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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

the Witnesses cannot be supposed to be constrained by an Exiled Prince They have been challenged they have been provoked to search to the very bottom of that Mystry of Iniquity I will not use so rough Language but I humbly recommend that inquiry to them this Sessions Certainly it was an Errour in our Legislators that no Member of i● took any Oaths at the meeting of the Convention and that they laid asid● the use of the Test at a Juncture when the whole Nation was allarum'd a● the exercise of the dispensing Power I have heard a Jolly Papist say tha● if the Priests can dispense with him for eating a Shoulder of Mutton upon a Fryday he would even dispense with himself for that small matter le● him be thought as Hetrodox by the rest of the Catholicks as they pleased Upon my Faith a man would think if the Test and the Oaths can be dispensed withal by one of our three Estates as some phrase it they may be a● well dispensed withal by either of the other I don't say this as being fond either of Oaths or of the Test. I have always thought and have lately seen that Oaths are no great Security to Governments and I never had nor will have any hand in Test-making tho' I can take twenty against Popery All that I mean by this is that methinks the Conventioners our Senate should not have fallen into that Dispensing Power the Nation had so lately cryed out upon with open Mouth The Convention's choosing a Speaker upon a Corporation bottom and a disputed Election possibly cannot in strictness of language be called a Legislative Errour but yet it was such an one as made the Convention it self unfit to be termed any part of our Legislative Authority and invalidated if there had been no other exceptions against them all the acts of that Convention I am sure made them at least disputable I think we may reckon amongst Parliamentary Errours that our Convention draw no better a Bill of Rights did not qualifie explain and limit the Dispensing Power that the threats that were used to B●scowen Hampden● Powel c. and their being promised good Preferments should be able to ●●fle all provisi●ns against Arbitrary Power and leave our Constitution as doubt●● and preca●ious as the Sycophants of both Robes have pretended it to be in the worst of times Whatever these two last particulars mentioned will be reckoned now I b●lieve Posterity will allow them to be Legislative Errou●s amongst which also will be reckoned their Scandalous throwing out of the Iudges hill and the opposition that many of the House of Commons have made to a Bill for Regulating Tryals in Cases of ●igh T●eason and I averr that neither the future will nor can the present Age assign any other reasonable cause for the treatment those Bills have met with but the multitude of Officers and Pentioners that corrupt all the debates of our Senate House I don't intend to run ●hrough every Errour committed by our Legislators I will omit the admission of Out Laws such as Major Wildman Manley c. into the Convention to make Laws for us before they had r●versed their own own Out-Lawries I will not mention that the Houses suffered themselves to be thr●atned by the Mobb sometimes by Members within and s●metimes by People without doors and have given for excuse of what they have done those threats the violence of the times c. and yet have looked and acted and expect to be considered as a free Parliament I will omit the non-prohibition the last Sessions of the exportation of our Money in Specie These and many other Parliamentary errours I will omit that I may as curso●ily look into the Executive Male-administrations Some of these which I have called and which became at length Legisla●ive Errours were originally and at their first setting out executive male-administrations and since I have spoke to them under the one I shall not repeat them under the other Head of my division I will talk no more of Imprisoning without Oath nor executing b● martial Law before it was in Be●ng I will not repeat the Articles of Lymerick But did not the Prince of Orange m●ke his first Steps in the exercise of ●his Government in both Kingdoms upon the Dispensing Power Did he not before he was King send Letters to the City of London to choose unqualified Persons into Places of Trust Did he not also and that before he was King send a Proclamation into Scotland that authorized and impowered Magistrates to officiate in Corporation who were not elected according to their Charter Has not every Term excessive Bail been required three thousand pounds for men that have not b●en worth th●ee hundred Shillings Excessive Fines imposed besides setting in the Pillory a hundred Marks upon a Boy that was not worth so m●ny Pence and now five hundred Marks api●ce besides setting them three times in the Pillory upon two that dispersed this Declaration tho' one of them is not worth so many Gr●●ts Where is that Salvo continemento that we used to talk of Have not Illegal and cruel Punishments been Inflict●d one of the Female Sex set in the Pillory and Fined severely for a foolish Song Have not the Armies taken and forced free qua●t●r in England Scotland and Ireland Have they not been coun●enanced in doing it by those that sit at the H●lm Are our Elections of Parliament men according to our old Constitution Were not my Lord Nottingham and the booted Apostle sent down to solicite against Colonel Mildmay's Election in Ess●x Have there not been many bare-faced Sollicitations Threats and Promises sent to Countries Corpora●ions and p●rticular Electors Were th●re ●ot grea● Sums of Money expended by the Court to hinder the Elections of Wildman and others who had been great authors of the Change meerly because it was plain they made this Change with a design to secure their Country from the abuse of future Ministers Have not Governours been imposed upon the Plantations abroad upon the quo Warranto Foot and contrary ●o the opinion of the Privy Council and meerly by the Arbitrary Command of King William Are not such Judges out of favour and their Salla●ies ill paid who will not do all Jobbs for the Court I appeal to my Lord Chief Baron Atkins and others of the Judges whether or no I am a Slanderer Has not an Order been sent down to the Custom-House at Dover dispensing with the Act of Parliament which prohibits French Wines Was not that Act which prohibits the bringing in of Silk for Sir Henry Limerick Furnace's sake dispensed with the other day by a formal Act of Council In the Name of God is not all the world satisfied that my Lord Bellamount was Closeted during the last Sessions and that many others were so before the Parliament met as well in Flanders as in England Was not the witty Iack How turned off because he would not hold his tongue when the Inter●st of the