'd again or to be longer fantastick He will discern too he cannot subsist without power enough to force the Nation to a subjection they are not inclin'd to and he may as well fear he must be put to pay them by some other means than out of the purses of those he fixes slavery and discontent on Next the uncertainty of Souldiers may shake his unjust thoughts if he has any and let him see he ought not to depend upon a certainer temper in them than they have alwayes exprest inherent in themselves His Army now cannot shew greater affections for him than they themselves and the other Army have exprest to others and yet have turn'd from all that profession into a violent extream Lastly 't is evident the Nation 's poverty and disaffection will make him uncapable of rewarding the expectations of those that should raise him to a desir'd Greatnesse they would set so vast a rate upon their merits that he must be their glorious slave and wear a mingle of Majesty and Shackles not daring to command those whom he is unable to reward and from natural necessity they must become the executioners of that power they gave him All this by experiment and reason must be visible to him unlesse the temptation of present Ambition dazels his eyes from seeing the future hazards few men being warned enough by the destiny of others but are so fond as to believe that they have kinder Stars then the whole World besides I wish this may not be the General 's fatal perswasion but that he may perpetually preserve himself in just honour and reasonable safety answering the wishes and expectation of the whole Nation in continuing to defend them in what they shall judge fit for themselves and to confider how all previous engagement of never so fair a nature is but robbing them of that judgement which purely ought to flow from themselves Of equal fate and injustice it will be for him to persist in the imposing many Governours to tender his opinion may resemble duty but to second it with force is usurp'd Dominion and he will appear equally just and kind to usurp Dominion himself or to assist others in the usurpation of it since every Government contrary to the Nations judgement must be as chargeable in their own defence as they are unjust in their own impositions Nor can such ill men as now perhaps add to his temptations agree long with him or one another in the sharing of power The modesty that is found in the pursuit is lost in the acquisition And late experience is seconded by reason to assure us that such mens knowledges of one anothers Crimes and Subtilities divide those plots among themselves they once destroyed others by Like those that rose together from the earth by the sown-teeth of Dragons converted presently their original malice among one another No Stories has shown us precedents of mischiefs that we have not equall'd in our Revolutions The Roman Army never made and unmade Emperours faster than Ours has set up and pull'd down Governments so that a reasonable man would think it impossible that ever any person should be so infatuated as wholly to throw himself upon them more or so unchristian-like as to suffer the almost-shipwrackt Vessel of the Nation to be yet exposed to more Army-storms since things are now growing to that Exigence that the General must chuse safety and honor with the Nation or hazard and uncertain glory with an Army It being possible that an Army may be preserv'd under the Nation 's Government but never the Nation under the Armie 's And now Sir I shall give you my judgement of what I suppose the Nation will onely be able to reston It will be To find out such a Government as may compose all differences confirm all sales and make Oblivion and Indempnity perfect and when none shall want pardon or security there will not be so many enemies left that will put the Nation to maintain such chargeable defences for their ruler That which onely can do this is the ancient constitution of King Lords Commons For to defend any Usurper against the King's title will be chargeable to keep him out makes all indempnity imperfect and none can imagine they shall safely enjoy their purchases unlesse they were sure that no chance or revolution shall ever throw that into his power which we deny to give him nor will the Nation ever be content to pay the Souldiers Arrears till they purchase by it a setlement according to their own judgement The King is now fit in all respects to be treated with The preservation of his religion his being free from engagements with forreign force unblemish'd from any injury he ever did the Nation may reasonably assure us that he is both capable to forgive and would be willing to confirm rather to make a grave to bury all disputes than by ravelling into former actions raise new ones and would certainly be convinc'd that the Justice of restoring all purchas'd Lands would be over-weigh'd by the necessity and justice of confirming them since the injuries by confirmation may be sooner repaired then the prejudice restoration will bring For by such moderate wayes they may be setled that no parties will have cause to be griev'd if all will be content but to share with the whole Nation in some dammage And if the Nation makes not themselves capable thus to receive an oblig'd Prince they will probably admit a victorious One and be ever wretched under the effects of Conquest he notwithstanding will be free before God for recovering his rights by such a way when he is deni'd it by a Moderator and at their doors the sin will lye who still design the Nation to be their slaves or force them to be so unto another unlesse his vertue frees them from that condition which the Crimes of others threw them into Thus Sir I have delivered my particular opinion and I hope there is no man living that owns this Nation for his Countrey but will submit to the judgement of it oblig'd to no particular designs by private passions but bound to obey the judgement of those who onely can determine what is convenient for themselves so that 't is not the Title of any single man nor the pretences of many that ought to be preferr'd before the Nation or to be impos'd upon the people nor either of these justly to be refus'd if the Nations good shall appear to consist with the Government of either To the free Parliament therefore let every man appeal and there indeed he may embrace a certain good cause since such a one is sure to be for his Countrey 's good that wholly resigns himself to their judgements I hope Sir these Reasons will make an impression in your breast and I wish it were possible they might have the same effects on every individual man that the Nations conscience and interest may at last meet which has been so long separated by the succeeding ambitions of a few men nor have I deliver'd you any opinion which shall not be asserted when occasion requires it with the life and fortune of Your humble Servant FINIS

All these things alarm'd that part of the Army that Lambert had left behind him in London who immediatly fell to their ancient custome of undoing what they had done not seeming to believe that actions of contrary natures could be blemishes to their infallible purity and presently drawing together did invite that parcell of men to sit again whom they had forc'd from their Seats before This act of theirs here in London took the same impression in the Army under Lambert's command at Newcastle so that without a blow he found himself o're-come and forsaken by all those Troops which a little before seem'd unquestionably at his Devotion Thus freed from a Potent Enemy Generall Monck victorious without a Conquest marcht towards London receiving from all Counties as he past along their Resolutions to assert their own Right in a Free Parliament and comming within a day's march of the City he received from them an Addresse of the same just nature He was no sooner come to White-hall but immediately the violent Rump prepared an employment of an unheard-of nature for him which he obey'd and entered the City imprisoning some of the considerable men throwing down all their Gates to make them look as ready for ruine as was possible so to frighten them into obedience and spread his Tent to the publick view beholding him gone in to deflowre their Freedoms These two things the passionate Rump design'd to render all people they had to do with either by oppression or odium uncapable to hurt them having an equall kindnesse for him that profest their service and for those that avow'd the contrary their jealousies being the true issues of their crimes unlimited to all alike Yet this storm battered not the City's Resolution who still continu'd resolute to keep those poor that design'd to make them miserable with whose just and generous resolution the Nation comply'd and it grew presently discernable how hard it was for any Power to subsist upon the dependance onely of an Army's strength if the Nation did once resolve to overcome them by those silent wounds of denying Payments and Taxes of all natures but such as should be impos'd by all their Representatives This with the remembrance of those Addresses he had received seem'd to waken the Generall and presented to his new open'd eyes the strange employment he had undergone together with the just apprehensions that others of the same injurious nature would suddainly be impos'd upon him to make him incapable of any thing but their passionate commands by rendring him as infamous as themselves These considerations perhaps threw him upon treating with the secluded Members at which alarme the Rump presently voted the filling up themselves but with such Qualifications that they shewd as little kindnesse to the Nation in their submitting to fill up the House as they did before in their denying to have it enlarged This unlegitimate Child therefore dyed in its birth and left none to mourn the losse of such a loath'd Issue from such hated Parents and the Secluded Members were now lookt upon as the onely present shew of Power that was ready in this exigent of time to act some suddain relief for the Nation All this while the Generall stayed retired in the City hearing the reasons of both sides which were with so many advantages excelling on the Secluded Members part that assisted by the danger of ever more trusting the always furious and now disoblig'd Rump he permitted them to enter into those places from whence they had been with-held by force This Prospect Sir I thought fit to give you of things past that you might by the fresh remembrance of these changes judge of the reasons I shall offer in relation to future Events it being now seemingly probable to guesse what all things must center in though it be impossible to judge of man's intentions affairs being now as much govern'd by Necessity and Exigence as by Designe or Intention Nor perhaps is there much of either now grounded in many men by right principle since Occasion every day is seen to soften men like Wax ready to receive the impression of the next Honour or Advantage The Generall and the Secluded Members are now upon the Stage and no doubt there are yet mingled with the last some persons so wholly wedded to private interest and ambition that they daily endeavour to obstruct the common advantage being such as would engrosse the Sun not share in its influence that would subject Power to their selfish Passions and not submit to it reasonably plac'd impudently laying their own privat interest in one ballance against the Nation 's weighing in the other The effect of this has already appear'd by obstructions that every day happen to that haste that is required to be made for the determination of this Parliament and by the harsh and splenetive clauses that are offer'd to be added to every Act and Qualification it being their interest that have alwayes liv'd in bloud to keep all wounds still open Nor do's lesse suspitions and jealousies attend the General who so darkly carries himself that he rather seems to wait upon opportunity then principles and yet seems more affected to his private opinion then the Nations judgement having declar'd his own before they have given their's But to how little purpose it is as well as how unjust I hope I shall easily shew you and I doubt not but it may as easily be discern'd by any that will consider with passion laid aside the late revolutions I have presented to you by which their reasons may be directed to find the one ly grave to bury all former animosities and future charges in The dispute of late years has fondly been concerning what Goverment is best and in this many have engag'd as their interest have led them and it is very true it might in respect of many of their particulars merit the name of a Question especially in all those that judge their power and advantages would be greatest by one or t' other but admitting nothing to receive any consideration but the Nations good in general then it will not seem a question for both have been tried in a resemblance enough to demonstrate that they are equally prejudicial to the Nation 's good for both alike must of necessity supply their want of Title with Armies and the charge being the same it matters not to dispute the difference of the imposers the Nation being too poor to wait the tedious effect of any pretended good cause nor is it reasonable to expect good from profession and opinion when it is sooner to be compass'd by demonstration and action I call that a true Title that the Nation will judge so for that of consequence is the best whether by one or many since that Government may venter to depend soly upon the National not the Military interest whereby the Nations charge may be contracted their Trade restor'd which under a power preserv'd by force is impossible to be