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A60101 A short state of our condition, with relation to the present Parliament. Lawton, Charlwood, 1660-1721. 1693 (1693) Wing S3630; ESTC R10633 3,794 5

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A short State of our Condition with Relation to the present PARLIAMENT IT is too sad a Subject to admit of Raillery otherwise a man might say that we may defy all the Plots of the Jacobites the Machinations of Republicans since there is so good an understanding between the King and his People since the People have chosen him a Parliament of which he thinks so many of the Members are fit to be employed by him as well as entrusted by them A man might Droll on but he can have no English heart nor thinking head who can sport himself with our Calamities There cannot sure be any Circumstance which can make England more impregnable more Glorious and happy than when the King and Parliament joyntly agree in National Designs But neither can there be any juncture more fatal than when an House of Commons seem as much in a Separate Interest from that of their Country as Parasites in these latter Reigns have perswaded our Kings to be Such an House of Commons will make Slavery Authentick will bubble us out of all sense of Liberty What with talking of the Church and the Monarchy at one time and the French and Popery at another they will first cheat themselves and then delude as well as betray the Nation They will most easily betray the Nation because we are not apt now to find fault with any thing that has a Parliamentary Sanction That two hundred thousand Pounds a year bestowed upon the Parliament has already drawn out of the Subjects Pockets more Millions than all our Kings since the Conquest have ever had from this Nation and that without any rude complaint is a Proof that if a King can manage well Mr. Guy's Office he may without much adoe set up for Absolute VENALIS EST ANGLIA for VENALE EST PARLIAMENTUM Heretofore indeed it was not necessary only that a Parliament should give but that they should give reasonably as Flammocks Rebellion and others in King Henry the Sevenths Reign witness and yet I believe our Rolls will not furnish us with many Sessions wherein mony was given and no one Country Bill granted But our Ancestors were wise enough to instruct their Members and our Constitution so regular that we had frequent Elections But when think you shall we have a new Election now since the King has about Sixscore Members that I can reckon who are in places and who are thereby so entirely at his Devotion that altho they have mortal Fewds when out of the House tho' they are violently of opposite Parties in their Notions of Government yet they Vote as lumpingly as the Lawn Sleeves never divide when the Interest of the Family as they call it is concern'd that is to say when any Court Project is on foot The House is so Officer'd that by those that have Places and Pensions together with their Sons Brother and Kinsmen and those who are fed with the hopes of Preferment and the too grea● influence these have upon some honest mistaken Country Gentlemen who are possibly overfrighted with the French the King can baffle any Bill quash all Grievances stifle Accompts and Ratifie the Articles of Limerick I call them mistaken Country Gentlemen who can be perswaded that an Honest Bill can be at any time out of Season I confess they must adore Kings more than I do who when their own Management has brought them into Difficulties and Streights don't love to make good use of their Humiliations I would trust an Elected King a great way if I saw he understood Election to be his Title if our Generosity would engage him to Reformation but when I see he knows neither his own nor our Interest Employs many of those who have been our Enemies all along and were his when the Debate of the Crown was on foot when I see him hate and Nickname as Common-wealths men those whose Principles made them the Authors of his Greatness and those that would have him do the Business for which he came for which both he and we said he came when I see him sometimes solliciting in person in the House of Lords at others by my Lord Portland besides what he does by all his Under-Officers when I hear he sends Commands to some Lords and Bribes to others and turns out of his Place the gallant Lord Bellamount meerly for giving his Vote in the House of Commons according to his Conscience and thereby intends to terrifie others when I find the Money the Nation gives to defend our Liberties from Forreigners abroad is like to undermine them at home in a word when I see neither the one nor the other House can withstand the power of Gold I say when I perceive all this it is time to give Warning it is time to look about us I once thought to have affixed to this Paper a List of those that are in Office which if I had it would not only have shewn how many Members are bought off but would have pointed out many amongst the Number of Favourites and Pentioners who we expected should rather have been punished Had we intended to have justified what we have done to after-times Had any thing but personal Grandeur been the real intention of him who we intended should have been and valued himself most upon being our Deliverer these men must have been marked down as Betrayers of their Country who are now made the chief Supporters of his Throne I thought we called over the Prince of Orange to get or give us all the Laws we wanted to have made the Elections of Parliament secure and frequent Tryals impartial the Militia our standing Force and the Navy our strength I thought we had call'd him over to call Ministers to an account and to have put it out of their power Impunibly to abuse us hereafter If any spirit of Liberty Remains if we are not destined to destruction sure the Nation will take some way to let the King and both Houses know that they expect they should not only provide for a Campaigne in Flanders but if we should yet have our wished for Success for our Security even against our own Victories and such Laws as may make it worth while at this time to defend our Country I say worth while to defend it for if we are to be Slaves it s no matter to whom we are so I would not embarrass the Government but I would have those that are in it undestand that it is for our good and not to gratify their own Ambition that they are put into those posts It was the Custom formerly for the People to pay their Members and those Members were trusted by the People to keep the Ballance between their Liberties and the Kings Prerogative But since they are retained by him with such Over grown Fees such Places and preferments to be Council on his side how can the People hope they will be just in their Arbitration But after all I would not be thought to insinuate