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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender + Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover + +Author: Daniel Defoe + +Release Date: July 8, 2011 [EBook #36656] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SEASONABLE WARNING AND CAUTION *** + + + + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. In +memory of Steven Gibbs (1938-2009). + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<div class="notes"> +<p><i>Transcriber's Note:</i> This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was +originally published in 1712, and was prepared from <i>The Novels and +Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe</i>, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855). +Archaic spellings have been retained as they appear in the original, +and obvious printer errors have been corrected without note.</p> +</div> + +<p><br /></p> + +<div class="bbox"> +<h1><span class="sm">A Seasonable</span><br /> +<span class="gesperrt">WARNING</span><br /> +<span class="sm">And <span class="gespn">CAUTION</span></span><br /> +<span class="xsm">Against the</span><br /> +<span class="msm"><span class="gespn">INSINUATIONS</span></span><br /> +<span class="sm">Of <i>Papists</i> and <i>Jacobites</i></span><br /> +<span class="xsm">In Favour of the</span><br /> +<span class="gesperrt">PRETENDER.</span></h1> + +<hr class="close" /> +<p class="center"><span class="lg"><b>Being a LETTER from an <i>ENGLISHMAN</i><br /> +at the Court of <i>HANOVER</i>.</b></span></p> +<hr class="close" /> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<p class="hang"><i>And thou shalt teach these Words diligently unto thy Children, and +shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy House, and when thou +walkest by the Way.</i> Deut. vi. 7.</p> + +<p class="hang"><i>And what thou seest write in a Book.</i> Rev. i. 11.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="close" /> + +<p class="center blockquot"><span class="gespn"><i>LONDON</i></span>: Printed for <i>J. Baker</i>, at the <i>Black-Boy</i> +in <i>Pater-Noster-Row</i>. 1712.</p> +</div> + + + +<hr /> +<h2><span class="msm">A SEASONABLE</span><br /> +WARNING AND CAUTION<br /> +<span class="xsm">AGAINST THE</span><br /> +<span class="sm">INSINUATIONS OF PAPISTS AND JACOBITES<br /> +IN FAVOUR OF THE PRETENDER.</span></h2> + +<hr class="short" /> + +<p><span class="smcap">Why</span> how now, England! what ailest thee now? What evil spirit now +possesseth thee! O thou nation famous for espousing religion, and +defending liberty; eminent in all ages for pulling down tyrants,<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> +and adhering steadily to the fundamentals of thy own constitution:<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> +that has not only secured thy own rights, and handed them down +unimpaired to every succeeding age, but has been the sanctuary of +other oppressed nations;<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> the strong protector of injured subjects +against the lawless invasion of oppressing tyrants.</p> + +<p>To thee the oppressed protestants of France owed, for some ages ago, +the comfort of being powerfully supported, while their own king,<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> +wheedled by the lustre of a crown, became apostate, and laid the +foundation of their ruin among themselves; in thee their posterity<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> +find a refuge, and flourish in thy wealth and trade, when religion and +liberty find no more place in their own country.</p> + +<p>To thee the distressed Belgii<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a> owe the powerful assistance by which +they took up arms in defence of liberty and religion, against Spanish +cruelty, the perfidious tyranny of their kings, and the rage of the +bloody Duke d'Alva.</p> + +<p>From thee the confederate Hollanders<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a> received encouragement to join +in that indissoluble union which has since reduced the invincible +power of the Spaniards, and from whence has been raised the most +flourishing commonwealth in the world.</p> + +<p>By thy assistance they are become the bulwark of the protestant +religion, and of the liberties of Europe; and have many times since +gratefully employed that force in thy behalf; and, by their help, +thou, who first gavest them liberty, hast more than once rescued and +preserved thy own.</p> + +<p>To thee the present protestant nations<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> of Europe owe their being at +this day freed from the just apprehensions of the growing greatness of +France; and to thy power, when acting by the glorious protector of thy +liberty, King William, is the whole Christian world indebted for +depriving the French tyrant of the hopes and prospect of universal +monarchy.</p> + +<p>To thy blood, thy treasure, the conduct of thy generals, and the +vigour of thy councils, are due, the glory, the fame, the praises, and +the advantages of twenty years' war, for the establishing and +restoring the liberty and religion of Europe.</p> + +<p>When posterity shall inquire into the particulars of this long and +bloody war; the battles, sieges, and stupendous marches of armies, +which, as well with loss as with victory, have been the subject of thy +history; it will for ever be frequent in their mouths; <span class="smcap">here</span> the +British troops, fighting with dreadful fury, and their usual +constancy, shed their blood in defence of the protestant cause, and +left a bloody victory to God's enemies and their own; as at Steenkirk, +Landen, Camaret, Almanza, Brihenga, and the like: or, <span class="smcap">here</span> the British +troops, with their usual valour, carried all before them, and +conquered in behalf of the protestant interest, and Europe's +liberties; as at Blenheim, Ramilies, Barcelona, Oudenard, Sarragossa, +Blaregnies, &c. Here the British navies triumphed over French +greatness; as at Cherburgh, La Hogue, Gibraltar, &c. There their land +forces reduced the most impregnable fortresses; as at Namur, Lisle, +Menin, Tournay, &c.</p> + +<p>And wherefore has all this English and British blood been spilt? +Wherefore thy nation exhausted; thy trade sunk and interrupted; thy +veins opened? Why hast thou struggled thus long, and with so much +vigour, as well with French tyranny abroad, as popish factions at +home, but to preserve entire the religion and liberties of Europe, and +particularly of this nation, and to preserve our posterity from +slavery and idolatry? Principles truly noble, worthy a nation's blood +to protect, and worthy a nation's treasure to save.</p> + +<p>But what has all this been for? And to what intent and purpose was all +this zeal, if you will sink under the ruin of the very fabric ye have +pulled down? If ye will give up the cause after ye have gained the +advantage, and yield yourselves up after you have been delivered; to +what purpose then has all this been done? Why all the money expended? +Why all this blood spilt? To what end is France said to be reduced, +and peace now concluded, if the same popery, the same tyranny, the +same arbitrary methods of government shall be received among you +again? Sure your posterity will stand amazed to consider how lavish +this age has been of their money, and their blood, and to how little +purpose; since no age since the creation of the world can show us a +time when ever any nation spent so much blood and treasure to end just +where they begun: as, if the hearts of our enemies prevail, we are +like to do.</p> + +<p>Let us reason a little together on these things, and let us inquire a +little, why, and for what reason Britain, so lately the glory of +Europe; so lately the terror of France, the bulwark of religion, and +the destroyer of popery, should be brought to be the gazing-stock of +the world? And why is it that her neighbours expect every hour to hear +that she is going back to Egypt, and having given up her liberty, has +made it her own choice to submit to the stripes of her taskmasters, +and make bricks without straw.</p> + +<p>We that are Englishmen, and live from home among the protestants of +other nations, cannot but be sensible of this alteration, and we bear +the reproaches of those who speak freely of the unhappy change which +appears in the temper of our countrymen at home. It is astonishing to +all the world to hear that the common people of England should be +turned from the most rivetted aversions, to a coldness and +indifferency in matters of popery and the pretender: that they, who +with so unanimous a resolution deposed the late King James, as well +for his invasions of their liberty as of their religion; and who with +such marks of contempt drove him and his pretended progeny out of the +nation, should without any visible alteration of circumstances, be +drawn in to favour the return of that race with all the certain +additions of popish principles in religion; French principles in +government; revenge for family injuries; restoration of abdicated and +impoverished votaries; and the certain support of a party at home, +whose fortunes and losses must be restored and repaired out of the +ruins of their country's liberties.</p> + +<p>To what purpose was the revolution? Why did you mock yourselves at so +vast an expense? Why did you cry in your oppressions to God and the +Prince of Orange to deliver you? Why did you rise as one man against +King James and his popish adherents? Why was your fury so great, and +your opposition so universal, that although he had a good army of +veteran, disciplined troops, and a powerful assistance from France +ready to fall in and join him, yet they durst not, when put all +together, venture to look you in the face, but fled like darkness +before the sun, like guilt before the sword of justice; or as a +murderer from the avenger of blood? Was it all, that you might the +better weaken yourselves by ages of war, and they might return again, +and bind you like Samson, when your strength was departed?</p> + +<p>When this was done, why did ye mock God with a thanksgiving,<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a> and +banter the world with your pretended praises to heaven for your +deliverance? Why, when you appeared by your representatives in +convention and in parliament, did you make so many fast days,<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a> and +days of prayer for the success of the arms you took up, and the war +you carried on for the finishing and securing this great work, called +the pulling down of popery? Was it all, that after having spent twenty +years of war, and a sea of blood, ruined trade, exhausted your +treasure, and entailed vast debts on your posterity; you should calmly +open your doors to the fugitives you had found out, and let in again +the popish tyranny you had driven away?</p> + +<p>For what reason was it that you presented the crown to your +benefactor, called him your deliverer, and made him your king; and +having done so, maintained him upon the throne with so much vigour, +fought under his banner in so many battles, and with so great +animosity, and professed to stand by him against all his enemies at +home and abroad? Why is he in so many addresses<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> styled the rescuer +of this nation from popery and slavery? Why in so many acts of +parliament<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a> is he called the great deliver [Transcriber's Note: +deliverer] of the nation? Why in so many sermons preached to men, and +prayers put up to God, has he the title of "the instrument blessed by +heaven to free these nations from popery and arbitrary government?" +Was all this done, that your posterity being brought back into the +bondage their fathers were delivered from, should with the same +alacrity call him an invader, an usurper, a parricide, and their +fathers, rebels and revolters?</p> + +<p>Why was the crown entailed by so many provisoes, reserves, and +limitations? Why the names of every person that should succeed, so +expressly and particularly mentioned and set down?<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> Why so many +acts of parliament<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> to secure that entail, and punish with death +those who should reject or oppose it? Why was the settlement of the +crown thought to be of so much consequence to the public good, that +the two daughters of King James, the late blessed Queen Mary, and her +present royal majesty, thought themselves bound to agree to the same +for the safety and peace of their country, though it was in prejudice +of the right and possession of their own father? Was it all, that the +return of these things might be made upon the people with the greater +weight, and that posterity might be prejudiced against the memory of +the two royal sisters, as accessary to the ruin of their own father?</p> + +<p>Why was King James and his popish posterity entirely excluded for ever +from enjoying the imperial crown of these realms?<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a> Why were so many +acts of parliament made to extinguish the hopes of his race, and of +their party, and for farther security of her majesty's person and +government? Why was the settlement of the succession in a protestant +line made the principal reason of uniting the two kingdoms together? +And why was that union so vigorously opposed by all those that adhered +to the jacobite interest? Was this to illustrate the return of the +abdicated line, and by the greatness of the nation's endeavour for +keeping out the pretender, to justify his using them accordingly when +he comes in?</p> + +<p>Why was the union declared to be unalterable, and, as some say, the +power thereby taken out of the hands of the British parliament to +change the settlement of the crown, or to name any other persons than +those of the illustrious house of Hanover to succeed; and, above all, +why was that severest of all oaths, the abjuration, contrived; by +which it is rendered impossible for this nation, upon any pretence +whatsoever, to receive the pretender but with the black stigma of an +abominable perjury? Was this that, with the greater reverence to laws, +and the greater regard to the solemnity of a national oath, we might +all turn tail upon our principles, and in defiance of God and the +laws, bow our knees to an abjured pretender?</p> + +<p>For God's sake, Britons, what are you doing? And whither are you +going? To what dreadful precipices are ye hurrying yourselves? What! +are you selling yourselves for slaves to the French, who you have +conquered; to popery, which you have reformed from; and to the +pretender, whom you have forsworn? Is this acting like Britons; like +protestants, like lovers of liberty? Nay, is it acting like men of +reasonable souls, and men who have the light of common sense to act +by?</p> + +<p>That we may move you, then, to consider a little the grossness and +absurdity of what you are doing, dear countrymen, be prevailed upon to +debate a little with yourselves the state of your own case, which I +shall briefly and plainly lay before you, thus:—</p> + +<p>The government having thought fit, for reasons of state which I have +no room to speak of in this place, to separate from the confederates, +as well in the field as in treating with the French, and unhappily, I +doubt, to make a separate peace; among the several improvements made +of this by the enemies of Britain, this is one, viz., to encourage and +increase the friends and interest of the pretender, and this they do +upon several foundations. 1. Upon a supposition, or suggestion rather, +that the ministry, because they have not thought fit to carry on the +war, are therefore coming so entirely into the interest of France, +that they must of necessity comply with the French king's demand of +restoring the pretender. 2. Upon a like ill-grounded suggestion that +the people of England and Scotland are more inclined to receive the +pretender than they were formerly; in both which suppositions they +grossly impose upon you, and yet by both they subtly carry on their +crafty designs to delude the more ignorant part of the people of this +nation, and to prepare them, as they think, for the coming of the +pretender: as appears thus:—</p> + +<p>1. By persuading the common people that the ministry are for the +pretender, they, as far as in them lies, make a breach, a +misunderstanding, and lay a foundation of jealousy and distrust +between the people and the government, enraging all those who are +zealous for the Hanover succession, against the ministers of state, +and so increasing the dangerous divisions that are among us, the +closing and healing whereof is so much the duty and interest of all +faithful subjects, that they may the more unanimously and sincerely +join together against the pretender and all his adherents.</p> + +<p>2. They intimidate those great numbers of people who, not so much +acting by principle as example, are unwilling to show themselves in +any cause which they have reason to fear is declining, and therefore +act with the less zeal for the true interest, by how much they see, or +think they see, the great ones of the nation fall off from it.</p> + +<p>3. By suggesting that the common people of Great Britain are more +inclined to the pretender than they were formerly, they think they +bring them really to be so, and encourage all the endeavours of those +who labour indefatigably all over the nation to have it so.</p> + +<p>To undeceive the good people of Britain, therefore, in these things, +dear countrymen, I beseech you to consider,</p> + +<p>1. That whatever we may dislike of the proceedings of the ministry, +and of the government, of which this is not the place to speak, there +is no greater cheat can be put upon you than this is; for, whatever +the jacobite party may promise themselves from the ministry, the +ministry do not yet own their measures to tend that way; they do not +act avowedly for the pretender; they do all things yet upon the +supposition of the protestant succession, and carry it as in the +interest of the house of Hanover; and to say they are for the +pretender, is to charge them with the greatest treachery and +hypocrisy, and is such an insolence in the jacobites, as the ministry +ought to show their resentment at them for, and we hope they will do +so; besides, there is a manifest difference between the fears of +honest men, as that the measures of the ministry may encourage the +friends of the pretenders and on the other hand, the insolent way of +the jacobites claiming the ministry to be acting in their behalf; +while therefore the ministry appear to act under the scheme of the +Hanover succession, whether they are sincere or no, it is a good +answer to a jacobite, whatever it is to another, to say, it is an +unjustifiable assurance, and an affront to the government, to boast of +the ministry being in the interest of the pretender.</p> + +<p>It is also well worthy the consideration of the good people of +Britain, that at the same time these men would have you believe that +the ministers of state are bringing in the pretender, they would also +have the ministers of state made believe, that the generality of the +people are inclined to receive the pretender; by which double-faced +fraud they endeavour to restrain you, the people of Britain, from +appearing against the pretender, for fear of offending the government; +and to restrain the said government in the same case, for fear of the +people.</p> + +<p>As they go on in these things with too much success, it is a very sad +consideration to all true British protestants to find that a party of +men among us, who yet call themselves protestants, fall in with them +in many things, fomenting the divisions and breaches that are among +us, weakening the constitution, and pursuing such principles as tend +to destroy our liberties; by whose arts, and by the subtle management +of which party, the revolution wears every day more and more out of +date; the principles of liberty decay; the memory of King William +sinks in our esteem; the heroic actions of that prince, which were +once the just admiration of all the honest people of Great Britain, +begin to be lost upon us, and forgotten among us, and to become as a +mark of infamy to the nation!</p> + +<p>Every considering protestant cannot but observe with horror, what +swarms of popish priests from abroad, and jacobite emissaries at home, +are spread about among us, and busily employed to carry on these +wicked designs; how in disguise they run up and down the countries, +mingling themselves in all companies, and in coffee-houses, and +private conversation, endeavouring to insinuate with all possible +subtlety, favourable notions of the pretender into the minds of the +people, thereby to pave the way, and to prepare you for receiving him; +such as, that he is the lawful son of King James; that he is a +protestant in his heart; that he will abjure the errors of popery as +soon as he has an opportunity; that the late King William promised to +prove him a bastard, but never could do it; that it is hard to reject +him for what was none of his own fault, and the like.</p> + +<p>Although thinking men can and do see through these things, yet, as +they are calculated and prepared to deceive the ignorant people in the +country, it is earnestly desired of those who have their eyes open to +the said popish delusions, that they would endeavour to undeceive +their brethren and neighbours, and earnestly persuade them not to be +imposed upon by the jesuitical insinuations of the popish faction, +furnishing the poor honest people with just reasons for their adhering +to the protestant settlement, and full answers to those who go about +to deceive them: which answers are such as follow:—</p> + +<p>1. It seems absolutely necessary to remind them of the reason of the +late revolution; how King James II., by his popish counsellors, +priests, and jesuits, had laid the foundation of overwhelming all our +liberties, in an arbitrary, tyrannical government, ruling us without a +parliament to redress our grievances, and, by a standing army, to +execute forcibly his absolute commands; how he had engaged in the +overthrow of our religion, by undermining the constitution of the +Church of England, erecting an arbitrary ecclesiastical commission to +dispossess our universities, and displace our ministers in every +parish, and then to establish popery throughout the whole nation.</p> + +<p>2. That in this distress, the whole nation applied themselves to the +Prince of Orange, whose right to the succession made him justly appear +as the proper person to assist and relieve this oppressed people; +which prince came over at our invitation, was blessed with success, +and all the favourers of popery and tyranny sunk at once; King James +fled with his queen, and that person whom he called his son, and whom +we now call justly the pretender.</p> + +<p>3. Concerning the birth of this person, the nobility and gentry of +England who invited over the prince, as may be seen by the memorial +they presented to his highness, alleged, that there were violent +presumptions that he was not born of the queen's body, which, however, +they desired to leave to examination in a free parliament; which also +the said prince expressed in his declaration, and that he was willing +to leave the same to a free parliament.</p> + +<p>4. That before a free parliament could be obtained, King James +withdrew himself, and carried away his pretended son into the hands of +the ancient enemies of this nation, and of our religion, the French, +there to be educated in the principles of popery and enmity to this +his native country.</p> + +<p>By which action he not only declined to refer the legitimacy of his +said son to the examination of the parliament, as the Prince of Orange +had offered in his said declaration, but made such examination +altogether useless and impracticable, he himself (King James) not +owning it to be a legal parliament, and therefore not consenting to +stand by such examination.</p> + +<p>By the said abdication, and carrying away his said pretended son into +the hands of the French to be educated in popery, &c., he gave the +parliament of England and Scotland abundant reason for ever to exclude +the said King James and his said pretended son from the government of +these realms, or from the succession to the same, and made it +absolutely necessary for them to do so, if they would secure the +protestant religion to themselves and their posterity; and this +without any regard to the doubt whether he was the lawful son of King +James or no, since it is inconsistent with the constitution of this +protestant nation to be governed by a popish prince.</p> + +<p>So that there is now no more room to examine whether the said +pretender be the lawful son of King James, or whether he is, or will +turn to be a protestant, the examination of the legitimacy by +parliament which was offered by the Prince of Orange in his +declaration, having been declined by his father, and himself having +been delivered up into the hands of the sworn enemies both of our +religion, constitution, and nation.</p> + +<p>If King James would have expected he should be received as his son, +and succeed to his crowns, he should have suffered his birth to have +been legally determined by the English and Scotch parliament at that +time, and have left him in good protestant hands to have been educated +in the protestant religion, and in the knowledge of the laws and +constitutions of his country; in which case it was more than probable, +had his birth appeared clear, and his hereditary right just, the +parliament might have set the crown upon his head, and declared him +king under the protection of their deliverer, the Prince of Orange: +but to talk of it now, when his birth has never been examined or +cleared up, and while he has been bred up to man's estate in popery, +and that the worst sort, viz., French popery; and after the parliament +of the respective kingdoms uniting in one, have by an unalterable, +indissolvable union, settled and entailed the crown upon another head, +viz., the present queen, and entailed it after her majesty in the most +illustrious house of Hanover, the next of blood in a protestant line: +to talk now of proving the birth of the pretender, and of his abjuring +his errors and turning protestant, this is a fraud so absurd and +ridiculous, that we hope the people of Great Britain can never be +blinded with it.</p> + +<p>Especially considering the party who talk of these things to us: and +this ought to move the good people of Britain to receive the proposals +of the pretender with indignation; for who are they, dear +fellow-protestants! that persuade you to these things? Are they not +the friends of France and Rome? Do not all the papists join with them? +Do not all those who hated the revolution, and who long to restore +arbitrary government, join with them?</p> + +<p>Why, if he will abjure the Romish errors and turn protestant, why, I +say, do the papists speak in his favour? Do any sect of religion love +apostates! Those who forsake them and abjure them as heretical and +erroneous! If they were not well assured that whatever appearing +change he may make, he will still retain a secret affection to popery, +they could not be rationally supposed to speak in his behalf.</p> + +<p>But if that is not sufficient, what do they say to you as to his love +of the liberty of his country? Has he been bred up in a tyrannical +absolute court for nothing? Can he have any notion of government there +but what is cruel, oppressive, absolute, and despotic? What principles +of government will he come over with? and as he has sucked in tyranny +with his milk, and knows no government but that of the most absolute +monarch in the world, is this the man they would bring in to preserve +the liberties and constitution of Britain?</p> + +<p>When set upon the British throne, who are his allies and confederates? +Will he be so ungrateful as not to be always at the devotion and +command of the French king? a prince that took his father in a +fugitive, an abdicated and ruined prince, when his fortunes were +overthrown, and his crown taken from him; that made so many efforts to +restore him, and hazarded his whole kingdom for it: if he forgets the +kindness shown to his father, can he be so ungenerous, so unthankful, +as to forget how the king of France nourished him from a child; how, +after his father's death, he hazarded a second war to proclaim him +king of Great Britain, and what expense he has been at to put him in +possession of it? Should he forget all these obligations, he must be +unfit to be called a Christian, much less a prince.</p> + +<p>If he can act so barbarously to the French king, his benefactor, what +must you Britons expect from him, who have done nothing to oblige him, +but have for twenty-four years kept him and his father in exile, and +treated them both with unsufferable indignity? If he can be ungrateful +to the king of France, who has done so much for him, what must he be +to you, who have done so much against him?</p> + +<p>Again: if gratitude and honour have any influence upon him, if he has +any sense of his obligation to the French king, will he not for ever +be his most hearty, obedient, humble servant? Will he not always be in +his interest, nay, ought he not to be so? Is he not tied by the laws +of friendship and gratitude to be so?</p> + +<p>Think, then, dear Britons! what a king this pretender must be; a +papist by inclination; a tyrant by education; a Frenchman by honour +and obligation: and how long will your liberties last you in this +condition? And when your liberties are gone, how long will your +religion remain? When your hands are tied; when armies bind you; when +power oppresses you; when a tyrant disarms you; when a popish French +tyrant reigns over you; by what means or methods can you pretend to +maintain your protestant religion?</p> + +<p>How shall the Church of England stand, when in subjection to the +Church of Rome? You are now mixed with dissenters, and some are uneasy +enough with them too; but our church will then be but a dissenting +church; popery will be the establishment; the mass will succeed our +common prayer, and fire and fagot instead of toleration, as you know +was our case before; for it is not the first time the papists have +been tried.</p> + +<p>Nor did Queen Mary promise, nay, swear less than is now promised for +the pretender; for she swore to the Gospellers of Suffolk to make no +alteration in religion; and they, like the blinded protestants of this +age, brought her in, for which they were the first that felt the fury +and rage of the popish party, and so we have great cause to believe it +would be again.</p> + + +<h3><span class="smcap">The Conclusion.</span></h3> + +<p><span class="smcap">Consider</span>, then, honest countrymen and protestants, what you are doing; +look on your families; consider your innocent children, who you are +going to give up to be bred in abominable superstition and idolatry; +look on your dear country, which you are preparing to make the seat of +war, blood, and confusion; look on your neighbours, who, while they +are resisting this inundation, for you may be assured honest men will +resist it to the last, you are to fight with, whose throats you must +cut, and in whose blood you must dip your hands; and, lastly, consider +yourselves; how free, how quiet, how in peace, plenty, and in +protestant liberty you now live, but are with your own hands pulling +down upon you, so far as you entertain thoughts of the pretender, the +walls of your own security, viz., the constitution, and making way for +your French popish enemies to enter; to whom your religion, your +liberties, your estates, your families, and your posterity, shall be +made a sacrifice, and this flourishing nation be entirely ruined.</p> + +<p>In the last place, all that have any concern left for the good of +their country, and for the preserving the protestant religion, will +remember how much it is in the power of the people of Britain for ever +to discourage all the attempts to be made in favour of these popish +enemies, and to overthrow them in the execution; and it is on this +foundation that this paper is made public. The late letter from Douay, +written by some of that side, who very well understood the pretender's +true interest, acknowledges this, and that if the people of England +could not be wheedled and deluded into the design, it was never to be +done by force.</p> + +<p>And is this your case, Britons! Will you be ruined by a people whom +you ought to despise? Have they not been twenty years trying your +strength, till they find it impossible for them to master you? And are +they brought to such a condition as to use all their arts and shifts +to bring on a peace; and will you be brought now in cool thoughts, and +after so long a struggle, to do that yourselves which you would never +let them do; and which, without your most stupid negligence of +yourselves, they could never do.</p> + +<p>For this reason, I say, these lines are written, and this makes them +just, and the argument rational. If I were to move you to what was not +in your power, I should easily be answered, by being told, you could +not do it; that you were not able, and the like; but is it not evident +that the unanimous appearance of the people of Great Britain against +the pretender would at once render all the party desperate, and make +them look upon the design as utterly impracticable. As their only hope +is in the breaches they are making in your resolutions, so if they +should see they gain no ground there, they would despair, and give it +over.</p> + +<p>It would not be worth notice to inquire who are, and who are not for +the pretender; the invidious search into the conduct of great men, +ministers of state and government, would be labour lost: no ministry +will ever be for the pretender, if they once may but be convinced that +the people are steady; that he gets no ground in the country; that the +aversions of the common people to his person and his government are +not to be overcome: but if you, the good people of England, slacken +your hands; if you give up the cause; if you abate your zeal for your +own liberties, and for the protestant religion; if you fall in with +popery and a French pretender; if you forget the revolution, and King +William, what can you expect? who can stand by you then? Who can save +them that will destroy themselves?</p> + +<p>The work is before you; your deliverance, your safety is in your own +hands, and therefore these things are now written: none can give you +up; none can betray you but yourselves; none can bring in popery upon +you but yourselves; and if you could see your own happiness, it is +entirely in your power, by unanimous, steady adhering to your old +principles, to secure your peace for ever. O Jerusalem! Jerusalem!</p> + + +<p class="centertp"><span class="msm">END OF A SEASONABLE WARNING AND CAUTION.</span></p> + + +<hr /> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Edward II., Richard II., Richard III., James II.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> In the several barons' wars in the reign of King Stephen, +King John, &c.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Especially of the persecuted protestants in the Low +Countries, in Queen Elizabeth.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Henry IV., who turned papist, and with much difficulty +granted liberty to his protestant subjects by the edict of Nantes.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> The French refugees, who being received here, are grown +rich and wealthy by our trade.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> The Flemings, when threatened with the inquisition from +Spain, under the reign of Philip II.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Under William Henry, the first Prince of Orange, who +formed the revolt of the Dutch provinces, and laid the foundation of +the States General and their commonwealth.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> The circles of Swabia and Franconia, the Palatinate, and +the countries of Hessia, Wirtemberg, and others.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> The Thanksgiving for the Revolution.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Monthly fasts appointed the first Wednesday of every +month during the war in King William's time.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> Vid. The Collection of Addresses in King William's +reign.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Act for Offering the Crown; The Claim of Right; Act for +Security of his Majesty's Person and Government, &c.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Vid. The several Prayers ordered to be read in Churches +upon the occasion of the Fasts in King William's time.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Vid. The Act of the Settlement, and the Act of the +Union; the Act to extinguish the hopes of the Jacobites; and the Act +for farther securing her Majesty's Person and Government.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Vid. The Act of Parliament for settling the Succession +of the Crown on the illustrious House of Hanover.</p></div> + +</div> + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Seasonable Warning and Caution +against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender, by Daniel Defoe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SEASONABLE WARNING AND CAUTION *** + +***** This file should be named 36656-h.htm or 36656-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/6/6/5/36656/ + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender + Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover + +Author: Daniel Defoe + +Release Date: July 8, 2011 [EBook #36656] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SEASONABLE WARNING AND CAUTION *** + + + + +Produced by Steven Gibbs, Linda Cantoni, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. In +memory of Steven Gibbs (1938-2009). + + + + + + + + + +[Transcriber's Note: This e-book, a pamphlet by Daniel Defoe, was +originally published in 1712, and was prepared from _The Novels and +Miscellaneous Works of Daniel De Foe_, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, +1855). Archaic spellings have been retained as they appear in the +original, and obvious printer errors have been corrected without +note.] + + + + +A Seasonable + +WARNING + +And CAUTION + +Against the + +INSINUATIONS + +Of _Papists_ and _Jacobites_ + +In Favour of the + +PRETENDER. + +Being a LETTER from an _ENGLISHMAN_ at the Court of _HANOVER_. + + +_And thou shalt teach these Words diligently unto thy Children, and +shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy House, and when thou +walkest by the Way._ Deut. vi. 7. + +_And what thou seest write in a Book._ Rev. i. 11. + + +_LONDON_: Printed for _J. Baker_, at the _Black-Boy_ in +_Pater-Noster-Row_. 1712. + + + + +A SEASONABLE + +WARNING AND CAUTION + +AGAINST THE + +INSINUATIONS OF PAPISTS AND JACOBITES IN FAVOUR OF THE PRETENDER. + + +Why how now, England! what ailest thee now? What evil spirit now +possesseth thee! O thou nation famous for espousing religion, and +defending liberty; eminent in all ages for pulling down tyrants,[1] +and adhering steadily to the fundamentals of thy own constitution:[2] +that has not only secured thy own rights, and handed them down +unimpaired to every succeeding age, but has been the sanctuary of +other oppressed nations;[3] the strong protector of injured subjects +against the lawless invasion of oppressing tyrants. + +[Footnote 1: Edward II., Richard II., Richard III., James II.] + +[Footnote 2: In the several barons' wars in the reign of King Stephen, +King John, &c.] + +[Footnote 3: Especially of the persecuted protestants in the Low +Countries, in Queen Elizabeth.] + +To thee the oppressed protestants of France owed, for some ages ago, +the comfort of being powerfully supported, while their own king,[4] +wheedled by the lustre of a crown, became apostate, and laid the +foundation of their ruin among themselves; in thee their posterity[5] +find a refuge, and flourish in thy wealth and trade, when religion and +liberty find no more place in their own country. + +[Footnote 4: Henry IV., who turned papist, and with much difficulty +granted liberty to his protestant subjects by the edict of Nantes.] + +[Footnote 5: The French refugees, who being received here, are grown +rich and wealthy by our trade.] + +To thee the distressed Belgii[6] owe the powerful assistance by which +they took up arms in defence of liberty and religion, against Spanish +cruelty, the perfidious tyranny of their kings, and the rage of the +bloody Duke d'Alva. + +[Footnote 6: The Flemings, when threatened with the inquisition from +Spain, under the reign of Philip II.] + +From thee the confederate Hollanders[7] received encouragement to join +in that indissoluble union which has since reduced the invincible +power of the Spaniards, and from whence has been raised the most +flourishing commonwealth in the world. + +[Footnote 7: Under William Henry, the first Prince of Orange, who +formed the revolt of the Dutch provinces, and laid the foundation of +the States General and their commonwealth.] + +By thy assistance they are become the bulwark of the protestant +religion, and of the liberties of Europe; and have many times since +gratefully employed that force in thy behalf; and, by their help, +thou, who first gavest them liberty, hast more than once rescued and +preserved thy own. + +To thee the present protestant nations[8] of Europe owe their being at +this day freed from the just apprehensions of the growing greatness of +France; and to thy power, when acting by the glorious protector of thy +liberty, King William, is the whole Christian world indebted for +depriving the French tyrant of the hopes and prospect of universal +monarchy. + +[Footnote 8: The circles of Swabia and Franconia, the Palatinate, and +the countries of Hessia, Wirtemberg, and others.] + +To thy blood, thy treasure, the conduct of thy generals, and the +vigour of thy councils, are due, the glory, the fame, the praises, and +the advantages of twenty years' war, for the establishing and +restoring the liberty and religion of Europe. + +When posterity shall inquire into the particulars of this long and +bloody war; the battles, sieges, and stupendous marches of armies, +which, as well with loss as with victory, have been the subject of thy +history; it will for ever be frequent in their mouths; HERE the +British troops, fighting with dreadful fury, and their usual +constancy, shed their blood in defence of the protestant cause, and +left a bloody victory to God's enemies and their own; as at Steenkirk, +Landen, Camaret, Almanza, Brihenga, and the like: or, HERE the British +troops, with their usual valour, carried all before them, and +conquered in behalf of the protestant interest, and Europe's +liberties; as at Blenheim, Ramilies, Barcelona, Oudenard, Sarragossa, +Blaregnies, &c. Here the British navies triumphed over French +greatness; as at Cherburgh, La Hogue, Gibraltar, &c. There their land +forces reduced the most impregnable fortresses; as at Namur, Lisle, +Menin, Tournay, &c. + +And wherefore has all this English and British blood been spilt? +Wherefore thy nation exhausted; thy trade sunk and interrupted; thy +veins opened? Why hast thou struggled thus long, and with so much +vigour, as well with French tyranny abroad, as popish factions at +home, but to preserve entire the religion and liberties of Europe, and +particularly of this nation, and to preserve our posterity from +slavery and idolatry? Principles truly noble, worthy a nation's blood +to protect, and worthy a nation's treasure to save. + +But what has all this been for? And to what intent and purpose was all +this zeal, if you will sink under the ruin of the very fabric ye have +pulled down? If ye will give up the cause after ye have gained the +advantage, and yield yourselves up after you have been delivered; to +what purpose then has all this been done? Why all the money expended? +Why all this blood spilt? To what end is France said to be reduced, +and peace now concluded, if the same popery, the same tyranny, the +same arbitrary methods of government shall be received among you +again? Sure your posterity will stand amazed to consider how lavish +this age has been of their money, and their blood, and to how little +purpose; since no age since the creation of the world can show us a +time when ever any nation spent so much blood and treasure to end just +where they begun: as, if the hearts of our enemies prevail, we are +like to do. + +Let us reason a little together on these things, and let us inquire a +little, why, and for what reason Britain, so lately the glory of +Europe; so lately the terror of France, the bulwark of religion, and +the destroyer of popery, should be brought to be the gazing-stock of +the world? And why is it that her neighbours expect every hour to hear +that she is going back to Egypt, and having given up her liberty, has +made it her own choice to submit to the stripes of her taskmasters, +and make bricks without straw. + +We that are Englishmen, and live from home among the protestants of +other nations, cannot but be sensible of this alteration, and we bear +the reproaches of those who speak freely of the unhappy change which +appears in the temper of our countrymen at home. It is astonishing to +all the world to hear that the common people of England should be +turned from the most rivetted aversions, to a coldness and +indifferency in matters of popery and the pretender: that they, who +with so unanimous a resolution deposed the late King James, as well +for his invasions of their liberty as of their religion; and who with +such marks of contempt drove him and his pretended progeny out of the +nation, should without any visible alteration of circumstances, be +drawn in to favour the return of that race with all the certain +additions of popish principles in religion; French principles in +government; revenge for family injuries; restoration of abdicated and +impoverished votaries; and the certain support of a party at home, +whose fortunes and losses must be restored and repaired out of the +ruins of their country's liberties. + +To what purpose was the revolution? Why did you mock yourselves at so +vast an expense? Why did you cry in your oppressions to God and the +Prince of Orange to deliver you? Why did you rise as one man against +King James and his popish adherents? Why was your fury so great, and +your opposition so universal, that although he had a good army of +veteran, disciplined troops, and a powerful assistance from France +ready to fall in and join him, yet they durst not, when put all +together, venture to look you in the face, but fled like darkness +before the sun, like guilt before the sword of justice; or as a +murderer from the avenger of blood? Was it all, that you might the +better weaken yourselves by ages of war, and they might return again, +and bind you like Samson, when your strength was departed? + +When this was done, why did ye mock God with a thanksgiving,[9] and +banter the world with your pretended praises to heaven for your +deliverance? Why, when you appeared by your representatives in +convention and in parliament, did you make so many fast days,[10] and +days of prayer for the success of the arms you took up, and the war +you carried on for the finishing and securing this great work, called +the pulling down of popery? Was it all, that after having spent twenty +years of war, and a sea of blood, ruined trade, exhausted your +treasure, and entailed vast debts on your posterity; you should calmly +open your doors to the fugitives you had found out, and let in again +the popish tyranny you had driven away? + +[Footnote 9: The Thanksgiving for the Revolution.] + +[Footnote 10: Monthly fasts appointed the first Wednesday of every +month during the war in King William's time.] + +For what reason was it that you presented the crown to your +benefactor, called him your deliverer, and made him your king; and +having done so, maintained him upon the throne with so much vigour, +fought under his banner in so many battles, and with so great +animosity, and professed to stand by him against all his enemies at +home and abroad? Why is he in so many addresses[11] styled the rescuer +of this nation from popery and slavery? Why in so many acts of +parliament[12] is he called the great deliverer of the nation? Why in +so many sermons preached to men, and prayers put up to God, has he the +title of "the instrument blessed by heaven to free these nations from +popery and arbitrary government?" Was all this done, that your +posterity being brought back into the bondage their fathers were +delivered from, should with the same alacrity call him an invader, an +usurper, a parricide, and their fathers, rebels and revolters? + +[Footnote 11: Vid. The Collection of Addresses in King William's +reign.] + +[Footnote 12: Act for Offering the Crown; The Claim of Right; Act for +Security of his Majesty's Person and Government, &c.] + +Why was the crown entailed by so many provisoes, reserves, and +limitations? Why the names of every person that should succeed, so +expressly and particularly mentioned and set down?[13] Why so many +acts of parliament[14] to secure that entail, and punish with death +those who should reject or oppose it? Why was the settlement of the +crown thought to be of so much consequence to the public good, that +the two daughters of King James, the late blessed Queen Mary, and her +present royal majesty, thought themselves bound to agree to the same +for the safety and peace of their country, though it was in prejudice +of the right and possession of their own father? Was it all, that the +return of these things might be made upon the people with the greater +weight, and that posterity might be prejudiced against the memory of +the two royal sisters, as accessary to the ruin of their own father? + +[Footnote 13: Vid. The several Prayers ordered to be read in Churches +upon the occasion of the Fasts in King William's time.] + +[Footnote 14: Vid. The Act of the Settlement, and the Act of the +Union; the Act to extinguish the hopes of the Jacobites; and the Act +for farther securing her Majesty's Person and Government.] + +Why was King James and his popish posterity entirely excluded for ever +from enjoying the imperial crown of these realms?[15] Why were so many +acts of parliament made to extinguish the hopes of his race, and of +their party, and for farther security of her majesty's person and +government? Why was the settlement of the succession in a protestant +line made the principal reason of uniting the two kingdoms together? +And why was that union so vigorously opposed by all those that adhered +to the jacobite interest? Was this to illustrate the return of the +abdicated line, and by the greatness of the nation's endeavour for +keeping out the pretender, to justify his using them accordingly when +he comes in? + +[Footnote 15: Vid. The Act of Parliament for settling the Succession +of the Crown on the illustrious House of Hanover.] + +Why was the union declared to be unalterable, and, as some say, the +power thereby taken out of the hands of the British parliament to +change the settlement of the crown, or to name any other persons than +those of the illustrious house of Hanover to succeed; and, above all, +why was that severest of all oaths, the abjuration, contrived; by +which it is rendered impossible for this nation, upon any pretence +whatsoever, to receive the pretender but with the black stigma of an +abominable perjury? Was this that, with the greater reverence to laws, +and the greater regard to the solemnity of a national oath, we might +all turn tail upon our principles, and in defiance of God and the +laws, bow our knees to an abjured pretender? + +For God's sake, Britons, what are you doing? And whither are you +going? To what dreadful precipices are ye hurrying yourselves? What! +are you selling yourselves for slaves to the French, who you have +conquered; to popery, which you have reformed from; and to the +pretender, whom you have forsworn? Is this acting like Britons; like +protestants, like lovers of liberty? Nay, is it acting like men of +reasonable souls, and men who have the light of common sense to act +by? + +That we may move you, then, to consider a little the grossness and +absurdity of what you are doing, dear countrymen, be prevailed upon to +debate a little with yourselves the state of your own case, which I +shall briefly and plainly lay before you, thus:-- + +The government having thought fit, for reasons of state which I have +no room to speak of in this place, to separate from the confederates, +as well in the field as in treating with the French, and unhappily, I +doubt, to make a separate peace; among the several improvements made +of this by the enemies of Britain, this is one, viz., to encourage and +increase the friends and interest of the pretender, and this they do +upon several foundations. 1. Upon a supposition, or suggestion rather, +that the ministry, because they have not thought fit to carry on the +war, are therefore coming so entirely into the interest of France, +that they must of necessity comply with the French king's demand of +restoring the pretender. 2. Upon a like ill-grounded suggestion that +the people of England and Scotland are more inclined to receive the +pretender than they were formerly; in both which suppositions they +grossly impose upon you, and yet by both they subtly carry on their +crafty designs to delude the more ignorant part of the people of this +nation, and to prepare them, as they think, for the coming of the +pretender: as appears thus:-- + +1. By persuading the common people that the ministry are for the +pretender, they, as far as in them lies, make a breach, a +misunderstanding, and lay a foundation of jealousy and distrust +between the people and the government, enraging all those who are +zealous for the Hanover succession, against the ministers of state, +and so increasing the dangerous divisions that are among us, the +closing and healing whereof is so much the duty and interest of all +faithful subjects, that they may the more unanimously and sincerely +join together against the pretender and all his adherents. + +2. They intimidate those great numbers of people who, not so much +acting by principle as example, are unwilling to show themselves in +any cause which they have reason to fear is declining, and therefore +act with the less zeal for the true interest, by how much they see, or +think they see, the great ones of the nation fall off from it. + +3. By suggesting that the common people of Great Britain are more +inclined to the pretender than they were formerly, they think they +bring them really to be so, and encourage all the endeavours of those +who labour indefatigably all over the nation to have it so. + +To undeceive the good people of Britain, therefore, in these things, +dear countrymen, I beseech you to consider, + +1. That whatever we may dislike of the proceedings of the ministry, +and of the government, of which this is not the place to speak, there +is no greater cheat can be put upon you than this is; for, whatever +the jacobite party may promise themselves from the ministry, the +ministry do not yet own their measures to tend that way; they do not +act avowedly for the pretender; they do all things yet upon the +supposition of the protestant succession, and carry it as in the +interest of the house of Hanover; and to say they are for the +pretender, is to charge them with the greatest treachery and +hypocrisy, and is such an insolence in the jacobites, as the ministry +ought to show their resentment at them for, and we hope they will do +so; besides, there is a manifest difference between the fears of +honest men, as that the measures of the ministry may encourage the +friends of the pretenders and on the other hand, the insolent way of +the jacobites claiming the ministry to be acting in their behalf; +while therefore the ministry appear to act under the scheme of the +Hanover succession, whether they are sincere or no, it is a good +answer to a jacobite, whatever it is to another, to say, it is an +unjustifiable assurance, and an affront to the government, to boast of +the ministry being in the interest of the pretender. + +It is also well worthy the consideration of the good people of +Britain, that at the same time these men would have you believe that +the ministers of state are bringing in the pretender, they would also +have the ministers of state made believe, that the generality of the +people are inclined to receive the pretender; by which double-faced +fraud they endeavour to restrain you, the people of Britain, from +appearing against the pretender, for fear of offending the government; +and to restrain the said government in the same case, for fear of the +people. + +As they go on in these things with too much success, it is a very sad +consideration to all true British protestants to find that a party of +men among us, who yet call themselves protestants, fall in with them +in many things, fomenting the divisions and breaches that are among +us, weakening the constitution, and pursuing such principles as tend +to destroy our liberties; by whose arts, and by the subtle management +of which party, the revolution wears every day more and more out of +date; the principles of liberty decay; the memory of King William +sinks in our esteem; the heroic actions of that prince, which were +once the just admiration of all the honest people of Great Britain, +begin to be lost upon us, and forgotten among us, and to become as a +mark of infamy to the nation! + +Every considering protestant cannot but observe with horror, what +swarms of popish priests from abroad, and jacobite emissaries at home, +are spread about among us, and busily employed to carry on these +wicked designs; how in disguise they run up and down the countries, +mingling themselves in all companies, and in coffee-houses, and +private conversation, endeavouring to insinuate with all possible +subtlety, favourable notions of the pretender into the minds of the +people, thereby to pave the way, and to prepare you for receiving him; +such as, that he is the lawful son of King James; that he is a +protestant in his heart; that he will abjure the errors of popery as +soon as he has an opportunity; that the late King William promised to +prove him a bastard, but never could do it; that it is hard to reject +him for what was none of his own fault, and the like. + +Although thinking men can and do see through these things, yet, as +they are calculated and prepared to deceive the ignorant people in the +country, it is earnestly desired of those who have their eyes open to +the said popish delusions, that they would endeavour to undeceive +their brethren and neighbours, and earnestly persuade them not to be +imposed upon by the jesuitical insinuations of the popish faction, +furnishing the poor honest people with just reasons for their adhering +to the protestant settlement, and full answers to those who go about +to deceive them: which answers are such as follow:-- + +1. It seems absolutely necessary to remind them of the reason of the +late revolution; how King James II., by his popish counsellors, +priests, and jesuits, had laid the foundation of overwhelming all our +liberties, in an arbitrary, tyrannical government, ruling us without a +parliament to redress our grievances, and, by a standing army, to +execute forcibly his absolute commands; how he had engaged in the +overthrow of our religion, by undermining the constitution of the +Church of England, erecting an arbitrary ecclesiastical commission to +dispossess our universities, and displace our ministers in every +parish, and then to establish popery throughout the whole nation. + +2. That in this distress, the whole nation applied themselves to the +Prince of Orange, whose right to the succession made him justly appear +as the proper person to assist and relieve this oppressed people; +which prince came over at our invitation, was blessed with success, +and all the favourers of popery and tyranny sunk at once; King James +fled with his queen, and that person whom he called his son, and whom +we now call justly the pretender. + +3. Concerning the birth of this person, the nobility and gentry of +England who invited over the prince, as may be seen by the memorial +they presented to his highness, alleged, that there were violent +presumptions that he was not born of the queen's body, which, however, +they desired to leave to examination in a free parliament; which also +the said prince expressed in his declaration, and that he was willing +to leave the same to a free parliament. + +4. That before a free parliament could be obtained, King James +withdrew himself, and carried away his pretended son into the hands of +the ancient enemies of this nation, and of our religion, the French, +there to be educated in the principles of popery and enmity to this +his native country. + +By which action he not only declined to refer the legitimacy of his +said son to the examination of the parliament, as the Prince of Orange +had offered in his said declaration, but made such examination +altogether useless and impracticable, he himself (King James) not +owning it to be a legal parliament, and therefore not consenting to +stand by such examination. + +By the said abdication, and carrying away his said pretended son into +the hands of the French to be educated in popery, &c., he gave the +parliament of England and Scotland abundant reason for ever to exclude +the said King James and his said pretended son from the government of +these realms, or from the succession to the same, and made it +absolutely necessary for them to do so, if they would secure the +protestant religion to themselves and their posterity; and this +without any regard to the doubt whether he was the lawful son of King +James or no, since it is inconsistent with the constitution of this +protestant nation to be governed by a popish prince. + +So that there is now no more room to examine whether the said +pretender be the lawful son of King James, or whether he is, or will +turn to be a protestant, the examination of the legitimacy by +parliament which was offered by the Prince of Orange in his +declaration, having been declined by his father, and himself having +been delivered up into the hands of the sworn enemies both of our +religion, constitution, and nation. + +If King James would have expected he should be received as his son, +and succeed to his crowns, he should have suffered his birth to have +been legally determined by the English and Scotch parliament at that +time, and have left him in good protestant hands to have been educated +in the protestant religion, and in the knowledge of the laws and +constitutions of his country; in which case it was more than probable, +had his birth appeared clear, and his hereditary right just, the +parliament might have set the crown upon his head, and declared him +king under the protection of their deliverer, the Prince of Orange: +but to talk of it now, when his birth has never been examined or +cleared up, and while he has been bred up to man's estate in popery, +and that the worst sort, viz., French popery; and after the parliament +of the respective kingdoms uniting in one, have by an unalterable, +indissolvable union, settled and entailed the crown upon another head, +viz., the present queen, and entailed it after her majesty in the most +illustrious house of Hanover, the next of blood in a protestant line: +to talk now of proving the birth of the pretender, and of his abjuring +his errors and turning protestant, this is a fraud so absurd and +ridiculous, that we hope the people of Great Britain can never be +blinded with it. + +Especially considering the party who talk of these things to us: and +this ought to move the good people of Britain to receive the proposals +of the pretender with indignation; for who are they, dear +fellow-protestants! that persuade you to these things? Are they not +the friends of France and Rome? Do not all the papists join with them? +Do not all those who hated the revolution, and who long to restore +arbitrary government, join with them? + +Why, if he will abjure the Romish errors and turn protestant, why, I +say, do the papists speak in his favour? Do any sect of religion love +apostates! Those who forsake them and abjure them as heretical and +erroneous! If they were not well assured that whatever appearing +change he may make, he will still retain a secret affection to popery, +they could not be rationally supposed to speak in his behalf. + +But if that is not sufficient, what do they say to you as to his love +of the liberty of his country? Has he been bred up in a tyrannical +absolute court for nothing? Can he have any notion of government there +but what is cruel, oppressive, absolute, and despotic? What principles +of government will he come over with? and as he has sucked in tyranny +with his milk, and knows no government but that of the most absolute +monarch in the world, is this the man they would bring in to preserve +the liberties and constitution of Britain? + +When set upon the British throne, who are his allies and confederates? +Will he be so ungrateful as not to be always at the devotion and +command of the French king? a prince that took his father in a +fugitive, an abdicated and ruined prince, when his fortunes were +overthrown, and his crown taken from him; that made so many efforts to +restore him, and hazarded his whole kingdom for it: if he forgets the +kindness shown to his father, can he be so ungenerous, so unthankful, +as to forget how the king of France nourished him from a child; how, +after his father's death, he hazarded a second war to proclaim him +king of Great Britain, and what expense he has been at to put him in +possession of it? Should he forget all these obligations, he must be +unfit to be called a Christian, much less a prince. + +If he can act so barbarously to the French king, his benefactor, what +must you Britons expect from him, who have done nothing to oblige him, +but have for twenty-four years kept him and his father in exile, and +treated them both with unsufferable indignity? If he can be ungrateful +to the king of France, who has done so much for him, what must he be +to you, who have done so much against him? + +Again: if gratitude and honour have any influence upon him, if he has +any sense of his obligation to the French king, will he not for ever +be his most hearty, obedient, humble servant? Will he not always be in +his interest, nay, ought he not to be so? Is he not tied by the laws +of friendship and gratitude to be so? + +Think, then, dear Britons! what a king this pretender must be; a +papist by inclination; a tyrant by education; a Frenchman by honour +and obligation: and how long will your liberties last you in this +condition? And when your liberties are gone, how long will your +religion remain? When your hands are tied; when armies bind you; when +power oppresses you; when a tyrant disarms you; when a popish French +tyrant reigns over you; by what means or methods can you pretend to +maintain your protestant religion? + +How shall the Church of England stand, when in subjection to the +Church of Rome? You are now mixed with dissenters, and some are uneasy +enough with them too; but our church will then be but a dissenting +church; popery will be the establishment; the mass will succeed our +common prayer, and fire and fagot instead of toleration, as you know +was our case before; for it is not the first time the papists have +been tried. + +Nor did Queen Mary promise, nay, swear less than is now promised for +the pretender; for she swore to the Gospellers of Suffolk to make no +alteration in religion; and they, like the blinded protestants of this +age, brought her in, for which they were the first that felt the fury +and rage of the popish party, and so we have great cause to believe it +would be again. + + +THE CONCLUSION. + +Consider, then, honest countrymen and protestants, what you are doing; +look on your families; consider your innocent children, who you are +going to give up to be bred in abominable superstition and idolatry; +look on your dear country, which you are preparing to make the seat of +war, blood, and confusion; look on your neighbours, who, while they +are resisting this inundation, for you may be assured honest men will +resist it to the last, you are to fight with, whose throats you must +cut, and in whose blood you must dip your hands; and, lastly, consider +yourselves; how free, how quiet, how in peace, plenty, and in +protestant liberty you now live, but are with your own hands pulling +down upon you, so far as you entertain thoughts of the pretender, the +walls of your own security, viz., the constitution, and making way for +your French popish enemies to enter; to whom your religion, your +liberties, your estates, your families, and your posterity, shall be +made a sacrifice, and this flourishing nation be entirely ruined. + +In the last place, all that have any concern left for the good of +their country, and for the preserving the protestant religion, will +remember how much it is in the power of the people of Britain for ever +to discourage all the attempts to be made in favour of these popish +enemies, and to overthrow them in the execution; and it is on this +foundation that this paper is made public. The late letter from Douay, +written by some of that side, who very well understood the pretender's +true interest, acknowledges this, and that if the people of England +could not be wheedled and deluded into the design, it was never to be +done by force. + +And is this your case, Britons! Will you be ruined by a people whom +you ought to despise? Have they not been twenty years trying your +strength, till they find it impossible for them to master you? And are +they brought to such a condition as to use all their arts and shifts +to bring on a peace; and will you be brought now in cool thoughts, and +after so long a struggle, to do that yourselves which you would never +let them do; and which, without your most stupid negligence of +yourselves, they could never do. + +For this reason, I say, these lines are written, and this makes them +just, and the argument rational. If I were to move you to what was not +in your power, I should easily be answered, by being told, you could +not do it; that you were not able, and the like; but is it not evident +that the unanimous appearance of the people of Great Britain against +the pretender would at once render all the party desperate, and make +them look upon the design as utterly impracticable. As their only hope +is in the breaches they are making in your resolutions, so if they +should see they gain no ground there, they would despair, and give it +over. + +It would not be worth notice to inquire who are, and who are not for +the pretender; the invidious search into the conduct of great men, +ministers of state and government, would be labour lost: no ministry +will ever be for the pretender, if they once may but be convinced that +the people are steady; that he gets no ground in the country; that the +aversions of the common people to his person and his government are +not to be overcome: but if you, the good people of England, slacken +your hands; if you give up the cause; if you abate your zeal for your +own liberties, and for the protestant religion; if you fall in with +popery and a French pretender; if you forget the revolution, and King +William, what can you expect? who can stand by you then? Who can save +them that will destroy themselves? + +The work is before you; your deliverance, your safety is in your own +hands, and therefore these things are now written: none can give you +up; none can betray you but yourselves; none can bring in popery upon +you but yourselves; and if you could see your own happiness, it is +entirely in your power, by unanimous, steady adhering to your old +principles, to secure your peace for ever. O Jerusalem! 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