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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25599	The Answer to the letter written to a member of Parliament upon the occasion of some votes of the House of Commons against their late speaker and others		1695 (1695)	Wing A3417; ESTC R110	23,110	60

Money better than their History for the 2000 Pieces of Brass given by the Senate to your immortal Scipio the African's Daughter they may arise to more than Four hundred Guineas if you will consider that the Romans had Brass-money from the Value of our English Two-pence to a Noble And it 's like the Senate would not bestow it of the lowest Coin to the Daughter of so great a Father Besides Money was then of many times a higher Value than at present and the Senate thought it a fit Portion for the Lady whose Vertue according to her Sex did well deserve it seeing it was nothing inferior to that of her Father It would appear by you that there was a mortal and an immortal Scipio the African for there was two of the Name but that by a happiness peculiar to your self you bestow the Actions of the one upon the other For it was the mortal Scipio that overturned Carthage and who made himself Master of her Spoils the immortal Scipio was only Master of the Spoils of Hannibal's Army gained at the Battle of Zama But why the immortal Scipio Have you not condemned that Epithet to be given to great Men in your other Libels You ought upon occasion to allow your Friends the same Liberties you take or give Reasons why they should not use them But you leave you say this ridiculous Digression Ridiculous enough in Conscience and you had done much better not to have made it After which the excellent and nice Observation you make upon the proceedure of the House of Commons in expelling their late Speaker is worthy their publick Thanks you have employed your Pen no where more handsomly than by raising a just Admiration of the Candor Probity Incorruption Sedfastness and Magnanimity of the House in the Thing you say nothing can gain them a greater Reputation abroad Though Sir as I have already mentioned Strangers are ignorant of our Constitutions they are pretty well acquainted with our Manners and Character here in England And the Nations abroad are generally versed in the Civil Law and know what is to be said upon the Matter as well as we for I presume there is no municipal Custom that has defined the Fault charged upon the Speaker to be a Bribery For future Ages it is hard to determine but the Age we live in all the World over is nice in every Thing save Vertue and it is good to be upon the strong Side in Calumnies and to charge the weakest to our best Advantage Your next Flight is to the Rabinical and Jewish Learning this is a new Thing and just A-la-mode to your present Pamphlet You say that none were admitted into that great Council who had the least stain upon his Reputation of Honour nor was they allowed to ask a just Debt of a Man during his Sute before them Pray Sir was it allowed them by the Quality of their Stations to refuse the Payment of just Debts to such as they owed them to You give a Description of the Room they met in and of their Rites but neither the one nor the other resemble our House and we are not for Innovations but you will continue your impertient Digressions I am glad to find by your next Period that the House has hit so justly upon a middle way to please you in the manner of expelling their late Speaker I shall make no further Question but with the two or three expelled Members all Corruption is put out of Doors and am overjoyed to think that Antiquity cannot produce an Example among the Amphictions Areopagites nor in the most incorrupt Times of the Senates of Rome and Athens where so great an Assemby not bounded by any positive Law should purely from a Sense of Vertue be equally Enemies to all Corruption in taking of Money I cannot allow of the new Name you Honour the House withal in calling it an English Sanhedrim For that neither the original Institution of the one nor the fundamental Constitution of the other will bear it nay nor the Rabinical Description you have just now given Besides we English are fond of what 's properly our own and mortally hate Strangers and it may be you may think all Things considered that we have just Reason to do so Your Indignation continues at a strange Rate against the Speaker we know you owe him no Kindness nor do you shew whole Affair I find the Hardship or rather just Mortification our House put upon you was almost necessary at that time for your Reputation your Observators sinking so much from day to day That had not good Fortune sent you before us purely for your want of Sense and Matter in a Week or two more you must have dropt your Pen. The Poet had Reason to exclaim against the sacred Hunger of God in the Times he lived in but had he lived in ours he had much more Reason to do so Know Sir that the Poet you mention did exclaim as much against the sacred Hunger of Gold in these as in those Days For his Poem has no Relation to the Time he lived in upon the contrary it has regard to a matter of Fact before the Foundation of Rome And is this the unfortunate Priam seeing all his Affairs go to ruin and most of his Sons killed in defence of their Country did send one of those as yet alive to a neighbouring King and Confederate of Thrace called Polymnester Who seeing the Trojan Affairs decline did according to the Practice of many bad Men make his Advantage of a falling King and State kill the poor Polidore and possess himself of the great Treasure had been sent along with him The Poets own Words do best express the Thing Hunc Polidorum auri quondam cum pondere magno Infelix Priamus furtim mandarat alendum Threïcio regi cum jam diffideret armis Dardaniis cingique urbem obsidione videret Ille ut opes fractae Teucrum Fortuna recessit Fas omne abrumpit Polidorum obtruncat auro Vi potitur quid non Mortalia Pectora cogis Auri sacra Fames I go readily along with your Reflexion upon the State of the Nation That should unbiassed Strangers come amongst us and observe narrowly our Condition and the Actings of many Persons in the Land they should easily be led to believe it upon point of Breaking There be but too many important Truths for that Supposition and small Remedy provided against them In this Paragraph your Stock fails you and forces you back for a fresh Supply to your own Country whence you bring an Impostor and put him in the same Period and Example with Solomon withou your having any regard to Sense or Coherence in the matter you treat about Then you come to a civil good natured and mannerly Question Whether these Men that take Money with both hands from their own Country-men might not be tempted to the same from its Enemies It is your own Opinion You had rather deal