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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25777	The argument against a standing army, discuss'd by a true lover of his country.; Argument shewing that a standing army is inconsistent with a free government	Trenchard, John, 1662-1723.; Moyle, Walter, 1672-1721.	1698 (1698)	Wing A3631; ESTC R15603	27,307	44

called The Count De Fiesque ' s Conspiracy to Destroy the State of Genoa and the nearness of its being accomplished shews us how much we ought to stand upon our Guard But my Author has put more Work upon my Hands he hath some more fine Stories to tell us he says That Timophanes having but 400 Men with that number overthrew the City of Corinth and made himself King All things I see happen not alike at all times for we find that Claudus Lysias for the sake of one Man's Life when he knew of a Conspiracy sent about that number to Guard him to Foelix and this was one of our Noble Romans But perhaps you will say This was called an Army and so it was and such an Army I suppose you will grant the King when he thinks it worth asking for But yet I cannot tell whether you will or no when I consider the next Story you tell us For Agathocles from being Captain-General of the Syracusans got such an Interest in the Army that he cut the Senators in pieces and the Richest of the People and made himself their King He had better Fortune than Dennis of Sicily or else a late Poet in Verse has done him wrong But you have not done yet with your Fears you say The Romans for fear of the Teutones and Cimbri who threatned their Territories chose Marius to be their General and that he and Sylla insinuating themselves into the Favour of the Army did much Mischief So that not a Man or Farthing is to be granted on this Score You say Sir That the Prolongation of Caesar's Commission in Gallia made him able to seise on Rome it self and also that he was able to take upon him the Office of Perpetual Dictator Those things therefore which were acted so many Centuries ago must be a Bar to future Pretences Had you been as fair as you ought to be you might have told us what such of our English Kings who aim'd at Arbitrary Power got by the Bargain But you are full of your Stories and say That Olivarotto di Fermo having leave of his Fellow-Citizens to enter the Town with 100 Horse he put all the principal Citizens to the Sword and proclaimed himself their Prince You add That Francis Sforza made himself from General of the Milanese their Duke and you make ours a Duke of Venice But now Sir you come to a more Modern Story of Christiern the Second King of Denmark who was also King of Sweden and tells us of his Treachery and I think he paid dear enough for his Treachery for he was driven out of Sweden by Gustavus Ericson but alas you say they soon found their Mistake which I think was not the worse Then the late ingenious Authors Story of Denmark is brought upon the Stage which is more to the purpose than any thing has been said but if they are miserable their over Credulity contributed to the Cheat For as that Gentleman says That King was willing to grant what their Modesty never requested And why shou'd our King not be thought as fair a Prince I am of Opinion we are not half so Modest Old Oliver must not rest in his Grave tho' an Act of Grace has pardoned the Transgressors I really think that our withdrawing due Relief from King Charles I. brought those Miseries upon our Heads And now to pin the Basket for us we Journey from our own Country and a good Journey it is we take 't is only to the West Indies for nothing but to prove That provoked Servants will be revenged upon insolent Masters when they have opportunity which is no great Matter Had his History not ended here he wou'd have told us what Robberies have been committed on the King's High Ways by the Soldiery but that I think wou'd not have served his purpose for then it wou'd have been returned upon him that he must be more exposed for some of them if Disbanded are not able to Dig and to Beg they are ashamed so he wisely lets it alone But since our Author is silent I will crave leave to handle this Matter a little and let us consider what we shall do for them Is the Danger they have undergone to be forgotten Remember Sir it was our Countries Cause No rather than that shall be suffered I will pour some Oil into your Wounds or at least afford you a Noble Pity Gentlemen those Common-wealths your Adversary so much approves of for their good Laws he owns had always a good regard to Merit but he has done with you and is not so much as for giving you Thanks or making any Provision for you Holy Writ tells us That of Ten Cripples which were healed there was but one of them grateful to his great Benefactor and as he is Recorded for his Goodness so is his Country taken notice of for he was a Samaritan and that good Samaritan I will be in owning That by your Valour and Courage you have made other Countries the Scene of War and left us to possess our Estates in ease and freedom And since he has left Part of the Roman History untold I will tell you That Caius Marius had never been chosen seven times Consul of Rome had not his Wounds pleaded his Cause The meanness of his Birth was twited in his teeth by such who opposed him and were of Noble Parentage But these wise Romans observed what Cato told a decayed Nobleman who had upbraided his Parentage That he had rather be the first of a Family than the last Here Merit and not Birth got the Ascendant so true a value they set on Noble Performances But to go on with my Author and to shew that he has read more History than he has quoted he owns That Holland and Venice had met with no Oppressions and tho' they keep large Armies they have not lost their Liberties I thank you Sir for this Favour He goes on to tell us his Reason for it That Venice cannot be Attack'd but by the Sea And here he might have instanced in the late Action at Scio The Venetians we know after they had taken it lost it again suddenly to the Turks Now had there been a sufficient number of Regulated Forces in it those with the Fleet might have done admirable Service 'T is not my design to reflect on a Fleet I honour them ever since I read the History of the Spanish Invasion in 1588. under the Conduct of Sir Francis Drake and that Action sufficiently proves the usefulness of them and serves to fill up the Annals of that Glorious Reign No! all my Design is to prove that some few Regulated Forces cannot hurt us and I should have been loath to have heard that Expedition-Wind shou'd have proved in our Teeth because her Militia might not have met with that Success and then the case had prov'd too late the necessity of Regulated Troops I hope Neptune will always extend his Trident