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<HEAD>A <HI>De&s;cent from France:</HI> OR, THE French INVASION of England, CONSIDERED and DISCOURS'D. LICENS'D, May 10. 1692.</HEAD>
<P>THat there is, or at lea&s;t has been, an in|tended Inva&s;ion from <HI>France,</HI> Headed by King <HI>James,</HI> is too apparent; and that the greate&s;t Encouragement to &s;uch an Undertaking, mu&s;t be the expected, if not pro|mi&s;ed Succours ready to join him upon the De&s;cent, is as plainly evident. Now that there can be &s;uch a Party of <HI>Engli&s;hmen,</HI> and tho&s;e profe&s;&s;ing them|&s;elves Prote&s;tants too, (for the <HI>Romani&s;ts</HI> are no part of our wonder) who&s;e Rea&s;ons and Sen&s;e can be &s;o lo&s;t and depraved, as to con&s;pire with &s;uch a De&s;ign, is not a little &s;tupendious.</P>
<P>The bu&s;ine&s;s of this Paper therefore, is to exa|mine, What Con&s;equences they can expect from the Succe&s;s of &s;uch an Inva&s;ion; and what Patriots they &s;hall make them&s;elves, in A&s;&s;i&s;ting the Return of King <HI>James?</HI></P>
<P>In the fir&s;t place, Do they flatter them&s;elves, be|cau&s;e, for&s;ooth, the greate&s;t part of our Invaders, for the more plau&s;ible pretext, are compo&s;ed of <HI>Engli&s;h, Scotch,</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> Natives and Subjects to the Crowns of <HI>England,</HI> that therefore King <HI>James</HI>'s Service (&s;o poor a mask) is all the bu&s;ine&s;s of this Expedition? Have we forgot &s;ince &s;o lately in <HI>Ireland,</HI> the <HI>French</HI> King could hardly hold the Vi|zor on till the Conque&s;t of that Kingdom, where the very <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> them&s;elves began to be jealous (and with too much cau&s;e) of their pretended Friends, but intended Lords, the <HI>French?</HI> And that no <HI>An|guis in Herb&acirc;,</HI> no <HI>French</HI> Re&s;erve lies at the bottom of this Inva&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Do they think this Succour to King <HI>James,</HI> tho in &s;o important a Service as Re&s;ettling him upon his Throne, can de&s;erve any grateful Re|turn? and upon that Encouragement they found the Safety of their Religion and Liberties, in any Promi&s;es of Security from that Obligation. Alas! is it &s;o late &s;ince woful Experience convinced them, that Acknowledgment or Gratitude, are no part of a Popi&s;h King's Principle; witne&s;s, the unkind re|turn he made to that very <HI>Church of England,</HI> that more than <HI>once,</HI> were &s;o exemplarily zealous for &s;ecuring the Crown upon his Head, in their &s;trenuous oppo&s;ition again&s;t both the <HI>Bill of Exclu&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>Monmouth</HI>'s <HI>In&s;urrection.</HI> And if both tho&s;e de&s;erving Services, tho&s;e accumu|lated Obligations were &s;uch feeble Cobweb-Lawn; &s;hall any thing done in his Service now, make a &s;tronger Tye upon him? No, quite to the contrary. For example, The Church of <HI>England</HI> had then twice obliged him, and never once of|fended him; be&s;ides, there was not only a Corona|tion <HI>Oath,</HI> but his fir&s;t voluntary <HI>Declaration</HI> at his a&s;&s;umption of the Government; one would rea&s;o|nably think enough to bind him to Performance. But how little all tho&s;e Bonds &s;ignifie, when the Cancelling Hand of <HI>Rome</HI> came into Play; we have but too much rea&s;on to remember. And if all tho&s;e Tyes, I &s;ay, could not hold then; what can we hope for, when there neither is, nor can be any Tye at all to hold him now? For example; &s;uppo&s;e the blind and mi&s;taken Frenzy of &s;ome of our Prote&s;tant Zealots, (if that name can be proper for them), could remo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> him to his Throne; what &s;hall they de&s;erve for it, any more than the Title of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ble Servants?</HI> Their <HI>turning him out</HI> from the Throne, together with the remembrance of the dear <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Blood &s;hed by them, and the re&s;t of our Faults, are &s;uch Capital Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, that the <HI>re&s;toring him into it again,</HI> will not be half our Expiation. And &s;uppo&s;ing he Publi&s;hes the mo&s;t mollyfying Declaration upon his Landing, that all the Eloquence of <HI>Rome</HI> can put together; &s;hall that oblige him? No, &s;o far from it, that it neither is, nor can be any more than a &s;croll of wa&s;t Paper. For &s;uppo&s;ing the Contents of it &s;hould run in the&s;e flattering In&s;inuations, <HI>viz.</HI> What wondrous Clemency he would &s;hew us upon our return to our Allegiance, and with what Moderation he would Reign over us, upon our re-admitting of him to his Throne, with all the mo&s;t &s;olemn Prote&s;tations, and what not. Now as 'tis unlikely that King <HI>James</HI> &s;hould ever return without <HI>Oppo&s;ition,</HI> and undoubted|ly a very &s;trenuous one; it being impo&s;&s;ible we &s;hould be all drawn in with the &s;pecious Bait of &s;weet words, and fair Promi&s;es; and con&s;equently, he mu&s;t have a Blow for it. Suppo&s;ing, neverthele&s;s, I &s;ay, his Party &s;o &s;trong, and his Succe&s;s &s;o great, as to recover his Kingdoms: Upon &s;uch a recove|ry, whatever he promi&s;es in his Declaration, is from that Moment, null and void. For the Con&s;ide|ration is not performed, and con&s;equently, the Ob|ligation cancell'd. For in&s;tance, he comes not in by our <HI>Submi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and <HI>return to our Allegiance,</HI> but by <HI>Force</HI> and <HI>Conque&s;t.</HI> And as &s;uch, not only his Declarations, but his very Coronation-Oath, without the &s;tretch of a mental Re&s;ervation, are all actu|ally <HI>ab&s;olved.</HI> And if <HI>Law,</HI> nor <HI>Oaths, Service,</HI> nor <HI>Fidelity,</HI> as before-mentioned, were able to keep
<PB REF="2"> his <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Zeal in any Bounds or Limits before; what &s;hall the loo&s;ening of 'em all expect now? And con&s;equently what driving <HI>Jehu</HI> mu&s;t we look for, when that black Day comes, (which Heav'n of its mercy keep far from us.) And whatever private Gratuities or Favours &s;ome particular Emi|nent Prote&s;tant Hands may po&s;&s;ibly receive for their &s;ignal Services in this Revolution, nothing of &s;en&s;e but mu&s;t conclude us the mi&s;erable&s;t Nation and People in the World.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, could we look for Miracles, and expect a Reign of Clemency from him, our <HI>Religion</HI> and <HI>Civil Rights</HI> &s;ecured; what a Crew of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Dear-Joys that come over with him, are here to be rewarded, all Preferment and Honours, nay, the fat of the Land to be canton'd out among&s;t them: And con&s;e|quently the Power in the&s;e confiding Hands, the whole Nobility, Gentry and Commonalty of <HI>Eng|land</HI> mu&s;t live under the check and awe of Tories and Rapparees, and &s;ubmit to all the In&s;ults of Mi&s;creants and Vagrants; and well we compound &s;o cheap.</P>
<P>Nay, though &s;ome People fancy we &s;hall at lea&s;t enjoy this Ble&s;&s;ing of being ea&s;ed from Taxes by his Return; 'tis &s;o much a mi&s;take, that in the other Extream, that very &s;hadow vani&s;hes too. For what mu&s;t this Expedition co&s;t the <HI>French</HI> King, and what mu&s;t all his <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Arrears, and other infinite unacountable Sums amount to, which mu&s;t all lie upon this ruin'd Nation to &s;atisfy, with a very courteous Complement into the Bargain, if the <HI>French</HI> King will graciou&s;ly and mercifully plea&s;e to de|mand no more. Nay, perhaps the whole Charge of his &s;everal Years Naval Preparation; (for had King <HI>James</HI> continued on his Throne, mo&s;t of all that Expence had been &s;aved) mu&s;t lie at our Door, a Score too terrible even to think of; and take it altogether, a very grateful Payment out of the Prote&s;tant Pockets to &s;o prodigious a Champion of the Prote&s;tant Religion, as King <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">s.</HI></P>
<P>But for once (though contrary to common &s;en&s;e) granting we &s;hould allow all in his Favour, that the mo&s;t zealous <HI>Jacobite</HI> can pretend, <HI>viz.</HI> That King <HI>James</HI> upon his return to the Throne, &s;hall to a tittle perform every particular Article in his very Declaration, as plau&s;ible &s;oever as it may be penned, <HI>viz.</HI> We'll &s;uppo&s;e, that the <HI>French</HI> King &s;hall di&s;|claim, directly or indirectly, all Preten&s;ions what|ever to <HI>England,</HI> that the Re&s;toration of his Friend King <HI>James</HI> is his only part and de&s;ign in this Expe|dition; and King <HI>James</HI> on the other &s;ide, &s;hall ab|jure all manner o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> violation to the Laws, &s;hall &s;up|port the Prote&s;tant Religion, and (making a Sea|mark of his former Wreck,) &s;hall peaceably keep up to the full ob&s;ervance of &s;o generous a Profe&s;&s;ion: granting all this, I &s;ay, and whatever other imagi|nary Security his dreaming Party can form to them|&s;elves; neverthele&s;s, in the faire&s;t Face, let us ob|&s;erve the di&s;mal and tremendous Effects of his Re|&s;toration. 'Tis known to the whole World to what the <HI>French</HI> Ambition tends, <HI>viz.</HI> Univer&s;al Monarchy. And 'tis as notoriou&s;ly famous what De&s;olations and Ravages the Arms of <HI>France</HI> have made, and how formidable that Succe&s;sful De&s;troyer is, even to the whole united Powers of <HI>Europe.</HI> And as his pre&s;ent Maje&s;ty King <HI>William,</HI> is, po&s;&s;ibly, (without a vani|ty) the Leading Champion of the whole Confedera|cy, and all little enough to make head again&s;t <HI>France;</HI> upon King <HI>James</HI>'s return to the Throne, here is not only &s;o potent an Arm as the Alli|ance of <HI>Britain</HI> lopt off from the Confederacy, but added to the Strength of <HI>France.</HI> For tho in his Reign before, he only &s;tood Neuter, with little or no other A&s;&s;i&s;tance to his Idoliz'd Grand <HI>Lewis,</HI> than his heartie&s;t Vows and Prayers for the &s;uc|ce&s;s and pro&s;perity of that encroaching En&s;laver of Mankind: Yet now he will lie under a more pre&s;|&s;ing obligation; and the lea&s;t return even of com|mon Gratitude for his remounting him on his Throne, will be to li&s;t under that Tyrant's Standard, and joyning the Arms of <HI>England,</HI> to the fini&s;hing and crowning the whole De&s;igns of that univer&s;al A&s;pirer. And as the whole Confederacy already, is little enough to match him; upon this Revolution in <HI>England,</HI> 'tis impo&s;&s;ible to ex<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ect le&s;s than that the whole Cau&s;e of <HI>Chri&s;tendom</HI> mu&s;t &s;ink, and all <HI>Eur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">pe</HI> truckle beneath him. And whil&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> hands mu&s;t be<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;o great a part in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s fatal Turn (to give it no harder Name) what is it but a making our &s;elves the Mon&s;ters of Mank<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd, the inevitable in&s;truments and Tools to that grand Cut-throat of <HI>Chri&s;tend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m.</HI> And what has &s;ome little palliation on his &s;ide, as having the pretence of Renown and Honour, in the Que&s;t of Laurels and Enl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rgement of Empire, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> will on our part amount only to Butchery and De&s;olation, for meer Butchery and De&s;olations &s;ake. The Gl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry, if any, will be <HI>Lew|is</HI>'s, and the Infamy <HI>England</HI>'s. Infamy indeed, (if we meet with no wor&s;e Reward) when we con&s;ider what barbarous part we mu&s;t act in the yoking and &s;hackling of <HI>Europe.</HI> But &s;uppo&s;e it end<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> there, and that will be the only Brand in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Scutche|on: And that <HI>Lewis</HI> in his gra&s;p of Univer&s;al Em|pire, &s;hall exclude <HI>England</HI> from any part of his Feu|datories, and Tr butaries, <HI>viz.</HI> he &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ll make Gol|den Promi&s;es to King <HI>James,</HI> and once in his life (his fir&s;t vertue of that kind) keep Faith, and no wor&s;e follow, (a very unlikely Flattery:) yet what an Eternal Shame to the Old <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Honour, the &s;leeping Du&s;t of our Third <HI>Edward,</HI> and Fifth <HI>Hen|ry,</HI> and indeed the whole <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Chronicles, is our portion, in aggrand<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zing of <HI>France</HI> to that prodigi|ous Bulk and Growth, and dwindling our &s;elves to that diminutive and de&s;picable &s;tate and conditi|on, as are and mu&s;t be the unavoidable con&s;equen|ces of King <HI>James</HI>'s Re&s;toration.</P>
<P>Granting the <HI>Jacobites</HI> therefore, all their own Delu&s;ions can &s;hape, that King <HI>James</HI> &s;hall forget and forgive; &s;hall rule by Law, and turn a Saint upon a Throne: And that the di&s;intere&s;ted <HI>Lewis</HI> &s;hall have no other De&s;igns upon <HI>England,</HI> but pure|ly King <HI>James</HI>'s A&s;&s;i&s;tance; yet &s;till the mo&s;t they can look for, is perhaps, to enjoy a little <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Liberty (upon their own &s;uppo&s;ition) during the &s;hort Remnant of King <HI>James</HI>'s Days, whil&s;t his Gray Hairs, perhaps, &s;hall fill the Seat: But I won|der any rea&s;onable man, that pretends but to com|mon Sen&s;e, can think it po&s;&s;ible that <HI>France</HI> &s;hould en|gro&s;s the Dominion of <HI>Europe,</HI> and <HI>England</HI> ever hope to continue the only Exempt from the Univer&s;al Yoke; Is there that Frenzy &s;o mad as to fancy it? No, all our be&s;t Hopes will be to be &s;wallow'd la&s;t, and the annexing of <HI>Brittain,</HI> a Province to <HI>France;</HI> and con&s;equently to groan under all the Slavery and Va&s;&s;allage of a <HI>French</HI> Government, is the undoubted Fate of <HI>England;</HI> and hereby the Re&s;toration of King <HI>James,</HI> in its favourable&s;t A&s;pect, brings no le&s;s Fa|tality along with it, than entailing of Mi&s;ery upon us to the end of the World; and all the Honour our Pro|te&s;tant Re&s;torers will reap, is to be the Ruine and Cur&s;e of their whole Po&s;terity, their very Names and Memories loath'd and abhorr'd to all &s;ucceed|ing Generations.</P>
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