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Pages damaged/ Pages endommagdes Pages restored and/or laminated/ Pages restaurdes et/ou pelliculdes Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages d^color^es, tachetdes ou piqu^es Pages detached/ Pages d^tachdes Showthrough/ Transparence I I Quality of print varip< > . 1^ iiiething i to gran( ontradic- B People, ixed Go- perior to ers, who e Conili? flitution, • the two )ofcd fu- — nt, the igs ( and ery Kind te Power moot be me^nt [ 15 ] meaiKt an abfoUue Power to do Injuflicc, or dellroy itfclf, more than an individual Man has to commit Suicide. Such a Power con- tradicts the very Exiftence of Society, and the Laws by which the Omnipotent is bound, of not doin^; wrong. Wherefore the deftroy- ing the Rights and Liberties of Nations, be- ing a moft heinous Wrong, neither you can give, nor your Reprefcntatives afi'ume, with Equity, a Power which God has not. Should it be acknowledged, that, though the Commons have exerciied a Power of an- nihilating many Privileges and Rights belong- ing to the People, that they can poffefs no reafonable Tide to it ; then all Laws fubver- five of Magna Cbarta^ the Bill of Rights, Adl of Settlement, and Spirit of the Confti- tution, are an Excefs of their Authority and a Violation of their Trud. If it be aflerted that your Reprefentatives, after the Hour of their Election, are no longer anfwerable for their Behaviour, and arc legally inverted with Authority to treat your Liberties as they pleafe, then what did King James ufurp more than this by his Pre- rogative ? And of what Advantage has the Revolution proved to you, if the fubverting your t i6] your Con(litution be legally placed in the Hands of your Reprefentativcs ? In whr.t Scnfe docs the Idea of a free State or Liberty of the People exift, when it depends on no- thing more permanent or eftablifhed, than the vague, capricious, or interefted Inclina- tion of a Majority of five hundred Men, who mav be open to the infidious Attacks of a M r ? Is it not more precarioufly in- truAed than to the Care of a S n ? Surely it will be granted, that a M r, who, by illicit Influence, fhould prevail in pailing Laws lubvcrfive of the above Statutes, muft be deemed an Offender againft the moft fa- cred of all human Enjoyments, Liberty and the Conflitution of his Country^ and at leafl equally criminal with James the Second. It is allowed, that every Part of this Con- Aitution has an equal Right to it's particular Privileges ; the King, Lords, and Commons, have fome in general, and fome peculiar to each feverally. . _. . - The King, intrufted with the Sovereignty, cannot, by any A^ of his own, divert the Heir apparent of his Right of SuccefTion to the Crown. The Lords cannot alienate the Honours and Privileges of thofe who are i... entitled s: ^ i * [17] entitled to precede them j they are the Riprc- fentativcs of Peerage as well as of themfelves. In like Manner the Commons, who are in- truded with your Share in the Conftitutioh, can they give it up to a M r ? Reafon^ and the Spirit of the Government, evidently evince they cannot. And to thefe^ in Mat- ters relative to the fundamental Parts of a Conflitution, Ihould not every Ad conform ? What can be more contradidory to the Reafon and Spirit of the Conftitution, and of Liberty itfelf, than that where every Subjecft has an equal Claim to Freedom and the Pri- vileges of the Realm ; and not more than a third the Right of voting for their Reprefen- tatives : That this Minority (hould be authori- zed to give away the whole Riglits and Im- munities of a Majority of their Fellow-Sub- jedls to Men, the latter are no wife concerned in eleding. And though the Letter of nO Law may precifely pronounce they can not ': In like Manner there is none which declares they can. Wherefore the whole prefumptive Tide a P nt can pretend to have of dif- pofing of your Rights and Privileges can be but Prerogative, which, in thefe very Inftan- ces, having been illegally carried beyond the Limits of Liberty and the Con(litution by ft King t i8] Rinp 'jameiy muft, for the like Reafbn, be equally illegal and criminal in every Branch of the Lcgiflature : And therefore the Spirit of the Conftitution is neccflary to be followed with the ftridcft Rigor and Perfevcrancc. Snot/LD it be objco Man caii reafonably conceive, that becaufe by Rewards and Punifliments, by finifler Ap- plication to thj Paflions, artful Inlinuations, ibphiftical Arguments, and various Methods of prevailing on Mankind, he may have a Power of feducing this Army to delcrt their Duty and enflave their Country ; that there- fore, he has an Authority to behave in that Manner : Or that his Crime would be lefs atrocious and flagrant fliould he fucceed in that Attempt. On the contrary, all Mankind will denominate him and his Troops, bafe and perfidious Betrayers of the Nation's Caufe, detelled Enflavers of a free Country, even though he perpetrated this horrid Adiion in Obedience to a King's Mandate : The very Spi- rit of their Appointment, and nefarious Breach of Truft, denounce Horror and Deteftation on all fuch Men. In this Inftance, and in ten thoufand others. Power and Authority are utterly dillindl : The being enabled to do an Injury, implies no Au- thority for it's being carried into Execution, or Extenuation of the Iniquity. In like Manner, when the ReprefentativeS J)f a People prefume to adt contrary to the very Elements of their Conftitution, betray ■ and I [ \l h [ 22 ] and give up their Rights, Privileges, and Li* berties, though noihing in the fundamental Statutes Hterally may prohibit (o ignominious a Behaviour ; the very Nature of tiieir Station, the innate Senfe of Right, and original Spirit of Government, manitcftly confadid all Pof-^ fibiliry of their having Title for iuch Proceed- ings ; And whenever it is done, is it not an A& of Power and not of Authority ? To this (hould it be added, that fuch Things have been accomplifhed in Confequence of a M "' ^'^ Mandate and pecuniary Influence ; What Cr;me can be more heinous, improved by the indignant and humiliating Confidera- tion, that your Equals, whom yoii chofe to fave, have fold you like Cattle, you and your PofTeffions, the Produce of your Arts, Manii-» fadures, and Commerce, to M- rs who paid your Betrayers with one Part of that Money which was levied on you, and fquan- dered the Remainder, to fecure themfelves in Place, on German Slaves and German Inte- refts, negledful of every Advantage, which their Station, their Country, and Heaven it- felf called upon them to aiFord their ex- Jiaufted Fellow- Subjedts. Power is that, by which one Man, o^ Body of Men, C(fn by any M^ans a^com- n ' I y and Li* idamental lominious r Station, nal Spirit a all Pof. ProceecJ- it not an > To this ngs have ce of a ifluence ; improved onfidera- chofe to and your Manila — rs who of that fquan- elves in 2n Inte- which aven it- eir ex- an, o^ ipcom- [ 23 ] plifh their Defigns ; Authority that, by which they are limited and commiiTioned to do any Thing by the Natute of the Conftitution. Indeed, though no Statute, as far as I cani recoiled:, has mentioned the Limitation of p — ^.^-y Power before the Revolution j yet it is manifeft from the Bill of Rights, that the Enadtors of »hat Law, having conceived what pecuniary Perfuafion and M- — -^rs might hereafter obtain on the Parliament, have inferted a Claufe declarative, that the Rights then afcertained were no Innovation on the Conftitution, auvl that their Succeflbra were obliged to follow them, as may be itcn in the fucceeding Words tranfcribed from that Charter of Liberty. " Now in Purfuance of the Premlfes, the faid Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament aifembled, for the Ratifying, Confirming, and Eftablifh- ing, the faid Declaration and the Articles, Claufes, Matters, and Things therein con- tained, by the Force of a Law made in due Form by Authority of Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted, that all and fingular the Rights and Liber- ties aiferted and claimed in the faid Decla- ration, « cc cc (C (C n If I miftake not, we are prohibited by art Exprefs arid pfenal Lavv, to write any Thing derogatory to the Revolution, confidering it; I imagine, not as a Tranfaiflion, that will not bear the ftrongeft Light of Truth, and Ted of ftridleft Enquiry ; but as fdniiething facred, which it is a Kind of political BlaP phemy to attempt to criminate. In Confequence of the Excellences parlia- mentarily acknowledged to exifl: iri the Revo- lution, the Ads made to eftablifli that, the pre- fent Conftitution, and the prefent Royal Fa- mily, muft alike participate of thisSacrednefs: Or on what juft Foundatbn can this Reve-i rcnce have been demanded. E Fa% ; ! * I [ 26] For this Reafon the Bill of Rights, pafled in 1689, at the Prince of Orange's coming to the Throne, and the A6t of Settlement, the twelfth and thirteenth Year of his in Reign, mud include the great Title to this Diftindion; if writing, then, againft the Revolution, of which thefe make the moft efTential Confiderations, is little lefs than Treafon j rendering them inefFedual in the moft important Articles can be but Uttle lefs than State Sacrilege, The Particulars mentioned in the firft, were then confidered as fo many Violations committed by King jfames on the Privileges of the People, and necefiary to be remedied, for the Sake of fecuring your Religion, and re-eftablifliing Liberty and the Conftitution. And of the fecond, as fo many Barriers to fortify your Liberties, Privileges, and Con- Ititution, againft any Probability of loling them, which might arife from a new King being feated on the Throne j a Stranger to our Language, Cuftoms, and Laws ; born to rule arbitrarily over his original Subjeds ; unac- quainted with the Nature of a commercial and free State 5 uninftrudted in the Know- ledge [27] ledge of Arts and Sciences ; fond of a milita- ry Government ; and of a different Se(ft in Religion from the eftabliflied Cliurch oiEng'^ land. Can h then be conceived, that, if a M r ftiall, by Dint of Corruption, have effaced the Effeds of all Religior, and, by Dint of the fame Purfuit on former P ts, have abrogated every Article which w^as pro- tedtive of your Rights and Privileges, that fuch Ads are le(s illegal or lefs criminal in him than in a S n ; for what Difference does it make, whether you lofe your Liber" ties by the exorbitant Power of a King, or the Tyranny of a M r > or what Confo- lation can be drawn, from being afTaflinated by a royal Hand, or by a Captain of the Mob ; it is the Lofs of Liberty which makes the Curfe, and the taking it away the Ini^ui* ty. r '■f .,-'1 The Grievances at that Time complained of againfi the Sovereign had their Founda-^ tioi> in Juflice and the Rights of the Sabjed, and the redreffing them in the Nature of the Conftitution ; Otherwife, by what Arguments will you aflign a Caufe of Complaint again ft the Prince on the Throne, or prefexve thofe E 2 Men i\ '5! ill 1 ; [ 28 ] Men who accompli (lied the Revolution front the Imputation of Want of Allegiance to their They confidered the Conftitution as the primary Objedt of an Englijhman ; and the King but as the fecondary ; who, by his At- tempts towards Defpotilm, became a Kind of Rebel againll this fuperior Power. They juflly reafoned, that as the People, which makes a third of the Conllitution, are deemed Traitors, for plotting or attempting the Life of, or taking up Arms againft, the King, which forms another third of the Conftitu- tion, and doomed to Death in conlequence of fuch Behaviour ; in hke Manner that King yamcs rebelled againft two thirds of this Go- vernment, by attempting to fubvert their Re- ligion and Liberties : For our Conllitution fuppofes, that each Part of it has a Right to be prelerved ; that tv^o aie more than one : And the Happinefs of a whole People to be preferyed, in Preference to the Ambition or pther pernicious PafTions of a S v . o.. g< ~i^ .j- : I. , Shall then a M- r be exempted from Puni/hmentjbecaufe he has effeded in one Me- thod the very D.efpotifm which v^as oppofed iti I: to le : be or la [ 29 ] In a King, and defervcdly drove hinti into Exile for attempting it in another ? " *•• ■i]n Mi wj '.J .'>i But before I prefume to animate you to- wards the recovering your loft Privileges, and calling them who have (ubverted the Confti- tution to a legal Inquiry, let me lay before you what are the Particulars which afford a Reafon for fuch a Proceeding ; and in this Place I hope it may be excufed in me, if I tranfpofe the Order of the Articles which arc in the Bill of Rights, and begin with the fol- lowing; * T H E Eledion of Members of P nt J ought to be free/ If a Minifter, then, by Rewards and Pu- nifhments, by Means of his Aflbciates, by Promifes or Threats, or any other undue and corrupt Influence, has at any Time procured a p. nt to be returned, is it not totally re- pugnant to that Part of the Ad: of Settlement juft mentioned ? But if to this it may be con- fcientioufly added, that a Majority of thefe Members have been under the lame pernicious Power of pecuniary Purchafe, Placemen and Penfioners, mercenary Dependants on a M r*s Nod ', certainly fuch a Body of i^'i^ Men ii! !'( [ 30] Men were not what they ought to be, and therefore, like James, when he became what he ought not, righteoufly to be oppofed. V And here, perhaps, before I proceed, or reafon or conclude any Thing on the fatal EfFeds of fuch a M r and fuch a P— nt in this Conflitution, 1 ought to prove, that a M r has by fuch Means influenced, or the Conftitucnts by fuch Means returned, Reprefentatives of fo dangerous a Complexion. «■• » ;i! In Anfwer to this, I appeal to the Bofoin of every Man, if he is hot convinced of this Truth; if any Man is not, let him ftand forth and declare his Name, and it (hall be proved ; 'till when, I (hail confider it as a ielf- evident Truth, like that in Geometry, that a flrait Line is the (horteft which can be drawn between two Points. ., .^ '{ If, then, this eiTential Article of your fecond Charter of Liberties, the Refurredion of your Conftitution, has been long violated^ how can a P =nt of fuch a Temperament be faid to be your Reprefentatives, or by what Senfe are the Laws they paffed legally enaded, when this, your only Security, is cfFedually alienated, . , The to be, and :came what 'pofed. I I proceed, on the fatal I a p. nt ove, that a luenced, or s returned, ■omplcxion, the Bofom ced of this him fland it (hall be Jer it as a Geometry, ich can be of your sfurredion violated, jperament [s, or by 'd legally :urity, is The I I I [ 31 ] The firft Claufc in this facrcd Adl, the Bill of Rights, which was ordained for your Security, is, " That the pretended Power of •* Jujpending Laws, or the Execution of Laws by regal Authority, without Confcnt of Parliament, is illegaL" /,.»..•. 1.. »> all I mention to you the Af- fair of Maidftone, where a common Thief, a capital Offender of the Laws, a foreign Hireling, bccaufe a H «, was, by m rial Mandate, difmifled from the Cog- nizance, and refcued from the Hands, of Ju- flice ? Were not the Laws fufpended in this Inftance without Confent of P nt, Mag' na Charta and your Charter of Rights unpar- donably violated ? And here permit me to afk you, if billetting the foreign Mercenaries, at their firft coming, on the Inn and Publick- Houfe Keepers, equally intitled to Liberty •.u.'j f : • and H si«fw::„l^\^''°'^" -'■all other Your Laws then have he«, 77" ^' /°*^" ' vour of one H-^ , '"^"'n'^'d i" Fa- Power a/Tunied. even morV I •"" , *'*>««'/ S-rpen/ion of Lawr'^T^t^'oHhlS. '"« -S^gar^jjirr^^^^^^^ fenders, and create defpotick o T"" ^^- Pjeft you, whenever Occfionr^M^''' "P" them ? For can it h/ ^'^r'O" *a'l demand fon who at once prefiH°!l""'^u' "'^ ">« P^^- g^o% ignorant of " ur Co„ft^.'°"''^ ^ '° to know that fuch Comm i^ ""°"' ^^ "ot cenaries. werj ^1,7 i"'*''- '° '''"« ^er- O'herw'ife. on wha ' f,'^ "nyconftitutional/ Jn the Law • that l.„"n ^ if, "^ ''*' acquired has been afoibed tJl'^u '^"°-'<=dge which «bat Superio" ,yt4h1s r5\^r'''' ""^ '/''«/^ to have Placed h- "1 ^y ^'^ ^'P^n- AgSr', ilS* £?r;? ''ys' "'= '■» Ardor Aid the T tiall> and 1 by th Time -ing (C liai Th compjj Times by Conj tide, b fedled ; ought t comes Nature Conftiti ^ert, thi you of ' p 1 [33] Ardor which will expel the Malignancy of the Caufc. . • • . • .|' -. • The next Article to be ohferved, fo elTcn- tially necefTary to the Prefcrvation of Liberty and the Conftitution, and fo happily provided by the Reprefcutatives of the People at that Time, is, cc <( IC ** That the raifing and keepihg a Stand- ing Army within the Kingdom in Time of Peace, unlefs it be with Confent of Par- liament, is againfl Law." This Claufe has been long abrogated, long complained of, and long unremedied, in Times of profound Tranquillity. And though by Confent of P nt is inferted in this Ar- ticle, by which the Sufpenfion of it was ef- fected ; ycc the Condition of that P nt ought to have been free, or it nevertheiefs be- comes repugnant to the Bill of Rights, the Nature of P— ^^^ nts, and the Spirit of the Conftituiion. Is there a Man who will af- fert, that the P nt which firft deprived you of this Blefling was independent of the M r? To I ■ fii w ■ ! ft! U 'W [ 34] M.. ;../ . ■ To this immediately fucceeds another Claufe, which, the Moment it was fufpended, ren- dered you impotent, and ranked you amongft the mOil abjedl of all Slaves j with that Cir- cumftance, lo aggravating to a liberal Mind, the being deemed Rebels ; for Cowards may poi'lefs Arms without Danger to any Miin. It is, c i ** That the Subjeds, which are Prote- ** ilanls, may have Arms for their Defence " (iiitable to theii Conditions, and as allowed *' by Lavi^." . ! »-: ' The Law :ii a free P- — ^nt. How are your Conditions lefs fuitable to the pofleffing Arms now, than when this Law was made ? Have you renounced all Title to Freedom ? Have you deferted the eftabliflied Religion of the Kingdom ? Have you turned thofe Arms in Rebellion againft your S n, that you are now no longer intruded with the Poflef- ijon of them ? Or is the PrefervaMon of Hares and Partridges become a more important and P- ntary Concern, than thofe of Liberty and the State ? That an Englifiman, and free, unlefs he pollefs one hundred Pounds a Year in Land, or one hundred and fifty in Leafe, thtugh iii' you )fref- [ares and ierty |free, 'ear jafe, L 35 ] though he be worth a hundred Thoufanii Pounds in Money, cannot kill one of thele Animals, without being fubjecfl to a Fine of five Pounds, or Imprifonment, in a Country where it is not worth a Shilling. ' , • 7 • - -.^ . . \ ' • > •* . . . Thus, to be qualified to kill a Hare, a Man mufl be polTefTvid of fifty Times the Re- venue which authorizes him to vote for crea- ting the Legillators of his Country. Strange Abfurdity in a free State, unnatural Vafialagc, that a free Man fliould be prohibited by La'.\' from killing ihe Produce of his own Lands, whatever be the Income of them. f Yet under this Difguife of preferving Hares, did a M — ^-^r cunningly devife to de- prive you of Arms to defend Yourfelves, thus making you Slaves, by robbing you of the Power of Refiftanct ; When will the Day of Redemption come ! .>-i' ■J o^ X: -s': >T,. Th e next Article was made to coincide with that Law, which, though frequently fufpended to indulge a M ^-r in exercifing A(4s of Oppreffion and Tyranny j is ftill the bell Blefling of an Eng/ifi Subjed : The Ha- beai Corpus A^, It is as follows. F 2 ^ ' *< That C 36 ] ** That exceflive Bail ought not to be " required, nor exceflive Fines impofed, nor *' cruel and unufual Punifhments inflided.*' ..V; What exceffive is meant to exprefs in this Place is not eafy precifely to determine. In a common Cafe, I know, two tnoufand Pounds Bail was demanded and givep as Se- curity for Appearance at the King's Bench j and not long fince, a Printer received fuch Punishment, as can fcarce be conceived to come within the Letter of this Claufc ; bdng punifhed in Body, Purfe, and Soul b, ; Man who dared to oblige a M—r — r in any Adion that came before him, however illegal and inhuman, for the Sake of acquiring No- bility, and amaffing infinite Wealth. A Man who committed to Prifon, in diredl Oppofition to the Habeas Corpus Adt, and offered to try the pretended Offence in his own Houfe without a Jury ; who only wanted the bloody Opportunity of being lefs merciful than Peftilence or Jefferies : For never fincc the Hour that Satan revolted from his God, has Jieaven permitted fo large a Portion of that Principle, which in Scripture is called ^xii^lnov Tt, to be immixed with the human §oijl. But he is gone^ and his Defires unac- complirtiedj I C 37 ] compli(bed. Thus peri(h all, difappointed and dctcfted, who pervert the Laws of Li- berty to the Mandates of a M- r, their ow« Ambition, or the Ruin of the Conftitu- tion. 1- ' Such have been the important Articles cnale [ 41 ] DlfHculty which from thence arifes, of tracing to the Source the Iniquity of thofe Men, who have involved this Nation in all the large Lift of prefent Misfortunes, and of obtaining ample Satisfadion, fo neceflary to the Support of your Rights and the Conftitution* J li K A F T E R the above Claufe, immediately fucceeds the following, imagined with the fame righteous View by your Fathers, and doomed to the fame fatal End by your Co- temporaries ; it was for the Security of your Properties from Foreigners, who the P nt, taught by the bounteous Inclination in King fFi/liam, of ftripping you, and bc- flowing on fuch Men, wifely forefaw, with- out fuch Provifion, would, like the Swarms of Locufts fallen upon Egypt, be uo lefs the Plague of this Country, and eat up every green Thing. And here I confider all Pofts and Places, civil and military, as the Birthrights of Eng" iijhmen -, on you the Taxes are levied, on you thefe Emoluments naturally devolve. The Words are. i( '* That after the faid Limitation fhall take EfFed, as aforefaid, no Perfon born G <( out T •ill [+2] out of the Kingdoms of England^ Scotland, or Ireland^ or the Dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a Denizen, except fuch as are born of Englijh Parents), (hall be capable to en- joy any Office or Place of Truft, either civil or military, or to have any Grant of Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, from the Crown to himfelf, or any other or others in Truft for him.** ' This Claufe, with Pain I tell it you, has been openly violated by a late M r, iu appointing to the Command of a Ship of War an Alien to the Land, a H », a Man by no fuperior Merit entitled to fuch Diftindion ; for Merit may afford fome Ex- cufe for fuch Prediledlion. Indeed, though this Part of the above Claufe has alfo been fufpended in Favour of Mr Prov — t, it af- fords you Matter of Joy, rather than Caufe of Complaint •, becaule his long Service^ great Skill in military Affairs, his known Honour to the Prince he formerly ferved, his Merit in fo fpeedily, fo fully, and fo cheaply, rai- iing his Regiment of Germans^ fo timely fent to the Colonies, fo agreeable to the Difpofi- tions of the Inhabitants, and fo promijing of national rai- [ 43 ] national Service, render him an Objed de^ ferving fuch high Diilin6tion. Great as this Advantage from German Troops may prove to America^ there is yet one Objedl which muft pierce the Heart of every Englijhman with unfpeakable Anguifli j it is the numerous Germans which are inlifted in the Guards. This (lamps the moft flagrant Difgrace on Englijh Loyalty, and raifes the moft honourable Refentment againft a M — r in all who behold his M y's facred Pfer- fon furrounded by foreign Soldiers. Nor will I, though an Angel came from Heaven to tell it me, believe an Englijh King can con- ceive himfelf fafe, protected by German Guards, be acquainted with, and permit this Affront to reft on Subjedls who have never ftained their Allegiance, Surely the Guards of facred Perfons are in Places of military Trufl^ or what Idea can bs annexed to the Exprellion. Who can be affared of the Fi- delity of fuch Men, accuftomed to be fold and ready to be bought to any Purpofe ? Who can clofe his Eye in Peace, alarmed by Apprehenfions for the precious Life of his moft facred M y ; particularly when we confider what has been fo lately attempted on the Life of the Moft Chriftian King. G 2 Away :w J [ ++ ] t ( 1 Away then with every venal and fu- fpedted German ; free the Nation from it's pears and the K^ — g from Dangei j fuffer not the ftanding Reproach of Difloyahy with which the M r has fligmatized you j let your Prince know, what your Fathers thought and accomplished concerning the Dw/cZ? Guards of King William^ how difpleafing to them, how reludantly he difmifled them, and the Intereft he loft in his Subjedls Hearts by that ill-judged Partiality ; you will then have no longer Caufe to complain. With what royal Condefcenlion has your S fcnt back the JI «j, becaufe they were no longer plea- fing to the Nation. Will he not do the like with Refpecft to thofe Germans which are in- lifted in the Guards ? Nor, in this Part alone of this Article, does this Adl feem to be virtually, if not lite- rally, infraded ; for though Lands and Te- nements may not have been granted to Fo- reigners, Are not Penfions for one and thirty Years abfolute, within the Letter of this Law ? Do they not defcend from Father to Son ? Are they not juftly ftiled Heredita- ments ? At leaft, Are they not contrary to the Intent and Spirit of the Ad ? Deprivations of \s\ :le, te- 'e- o- ty lis I to a- to )f [ 45 ] of that Money, which, raifed by the Subje(5>s of the Realm, ought to be difpofcd of only for their Service. Why then do the Names of Sporkey Herman Hobourge^ Steinbergs Gra- venbope^ Schuts^ Schroder^ T- , Schaub, fland oppofite to nine thoufand three hundred Pounds in the Lift of Penlions, paid annually by the Revenues of Ireland? What are their Pleas of Merit for thefe Rewards ? Are they all according to the righteous Commandments of the King of Kings. Besides thefe, Numbers ftand as Penfio- ners on England. Is it not Time to wipe them from the Lift, when this Nation is now agonizing at the laft Gafp, drained to the laft Drop, by Transfufion of the vital Power of England into Germany^ to fuftain the unna- tural Interefts of H r ? Certainly your S— — n knows it not ; your and his Enemies have alike concealed from him and you the approaching Ruin. There yet remains another Article, which requires the moft facred Obfervation, eflential to the very Being of a P— — nt, and fecuring the Members you return the genuine Repre- fentatives of your Rights and Privileges. It is, «' That T i\ [ 46 ] " That no Pcrfon who has an Office or Place of Profit under the King, or receives a Penfion from the Crown, Oiall be capa- ble of ferving as a Member of the Houfc " of Commons." cc ^> :> • As to Popery, thank Heaven, we are in no Danger of feeing a Prince of that Religion on this Throne 5 no Man can deny the Royal Family the Juftice of acknowledging that they are thorough Proteflants. But whether that Deluge of Irrellgion and Irreverence for the Supreme Being, which has been let in upon the Nation, fo that Bl- fliops have bjen encouraged to depreciate the Objcft of your Woitliip, and Corruption let loofe to the effacing all moral and religious Obligation, annihilating the very Idea of a God from the Minds of the highefl: and low- eft Clafs of People, be lefs pernicious to the H State M" State in a M- [ 50] ■— r, than an Attempt to in- troduce Popery in a King j you will decide for yourfelves. One Thing, however, I may venture to affirm ; the Motives in each pro- bably fprung from a very different Origin : In the King, it might be Zeal for the Caufe of God, and the Salvation of thofe, whofc Souls he conceived in Danger of eternal Per- dition, by continuing in the fame Perfwafion : In the M r, Defign to eradicate every Senfe of Duty as a Citizen and Chriftian, to lay open the Minds of the People to the Pre- valence of Money, to break down every Prin- ciple of Virtue by Corruption, to remove all Obje(!ilion to his Intent of fubverting the State, that he might reign fupreme through fuch deteftablc Atchievements. ^ ; ; ....o-u'I i The firft, however miftaken and contra- didiory to the Genius and Welfare of this Confutation, might take it's Birth from Good-Will towards Mankind. The latter could fpring but from the moft nefarious of all Defigns, that of vitiating eve- ry Heart, and enllaving a whole People. , Through the Courfe of what I have faid to you, I have fuppofed for the laft forty Years, [51 ] Years, before the Commencement of the prc- fcnt P'^ nt, that your Reprefentatives have been under undue m -rial Influence, ille- gally eleded, and contradidory to the Genius of a free State ; which abiolutely requires they (hould be independent. But, even in fuppofing them free in every Senfe, could they have conftitutionally given away or alie- nated your Rights and Privileges ? You mud afTuredly pofTefs the fame Title to thefe Im- munities, which your Forefathers pofTelTed in the Reign o^ Richard the Second ; when, by the Machinations and Perfwafions of that King and his Minifters, that execrable Par- liament of 1397, ^" ^^^ facrilegious Vote, impudently repealed every falutary Law of their Anceflors, attempted to fubvert the Conftitution, declared the King fuperior to the Laws, and transformed the Authority of the Sovereign into the lawlels Power of a Ty- rant. loft 'e- lid ■ty irs, The Senfe of your Progenitors was by no Means altered by this audacious Adlion j they deemed the Conftitution paramount to the united Powers of P nt, their Li' erties incapable of being given up by their Repre- fentatives : ihey took Arms, oppofed the Kinr, their Reprefentatives, and his Abettors, .d . . . H 2 rcftored r^F ™ [ 53 ] rcftorcd their ancient Rights and Privileges, Such was the exalted Love of Liberty, the ho- nourable and virtuous Behaviour of your An- ceflors, on that important Occafion 5 they obliged Richard the Second to abdicate his Throne, for having ufurped their Rights by Confent of Parliament, In like Manner ycimes the Second, in attempting a fimilar Defign by extended Prerogative, fuffered thp Jike Fate, and abdicated alfo. Shall then M' rs in England^ the Ser- vants of the Pubiick, in the Reign of George the Second, perpetrate, without being called to a national Enquiry, what Sovereigns havp never dared to attempt with Impunity ? Awake then, inftrud your Members, re- nionftrate inceflandy to your Prince, fet forth the Juftice ^f your Requeft, petition the Re- peal of thofe Laws which have fecluded you from Rights and Privileges renewed by the Revolution, and urge the NecefTity of being reftored ; let not Pieafure, Pain, or Sleep, ef- face that Image from ypur Minds, nor change that Refolutioii of your Souls, 'till you obtain the Liberties, of which by M rs you have been fpoiled, and you deliver the Conftitution |Q yoiir Sons as you received it from your fathers. [S3] Ffl^thers. So (IwU fucceeding Generations blefs the prefcnt, and your Names be fairly written in the Records of immortal Glory. For either your Forefathers, whofe Adions have fo often warmed your Hearts in reading their Story j from whom you glory to have defcended, had no juft Title to recover thofe Rights, which their Reprefentatives gave op in the Reign of Richard: Or that Ti- tle fubfifts in full Force in that of George the Second, and may be as righteoufly exerted by you againfl m rial, as by them again^ royal, Power. For you neither have nor can forfeit the Claim of fueing for Redrefs of Grievances; nor M ■ rs obtain a legal Con- fent and conftitutional Authority from your Reprefentatives, of rendering inefFcdlual thofe Statutes, which were made to protect your JLiberties, and preferve your Share in the Conflitution. » * , This muft inevitably be the Opinion, whatever be the prefent Profeffion, of all who have juftified and fupported the Eftablifhment of the Prince of Orange and the prefent Fa- mily on the Throne of thefe Realms ; other- wife, they renounced without Reafon, and adopted without Principle i they have relin- . quifhed \ I' I '(. 5 «: !;' \ quidied the mofl: prevalent Arguments in Fa- ^ vour of the Revolution, and ftand felf- con- demned Criminals. For would it not be a ftrange Manner of arguing to urge, that thofc Laws were elTentially neccfTary at that Time, to preferve us againfl: arbitrary Power in a King, and necdlefs at prefent againfl the Dc- fpotifm of a M— -r. . ; .,..,. 1 1 •* ^. ' w '1 Nor can I conceive any Way of thinking fo promifing of Prejudice to the royal Line ; fhould you, the People, conceiving that all Security arifing from thofe Adls is rendered ineffectual by m rial Influence, infer, that every mutual Compadl is virtually difTolved : When the mofl important Articles on one Part are rendered effete and without Efficacy, thofe on the other flill remaining in all their original Vigour; and thence think your^ felves abfolved from all Allegiance. The very thought, like the Hand of Death, mufl flrike every Man with Dread, when he refledls how numerous are the Blef- fings with which the prefent royal Houfe has enriched this Land ; how convincing the Rea- fons which oblige him to cherifh every ardent wifh for their long Life and Profperity j and how perilous the Situation into which they .,,,,. ' may of ;ief- has .ea- lent land ley lay {55 ] may be brought by the Mifdeeds and Iniqui- ties of the late M rs. Thus, then, the Breaches of the Conftitu- tion may be alike fatal to the Crown as to the Subject, and the Neceflity of it*s being reftored becomes the equal Concern of King and People. . , < •? • ' ^'>" Certainly, nothing can be more avcrfe to the Inclination of a good Prince, than- fcreening M rs who have oppreiTed his Subjeds. By fuch Meafures, did not Richard, yames, and many others, incur the Difplea- iiire which their M rs would otherwife have felt, and, by becoming their Protestors, rowfe the Wrath of an injured Nation, and fuffer accordingly ? But, fincc the Seafon is now pall:, in which the late Ad n entirely poffeffed the r- — al Ear, the Rays of Truth, darting from other Underftandings, may probably reveal new Profpeds, and difpel that Obfcu- rit^ from Fads difguifed and FaKhoods con- cealed, which, hanging like Mifls before your S n's Eyes, prevented him from difcovering the pernicious Tendency of his late Advifers. Bv i 1 ■ ■ III, i [56] > * ' By Means of this Illumination, thofe who have undefervingly rifen by fpurious Means, like Hubert de Burgh, alike difpofed to fix or to deftroy your Conftitution on felfifh Views alone; who have obtained the high Honours of Earl and Baron, degraded from their Ranks, may unpitied, with the jufleft Ignominy, ftand on the Rock of wild Ambi- tion, dcferted and cxpofed, amidft the Waves of popular Contempt ; like the Edyftone a- m id ft the Sea, a warning Light to all, who, through falfe Glory, Avarice, Pride, betray- ing, ill advifing, or felling their King and Country, may hereafter rife from the loweft Extradtion to the higheft Honours. Such has been the Fate of the Bill of Rights and h€t of Settlement, obtained with Honour and loft with Ignominy, preferved from Kings and facrificed by M— — rs. Yet ftrangc as it may appear, fuch is the diffolute Nature of thofe Men, who are attached to the Meafures of the late Ad n, the Author of a Pamphlet, called the Confiitution, has omit^ ted every Confideration of this Kind, and, with affcded Tendernefs for his dear Country, ilrives to alarm you with the Danger which attends .1 who cans, D fix elfifli high from ufteft imbi- Vaves ine a- who, ctray- g and lowed: ights ,onour [Kings as it ire of ;afures of a omit- and, luntry, rhich Ittends .i C 57 ] attends your Liberties from the future At- tempts of the prcfent Miftifter. _.. In fetting'out he declares, " His Defign is " to animate and unite the FViends of the .** Conftitution in it's Defence and Preferva- tion." Yet, as if it were flill undamaged and entire, mentions nothing of that Diftrefs in which it is involved at prefent, by thofe whom he abets and fears only for the future. Strange Blindnefs, in not perceiving the Mi- feries to which it is reduced j ftrange Perfpi- cuity, in feeing that, of which no Symptom' can fpeak the Approach, becaufe it is already part ; ftrange Inattention to your Interefts, which has now firft alarmed you of your Danger ; ftrange Defign of animating and uniting the Friends of the Conftitution, to the Prefervation of what is already loft, and thus, by calling your Eyes from thofe Pilots which hav fliipwreckcd your Liberties, fix them on thofe who have not long enough poflefted the Helm to have fteered amifs. ;i ,M*J ! !•». This Danger on the Part of Mr P — , and this friendly Alarm on the Part of the Au- thor, he tells you, " Aiifes from the M — ~rs '* having excluded fome Men moft em^nent- 1* ,ly capable of ferving. their Country, and ^i^ J ** introduced 1 3 ** introduced others new to Bufinefs, and not *' diftinguiflied by fu'pcrior Abilities." \.. kA« 1 ■ WnEREare they to be found, the fc Men (o eminently capable ot ferving their Coun- try ? Why did this Writer omit the Inftances they have given of their great Capacity ? Is the prefent fodorn Condition of the whole Reahn the Proof he means to bring ? What of prudent or happy has, for a Length of Years, entered into the Ad tion ? Howe- ver, he declares he does not mean the veteran M — '— "f, whofe confufed Speech and unfta- ble Motion are the exadt Emblem of his Con- duct in the M— — ^-ly; who- Swivel-headed, like that Machine fixed in Cherry-Gardens, to preferve the Fruit from Birds, obeys the Breath of every Wind, ft ill noify according to it's varying Impulfe ; fo long placed in one Situation, that even foreign Pilferers grew acquainted with his Impotence, gathered your Fruits beneath his Eyes, and fung in pure Se- curity and Contempt of you and your Guar- dian. Is it that Man, tremendous in Mifchief, whofe Laws are thofe of Oppreffion and Ty- ranny, whofe Soul, like the niceft Ballance, inftantly inclines to that Side into which the greateft |ief, fy- icc, (the teft [ 59 f grcatcft Weight of Gold is thrown, and de- clares accordingly ; feeing only through one contradlcd Aperture, illiberal, illiterate, un- forgiving, and detefted. -^i.i :']'* «'l ;,'>iiUt;7-H.3 .' U J » I'lrf t ; AnjW'^V^ 8i,M Is it he, whdfe Condu(5l, like that of the Viper warmed, has been one continued Irt- flance of P'^rdition to his Country which en- riched, and Ingratitude to his God who prc- ferved, him ? Whofe every Plan has been the Creature of Ignorance or Treachery in him, the Source of Difgrace and Ruin to you. ' Duller than the Waters of Oblivion, Stupidi- ty governed by Impertinence, Or he, whofe rank Ambition, backed with what afpires to the , would bind you all in military Chains, the Condition of whofe former acquiring the M ry, was the introducing Germans to your Difgrace, and fuftaining H r to your Undoing ? Whofe darinfi is equal to every Attempt but that of doing right j whofe Luft of Eypence and Pleafure would pillage yoiir iaft Shilling to fate itfelf ; infenfible to the Motives of true Honour, Love of his Country, and the Mi- fcrics you feel; acknowledging no Limit to his delpotick Will but Impoflibility ; like Sa-;; jfan, more mifchievous after his Fali. \ w •:.I. hill 'ftj *!) f v.** ' -^ Are thefe the excluded Mcn>, (o cminent-i. ly capatie of forving their Country? If it b|^ ill Underftanding, their Pronenefs to Mifchicf has prevented them from exerting it. If from Good- Will towards Mankind, their In- capacity has effaced the whole Defign. Thu* the Alliance of Wcaknefs or Iniquity, like Gravitation, which operates ftrongeft in the heaviefl Matter, has hurried all your Privile- ges and Expedlations down towards the Cen^ ter of Darknefs and Deflrudion. . - ' >. ■ *^'f'> ,\// kA ■■ .•«..»'.»• I nl How then does the new S— — — y ftand un- juftified in lemoving fuch Men from publick Ad tion ? Whom (hould he introduce but thofe he is intimately acquainted with ? Aduated by the fame honourable Motives, purfuing the fame falutairy Eoci^, and in whom he may falely confide. In adting c- therwife, he would have adopted the very Errors of thofe this Writer applauds, . likp, them been furrounded by Knaves and^Foplsi and ypur Rui^i fliil continued by a Cbqng|9 ofM— •rs 1 . » * *.' *• > ..I r"^ ■ . t f ' But at length, fuch is the Difficulty of long concealing the real Nature of Men's De- figns, the true Sentiments of this Author burll , into open Difcovery in the following Words, relative ■\, c- I : of lift. [ds, ive C 6i ] relative to the late Sir Rolf — / IV'-^ple, ** his '* highed Abilities will be faid moft unjujily " to have confifted in corrupting." Is he not then the Abetter of his Condud ? Has he not joined in this Deftrudion of your Confti- tution ? Does he not long to complete that Purpofc ? Is dot his Heart rent in being dif- placcd or difappointed by him he calumniates ? Docs he not dread the Lois of Place or Pen- iion, envy Merit, or deteft Virtue ? Thence fprings his long Silence and prefent babbling of Danger : Thence this Zeal tor the preferv- ing a Conftiiution alreadv ruined : Will not thefe Things for ever renuc all he has written, or {hall hereafter wne, void of Attention or Belief? For what Man can merit the leail de- gree of Credit, wtu) Favours the Conduct of that M r, wh«>, to the Mind of Man like the Earthquake to Lijbon^ left not one hu- man Virtue unfhakcn to the Ground? w.. Another Crime which by this Writer is imputed to thei Charge of the new M r is, that ** Mr P — in Port might by his Ad- ** vice have animated, or by his Diapprv-ba- " tions awed, Mr P m^ to Mea.urcs more ** honourable and Advantageous to the Na- " tion.** la this thfe Wiiter declares what }s next to impofTible ^ by what fuperior Power of [62 ] of Genius can bnc Man animate another, whofe Capacity is incapable of comprehending any Thing extenfive or fublime, or awe the Heart of that timid Deer into Aftions of For- titude, if he could have comprehended it. If Mr P — long held his Place in Compla- cency, it was itill in Expedation, that, at length underftood by the M fs, he might gain the Opportunity of being heard by His Sr- n, and fave the Land : From this Jealou- fy excluded him. If he held it in Silence, he both held and renounced it with Honour, to open his Lips for the Prefervation of his Country. To have declined joining with the veteran M r, even the Writer of the Conftitution agrees is univerfally approved : And not joining with him he favours, is yet more applauded by all honeft Lips j becaufe recommended by him and Men of fuch per- nicious Principles* Folly, though deftru<^ive to a State, may poffibly be led by Integrity and Wifdom ; but dired and avowed Iniquity tends invariably to Deftrudtion. Yet notwithftanding this Author's Appro- bation of not joining the M r, which he has delineated, he fays, ** it muft be acknow- ledged, that he has left Mr P— a Fleet fuperior to ihat of our Enemies, and an Ar- my C( ro- he leet