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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66552	A letter to a countrey-gentleman, setting forth the cause of the decay and ruin of trade to which is annexed a list of the names of some gentlemen who were members of the last Parliament, and now are (or lately were) in publick employments.	G. W.	1698 (1698)	Wing W29; ESTC R22872	10,036	26

East-Low Corn. Jo. Thurbarne Esq Kings Serj. at Law Sand Kent The Right Hon. J. Vernon Esq Principal Secretary of State Penryn Cornwall Sir Jo. Williamson Keeper of the Records of State Rochester Kent Sir W. Wogan one of the Kings Serj. at Law Haverford-West Wales Rich. Wooll●ston Esq Receiver Gen. for the County of Hertford Whit-Church Southam The Honourable Good Wharton Esq Lord of the Admiralty Cocker-mouth Cumber Edm. Webb Esq Gent. Usher to the Prince of Denmark Crickl●de Wilts c. * The Dutch having grown Rich by the Late War and improved themselves 8 Millions they are a wise People and among themselves strict observers of Justice never suffering any to grow great out of the Ruins of the Publick as Sir William Temple well observes in his Memoirs and which is the true cause of the flourishing condition of their State * For the first five years of the War it appears we were seldom free from an Embargo upon Shipping few or no Ships were allowad to sail till they got Protections and Permits to the great Charge of the Merchants and damage to Trade in general as Little Care was taken to protect our Shipping not any one person having been so much as appointed to examine Sea-Commanders Journals all the time of the Late War but they were left to their own Genius to act and do as they pleas'd and thus by the Lords of the Admiralty's and Commissioners of the Navys Wise Conduct and Prudent Management of Affairs we Lost above 100 Ships of War with many Hundreds of Merchantmen to the great Honour of the Nation * Indeed these Gentlemen have since been very Instrumental in causing a Late Act to be made the better to prevent the bringing in Foreign Bone-Lace as likewise have been the Lords of the Admiralty and Commissioners of the Navy in procuring an Act to prevent the Embezlement and stealing his Majesty's Naval-Stores and therein they have done wisely When the Steed's stol'n to shut the Stable-door * Sad it is to consider how all Complaints af Abuses done in the Government have been stifled for want of a Committee of Grievances according to our ancient Laws and Customs to be sitting during the Session of Parliament to hear the Grievances of the People which is plain was not done all the time of the late War † The Publick Treasure in all Ages and Nations has ever been accounted as Sacred as the King's Person and those that have been found to purloyn waste or mispend the same have been severely chastized and if it must be acknowledged as every man will do who is not a profest Atheist we are oblig'd by the Dictates of Nature and that Holy Religion we profess to do all such Acts as tend to the good and benefit of Mankind in General What ground of Fear then can any man have that Lays open Publick Crimes in order to their being Examin'd in a Judicial manner and if the Law which Favours and countenances the Act shall not be able to protect him Little Reason can any man have to flatter himself of being secure the Publick Peace and Tranquility not being Long to be maintain'd by any other means than a due Administration of Justice * Vide Englands Calamities discover'd sold by Fox in Westminster-Hall c. * Those Gentlemen that have been in Publick Employments have had great opportunity to Execute their Malice against them that Detected or Publickly laid open their Crimes and have not been wanting to use all Arts and Means whereby to bring them to Ruin by which means several Honest Ingenuous Gentlemen have died through grief and many oteers through grief and want and who may all truly be said to have died Martyrs for their Countrey * Whatever Englishman duly considers how Great and Glorious the Actions of His Majesty have been and to what hazard he expos'd his Royal Person for our sakes and the great things he has done for us cannot but be mov'd with Grief and Anger to see how unfaithfull in his absence he has been serv'd and his People opprest * It 's hoped the Citizens of London and Westminster who correspond with all parts of the Kingdom will be so Just to themselves their King and Country as forthwith to send this and other things of the like Nature to the several Corporations for it will be as they make their Choice we may conclude we shall be either happy or miserable

having all along supported their Officers in all their Evil Actions as Corresponding with known Papists and others disaffected to the Government stopping the King's Mail breaking open Persons of Qualities Letters all along Countenancing and Supporting a smugling Trade by bringing in the Mail and other ways vast quantities of Flanders Lace c. being resolved it seems to make as plentiful an Harvest as they could so long as the War lasted Withal they were not wanting to use all indirect means to Ruin such of their Officers or others that detected the Crimes All these Matters relating to the foregoing Articles and the Commissioners of the Post-Office were long since published in Print by divers hands wherein a more large and ample account has been given of them and they were Dedicated and Presented to our late Representatives in Parliament who took no more notice thereof than if these things had been acted and done in the Great Moguls Country Moreover there appears to have been laid before our Late Representatives many other matters of the greatest Importance 1 st In reference to the Touloun Squadron getting into Brest It having been declar'd by the House the Government had timely notice given whereby the said Fleet might have been intercepted 2dly In Relation to the Mint it did appear to the House the Monyers in the Tower had committed foul Crimes and that several Dies had been Convey'd away for Coyning false Mony abroad 3dly In reference to the Disbanded Troopers that serv'd in Ireland and Flanders who by their Petition appear to have been most Barbarously treated contrary to His Majesties express Commands 4thly In reference to the Evil Actions of the Commissioners of the Victualling Office 5thly In relation to the 27 Sail of Victuallers being taken by the Dunkerkers the House having declar'd the Lords of the Admiralty had timely notice given them whereby they might have prevented their falling into the Enemies hand These with a Multitude of other matters that lay before the House were dropt by our Late Representatives who took no manner of Care to do the People Justice Indeed the House appear'd vety zealous in the prosecution of Mr. Duncomb who as they alledg'd wrong'd the King of about 360 l. by the False Endorsement of Exchequer-Bills though at the same time it plainly appear'd the King and Kingdom had been wrong'd by means of the Treasury to the value of 20000 l. in relation to Exchequer-Bills Yet all they did therein was to take care how to wash them white and while the War was on foot our late Representatives seem'd to be very zealous for an Act to be made against the buying and selling of Employments but when once we had obtain'd an Honourable Peace they soon dropt the Matter as conceiving the People then better able to bear their Pack than they were before There 's a matter wherein it appears the King has been wrong'd several Thousand Pounds that was design'd to have been laid before the Late House of Commons but the Gentleman who intended to have done it was diswaded from doing it by a Member of the House who plainly told him of all their Members they could not make above 100 or 110 at most in the whole House that seem'd to have any regard to the wellfare of the Nation Saying one had one Employment another another touch one and touch all and said they did and would support one another and so by all means advis'd him to decline it Now I conceive it 's obvious by what means and by whom the Trade of the Nation has been brought to so Low an Ebb and so many Publick Debts Contracted by the Consequence of which many Thousands of Honest Industrious Families in London c. Are reduced to extream Poverty at the same time not knowing the true Cause from whence their Evils have risen These things are very harsh to Flesh and Blood when we consider how all our Calamity appears to have been brought upon us by those very Persons in whose hands we entrusted our Lives Liberties and Estates We find King David Complain'd he could not do the Justice he would have done the Sons of Zurviah were too strong for him no wonder then if we see our Prince under the same Circumstance who has had so many Sons of Zurviah to deall withal who were sensible of the great Interest they and their Friends had in the several Corporations and how they were able thereby to support one another in whatever they should act or do and put it out of the Power of any even the King himself to call them to an account for their Actions It 's evident ours is a mixt Government wherein the People have a large share and if we will not Act our Part in reference to the Chusing of Members of Parliament great Pity it is we should ever be relieved but remain as we are By this we may see what a great Duty there lies upon all Gentlemen that live in or near any Corporation and the Principal Inhabitants thereof to inform the meaner sort of People therein who in most Corporations have Votes the absolute necessity there is of Chusing Gentlemen of good Estates to be their Representatives as have not been in any or long since declin'd Publick Employment during the late War there being no other means possible whereby to make them sensible of these past Miscarriages or we to have such Members as will be able to rectify them and do the King and Kingdom Justice Publick Leaks being not to be stopt by the hands that made them It 's sufficient to make any Englishman blush to consider how strenuously our Fore-fathers withstood those who made a Breach of the Law and how indifferent and careless we appear to have been therein ever since the late happy Revolution not at all considering how Mankind are generally more liable and in greater danger of being Ruin'd by the Falshood and Treachery of Friends than open Enemies and that those who lay the Foundation of great Estates for the most part Raise themselves by Fraud Oppression and Injustice And how in all Ages them that were in Publick Employments or Ambitious of Honour and Preferment likewise generally have been found too ready to abuse their Prince's Ear and trample the Laws under their Feet We may see by the Bishop of Salisbury's Pastoral-Letter burnt by the Common Hangman what Sycophants these sort of men are who care not what Evils they bring upon the rest of Mankind so they may but Advance themselves and Weeds commonly are apt to grow so fast as to over-top the Corn. Thus Sir have I given you a short Relation of such Matters of Fact which plainly appear as I conceive to have been the true Cause all the Blood and Treasure spent in the late War for want of Justice in a manner has been lost like Water spilt on the ground Our Trade being in great measure Ruin'd and the Nation miserably plung'd in