|: DA 4-4-8 i I68J0. ) v :i UC-NRUF, C S3b 451 His Majefties DECLARATION DEFENDED: In a L ETTE R to a Friend. BEING AN ANSWER TO A CALLED A LE TTER from a Perjbn of Quality to his Friend: CONCERNING Kings late Declaration touching the Reafons which moved him to DifTolve THE TWO LAST PARLIAMENTS W E ST M I N^ST E\*xi& X F % for the other French Dutchefs, fince I perceive our Author is unacquainted with her Character, I will give it him ; (he is one who loves hereale to that degree, that no advantages of Fortune can bribe her into bufinefs. Let her but have wherewithall to make Merry adays, and to play at Cards anights, and I dare anfwer for her, that Ihe will take as little care to difturb their bufmefs,as me takes in the management of her own. But if you will fay that fheonly affefts idlenefs, and is a grand Intriguer in her heart, I will only Anfwer, that I mould mew you juftfuch another as I have defcrib'd her Grace, amongft the heads ot your own Party: indeed I do not lay it is a Woman, but 'tis one who loves a Woman. As for the Dutchefs of M. either Ihe is a very fincere lover of down- right idlenefs,or flie has coufen'd all parts of Chriftendom, where fhe has wandred lor thefc la je our folid Author But I retort le Proteftant me this digreilion ; but now we have had our dance, let us to our ferious bufinefs. While thefe, and their Creatures are at the Helm, achat can we expettfor thefecurity of the Proteftant Religion, or what oppofition to the ambitious defigns of France ? I luppofe more reafonably on the other fide, that no fuch perfonsare at the Helm, and that what he has aflum'd is but precarious. But I retort upon him, that if fome of his Party were the Minifters, the Proteftant Religion would receive but very cold afliftance from them, who have none atallthemfelves. And for the growth of the French Monarchy, I have already told you, to whofe Counfels we are beholden for it. He goes on ; you will tell me that the fupplyesfo given may be appropriated, to theje particular ends of fupportingour Alliances, and the relief of Tangier. And it may le fo limited by Act of Parliament, that it cannot be diverted to other ufes. But he anfwer s that Objection by a Story of Monfieur de Sully's telling of H. 4th of France : let the States raife the Mcney, and tye it as theypleaje ; ivhen they are dijfohedyou may dijpofe of it aiyoupleafe. All this is to confirm his firft unalterable principle, that the King muft be fure to finger nothing ; but be us'd as Filhers do their Cormorant, have his mouth left open, to fwallow the prey for them, but his throat gagg'd that nothing may go down. Let them bring this to pafs, and afterwards they will not need to take away his Prerogative of making War : He muft do that at his own peril, and be fent to fight his Enemies with his hands bound behind him. But what if he thinks not their Party fit to be in- truded, leaft they mould employ it againft his Pcrfon? why then, as he told you they will give him nothing. Now whofe will be the fault in com- mon reafon, if the Allyances be not fupported, and Tangier not relieved? If they will give him nothing, before they bring him to a neceflky of taking it upon their terms, afmuch as in them lyes they diflblve the Govern- ment : and the Intereft of the Nation abroad muft be left in the Suds, till they have deflroy'd the Monarchy at home. But fince God, and the Laws have put the difpofing of the Treafury into his Majefties hands, it may fatisfie any reafonable Englijhman, that the fame Laws have provided forthemifpendingof the Treafury, by calling the publick Officers into queftion for it before the Parliament. For God be thanked we have a Houfe of Commons, who will be fure, never to forgoc the lcaft tittle of their Priviledges, and not be fo meal-mouth'd as the States of France, o£ envixr rrm it is in the Conjlitittion of our Goverment, and the chi is is in the love and liberality of their People. f nd it fo; though m «vcn a Million of ; Majefly. Tis the Clerk of the Parlia- know that every Republican who r< No rr.ore it would not. Then farewel makes it Treafon to Levy Arms aga fences whatsoever. For \i this be never to be Rcfipn'd, there never h? >reient King, upon fjKrTW>7VlmmfnitJ,W'Vr/iMr't*t;imlJ&9iffjFl let they have perjuaded the King to believe ithing in Na- Minijlers, in the Ex DolemanV and o then Parliaments, during the Ex a Reafonablc People will c have proceeded, notridic" 1 ' them. For in the firft hi White-Hall were more f Places ofpublick Enterta.... Gare in Council, both to dil that (imply considered, the lution of Four Parliaments, the Houfe of Commons to D King to believe nothing of this danger ; but to ot wholly contrivd by the ivic rji» ivnurnrricni to haze an end ot ah ; then : and that this was the true reafon, why four , t nation of the Flot have been diffilvd; nclude, .that his Majefty and his Minifters ,f\xr Knr tt/it-li ill i-U ,1- M nfu» „tK;„U I : ot the Plot, the Avenues of u : His Majefty abftaining from - die Minifters taking all neccflary :over Confpiracics and to prevent them. So, But the Ufe which has been made of it by if-inherit the Duke, to deny the King Supplies, and ■HlBWyyili^; 32 •wf^Sw '. 3SiJ«5 l»: nim upon n and known F ieems, that an Exclufion fhould pais by Bill, urges, Th ture and Nations will h a Poptjb King. The L am lure he dares not d.^ defence 5 even that nei man of any Religion, ai ferve their lives. But I - iiiwii) uy mi, uaw or rNature, ther will look but a fquint up id a man of no Religion, are t anfwer pofitively to what he v\ Soveraign, of another F Dreiudice hfirrafrpr- fnr i liupuwers not a subject to rile teligion, uponfuppofitionof w Gr,na It- lc \mn~{ftUl~ »U„^ - may not extend his Powe The probability (whicl r to the prejudice of any mans i is the worft that they can put ablolve a Subject who Were " > JlK-»,^»IlUllHiril will ther lawfully be lucl 'slife: Befidest 1, no Bill o lis, we ha f Exclufion ve the Exa liav npj esor wftagainft him in hi Primitive Chriftians during ten I co u raging u terfecuti s to rebe ons. But againft a we ha Chrift Lurrenng ve no T ianPrm ext, :e,tr t never taking up no Primitive Examf 10 of a different Perfv And was here were then no , will avail our Ai Chnlt Jthor 1 ian I ittle Winces \ ; forth* vhen the New Teft : Argument is a Fo it it be unla wful tc rebel ag linft a Hea rher i Em Deror. then mnrh m ibe to it, that fince we cannot pry into the fecret Decrees of '" J ge of future Events, we ous ' Hon; without either pi — ' ay never happen ; or i _. kvho in the courfe of nature may fucceed°hin j, could never have the power to fettle Popery in £n^land t or to v Government. ~d no Proteitant ; .., which Plato Rt i the -Duke of M. he is afraid at the bottom to C >4] Duke is excluded, his Creatur twice over ; and th ' he fays the Duke : Qualities give his I Even excluded, am King is endued with moftexcelle Having found i matures pu onfeiied, that the arryed it for men- [,6] the other two Eftates , and the Soveraign are not contenting; '7// no matter, lavs this Gentleman : then- are fo ■ 1 1 »- ■ fr Wu*< ««H» [») h Hi h I I love a man who deals plainly ; he explicitly owns this is not Law, and : it is reafbnable ; and will have its cfteft as if it were. See then, in the \ n u™*\^™r\tt Pn T*,.r «hidafide: that fenc° : ° *' — ition. Now that muft be either Enthufiafm, orthehead-ftron_ bin'd : becaufe in depite of any Earthly Power it will have its effect . fo that, which way (bever our A"" Rebellion : Law grounded on . _ the People j and this is Ratio ultin Furthermore ; The King is a pu we are told, he can only eat and, drink ; and perform ft -.L..L (L.UL..~. 1~r. V..* 1-.. .n: „..*/... /_• / re mention'd, are thofe only of ai \ Beaft. And as he is a King he 1 lifpofing of the People • and the on inarch, is for an Innkeeper to let upoiu thele Letters of Inftru&ion how he ihould behave ! ~t he was fchool'd and tutor *d, when the h er Prince of him in Scotland. When the ; were fickinbed, no remedy, he muft louthful of Bread to ftay his c*—^fc . r _city. 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