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