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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87931	A letter from a member of the parliament of Scotland to his friend at London, concerning their late act, for establishing a company of that kingdom, tradeing to Africa and the Indies	Verax, Philanax.	1696 (1696)	Wing L1413; ESTC R231897	12,420	20

World as would chuse rather to lose a certain Benefit and Advantage to themselves than endure the very thoughts of seeing their Neighbours in any tolerable degree of equal Prosperity In allusion to which 't is no new thing to tell you That ever since the Reformation of Religion the Jesuits in their various shapes have left no means unessayed to propagate the several Sects and Schisms which during the last Age have like a general Contagion overspread this Island and undoubtedly gave the first rise to all the sad Catastrophe and dismal Consequences of the late bloody Civil Wars And even so since the Union of both Kingdoms under one Monarchy we have too too manifest and pregnant Proof of how far the Matchevilian Maxims of Policy have by the means of French Pensioners and Emissaries gain'd credit enough at the Court of England to improve the Remnants and Dregs of the ancient Feuds of both Kingdons into an almost avowed Reason of State though a much mistaken one That it was the Interest of England to suppress and keep Scotland poor Which was indeed chiefly intended and contrived with design to leave England in the lurch and carry on the real Interest of France where this Maxim had its birth by re-gaining Scotland into their ancient League For the Sting and hidden Poyson of the Serpent lay in this That the People of Scotland from the natural consideration they must needs have of any severe Treatment or unreasonable and intolerable Exactions imposed upon them by their domineering Neighbours might in time be tempted like the Israelites in the Wilderness to murmur and look back into the Onions Melons Garlick and Flesh-pots of their old acquaintance Yet by the Influence of this Jesuitical Barbarous and Hellish Principle together with the general Corruption of such colleaguing and self-designing Ministers as have to the grief of these Nations been at the Helm of Affairs during those latter Reigns this poor Nation in particular hath been most unmercifully crampt and fetter'd in its natural Liberties both as to Religion Property Trade and indeed all the real Badges of a Free and independent Kingdom other than in shadow till the late Providential and Happy Revolution gave us not only a fair opportunity of reassuming all our ancient Freedoms and natural Liberties but also of extending the same in point of Trade far beyond those Limits which some of our Neighbours seem now unwilling to allow us And I would gladly offer it to the serious Consideration of any Honest Unbyass'd and Free-thinking English-man Whether upon His present Majesty's Accession to the Crown of England when Ireland was in a manner quite lopp'd off France making mighty Preparations for War all Europe invelop'd in almost unquenchable Flames and England it self not free from Intestine Divisions and Bosom Enemies who flattered themselves with the Hopes that Scotland would from the consideration of its being so long kept at Arm 's length be tempted to act by an Interest separate from that of England Whether I say upon condition of assurance then that we would follow England's Example in placing the Crown of this Realm upon the Heads of our present Gracious Soveraign and His late Royal Confort of Blessed Memory when they fear'd our Demurring upon it England would not have willingly fulfilled and put us in possession of the long promised Union of both Nations and settled the same upon such an equal and lasting Foundation as that we might have freedom of Trading into the very Heart of their Plantations For how little soever the apparent Proportion be which our Nation may at present seem to bear on the Theatre of Publick Action as being in a manner wholly eclipsed by the refulgent and radiant Beams of England's more resplendent Greatness I may without Hyperbole justly say That as Matters then stood We had the Ballance of Europe in our Hands Yet all the Considerations we had in view of our own particular Interest the Advantages which we might have made of that Opportunity soon gave way to the irresistable Zeal and Affection which we had for the restorer of the Protestant Religion and common Liberties of Britain For lest that by any Delays in our Proceedings the Measures of England might be protracted We did in almost One Breath Declare the Throne Vacant our Selves a Free Independent State Their Royal Highnesses King and Queen of this Realm and war against all Their Majesty's Enemies as not in the least doubting but that such our generous and frank Proceeding with respect to our Neighbours at so critical a Juncture of Affairs might in due time reasonably plead for a grateful Resentment from the King and Parliament of England by an equally generous Condescension on their side to our having the same freedom of Trade by which but a little time before the wisest and most leading Men of that Nation thought it their Interest to have secured our Affection And that this was the sense of the Court of England at that time needs no further evidence than His Majesty's two successive Speeches to both Houses of His First Parliament wherein the consideration of an intire Union with Scotland was seriously recommended In order to which some Schemes were prepared and consulted by certain Noble Patriots of both Nations But no sooner had we in the interim solemnly consummated in manner aforesaid all that England could have either wish'd or fear'd from us on that Occasion but of a sudden all thoughts of such Union fell to the ground so that being left to chew our Cud upon that melancholly Proverb Post est occasio calva which in our Dialect may be render'd A True Scotchman is Wise behind-hand our next and only Remedy was to make the best of a bad Mercat In order to which we then Resoved to think of framing such wholsom and advantagious Laws for the Advancement of our poor Trade as might not only rouze up and animat the depressed and often-disappointed Genius of our fellow-Natives but also invite and enduce Strangers more experienced in Trade to embarque upon the same bottom with us and to that end We did in the Third Session of this current Parliament Anno 1693. Pass a Preliminary Act conceived in general Terms for the Encouragement of Foreign Trade which you see narrated in the beginning of this last Act By the gracious and necessary Concessions of which we have a plain Demonstration through the Vertue of those Noble and worthy Patriots whom His Majesty's discerning Eye singled out of the Crowd of Pretenders to the Offices of State That our present King is not only Pater Patriae but Pater Patriarum and like the true Emblem of that Immense Diety whose Anointed he is diffuseth his Favours with a more unconfined and universal Influence than any of our late Kings of Britain Their natural Easiness of Temper giving many fatal Opportunities to the Mercenary Ministers of those times both to impose on their Masters and prey upon the Liberties of their fellow-Subjects