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A61353	The State prodigal his return coming a true state of the nation, in a letter to a friend.		1689 (1689)	Wing S5326; ESTC R184608	10,240	4

for want of Money they say ●enting has sent his Masters 400000 l. with a Lump of his own for Holland for fear of the worst However it be let us never after this ridicule the Irish Genius or the French Liberty but confess our selves the most Foolish Base and Inconstant of all People And yet believe me Sir we see but much the better side of our Misery neither for before the next Summer is over though King James and the French King should not visit us in England which is more then I dare ensure at any rate the Cryes and Rage of the numerous Poor of almost all Trades will be too many for our New Polititians and the Rabble will every where Reign over others when they have nothing of their own to quiet them Work or Plunder is the best of their Case No Work where there is no vent for it and Starve they will not whilst others have it The Consequence is obvious and needs no comment This is a way of Beating us without Fighting for this beats our Pockets which should support our Arms to beat our Enemies And this Year has given us such melancholy Proofs of their Skill and Power this way that the encrease of their Strength by the Conjuction of the Algireens which they will bring into our Channel very speedily together with the vast Naval Preparations now in France the Bountiful Gift of both Seculars and Regulars in King James's Favour without one negative being near Four millions and a half of our Money the inclinations of the present Pope his Influences on the Confederacy their known Poverty the disposition of diverse Princes and States ought to encrease our fears to a despair of ever seeing a quiet State in England till the King as the Song has it Enjoys his Own again But if we had reason to think better of our Case we have seen enough to tell us we are like to be govern'd by a Strange Army as well as a Strange King for French Dutch Danes or any Thing that is Foreign has the Preference to English-men They must not be employed and when they are we see how little they are trusted or pay'd at home or abroad So that it is plain King William will not confide in the Men that have quitted their Allegiance to advance him Is it that we have lost our Integrity or that he sees we begin to have the Grace to repent God grant it before it is too late Shall I tell you here of the crys of the Country under the burden of your Dutch Souldiers or Saviours if you please They take what they will and pay what they will with Oaths and Blows into the bargain The Army of King James in his whole Reign never committed so many Riots Batteries and base Murthers and your Dutch-men in a Years time Among the rest think upon that Action of running their Swords through a poor Child in a Cradle to be revenged of the Mother for hindring them from Killing the Father So the Danes lately in the North in a drunken sit murther'd their Officer taking him for their Landlord Their other Ri●●s are so frequent and extravagant that the nature of our Saviours shows us what sort of Salvation we are to hope for or what are the means and instruments our Great Saviour makes use of for our deliverance Sir You will see that we have lost our Country with our King For the Man that you have put in his Place will very quickly put Foreigners into yours they shall Rule over you And to let you see I do not speak without Book I am very well affor'd there are 20000 Foreigners more gone for which will make up an 〈◊〉 40000 Strangers there are also 24 Sail of D●nes and Swe●ds Men of War hired into the Service of this Government which with Sixty Sail of Dutch 〈◊〉 not War are to be the Navy that must Guard the Rights and C●r●re●●● of the People of England next Year for our E●●●●● Seamen are Su●p●●●ed with this Prince as the 〈…〉 and for that reason are to be sent 〈◊〉 on Service of leser trust and moment but the true meaning and consequence of this is we 〈…〉 for He shall call them in for your Service as he will tell you but he still keep them here for his own And in 〈…〉 become a Conquest to him in a short time if you receive not your King again And here spare me a Word or two in point of Prudence Is not King James at the Head of a great Army such an one as your Schomberg dare not Fight for all he was to be Master of all Ireland by Michaelmas day Has he not now a better Fleet than yours to wait upon him to distress Schomberg and to bring him where he pleases to attack you here leaving your Trade to the care of his Privateers and Algireens And is it not as evident that Scotland is his upon a small Succor the moment he sends it and England to a great degree by Taxes loss of Trade a ruinous War and your intestine Faction and Animosities Could not the most valourous Army and best Disciplined in Europe commanded by Diligent Cunning and Stout Men as ever Usurped a Throne keep out King Charles the Second That had no Army or Navy to help him and can you imagin this Slow and Vnactive Creature will be able to do it that wants Qualifications as well as Title to quiet and settle the Kingdom and secure his Abbettors Open your Eyes I beseech you and see what your Deliverer has done for you even he who was to Conquer France by last Midsummer has got no farther yet then Hampton-Court and New-Market And instead of beating the French They even they the hated the despised French rid Almiral over us in our own Seas Such a Revenge of your Scorns as makes you truly contemptible That a Nation that hardly ever made a Ballance between you and the Dutch in any War which you never feared but under your own King and slighted under this Inchanted Knight should become your Match and Terrour and the Dutch of your sides too Where are your Heads or your Hearts What Conduct what Valour is this A fine Summers Expedition An admirable Account for the Parliament and to the Kingdom for their Money Behold the Fruit of your Experiment the Fortune of your Change the Success of your New King and your Gain by his Skill and Arms I say your Interest lyes Two to One on the side of your Duty and you must be Mad as well impious to continue your Disallegiance To conclude Sir let it move you and your Friends a little to consider how cruelly you have used your Poor King what Difficulties you give him And for what and for whom you do it and save him all further trouble which may prevent Blood obtain Grace and perhaps give Peace to Europe to be sure return Trade and Strength to England This your Country your Children your Consciences if you will but hear them call aloud for Hear them therefore better late than never and pray let it not be too late for the Public nor for your Self Thus Sir you see I have been very free with you as a Man of Conscience ought to be when so good an Occasion is offered as you were pleased to give me in our last Discourse and I with withal my Heart that these reasons may have the same effect upon you they have had with me that while you can for believe me time grows very precious you may return to the Duty you owe your King who after all the d●●mal Stories some Mens Interest makes them tell us of his condition will find a Fatted Calf with which to Feast all his returning Prodigals I am Sir Y●●r● FINIS

seems to me to be the Master Talents of your New Government and no doubt came from the same Climate that did your Deliverer By these honest Methods it was you laid your lawful King aside brought another in and have supported him against your Allegiance and Religion 5. The next thing that has induced me to change my Opinion as you are pleased to call it is th●● Train of Mischiefs that appears to follow this Revolotion First we are like to loose our Government not only by defacing the Beauty of our Ancient Fabrick but by breaking the very Constitution Our Monarchs were ever Sovereign and Imperial but we plainly see by almost every Motion that is made by a prevailing Party we are to Dance after the Pipe of a Common-wealth and our Kings to dwindle into Dukes of Venice the meer Puppets of the People and of a giddy one too which may bring us to change Governments as fast as we do Fashions or as we did after Cromwel's death But Sir That I confess which sticks most with me is the Scandal and Change it brings to our Church Of the Scandal I need only say that too many of her pretended Sons have serv'd their turn of her Credit to satisfie their unjust Ambition and which would make you blush they are the Pillars of your Reformation that are the Monuments of Ingratitude A Cause cannot be blessed in the hands of such Instruments Look over the Sticklers in the Change and you will find they have the largest part of it that were of our Church and owed the King the greatest Obligations In the Fleet Herbert Russel and Berkley In the Army Churchill Duglas Kirk and Forty more not to forget those civil French Hugonets that he so Charitably relieved here and are now gone to requite him in Ireland under the greatful Schomberg who began and advanced his Fortunes in France by his Favour In the Church we have the Arch-Bishop of York the Bishops of Winckester and St. Asaph the last of which was promoted by an Interest now out of Credit and so early acquainted with the Invasion and the present Revolution that so soon as he was out of the Tower he foretold it tho perhaps his Pretentions to Proplietick Studies or Enthusiasm rather might give a Man of his Gravity another Prospect Sir these are Blots in our ●●●tclieons Spots in our Feasts our reproach with all Mankind They cannot pretend Religion for such Immorality nor Conscience but for want of it It is in short a Scandal that deserves the public censure as well as the dislike of the Church For my part because I am a Protestant I hate to prostitute the Profession to a Faction and make it a civil Tool for Rebellion And for the Change that is like to happen amongst you you hear I suppose of a Commission to several Bishops and other Clergy-men to alter our Worship and for ought I know our Creed and indeed it is but necessary since the present practices of some are not reconcileable with what our Church has all along professed A Comprehension is the least we must expect and of those who will not add much Sweetness to our Blood. Contrary humours in the same Body are dangerous nor can our Church live long under a contradiction to her own Being Sir in this I am the more earnest with you because of what has happened to the Church of Scotland and had like to have befallen ours the last Session and I am told is to be a good part of the business of this We must be more Presbyterian and our Sacramental Test must be abrogated For all those Religious to enter into the Government that will not enter into our Churches Popery only excepted A strange way to maintain the Church of England in all her Rights and Priviledges Poor King James could not be so happily understood The Devil certainly owed these Men a spight that turn'd out King James for doing that which they honest Men have already far out done This for our Souls Our Bodies are for ought I see like to be in as bad a Plight for after all our excessive hopes of happy times We are both drained of the Money we had and denyed the means of getting more which must in a little time ruin us all and which are the unavoidable consequences of the War you have drawn upon the Nation to gratifie your Lust after a New King. I say Sir we are drained of what we have for there is already given him to begin the the World with but Four Taxes viz. The Poll Money Land Tax Twelve Pence in the Pound and the Additional Excise which amounts to 2000000 for this Year besides the Ordinary Revenue that is improved to about Two Millions more in all 4000000 an extraordinary Sum for for the first Year But which is yet more piercing I hear you are 1200000 l. in debt nor is this all you desire or the Parliament is called to give You must have if I am well inform'd besides the Common Revenue and this Debt A Million more then you had the last Year because of your encreasing your Forces and that your Customs c. will fall by the decay of Trade which mounts the Charge of the following Year to Four Millions besides the Common Revenue over and above what I have mentioned towards this there is lately granted a new Tax of 2 s in the Pound and since that an Addition of 1 s in the Pound and some other Funds they are finding out for the support of this unnatural quarrel for the next Year and yet all this is not enough for our Debt and our next Years charge by Two Millions though we are not to be told so presently least the Kingdom fling off the Yoak at once but to be dipp'd and engaged grandually till it may be out of of our Power to save our selves In the second place Sir that we are hindred from getting more Money is not less evident for whilst we lye under an Embargo at home or which is as bad our Men are prest to Man our Fleet to fight the Dutch Quarred against our own King at Double Charges The Dutch have sent mighty Fleets well Convoy'd to all Parts of the World to engross the Trade of it and they that understand Commerce do know That when Trade is once diverted from its usual Channel it is not easie for a Country to recover it But that we should give them 600000 l. for the Perjury and Poverty we have brought upon our selves for their sakes as they have now the ingenuity to confess is selling us a Dutch Bargain with a Vengeance It is true some say 400000 l. of it belongs to the Prince of Orange but that does not mend our Market or Reputation to pay him so dear for coming hither to be a King he might have been had at Cheaper rates as I have been told But this puts me in mind of one reason besides Ill Conduct and Parliament Pensions