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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59340	Remarks on Algernoon Sidney's paper, delivered to the sherriffs at his execution	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2715; ESTC R12784	7,216	4

REMARKS ON Algernoon Sidney's PAPER Delivered to the SHERRIFFS AT HIS Execution THe great Aim of this Paper like that of the late Lord Russel is a continued Justification of a dying Traytor 's Innocence a virulent and declamatory Harangue against the Magistracy of the Nation loaded with so much Obloquie and Injustice thrown upon the Court the Judges and the very Government it self that 't is a perfect Appeal to the People to revenge his blood and an open and visible Exhortation to them to push them on to the finishing of that Work which himself dy'd for and which his own shortned thread did not hold out to see accomplisht and all under a shadow of Truth but an Intayling of his Guilty Principles to Posterity But alas his mighty Protestations of all Saint and no Sinner are so aukwardly and so lewdly put together that half an Eye of sense cannot but spy through the Falsity of them This Gentleman however is an Original of his Kind and if the Candidness and not the Inadvertency of the Author be to be thankt for 't has dealt more plainly with the World than his Predecessour Russel for instead of Prayers for the King and the Prosperity of the Crown and a Detestation of Anarchy he very ingenuously avoids so poor a Disguise and with a bar-fac'd Openness avows his Republican Principles and his utter aversion to Monarchy To come to the Paper The first material thing he tells us is That We live in an Age that makes Truth pass for Treason which his Tryal and Condemnation he says sufficiently evidences Tho truly his unhappy Paper has rather turn'd the Tables and proved Mr. Sidney has a greater Mind to make Treason pass for Truth a Truth too so divine that his very last Ejaculation is His glorifying of the Mercy of God in permitting him to dye a Witness to He goes on and says West Rumsey and Keyling who were brought to prove the Plot said no more of me than that they knew me not and some others equally unknown unto me had used my Name and that of some others to give a little Reputation unto their Designs The Lord Howard is too infamous by his Life and the many Perjuries not to be denyed or rather sworn by himself to deserve mention and being a single Witness would be of no value though he had been of unblemished Credit and had not seen and confessed that the Crimes committed by him would be pardon'd only by committing more and even the Pardon promised could not be obtained till the Drudgery of Swearing was over In the first place under that Ignominious Reflection Of giving Reputation to their Designs the Discovery of the whole Phanatical Plot is insinuated to be all Juggle and Combination Tho the World may take notice of a wonderful Difference betwixt the Quality of these Discoverers and those of the Popish-Plot Their Oats and Bedlows though no better than the Rakings of Jayls and no higher than Companions for Valets were nevertheless thought worthy to be Secret-keepers and Cabinet-Counsellors of Princes and honour'd with the universal Belief of a whole applauding Nation for Detection of a hellish Plot traced up to no less than a Conspiracy of 30000 Bloody-Pilgrims and as many formidable Black-Hills like the head of Nilus up to the Mountains of the Moon Whereas on the contrary these last Witnesses were Men of undisputed Reputation Birth and Honour Men so far from Oats his hopes of a Parliamentary Donative of 30000 pound that the Discovery was made without the least prospect of a Reward Besides if these Witnesses were Villains how comes the Lord Howard to be the Only Evidence against Collonel Sidney and West Rumsey and Keyling to keep silent when in the Case of Designs as he calls them and that they had sworn without Fear or Conscience or had had but half that Salamanca Courage that brought the Queen into the Poisoning the King no doubt these three Mutes had opened their Mouths too and not left the Collonel such a Loop-hole for Innocence as a Pretence of a Single-Testimony But the Master-stroak of the Colonel's Pen against the Lord Howard is one of the most accurate pieces of Mallice that the most studyed Revenge could have put together But if the Lord Howard's Life be so infamous the Colonel had done well to have specifyed wherein Almost the whole Life of that Lord has been notoriously known to have been spent in that very Old Cause which the Colonel Religiously even to his Death a●serts styling himself no less than a Witness of God's Truth and consequently arrogating a Crown of Martyrdom for dying in Was not Shaftsbury all along this Lord 's Gamaliel And has he not lived a continually profest Enemy to these very Idols to whom this Gentleman says he dy'd a Sacrifice And if so How can this Gentleman render his Accuser's Life so Infamous unless for those very Principles which he proudly boasts are the glory of his own Besides if his many Perjuries are so undeniable he had done well to have given some Particulars of them I am certain the Violation of his Allegiance in the days of the late Fanatical Rebellion is none of the Perjuries he intends to lay to his Charge for then he must make that the Lord Howard's Infamous Guilt which he makes his own highest Vertue and Honour But if his Perjury consists in his late Discovery from that the very dying Criminals nay some of them against their wills have been his Compurgators The very Lord Russel in all his Protestations of Innocence in his last Speech confesses he had been at several Meetings where they had discours't of seizing the King's Guards and though he endeavours to render it wholly a Discourse by Accident yet as accidental as 't was it brought the Lord Russel and the Duke of Monmouth on purpose to Shepherd's to prevent the putting it in Execution and perswade some violent Men from attempting that which would undo them all This indeed is the Lord Howards Perjury which the dying Sidney quarrels with and to stigmatize him deeper yet he very audaciously and Libellously affirms that the Lord Howard had not only Seen but CONFEST that the Crimes he had committed would not be pardoned but for committing of greater and even the promised pardon not to be obtaind till the Drudgery of Swearing was over 'T is not enough it seems as he says afterwards That the Bench was fill'd with those that had been Blemishes to the Bar And consequently the Judges corrupted and the Law perverted yes and the Court nay Government it self rendred no less than Supporters of Popery where he tells us He dyes a Sacrifice to Idols But for the last most Diabolical Calumny from the blackest Spirit of Fanaticisme he insolently accuses the King himself of the most wretched Subornation of Perjury as if the Lord Howards Pardon had been only obtained by the merit of Swearing Innocent Men out of their Lives Good God! to what Outrages can that sin

of Witchcraft Rebellion inchant her Proselites 'T is well he satisfies some part of our Astonishment by owning as he lived so he died a Votary to the good Old Cause And for the Credit of his 40 years Apprentisship to it he 's grown so great a Master in the Craft of it that I assure you he has shot at one Bolt a Blacker Aspersion against the Honor of the Son then all the united Tongues and accumulated Forgeries of so many Years Triumphant Rebellion had Impudence to raise against his Father But if it were true that the Ld. Howard had really Confest that he could not obtain a pardon for his Crimes but by committing more Why did not this Guiltless this Plotless Gentleman at his Tryal lay hold of so lucky an Occasion as the subpaening those People that heard him confess it to averr the Truth of such a Confession A Confession the Proof whereof would not only have been a Confutation of the Credit of his Accuser and consequently the saving of his own Life but likewise an unanswerable Confirmation of that Innocence which the whole party so indefatigably labour to uphold and which the dying L. Russell so boldly asserted though by equivocating even with Heaven it self on the very Brink of Eternity and adding at his last Gasp Hipocrisy to Treason a Crime as Capital at Gods Tribunal as the Other at Mans. Well but what signifies that This dying speech was calculated for the understanding of the Rabble and Reson or Truth is no part of the Fuell where the Crowd is to be inflamed Calumny sticks with them though never so forged and Innocence though but a meer sound is substantial in a True Protestant The very Foundation of this Gentleman 's Good Old Cause was all no more The old Kings Popery and Arbitrary Power were all rank Calumny and Lies the Bugbears of so many distracted Years and the Incentives of the most Bloody Civil War and three flourishing Kingdoms Ruine was all but Sound and Noise And if Sham and Imposture was the great Business of the Good Old Cause in her Minority and the Good Old Cause ex confesso has been this Gentlemans Saint from his Youth to his very Death I cannot comprehend why she should be more modest or her Conscience straighter laced in this present 83 now she has gotten almost half a Hundred Years upon her Back and therefore this departing Gentleman from the Standart he dies under gives us very shrewd Suspicions of the Integrity of his Assertions But to return to the Paper Why this Villanous Reflection against his Majesty for his Tardiness in granting the L. Howard a Converted Fanaticks Pardon when his trusting or forgiving those sly and not easily reconciled Enemies is the greatest Prudence of the Government which fresh Example of his Majesties late too hasty Pardon sufficiently testifies when the Young Absalon in his late solemn and penitent Confession of his Conspiracy with the humblest prostration at the Feet of the King Duke made only a Politick Incursion into the Court for the Prize and Booty of a Pardon whilst the noblest Bounty and tenderest Mercy from the best and most indulgent of Kings was only returned with the poorest of Artifices and basest Ingratitude From this he comes to debate upon the Papers said as he calls it to be found in his Closet by the King's Officers and complains highly of the Injustice done first by laying the Guilt of a Paper to his Charge only upon the Similitude of a hand which may be counterfeit But the main matter and indeed a very great part of the whole Sheet is upon this string is the vindicating the Innocence of that Manuscript and accordingly he sets down the several Heads of the Discourse contained in it as not at all guilty of the least Treasonable Position but on the contray in his own Opinion the highest Arguments of Right-Reason the whole Recital of which I shall not here trouble my self with as being too immaterial here as indeed they are all mal a propos and impertinently urged there For what signifies his recital of the heads of a Treatise in defence of the Innocence of the whole Pamphlet without mention of those particular Passages which the Jury adjudged Treasonable If as by his own Confession those Topicks the Book treats upon were harmless it does not at all follow but dangerous and treasonable Methods may be laid down in it and that for the very obtaining even the fairest and most plausible Ends. I shall only repeat two Paragraphs of them That the Right and Power of Magistrates in every Country was That which the Laws of that Country made it to be That the Laws were to be observed and the Oaths taken by them having the force of a Contract between Magistrate and People could not be violated without danger of dissolving the whole Fabrick Now as blameless as this Discourse in his Thoughts may be what does he infer from the danger of Dissolving the whole Fabrick upon the supream Magistrates violating of his Oath but a licence for the People to rebel to cause this Dissolution in revenge of that Violation And then if there can be that Pretence whatever to impower them to make such a Dissolution it necessarily follows thar the Soveraign Power is accountable to his Subjects for his Breach of Trust and consequently the old High Court of Justice or any other shorter cut to punish him is the Right and Prerogative of the People I shall not enlarge upon the Confutation of that damnable Principle it being the subject of so many Pens already the very thought of it the abhorrence of every good Man and true Christian For though undoubtedly there is not nor can be a higher Obligation on a Prince than to Rule by the Laws and defend the Rights of his Subjects yet upon the Breach of that Obligation and the Invasion of those Rights the Tribunal of God is the only place where he must answer for it Besides if Monarchs were questionable and consequently punishable by the People let them produce their Law for such questioning or such a Punishment but if they can produce no such Law 't is very hard methinks that those violent Magna Charta Blades and Liberty and Property Men that would rail downright at the whipping but of a Beggar unless the Letter of the Law brings him to it should notwithstanding be for Judging Condemning nay deposing a Monarch without it But his greatest Grievance and that which he calls the highest Extravigancy of his Prosecutors is that the Contents of that Treatise should be interpreted by them as intended to stir up the People in Prosecution of the Designs of the Conspiracy when nothing of Particular application unto Time Place or Persons could be found in it as has ever been done by those who endeavour to raise Insurrections all was supply'd by Innuendo's Whatsoever is said of the Expulsion of Tarquin the Insurrection against Nero the Slaughter of