THE True-Born Englishman, An­swered, &c. PART I.

[Page 9]To begin with an English Proverb, looks ve­ry much as if our Author was no great Doctor at English Poetry; and though T— smells very much of a Church with a Chimney in it, some Roguish sort of Wags will be apt to say, he is one of those that plies at the Devil's Chap­pel. I don't mean the Supposititious one, which he would have the Church of England go by the Name of, from its Ʋniformity of Service, but Calves Head Assemblies, where Nonconformists meet together, on the 30 th of January, to give Glo­ry to God for his Permission, in suffering the best of Kings to be murder'd by his Subjects that Day before his own Palace Gates.

If Pride had Spain for her Province, Ireland, it's certain who had its Inhabitants from thence came in for a share of it Governess's Favours, and there must needs be a smack of it in the Poet 's Constitution who (as I have been told was a [Page 10] Priest of that Nation. But how 'tis a Wise thing to undo the World, I can't imagine, unless Mis­chief is an instance of Policy, and Barbarity a great Token of Wisdom. That's certain if his Doctrine be true, the World's in as fair a way to be undone, as a Wicked Man can wish, if the Gold of Peru being in Wise hands (viz.) French Refiners, can make it so.

Italy is indeed a hot Country, but some de­grees cooler than the West-Indies, which are be­yond the Line, and plac'd under the Torrid Zone. Had the Poet amongst his other Enquiries con­sulted the Celestial Globe, he would have said otherwise: but it may be a mistake, and pro­bably he design'd the Satyr upon Jamaica or Bar­bardo's, which had been proper enough, because so many Letcherous Whores and Rogues, have made choice of those Places to reside in. I have heard likewise, that Air has blown up and kind­led a Fire, but never was inform'd before, that it was the Effect of Fire, since I am rather apt to believe it is the Cause.

I perceive now that the Spark has read Hey­lin's Cosmography, and taken the Character of Ger­many on trust from him. But he cannot assign the same Reasons for their Drunkenness, as he does for the Italians Lust, since 'tis certain these Men Intemperance, are no more influenc'd by the Tem­perate Zone, which the greatest part of it lies directly under, than those Children of Lust are affected by the Torrid. But if none please the De­vil so well as they, how comes he in his Virulent Expressions against the English, to say, they are his Chief Favourites. Contradiction is a Talent peculiar to himself, and evil speaking altoge­ther his own; else he would not make 'em Sail for Heav'n, with old Nick at the Helm, plying at the Steerage, or make the Devil bring 'em all into Hell, notwithstanding their Attempts to gain Heav'n, by following the Doctrines of Luther, Calvin, or Rome. An instance of our Author's Thoughts of the weakness of Pray'r, and the inefficacy of any sort of Devotion what­soever.

Just before none pleas'd the Devil so well as the Germans, but now the Scene's alter'd to France, and none are more great in his Favour than the People of that Nation. How to reconcile the Superiority of 'em Both, to Sence, I know not, no more than I do the Character he gives the French Men of thriving by Chance, when their Industry is so well known, as to make their Mis­fortunes the Effect of Chance, not the Success which generally attends their Endeavours in matters of Trade.

One might have thought after he had surren­dred the greatest part of Christendom into Satan's Hands; he would have had some Compassion on his Brother Infidels. But however it happens he falls foul upon them too, as an Enemy of Mankind in general, and either believing the Turks to be true Christians, or numbring them [Page 13] with Cannibals, commits an Error in making them who are part of the Pagan World, worship the Devil as God, and offer Humane Sacrifice, at his Altars, which is a sort of Ceremony not us'd in the Eastern Countries, who notwith­standing our Author's boasts of an upright Life, making less Application to the Devil than his Worship, who seems to have a great interest with him.

That may be; but I am apt to think, that He that made the World has the Government of it, notwithstanding Satan's Deputy-Lieutenants. And one would think from his planting the di­stant Colonies of Hell, he was settling Plantations beyond the South Seas, or had taken possession of some Countries beyond the Moguls, after he had given him the Dominion of all Paganism; but he seldom advises with his Maps, as will be seen by the Country which comes next in Play.

[Page 14]By my Shoul, Dear Joy is much in the right, to give his own Country the Post of Honour: Ireland has Zeal for her Lord Deputy, forsooth, when Ignorance had been more proper for it, as being that which is most predominant there. And the Swedes are Tyrannically dealt with, by the Hypochondria; a Character no Person that knows their way of living can justly give 'em. If Wit be a Child of Hell, our Author is certainly a Child of Heaven; if those who have no manner of Dealings with it deserve that Name. But what is chiefly observable in this Paragraph, is, that the Dane and Portuguese are so much of the same Complexion, that Fury rules one, and Rage the other; which in my poor sentiments, is, they have the same Constitution of Mind: A miracu­lous thing, for certain, that two Nations should so sympathize, when the last is so near the Sun, and then first so far from it.

Upon my Conscience he need not request his Satyr to be kind, it's inoffensive enough in every thing but Impudence: But he knows his own Temper best, and doubts, that 'tis impossible for him to treat a Country with any manner of Hu­manity that has used him better than he deserv'd, though he makes a shew of exposing her Virtues to balance her Faults, but has not the heart to do it.

For my part, I can't find where the Happiness of England had been to have lain unpeopled, when without doubt it was design'd at the Creation for Inhabitants, as well as the rest of the World; neither can I imagine that Person has any great skill in History, who affirms, that every Barba­rous Nation, that attempted to invade Her, gain'd their Ends, and were Conquerors; even Rome her self, the Empress of the rest of the World, acknowledged repulses from Her, and Ju­lius Caesar's conquering Arms found a stop to 'em, for a time, by the Valour of Her Natives.

If Ingratitude be one of the Ingredients which make up an Englishman, the Poet has a Title to be called one of the Blood, for treating him after such an infamous manner: But it's a Mystery to me, how this Devil of Black Renown, could be [Page 16] Second to Satan in Malice and in Force, when he was preferable to his Sovereign Lord by being much worse than Him, which in Hell is a mark of precedence.

Very good, Devil-Ingratitude had an excel­lent hand at Temptation, if he could perswade the First-born to be ungrateful before they had any Benefactors. I always took it for granted, that an ill requital of kind Offices fell under that Name, and no Person could be unthankful for a Courtesie before it was receiv'd. But this Para­graph affords the Reader great choice of Obser­vations: I shall only remark on as oft unpeopled, and as oft undone, and desire 'em to consider how that agrees with part of a foregoing Paragraph, that actually says, the Land had been happy had it remain'd unpeopled to this very day.

The Romans, Danes, and Saxons, that's certain, Conquer'd us, but the same may be said of each of those Countries, the Goths and Vandals, having broke in upon the first in such a manner, as to de­stroy their very Language, and the other two fall'n under the Fate of Vanquish'd Kingdoms. So that we have no great reason to undervalue our selves on the account of Conquest, when scarce a Nation in all Christendom has not had Revoluti­ons of the same Nature. But what is the greatest, and most scandalous Reflection, he numbers the Irish amongst our Conquerours, when it's well known that Kingdom is now dependent on the English Crown by the Right of Conquest, and that they been have ever since their Settlement such an inconsiderable People, as our Kings did not think worth while for a long time to reduce 'em to their present Obedience.

In the Nonage of Time there was not that distincton made betwixt Man and Man, as there is now; and when Armies were undisciplin'd, they had no swelling Titles to distinguish one Fellow Creature from another; neither is it probable that a Country so inviting as he owns this to be, should have only the Dregs of Armes for its Possessors.

The Epithet of Amphibious to People who live in an Island, when the Sea is its defence is not so scandalous as he design'd it, though the Title he gives our Ancestors of an Ill-born Mob sounds very hard. I believe he's so little Con­versant in Heraldry as to know nothing of their Originals, neither, while there was a sort of equality among Men, has he any just excuse for lessening the Pedegree of those Forefathers, from whence we sprung. As for his finding fault with the Cadence of our Language, I have heard from several hands he has been dabbling at an alteration of it several times to no effect, and I'll defie him to tell me of any modern Tongue which is not made up of a Compound of others, as well as ours, which has risen from the same Cause.

What Paralel is there between the Case of William the Conqueror, and that of our late Revo­lution? In his days King Harold gave him Bat­tle, and oppos'd Force to Force, which occasion'd a Conquest; but in our Times, His present Ma­jesty was receiv'd by the Consent of the People, invited over by the Nobility and Gentry, and Establish'd in a Throne: The whole Power of Holland could not have plac'd him in without our own Concurrence. Therefore as Matters were different between the Conquerour and him, it was but reasonable that those who had made him King, should send away the Troops that came to our Assistance, since we had not folly e­nough to think they would have came to re­scue us without assurance of being paid, nor Estates enough to spare to make a Gentleman of every Foot Soldier. Six hundred thousand pound was a greater reward to the States, than Queen Elizabeth had for saving 'em when they wrote themselves, DISTRESS'D; and he might have spar'd the Story, which was more to shew King William might have done the same, than to disgrace the Original of our Nobility, though [Page 20] what follows shews that also was intended by it.

As Kings are the Fountains from whence Ho­nours are deriv'd, so William the Conqueror had as much Right to bestow Titles on his Subjects, as another Prince has on his; and if the Poet was to search into some Foreign Noblemens Families, he has such an Esteem for because they are not English, it would be a good while before he could find either Sword, or Bow, or Spear, for their Crest. But he's a Leveller, and though he flat­ters King William, is but for making one Estate of the Three the Nation is compos'd of, and re­ducing the People under the Government of the People, as in the Year 48.

To Answer that Question, it is not the Blood makes an Englishman, but the Climate; and it's allow'd by the Civil Law, that whatsoever King­dom a Person is born in, though of Foreign Pa­rents, he is actually at the time of his Birth a Denizon of it.

We have no aversion for 'em, as they are Dutchmen, but as they are possessed of Places of Trust the Natives of the same Country might reasonably expect to have. And whatever our Primitive Original was, the Blood which gave us Being, having issued through so many Chan­nels, might in length of time purge it self off; and 'tis known by experience, the most unclean things imaginable, thrown into a running stream, leave no infection behind them; which makes [Page 22] against him, if he allows the Circulation of the Blood, which I believe, notwithstanding all his Equivocations, he cannot deny.

Here he seems to be apprehensive of the Argu­ment that was made use of against his last; and to fence it off guards himself with a known un­truth. Henry the Fifth, a Prince of the greatest Honour imaginable, after his Accession to the Throne, is made to countenance Vagabonds and banish'd Fugitives, when there are many instances to the contrary, if he will take the trouble upon him to read his Life. But were it actually as he would have it, it was always reckon'd no small Reputation for a Kingdom to be a Sanctuary to the Distressed, and a Refuge to poor People, who possibly might have other reasons for flying from the Land of their Nativity, than the Crimes he seems to charge 'em with.

This Paragraph being much of the same nature with the former, and written to reproach the Memory of the best of Queens, after he had too hastily shot his Bolt against the most Glorious of our Kings, I shall jump over the repeated Crambe he tires the Reader with, to take notice of his expression, God we thank thee: Full of as much Impiety as could come from an Atheist's Mouth, and one who denies all manner of reveal'd Reli­gion. He could have utter'd forth no worse complaints against the Goodness of that infinite Being, had he said, God you are only to be blam'd for putting such Whims in the Fools, as the Notions of Religion, and instilling into their empty Skulls the Fears of offending an incensed Deity, which has forced them to quit their own Country, and lie a Rent-charge on our Hands. Which is downright Blasphemy, or nothing can deserve that Name.

And what could hinder them from deserving the Name, if they were born in England? Since they were obliged to perform all the Offices of true-born Englishmen, where is the hurt to give them the Title of such? K. James the II. was an excel­lent Prince, and his Subjects were truly happy under his Reign, which he by way of ridicule calls Pacifick. And we cannot deny but several Families of Scots came with him into England; but it's worth his Observation to take notice, that his chiefest Favourite was an Englishman, not­withstanding his Affection to his own Nation.

It's but an odd sort of an Observation, that Countries thrive by Civil Wars, since it is evident that where the Seat of a War is, the Trade of that People is at a stand; and had not that in­jur'd Prince, whom he, for want of due respect to his Memory, brands with the Name of a Refugee been forc'd by Rebellious Subjects from the Land of his Inheritance, he would have had no Obligations to return to Foreign Courts. But a Party, which our Author glories in being a Member of, having been the occasion of his Exile, we may thank them, if he was withdrawn from a due Exercise of those admirable Parts he was the happy Master of; and when he was Pos­sessor of a Genius the fittest that could be for bu­siness, that he gave himself up too much to his Pleasures. The same reason that perswaded him to a due respect of His late Majesty's Natural Daughters, might have with held him from abu­sing his Princely Sons, some of which have been [Page 26] and are a Pattern of true behaviour to the English Court: But where Manners are not, they cannot be expected.

If we had no worse sort of Gentlemen amongst our English Nobility, we need not care how ma­ny we had of the Breed; no disparagement to S------g and P------d, his new made Noblemen.

These six Lines should have been explain'd, if he would have any Body know the meaning of them: For I am well assured no French Cooks, or Scotch Pedlars were ever made Noblemen in the King's Reign, whose Ashes he disturbs so basely. And for the Italian Whores he makes mention of, they might possibly have been made Ladies; though I never heard the Dutchess of Mazarine had any English Title conferr'd on her: But if he is not abandon'd to the want of Sense, as well as good Manners, he must agree with me, their Sex would not permit them to be made Lords.

Had our Author any sense of Shame or Chri­stianity in him, he would never blame a Prince for an Action, that has rendred his Name Fa­mous in all the Courts of Europe. When the Pro­fessors of Christ's Holy Gospel were expell'd from the Place of their Nativity, he receiv'd them— Omnium egenos, Ʋrbe, domo Daeos: And more than imitated the Queen of Carthage's No­ble Saying of Non ignora mali miseris suc­currere disco. He had been hospitably dealt with himself, by the same People, whose Prince's per­secuting Genius flung them upon his Protection; and if there had been Two Millions, instead of Two Hundred Thousand, his Name ought to be had in Everlasting Remembrance; since to Feed the Hungry, and Cloth the Naked, is so far from the Transgression of a Duty, that it is an actual Performance of our Saviour's Com­mand.

The word thus, seems to intimate we English­men had our Original from the French Refugees, who have been admitted into the Kingdom these last thirty Years, for no Persecution began in Charles the Second's Reign before. But the Poet being not very good at Connexion, and unsa­tisfy'd with abusing us in the same Nature before, falls again into the very same malicious Account of our Primitive Rise, on purpose to whet our Memory, and stamp impressions on it of his great Civilities, that we might think of suitable re­turns.

It seems there were Ladies in the time of the Heptarchy, though he allows of no such things as Lords before William the Conqueror; but though [Page 29] he seems to have a respect for the Fair Sex by the Title he gives 'em, he deserves to lose much of their esteem (if he ever had any of it) for the Character he gave the Women in those Times of being Mercenary, and in Love with the strongest side.

We have had as much before, in good honest Prose, which has more Beauties in it than his lamentable Verse, that the Western-Angles Con­quer'd the rest; but the Parts which were Con­quer'd, as the East-Angles, &c. help'd to give the whole Country the Name of England, as well as that which had subdued 'em. Which shews the Poet lies under a mistake, and is guilty of some escapes in matters of History. But what deserves our notice more particularly, is his making the Conquerors who were Inhabi­tants of the Western Parts, Bloudy, Barbarous, [Page 30] and Rude, when 'tis apparent in our Chronicles those of the North were the most Cruel, on purpose to taint the Nation in general, which had submitted to the Conquest of those Inhumane People, with the said Vices.

Pride was wholly attributed to the Spaniards sometime before, but now 'tis the property of the English. Either his Memory is very trea­cherous, or he has been so lavish of the Vices he has charg'd us with, that he is forc'd to have re­course to those he has flung upon others, because of the lowness of his Stock. And if we are a-kin to all the Ʋniverse, we have a multitude of Noble Relations for certain, which renders us above the common dregs of all Mankind, without any manner of Question.

The Travelling of the Scots, is an Argument of their enquiries after Knowledge, a Vertue for [Page 31] which they are unreproachable; therefore our Author does very ill to make use of Cleave­land's Word (Wandring) unless he had been gifted with Cleaveland's Wit: But how he can prove that England has receiv'd all the Glea­nings of the World, unless he can make appear we had any Forefathers from Japan and China, I can't imagine.

Though he pretends to make out our Origi­nal, he's more than Presumptious to explain our Saviour's Doctine after that manner. I am apt to think, those are no ones Sentiments but his own; and notwithstanding the dangerous Opinion he has of no such Person in the Blessed Trinity, no Man that has the Name of a Christi­an, but will conclude that Christ's Predictions will be fullfill'd, without any such mean Evasion as he impiously lays hold on.

'Tis well (to use his own words) he will ac­knowledge any such thing as Vertue to be a­mongst [Page 32] us. It's a Condescension he has not be­fore been guilty of; and if we have Sixty Thou­sand English Gentlemen, it's no Matter whether they are deriv'd from the Saxons or no, since we had People that have Conquer'd us of as great Antiquity as them.

France, and both the Germany's, High and Low, have chang'd their Masters as often as us; and though they have great swelling Names, some of our Families may be no more obscure than theirs, since we have the same Reasons to boast of their Antiquity. And our Poetaster had paid ne'er the less Difference to the Invinci­ble Nassau, had he plac'd his Grand-Fathers Fa­mily ( viz. that of the Stewarts) which is the most Ancient in Scotland, before that of Monroe, which I never heard was Famous for any Mem­ber of it, but one Mr. Monroe, who is a celebrated Tobaconist.

The Names may be French, on Account of the Norman Invasion; but it's the Title that makes the Nobleman, which cannot be said to be borrow'd. If the Kings of England could not make their own Peers, they would have less Pre­rogative than the meanest Soveraign Princes, who have a Right to multiply the number of 'em as they please; and if Impudence and Money make a Peer in these Days, he has made a pretty sort of a Complement to His present Majesty, whom we shall find he has Written a most Bombast Harangue in Verse upon, and been after his laudable Custom, exceeding Civil to the Duke and Earl, whom he would have preferable to King Charles the Second's Sons.

It's a sign, when People rise in the World, and make a Figure from small Beginnings, Industry has had a great hand in their Promotion; and when People of indifferent Circumstances are ad­vanc'd to Honour, there is an encouragement of Vertue going forward. The Common Seaman's Labours may do much towards the gaining a Na­val Victory; but it is the Admiral's Conduct that brings it to pass; and though English Pages for their Bravery at Sea are made Lords, it is not a thing to be wondered at, since a certain Gentleman, belonging to a Nation he's so fond of, has had more than the same Honour done him, for none of those Performances.

PART II.

This Paragraph makes our Author look like a Roman himself, though he will allow none of us to be any thing like them, (when they have left their Brood behind them, without doubt, as well as any of our other Conquerors;) and he seems like Janus to carry his Head two ways: One while, he commends us for our Valour; another, rails a­gainst us for our Falshood: He names the Na­tions that bequeathed us the Vices he makes men­tion of; and for our Stock of Honesty, because he would make it as small as he could, the Saxons forsooth, above all other People, must be our Benefactors in leaving us that: A valuable sort of Gift, indeed, when according to his Challenge, out of 60000 Families, ten of them had not so much as a drop of their Blood in them.

If the English betray the Secrets that are com­mitted to them, by Infirmity, not by any Design, it's as plain as the Nose in his Face they are Ho­nest; which contradicts the Character he gave of them in the foregoing Paragraph: And as that [Page 36] implies a contradiction to Sense, so the Character he gives them, of having Faculties too weak for Intriegues, is a downright contradiction to Truth; since we have Statesmen now in being, and Eng­lishmen too, not inferiour to the Richlieu's and Mazarine's of France; or to any hard Names whatsoever the Dutch are distinguish'd by. And it's beyond all manner of doubt certainly true, that the last might have been glad to have got back to the Texel again, had not some Wise Gen­tlemen, that lived near the Names, laid their Heads together, in order to forward the Happy Revolution they boast of.

He's Almanzor-like for killing all, and making a compleat Victory over the whole English Race. The Nobility and Gentry have had a Tast of his Fury, and he'll be impartial, and fall upon the Poor also; when if they were so lavish of their Money and Time, as he would perswade us they are, few of'em would come to wear Gold Chains, [Page 37] which he blames them for, or shew their Charity in Magisterial Purple, which has been such a Mor­tification to him, and if they had not given them­selves Time to think, they would never have ar­riv'd at.

I never heard but the Dutch were as good Toss-pots as our selves, though he would have us believe, one Englishman can drink as much as will maintain two Families of 'em. However he has made amends for that known Lye, by giving his Assent to a known Truth, which is, that we are more dext'rous at Business than them, and are the greatest Artists by consequence, since he has the ill manners to call us the greatest Sots.

The way to abolish Religion, which has been the main design of our Author, is to make the Clergy look little in the Eyes of the Laity; and he has laid hold of effectual means to further his [Page 38] intentions, nothing being more capable to draw the People from the respect which is due to them, so much as the imputation of Drunkenness, un­less they open their Eyes and examine into the Character of him that charges them with it. But God be thank'd, we have the soberest Clergy in the World; our Ministers are Men of exemplary Lives, as well as great Learning; and our Gen­try's Tenants are so far from standing in such a reverential Awe of their Landlords, that they are Gentlemen themselves in respect of the Boors beyond Sea.

The reason he has for pecking at our Univer­sities, is, because the Vice-Chancellor of one of them, civilly desired him to withdraw himself from it, for fear of his corrupting young Gen­tlemen-Student's Morals, which he had an ex­cellent Talent at; otherwise common Justice would have forced him to own, there are the most excellent Scholars in them, which are to be found in any place of Learning throughout [Page 39] all Europe; and the Statutes are so regularly put in force against all manner of Licentiousness, that he has no manner of excuse for the Scandal he charges them with. English Physicians also are Men of the best Reputation in that Faculty throughout the whole Universe. And to speak against our Practitioners dexterity in Chirurge­ry, is to give the lye to demonstration, and vent a known falshood, in the room of that which is true.

One may perceive by his hungry insipid Lines he's a Fresh-water Poet, and that Wine is very far from having any such thing as Inspiration in it, if he makes use of it; that is, for certain A­pollo would abdicate, if he was in danger of having good Sense and Verse murder'd by the rest of his Subjects, as he has done; and Helicon would be soon drunk up, were the rest of the Fraternity troubled so much with the Heart-burning as he is. But your Man of Verse knows better, that would acquire Fame by his Writings, and to perpetuate his Memory like one of his Predecessors, always goes,— Bene Potus ad Arma.

As for our Statesmen, without Question, the making their Heads hot is not the way to make their Thoughts sedate and cool, and it's evi­dent from the success of their Counsels, our Au­thor is no great Politician himself. It's appa­rent also he's no Songster, since he understands the Customs of Singing-Men so little, as to make them drink, when Liquors are the most Pernici­ous things to a good Voice, and the likeliest imaginable to take their livelihood from 'em.

For certain he's not one of the less prophane, by the wicked Expressions that come from him; And seems to agree with the Belief of the Jews, who said the Apostles were drunk with New Wine, when they declaring the Message of the most High God. So that the Reader may find what Sect he belongs to, since he is against the Response, of, with thy Spirit let us pray.

[Page 41]He's resolv'd to pull every Body in by the Neck and Shoulders, and Mr. Asgil is maul'd off next for his notion of Translation; but in such a manner, that any Man would deserve the Name of a Wise one, that could find out where the Satyr Bit. He asks a Question, and an­swers it himself; for if it would give Wings to Asgel's Disciples, and guard 'em from the Fear of Death, without doubt Mr. Asgil would not forbid 'em the use of a Liquor, which would be very instrumental in forwarding their Tran­slation.

What he brings the Gods in for, is a secret to me, unless he would shew he has read Poe­try, though he is Master of none of the Beauties of it. And whom he means by Colon I can't tell; but if it be any particular Person, he points his harmless Satyr at, it is foreign to the purpose, [Page 42] since he designs it as a Reflection against the English in general. For though there may be a Colon or two, or many more in the Nation, he has no Authority to infer from thence, that Drunkenness is the darling Vice in it; or to shew the Partiality of his Spleen, if it were so, by dating it from the Reign of a Prince whom he had before rendred infamous for a Vice which is not consistent with it.

Any one may perceive he's for voting an Act of Comprehension, and that he would all have the the straggling Sects whatsoever enjoy the same Privileges with those that are actually in com­mon with the Establish'd Church; though by his saying they are tenacious of mistakes, he seems to conclude every different sort of Religion Practic'd in these Realms is false, and none but the phantastical Schemes he proposes to us as Matters of Faith, true.

As for the Character he gives us in the begin­ning of this Paragraph, it's so inconsistent with an English Temper, that he needs nothing but his own Words to refute him; and if we take less freely than we give, it's a plain Argument against that lowness of Birth, he would tax us with, and shews our Generosity to be such, that we take more Pleasure in having our own Beneficences accepted, than to give our acceptance of those of others: Which is so far from any thing that tends to our disparagement, that it is a Vertue we ought to be priz'd above our Neighbours for, and an Excellence of that uncommon Na­ture, that makes us Superior to the rest of those Nations that People the World.

If we are inconstant in our Temper, we should certainly, by the frequent changes it is guilty of, sometime or other fall into a Vindictive Fury, and resent Affronts which are put upon us; but if we are such Strangers to Passion, what a-murrain is become of the Danish Fury, and the Porteguese Rage, which he not long since said had such an Ascendant over us? And for the Humid to damp the Fume, he might have as well said, one moist thing adds moistness to another, which proceeds from no Antipathy of one different Quality to another, as he ignorantly would have it.

The last Distich agrees very little with the first, and I find he's over-happy in making Simi­litudes; for if we are the Benefactors (which he call's a slender Proof of good Nature) it's our Busi­ness; to receive acknowledgments, and not return 'em before any such thing is paid us.

[Page 45]As I take it, Friendship is the Union of two distinct Minds, and not of one; neither is it an Abstract of Agreement, which is a sort of an Epi­tome of Happiness; but an entire, perfect, and compleat Enjoyment betwixt one Soul and ano­ther. And if we were so unhappy as to deserve the Character he gives, since very few Nations are Masters of this Friendship, we have this com­fort, as to have a great many Countries (and amongst them perhaps his beloved Dutchland) who share with us in the want of it.

[Page 46]Were our Author an Englishman, as he would perswade us he is, he would have contradicted himself in this point, and been so far from giving himself his own good Word, that he would have shewn he had pick'd out the worst he could find in the whole English Vocabulary. But he is more partial than so, and being of another Nation, flings all the dirt that is possible upon us: Tho' I dare swear he is in the wrong, for charging our Rich Natives with boasting of their Riches, since 'tis manifest there is no People in the Universe, that are more cautious of having their Wealth known than the generality of Ours; witness the Numbers in this Kingdom that are possessed of vast Sums, and yet would have the World be­lieve nothing like it. As for our forgiving Ill Turns, we thank him for the Character, and take it for our own, being in hopes he will apply that of forgetting Good to himself, since he has been so unthankful for the Favours he has receiv'd here, and so ungenerous as to return the Mercy of a Nation, who might have handed him very se­verely for his impious Writings, with so bar­barous a Treatment.

His Satyr now bears the countenance of Pane­gyrick, and he has taken off the Scandal, he be­fore fastened on us, of being a lazie People, by [Page 47] putting that of our being chearful in Labour in its room; and if a Bottle refines our Brains, and gives a spirituous influence to our Wit, it very much makes against his side, who has blamed us for di­verting our selves over it.

We have all manner of reason to thank him for his great condescension, in being graciously pleas'd to shew his compassion in concealing our Vices, after he has charged us with all the Devil could put in his Head; and, if he must not divulge the crimes he cannot cure, he has already broke through that prohibition, by making mention of so much as one single Fault, since very few Patients will accept of a Cure, where Old-Nick is known to be the Doctor. As for the Ladies, they are in his favour, though I question whether he will be in theirs, since to make them Noisy and Proud is enough to put them out of Humour.

If an Englishman is gentle in Command, and does not curb in those who are put under him with too stiff a Rein, he is certainly praise-worthy, and is deservedly had in esteem: But if Obedience be a Stranger, in the Land, how comes it about that His present Majesty is own'd as such through­out all the Three Kingdoms. To be humblest when rich, is also a certain token of an innate Goodness; but to reconcile what follows with it, is beyond my Ability, since if their increase of Wealth is an increase of their Humility, they can never be unsatisfied, and think they merit more.

[Page 49]To call Tutchin a Shamwig, is directly to af­firm, he has not half the ill Qualities of a Whig, as he would have him. For my part, I must own, I think he has the particular Characteristic of that Rebellious, and Whining Sect, if a Mur­muring Genius, and an Unsatisfied Temper, can point him out as a Member of so scandalous a Society. But how two such Brothers in Ini­quity, who so directly Tally in every thing, but their Opinion about Foreigners should fall out, that's a Riddle to me. Every Body knows Tutchin was deservedly order'd to be whip'd, through the West Country Market-Towns, and that he was set at Liberty, and entertain'd by some People of no small note after the Revo­lution, and how that he like a True Whig, and Villain, afterwards abus'd his Benefactors, by writing a Satyr in Praise of Folly and Knavery, incomparably better then his True-Born English­man, but I never could hear any Body say Tut­chin was worse then T—d.

This is also a Truth, which he has pick'd out of the Reverse which was an Answer to the Foreig­ners, and which, as I take it, intimates he had a Place given him at the Victualling-Office; but ac­cusing the Commissioners before the Lords of the Admiralty, and not able to make out what he charg'd 'em with, he himself was divested of his [Page 50] own Post. By this the Author may perceive I am not so bad, and so abandon'd to Wicked­edness, as to be a Friend of Tutchin's, neither have I so little Judgment; as to have a good Opi­nion of the Person who rails at him.

It's natural for Men of both their Kidneys to change sides as occasion offers; and if Tutchin's design in writing the Foreigners, was only for the Good of his Nation, he was far enough from Huffing the King, who is an English Prince, since he Reigns over us, by taking part with the Eng­lish who are the Subjects, that have stood by him with their Lives and Fortunes, and lost abun­dance of Treasure in his Defence, when the Dutch have been Gainers by the War.

If England's be a Scoundrel Cause, for God's sake what must that of Holland be? And if we move their scorn, it's our own Fault, since we have had it in our power to Command their Fear; and might have Lampoon'd the Dutch, without Burlesquing the Nation, had we been so wise as to have less dealings with 'em.

Certainly, he has been in Wales, or Yorkshire, by the Character he gives the Plough-men; and the Gentlemen of the long Robe have no Reason to thank him for casting such a Reflection on the Study of the Law. For their Part, those are wise Magistrates indeed that are kept in awe by 'em; and for mine, I have never heard of any such, but one City-Justice, and he has a Shoe-Maker to read Law to him.

If he blames us for our Liberty and Property being dear to us, he cannot be a Friend to the late Revolution, which he would be taken for a Champion of; and he would do well to explain his unintelligible Assertion of our not being able to submit to our own Liberty: The next two Lines are applicable to no Englishmen, but those of his own Persuasion; and the Contents of 'em put in practice by no sort of Persons, but those who are under a perpetual uneasiness, and have the Impudence to call our Statesmen Sots; [Page 52] which reflects upon the Wisdom of him that made choice of 'em.

He goes on with the known Qualities of his own Sect, and being seemingly asham'd of owning 'em himself, flings 'em on those who have no manner of relation to 'em. He acknowledges there are but too many of this Temper in this Kingdom, and that Rebellion, Dissatisfaction, and the other Crimes he falsly Charges us with, has a Multitude of Disciples ready to side with either of 'em. But let us seek for the Fountain which gives Being to this Sea of Wickedness, and which for other causes then the River Nile, hides its Head, and we shall soon find the source of those mischiefs, that are our perpetual Disturbers, is on that side which he is the ungrateful Defender of.

And where was the Harm to think our selves injur'd, if we really were; and to complain of Grievances, if we had a just cause for it? King James was led aside, and we did not make our Addresses to the Dutch, who treading in wrong Paths themselves could not set His Majesty in the right: but sent our Remonstrances over to the Princess and Prince of Orange, in order to let them know, whose principal Concern it was, that they had a Jealousie there was no fair Play going forward at the English Court. They ad­dressed them in no humbler Tone, than was fit­ting to be made use of to Princes of their High Birth; and invited their Highnesses to England, not so much for want of Force, but because it was necessary that the Persons whose Con­cern it was to examine into the P— of Wales his Birth, should be at the Head of them to countenance what otherwise would have born the Face of a Rebellion.

It is not our business to question what he says on His Majesty's part; and he says nothing on the part of the People but what is true, since they gave their Deliverer no other Thanks than those he deserv'd. But it's the greatest of Fal­shoods to say we soon despis'd him; when if any Sect of People were guilty of that piece of Ingratitude, those that call themselves Dissen­ters are the Persons, who are not satisfied of having a free Exercise of their Religion, accord­ing to the Dictates of their Conscience; but will murmur on till theirs is the Establish'd Faith, and their Meetings have the same Royal Autho­rity in their behalf, as the Kirk of Scotland; which, I presume from His Majesty's great Knowledge of the Church-of- England Loyalty, will never come to pass.

Non-Resistance in Things that are lawful, was the Doctrine of our Church; and the greatest part of our Clergy preached up Passive Obedience only where their Prince did not violate the Rights of his Subjects. A great number of them, I am well assured, would have suffered the grea­test Extremities for the sake of their Religion; though when the Church-Lands were called in question, and the Possessors of them were likely to be forced from them; then Judgment began at the House of God; and a certain Time-server, who is in his Party's Interest, and lives not a Mile from the Temple, cut asunder the Gordian Knot which he had before made indissoluble; which does not at all affect the Church-of- Eng­land Loyalty, since that fulsome Harange-maker is looked upon as one of its rotten Members.

[Page 56]The Safety of the Church is the Preservation of the Laws; and as the infringement of the Privi­leges of the one, is a downright violation of the other, so unless the Authority of Religion be kept up; and the Ministers of God's Holy Ordi­nances had in Reverence, the Statutes of the Kingdom will be but an ill Fence to restrain the Violence of Licentious Men, who will break in upon the other Laws, after they have destroy'd that which is their Fundamental.

The Reflection which he designs upon the Lord Bishop of London (for none of our other Fathers in God took Arms on that occasion) is of so lit­tle [Page 57] force, that his Lordship has nothing to fear from it. His Lordship was suspended by an Ec­clesiastical High Court which was unlawfully e­stablished, was under apprehensions of suffering every day worse and worse, and had every Mis­fortune to provide himself against, that either a Subject or a Christian ought to stand in fear of; and therefore is very much to be excused, though I don't vindicate taking Arms against a Sove­reign. But the Priests whom he joins the Epi­thet of Pale to (meaning the Non-Jurants) are falsly traduced; they gave no more Assistance to the then Prince of Orange, than their Prayers for his Success, and their continued Vows to the Almighty to crown an Undertaking, for the sake of Religion, with an happy Issue. And notwith­standing they were Men of such tender Consci­ences, as not to be led by any hopes of Gain to take Oaths to a Prince, who was established in the Throne during the Life of the King they had sworn to, I am well persuaded they are so far from turning Martyrs for Popery, that no People whatsoever are more against that idola­trous Opinion than themselves.

[Page 58]It was not only the Priest's thoughts, that His present Majesty would have settled Affairs on their Ancient Establishment, and been contented with the Glory of rescuing Three Nations from Propery and Slavery, but his Majesty's own In­tentions, as may be seen in his Declaration, in the year 1688. was agreeable to their thoughts; till the Parliament was so importunate with him to accept the Three, that he could not have re­fused them, without leaving the People he had freed to the same dangers they were before ex­posed to.

No true Protestant, I am perswaded, believes our Grievances were feign'd, but is heartily glad they are redress'd. However, though I have a greater Veneration for the Person and Merit of W— than to say he's a Ty---nt, I am ready to affirm one S— as I know (per­haps not the Person he means) guilty of a greater Crime than Sottishness, for betraying so kind a Master.

I must needs acknowledge I don't understand the Doctrine of punishing Kings; though the Murder of good King Charles has been such a Barbarous Instance of it, that if Divine Punish­ment does not overtake the Authors of it, cer­tainly there is no Vengeance in store for the vilest Offenders.

[Page 60]If I mistake not, the two first Lines in this Pa­ragraph are not clear from Exceptions; for ac­cording to the rules of common sense, whether a King reigns justly or unjustly, he is neverthe­less a King, beyond all dispute, while he sits upon the Throne. But great Disputants are sometimes out in their Consequences; therefore I shall skip over the rest of his Argument, as what is heard every day over Coffee and Tea, and examine into the last Verses, which seem to bear all the strength of Reason he is capable of mustring up. If we may call a Person to the Relief of a Kingdom, without any design of pre­senting him with the Throne of it, as certainly we may, there is no question but the People who called him, are innocent, and free from the breach of their Oath to their then Sovereign; since to take up Arms is one thing, and to petition for Assistance to remove Priests, and Evil Counsel­lours, another.

Perjury is the Violation of an Oath, taken af­ter a serious and premeditated manner; but to break an Oath of Allegiance to one King, with­out swearing to another, makes it impossible that the Non-juring Clergy should fall under the [Page 61] Censure of so notorious a piece of impiety. How­ever, the whole Fraternity, Swearers or Non-swearers, are extraordinarily oblig'd to their good Friend, Mr. Author, who makes them as ready, if they are in the wrong, to prove them­selves in the right; and as good at furnishing themselves with Excuses, as a thorough-paced Whore before a Magistrate, or a venerable Hy­pocritical Bawd before one of the Society for Re­formation of Manners. A great token of the re­spect he has for God's Ministers.

It is impossible Justice should die, while the Fountain of it is living: The Chanels through which it passes may be choak'd up for a time; but as long as there is wherewithal to feed it at the Spring-head, can never wholly be stop'd.

The design of this Paragraph, is to shew, that the Kingly Power is the Gift of the Subjects, and that whenever a Prince fails in the Duty of his Office, the People may recal their Gift, and be­stow the Crown on whom they please. This Doctrine might do very well in Poland, amongst the Radziouskies and Potoskies, who are for an Elective Kingdom; but never will suit with a Nation, whose Kingdom has been Hereditary upwards of six hundred years, and always went to the next Heir of course, notwithstanding the defects of the King, for the time being, might occasion his Dethronement.

If Laws are superiour to Kings, the Creature may pretend a Sovereignty over the Creator, since they are the product of their Royal Assent, and never capable of being put in Force without their approbation: The Potsherd may as well say to the Potter, Wherefore hast thou made me? as the Law put a Question to the King, and ask him, Why hast thou done thus?

Self-Defence is acknowledg'd by Universal Consent for the Voice of Nature, and enjoin'd by her Laws to be put in Practice; that is, up­on any sudden Attack of an Enemy, or any cause­less Provocation that may be given us, to take care of our selves. But the Divine Law which is superior to it, and commands us not to lift up our Hand against the Lord's Anointed; prohi­bits us to call Rebellion Self-Defence; and ev'n Humane Ordinance allows Kings to be the Head of their People, and not liable to the Censure of those that are inferiour to 'em.

That would be pretty indeed, and we should have a hopeful Nation of it, should the same Reason, or rather want of it, which governs him, govern all. Every one would cry such a Post of [Page 64] Honour was his Right; and if the King should deny him the Grant of it, Rebellion would be the next Word; and every Fool would cry Fire, on purpose to make his Neighbour as wise as himself.

That is as much as to say, after his own way of expressing himself, England cry'd Fire, and a Neighbour came in an instant, and quench'd it, and receiv'd the House, and all the Furniture for his Pairs. Not that I would detract from the Debt of Gratitude, which will be ever due to His Majesty; but I Question not but His Majesty holds himself contented with the large Acknow­ledgments of both Houses of Parliament. Since 700000 per Annum more than the Crown Re­venue, is a Gift never given to any Prince before, though this Impudent Author in defrance of the [Page 65] Donors, calls down for Vengeance on their un­grateful Heads.

No Body doubts but the late Queen of Blessed Memory, was an inestimable Present to His Ma­jesty; but to say, he had all that God could give in the Possession of Her, was to set Bounds to the Power of the Deity, and say unto the Al­mighty, Hither couldst thou go, and no farther. A thought too big for him that made use of it, and too little for that Infinite Being for whom he made use of it.

I don't believe His present Majesty's Assent was so unforeseen as our Author would have it; [Page 66] neither can it enter into my thoughts, that his Majesty's thoughts foretold to him, that we are a fickle, selfish, and unkind sort of People; since his Majesty would not have thought it worth his while to accept of the Government of a King­dom, he foresaw he should be uneasie in; or yield to the repeated desires of such Petitioners, as would be unthankful for the Grant of their Re­quest.

That Injunction's well enough! And the Whore, his Satyrical Muse, has exhausted her Magazine of Venome so much, that 'tis time her Draggle-tail-ship should have a Holiday for si­lence. But the Panygerical Lady is the Devil and all for her part, she cannot Quaver a Note, un­less both the Poles give their Attention, and loud Fame lends her a Trumpet to sound her bombast unmusical Notes in. As for the Subject's part, [Page 67] it deserves a better hand to undertake it: And as for the Undertaker, one would think that a worse part might be more fit for him. How­ever, let us hear what Words he puts in Britan­nia's Mouth; tho' Hell's acquainted with his way of Sounding too well to take it for the last Fatal Blast.

The Trumpeter's out of Tune at the first Note; that is, he has no manner of Musick in the first Line, which is discouragement enough to give any farther attention: But since the Winds, and the Poles, and the Endless Round, wait his Motions, it will be presumptious in us not to do the same. So—now 'tis a comical sort of a sound indeed—the Devil-a-bit of any Eccho comes from it, which is the Beauty of Musick; it has taken a flight into Old Time's long Ears, which though they are hollow enough to return any manner of Voice; yet the Miser is of so greedy a Temper, as to keep it all to himself.

Sweet! The Sails of Honour furl'd, shews a vast reach of Thought, and an exuberancy of Fancy! though I know the meaning of it no more than him that wrote it. But they are Words, and that's enough; for it's uncivil to expect more, when he is made up of nothing else. Fans them on, too, is a very elegant Expression; though he does our Great and Good King very little Ser­vice by the Wind he raises for him.

All this is to be confessed, and that's a Mad­man who will not own it, though I believe His Majesty has those Heroick Vertues in him, as to love the Name of a Conqueror, at the same time that he sets us Free, since none but a Con­queror can deserve that Glorious Appellation.

If Phrases conceal His Majesty's Titles, it may be taken for granted our Poetical Man of Prose, or rather our Prosaical Man of Poetry, has pub­lished more than is consistent with the true sense of him. Since to say, he'll directly proclaim Names and Thing of Him, when he takes care to speak very little of either, is as much as to say, Your Majesty's gracious Favours will be an En­couragement for me to speak more.

The Reader will infallibly conclude with me, that William is a Name too good for his hoarse Instrument, that sounds more like a Lancashire Horn-Pipe than a Trumpet; and that the Vir­gins may listen to Eternity, and not hear such a thing come from him as a Charming Sound. But I am amaz'd to see him turn Pimp, while he is lab'ring at the painful Vocation of a Panegyrist, and seek out for Maidenheads for His Majesty, after having offer'd up his Wishes that he may be a Lover as well as a King. How soft Thoughts can be sublime without altering the property, I confess I am to seek: And the next is the uncha­ritablest Wish imaginable, viz. that Heav'n should ne'er hear a Prayer where his Name is left out; since we ought to pray for our Enemies: And some disaffected People who don't own His pre­sent Majesty for their King, without doubt pray for Another. But this is the most diverting Pas­sage of All, after he has blamed the Men for ta­king a Cup so freely, he encourages the Ladies to take a chearful Glass, and drink about as a sort of a Cordial for them.

Saytyr may return, if it pleases; but no body will take notice of its scandalous Appearance. How we have been either ungrateful or untrue to our King and Country, may be seen by the large Summs we have advanced for the Service of both.

That is more than he knows; Six hundred thousand pounds is a great deal of Money; and there are People in the World would jump at it once more, should we have occasion for their Assistance. And the best Instance that can be thought on to prevail with any of our Neigh­bours, will be, that we paid the Dutch before we sent them home again. As for Abuses upon us for damning them for Foreigners, 'twas done by Vote of Parliament, and had the King's own Royal Assent to it; and if he has any thing to [Page 72] remonstrate it, against the Sixth of February is near at Hand, when he may see what thanks our Se­nators will give him, for finding fault with their wise Consulation.

That Observation is a very wrong one, to my Knowledge; for the Dutch were found fault with some Years before the Peace, though we stood in need of Troops for our Quota toward the War, and 'twas more adviseable to pay Fo­reigners which were Veterane Troops, than raise new ones of raw and unexperienc'd Natives.

We never thought that we paid the Dutch too much, though they were of such an unsatisfied Temper, as to think it too little; so that his Simile is very little to the purpose, that relates to the Doctor and his Patients.

Great Portland at the time of the Revolution, was plain Myn Heer Bentnick, and Possess'd no Place which Englishmen were wont to be Masters of; so that he gave no occasion of murmuring to a People, who stand mightily upon their Birth-Right. And no Body questions but he perform'd his Embassy in France, with an Extraordinary Conduct, but we never caress'd him as the only Man sit for so great an Employment; being well satisfy'd that his Lordship, notwithstanding his great Abilities, has those who are Natives of this Kingdom, that can equal him. But I shall ne­ver [Page 74] be of the Opinion, that France regrets his ma­naging the Peace, till what pass'd between his Lordship, and the Duke de Boufflers, be made publick, which perhaps may lead me into a lower esteem of the French Politicks; and England ( though 'tis not her Custom to reward) has recom­penc'd that Noble Peer's Services, by giving his Royal Master such an addition to the Crown-Re­venue, as to enable him to make his Lordship what returns His Majesty shall think fitting.

If he means the old Mareschal de Schonberg, (as certainly he must by what he relates of him) he's very much in the dark as to his Knowledge; for that General was never Ill spoken of by the People of England; but deservedly counted next His Majesty, their support in time of War: Or if he would have us understand him, as to the Present Duke his Son, and Generalissimo of the Forces in England, whose Post has cheifly been since the Reduction of Ireland here in England; [Page 75] and who has been so far from extending his Conquests from Villa-Vitioso to the Rhine, though without question he has Courage and Con­duct to do it enough, if Opportunity should of­fer, tho' I never heard his Grace had orders to attempt any thing, but the taking Furnes, and Dixmude. Some malicious People perhaps have spoken disrespectfully of him; but it's so far from being a natural affront put upon him, that it's nothing else but the Resentments of some Soldi­ers under his Command.

Without doubt His Majesty would find him­self more assur'd of the Hearts, and Purses of his English Subjects, (if it could be possible) if [Page 76] none but They were admitted into His Majesty's Council, in relation to English Affairs. For cer­tainly a reliance on their Fidelity, who have run all Hazards, ventur'd their Lives and For­tunes, and every thing that was dear to them for his Service, would not be improper at a juncture of Time when the Hearts and Purses of those Subjects may be very necessary. I know of no English-man in a Place of Trust that has be­tray'd Him; [...]ut in His Majesty's younger Days in Holland, there were De Wits who would, had not Providence hind'red their Designs: And as for the Loss of the Turkey-Fleet, and the brave General Talmash, few Men of Understanding but know both those unhappy Miscarriages lie at a Country's door, who have no great Aver­sion to Herrings and Butter.

If our Author was capable of blushing, he might exert that Faculty now, when he is go­ing to abuse a Gentleman, whose Name is as Ancient as that of most Families, and who has advanc'd his Reputation and his Wealth to such a degree, that never London-Magistrate acquir'd such deserved Esteem, during the Execution of his Office, and never one went out of it with more good Wishes, and Money, after he had be­stow'd so much in Charitable Uses. But as these Calumnies were written on purpose to lessen the Number of those who had espous'd his Party, a­gainst the ensuing Election for Members of Par­liament for the City, and the Author of it was in Fee with that scandalous, hypocritical Sect, that gave Bills out against him: So Sir Charles Duncomb has the less to be concern'd at, from the known Partiality and Inveteracy of those that are his Enemies; and may stand secur'd of those Rewards for his Good Works, which no Hire­ling-Scribler can detract from; and which shall deduce his Name to Posterity, when such a Fel­low as the Author represents himself to be, shall not be known so much as to have been born.

'Tis well known to all People, who have any knowledge of the Gentleman he insolently spits his Venom at, that his Father had not where­withal to educate him, as his sprightly Genius deserv'd; yet he was so far from making him a Cow-Driver, which sort of People are seldom thought to write and read, that he had all the Education necessary for one who being born to no great Matters of Possession, was one day to launch out into the World to make his For­tune.

[Page 79]Lyars, they say, ought to have good Memo­ries, and the Poet should have bethought himself of his making Sir Charles a Cow-driver in the preceding Paragraph, before he made him a Car­ter in this; else he must never expect the Cha­racter of a Man of exceeding Care, which he has given a Person that deserves it without an Irony.

If he had not been Equip'd otherwise than our Author would have him, and been furnished with Honesty which all Persons, who have had any dealing him are ready to testifie, yet even then he had exceeded him that makes his Speech for him, and all his fancied Acquirements. And if to come up to Town in order to advance his Fortunes, may fall under the diminutive way of Business, that Men follow who are in Quest of Bread then every Clergyman, Physician, and Person of other Creditable Callings may fall under the same imputation.

Sir Charles D—mb has often made ap­pear, that he was never ungrateful for the Kind­nesses he receiv'd of Alderman Backwell, and is ready to own him now in the midst of his Pro­sperity, for the first, and some occasion of his rising in the World. And if the Alderman was His Master (as possibly he might, though not in the low Station the Poetaster fixes him in) it's a sign he was an Excellent and Faithful Ser­vant, or a Man of that Famous Banker's Pene­trancy of Judgment, and cautious way of Pro­ceeding, would never have trusted him with his All.

If he had ruin'd his Fortunes, the Son of that Honest and unhappy Bankrupt would have shewn his Resentments for it. But Mr. B------ll who is now living, is satisfy'd of other things, and none at this time has a greater respect for Sir Charles D---mb, and visits him oftner in the Country up­on all Occasions.

We have nothing to urge in defence of the Sin of Ingratitude, or to speak in behalf of a­ny Person who is guilty of it; but when it is apply'd to a Gentleman who has it not in his Temper to Reward Good with Evil, we should be guilty of the Sin our selves, should we not stand up in his Vindication. The Sin against the Holy Ghost is unpardonable, and is the high­est Offence any Human Being can commit; but he makes a Comparison between it and Ingra­titude which is Venial with God and Man, which shews he does not rightly understand the Na­ture of the Crime he writes about.

That is as much as to say he Broke the Alderman's Back by not holding it; when 'tis apparently true King Charles the 2d's shutting up the Exchequer [Page 82] was the Cause of it; and he had never been forc'd out of his Native Country by his Credi­tors, had not his Faithful Services been over­balanc'd by the Treachery of some Persons who manag'd his then Soveraign's Treasury. I be­lieve the Author is no great Conjurer of a Grammarian by making the word Them which is of the Plural Number, agree with Publick Trust, which is certainly the Singular; but to take notice of his Faults and Incoherences that way, would Employ us too much; and 'tis so well known that when Sir Charles farm'd one of the Crown Revenues, no Person that ever ma­nag'd a Place of Trust, behav'd himself more to the Satisfaction of his King and Country than himself.

This is a High Rant indeed! The Poet might have as well Compar'd himself to one of the most Faithful among the Apostles, as the Gen­tleman whose good Name he takes such Liberty with, to the most Faithless.

The Person whom he rail's at under the Name of Ziba, has so signaliz'd himself in his Services to the English Government, that his en­vious Reflections on him, return upon himself; and without doubt if the King was loath to break his Word, he would have had some scruple at break­ing his Oath, since Perjury is a Crime infinitely greater, than the Breach of a Promise.

The Report this Paragraph is grounded up­on, is as false as Hell, and Sir Charles was so far from getting such a large Sum by the Re­volution, that it's well known to some Persons who are more Acquainted with him than the Author, he lost considerably by several belong­ing to the Court of St. Germains. Yet he Valued the Interest of the Country he was born in, more than his own, and Rejoyced at his pre­sent Majesty's Accession to the Throne, purely out of a Principle of Love to the Kingdom, not because he had out-witted the King.

The very Vote of the House of Commons, which has been Printed by his Enemies to hin­der his Election in the City speaks otherwise; and tho' there were not a few who gap'd more after his large Possessions than the good of their Fellow Subjects, the Wisdom of the Parliament thought fit to drop the Pursuit of the Matter, notwithstanding an Enemy of his who was a­gainst Reassumptions, and is now above being a Member of the House, push'd on the Matter in Dispute as far as possible. And if such a Crime as Forgery could have been prov'd against him, there was Law enough at that time in Force against him, and they would scarce have put Themselves to the trouble of Voting for a new Act of Parliament for him.

[Page 85]If the Devil stood Sir Charles's Friend, and hinder'd the Bill from passing; the Parlia­ment of Consequence must have been influenc'd by him. Which is a very disrespectful Reflecti­on on so venerable an Assembly.

Sir Charles no more made an Interest to be dubb'd a Knight, than he did to be made a Sheriff; but since it was His Majesty's and the Cities Pleasure, that he should have those unex­pected Honours conferr'd on him, he was ready to do what lay in his Power for the Service of both. Tho' he was so far from declaring War against Needy Debtors, that he made even their Enemies to be at Peace with 'em, and reconcil'd their Creditors to 'em, by assisting those that were Insolvent.

Our Author who has it not in his Nature to be tender of any ones Reputation, would have giv'n us the Name of the Lady as he has done that of the Knight, were there any thing of Truth in what he Affirms. But he knows so lit­tle of the Matter, that he cannot so much as give us the first Letter of her Name, an infalli­ble Argument of his insufficiency in Matters of Proof. If Bridewell be the Reward of those that Cry up the Great Actions of Worthy Per­sons, Newgate certainly should be the place of Residence for those that publish their Praises on the Ʋnworthy. And tho' I scarce believe any of the first will be sent to beat Hemp, yet if com­mon Discourse be not false, one of the last is likely to be sent to the Chequer Inn in Newgate street, if Captain Darby in St. Martins-Lane be taken up by a Messenger, as it's reported.