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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35157	Great Britain's tears humbly offered to the consideration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled.	Crosfeild, Robert.	1695 (1695)	Wing C7244; ESTC R36056	8,930	17

landing and making great Depradations before they could draw a Strength together able to oppose them but yet before that could be done they might if they saw it requisite retire and be gone by such like means the Enemy might have been driven to the greatest Extremity and this hath always been the Opinion and Practice of all Ages and Nations that have been strong at Sea But unhappy poor England during this War has fallen from the common Notions of Men and at that time when in the greatest Danger and this hath not only been an Error of one Year or two but many Nay have we not seen the Enemy's Fleet in the Straits and their Coast left naked their Troops being drawn to the Siege of Charleroy and we at the same time lay with a great Fleet almost all the Summer in Torbay and yet made no Attempt upon their Coast Let us but suppose we had lain under the same Circumstance What a miserable Condition we should have been in we may judg by what a Consternation the Nation was in the last Summer for fear the French Fleet should be out before ours It 's seen the Venetians can make a good use of their Shipping as appears by their taking the Morea Ciclut and Scio and why not we who are able to perform greater Actions than they are capable of And no doubt we might and should have done it had we not been prevented through the sordid Covetousness of some Persons who to enrich themselves have basely kept the Nation in a lingring War This will not appear to be a hard and unjust Censure when I have laid open what I have further to offer The next thing therefore I shall proceed upon shall be to enquire how it came to pass that there were Embargo's laid upon Shipping from Year to Year for several Years together to the great Prejudice of His Majesty and the whole Kingdom Some Men did and do conjecture that it was carried on by Interest and to satisfy the avaritious Temper of some Persons belonging to the Admiralty for it brought vast Sums of Money to their Hands and their Opinion in that matter seems to be justly grounded for being done as before is said for several Years there must have been some very urgent Cause for so doing and none so great as the King's want of Men as indeed nothing else could be rendred a sufficient Cause for so violent an Action and of so pernicious Consequence to the King and Kingdom The same Cause still remains and hath been all this last Summer more pressing than ever yet we see there has been no Embargo laid You will then say How comes there to be so great a Change It was because the last Session of Parliament this Matter was exploded and laid open by me in Print how pernicious the laying Embargo's was to his Majesty's and the Kingdom 's Interest and undeniable Reasons given to prove that there was no manner of Cause for so doing which in short overthrew that Business and the Nation has heard no more of it since And there hath been Application made to the Lords of the Admiralty wherein has been laid open what vile Corruptions were and are committed in his Majesty's Yards in the Imbezlement of his Majesty's Stores and the great Destruction made of Timber and Plank in the building and repairing the Royal Navy and the irregular Proceedings in the said Yards which hath amounted to vast Sums of Money which might have been sav'd and the Matter has had the Approbation of almost all Persons that have seen it but notwithstanding this has made no Impression on their Lordships who have delay'd the Person that made the Proposal but promis'd him from time to time to bring his Matter to an Issue but never perform'd it The Commissioners of the Navy to whom it was referr'd treated the Proposer rudely and never would make a just Report of the Matter to them referr'd but endeavour'd to evade and ridicule what they were not able to answer or confute This Affair hath lain for near this two Years and lies still undetermined altho it be of such vast Importance to the King and Kingdom and there are seventeen have made Oath of these things who are no loose idle Persons but Men living in good Repute that have even an Horror upon them to consider that these things are practised and those that do it are countenanced and supported in it by those who should redress them and which might have been long since done and may yet this Session of Parliament if honest Men are imploy'd by appropriating such a Sum of Money to that very use and making a borrowing Clause by which means there would be ready Money to pay the Workmen the want of which is alledged to be the great Cause of all these Abuses then that Money that hath been hitherto so basely wasted and mispent may be imploy'd towards the Payment of the Sailers whose Case truly is very deplorable and would even move a stony Heart to Compassion who are made a Prey of on every hand I need not particularize wherein it having been already done by others and it 's no more than what 's generally known but it 's contrary to common Policy and Honesty to oppress Men to such a degree who are of such great use to the Publick and no doubt their Sighs and Tears have long since pierced the Clouds and call aloud to Heaven for Vengeance and there 's no one Sin whatever sooner brings Judgments upon a Nation than the violent Oppression of the Poor His Majesty hath been graciously pleased to issue out his Royal Proclamation for to encourage the Sailers to come into his Service by giving them three Months Pay advance which I wish may have the desired Effect but there 's little appearance of it for it 's frequently seen that the Sailers leave their Ships many times when they have six or nine Months Pay due to them the Promise therefore of three Months Advance cannot be a sufficient Inducement for them to come into the Service the reason of it is because they are as it were eaten up by others and we see that even a Dog will shun that Room in which he has been often beat therefore it 's no wonder the Sailers have so great an Aversion to the Publick Service and as they are Men and Rational Creatures they will always decline it as long as they are so ill treated Therefore until the Cause be remov'd the Effects will never cease but these Regulations must not be expected to come from the Admiralty or Navy-board unless a Reform be first made among them His Majesty of his Princely Compassion hath been pleas'd to recommend the Sailers Case to the Parliament and many Proposals have been offer'd whereby to encourage and enduce them to come into his Service among others some have propos'd to register them in the several Ports with such Clauses and Restrictions as may oblige them to it but