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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58895	The seaman's opinion of a standing army in England in opposition to a fleet at sea, the best security of this kingdom : in a letter to a merchant / written by a sailor.	Sailor.	1699 (1699)	Wing S2189_VARIANT; ESTC R34230	13,716	16

THE Seaman's Opinion OF A Standing Army IN ENGLAND In Opposition to a Fleet at Sea the Best Security of This Kingdom In a LETTER to a Merchant Written by a SAILOR Printed according to Order 〈◊〉 Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1699. Price Two Pence The Sea-man's Opinion of a Standing Army c. SIR I Have read with no small consideration the Argument● for and against a Standing Army so warmly argued on both sides one making false Weights and Measures allowing nothing to be true Weight that is not weigh'd at the Court-Beam while the others lay their Reasons and Arguments in the Peoples Scale and weigh the common Interest and our Constitution against the Court Projects I must confess the latter are much in the right for Laws were made for the general Good of all the Subjects and are by no means to be altered to the prejudice of the People The English Constitution has no respect to those future Contingencies and Emergences which may happen to crowned Heads Our Fore fathers thought those Laws which were of Force and Virtue enough to keep them in the possession of their Estates equally powerful t● secure the Regalities of the Crown to the King and would be alike advantageous to their Posterity and I know no Reason why we should be of another Opinion The main Reason the Court-party offers for a Standing Army is the entire Confidence we may repose in the King on the account of the heroick Virtues inherent in him and his firm and sincere Intentions to the preservation of the Nation and the Rights of the Subject so that if the People of England do not trust the King with their Lives Liberties and Estates they would insinuate as if they did mistrus● him I may know my Neighbour to be a very honest Man and yet have no occasion to trust him with the Deeds o● my Estate my Money or Goods nor need the People exchange Magna Charta for the King's Letters Patents fo● their Liberties durante beneplacito for so it must be whe● he is arm'd with force at any time to take it away I have a much nay a greater esteem of the Royal and Princel● Virtues of his Majesty than any Courtier of them all and though I could trust the King with a great deal yet I should not care to trust them with a little A Government settled by the People of England ought to be maintained by them and without doubt the People will maintain a King in those Rights and Prerogatives they have granted and confirmed to him otherwise it will be a Reflection which hitherto has not happened upon them but to maintain a Government upon any other Principles than such on which it is founded is ridiculous The Superstructure ought to be conform to the Foundation the Building otherwise is irregular and inarrificial and for the People to undermine the Foundation of their Liberties and raze it to the ground only to build a Pyramid of Honour or a Triumphal Arch for a Prince is downright Nonsense A Government ought to be supported but it must be consider'd withal how it deviated from its Institution when we know what a Government is we can quickly find fit props to support it and fit Force to defend it 'T is pity there should be a distinction betwixt the King and the Government which it must be allowed when the Courties call themselves the Government As a certain Person was committed to the Custody of a Messenger by the Secretary's Warrant for publishing and dispersing a seditious and scandalous Libel against His Majesty and Government whenas it only contain'd Matter of Fact against some Commissioners Well then these Commissioners are the Government and I am of opinion if it be thus that 't is not worth our while to keep up twenty thousand Men to support it Setting themselves thus up they lessen the King and his Pre●ogative as if the King had the Legislative and they the governing Power Evil Ministers and Officers have in all Times prov'd prejudical to the Prince that employ'd them or they acting after an illegal and arbitrary manner in their ●everal Stations cause suspicion that the Prince by whom they are commissionated will when enabled with Force to the like or worse and tho ill Ministers and Officers may act-illegally and after an arbitrary manner without the Knowledge nay contrary to the Consent and Approbation of the Prince yet all their Actions tend to the weakning of his Government and to create Jealousies in his People Men judge of the Fountain by the Purity o● Impurity of the Streams and Justice being deny'd or delay'd by Officers and Ministers they presently look back to the orginal Contract and Coronation Oath with a great deal of Doubt and Hesitation It was a noble and glorious Saying of our great and renowned Prince Edw. 3 when he hang'd his Chief Justice Thorp of the King's Bench for taking a Bribe of 100 l. That he being intruste● as the King's Deputy to administer Justice in that Court ha● as much as in him lay broken that Solemn Oath that his Majest made to his People at his Coronation Instead of a Land Fore● to defend Evil Ministers this wise Prince procur'd a Halte● to hang them If Men in great Offices have been guilty of enomous Crimes have lavishly spent and squander away Parliamentary Funds rais'd for the security of th● Nation must the People of England make a rent in thei● Constitution and raise and pay Twenty thousand Men t● maintain them in their vicious Practices and secure then from the Violence and Insults of the common People They are grown already to such a height that their is n● way of calling them to an Account If an inferiour Boar● commit a Crime rob embezel plunder the Nation and of rich themselves with the Puplick Spoils of the Kingdom● and a complaint be made to the Lords of the T ry the refer it after the Complainer has a long time attended t● the Board complained against after a long attendance fiv● on six Months I have known it a Report is made th● T ry acquiesces with the Report and the Complainer frustrated of his honest Intentions It is a Law amongst'e● never to hear the Complaint of an Inferiour Officer again a Superiour as one of the Commissioners of the Ex told a certain Person that there was a Resolution taken u● by all the Commissioners in the Kingdom that if an Inferiour Officer complain'd of Mismanagement they woul● represent him either as a Fool or a Knave or else mak● him so uneasy that he should be forc'd to quit his Employment and this appears to be true for most if not all th● ●fficers that have complain'd of Mismanagements hav●●een discharg'd for so doing How then shall these Men 〈◊〉 punished Why the last Resort you know is a Parliament and if you read over the List you will soon find ●ow many Courtiers were there Judges of their own Cause