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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59291	Animadversions upon a paper entituled, The speech of the late Lord Russel, &c.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.; Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2658; ESTC R10580	5,752	5

discovery of this hellish Treason What so many discourses as are confessed of the feazibleness of seizing the Kings Guards p. 3. my Lord exclaiming against it and asking if the thing succeeded what must be done next c. the Duke of Monmouth tells him my Lord Shaftsbury and some hot men would undoe us all and asks him at another time Did you ever hear such a horrid thing and yet to say he dyes innocent or knows of no Plot against the King's life or Government I protest I stand amazed at the contradiction for the Evasions are too silly and thin to think that the horrid thing was only killing the Guards or that which would undo us all was some disorderly thing or other which the hot men would do if great care were not taken Alas that any man should be so weak himself as to think to impose upon others such foolish inconsistencies No certainly the horrid thing such as was never heard of that would undo us all must be Crimes of another nature than this palliating Speech insinuates and can be of no other import than Treasons of the blackest complexion And after the knowledge of such things to say a man knows no Plot and that he dyes innocent cannot be said unless Plotting and knowing of it be no Treason and that the same person may be the greatest Criminal and the most innocent at the same time I would fain be Answered one Question And that is What should this discourse about seizing the Guards be so often debated and to what purpose can it be supposed to be done He must be stupid that does not see it carry Treason in the face of it either in Seizing or Assassinating the Kings Person or both successively but still the knowing of this must be misprision of Treason It was well my Lords Council knew better things when they advised him not to confess matter of Fact plainly for if he had confessed as much as this Speech does he would have saved the Witnesses a labour and the easie and willing Jury as the Speech calls them would not have had occasion to withdraw from the Bar for their Verdict The Law says there are no accessaries but all are principals in Treasons He confesses he was pressed with this that he was acquainted with these heats and ill designs and did not discover them page 3. and infers this is but misprision of Treason at most but his Lawyers knew better and though it can do him no service yet because it may do others who think not revealing Treason no Crime or that the bare difcoursing it is so little a thing I will give the opinion of one of the Oracles of their Party Mr. St. Johns in his Argument concerning the attainder of the E. of Strafford as I find it in Dr. Nalsons 2d Vol. of Collections published the other day folio 196 where he proves that bare Machination to raise War is Treason He gives several instances and one most remarkable as follows In the 3d year of King Henry IV one Balshal coming from London found one Bernard at plough in the Parish of Ofley in the County of Hertford Bernard asked Balshal What news he told him that the news was that Richard II. was alive in Scotland which was false for he was dead and that by Midsummer next he would come into England Bernard asked him What were best to be done Balshal Answered get men and go to King Richard In Michaelmas Term in the 3d. year of Hen. 4th in the Kings Bench Rot. 4. This advice adjudged Treason One Story in Q. Eliz. time practised to Levy War nothing done in pursuance of a practise the intent adjudged Treason and he Executed upon it even before the Act of the XIII Eliz. which made intention Treason during Her Life For this Case was adjudged in Hillary Term the Parliament begun not 'till the April following Now let us infer if Seizing the Kings Guards and making them Prisoners which cannot be done without Arms be Levying War and Levying War be Treason and the debating this matter be also Treason and there can be no accessories but all Principals in Treason and my L. Russel was at many of these debates and acquainted with these ill designs What becomes of his innocence most assuredly in the sight of God and Man he is Guilty Nor is he so innocent neither in that commonly call'd Gentile Quality which he seems next to his pretended innocence so much to value himself upon that he saith he hopes no body will imagine that so mean a thought should enter into me as to go about to save my self by accusing others It seems he could then if he had not thought it base and mean but truly if he had too much gallantry to save his Body he ought to have had enough Religion to save his Soul And I tremble to think that some persons who should have done otherwise have dealt so unfaithfully with him as to let him dye glorying and impenitent of two most horrible sins For first here is a most manifest Perjury which by this not accusing all he knew guilty of these heats and ill designs he stands manifestly in Articulo Mortis convict of by his own Confession For as a Member of the Commons House how often as well as in other capacities he hath fworn by the Omnipotent God upon the Holy Evangelists the Oath of Allegiance of 3 Jac. To do his best endeavour to disclose and make known to His Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which he shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And yet out of a piece of Gallantry it is too mean a thing to accuse others So brave a thing it is to break the Oath of God and without infinite Mercy to leap headlong into Damnation and excuse it as a piece of Bravery O! wretched Conductors of this poor Gentlemans Soul to let him pass into Eternity with that dreadful Imprecation annexed to this Oath of So help me God unthought of and unrepented of There were some things said at Shepheard ' s by some the Speech tells us with more heat than Judgment These things ought by the force of this Oath to have been revealed upon the no less danger than renouncing all help from God and all hopes of happiness and it will be a poor plea for a shivering soul before the dreadful Tribunal of infinite Justice to say as the Speech does that he did then sufficiently disapprove them when he was under the indispensible obligation of a most solemn and sacred Oath and of the forfeiture of mercy and Heaven bound to disclose and reveal them to the King Nor is it a little sin whatever men may think not to give Glory to God by a public acknowledgment and repentance for that Guilt and those Crimes for which his justice has brought any person to such publique and exemplary punishment For besides the injustice which is done to the Righteous Judge of all men in not vindicating his Glory by a clear and ingenuous confession it hath this dangerous influence upon others that thereby they are hardned in their impenitency and even after death a person may become criminal and accessary to all the ill and dangerous consequences which may be the effects of this supressing of truth I pray God some people be not sensible of this to their utter Ruins For I cannot without strange apprehensions see the people swallow this deadly draught of Poyson and endeavour to stifle the most horrid and barbarous Conspiracy the most clearly proved and most miraculously both detected and disappointed that any Age or Story can parallel A Conspiracy which would have laid these Nations weltering in Blood and would have made our Posterity the most absolute Slaves to Tyranny and Usurpation of any in the Christian World And it amazes me to hear people talk That what these Conspirators did was only for preservation of the Protestant Religion and not against the King's Life when the Sun is not more clear than this discovery that nothing could so entirely have ruined the Government and the Reformed Religion as this Conspiracy had it taken effect was designed to have done There are a Thousand other things might be said and very necessarily but I thought it more proper though with too swift a hand to do something towards the stemming of the Tide than to let it overrun all the Banks for want of a little early care to stop the first breaches and I doubt not but some others will give this Speech a more deliberate Answer than can be expected from these hasty lines which are the effect of a perfect duty and Loyalty to my King zeal to the Glory of God and the good of all my fellow Subjects excuses I hope sufficient to procure a Pardon for a Paper writ it may be with more affection than any other Ingredients which might have rendred the composure proportionate and exact God preserve his sacred Majesties person the whole Royal Family the Government our Religion Lives Laws and Liberties from the Conspiracies of such men as think Treason Innocence and concealing it a Glory and may all the yet secret Machinations of wicked Achitophels and Rebellious Absaloms be for ever defeated and discovered LONDON Printed for Thomas Dring over against the Inner-Temple Gate in Fleet-street 1683.