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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	king_n	people_n	prince_n	3,388	5	5.5555	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59285	A short speech prepared to be spoken by a worthy member in Parliament concerning the present state of the nation.	Seton, William, Sir, d. 1744.	1700 (1700)	Wing S2651; ESTC R33869	7,767	18

A Short Speech Prepared to be Spoken By a Worthy MEMBER IN Parliament Concerning the PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION Quare tam perdita Roma Ipsa sui Merces erat sine Vindice Praeda. Petron. Printed in the Year 1700. A SPEECH prepared it seems for the ensuing Session by a Member of Parliament which falling from him by Accident is Publish'd lest he should have no other Copy THE Business of this Day is the greatest and of the greatest Consequence that ever came before the Representatives of this Nation For as in all past Ages the People of this Country have liv'd in Liberty at Home and Reputation Abroad so upon the Resolutions of this Day or at least of this Session of Parliament to which those of this Day may give a considerable stroke does depend the continuation of that Liberty and Reputation which we have always had of being bold Asserters of our Rights and Freedom together with the Fate and Destiny of our Posterity Our Great Historian has made the Noble Spirit of our Ancestors Illustrious to this and all future Ages All Nations read and all Porterity will know and praise their Actions But if we shall now so far degenerate as not to assert our Freedom at Home by breaking a standing Army in time of Peace which if kept up is a Treasonable Alteration of our Government makes it Tyrannical If we do not assert our Rights as a Free People by such just and true Representations of them to our Neighbour-Nation as may convince them we have no Designs but such as we have just Right to prosecute and are for the Common Good of both If we do not discover the black Designs of a few ill Men who endeavour for sinister Ends to set the Nation together by the Ears I say if we do not take effectual ways to accomplish these things and establish a lasting Peace both at Home and Abroad I shall easily comprehend the History of our Nation in this and all future Ages in two Words If you ask them I answer Slavery and Oblivion But that I may give some Advice in the Affair and propose Remedies suteable to our Condition and the multiplicity of Evils that press and threaten us on all hands 't will be necessary to deduce them from their original Causes and to give a just and true Account of the present State of the Nation When that Great and Memorable Change happen'd in this Island by which the Kingdom of Scotland and England came to be so far united as to have but one King both Nations promis'd to themselves great Advantages And tho' the Endeavours that were then and have been since us'd for a nearer Union prov'd unsuccessful yet this Advantage still remain'd that Peace betwixt the two Nations was preserv'd and a King common to both as a common Father kept them from encroaching upon the Rights of each other and having no regard to the Partialities or Animosities of either did equal Justice to both This state of things has lasted to our time But now we are told that his Majesty is forc'd to do diverse things prejudicial to the Interest of Scotland on account of Representations and Addresses made to him by an English Parliament with whom as representing a more powerful Nation he is oblig'd to comply as if there were no Rule of Justice by which he should judge of Matters contraverted between us As if in a Suit between a Rich and a Poor Man the Judge were not to consider the Merits of the Cause but always give Judgement in favour of the Rich Man And tho' in former Reigns ever since the first Union under one Head no such thing was ever done or so much as mention'd tho' no King ever suffered the least Breach to be made upon the Independency of Scotland as appears more evidently in K. Charles 2d's Removing the English Garisons out of this Country in the Year 1660 yet by our remotness from the Seat of the Government and Influence of the Prince as a Farm that has none but Servants to look after it this Nation became quickly of little or no value and England by means of Husbandry and Trade as well as by being the Seat of the Empire rising as fast as Scotland sunk by the want of all these the Disproportion in Riches sell from 1 to 5 as it was about the Year 1600 to that of 1 to 30 as it is at this day But the People of this Nation tho' they know the removal of their Kings to be the Original Cause of this Alteration yet knowing also that by the same means they had obtain'd a perpetual Peace with England and being conscious to themselves that whilst their Freedom and Priviledges were preserved entire by the Prince it was their own fault if the Policy of the Country were not regarded if Husbandry and Trade were not advanced On these Considerations I say they have always continued peaceable in that Union without the least thoughts of ever separating or dividing from their Neighbours or disturbing the Peace of this Island any more And tho' in the state of Separation they were much more Considerable Rich and Powerful than ever they have been since Tho' France our Natural Ally in case of a Separation with England has of late Years become not only a Ballance for England but a Ballance for almost all the rest of Europe in conjunction with England Tho' our Colony in Ireland were become formidable to the English power there who besides are always sure to have the Irish for an Enemy Yet all these Dis-advantages on the one hand and Hopes on the other could never shake that Allegiance which we owed to our Prince nor remove us from that Union with our Neighbours by which we had suffered so much But having within these five or six Years begun to be sensible that the extreme Poverty of our People which still encreased did proceed from nothing but the want of Foreign Trade which gives Life to all Manufactures and encreases the value of Land by giving Encouragement to Improve it We applied our selves to the setting up several Manufactories and sending our Ships to Trade in Places where formerly they were not imploied Yet knowing that all this would prove but a mean and peddling kind of Commerce unless we traded to the Indies it was very natural to us who abounded more in People than any thing else to think after the Example of all our Neighbours of having a Colony there also And accordingly an Indian-Company was established by Act of Parliament When on a sudden as if by that Act we had broke the Peace with our Neighbours we begin to be complain'd of and cried out against in England It was said That the Priviledges and Powers of the Company were Immense tho' it is evident that those of the French and Dutch Companies are greater It was said That the Immunity from Customs for 21 Years would sink all the other Companies of Europe not at