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<HEAD>The Engli&s;h Man's Complaint.</HEAD>
<P>IF <HI>Kings</HI> were as wife and good as their Office re|quires them to be, <HI>Monarchy,</HI> certainly, would be the happie&s;t Form of Government in the World; but &s;ince experience tells us they are like us in all things, <HI>King&s;hip</HI> excepted, and are for the mo&s;t part but the <HI>wor&s;e</HI> for. That, it has been the Wi&s;dom of all Nations to take the be&s;t caution and &s;ecurity of them for their freedoms that they could get. This, I and many more expected at the hands of our <HI>Senators,</HI> after not only the <HI>harms</HI> of others, but our <HI>own</HI> might have taught them how to make u&s;e of &s;o happy an oppertunity; but as le&s;s then a years time has &s;hown us the vanity of our hopes in them, I pre&s;ume they are not le&s;s in&s;tructed of the vanity of their own in him, it being vi&s;ible, to all the thinking World, that he is not able to &s;upport him|&s;elf three Months longer, upon the mea&s;ures he takes, between <HI>King James</HI> and a <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> for one of them will be quickly too hard for him, and only one of them can prevent the other. And becau&s;e no man has had a greater Sence of this Providence then my &s;elf, and that I have been perticularly conver&s;ant with tho&s;e that went into this abdicating Intere&s;t, I find my &s;elf touch'd in duty and honour to be early and free with them upon the Jealou&s;ies that fill my Heart; and the Hearts of many good Men, about the pre&s;ent &s;tate of our affaires.</P>
<P>They have been guilty of &s;ins, both of <HI>Omi&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion:</HI> They have neglected the main things they ought to have made the <HI>Object</HI> and <HI>advantage</HI> of this change, and they have vi&s;ibly acted the quite contrary. And la&s;t of all, &s;everal things have happened, both at home and abroad, that render the continuance of our pre&s;ent Goverment impractable; therefore we mu&s;t not only &s;uffer, but &s;eek another &s;tate or change, and that &s;peedily. The faults of <HI>Omi&s;&s;ion</HI> are the&s;e; they have made a King, but have not made it impo&s;&s;ible for that King to be like the Kings that went before him, he ha|ving the &s;ame power over the Rights of the People, and they lying as open to the mercy and &s;troke of ambition, and arbitrary Power as before, which is only changing of Hands, and not Things; Men, and not Mea&s;ures and Securities. That this is the ca&s;e, let it be con&s;idered he is <HI>unaccountable,</HI> which contradicts their Principles they cho&s;e him upon. He has the <HI>&s;ame Power over Par|liaments</HI> that his Predece&s;&s;ors had, which are accounted the <HI>true Con&s;ervators</HI> of the Peoples freedoms. Their Ele|ctions are as <HI>in&s;ecure</HI> as ever. Their Meetings as <HI>uncertain,</HI> being neither <HI>Yearly, Duenneally</HI> nor <HI>Triennially.</HI> Neither are they <HI>Ma&s;ters</HI> of their own Se&s;&s;ions, to <HI>Adjourn</HI> and <HI>Prorogue</HI> as they plea&s;e. And if they have prepared the mo&s;t u&s;eful or nece&s;&s;ary Law in the World, as the ca&s;e now &s;tands, <HI>he may refu&s;e to pa&s;s it,</HI> by Proroguing or Di&s;&s;olving them, which renders the whole Con&s;titution of Parliaments precarious, and at his <HI>Will and Plea&s;ure.</HI> Much le&s;s does the Parliament <HI>nominate his Council,</HI> or is he oblig'd to act in the Intervals of Parliaments by the Advice and Approbation of a Council; but on the contrary to the&s;e Rights and Securities, he can <HI>call, pro|rogue</HI> and <HI>di&s;&s;olve Parliaments at plea&s;ure,</HI> who&s;e very E|lections lie as open to Fraud &amp; Violence as ever; Char|ters &amp; Corporations being in no better condition then they were. He <HI>picks</HI> and <HI>chu&s;es</HI> his Council. He <HI>Names</HI> all the great Officers of the <HI>State, Navy, Army and Church,</HI> as well as of his <HI>Hou&s;hold;</HI> and he ab&s;olutely commands the Malitia, as yet; which is having the <HI>whole</HI> in his Power, for thereby he has a <HI>Mortgage</HI> upon every man; the <HI>Gain</HI> or <HI>Honour</HI> of his Office being a <HI>Bribe</HI> to bya&s;s him to the <HI>plea&s;ure</HI> of the Prince: That already they have not been able to keep them&s;elves from the di&s;tinction of <HI>Court</HI> and <HI>Country</HI> party, who the other day objected it to their Enemies as a Vice in Government. This has &s;omething in it very ab&s;urd, and it reproaches the hone&s;ty or under&s;tanding of &s;ome Peo|ple, that when they &s;ay they can <HI>make</HI> Kings, they ei|ther <HI>can't</HI> or <HI>won't</HI> take care to limit and regulate them to our Safety: by which means the King, that is made by the People, may rule <HI>without them,</HI> in&s;tead of ruling <HI>for them,</HI> and govern <HI>jure divino,</HI> though he be created <HI>jure humano,</HI> which renders his execution <HI>Independent</HI> of his Commi&s;&s;ion, and him&s;elf in all things <HI>impunible.</HI> We have herein <HI>left the Principles</HI> that lead us to leave <HI>King James</HI> and <HI>changed</HI> the very mea&s;ures upon which we changed the Government. We made u&s;e of <HI>Re|publican</HI> Rea&s;ons for our alteration, and, for ought I &s;ee, we go upon <HI>Tory</HI> methods to e&s;tabli&s;h it. This renders our ca&s;e much wor&s;e then it was in the time of <HI>King Charles</HI> and <HI>King James;</HI> in that then we had Kings that were &s;u&s;pected, to be &s;ure not belov'd, and the fir&s;t not feared from his humour, and the la&s;t, at last as little apprehended from his Intere&s;t: But this Gentleman en|ters upon the Reputation of <HI>Prote&s;tancy,</HI> and has our <HI>own choice</HI> &amp; Religion both to blind us, &amp; bind us. Being there more popular, and not <HI>more limited, we are not more &s;afe,</HI> but our Liberties more expo&s;ed: And unle&s;s &s;uch a King has <HI>irre&s;i&s;table Grace,</HI> or &s;tronger tyes upon him, the Rea&s;ons of our preferring him may be the In&s;tances of our danger. Let the&s;e &s;erve as brief hints of the pernitious <HI>Omi&s;&s;ions</HI> we have made, about the Con&s;titu|tion of our Government, and give me leave now to point at our Sins of Commi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Of this &s;ort the <HI>Su&s;pen&s;ion of the Habeas Corpus</HI> act will challange the preference. It is what can never be an|&s;wer'd by us <HI>Whiggs,</HI> to &s;tab &s;uch a Law, nay, our own Law three times &s;ucce&s;&s;ively. In this the <HI>Toryes</HI> out|witted us, for they have humoured us into a <HI>contradi|ction</HI> of our own Principles. Next, it has been a dan|gerous Error, that &s;o many <HI>Members</HI> of bath Hou&s;es have &s;o fa&s;t and &s;o firmly got into <HI>Places of Profit.</HI> This is a Scandal to the Cau&s;e, our old Clamours and Pre|tentions con&s;idered; and all the World &s;ees the Influ|ence it has had to &s;tifle this Reformation in its very birth, Suffering &s;o many <HI>Foreign Troops</HI> that are the <HI>Mer|cinaries</HI> of this Prince, to continue among&s;t us, and more come in upon us, when there are &s;o many moderate Church-men and Di&s;&s;enters, of unque&s;tionable valour and &s;incerity, ready to &s;erve in their Station, purely for the &s;ake of the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> and a <HI>National Intere&s;t,</HI> is both unju&s;t, unwi&s;e and un&s;afe. It was likewi&s;e a fatal Error to be bu&s;ie in &s;ending ten or twelve Thou&s;and men into <HI>Holland,</HI> before we &s;ent twelve Hundred into <HI>Ireland,</HI> which &s;hows &s;ome Body's heart is as <HI>Foreign</HI> as his Birth. Ju&s;t &s;o we have done by <HI>Sea;</HI> been bu&s;ie a|bout a Fleet, and carele&s;s of our Trade, that as a witty Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons &s;aid, <HI>The</HI> Dutch <HI>have run away with our Trade, and the</HI> French <HI>with our Ships, notwith&s;tanding our Fleet.</HI> It is certain they left <HI>Bre&s;t</HI> when they &s;hould have &s;taid there (by which means the <HI>French</HI> joyned their Fleets) &amp; are come home, when there is mo&s;t u&s;e of them abroad, whereby the French are left to &s;cour our Seas. Many are employed that either do not understand their bu&s;ine&s;s, or are not in our Intere&s;t, becau&s;e they can give mo&s;t Money. <HI>Sol|diers,</HI> e&s;pecially, the <HI>Dutch,</HI> have been quarter'd upon private Hou&s;es, and Gentlemen's Seats have not e&s;caped them. <HI>Martial Law</HI> has been executed <HI>to Death,</HI> before
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the Act pa&s;&s;ed. <HI>Schombergh</HI> &s;ent too &s;oon, &s;ince he went &s;o late, unle&s;s he had carried his <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> and <HI>Provi&s;ions</HI> with him, and while we have entertain'd the World with an Opinion that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> will not fight, we at la&s;t decline to fight the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and have lo&s;t our Army.</P>
<P>But the&s;e are little Errors, and lie remotely, in com|pari&s;on of &s;ome that affect the very center or head of our Affairs. The <HI>King</HI> him&s;elf &s;hews us he is <HI>infected</HI> with <HI>Dominion,</HI> and that by two broad in&s;tances, <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>his Mini&s;ters at home.</HI> For he has not only already <HI>vi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">la|ted</HI> the very Fundamentals of the Con&s;titution of that Kingdom he &s;wore to maintain, when he received that Crown, but <HI>huff's</HI> tho&s;e men of Quality that came up from that Nation to repre&s;ent the breach of tho&s;e Con|ditions upon which he took the Crown. And for the pre&s;ent <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> of his Government here, the very naming of them, is giving the Rea&s;on, both for the Sins of <HI>Omi&s;&s;ion</HI> and <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion:</HI> And indeed how &s;hould we hope to have our Liberties e&s;tabli&s;h'd under them, who in the late Reigns were the Authors of the Mi&s;eries we call'd in this <HI>Prince</HI> in hopes to be delivered from; and by what we have already &s;een of their manage|ment, we mu&s;t conclude they have either a <HI>King James</HI> in their Belly, or in their Hearts, the Principles of making <HI>more</HI> then a King <HI>James</HI> of <HI>King William.</HI> And truly they have carried him a good way towards it, when they have made him afraid of protecting that gallant Gentleman, <HI>Lievtenant General Ludlow,</HI> becau&s;e for &s;ooth, he was a <HI>Common-wealths-man, &amp; one of the Judges of King</HI> Charles <HI>the fir&s;t,</HI> though upon his Principles, we have <HI>abdicated</HI> the Son, which is to refu&s;e him the be|nefit of the Rea&s;ons, upon which we pretend to &s;ave our &s;elves. This makes me believe a Story of this King, which I was even &s;orry to hear, that upon &s;ome Bodies telling him t'other day, the <HI>Common-wealths-men</HI> began to be very bu&s;ie, he &s;hould &s;ay, <HI>Let me alone with them, for after I came into the Government of</HI> Holland, <HI>they never could do any thing:</HI> And it is certain, his party were the <HI>Tories</HI> of that State.</P>
<P>But it is not only <HI>Dome&s;tick</HI> Errors that make me di&s;|&s;pond, though they are enough to &s;ink this Government, but the very Nation is in hazard, in reference to our Affairs abroad, more then ever; and I would not, while we reproach the Governments that went before us, that we &s;hould do wor&s;e for the Common Safety. What condition we are in as to <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> the charge it has been to the People, and how much greater it is like to be, and that we have now a more Melancholly pro&s;pect of the Conclu&s;ion of the War then we had &s;ix Months ago, are felt as well as &s;een. I need not tell my Country-men, that our Intere&s;t is grounded upon Trade, and that whatever le&s;&s;ens that, le&s;&s;ens us; and that, that Country that rivals us in that point, <HI>is our Enemy by In|tere&s;t,</HI> and we can hardly have a greater: But perhaps it may &s;urprize them, to tell them at this time, that <HI>Hol|land</HI> is that Country: But &s;o it is, and the indifferent World &s;ees it, and even the Partial among&s;t us, begin to <HI>feel</HI> it. It would have been the Wi&s;dom of this King as &s;oon as he became &s;o, to have con&s;ider'd <HI>his Intere&s;t changed</HI> upon his being &s;o. In&s;tead of that, we have ever &s;ince had our <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Intere&s;t govern'd by <HI>Dutch Councils,</HI> and we have felt the effects of it; which our Enemies are &s;ure to improve to our di&s;honour and danger; as if we had deliver'd up the <HI>Wealth</HI> and <HI>Glory</HI> of <HI>England</HI> to <HI>Holland,</HI> in&s;tead of making that Country an <HI>Hand-maid,</HI> to her gteatne&s;s. And truly it is a &s;curvy Dilemma, that we are brought into, that we cannot hope for peace with <HI>France,</HI> nor to be long at Peace with <HI>Holland,</HI> and keep our Trade, nor to &s;upport a War with both, if to out-live our own Factions: and this the <HI>Dutch</HI> know as well as we, and therefore, you &s;ee, <HI>they Loo&s;e no time,</HI> but make the War their great gain: For as we let them manage it they add <HI>Our &s;hare</HI> to their own: This is the language of all Ports, both abroad and at home. <HI>Sink</HI> therefore we must, when our Friends help to do it, and the King we have made, will not &s;ee it. If this par|tiality proceeded only from the &s;ence he has of the kind|ne&s;s the <HI>States</HI> have &s;hown him, one would hope it were but to be once done; but I am told there is more in it; that he intends to purcha&s;e them to him&s;elf at our Co&s;t, for a wor&s;e purpo&s;e, viz, an <HI>unrea&s;onable greatne&s;s:</HI> and it falls pat with the <HI>Dutch</HI> intere&s;t, for with them, it is a Maxim, <HI>the le&s;s we are free, the le&s;s they have to fear;</HI> nothing being more <HI>cavileer</HI> in England then a <HI>Dutch Republican.</HI> This, if I know any thing, compleats our mi&s;ery, that we are got into a War, for the &s;ake, of a Country that, is, <HI>in rea&s;on of State,</HI> the mo&s;t; firm ene|my to our Liberties at home and our Traffick abroad, and that will only be of our &s;ide as long as we let them go away with our Trade; but the hour we &s;how, we under&s;tand them, we may depend upon it, they will make up with <HI>France,</HI> and leave us in the lunch. It is not enough that the <HI>parliament</HI> will give mo|ny; I do not doubt that; but that, may be our mi|&s;ery as it may be given. Let us fir&s;t con&s;ider, <HI>for what we give it?</HI> it will be &s;aid, to pull down <HI>France;</HI> But that is the <HI>Emperors</HI> work, who&s;e Competitor he is, and not ours. But as things now move, &s;hall not we &s;et up <HI>Holland,</HI> that is our Competitor every where, and in every thing? <HI>Taxes</HI> mu&s;t ri&s;e heavily upon &s;uch pro&s;pects of our Affairs. There is in my O|pinion a nearer way to the Mill then all this, and I think the only one <HI>Let the Parliament but make it plain to the People, that they have the be|nefit of the Change, and I will pa&s;s my word for them, they will be at the charge of it;</HI> But that they &s;hould a&s;&s;i&s;t &s;uch a Revolution, and op|po&s;e their Per&s;ons to all hazards, and their E&s;tates to the Con&s;ump|tion that will follow it, and at la&s;t &s;it down with a le&s;s Trade abroad, and with &s;omething wor&s;e then the wor&s;t part of <HI>King Charles</HI> the &s;econd's Reign at home, is, I hope, too gro&s;s to pa&s;s upon the Nation. They that long &s;ince owed their Heads to the Publick, mu&s;t not now think to &s;et up for the <HI>Guides</HI> of it. The reflection of a <HI>Common|weath</HI> is too &s;tale a Calumny to put a zealous &amp; ju&s;t claim of Rights out of countenance.</P>
<P>It was flung at the brave <HI>Lord Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> &amp; at all the <HI>Patroons</HI> &amp; <HI>Martyrs</HI> of the people, but in vain are their <HI>Attainders rever&s;ed,</HI> while their <HI>En|deavours are impeached.</HI> That a <HI>Common-Wealth</HI> &s;hould be an Objecti|on now, to &s;uch a &s;ettlement of our Freedoms as can only &s;ave us, is a mo&s;t &s;evere One again&s;t the Goverment, e&s;pecially when the &s;ame Gentlemen have the Power of making it, that made it once before. We can go upon no other Principles, except we will &s;et up that <HI>Ar|bitrery Power</HI> we have ventur'd all to oppo&s;e. Nick-names mu&s;t not &s;care us, nor vain Flatteries abu&s;e us: <HI>We mu&s;t have our Liberties,</HI> or &s;hift for our &s;elves, and that quickly, before he brings in more Foreign Forces upon us. A Reproach we can never wipe off, that what we objected again&s;t King <HI>James,</HI> &s;hould be endured from a Stranger in &s;o diftru&s;tful a manner, and a Parliament fitting, uncon&s;ulted. I will end with this Que&s;tion;</P>
<P>Is it not a <HI>breach</HI> of publick Faith and Safety, for a Prince, of his own Head to call in Foreign Force to rule a People, that called him in but t'other day to rule and protect them by their own Laws &amp; Arms? It &s;hows a plain di&s;&s;olution of Tru&s;t and Confidence in the People, that tru&s;ted him, as well as a Violation of the Conditions of the re|lation. And if &s;o, are not the Obligations of the People di&s;charged? nay, are they not obliged before God and Man, to take &s;peedy care of their own future Safety one way or other? Now or Never.</P>
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