Majesty's Envoys and by the Deputies and Agents of the Company Nor will I so far Reflect upon the Memory of that Prince as to assign the Reasons why they came to Treat him with so much Superciliousness and Neglect in that and other Concerns as they did Seeing besides the too great Encouragement they had to it from somthing in his own Constitution and Temper they were Embold'ned thereunto by the mutinous Humour that was then Predominant in many of his Subjects and by the great and unaccountable Divisions which were arisen between those who were Stiled the Court and Country Factions But finding that his Royal Brother King James who on his Decease Rightfully Ascended the Throne was not a Prince that bore that careless respect to his own Honour to the Reputation of his Kingdoms and to the Prosperity of his Subjects as to digest the aforementioned Affront Injustice and Injury with the Tameness that King Charles had done and that he Carried not that Indifferency to his Peoples Welfare and to the Traffick of the Nation as for a private Gratuity either to Connive at or to Forgive a Wrong done to the Meanest of those under his Protection and Government And much less an Oâ—fence of so heinous a Nature Committed not only against the Chief Trading Society of the Kingdom but to the Obstruction and Loss of a Commerce by which all his People received considerable Profit and Advantage They thereupon by a Violation and Contempt of the Obligatoriness and Sacredness of Leagues both Encouraged all the Seditious and Disloyal here aswel to Rebel against and Revolâ— from the King as by Clamouâ—s and Ryots to Disturb the Tranquillity of his Reign And they took Hold of and Encouraged the Prince of Orange's Ambition whom Pride had disposed and prepared to despise and transgress all the Laws of God and to Trample upon all the Constitutions of Nations for the Gaining of a Crown whose aspiring Haughtiness they resolved in that Matter to Gratifie in order to the Supporting themselves in the quiet Enjoyment of what they had Treacherously Unjustly and Rapaciously Seised And accordingly they Lent unto and Furnished him with a great part of their Army and Navy to Enable him in Conjunction with the Traitors that were here at Home to drive the King both from his Throne and Dominions And had not the People of England been at that Time strangely Infatuated by Bigottry and made Uncapable by their Disloyalty of all just and rational Thinking and Arguing they might from the forementioned Depradation of the Dutch upon Us in the Business of Bantam have very easily Foreseen and have naturally Concluded how far they would Usurp upon Cheat and Rob us afterwards when they should come to obtain one of their own Complexion and Mould as well as of Belgick Birth Education Authority and Inheritance to be chosen and Advanced to Reign over us Nor is it unworthy of Remark how far in this very matter his being a Dutchman hath made him for these Seven Years last past live in a continual forgetfulness of the Justice he oweth to the Nation upon the Foot and Foundation of being Stiled our King For whereas both the Belgick East-Endia Companies and the States General had before the Revolution made and sent Overtures of giving Satisfaction and had offered a Vast Summ of Money in Expiation of that Crime and for repairation of the Injury they had done us in the Case so often mentioned we have not dared since to Pretend unto or Claim the least Compensation for that Wrong and much less to be so Presumptuous as to Require to be Re-established there again Tho according to the Modern Methods of Merit and the ways and means which recommended People most Distinctively to the New Monarch This Kingdom hath deserved as much of his Highness for Perjuring themselves in order to Serve and Oblige him as the Dutch have done by the Violation of their Treaties Nay whereas they broke their Alliances upon the Motives of Inâ—erest and have found their Advantage in their Perjurious Treacheries We by rendering our selves Forsworn in departing from our Allegiâ—â—â—â— have only gained the being wholy shut out from that which we had both so good a Right unto and were in so near and assured Prospect of recovering So that all which by Co-operating unto and Concurring in the Revolution falls to Our Share is the acquiring the Preheminence of a Double Character Namely that of Fools as much as that of Knaves whilst our Belgick Neighbours are content to acquiesce in the single one of being Villains and that chosen and submitted unto for their Gain and not for their Loss But the English being esteemed naturally a generous sort of People may possibly think it but Congruous to that Opinion which Men have commonly had of them that when they have so wilfully done all they can by their late Practices to forfeit Heaven to Part with Resign and Contemn the World also and not to be like the Avaritious Covetous Dutch who are indeed willing enough to Renounce and Disclaim their Portion in the former but then it is with a Proviso of Bartering it away for the later which they take to be a Cunning and Wise Exchange And all Men must Grant that more is to be said in their Favour and for the Extenuation of their Folly who would not choose Damnation but for the Obtaining of Wealth than can be reasonably said of those that not only give themselves over to Eternal Wrath gratis but who choose to Pay Dear for it and to be Robbed of their Liberties and Estates that they may Superarrogate for Hell and be the better Entitled and have the more deserving Right to future Vengeance Yet I ought not to omit mentioning one thing which falls to our Lot even in this World as the Reward of having Purchased the Name Guilt and Infamy of Rebells at the Expence of our Wealth and Traffick and of all we were happy for at Home and Reputable for Abroad namely That the Cap and Coat which were heretofore only the Enclosure and Peculiar of a few ought now and henceforward to be the common Badges Habit and Dress of most of the Kingdom and especially of our Westminster Senators To what I have already said I will add in the next Place that our Electing the Prince of Orange King hath not only Emboldned the Dutch both to Detain from us what they formerly Usurped and to make fresh Encroachments upon us in all parts of the World as well as in all things but they pleadâ—â— it as a ground Authorising them so to do and Improve it as a Mean to Facilitate Countenance and Promote the Depradations which they do since Commit upon us For not to look nearer home Asia and Africa can witness how they Triumph over and Insult us in those Remote parts of the Universe Representing us a Poor Feeble and Dastardly People over whom they have Constituted their Servant a Monarch and thereby reduced us unto
lies so much under every ones Prospect that it needs only be pointed at and not insisted upon how much the Dutch stand advantag'd to Endamage us by their having the same Benting qualify'd to sit in the House of Lords under the Character of an English Peer In which Capacity abstracting from the Influence he has over his Master to Sway and Determine him to put a Negative upon such Bills as may be prepared there and in the House of Commons to Skreen us from Belgick Encroachments and Rapines he is Capable sometimes by his own single Vote and often so by the many Proxies which some â—hro Fear others thro Flattery and many in order to Court a place and Preferment do lodg with him to get those Bills thrown out which were either Introduced there by some generous Peer that loves his Country or framed and sent up thither by the House of Commons for their Lordships Concurrence in order to protect our Trade preserve our Constitution and to prevent the Slavery as well as the Poverty which the Dutch seek to have Overthrown and wish and endeavour to have us reduced unto Nor was there ever a good Bill formed upon the Design of being a Fence about our Lives Liberties and Estates whether it began in the Upper House or came conveyed thither from the Lower since the Revolution which this Gentleman raised to the Honour of Peerage by a Merit singular and peculiar to himself hath not both given his own Vote and if Occasion was applied all the Right Authority and Power vested in him by Proxies for the casting it out and the rejecting of it To which under this Head I shall only briefly add That it is no less than an avowed and visible Betraying both of the Honour and Interest of England to the Dutch to employ a Batavian under a Character derived from the Crown of England to any Foreign King or State about Brittish Affairs and Concerns And for any one stiling himself King of England to appoint a Dutch Man Amhassador or Envoy to any Court in Europe can be upon no other Motive than of Sarificing the Concernments of England in that Court and Country to the Pleasure and Profit of the Hollanders seeing we want not Men of Quality Sense and Merit of our own to be sent Abroad under those Characters And yet this Belgick Prince now set over us and whom our wise Senators have accustomed themselves to call their and our most Gracious King Values himself upon Treating us after this rate as appears by his Interposing in the Vindicating Justifying and Protecting of Myn Heer Schonenberg at Madrid whom in his Letters to the King and Court of Spain he calls his Ambassador And according Resents the Driving him out of that City as a Violation of the Rights and Laws of Nations tho it was for Crimes that any other Prince besides ours would have Chastised and not have Defended him Nor does the Privelege belonging to the Character he bears give him Security by any Laws in reference to the Cause for which he was Insulted from being as justly as he was ignominiously Dealt with Nevertheless this Belgick Prince hath espoused and pushed the Vindication and Defence of this Dutch Heer so far as to have Forbid the Spanish Ambassador to present any Memorial or to Appear at Court till he havâ— Satisfaction given him in Reference to that Batavian whom he hath the Indiscretion and Confidence in the View and Face of the World to stile an Ambassador from the Crown of England And were the Wheedle of Rescuing Nations from Popery and Slavery as proper to Influence the Subjects of his Catholick Majesty and to Pervert them from the Allegience to their Monarch as they did the weak and credulous People of these Kingdoms This Prince Errant who not only Fancieth himself another Hercules born and raised up to tame Monsters but one Divinely Commissioned to give Laws to all Nations and to Trample on Crowned Heads and wrest Scâ—ptres out of the Hands of Kings he would Embark speedily with his Dutch Janizaries for Cadiz to Drive his Catholick Majesty out of Spain as he did the King of Great Brittain from his Dominions In the mean time the Fraud to which this Schonenberg was accessary and the Insolence he was guilty of towards the King of Spain shews the Prince of Orange's Skill in the choice of his Ministers to be Employed Abroad under publick Characters and how well Qualified this Dutch Man was for being Constituted the Ambassador of the King of England Seeing it is most certain that as Dutch Stadtholder he could not give that Title nor the Powers belonging to it But is not England in the mean time in a safe and fine Condition to have all the Affairs of the Kingdom that are to be Transacted by a Person vested with that Character in the only Nation and Court of Europe where we have now most to do and are most embarkt in Commerce and Traffick and where our Concernments do chiefly lie to be not only Trusted in the Hands and put under the Care and Conduct of a Dutch Man but of one whom the Hollanders themselves have given the same Stile and appendant Powers unto for the Management of what appertains to them both in the way of State and Trade To whom we may be not only sure that he will be Truer than to Us but that it was intended by the Prince of Orange he should be so And should any be so foolishly Favourable as to Entertain a better Construction of his Highness's Intentions Yet it is Demonstrable that Nature and Interest will be prevalent in most Men especially in a Hollander above Duty and Obligation Accordingly Mr. Stanhop who is both an English Man and sent from hence to Reside there in the quality of William's Envoy is not only sensible of the Affront done to himself thro a Dutch Man's being Authorised under a higher Cha racter to meddle at that Court in Brittish Concerns but of the Injury done to the Kingdom by reason of that Hollander's Sacrificing them to a Belgick Interest So that by this Conduct of the Gentleman at Kensington the Sheep are committed to the Wolves to keep and the Guards allotted for our Defence are Placed upon us in Order to Assassinate Us. Nay at other Courts and particularly at the Hague where he pretends to Employ English Men under the Character of Envoys and Ambassadors from this Kingdom He Trusts none of them in the great Affairs and Concerns of State which are Transacted in that Court but Useth them only in Complements Trifles and Baggatells or at most in receiving and delivering such Letters as are of no Importance Witness among others my Lord Dursly whom I do therefore name because he is both a Person who for Honour Prudence and good Sense is qualified to discharge the Duties of a Publick Minister in any Court whatsoever and is one who preserves that Regard to his Country and to his own Dignity
Purchasing of it than She is believed to have done And therefore not being Contented with Lands of Theobalds which were bestowed upon him soon after the Prince of Orange was Advanced into a Condition and Capacity of making Grants and Alienations of that Kind and of which he has made large Improvements and Raised vast Summes from thence by Sales and otherwise to the wonderful Wrong and Damage of all those that had Leases of and Tenant Right in them from and under the late Duke of Albemarle to whose Father they were Judged a very Royal and Valuable Recompence for the Noble Service He did in Retrieving and Re-establishing the Government upon its Ancient Legal Bottom the Restoring the late King Charles to his Rightful and Hereditary Soveraignity and for Re-estating these Kingdoms in the peaceable Possession of their Laws and Liberties I say that not being Satisfied with this ample Donative and Gift He hath lately Begged of King William the other Lands I have Mentioned and hath had them Granted unto Him without the least Regard to the Right of the Crown the Property of the Prince of Wales the Laws of this Kingdom or to the Interest which some Hundreds of Persons have more or less in them Of which Acquisition on Benting's part and Alienation on William's it will not be amiss to inlarge a little that we may the better Discern and come the more Sensibly under the Impression both of the Despotical and Unlimimited Absoluteness which the Usurper and his Minions Challenge over us and of the Slavish State and Tenure we are Reduced unto of having our Estates wrested from us and given away to what Degree Measure and Proportion one Dutch Man shall have the Impudence to Demand and the other the Insolency and Tyranny to Grant For if we look into the Extent and Largeness of this Grant it is the Giving away no less than the Dominion and Property of Five Parts of Six of one Entire County which as it is too great a Power and Inheritance for any Foreign Subject to Possess and Inherit So it may hereafter prove Unsafe for the Government to have so Numerous a People made Subject unto and Dependant on Him Seeing it is of that vast Dimension and ample Jurisdiction that near Fifty Mean Lordships Hold of those Mannors and above Fifteen Hundred Freeholders are Tenants there to the King and thereby Obliged unto Him under a particular Allegiance besides that which they ow him in the Quality and on the Foot of their being his Subjects And it is so particular a Revenue Anciently Vested in the Prince of Wales that it cannot Legally and according to the Customs Constitution and Laws of England be Alienated from him And therefore upon the Creation of a Prince of Wales there are upon the Right of Tenure under him and of Tenancy unto him Mises of Eight Hundred Pounds payable to the said Prince Nor is it unworthy of Remark that in the Preamble of the Statute of the 21. Jac. Cap. 29 it was brought into Doubt and questioned whether Charles the First that was then Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwal whom the Statute Declares to have an Inheritance in both tho under special Limitation could Let or Rent Leases for Three Lives or any longer than his Own And it is there Declared that he could not unless such Leases were Confirmed in Parliament And the Reason is Because upon want of a Prince of Wales that Inheritance becomes immediatly Vested in the Crown So that if the Prince of Wales himself who has an Inheritance in that Revenue cannot Grant Estates out of it for any longer than his own Life without the Consent and Authority of Parliament it demonstratively Follows that the Prince of Orange who by the very Title that he possesseth the Crown hath at most only an Estate in it for his own Life cannot Grant away and Alienate it without the Consent of both Houses of Parliament Declared in and by a formal and express Statute To which I will presume to add that in Case of a Failure of a Prince of Wales it doth not settle in the Crown as a Propriety but as an Usufructuary till a Prince of Wales be Created to whose Creation that Revenue is Annexed by those words in our Law To him and his Heires who shall be Kings of England Nor was there ever a Disposal or Alienation of that Estate from the Crown save when Queen Elizabeth who was as much the Idol as she was called the Protectoress of her People ventured to grant it unto and bestow it upon the Earle of Leicester but that both occasioned such an Insurrection and Rebellion and was likely to raise and continue such a Civil War in the Kingdom that Leicester was glad both to depart from all Pretence of Claim that was made unto him by that Grant and quietly to Resign it and the Queen who wanted neither Spirit to Assert her legal Rights and Prerogatives nor Interest in the Affections of her Subjects for Support and Justification of them was joyful to put an End to those Intestine Divisions and Troubles bâ— Reassuming those Lands to the Crown where they have ever since continued Nor can a rightful and hereditaâ—y King of England even in the Case and on the Sâ—pposal that there were no Prince of Wales legally Alienate and Give away those Lands from the Crown seeing they are no otherwise Vested in it than in Trust to be Preserved forth coming to the Use Profit and Honour of such a Prince when there comes to be One and at what time he is Created and Declared And therefore in and by the very Statute of Charles II. which gave Power as well as Liberty for the Sale and Disposal of the Fee Farm Rents there is a particular and express Exception of the forementioned Welch Rents tho there was then no Prince of Wales nor any Prospect that there would be one of that King's Body which plainly Imported that the Parliament took the Welch Revenue nor to be Alienable Much less then can the Prince of Orange that hath no hereditary Right to the Crown but hath only Obtained it by the illegal and merely pretended Choice of the People which is in other Terms to have Usurped it and who by the very Act of Settlement has but an Estate for Life in the Possession of it Grant away the Inheritance and absolute Fee of the Principality of Wales For it is no less an Absurdity in Law to say that a Tenant for Life can Grant a Fee than to say that a Tenant in Fee can Grant no more than for a Life But it appears that that tho the Power of a lawful King and of a legitimate Prince of Wales be Limited and Restrained within the Precincts of Law yet that the Power of an Usurper is boundless and unconfined However it is no way incongruous that he who has violently Snatched his Father in Law and Uncle's Crown from his Head and Drove him from his
in Specie from hence and all to come either first or last into the hands of the Dutch and Annually to encrease their Treasure in that proportion To which let this be subjoyned That besides the Mony remitted to Pay our Army there has been a great deal of Silver carried over Year after Year in the King's Yatchts as well as in other Vessels Partly to be distributed among several Princes of Europe to keep them in the Confederacy and to gain Men from them for the Upholding the War and partly to be squander'd away among the Ministers in those Courts to Counsel and Advise their Masters suitably to the Instructions which King William should give them and partly for the Bribing of the Burgher-masters and Pensioners of the most considerable Cities of the Seven Provincs to be Zealous in Moulding and Influencing their respective Towns to to persevere in the Interest of their Stadtholder and to support him in all the Designs in which his Ambition should engage him as being contrived and adapted to their Advantage But that which is more to be adverted under this head is that all or much the greatest part of this Silver thus Transported whether in order to the paying our Army or for other Ends and Designs has been theâ—e melted down and Coyned into Skillings that are not worth half the Intâ—insick Value of what they are either Current for there or paid to our Soldiers for their Salaries and to Subsist upon or made passable in the procuration of the whole Equivalent in Bills of what they go at in Holland to be Conveyed and made Solvable elsewhere By which means alone the Dutch have since the Revolution made an Advantage to themselves of many Millions And therefore when the Society stiled the Bank of England which was Establisted by the late Parliament and to whom upon their Undertaking for the Remission of Mony for the payment of our Army or to any other in order thereunto there was Liberty granted by a particular Statute for Conveying over so much as is there limited either in Bullion or in Specie Coyned I say when the fore-named Company would have Erected a Mint on the other Side in order to have Melted down and Re-coyned what they had Transported in such embased Mony as was there current and passable the Dutch not only refused the suffering it to be done in their own Provinces but by the Interest they have among and Authority they bear over their bordering Neighbours in Flanders did obstruct our obtaining of that Freedom and Privilege and thereby did wholy frustrate and defeat that Project and Design so that by this single fraudulent and avaritious Trick and Artifice they do to this day make Cent. per Cent. of all the Mony that is remitted to Holland either for the payment of our Army or for other uses and ends Nor is it unworthy of Remark that whereas whilst they were drawing our Bullion and Coyn from us and in order to get most of the Treasure and Silver of England into their possession and have it lodged in their Country they willingly paid and allowed Three and Forty of their Skillings as the Equivalent of one Pound Sterling of ours and gave our Soldiers so much readily in Exchange for it that now having gained and engrossed the greatest part of our Mony and finding that what we continue to remit in Specie at present is not out of Choice but upon Necessity they have sunk the value of our Mony to Eight and Twenty of their base Skillings which is the most they have given of late and will give no more at present for One Round Sterling of ours Which being less by near a third part than what they gave in exchange for it before is an incredible Damage to us and a vast Gain to them at our Loss and Expence And which villainous Depradation of theirs upon us cannot without our utter Impoverishment and Ruin be much longer suffered or connived at To which may be added that since the Diminishing and Clipping of our Silver Coyn which we are indebted to the Revolution for and which had never befaln us in the degree it hath but thro the ill Administration of our Dutch Prince who is glad of and encourageth all the Methods that may render us poor and make us despicable The Hollanders will either receive none of our clipt Mony tho it is in a manner all that is left current in the Kingdom or if they do receive any of it it is only in proportion to the intrinsick Value and not according to the Rate that it doth pass for here and hath done for a great while So that if any of that Mony be sent over either in payment to our Soldiers or come to be carried abroad upon other occasions the Dutch will take it but for a Moyety of what it commonly and universally goes for here And yet in this very Interim while they either wholy refuse the taking our clipt Mony or depress the Value of it to half what it now passeth for in England our poor Soldiers beyond Sea are forced to take their base Skillings and other of their debased Mony at what Rates they are pleased to make them current tho not worth half of it with respect to their intrinsick Value And all these things are some of the Felicities which we enjoy duâ—ing this Reign of Restoration to our Liberties and of Exaltation to greater Wealth Prosperity and Happiness than our Belgick Prince will by his Outlandish Logick allow us to have known heretofore Yea besides the fore ment ioned Spoyles and Rapines which they have Committed upon us in the Methods that I have Detected to the enriching themselves and the imyoverishing us in our Silver Coyn. I might also upon very good Authorities Charge them with the fraudulent Importation both of light and false Mony bearing the Stamp and Impression of our own but Minted in Holland and then Vended among us at the Rates which our best and weightiest Silver Pieces of such and such Denominations have used to go Nor will any Man who knows the Morals of the Dutch and the Practices of the same kind whereof they have been Guilty in most parts of the World to which they have had Access or who hath observed in what other ways of Cozenage and Deceit they have bubbled and injured us in the matter of our Silver judg it unlikely that they should first Mint abroad and then palm upon us both false and light Mony seeing the much counterfeit Metal and the great quantites of true Mony only with aâ—atements of Weight which have been Coyn'd and Stampt by Villains among our selves do afford the Dutch so plausible a Cover and obvious a Maâ—k and Disguise for Cheating us in this way and manner that I have suggeffed and whereof the Nation hath been and still is so full of Clamour against them But which being so agreeable to the Inclinations and Designs which our Belgick Prince entertains towards
Dominions should also take upon himself to Grant away and Alienate the Inheritance of his Cousin and to Disinherit him of it But why doth he not as well make Benting Prince of Wales as to give him the Revenue of that Principality Seeing he may as lawfully and by the same Measures of Justice do the First as he has done the Last And no doubt but that as he hath Inclination to it we may also live to see it done if he can but once Emerge out of the present War and thereupon bring over from the Continent a numerous and triumphant Outlandish Army to support and protect him in his Usurpation and Tyranny and make us with Tameness and Decency wear our Chains In the mean time considering the Depopulaation and Poverty which thro a long and costly War the Nation is already reduced unto we may make this Reflection upon and this Inference from the Prodigality of our Belgick King to his Dutch Minion and to his Outlandish Janizaries viz. that it can be done upon upon no other Design than to gratifie the Commo-nwealth of Holland and to raise them to an Ascendency of Wealth and Power over us For had he the least Regaâ—d to the Welfare of England he would blush to ask such immense Summs of the Parliament when he is alienating and disposing away the standing Revenues of the Crown to his Whores and Burdaâ—â—â—â— For how can we imagin that any thing should be held needful to be Levied of the People if it were not in Subseâ—viency to an Outlandish Interest when we see not only those Lands that are pretended to be forfeited but those Ancient Inheritances that the Sovereign and Royal Family should Subsist upon squander'd away upon little Foreigners which were bred and heretofore accustomed to live upon the Fragments of their Master's Table Surely we may expect from the Justice and Wisdom of this Parliament That before they Empty the Purses of those they Represent they will enquire how the Revenues vested in the Crown are bestowed and applyed For whatsoever Usurpers may dare to do in wasting the Treasure and Inheritance of the Throne by Buildng Palaces and furnishing them splendidly at Loo and for making Indorsements on the posteriour Parchments of those I have mentioned Our Natural and Lawful Kings never used to demand Succours of their Subjects till they had Exhausted themselves and Disbursed their whole Revenue in the Service and for the Protection of their People Nor is there any thing more frequently met with and better known in our Law than that there have been Acts of Resumption of former Grants and Donations from the Crown whensoever the Nation has been Engaged in an expensive War and the People have Groaned under large Taxes And as this is the first Original of the Kind that ever we had Experience of in this Kingdom and for which we are indebted to Holland so I hope that after our Deliverance from a Belgick Prince we shall have no Copy of it or that any King hereafter will make Alienations of Lands from the Crown when he is under Necessities of demanding Aids of his People for his Support and Assistance in Wars wherein he may come to be engaged To which I will only add that under all those lavish and squandring Wasts and Consumptions of our Prince upon Dutch for Closet and Chamber Services he hath not only been Narrow and Parcimonious enough but Niggardly and highly Ungrateful to the English because it could not benefit Holland Whereof among others Talmash that is Dead and old Danby who is Alive are known Instances tho they Served him both in Policy and War and Contributed farther to his Exaltation to the Throne and to the keeping him in it than Thousands of his Country-men were capable of doing and especially beyond what the Chocolate and Carpet Gentleman I have been speaking of had either Courage or Brain to Attempt In recompence whereof instead of any Lands and much less those of the Crown the one was sent and abandoned to be Killed by the French but Murthered by the English abroad and the other is Forsaken Given up and Sacrificed at â—â—me to the old Envy and bigotted Rage of his Enemies But whereas what I have now Represented may seem to Issue only in the Enriching a few Hollanders at our Loss and Expence and not to amount to the Benefit and Advantage either of the Community of that People or of those States unless Secondarily and after several Removes I shall therefore advance to the laying open and displaying wherein to our Vast and infinite Damage we are Bubbled out of our Money and Treasure and made a Prey to that Republick thro the large Sums daily Allotted and Paid them out of our Exchequer Nor is the way wherein it is done such a Mistery as needs Accuracy of Parts and great Penetration to Comprehend it seeing it cannot escape Proving Demonstratively Obvious to every One who will give himselfe leave to Consider how many of the Dutch Troops and of those that Constitute their Particular Quota are upon the English Establishment and Paid with English Mony For as if it had not been enough to have been Guilty both of that Prodigal Folly and that Treasonable Crime of giving them at one time Six Hundred Thousand Pounds as a pretended Re-imbursment of the Charge and Expence they Alleadged they had been at in sending their Fleet and Army hither upon the Motives as they had the Hypocrisy and Impudence to say and We the Simplicity and Lunatism to believe of Rescuing Us from Popery and Slavery but as appears by the Event for Introducing Atheism Thraldom and Poverty We did not only over and above that Maintain and Pay their Whole Army here for a Considerable time but have had ever since Six or Seven Holland Regiments upon English Establishment and both Maintained with good English Mony and at the Proportion of our Pay which is larger then they allow to those Troops which remain under their own Establishment Sure it might have been thought sufficient and would be so by any Prince save this Dutch one who inwardly hates Us and by all the Methods of his Administration seeketh and Pursueth our Ruine that besides the Raising and Maintaining the largest Body of Brittish Troops that has for many Ages been Imployed upon the Continent and over and above the Charges we are at in Assisting and Relieving the Duke of Savoy and on those particular Forces which are on English Pay in Piedmont We should be at the Expence of Purchasing Subsisting and Paying all the Danes most of the Hess many of the Lunenburgh and divers of the Swiss and some of the Brandenburgh Forces that are now in the Confederate Army in Flanders but that after all this Prodigal Expence which tho it may possibly give us the Reputation of a Rich yet will not even with our Allies themselves acquire us the Credit of a Wise Nation We should be so Ridiculously silly as to Beare and