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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660-1688 -- Early works to 1800. 2003-10 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-11 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-12 Judith Siefring Sampled and proofread 2003-12 Judith Siefring Text and markup reviewed and edited 2004-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion England's Improvements Iustified ; and the Author thereof , Captain Y. vindicated from the scandals in a Paper called a Coffee-House Dialogue . With some Animadversions upon his Popish Designs therein contained . MAlice and Envy are the inseperable Companions of a Diabolical Nature ; and that contagion is never more apparent , than by its dreadful symptoms , where it throws out its sulphureous fiery stink-pots of calumnies and slanders , blasting the reputations of the best of men , lessening and levelling at the most Heroick Actions , and endeavouring to make the greatest designs for the weal-publick frustrate and abortive , Thus malice pregnant with revenge and envy in her insatiate repining● again Virture ▪ joyn their consultations to suggest falshoods ; steals from Discourses the Antecedent occasion , making in some parts a divorce between the precedent matter , and coherent Discourse ; and like an ill-seasoned Vessel , Qodcunque infandit acescit , perverts all , even the most pleasant Liquors to its corrupt nature : Thus hath this virulent Dialogist dipt his Pen in poyson ; and rather than his repining envy should not be answered in its importunities , will expose his weakness as well as wickedness to the World , forgetting what he declares to have read in the Lord Bacons Essays , That silence in a Fool may pass for wisdom : Vir sapit qui pauca loquitur , few words become the wise ; but I must invert the words for his sake , Vir 〈◊〉 qui pauca sapit , the Fool is known by his babling . Sacred Writ records an Ass to speak for the preservation of its Master , to his conviction , in his evil undertaking ; but the creature ▪ by creation , superior to that heavy animal , brays out forged , frivolous defamations , and that so apparently false , that his own Popish Herd , blushing at his folly , will say , Etiam & Asin●● noster calcitrat , wondring that this dull insipid creature durst lift up his foot against a man of so true worth , industry and ingenuity , as that honest Captain , the glory of whose publick spirit so manifest to the World , so far surmounts all those mists of envy , that no idle reflections can touch the belief of any man of common sense , that this worthy Patriot , ( so I must justly stile him for his great merit in his publick undertakings ) , can be guilty of any such Solecisms ; take the folly to your self , Sir , and then laugh as simply at your own ginglings , for which all men else contemns you ; and were it not your happiness to be unknown , there 's not a Barrester of the Temple but would kick you , for fathering such a changling , simple Brat upon so honourable a calling as a Barresters ; and whoever shall lose so much time to read your nonsence , will find you but an Imp of Rome , a Popish Pettyfogger , a Vermin that spits out only poyson to divide the Protestant interest , thereby to support a languishing Cause , which the high hand of God has hitherto witnessed against ; from whose Almighty Power , none of your black Dirges , nor all your Idols , Jesuits and Devils to help you , can deliver you . But before I come to examine your Paper in its several Paragraphs , I must shew you how unfarely you deal with this honest Gentleman ; either you were one of the Society , or not ; if you were , and the matter were true , you are a Traytor , a Iudas , acting against the Laws and Rules of human Society , Odi ●●●morem compotorem , you are to be detested and abandoned by all civil Company , and if you were not of the Society , you can know nothing ; and your whole Discourse is a feigned undertaking ; and how easie a matter is it for a man to lay absurdities at any mans door , when the same man , out of a malitious design , first makes the Question , and also the Answer ; has the contrivance of the whole conference by himself ; and yet a person knowing nothing , wholly innocent , must be exposed ; from this Arrow shot in the dark , no man can be safe ; and whether the Captain ought to father so scandalous a Bastard , I leave it to all wise and just mens censure : This being the true state of the business , the Captain having never had this conference , he must be cleared from whatsoever is contained in this forged Dialogue 〈◊〉 innocence , when he heard of it , only procured a smile , with this answer , spreta vilescunt , falshoods must perish , are soonest destroyed by contempt : ●o that he needs no further vindication ; and his works shall praise him in the Gates , and so fully be-speak his worth , that every English man is now obliged in his quarrel , and upon that account I take my self concerned without his knowledg , and must give this publick scandal the lye , as publickly ; without which , I could neither satisfie my self , or answer the duty I owe to the Rules of friendship , nor be just to the honour of the Captains worth and innocence , being a frequenter of that Society , where I had the injoyment of pregnant and ingenious Gentlemen , and no such trumpery could take place there . But for your reflections upon Rivers making navigable ; who will controvert the great advantage they are in all places to Trade and Commerce , and a common good ? Is this a crime for a man to demonstrate ? saving your ridicule which belongs to your self , of making the Streets of London navigable , and for lodging of Ships upon an Hill , what will be your reward to impose impossibilities ? But what the Captain proposed for harbouring a considerable number of Ships in safety , is no Chymera , as your folly remarks ; for it has been demonstrated to many persons of honour , and that with a fair and plausible reception ; and for his Register , which your inventions kick about with so much slight , I must say , Ars nullum habet inimicum preter ignorantem , you speak evil of the things you know not , or your ill nature envies , and would blast what you cannot imitate ; but for these things let Englands Improvement speak for it self , there the profits and advantages of a Register will appear , with the advancement of Trade , by Lombard-Houses and Common Stores , which are all made practicable in forreign parts , and now by the hazard of his life in long travels , the sweat of his brows and vast expence , is brought by him home , and made publick for general good ; and is this the reward ? But 't is no marvel , Quid cum amaraco sui , what must Swine do with such Pearls ? This Dialogue-maker , I perceive , is for no improvements , he has been train'd up for French Government , to bring Popery into Church , and slavery upon the Nation , and to that purpose he introduces a forged discourse with the Captain's , to frustrate the happiness of a free people ; methinks I see , poor Scribler ! how his Hypocondrias are distended , and like to burst with envy , when he beheld the grandure and gravity of the Lord Mayors installment , the great Character of Englands freedom not to be paralell'd in the Government of any Prince in the World ; this adds to the glory of the Crown , that our King commands the hearts and hands of free-born Subjects , flourishing under his gracious protection , with a stable government , that preserves the honour and majesty of the King , and the happy liberties of his people . Here I might end , having said enough for the Captains vindication , if I said no more , but that he is by a forgery imposed upon : But meeting with some things in his Paper , I cannot but animadvert : first , where he Queries , What Game have the great ones now to play ? He might have answered himself , they have enough to do . Your Romish Emissaries have cut out work with a witness , here 's Plot upon Plot , and all to murther the King , to subvert Government in Church and State , and by the mighty Power of God all discovered ; and because the Popish party had received so great a soil , the Protestant party must now be made Plotters , that under that colour you might murder the King , and give the blow in Masquerade ; but no weapon formed against God can prosper : and if his providence had not embowelled your cursed designs , as you say , the City ere this might have been on fire at one end , and cutting of Throats all over . The next Question he begs , is an enforced reflection upon the Clergy of the Church of England , a fine device to create jealousies amongst Protestants : you have played that trick too often to have it thrive ; we better understand the common interest , than to divide , divide & impera , we know the danger of a division ; and since the quarrel is plainly betwixt Protestant and Papist , and that all must endure the fiery tryal , they will neither turn , nor burn , but jointly oppose all your insinuations ; I hope Mr. Dangerfields Plot has convinced the World so , that we shall not hear any more invectives against the dissenting party , for all are Protestants . The Church of England , as it is the best of Governments , so I hope it will never want charity for any that agree in the same fundamentals ; the same Gospel is owned by all , and by that rule , all are to be governed , which says , Let your moderation be seen before all men ▪ the Lord is at hand : and if any man be otherwise minded , viz. as to Discipline , or other matters not so essential , God shall reveal it ; let there be therefore no animosities , no differences amongst them , for they are Brethren . As for what you would suggest , as the saying of the Captains , in the reflections of the Church of England men , you beg the question , that you may take the occasion to discover yourself of what foot-mark you are , and that the mark of the Beast is plainly in your forehead ; Ex pede Herculem , I see by this foot the dimensions of your mind , It is not your kindness or reverence you bear to the Church of England or honoured Clergy , but to sweeten our apprehensions , and mollifie our fears , and to assure us that Popery is not such a bug-bear , but that all the Lands taken away from those Idolatrous , Lascivious Drones , will keep firm as they are ; and reinforceth his argument and perswasions , that as they were first sold by Act of Parliament , it was again corrobarated in Queen Mary's Reign ; a necessary policy to keep all quiet till they had played up their Game to a sure point : But the great assurance this Gentleman gives it , is from infallibility it self , in these words , To which , consent of his Holiness was given ; and this he counts security strong enough : Then , Sir , you are a simple Papist , and your Pope a Jugler ; for the Canons of your Church denies a power to be in any Pope himself , to divest the Church of any of its possessions . Where are your wheadles now , Sir ? Carry your trifles to your Children nurst up in an implicit faith , we will trust in God , and use our lawful endeavours against Popes and Plotters , and enjoy our Lands too , no thanks to your Pope , whom you stile his Holiness , which never any Protestant so seriously did : A fair evidence of your principles ! The next thing he disputes with himself , and would father it upon the Captain , is about the Subject of a Pamphlet , called , A Word without Doors : which I have heard the Captain aver he never saw it , nor I neither ; therefore to approve or disapprove , belongs not to my present occasion ; but if any thing be in it , Contra Bonos mores , or savors of irreligion or disloyalty , I commit him with this Popish disputant to the Sword of the Magistrate . As for your Sophistries , and what absurdities are in them , take the shame to your self , for they are all of your own making . Interest , I perceive , can never Lye ; Popery must come in , if your foul hand or crazy brain can help it . Are not you a brave fellow to come in Print ; that can censure Parliaments , and charge them with injustice and folly too ; you do not like them , we may all see ; they are too hearty against Popery , and too zealous to maintain the Protestant Religion to posterity . Is this a crime ? As for the Bill , that was , is not now in being ; for that Parliament is Dissolved , and another since chosen , and Prorogued for a considerable time ; therefore you dispute , de lana caprina , you set up an Image , and fall down before it ; go on with your Idolatry , we will trust God for Religion , and next humbly submit all to the wisdom and care of our gracious King , and his great Council in Parliament . To how little purpose do you revive the Lord Straffords Case , in which you are a little too sawcy ; 't was done , perenni Parliamento , The supream Court of the Nation , and by them he was judged guilty of High-Treason , and you must not say he suffered without Law , though his crimes were not within one , or any of the Articles of the 25th of Edward the 3d ; yet if you consult the same Statute , you will find the Parliament judg of Treasons not there named ; The words of the Act are these : And because many other like cases of Treason may happen in time to come , which a man cannot think nor declare at this present time ; it is accorded , that if any other case , supposed Treason , which is not above specified , doth happen before any Iustices , the Iustices shall tarry without going to judgment of the Treason , till the Cause be shewed and declared before the King and his Parliament , whether it ought to be judged Treason or other Felony . Sir , the Articles are yet alive , and the recited clause shews the Parliament not so mistaken , for they are Judges of what is Treason : I never heard that Act was repented of by any Parliament , though the same Parliament provided that it should not be brought into pres●ent ; not that they would be understood thereby to judg themselves as unjust ; but in reference to inferior Courts , and how far that clause reached him , or whether it did not imply that it was in the power of a Parliament so to adjudg , I submit to better judgments than yours or mine , for I dare not presume to determine . Qua supra nos nihil ad nos . In your last Paragraph you would give a fresh assault upon the late Parliament , charging them with the greatest injustice , and that from the Act Tricessimo Quinto of the Queen , as if it were denied to the D. liberty of other Subjects , to declare and make his submission ; and implies , that he was never convicted ; if all were well in that case , what mean the bleating of the Sheep , and the lowing of the Oxen ? why were such proposals offered by his Majesty for securing the Protestant Religion against a Popish successor ? and all those great labours in Parliament , and their Votes , declaring what you would now question ? Pray let me ask you , When was there the least appearance of the D's . inclinations to declare his submission to the Church of England ? If you make not that appear , What do you argue for ? not to satisfie the World that there was or is any such intention , but to asperse the great Council of the Kingdom ? and certainly if the design had lain there , the concern of succession to Three Kingdoms would have brought it into Act after so many fair opportunities , and especially when the Parliament arrived at so high a pitch , caused by the care for the Protestant Religion , and those dreadful apprehensions of those horrid Plots discovered against his Majesties Sacred person . I assure you Sir , if ever such an offer had appeared ; it would have been cherished with the greatest indulgence ; but this is too much to argue upon a non Entity , for that Bill is gone , and you need not question but when the Parliament meets , and ever take that debate in hand , the D. will have nothing offered but what is just , with relation to establishing the Protestant Religion , and the preservation of his Most Sacred Majesty's person , and the Liberties of all true English men . Now , Sir , upon examination of your ill-bestowed pains , I think you ought to ask God forgiveness in the first place , for breaking his commandment , Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour ; next , to answer to His Majesty for breach of his Law in Libelling ; and upon your Knees to crave pardon of the D. for your pitiful management of his Cause ; and for my part , I shall throw you in my forgiveness for the trouble you gave me ; and as to the Captains concerns , he is to thank you for the opportunities you have given , to make his deserts more publick , and Englands Improvements more honoured . FINIS