of Europe and retaining an implacable Resolution to destroy all sorts of Protestants and utterly to root out that Pestilent Northern Heresie abounding in Wealth and Treasure follow'd by mighty Armies strengthned by a numerous Fleet of Ships as nothing in humane Probability can defeat his execrable Designs of Aggrandising himself by the Ruin of his Neighbours but the scarcity of convenient Ports and Havens in any of his Dominions so it must be his Principal Aim and endeavour to be Master of Ireland whereby he will be sufficiently accommodated with excellent good Harbours in which he may securely place his Fleet to extend his Soveraignty over the Seas and opportunely annoy his Enemies 2. This being accomplish'd not only the Revenue and Trade of Ireland will be utterly lost the Auxiliary Aid of two hundred thousand Protestants diverted and taken away and many thousands of them forced to depend upon the Charity of England the Trade to America and all the Western Islands will not only be intercepted but in a short time those Countries be wholly conquered and reduced to the Possession of the French and annexed to his Dominion and made a Prey to glut his restless Ambition 3. The French King will make Ireland a Magazine and Store-house for the victualling His Ships and the Harbours as so many Docks to shelter them where his Fleet riding in safety an Opportunity will be given him not only to ingross all manner of Trade but that of England will be intirely interrupted if not infallibly destroyed since no Ships can peep out from thence in their Navigation toward the Streights or to the Indies but they must pass within view of some Ports of Ireland or very near them and consequently must be exposed to the Attacks of that rapacious Leviathan or be necessitated to sail in great Fleets and very strong Convoys under Frigats and Men of VVar to the inestimable charge of the State and detriment to the Merchants of England 4. Let it be consider'd that since VVooll and VVoollen Manufactures are the ancient Staple of England and a main support to their trading into all Foreign Countries if it should so come to pass that Ireland be alienated from it which abounds with that Commodity and from whence it may be exported at far cheaper Rates than can be afforded in England how unspeakable a Prejudice will it be to the Trade How will it impoverish the People and bring an unavoidable ruin on many Towns and Families 5. Tho it is to be hoped that the Power of France with the Addition of Ireland shall never be able to make a Conquest of England nevertheless by such an unwelcom Neighbourhood it is more than probable the French King may discompose the Peace and Quiet of Great Britain when at any time of the year he can transport an Army from Ireland or land small Forces in North VVales in six hours time in South-VVales in twelve or in the space of four Hours in the VVest of Scotland And this not to be prevented by the English Fleet or by all the Art and Contrivance of Mankind The CONCLVSION I wish the People of England may see now in this their Day what belongs to their Peace before it be hid from their Eyes That they may not be deluded by false Glosses and sinister Interpretations of Publick Acts nor be cajol'd by jealous Misprisions and groundless Censures on private Councils That they may understand and consider how much their safety and the Interest of the Protestant Religion is concerned and involved in the Fate of Ireland and that if the Enemy chance to possess the Out-works the City will be in great danger That they may not be abused by Chimerical Notions of Obeying without Reserve or being destroyed without Resistance That they would rest contented with obtaining their Desires in being happy under the Establishment of a Protestant King and Queen and not hanker after a Change or be bewitched to make a wanton Experiment of Indulgence and Protection under a Popish Government FINIS
Ingrossing all Trade 2. By Intercepting the Trade of England 3. By Interrupting the Peace of England THE Interest of ENGLAND IN THE Preservation of IRELAND The Introduction THERE were two things which mainly contributed to the Ruine and Desolation of Ireland and reduced it to that deplorable Condition under which it now languisheth Resistance and Non-Resistance The latter sprung from a fond and tame submission to the Arbitrary Government in Ireland the other was occasion'd by a vain and fruitless Expectation of Relief from England If the People of that Country had not been over-lavish in their Loyalty they had not been so unfortunate in their Opposition In the Reign of King JAMES they were unreasonably passive in the Reign of King WILLIAM they have been unprosperously active Strange Fate To be Losers by the One and not to be Gainers by the Other To be possest of their Estates under a Popish Prince and to be kept out of them under a Protestant Had they been independent and trusted to their own Legs possibly they had stood firm at this Day but they are miserably overthrown by leaning too much on their Supporters If there were any room in our Church for Merits the Protestants of Ireland would be intituled to a great Stock for suffering under King JAMES and for acting under King WIELIAM but alas they are despised for the one and derided for the other so difficult a matter it is to walk steddily upon the uneven surface of sublunary Places here you encounter a Precipice there a Quagmire That very way which seemed the direct Road to Safety and Tranquility may perhaps lead you into inextricable Troubles and often ends in certain Misery and Destruction When the Late King in pursuance of his Design to subvert that Church which He complemented with the Character of Loyalty and as solemnly promised to defend and support it was so far distracted by pernicious Counsel to prostitute the Kingdom of Ireland to the licentious Will of a Jesuitical Tyranny and to make an Essay of setling that Idolatrous Worship there which was too early and unseasonable for Him to attempt in England when the Sword was put into the Hands of a bigotted Zealot and more than a million of British Protestants subjected to the Dominion of an Irish Papist there was no Murmur heard no mutinous Whispers spread abroad to discompose the People or affront the Government men sigh'd and submitred they groaned and gave Obedience with a patient Resignation to the Will of God and the Commands of the King The Protestants through the Kingdom were disarm'd the Officers of the Army were divested of their Commissions the Soldiers disbanded and cashier'd stript and disarm'd without demanding a Reason for such unwarrantable Dealings or disputing the Pleasure of their Superiors the Papists were obtruded into the Privy Council and Chief Ministry of State all Justices of the Peace were superseded who did not carry the Mark of the Beast the Publick Revenue committed to such Hands as would surely imploy and improve it to the sinal extirpation of Hereticks yet all things proceeded in a silent Calm without Noise or Grumbling where Mass houses were erected and publickly frequented no man offer'd to pull down their Altars where the Fryers walk'd the Streets in their uncouth Habits no man threw Dirt at them the Popish Religion was prohibited by Law yet never contravened by Force The People abominated that Superstitious Way yet never exprest their Resentments by Rage or Discontent The Charters of their Towns and Corporations were condemned and vacated yet no spark of Sedition was kindled among the Inhabitants The famous Act of Settlement was daily eluded Possession and Property were no sufficient Guard against Irish Incroachments yet no man incurr'd the Penalty of a forcible Deteiner the Doctrine of Non-resistance which was so frequently preach'd in other Places was there actually and really practised and Obedience if there be not a Contradiction in the Terms was truly passive Thus posting themselves under the Covert of Privacy and Retirement they silently expected a Day of Deliverance from the Appointment of Heaven without the interposition of any Humane Machinations In this Posture Affairs stood in Ireland during tho short if it had not been sharp Reign of King JAMES and so probably they had continued at least for some time after the miraculous Revolution in England But He having Abdicated the Government and deserted the Throne and unnaturally truckt One Kingdom with that Christian Monster of Turkish Barbarity for the empty Hopes of re-possessing the other Two it seem'd convenient to his Irish Bashaw and the Jesuitic Cabal to make sure of a retreating Place and that of Necessity must be Ireland which having formerly been given to the Pope and by him transferred to the King of Spain must now be sold or mortgaged to the French Usurper to facilitate whose Entry by removing all Obstacles the present Possessors must be put out of Doors that so Livery and Seisin might be given in imitation of the due Form of Law. Hereupon Plots were invented several Protestant Gentlemen were committed to Prison Indicted and Tryed for their Lives abundance of Commissions were issued and the Army multiplied into many Regiments of Horse and Foot for whose Entertainment there being no Fund of a growing Revenue the Goods of the Protestants were consigned to their subsistence which they did not pilfer by Night but drove away whole Flocks and Herds at Noon-day and in case of Resistance securing their Prey by the Murder of the Owners Thus the Province of Munster was exposed to a Military Execution Conaught was entirely plunder'd and had not the Gates of Londonderry been opportunely shut when a Regiment of Irish were ready to enter it all Vlster had been under the same Fate and probably had been followed by an Universal Massacre But the surprizing News of the Prince of Orange's Adventure and the total Exclusion of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England awakened the Protestants in Vlster to stand upon their Guard and animated them with an Assurance That their Redemption was drawing nigh flattering themselves with a Confidence That as they were under the Laws of England so they should be no less under their Protection They firmly believed that the same methods would be taken in Ireland which had been so successfully practised in England every puff of a fair Wind revived them with a smiling expectation of Succor they were eager to retrieve their drooping Religion from the Jaws of Death and ready to rally under a Protestant Standard their Numbers were very considerable and their Courage great but they were naked and undisciplin'd they wanted an Expert Leader and no Aid appear'd to support them The Deputy having too sure and quick Intelligence of the Transactions in the Court of England and the dilatory Proceedings there poured a mighty Army into the Bowels of Vlster who rifling the deserted Houses seizing and carrying away all portable Goods and exercising all Cruelty on such as
barren Land as is to be found in two Shires only in England and not far from London Berkshire and Surrey The Seas are plentifully stor'd with Fish of all Kinds and the Markets supply'd with such Plenty and Variety as might satiate the Luxury and Prodigality of Lucullus the Loughs are fill'd with Pike Breme Pearch Roach and Trouts but the Fresh Rivers swarm with stupendious Quantities If men as justly they may shall become doubtful scrupulous and incredulous when I make mention of the extraordinary Pilchard-Fishings in the South and the Herring-Fishings in the North my Credit will certainly run a great Risque and my Veracity be suspected when I relate the Wonders of the Deep and come to speak of the Prodigious Fishings for Salmon and Eels in the Rivers of Lough-foyl and the Bann If men will startle at the Report of six thousand Barrels of Pilchards made in one year upon the Coast of the County of Cork or to hear that in some Parts of Conaught they take so great Draughts of them that not being provided of Salt to cure them they lay them in heaps and manure the Land with them that beside the plentiful Fishing of Herrings in and about the Bay of Dublin the Skerryes Carlingford and all the Northern Coast they have usually made and sent away in one year two thousand Tuns of Herrings from the single Fishing at Dunfanaghan then undoubtedly they will smile and ridicule me when I tell them That there is made commonly five hundred Tuns of Salmon in a year in Loghfoyl and the Bann and other Rivers in the County of Londonderry that besides the Royal Piscary of the Bann there are between Colrane and Loghneagh seventy Salmon-Fishings that there are the same round about that Lough which is sixty Miles in Compass that at the Leap of Colrane ten Tuns of Salmon have been taken at one Draught of a Net That the last year at the Grebbin twelve Miles beyond Londonderry two and thirty Hogsheads of Salmon were taken at once and for want of room in their Boats a great part of them thrown again into the River That in the Eel-weres in the River of Bann fourscore thousand Eels have been catcht in one Night But I have spoken modestly and within compass and there are too many Witnesses much against their wills now in England and Scotland who can confirm the Truth of what I have declared I am loth to pass by the Salmon-Pound commonly call'd the Cutt near Colrane because as I conceive such another thing is not in the World It is a great Trough made like a Tanner's Vat about fifty foot long twenty foot wide and six deep a Stream of the River of Bann runs through it and at the Place where the Water enters a row of Stakes are placed very near together like a Rack in a Stable at the other end of the Cutt a parcel of sharp Spikes are clustered together very close at the Point and wide at the Head so that the Salmons who always swim against the Stream and other Fish may get in at pleasure but can neither return the way they went in nor get out at the other end whereby it happens that on Monday morning there being a respite to Fishing all Sunday and none taken out of the Cutt with their Loops a Stranger would be astonish'd to see an innumerable company of Fish riding on the backs of one another even to the top of the Water and with great ease and pleasant Divertisement taken up in Loops All these prodigious Quantities of Fish are but collected for the Use of England to whose Ports or to whose Order they are yearly consigned and distributed III. The NVMBER Having had no Business or Imployment which might administer an Opportunity to inspect the Catalogues and Returns of Parishes and Counties or to view the Poll-Books it will not be possible for me to make any other than a conjectural Calculation of the Number of Protestant Inhabitants in Ireland But by a modest Computation I may adventure to aver That at the beginning of the Reign of the Late King there were in the City of Dublin and the Four Provinces above a Million of British Protestants I am confirm'd in this Supposition by a sad Reflection upon the Passages in the Year 1641. at which time the Number of the Protestants was very inconsiderable in comparison with the Natives and possibly did not amount to the Half of what they were in 1681. yet even then above two hundred thousand naked and defenceless People were massacred in cold Blood and barbarously murther'd without Provocation or Resistance I reckon that when the late Revolution hapned there were two hundred thousand men fit to carry Arms bound to the Interest of England by the Obligations of Religion Love Loyalty and Blood who may be beneficial in their Service and Aid when it shall be required though of late by the apparent Judgment of God they have been terrified by them on whom they alway had an awe routed by such whose Strength they dâ—â—â—…ed and dispossest of their Estates without strugling for their Property IV. The RELIGION Among all the pressing Motives that recommend the Care and Conservation of Ireland there is no one more cogent than the Consideration of the Religion there establish'd by Law which reasonably ought to interess all good Christians in a feeling-Sympathy and Concernment for them and thereby the People of England have a fit Opportunity at once equally to exert their Duty to God and Charity to their Brethren It is true the Protestant Religion was not universally profess'd through the Kingdom neither were all who were distinguish'd by that Character perfectly cemented the Papists were numerous in every County tho least of all in Vlster yet Popery seemed to be rather Hereditary than Elective to be more the Result of Education than Judgment insomuch as it became like a Logical Property to the Natives and Papist and Irish man were Terms convertible So great an Influence has Custom over all the Faculties of Mind and Body they put on Religion as a fashionable Garment the Dictate of the Priest warranting the mode and thick Ignorance inflames their Devotion Nevertheless the Protestant Religion was predominant Popery sneak'd to the Mountains and squatted behind the Bushes the Mass was not known nor a Fryar seen till by the Influence of the Late King and the furious Zeal of his Deputy things were changed as it were in a moment and all Commands Civil and Military committed to the Hands of Papists But when by the Blessing of God and the Assistance of England that poor harassed Country shall be restored to its former State and Condition it will be a joyful Reflection for their Brethren and Benefactors to hear of so many Thousand Persons united with them in the same Religion as in all other Respects and Concernments V. The Consanguinity and Assinity The Inhabitants of Ireland excluding the Natives of the Land who always were and ever
commemoration of those Matters and apply my self to the Rehearsal of such Particulars only as render Ireland in its happy Scituation a most desirable Countrey and highly advantageous in its Accession to the Crown of England Possibly there is not a Country in the whole World so admirably accommodated with convenient Bays safe Harbours large Havens and useful Creeks and that not only in some Sides and Corners but quite round the Island To describe the Harbours of Carlingford Strangford the Lough of Carricfergus Donaghadee Loghlern Raghlin Portrush Lough-foyl Lough-swilly Sheep-Haven Castledow Killebeggs Ballyshannon Sligo and Black-Sod in the North and West Parts Galway Lymerick Trallee Dingle Kilmar the Great Bay of Bantry including Bere Haven and many others Ship-Haven Crook-Haven Baltimore Castle-Haven Castlemain the matchless Haven of Kinsale the noble River of Cork Yoghal Dungarvan Waterford Slade Wexford Arclo Dublin c. in the South and Eastern Parts beside almost innumerable Creeks Ports and commodious Landing-Places would take up more room than I have allowed to the discharge of this brief Narration my Purpose is only to mention them referring the Account of their Beauty Strength Security and Conveniency to Historians and Geographers I shall only take notice that as they are most advantageously placed for the proper Trade of that Kingdom so they are upon many Accounts a secure Refuge and Safeguard to their Friends and Allies which is briefly demonstrated in this that none of the Neighbouring Countries can manage a Trade into the South North or Western Seas but they must be under great Danger of Ireland if they be Enemies to England or be beholding to it if they be in Amity where upon every Turn they may meet with a safe Retreat from Storms and Tempests and a ready Protection from Pirates and Robbers it being set as a Watch-Tower in the Sea within whose view all Ships must come that sail and trade that way to any part of the World an Island commodiously seated for the Dominion of the Seas so long as she is in one Interest with England It is beyond the Power of Expression to repeat the Advantages arising to the English Trade by the relief and shelter of the Irish Harbours where the several Fleets bound for the Streights and for the East or West Indies or returning from thence meet with Refreshment and Security from all sorts of Danger This the Merchants find in their daily Voyages This the Commanders of the Kings Ships can evidence upon frequent Experience but I shall produce only one undeniable Instance how highly and indespensably it imports the Safety as well as Trade of England to preserve Ireland to themselves That in the time of King Charles II. when England was imbroyl'd in an unlucky War with the States of Holland not only a Fleet of Merchant-men consisting of an hundred Sail or thereabout bound homeward from the West-Indies and the Streights but also forty Men of War under the Command of Sir Jeremy Smith after that unfortunate Business at Chatham came all into the Habour of Kinsale where they continued in that Safety and Security which they could not promise to themselves in any Harbour or Port of England 2. The Exportation of Irish Commodities As Ireland is placed as an Out-guard to watch all Interlopers in the Trade of England so lately it was a Store-house and Magazine to furnish it It sent over yearly vast quantities of Wooll shipt from the several Ports in Munster and Lemster which mightily supported the Staple in England by the old and new Draperies and other woollen Manufactures wrought and made in the West Countrey whereby not only a numerous Train of Families were fed and maintained but an extraordinary addition was made to the Kings Revenue by the Importation of it when raw and unwrought into England and the Exportation of it after it was wrought into several Countries to the great inriching of Merchants and Adventurers The Islands and Plantations in America are in a manner wholly sustain'd by the vast quantities of Beef Pork Butter and other Provisions of the Product of Ireland from whence an unspeakable Benefit redounds to England by the vast Cargoes of the Goods of the said Plantations returnd thither and the Great Consumption of those Goods being shipt out of England into Ireland than which nothing more evidently tends to the inriching the Merchants who trade into those Parts or to the increase of Shipping or encouragement to Navigation The mighty Quantities of Tallow Hides tann'd Leather Skins of several sorts Yarn Hemp Linnen-Cloth Cony-Skins and other Furrs yearly shipt from Ireland and exported into England supply that Kingdom with the said Commodities at very reasonable Rates which otherwise would prove excessive dear to the great conveniency of the Inhabitants in general and the particular Advantage of the Merchants and such as trade in them The Cargoes of Salmon Herrings Pilchards and those the best and fairest to be had in any Part of the World Eels and other Fish made up yearly in Ireland and transported into several Parts in Spain to Venice and all the Ports in the Mediterranean Sea would startle common Belief I have heard from faithful Relation and I spoke of it before that in the South of Ireland they have made in a year near Eight hundred Tuns of Pilchards A Person of great Quality whose Judgment and Credit no man will dispute did aver to me that in one Season 16000. l. was paid for the Pilchards taken on the South side of Cork and the most of it by Sir John Frederic of London That in one Port in the North called Dunfanaghan they have made in one Season Two thousand Tuns of Herrings And I was told by a very honest and intelligent Person who in the Reign of Charles the Second was Collector of the Port of London-Derry that in that one Place there was shipt off in one Season 450. Tuns of Salmon 400. Tuns of Herrings and 80. Tuns of Eels The Benefit and Profit of all which accrues to the Merchants of England on whose sole Account almost all the forementioned Commodities are shipt off and sent away to the great increase of their Shipping and the manifest incouragement of Navigation These things being undenyable and perfectly true in matter of Fact and which I am constrained by the necessity of the Argument to mention over again it is evident beyond Contradiction that the Trade of Ireland is of inestimable Advantage to the Trade of England highly contributing if not wholly subservient to it 3. The Importation of English Commodities The great multitudes of Goods and Commodidities continually exported out of Ireland into England did not more apparently tend to the Advantage of Trade there than the continual Importation of all kinds of Wares and Merchandise from thence The People of Ireland did not deal like Niggards or Rooks to vend and put off the Product of their own Country and not be instrumental to promote the Consumption of what their Neighbours
had to spare on the contrary they maintain'd a constant Correspondence and an universal Commerce and hugely advanced the Trade of England The Wooll which they from time to time sent into England they received again and perhaps with it much of the growth there transformed into the old and the new Drapery and all sorts of Woollen Manufactures and thereby doubly advanced the English Trade by the Outlet and by the Return by selling the one and buying the other Silks wrought and un-wrought Gold and Silver Lace Buttons Ribbands c. all sorts of Grocery Spicery Haberdashers and Milliners Ware Beavers and other fine Hats Tobacco cut and dry'd in Rowl and in Leaf white Salt Coals and many foreign Commodities were daily and hourly brought into all the Ports of Ireland being purchased by the Merchants there from the Merchants of London Bristol Chester Leverpool Plymouth and other Towns and Cities in England the Quantities whereof must be prodigiously great to supply not only the Necessities but the Vanity and Luxury of so populous and opulent a Kingdom the Rate of whose Expences was no way regulated by the instinct of Thrift or Parsimony and consequently the Gains and Profit redounding to the English Merchants must in reason bear some Proportion with the Vent and Consumption the estimate whereof in a few years is beyond Credit if not past Numeration I could appeal to particular Men by Name whose Books and Accounts will justifie my Position that England received incredible Advantage by their Trade with Ireland and their sensible disappointments in the present Cessation of Trade from thence do too unhappily confirm it but I will not do that prejudice to them to discover the Secrets of their Dealing or raise a Spirit of Envy at their prosperous Proceedings I honour them for their Ingenuity I applaud their Industry and heartily wish them reinstated in their former Course of Traffick that all Men may be convinced by their Experiment how advantageously the Trade of Ireland co-operates to the Advancement of the Trade of England 4. The Ingenuity of the Inhabitants I am now brought to a hard Dilemma I must either renounce the Country from whence I came or retract my Assertion For when I go about to illustrate the Ingenuity of the Inhabitants I confute my self by a Discourse so void of it But there is no general Rule without some Exceptions and I hope that my particular Defects shall not be imputed as a derogation from the Credit of the rest It is an ungrateful Imployment to make Comparisons and I do not in the least intend any unkind Reflection upon the Common People of England when I alledge that the ordinary and vulgar sort of the British Inhabitants in Ireland are much more Ingenious and quick more docible more intelligent in the Laws and Customs of the Country more active sedulous and inquisitive disposed to handle the Sword as well as the Plough and notably capable to serve upon Juries and to discharge the Duty incumbent on them at Assises and Sessions But I shall only insist on that Qualification which is more proper and pertinent to the Argument in hand viz. their natural Disposition to Trade and an undefatigable Industry in promoting it and all for the advantage of the Trade of England For the Petty Chapmen Traders in small Towns and Country Dealers are only Hawkers Procurers and Brokers for the greater Merchants in Cities and big Towns and they ordinarily make themselves Factors for the Merchants in England sending over to them the most Part of what they gather or bringing back from them the Commodities of England in return of what they adventure and gain upon their own Account Thus I have observed the Chapmen in a small Village belonging to my self with great Art and Ingenuity negotiating with the Neighbours about them making up many Tuns of Butter and Tallow gathering great quantities of Yarn Linnen cloth Salt Hides and Tann'd Leather which soon after they sell to the Merchants in the next City or Sea-Port who either deal by Commission from the Merchants in England or export them on their own Account but certainly bring home the Produce in the Wares and Merchandise of England and I know one particular Man who in one Town in one Season made up Eleven hundred Tuns of Butter by Commission and as a Factor for some Merchants there but which way soever it be the Ingenuity and Diligence of the Inhabitants of Ireland does indisputably advance the Trade of England and the whole Labour of the one centers in the Benefit of the other 5. The Benefit to the King. Tho' I propose the Kings Benefit in the last Place yet it is not the least of my Care and good Wishes and I perswade my self that the Loyal and Loving Subjects of England will on that very Consideration if there were no other Motives to incite them account Ireland worth the keeping and accordingly will employ their Wealth and exert their Courage and Strength for the speedy Reduction and Restitution of it To inforce this I need produce no other Arguments than the repetition of what was before remonstrated That the annual Revenue of Ireland coming into the Treasury and the Kings Coffers amounted to Three hundred and forty thousand Pounds out of which beside the necessary Exhibition for supporting the State and safety of the Kingdom a very considerable Sum was yearly laid at the Kings Feet therewith to gratifie such Servitors and Favourites in England as the Revenue there would not reach to supply To which let me add that though under Charles the Second the protestant Interest in Ireland received as little Incouragement as could be expected under a Protestant King yet thriving by their Pruning taking deeper Root by their being shaken and growing more strong by their Depression they had beyond all Doubt added before this time a very valuable Augmentation to the Publick Revenue by their Trade and Improvements had not Popery nipt them and Arbitrary Power blasted them 3. The danger of falling into the hands of the French. Let us now reflect upon what has been said and Re capitulate the skatter'd Arguments hinted in this abrupt and immethodical Discourse If neither the sense of Shame the Pursuit of Fame and Glory the Influence of Brotherly Charity the Sympathy with Blood and Kindred the Respect to Religion the Acquisition of Wealth the Support of Trade the Increase of the Publick Revenue nor the irresistible motive of Self-Preservation can prove Inducements sufficient to dispose the People of England to a hearty affectionate and vigorous espousing of the Protestant Cause in Ireland by a timely Prosecution of a War there and rooting out the last Remains of Popery let us change the Scene and suppose Ireland subdued by the present Invaders and become a Province to France which God of his infinite Mercy avert then without all peradventure these mischiefs will inevitably ensue 1. The French King having an insatiable Thirst after the universal Monarchy