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A40695 Mr. Fuller's appeal to both Houses of Parliament, with letters relating to Sir John Fenwick and himself by William Fuller ...; Appeal to both houses of Parliament Fuller, William, 1670-1717? 1697 (1697) Wing F2478; ESTC R21255 10,075 48

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involv'd as most of the same Pretenders and gave the late King and the French King very large Promises of the wonderful effects of his Interest in the North of England which was propos'd to be joyn'd with many others and to make a considerable Army near Scotland where Sir John Fenwick was to act as Lieutenant-General for which I brought him a Commission from the late King who has often declar'd at St. Germains That Sir John Fenwick was a good Horse-Officer but had no extraordinary Opinion of his Management in other Cases that requir'd a firm Resolution and a serious Conduct It had been Sir John's Misfortune very often to promise the French Court much and perform nothing to their expectation yet neither Sir John nor his Party ever omitted by new Engagements to atone for the Disappointments which they often excused by laying the Blame on some Roguish underhand informing Brother affirming to King James That the Discovery was sent from his Court which made his late Majesty and his Queen very often jealous of all about them and really to speak truth of the Court of St. Germains there is almost as many Factions as there is People so that even King James's small Government there is attended with much Difficulty During my Correspondence with Sir John Fenwick on the late King's account I was once in company with him and three others at a Tavern in the City of London where Sir John and the rest sign'd an Address to the French King which was sign'd elsewhere by many others and sent to France the Contents were to assure Lewis the Fourteenth That they would remain faithful and loyal Subjects to King James and his Successor the Prince of Wales and that they would be ready on any occasion to joyn and assist the French Arms with their Lives and Fortunes in England against the Prince of Orange They also paid all possible Thanks and Acknowledgments to the French King for his great Kindness in succouring their most distressed Prince and for raising him above the Malice of his Enemies And one of Sir John Fenwick's Letters to K. James soon after the Revolution was to advise him to inform the French King That then there was an Opportunity for him to place many for his Interest in the Service of the Prince of Orange there being a great many Places to be sold c. This is what I knew and could justly depose against Sir John Fenwick And having long since inform'd the King and the House of Commons of this matter I thought it my Duty to offer to attest the same Face to Face with Sir John at the Bar of the House of Commons which occasion'd my writing to the Speaker It 's true Sir John Fenwick is now indicted for a much later Conspiracy against the King and Government which is of the same kind and plainly prov'd by Captain Porter c. and I dare presume to say that there is no intelligible man that is not partial in the matter but what in their own Consciences does believe Sir John Fenwick really guilty I must confess in my own Opinion there was no occasion of my being called or any greater Proof than the Honourable House of Commons had before them for which reason my self was not call'd Give me Leave to make one Observation more of my own Knowledge which is That Sir John Fenwick has often in my Company exclaim'd against the Persons he lately pretended to accuse with the greatest Reproaches and Hatred imaginable and I cannot hear of any body that ever knew him conversant with any of those Lords or Gentlemen since And what is yet more strange to me is That Sir John Fenwick has not so much as mention'd as I have been inform'd the Names of one of those who to my certain Knowledge were actually concern'd with him for King James 's Interest as they term it no he has not discover'd any of those that sign'd the Address with him How Sir John was prevail'd on to be guilty of so great a piece of Folly God knows Only I must beg his Leave with others to believe it an Action very much unbecoming a person of his Rank much less a Christian in his circumstances and one that has so long ow'd his Life to the great Clemency of the present Government I hope he will consider it himself and remembring what he is may before it is too late discharge his Conscience faithfully towards GOD King William and his Native Country for I presume there is little Comfort in dying for a bad Cause And for them at St. Germains and those in England of the French Interest which wish him hang'd with all their Hearts and are impatient for it as they have often been on the same account I presume the late King's desire of the death of such was not meerly to encrease the number of his Friends in Heaven that is impossible for King James that believes all Protestants are damn'd cannot so much after their Deaths as have one Twelve-penny Mass said for their Souls Therefore if King James have any Remorse it must be the Subject of many Confessions and cause of much Sorrow to think as his Faith obliges him how many Souls are gone to Hell by his Engagement in a very bad Cause I hope and pray that no true Englishman though never so much engag'd in the Interest of the present Government will presume to judge so uncharitably of any of our greatest Enemies that have died most justly for endeavouring to murther the best of Kings and to involve the Nation into Slavery and Misery By this the late King and the French Court shew little Charity no they 're barbarous and inhuman by engaging Protestants nay even by receiving them into their Service with a design to expose their Lives and so consequently their Souls This Argument truly weigh'd and a Thousand more there is to the same purpose should I think be sufficient to disswade any Protestant from any manner of Engagement on the late King 's or French Court's account Having thus given you a short and true Account of the Reasons of the delay of my Business and of my Purpose by God's Blessing and by the Permittance and Justice of the Great Wisdom of the Nation and also an impartial Relation of what I know of Sir John Fenwick whose Oversight and Obstinacy I much commiserate I shall proceed to give you the true Copy of my Petition and Letters as followeth To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and to the Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament Assembled The Humble Petition of WILLIAM FULLER Sheweth THAT your Petitioner hath long groan'd under intolerable Misfortunes occasion'd through the Immaturity of his Judgment which was too easily impos'd on by the Perfidiousness of Coll. Thomas Dalleval and Mr. George Hayes for whose Appearance your Petitioner engag'd to the Honourable House of Commons intentionally for the Nation 's Service tho' the Event prov'd contrary and for their
Mr. FVLLER's APPEAL TO Both Houses OF PARLIAMENT WITH LETTERS Relating to Sir JOHN FENWICK and Himself By WILLIAM FVLLER Gent. Accusatum fuisse postea Excusatum esse dat Accusato Fidem Famam LONDON Printed for the Author 1697. THE PREFACE TO THE READER SIRS I Hope the World doth not believe me so vain as to love Writing for the Ambition of being the Talk of the Town or to have my Nam'd bawld along the Streets In short I hate Writing But I find now an absolute necessity in my own Defence the Parliament not being at leisure to hear the Manifestation of what I humbly propos'd I am constrain'd to answer the malicious Malecontents of this Kingdom in this manner for the Present and really wish I were permitted to do it more Authentickly which I have great Reason to hope I shortly shall I would willingly oblige all Mankind though I get nothing by them and once more I do positively Affirm That I will maintain the Truth of my last Narratives and prove it against all Opposers The Adherents of King James are indeed mightily transported by Reason my Letter was not Read in the House of Commons and have the good Assuranee which they seldom want to affirm That consequently and most certainly all my Narrative of their Dear sham Prince of Wales must be false How partial they are in their Sentence against me in this Case as they have been in most others I leave to the Judgment of my Impartial Readers that shall peruse the following Relation To all that Love the present Government I am a most Faithful Servant W. Fuller Mr. FULLER's APPEAL TO Both Houses OF PARLIAMENT c. MY last Three Books having occasion'd some Disputes in the World which I hop'd to have finally decided this Session of Parliament and having intimated as much in my Narratives I think it highly concerns Me at this time to let the World know That I have not been negligent on my part to perform every particular of my Promise both as to what relates to the Confirmation of the Discoveries that I made of the Designs of the Enemies of the Government in the Years 1690. and 1691. as also the proving of the Suppositious Birth of the pretended Prince of Wales and that he was the real Son of Mrs. Mary Gray by which Name she was called whilst I knew her and her Brother as she call'd him the Secular Priest lives yet at Callis by the same Name How far I have urged for Leave to demonstrate the Truths of both these weighty Matters you will plainly find by the following Letters and Petitions which were all delivered though it was my Misfortune to present them at a Time when Both Houses of Parliament were taken up with more weighty Affairs and these Proposals of mine wou'd have taken so much of their Time in the particular Examinations as might have been Prejudicial to the King's Affairs to which I shall ever have a due regard and nothing but the intolerable Wrongs I have so long groan'd under and the Tyrannick Insults of the Jacobites of this Kingdom cou'd possibly have induced me to trouble the Parliament at such a time Nor shall I desist to sue for Justice and a fair Hearing on both sides when I may possibly without any Inconvenience to the Publick obtain so great a Blessing For I solemnly decIare to all the World That to be permitted to clear my Reputation and to prove the Truths of all I have PubIish'd is my greatest Ambition And it hath pleased Almighty God to inable me so Plainly and fully to prove it when required that I do not fear even now the High Court of Parliament is Sitting to engage to forfeit my Life in case of failure Such Sacred Truths can fear no Factions nor Parties whatever nor can I ever though hourly threatned by those poor Senseless and Moneyless Animals that call themselves Protestants that wish for nothing so much as a French Government and the Diversion of swimming in Troubled Waters in which they hope by others Ruins to mend their own Condition I confess in answer to Me they may very justly affirm That I have not got so much by the Government as to boast of my Riches or any thing else unless in my Sufferings I must ingeniously own my hard Usage was not very agreeable to Flesh and Blood but no power on Earth shou'd make me Disloyal to King William or unfaithful to the Interest of England I am in Charity with all Mankind yet I confess it has been some satisfaction to me to see my greatest Enemies who unjustly Lorded it over me fall from their Stations and into Disgrace by the same Measures that they made use of to ensnare me and I have much Reason to bless God for the good King 's and my Country's Sake And that God will I hope as He has begun deliver His Majesty this Kingdom Scotland and Ireland from all our Bosome Enemies which heighten our Divisions and are the greatest Curse we groan under since from them I may say almost alone the French Tyrant receives those Hopes which have often failed him that have occasion'd the Continuance of the War some time nay the French King 's harsh Usage to the late King and all with him is a plain Demonstration That he has no extraordinary Zeal for his Cause only by Flattery from England Amongst our Zealous Protestant Jacobites I would fain know what Reward those Gentlemen think to have who have been so earnest for a French Power that they took the Oaths to King WILLIAM to make themselves serviceable to King James as they pretended and had the Assurance to write to King James and his Queen to tell them so I am very certain that King James kept some of their Letters to this effect And others of the same kind I thought good to secure in England which with a great many more had e're this time been publish'd to the World only I was ambitious to have had them before the Parliament first At least I hoped and pray'd in my Petition as you may see That I might have Leave of either of the Houses to have publish'd all I knew of that kind which I shall yet endeavour to obtain I cannot omit making some Remarks on what happen'd upon my sending a Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons the Right Honourable Paul Foley Esq It was as you will also find relating to Sir John Fenwick not that I had any Prejudice against the Person of Sir John Fenwick but an Abhorrence to his most detestable and barbarous Crimes For the first two Years after the late King's Abdication every time that I came to England from St. Germains I brought Letters to Sir John Fenwick and was daily with him and other Gentlemen of the late King's Party at their Meetings to consult for to carry on their Designs against the present Government And in those Unhappy Errors Sir John Fenwick was as much