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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57020	A Reply to the answer Doctor Welwood has made to King James's declaration which declaration was dated at St. Germaines, April 17th, S.N., 1693 and published also in the Paris Gazett, June 20th, 1693.	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1694 (1694)	Wing R1066; ESTC R24075	49,724	48

whom the King was displeased did not only oppose the manner but the Liberty and yet King Iames conti●ued them in places of the greatest Trust and was at last Sacrificed by his too great Confidence in their Fidelity Besides this how came you to reproach King Iames with ingratitude since your Master has so signalized himself for it towards those that have served him in Holland England Scotland and Ireland Why should I name the Al●rins c. in the Vnited Provinces Halifax Shrewsbury Delamere Wildman Manle● c here One of those very men that brought him the Crow● of Scotland The Officers of Lo●don●●rry and Iniski●ling c I say why should I name these when the whole Whigg-Party every day in every Coffee-House charge him with an Ignorance of his own Interest becaus● he scarse rewards any body but those that have opposed him He seem● to have a Green-sickness Palate in that matter and to love Ingratitude a● young Wen●hes do Dirt and Charcoal because it is destructive to the Constitu●ion of his Government King William has interwoven with his P●l● ticks all the Faults that we complained of in the time of King Iames with out immixing that Oec●nomie that good Husbanery that application which must be allowed even by his worst Enemies to be King Iames's Talents and It 's o●d not to say R●diculous to see the Prince of Orange every where fi● the Commissions of the ●eac● and the Militia and almost all the Places o● Trust with men whose Principles a●e di●ectly opposite to his own Title an● who opposed his Election to the Crown This is as has been formerly sa● by a Jacobite Pamphlet●er a Sin against the Holy Ghost of this Revolutio● and I am sure is a monstrous and undeniable Instance of the Prince of Orang● Ingratitude to those that put the Crown on his Head There remains two or three things still to which I suppose you will e●pect an Answer Page the seventeenth you repeat the Words of a Spee● the King made to the Parliament 1685. where he told them that he pleas● himself with the Hopes that by Gods blessing their assistance he might carry the R●putation of this Nation higher in the World than ever it had been in the time of any ● his Ancestors These Words of this Speech you think are Synonymous 〈◊〉 this clause He has set it before his Eyes as his noblest aim to do yet more for ● Constitution than the most renowned of his Ancestors Had you taken notice ● the word C●●stitution and not over●●●ked the next clause of his Declaratio● which is and as our chiefest Interest to leave no umbrage in relation to Religio● Liberty and Property I say if you had observed the word Constitution as that clause you could not fallen into such a mistake It is plain the Ki● designed to make himself glorious and to secure his own Interest by givi● us good Laws and did not in his Declaration talk of Campaigning an● let me assure you the less a King of England loves Wars abroad the 〈◊〉 it is for his People at home But if it will not take up too much of your time I will give you my Se● of that very Expression in the King's Speech 1685. and be not surprise● Doctor if I declare that I firmly believe that all the King said might ha● been brought to pass if the People of England and particularly the St● W●ïggs had done their part Will you not grant that the Wealth the o● fluence of People the greatness of their Trade the number and strength their Shipping together with the plentiful Magazines of Naval and Ma●tial Stores raise the highest Reputation to Islanders Did not our Conquests ●pon the Continent always cost us very dea● in Blood and Treasure And did they not end in loss and disgrace Whilst Edward the Third and Henry the Fifth were making a noise with their Victories poor England was lamenting that vast consumption of its People and Coyn which had very near destroyed this Nation whereas the Reputation which i● acquired by an increase of Trade and Riches is much more durable much more extensive and will upon an Island resist with greater vigour the rude and cross shocks of Fortune I sha●l make this more evident by comp●ring the Reigns of three of our ●wn Princes Edward the Third and Henry the Fifth gained many 〈◊〉 glorious V●ctories and conquered several Provinces in France by which they rendred their Names dreadful to France tho' their Influences were scarse felt or feared any where else but what Fruit did England nay even themselves reap from all this The disgraces of the latter part of Edward's Reign almost withered all his former Laurels and England was so drained of Money that its Treasure with that of the Conquered Provinces was not sufficient to pay that Army upon its return which under the conduct of the Black Prince had restored Don Pedro to his Kingdom of Castile neither can we discover any better fruits of the Conquest of Henry the Fifth his Reign was short and upon ballancing of Accounts nothing fell to our share but our loss of our bravest Officers and Souldiers and an immence mass of Money thrown away in that unfortunate War Upon the other hand Queen Elizabeth by applying her Councils and Thoughts to the Shipping and Trade of this Nation did so encrease the Wealth and Strength of it as enabled her to support the whole Protestant Interest to secure Scotland from the French Clutches to recover France out of the very Jaws of the Spaniard to defend and establish the Common-wealth of Holland against all the Power of Spain and at last to break the strength of and to humble that great Monarch to whose aspiring Thoughts all Europe seemed too mean a Quarry and whose Ambition could not be satisfied with less then the Empire of the Universe By these methods she out-did all the bravest Actions of our former Kings and extended the dread and reputation of the English Name hither to confined to our bordering States to the utmost corners of the Earth and hath withal thereby Established such a solid Foundation for our future greatness as hath already withstood without any sensible decay a greater effusion of Blood and Treasure in our last Civil Wars then was spent in France in the Reigns of Edward the third and Henry the fifth which Reigns nevertheless had alalmost anihilated this Nation From all this it doth evidently appear that whensoever a King of England applys his whole thoughts to the encrease of the Shipping and Trade of this Nation he must raise our Reputation Strength and influences proportionable to the advances he makes in them That this was and must be King Iames's design and what he meant in that Speech quoted by you is pretty plain to every body that has any knowledge of King Iames his Genius who is truly a Trading and Navall King and it is as plain to any man that reads Mr Pepy's Memoires which are

Markets yet some of them have been prevailed upon to bring their Offerings to the Exchequer content to hazard the Pyracies of the Court for seven per cent and to relieve the Seamens Wifes from Hunger Mutiny or sudden Death I will not go about to compute the irreparable Loss we have suffered by this unheard of Conduct how much our Staple Manufactures are endamaged how many Merchants Insurers Packers Dyers Clothiers Silkmen and Weavers must starve or steal for want of business and the disappointment of those Goods the return of this Fleet would have imported A little time will demonstrate these effects without a Calculation but I cannot pass over the industrious Sollicitations for Money and the engaging arts the Court made use of to 〈◊〉 the City and secure them of amendments for the time to come which indeed amounts to an assurance that my Lord Falkland shall prove an expert Admiral for the future and that Sir H. Goodrick shall plant a Battery at the Lands end which will reach to Brest and sink the Ships within that Harbour Missionaries were daily employed to soften and restore their aking hearts and Letters from the Prince of Condy and others were forged and pretended to be intercepted in Flanders which diminished the late Victory and augmented the Losses on the French side But when several of the Merchants had been invited to drown their Sorrows in the Cellars at Kensington the Queen thought it a proper Season to send a select Committee of the Council Board to Guildhall to whose august appearance● the Aldermen paid Reverence and submitted These were some of the Delusions practised to lull poor men into a farther Confidence to palliate our losses at Sea and to disguise our disgrace at Land But there is another Cheat that is still more offensive because it is more familiar and more vexatious then all the bare-faced Injuries of our Enemies abroad because it is a Couzenage diffused all over England by A●thority I mean the Falshoods that are twice a Week imposed upon us by that Domestick Animal the Gazetier This worthy Author out-pitches the Fables of Tom Coriat and all the Legends of the Saints and Mr. Yard's almighty Pen has assumed the power of raising many hundreds that are dead to life and has killed many thousands who will survive himself I will not stay to rake that Kennel and to insist upon the particular Lyes which every Gazettis stuffed with and am sorry that well-meaning people in the Country suck in so much Poyson with the divertisement of a News-Book and have such an alacrity in believing what ever is by Licence printed But if any man with a little understanding and as much leisure will look over his accounts of Martinego of the Streights Fleet and his History of the Late Battel and take the pains to mark his Contradictions he must needs own that if Sincerity and Truth have any pretence to the management of our Affairs no Government ever had such a Libeller as Mr. Yard For my own part I take no pleasure in uncovering the nakedness of England or proclaiming our Misfortunes but since our Distempers are so industriously dissembled and concealed I think every man who has no share going in the Imposture ob●iged to explain our weakness and lay open the State of our Condition in hopes the Nation will unite to apply some Remedies to the Disease for what honest man can bear with the deceit of such unfaithful Relations as go stampt out of a Secretaries Office and passing upon the ignorant confirm and fool them into a perseverence of which tho' they who live in London may be disabused by forreign Prints and Letters from some Gentlemen in our own Army who scorn to lye yet by those artifices Truth is perhaps for ever shut 〈◊〉 remoter Countries Thus they ply us with Contradictions and at the same time that they confess the Victory was entire they disable the Conquerours with killing two to one forgetting the dishonour that attends our own Army which they say was routed by so small a slaughter But the greatest Charms they think to captivate us with are the swelling El●●ies of P●o●●es and Renown in War with which they adorn their King particularly his wond'rous Conduct and intrepid Valour in this Battle I am l●ath to deny him so mean a qu●lity and a drug so common as Courage is which our late blind Cobler Colonel Huson and Millions of private Sentinals have had as great a portion of as any Flatterer can ascribe to him B●t since we are stunn'd so much with this report and that we know it is chiefly transmitted to us accompanied with the ill favoured for eries of Mr. ●ard it has given inquisitive men the curiosity to inform th●mselves of naked Truth especially since the P●ince of Oran●e has so often valued himself in his Speeches upon having ventured his Life for us for which the World as often saw there was no ground and men of common sence are generally of opinion that Boasting proceeds from Impotence and Affectation from def●ct I will not look back so far as to the Boyn not to the Cause of the old Marshall's desperate and sullen Death nor insist upon the pleasant prospect which his Highness had of the Siege of Mons o● Namur a●d of Huy but I 'le confine my self to London where it is notoriously known what early care he took to preserve to us the Blessings of his Reign and made a safe but swift Retreat to a poor Curate's House where on a Wisp of Straw this mighty Monarch hid himself that Night with a ma●nific Train of four Attendants If any man will answer that he foresa● the Event betimes and tha● it was not fit he should be so Prodigal of his Life as to stake it when the Game was loosing I will not contest it with him but make bold to add that if he had vallued his own as little there as he did the Lives of those brave men he sacrificed last Year at Stinkirk his Courage now had made 〈◊〉 for his Conduct then But I have been too long detained by the Army and the Turky Fleet and it is now time to look towards the Civil administration of this Reign which indeed is a consideration that ought to have had Priority in this Paper as it has in time the motions of the Camp depending usually upon the Council of the Cabinet But here we find nothing but prodigious Sums of Money given and excessive Debts contracted the Treasury like a great Glutton devouring vastly and digesting all as fast All their Consultations tend to nothing but to War and to the compassing the Sinews of it and we are told this War is made in order to a Peace as if a Feaver were a Receipt for Health and the Plague a Medicine for long Life Had we not Peace before And did we not enjoy all the ease and plenty reasonable men could wish in the tranquility we lived Were the French the Aggressors