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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93827	The state of the Navy consider'd in relation to the victualling, particularly in the Straits, and the West Indies with some thoughts on the mismanagements of the Admiralty for several years past : and a proposal to prevent the like for the future / humbly offer'd to the honourable House of Commons by an English sailor.	English sailor.	1699 (1699)	Wing S5323; ESTC R42893	14,246	19

many old Women in Wapping that should have manag'd that Affair more for the Honour Glory and Advantage of the English Nation The Queen of Sheba when she gave her Visit to Solomon extol'd his Wisdom and his Servants our Solomon is indeed worthy of Honour who has been the Care of Heaven as these Nations have been his and the Queen of Sheba might justly have done him the same Honour could she have come hither yet I engage she would have left out the latter part of her Compliment and took little notice of the Sitting of his Servants in the Admiralty of their Virtue or Wisdom She takes no notice of Solomon's nor Hiram's Navy yet the Scripture tells us they were under the Conduct of Ship-Men that had knowledg of the Sea and in another place that part of their Loading was Apes and Peacocks but tells us no where that Apes or Peacocks had the Sovereign Command in Sea Affairs or that Land men were proper Persons to command Men of War It is a great Misfortune to a Prince to fall into the hands of Sycophants and Flatterers who magnifie their own deserts to the Ruin of the Nation get about him so close that his best Subjects can't see him and if he be unfairly dealt with they know nothing of it neither how to commiserate his Condition nor give him that Assistance as is necessary to his preservation such a Prince is perfectly hoodwink'd like a Hawk and those that hold him will not let him fly but at some profitable Quarry for their own Advantage they never suffer him to hear what others can say lest they should speak something to their own Prejudice And thus the Prince by adhering to and promoting the Interest of a few loses the Love of many which often proves fatal both to himself and People A Good Prince dispenses his Favours as the Sun does its Beams by a universal Reflection upon Plants of all sorts but the more generous Plants receive most of the kindly Influence of its Rays Mercy is a commendable thing in a Prince it may drop upon Criminals but Favours ought not to pour down upon them I would not destroy the whole Species of Vipers because they are part of the Creation and manifest the Wisdom of the great Former of all things but there is no necessity for me to foster them in my Bosom and expose my Body to their Poison If the Managers of the Admiralty deserve the Posts they occupy it is more than the People know and the Merchants of England will tell lamentable Stories to the contrary Some of them perhaps have deserv'd well of their Country however not in the Admiralty for a Person prefer'd to an Office he knows nothing of by his Ignorance in one day may do more disservice to his Country than all the former Services of his Life will amount to The wisest Men in England have employ'd their Brains to no purpose to unriddle the meaning of such Preferments the old Maxim of preferring Enemies and disobliging Friends has been exploded by all Men of Sense but the Court Party have now another Maxim that all Commonwealths Men are Enemies to Monarchy and not to be trusted and all Englishmen and Lovers of the Liberties of their Country they represent as such while the contrary get the best Places of Profit and Trust in the Kingdom Now I would fain know how this Government comes to be a Monarchy in their Sense and whether any Commonwealths-man in England can desire a Government more sutable to the common Good and conform to his own Principles if it be faithfully administr'd according to its Constitution For no Man of a Republican Principle can desire more than to have Kings accountable to the People for Male-Administration and by their forefaulting to make a Forfeiture of the Regal Dignity wherewith they are vested by which Forfeiture all the Right of Governing devolves again upon the People who of their own free Will and undoubted Right and Power proceed to a New Election and place one more Righteous than the former upon the Throne if they think fit upon which Foundation this Government is built So that Commonwealthsmen as the Courtiers call them must be the best Friends of this Government because they are for securing the Foundation of it and not for raising a Superstructure to make it top-heavy and tumble down Ill and corrupt Officers and Ministers are the greatest Enemies to Monarchy in the World for when the People see under all Kings ill Men in Offices the Wealth of the Nation profusely lavish'd and the Liberties of the People in continual danger they 'l conclude that Mismanagements are accidents inseparable from Monarchy that the Fault is not in the King but in the Office and let 'em change the Person never so often the thing will be the same and so begin to think of another form of Government There has been such an uninterrupted Progress of Mismanagements in our Naval Affairs through the Conduct of the Persons concerned in the Managery that nothing hitherto has been our preservation but the immediate hand of Providence The Walls of our Island are our Shipping those once broken down we are laid open to the violent Insults of any Enemy A little Retrospection now would do very well and not only so but we ought to look forward and find out ways and means to prevent the like for the future It is the Business of our Representatives in Parliament to enquire into things of this Nature they are the Guardians of our Liberties and are bound to redress the Grievances of the People by virtue of whose electing Power they have a Right to sit in the House of Commons and enact Laws They have no Power from the People they represent to make Laws destructive of their Property or diminishing of their Wealth upon groundless Occasions nor ought they to give Releases to such as have squander'd away the Wealth of the Kingdom and betray'd the Liberty of the Subject He that dos not prevent a Mischief when it lies in his power so to do is equally guilty with the hand that did it and equally accountable to God Almighty It is much more now the Business of Parliaments since there is no way else to bring Criminals to Justice and the greatest Justice that ever was done in Cases of this nature has been done by Parliaments of which I could give many Instances had I time or place Making publick Examples of such Criminals is not only a Debt we owe to publick Justice and the common good of the Realm but will be a Terror to all future Offenders in Cases of the like Nature for if such Abuses are tolerated too long they 'l become fashionable and a Man must turn a Rogue to get into an Emploiment 'T is well for the English Nation these Miscreants are not beyond the Reach of Parliament whose Authority and Prerogative if once lost we may bid an eternal Farewel to our Native Liberty and