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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25780	An argument, proving that a small number of regulated forces established during the pleasure of Parliament cannot damage our present happy establishment, and that it is highly necessary in our present circumstances to have the matter fully determined being considerations upon what has been objected against standing armies in general.		1698 (1698)	Wing A3634; ESTC R12991	17,639	29

did they perform 'T is true before his Intentions were laid open they took a Western Expedition in his Favour But when he fell a Suspending and Imprisoning contrary to Law he soon found that when he wanted their Assistance the second time that he was disappointed for they rid faster to close in with our Present Glorious Deliverer than they did before to suppress a Protestant Invader And the Case requires no Oedipus to unfold the Riddle No Constitution cares to annihilate it self and wise Persons are of opinion that such a Complication of Causes will always happen on the like occasion So that on the whole it appears that a Regulated Army can never as you suppose cause a violation of our Laws or be built on our Destruction tho' you think it as certain as that there is a Kingdom in Heaven I find no Kingdom on Earth will please you no not Poland it self for your Arma Teneti look to the Purse Bearers the Commons in Parliament An Honourable Army will never raise that by force which a Parliament gives to their Merit And a French Mistress will be of no force till another Charles the Second arise so that the Exchequer is safe But pray Sir let me ask you one civil Question Can 20000 Men or less over-run England and cannot 300000 put you in a Capacity to think of our own defence Unless you can prevail to have all the Store-houses in Europe ruin'd to make our Swords plow the Ground and present Death to use any sort of Military Term you answer not the Point I will suppose the Princes now in Confederacy will keep the League and many years it may go forward but there may arise a King hereafter as there did of old in Egypt who knows not Joseph and since such things have been according to your own Rule they may again come to pass What you quote of Mr. Johnson shows him an angry Man and he had Cause to be angry for there was a time I wou'd not have been in his Coat He says there is no Epithet for Tyranny but I had rather be under the Hatches of a Protestant Prince than a Popish one since we have so lately seen the sad Essects of the latter 'T is much you did not admire him for wishing all the Bishops of England Inn-keepers because their Sufferings were left out in their famous Address But to hasten In the last Age we were Sovereigns of the Sea without the pretence of a Rival and if you think we are so now you and I differ and this is all owing to the cursed policy of the late Reigns And then if we are not surely a force in which we may conside is very convenient make you the Militia so and we are all friends Aspiring Spain confest we cou'd then give Laws to the Floating Element but the day is past and besides we want Union among our selves to make us Formidable Nor is it enough to assert we may prevent all by Intelligence Report may spread about a Design for Poland or a Plantation and a speedy way for Transport-Ships is now found out Besides Scotland and Ireland have Enemies enough in their own Bowels to prevent their doing us any service And moreover Foreigners give this Character of Englishmen That we are too credulous and so a Cheat may pass upon us You say there has been a Misapplication of our Naval Force which you add were not the Effects of Chance or Ignorance Methinks now you prove the Necessity of some standing Force to prevent Treachery No Hare ever doubled in her Files so dextrously which makes it suspected that Men of different Kidneys clubb'd for your Pamphlet I have nothing to do with your hard words of Ragamuffins and Henroost-Robbers which you bestow on our Army but let Bilbo look to that because they were not called such Names in Flanders But I cannot conclude without minding one thing because you have scarce spoke any thing else to the purpose You say a well-train'd Militia may be made useful No doubt but it may and the Methods you have laid down are incomparable good You propose The Nobility Gentry and Free-holders of England to undertake that Affair In answer to which I will positively assert That all I have conversed withal decline the Service Nor does it touch their Loyalty 't is an habitude to Ease They love their Country but Education has in a great Measure taken them off from the Vanity of admiring wooden Legs and broken Pates Such Theatrical Entertainments will pas Muster where others are the Combatants So that they will neither seek to be Officers in a Regulated Militia nor accept of the Post they care not for and surely a Man of Property may do as he pleases But you may Reply there are enough that wil. Yet by the way your main Point is lost when you endeavour to make us believe that all will aim at it If any thing made them it wou'd be that of having the Honour to see the King at the Head of them The number of the Militia you six and the Exercises you prescribe them with the time of being out upon Duty looks too unreasonable to require an Answer I will only instance in a few particulars You would have the same Man who is listed at first not to depart till he is discharged by his Captain and the Case of the Horse is as hard as the Man Then you propose that if we will not go our selves nor can find a Tenant or Servant a Soldier that has been in the Army shall supply the place Pray Sir will his bearing my Arms make him Honester in the Militia than he was in a Standing Army You Know he was then a Ragamussin and can Disbanding make my Arms safer in his Custody I ask this Question because you propose the Officers in your new modelled Militia to be appointed by the King I hope in such a Case you will take care of their Pay and make it in some proportion to ballance the Trouble But at last you come to the directing Part and before you have Modelled your Army of Militia to be worth a Man's going out of a Village or Country Town to see them exercise you propose Rewards and Honours to the most deserving and perhaps that will be assign'd to him who has the Finest Cloaths and tho you grudg the Charge of a necessary War you are for a great deal of magnificence when you are in Peace which looks like a kind of a whim But does not such a militia look like a Standing Army for if the King appoints the Officers and the common Soldiers are taken out of the Army where is the difference and if they are as dangerous I am sure they are more chargeable And if in their splendid Equipage they are necessitated to face the Enemy it will animate the Invaders Courage to have a prospect of Gain For History informs us that when Alexander went to subdue the Persians he took Advantage