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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25386	An account of the late horrid conspiracy to depose Their present Majesties, K. William and Q. Mary, to bring in the French and the late King James, and ruine the city of London ... also, some brief reflections on the trials of the Lord Preston, Major Ashton, and Mr. Elliot, who were chiefly concern'd therein, and found guilty / by a gentleman who was present at their trials.	Gentleman who was present at their trials.	1691 (1691)	Wing A313; ESTC R957	15,103	32

James in his Throne whom the English can hardly think much better or truer for having been so long under the French King's Pupillage nor could believe it so much as possible that he should return without the destruction of the Protestant Religion not only in England but very probably throughout all Europe This Objection which lay so full against the very center of their design they found it necessary to obviate e're they could proceed one step further and though all the World else thinks it impossible that King James shou'd should ever now return without Popery at his Heels the Agitatars of this design undertake to prove it possible which was all it seems they would so much as pretend to tho with what Reason or to what end I can't imagine only the cause would bear no more scarcely that it self for tho we believe 't is possible and barely so for a Man to leap over the Bridg and not be drowned or Tumble from a precipiece and not be Crushed to Pieces of both which we have Instances yet none but a Mad-Man wou'd offer to repeat the Experiment in hopes of the same Event But that the Villany might proceed Methodically they had a formal Consult and Conference between divers Lords and Gentlemen Tories as well as Whiggs those are the words of the Paper which gives an Account thereof Seized among others in Ashtons Bosom wherein it was Actually prov'd possible that he might return without any Injury to the Protestant Religion And wherein were several fine Chimeras proposed which had King James Conquer'd the Country and Recover'd His Throne by the French Arms would have signified just as much as his Promise at his first coming to the Crown and his Oath at the Coronation to protect the Government as then Establish'd in Church and State But now they tell ye he had bit upon the Bridle and known the smart on 't and if he ever came back agen he had learnt more wit then to take such evil Courses as had formerly Broke and Ruin'd him Yes undoubtedly as much as any Highway-Man or Murderer Pardoned during his happy Reign wou'd leave the Road or Cutting-Throats for having been once in sight of the Gallows One wou'd think the former Jaunt of almost Twenty Years long had been enough to have taught some Persons Wit and Honesty if ever they wou'd have been capable of either Or at least that the sound Ruffle they met with from the People of England before they came to the Throne should have taught 'em when fix'd in it how to behave themselves there and what Measures to use with a Nation who tho 't is not an easie matter to anger 'em when once they are so never Bite but their Teeth meet and tho you cut their Heads off won't let go their hold There 's a Proverb of a certain King a little wiser then him we are discoursing of which may be with Truth and Manners enough apply'd at least to some of his Old Courtiers and those inseparable Friends who will to he sure alwaies have his Ears and Heart Bray a Fool in a Morter yet he won't depart from his Folly Which was one unlucky Objection which I doubt those Men of Projects and Reason forgot to answer at this Conference tho it seems several there present who pretended great Zeal for the Protestant Religion and without doubt much according to knowledge went away as intirely satisfied in the point in Controversie as one who has never made any experiment of Matter of Fact is with some fine Hypothesis of mounting to the World in the Moon in a Chariot of Ganza's In the mean while they must give other Men leave to doubt of what they were pleas'd to be satisfied with so long at least till they can produce one Instance of a Bigotted Popish Prince who kept his word with his Protestant Subjects longer then his Interest persuaded him to observe it or he wanted Power to break it However so much we may learn by the Title of the Conferrence before mentioned that it is not being of one Party or t'other makes a Man Honest That Loyalty is not Ty'd up to one side or Interest That there are Traytors of both sides and that all those who love the Government ought heartily to agree in their Defence of it tho they differ in their Sentiments as to other things unless they 'd have both that and their selves Ruin'd by the Common Enemy After this Consult we may believe they push'd on more vigorously than formerly and have brought things to bear so well that in their several Letters of Treasonable Correspondence they rest almost secured of Success provided they might be but powerfully assisted by the French in that manner and time they proposed and had drawn up in a Scheme of the whole And if they did their part and a certain Person easie enough to be guest at did but appear in Westminster-Hall as they express it in one of their Cants they doubted not but before next Easter Term the Causes would come to a Final Hearing That is before that time we had been all involved in Blood and Confusion and as miserable as these Plotters and their Masters cou'd make us To that end Exact Lists were sent of all our Naval preparations what Ships in Repair and what not from the First to Sixth Rates not omitting so much as the very Yatchts and Tenders So that an Account also added of such Commanders as were most likely to be drawn to the French Interest So that we need now no longer puzzle our selves to guess which way so many French-Pistols creep in among us Twenty Four of which have within this few days been Received in no larger a Sum then Forty Pound And yet more Villanous Directions were prepared for the French Fleet how and where to Fight and destroy Oars their Numbers proportion'd and the Time of their setting out and appearing upon our Coast at furthest in March or the beginning of April to hinder the Dutch Fleet and Ours from Joyning They were to look to Spithead in their way Burn the Shipping there and take the Town To which end a most Exact Accovnt was drawn up for them of all the Force in Portsmouth The State of the different Forts as South-Sea Trevanion c. As the Number of Men in Garrison and the Facility of putting a design of that Nature in Execution London to be sure among the rest is never to be forgotten Nothing is to be done till those proud Citizens be humbled Carthago est delenda Destroy that or that will Destroy Rome or at least till things are Ripe enough and the Rebellion strong enough let French Ships alwaies lie ready on purpose to Plague it as if their Fire had not been enough before But they knew what would be most acceptable to the Person who employ'd them who whilst he remain'd at Helm was so true a Pater Patriae who always so dearly lov'd the City and between which and

him there was so little Love ever lost Further if it should come to a Battle the very place was agreed on where they should fight the English not so high as last Summer near the Beachy but rather in the Chaps of the Channel And all this with the landing of the French and the publick defection of his Traytors at home who were immediately to come in to their assistance to be put in Execution as soon as possible after the departure of the King for Holland a Proclamation being prepared perhaps with as much as Coleman's Declaration for dissolving the Parliament to the same effect with what was discours'd in the Consult before mentioned setting all the Varnish possible on the Cause the Protestant Religion to be as surely established and defended as it was before they only to have the Government and all the poor harmless Catholicks to be left to nothing but their Devotions The Dispensing Power and Prerogative to be left where it was before that Controversie begun all Persons being also required to come under the French Standard and turn Traytors by such a day on pain of being used as if they were so In order to effect which Designs and carry on a Correspondence with the Enemies of the Nation several particular Cants being invented under which to cover their Treasonable Practices Some of the Letters were writ on pretence of Trade advising their Correspondents by all means to chuse such Factors as were bold and Industrious to fix probable ends and chuse fit means to bring them to an issue which they added was the life of Trade as well as Government Above all to be quick and expeditious as possible in their Resolutions and Actions the Sea being now open whereas a few Months hence 't would be very dangerous sailing Others were disguised in a Story of Tenants or Landlords acquainting the Person to whom 't is writ that many of the Freeholders were dissatifyed with their usage c. Others related to a Law-Suit as has been already mentioned some were Letters of Civility and Compliment as from one acquaintance to another assuing them that their Elder Brother and most of their Family were their true Friends and would continue so enquiring for their little Daughter whom tho' they had not yet seen they had heard described very pretty and Witty All this under seigned Names To Mr. Reading and Mrs. Reading Mr. Charleton and others Besides these they had several Characte●s and Keys affixed to them the more covertly to carry on the main business one wherein all the Letters of the Alphabet were made use of to signifie Persons and things one Letter standing for the K of France another for K. James a 3d. for the K. of England the Duke of Luxemburgh the Marquess with them Duke Powis and his Dutchess England Scotland Ireland Holland Dunkirk c. the Marquis of Carmarthen the Lord Devonshire the Lord Clarendon Lord Preston and several other great Persons both their Friends and Enemies But this was observable in most of their Letters that although they began with some of those sorts of Cants already mentioned and carried on the Humour pretty well yet before the Conclusion they used generally such high and profound expressions of respect and veneration as could agree to none with any common propriety of Speech but those of the first Quality and such as they thought their Soveraigns One good Man being so zealous in the Cause as to protest he could venture his hopes of Heaven upon it or an expression little below it if not the very same But after all that could be written said or done London still sticks in their Stomachs whose Citizens or Clergy they could by no means be pleased with the Clergy being as the significant memorandums express it almost all stark naught and the very worst of the whole Nation I wonder wherein have the Clergy of London obliged the Lord Preston so highly that he 's pleas'd to do them the honour of so ill a Character Not that 't is a new thing for Malefactors to give thofe who detect and prosecute 'em ill Names while they stile none Honest Fellows but such as are as great Villains as themselves In the mean time it seems all the Luidores yet receiv'd are not sufficient Money is the Life of the Cause all the World over which the Jacobites want as well as we and those Horse-leeches still cry Give Give without being ever satisfied Poor King James must he pay Pensions still when he himself is but a Pensioner The mischief is his Brass Money won't go in England nay would be out of fashon in Ireland had the Teagues any other among them So thick are the Complaints and so bold the Beggars that one may easily conclude their King can't live without them nor they without him My Lord will acquaint you with my occasions I have told my Lord my occasions The B●arer knows how I have been prest How well I have deserv'd and much more to the same purpose which the World will shortly see in the printed Tryals After all this people may chuse whether theyl'l believe any such thing as a Plot they may say and swear and yet not be perjur'd that this is as great a Sham as the Popish Plot in 78 and all those who dye for it as ●●rand Martyrs as Coleman and as innocent as the Jesuits nay had not all this been so strangely discover'd things had run on in the same current and the great Agitators but got safely off with their Papers or but got them dispos'd of safely into the bottom of the Sea had all this happen'd and the French Fleet according to appointmnet appear'd on our Coast as they did the last Summer who dared have dreamt of a Plot in 't any more than the last time or that they came for any thing else but to fish for a few Herrings on our Coast or make fine Lines across the Channel in a Sunshiny day And here I should have closed the account of this cursed Design had not a new and strange accident given us new confirmations thereof No longer since than the last Week were taken two Gentlemen coming ashore from France in a small Sloop near Lewis in Sussex Sir R. P. who by the greatness of his Genius and meer strength of his own natnral Reason both of 'em as weighty Motives as the Jesuits Arguments left the Protestant Religion for the Roman in the Reign of the late King James and would fain have had his Children Educated the same way had not their virtuous and prudent Mother placed them out of his reach The other Collonel M. and old experienced Officer Both going to a great Papists House in those parts One of these a Man of Interest and Money might have done excellently well lying there Perdue till the Plot had ripen'd then to have rais'd Forces for advancing the design and the other of more Brains and Experience when rais'd to have commanded them With these