A letter from an English merchant, who left Holland, and came to take a prospect of our future settlement to his friend in Rotterdam, which being intercepted, is thought fit to be published. English merchant. 1691 Approx. 5 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2007-10 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A48043 Wing L1446 ESTC R11857 12425962 ocm 12425962 61852 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. 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SIR , YOU very well know , that the strongest temptations which return'd me to my Native Country , were the hopes of seeing it intirely happy , the Land of Canaan , the Land of Promise . When the P. of O. Declar'd the design of his Expedition was to obstruct the Evil Courses of his Father-in-Law , I could never imagine he would have faln in with the same Measures , and as bad Ministers himself . I expected a Theocracy , a Government levell'd to the Common Good , an utter Extirpation of Arbitrary Power , and an Extensive Liberty of Conseience , a Consistency of one thing with another , and as much of Plato's Idea as could be reduc'd to Practice . Little did I dream that the P. of O. could be infected with Monarchy and that he who had been bred up in a Commonwealth , could so soon aspire to Tyranny . I did not believe that Monsieur Benting was to give Closet-Law to England , and that no Man should get into Preferment , however worthy he is of it , unless he has first settled his Accompts with my Lord Portland : But since this is the way ▪ I don't doubt but we shall have more Shales's every year to betray the King and our Country ; and I begin to fear this man will grow as fast a Grievance as the Old Duke of Buckingham was to this Nation in the days of King Charles the First . I could not guess that D●●by , Nottingham , Godolphin , and such like , were to manage all our Affairs , no more than I could suppose that Lieutenant-General Ludlow would have been Hunted down , for having once so greatly vindicated our Rights . Here , indeed , I am astonished , that Major Wildman , Major Manly , &c. ( who were Out-laws ) were fit to sit with them in the Parliament-House , and at the same time Ludlow fit to be Hanged . If Kings are punishable for Male-Administration , that punishment is most Wise and most Honest , that makes things most safe : And it is an Act to be repented of , that we did not make our selves as secure at Rochester this time Twelvemonth as we did formerly . If a King is Impunible , we ought all to have subscribed to Passive Obedience , but if he can be a Traytor to the Commonwealth , he should dye as such , and his Judges never upbraided for it ; but when such are employed as were the avowed Fautors of unlimited Power , it is a complement to the Ministry to Stigmatize , and cry out upon Republicans . But I am not only disappointed in our Prince , for no man could have perswaded me that my Lord Do — , and Del — , would have sold Places ▪ or could have been guilty of Bribery , much less should I have fear'd that Hampd — , and the leading Men of the House of Commons , should have sold their Fellow-subjects for the greatest Advancement at Court. And least of all did I apprehend that the Members would be so openly Pentionary , and run as errantly into the Distinction o● Court , and Country Party , as they did in that long Parliament of King Charles the Second : But we have now fresh reason to remember who was the greatest Minister then . Thus far for Civils , but Religion is manag'd yet more oddly : The King has sworn positively to maintain two Religions , has changed his own , and for the sake of Episcopacy , has Exercised a Dispensing Power , and turn'd out the Whigg Faction in Scotland . The Sacramental Test , is kept on foot to keep those out of Office who are fittest to be in it ; and a new Creed is made for the Quakers , that neither they , nor any body else understand . And to conclude , with what is yet most miserable , we are crowded with Foreigners , to support and maintain this certain Vassalage , and uncertain Religion . Torys must Govern the Corporations , and Mercenaries the Kingdoms , which I shall from henceforward give up for irretrieveably lost , unless I see some Brave Patriot , have the Courage and Honesty to Impeach Benting , &c. that source of all our Miseries , who is not only ill himself , gets all ill men into Preferment for what they can give him , but has the King too under an Incantation . I am sick in Body , and perplexed in Mind , and am making what haste I can to you ; in the mean time , I give you all assurance that I am , without reserve , SIR 〈…〉