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Animadversions on the last speech of the late William Lord Russel
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Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
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Wing S2656; ESTC R25790
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Shepherd's and there as damnable ill fortune would have it he relates so different an account of the Thing that Bedlow's and Prance's description of Sir Edmundbury's Murder are little less contradictory viz. he says in these words The day before that Meeting I came to Town for two or three days and the Duke of Monmouth came to me and told me he was extreme glad I was come to Town for my Lord Shaftsbury and some hot men would undo us all How so my Lord I said Why answer'd he they 'll certainly do some disorderly thing or other if some care be not taken and therefore for Gods sake use your endeavours with your Friends to prevent any thing of this kind He told me there would be Company at Mr. Shepherd 's that night and desired me to be at home that evening and he would call me which he did and when I came into the Room I saw Mr. Rumsey sitting by the Chimney tho' he swears he came in after and there were things said by some with much more HEAT than JUDGMENT which I did sufficiently disapprove and yet for these things of stands condemned But I thank God my para was sincere and will meant Here we find the faâ—e of Affairs strangely alter'd for now the Duke of Monmouth comes with an Out-cry that my Lord Shaftsbury and other Hot men were for doing things so disorderly as threaten'd no less than to undo 'em all and Shepherds being the place of assignation my Lord Russel heard some things said there with more Heat than Judgment Now that those things said must signifie the business of seizing the Guards is plain by my Lords owning it to be that for which he stoud condemned and that the debate must be upon the down-right Resolution and Proposals of putting the project into a speedy Execution is every way manifest For if the above-said harmless feasibleness of it were all that had been argued amongst them there had been no need either of Monmouth's Allarum the Lord Russel's Reproof or the Companies Heat out-running their Judgments nor was there any occasion for his thanking God that his part was sincere and well meant if theirs had been so too And that the Reader may not mistake and think possibly these two different Accounts of the Guards seizing might be at two different times the Lord answers expresly No for be never was at Shepherd ' s in that Company but once However the Lord Russel still upholds his Innocence and tells you in the last Paragraph It was inferred from hence that I was acquainted with those Heats and ill Designs and did not discover them But that was but MISPRISION of Treason at most I shall not answer for what pass'd at the Tryal because 't is not yet publish'd nor was I present to hear it and therefore I leave the dispute of that to the Judges learned in the Law that were not of my Lord Russel's Opinion But supposing my Lord would insinuate himself only guilty of Misprision of Treason from the proofs against him at the Tryal yet by his own proofs against himself in this intended Vindication he was recorded himself to all Posterity plainly guilty of High-Treason in that very Paper where he arrogates the highest of Innocence For suppose as he affirms that the proof of his being in a Company once at Mr. Shepherd's where Treason was spoken and the concealing it were only Misprision Misprision being imagined to be a mans unfortunate hearing of Treason spoken in ill company and afterwards the wanting of prudence or care to detect that Treason Yet in his Paper his Crime is of a deeper dye He confesses there He held Amity and Correspondence with persons that did not once or twice but several times treat upon the same numerical Treasonable Projection He visited 'em at their own Houses as Shaftsbury's for instance and give 'em meetings abroad And tho it be Misprision of Treason to conceal the hearing of it tho' a man abjures and avoids the company of the Traytor that speaks it yet this Innocent Lord continues the highest friendship with these very Treason-mongers herds and nests with them at all turns and has the continued Repetition of Treasonable Machinations in his ears and yet his want of discovery is and shall be only 〈◊〉 bare Misprision of Treason But the Noble Lord makes a very honest and charitable excuse for his silence in not discovering viz. I hope no body will imagine that so mean a thought could enter into me as to go about to save my life by accusing others That is my Lord could hear Shaftsbury and his Crew projecting to play the Cut-throats if no less than the Kings Guards and that too in cold blood tho' indeed himself abhorr'd such a Popish practice yet at the same time he affirms it a more Gentleman like Quality to be true to Cut throats than Kings to Treason than Loyalty and hopes no man will imagine him capable of so mean a thought as to have discovered this Rand of Associating Murderers tho' threatening no less than the Murder of the Kings Guards But my Lords is to be Innocent still and must and shall be so for alas the seizing of the Kings Guards was no Design at all God knows upon the Kings Persons for in the next Paragraph he is very outragious to think how hard a Sentence be had for he says Nothing was sworn against him but some discourses about making some STIRS a pretty Puritanical mincing word for a National Insurrection which by no means he will allow to be levying War against the King Besides by a strange Fetch the Design of seizing the Guards was construed a Design of killing the King and so I was cast Good Heavens that Ignoranous was our of fashion and that a pack of Popish Tory Jury-men should ever interpret a Combination for seizing the Guards of a King to be the least ill intention against the Person of Majesty Nay the dying Lord is so extravagantly possess'd not only with his own undoubted Innocence but even of those very men too that with all this Hear and Fury so many several times machinated so Murderous and Treasonable a Design that in the 13th Paragraph he wishes that the Gentlemen of the Law would make more conscience than to run men down by strains and fetches and impose on easie and willing Juries to the Ruine of Innocent men for to kill by forms subtilties of Law is the worst sort of Murder But I wish the rashness of hot men the partiality of Juries may be stop'd with my Blood which I would offer up with more joy if I thought I should be the last were to suffer in such a way In this 't is plainly intimated that his very Brethren in iniquity those that not like himself dissented and disapproved of seizing the Guards but the very Promoters Defenders of the Design are all Innocent too insomuch that 't is his last Prayer That their guiltless Blood may