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war_n	france_n	king_n	spain_n	7,683	5	8.5742	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25780	An argument, proving that a small number of regulated forces established during the pleasure of Parliament cannot damage our present happy establishment, and that it is highly necessary in our present circumstances to have the matter fully determined being considerations upon what has been objected against standing armies in general.		1698 (1698)	Wing A3634; ESTC R12991	17,639	29

would act as he did in the last Scene of his Fate But he verified an old Saying Quem Jupiter vult perdere prius dimentat I can easily excuse him for all he did or ever intended for opening this Blot in his Tables When he returned from Feversham with the Huzza's of his People he could observe thus much as to say Well I see they love my Person though they hate my Religion But he Good Man soon forgot all and with a certain King in the Scripture put off his Robes and delayed not but made haste to be gone But to go on As for your Instance of York and Lancaster which you borrow from the first Argumentator you say That as soon as they gain'd their Ends they disbanded their Forces This Animadversion may be properly made That their careless Security gave occasion to the Invading Prince to be troublesome Queen Elizabeth's Success her Virtue and Integrity can never be sullied she was the Honour of her Sex and her Countrey but met not with such dissiculties to humble France as now there are And though I cannot be of opinion with some of his Residents in Foreign Courts who say He gave Peace to Europe yet since by Articles of Peace he is become our Ally we will say nothing of the matter The Four Stuarts are so unmercifully handled that 't is a shame to make use of your Quotations I believe Mr. Collier if he reads you will think you as fulsome as the Plays he reproves Historians who have writ of James the first allow him to be a Religious Prince and a Supporter of the Protestant Religion to the utmost of his power though he could not retrieve the Palatinate Charles the first deserves not that hard usage from our hands and whilst an Act of Parliament recognizes the Day of his Martyrdom you might have been more civil Charles the Second was a Man of Pleasure but so much a Gentleman that he never treated his Inferiors in so rude a manner With the late King you may be as free as you please for I am none of his champions I will only say That it is very mean to triumph over the Unfortunate I have read of a certain General who I think was a Roman he gaining of the Day over his Adversary met with an opportunity to plunder his Tent and some Papers in his Cabinet were found which were probable of consequence but generously disdaining to take so mean an Advantage he committed them all to the slames without the Curiosity of knowing the Contents You never certainly read the Story or you did not approve the Project else sure to Departed Princes you would have been more kind You next come to the business of our present Revolution and here your Satyr for want of Matter flags at the setting forth But yet you will have a fling to show us That though the Evil Spirit was dispossess'd for a time yet he rose again on the Coast of Ireland where you say Chance or Inadvertency made things go on but oddly till His Majesty's great Genius overcame it Perhaps the rash Censure of you and some others made the Gallant Duke Schomberg dye before his time But you add This gave them occasion to raise more Forces upon pretence of Invading France And was it really but a Pretence I am apt to believe they did not think so in France for the Damage we did some Sea-port Towns evidences this Assertion almost to a demonstration But now you begin to fall out with the Fleet. If we lost Advantages more than we gained 't is more than the Jacobites will believe And be you Sir as angry as you please I really believe we had never met with such Honourable Conditions of Peace if our Army which acquired such Reputation in Flanders had not pusht it forward and now those who kept the War out of our own Bowels are with you the Grievance of the Nation The Authority which printed the List of 18000 Men in King James's Service was so authentick that the Printer was never call'd to account for it tho' the then Parliament made a Scrutiny into such Affairs which amounts to a sort of belief that it might be true You next talk of a new Plot was then said to be discovered as if the Government made Plots for their own advantage and then cast a Joke on those who searched for Conspirators saying That they found plenty of Fornication but no Traytors 'T is too jocose an expression and seems to lessen that abominable Sin Many more things you cram in to swell your book and make the Government full of mean designs 'T is ill manners and likewise much untruth to think in particular that the Irish were awed with the Menaces of losing their woollen Manufacture if they did not comply in keeping up the Army 'T is a piece of Arrogance and Impudence and requires a good assurance to confirm I find you are of the Number of those who take more care to disband than pay the Army tho' the Vote run to Pay and Disband You are not contented with the King 's saying that he wou'd comply with their Desires as soon as conveniently he cou'd You know Sir the Funds given fell short in several Branches which made the King not capable to pay them Had I time I cou'd instance my self some Errors in the Histories you quote of Alexander Caesar and others but that I suppose you design'd for a banter on the Credulous As for your Apprehensions of Slavery under this King it seems to have drawn you out of the way for you affirm that you will not trust any Man living I hope Sir you keep no Shop Then you instance many Towns that are delivered up since the Peace recollect your selves and see if there are none behind Now you come to borrow of the old Argumentator and say That the Militia cannot be made useful till the Army is disbanded but lay down no Rules to make it so afterwards And besides you satisfy no body that we cannot be Invaded when the Army is Disbanded but indeed I ought not to ask for what cannot be performed To have a Beggar ask Twenty pound is what we cannot spare no more than you can a Reason to this Question You tell us we have now a New Parliament uncorrupted by the Intrigues of the Courtiers Those who were of the last and are of his are much beholden to you for this Character You next seem to infer That you think our Nation not as good Soldiers as the Dutch or the Germans for you lay down a new Project to manage a War without our being concerned if the King of Spain dies or at least thus much it will bear that you care not if France carry the Day As for your final Device you know it is took for a Banter Nor does your project of Cales or the Mediterranean serve much to the purpose for you admit that it may be necessary to send Forces to Spain but wou'd have them be raised when they are wanted as if those whom you now Disband wou'd List themselves on purpose for the Honour of gaining broken Pates and wooden Legs I agree with you that the King of France has Disbanded many yet his Numbers are still formidable And now to crown the design of your Book you seem to tell us what the People will not do before you know what their Representatives intend on whom they devolved their Power I shall conclude with you That we have a wise and a virtuous Prince and why shou'd not all this banish your Fears POSTSCRIPT LET not the Author of the Militia Reform'd think from hence that he is shot-free for tho' he is not spoken of there is a certain person well known to the Writer of this Tract who has Composed a Dialogue betwixt Brutus and Cassius by way of Answer but waiting for his History of Tyranny in Latin and English with which he has promised to oblige the Publick and it being not yet seen the matter is for the present deferred FINIS