The Late News OR MESSAGE FROM Brussels Unmasked, AND HIS majesty Vindicated, FROM The Base CALUMNY and SCANDAL therein fixed on Him.  
LONDON, Printed for Richard Lowndes at the White Lion in St. Paul's churchyard. 1660.   

The late News or Message from Brussels unmasked: And his Majesty vindicated, from the base Calumny and Scandal therein fixed on him.  
THe last night came to my view, a Paper entitled, News from Brussels, &c. At the reading whereof, I could not but in some measure be astonished, to Imagine, that such exquisite Malice, should still have its continuance, and prevalency amongst some people, against that person who should (if they duly considered their duties,) be most Dear, Tender, and Sacred to them; such a vein I perceived there was of forged and fictitious stuff, put into a most malicious dress of Drollery, running through the whole Tenor thereof, and snapping and biting all along as it went, in that sense, as might be sure most to fix calumny and slander upon that royal person, whom it chiefly intended to wound; That I could not but contemplate thus with myself: Is it not enough that, That Innocent Prince, ever since his Tender years hath been hunted like a Partridge upon the mountains from place to place, from one nation to another people, robbed and spoiled of his large and ample Patrimony and Dominions, and enforced to live (as it were) upon the Alms and Charity of his Neighbour Princes, But his bright and shining virtues, most manifest and apparent to the whole world, must still be subject to the reproach and scandal of every lascivious, black and sooty quill? Wert thou a Christian (Base forger) and not a foul fiend rather, clothed with humanity; Methinks the consideration of this very particular, should draw Tears from thine eyes, or rather blood from thy heart, than such cursed drops of mischievous malice, to issue from thy disloyal and corrupted brain? But if thou call to mind that transcendently barbarous murder, of his most glorious and Martyred father, such as no Age since Adam, ever paralleled: And the deep stain of that Sacred and and Royal blood (now crying under the Altar) which fasten upon thee; And thy therein guilty and bespotted Soul, (For, it is more than guessed who thou art) what horror and trembling should justly seize thy joints, and shake the scribbling instrument, of such thy traitorously invented mischief, out of thy loathed and bloody hands? After which contemplation, 〈◊〉 a more strict and wary view of the particulars in that scandalous scroll: And having observed, what cunning subtlety, This forger had showed, and what tools he had made use of, to stamp and Mint this false and counterfeit coin, I resolved to publish it, which I am persuaded will not be ingrateful to any, unless such, who are of the Forgers crew; and of what sort and principles they are, it is well known.  
First, he hath prepared a number of letters, which he would have the reader think, to intend the persons now about his Majesty, whose names relate to them; But see, how in ipso Lumine, he berays his own fictitious guilt; For this H. I. which he would have thought to be the L. Jermin, this person was known to be elsewhere, far distant from Brussels, at the time of the date of that piece of Forgery: In the next place, it is observable, That before he hath wrote five lines, he fixes a No●●●ious lie upon his Majesty, and chargeth him with Swaering; A thing 〈…〉 manifestly known, he is so free from, That all his Attendants may 〈◊〉 challenged to relate, if they can, whether, ever they heard a profane oath 〈◊〉 come from him, much less used upon such a ridiculous idle occasion▪ as this forger mentions; It being Notorious that he is, and ever hath been▪ so reserved in bestowing those ready Jewels of honour (The only Treasure he is, or can be unrobed of) That it is not any way probable, he should squander one away, for a Letter, and less likely, that he should publicly say and swear this. Within a few lines after he Talks of his majesty's Resolution to waft over into Ireland; For his S. C. C. he would have understood, to be meant Sir Charles Coot; a very probable business, as he relates it: Pray Sir which way should he waft (as you phrase it) it is a sign you have more skill in Forgery then in Geography, and the situation of places, and nations. Next, he feigns News to arrive out of Scotland, which is the cold Country he means; But his two hours mentioned, smells so rank of brass, that it renders it, at first sent, a perfect counterfeit: And what must this News do? only introduce an occasion to abuse and slander his sacred Majesty, and render him odious to those of the Presbyterian Tenets, which indeed is the whole scope and Tenor of this scurrilous doughty Epistle, and to make some persons here think, that there is such a stock of rancour and malice, and such deep thoughts of revenge, harboured in the hearts and mind of all persons attending the KING, and in his own Royal heart likewise, That whatever pretences and shows are at present made to the contrary, to compass their ends, yet the issues and effects of this Malice and Revenge, shall in due time so appear, and manifest itself; That there is not a man, who hath showed any opposition to himself, or his late Royal Father, but sooner or later shall feel their sad and direful stroke: And this Impress he hath so Machiavelianly, and with such art and cunning, besprinkled and scattered over the whole Paper, and in such several subtle and wiley ways, and such seeming real phrases, proper for such persons, who he would fain to be the Writer, and Receiver, That none but his grand Tutor and instructor, The devil himself (and scarce he neither) could possily outdo him, in some parts, of this piece of artificial forgery: Others there be, which clearly discovers the Rat by his squeaking: But above all, that bold and impudent lie, in representing that meek and gentle PRINCE, to have no need of spurs to Revenge, but rather a rain to hold him in from it, is such a piece of open and notoriously known falsehood, That it is to be wondered at, That he should escape a Dart from heaven, into his false and hollow sly heart, whilst he was staining the paper▪ with that most mischievous malicious expression, it being so known and manifest to all about him; That nothing hath ever been, or is, more frequent with him, in his ordinary converse; Then to express his firm and constant resolution, to adhere close to the advertisement of his Royal Martyred Father, who inter voces extremas (as it were) left a preceptory advice to the contrary Of such sort likewise, is this Pasquil of the Pedigree he mentions; false fictions of a Son of Belial, which will remain in pickle to arise up against this forger, at a Tribunal, where the offspring of a Plantagenet, whose most innocent blood he hath sucked, will bring in a Record beyond Murryes Manuscript, which will fright his guilty soul down to that place of horror, prepared for him and his fellow Regicides, his Pin, Crust, and Dog, Dam, and Kittlings, Piss and Horse-spice, King Harry's Codpiece▪ and the concealed Nuntio, and all that sort of enigmatical and Ribbald (yet very significant and malicious) Drollery▪ what is it, but the filthy foam of a black and hellish mouth, arising from a viperous and venomous heart, industriously and maliciously set upon doing what cursed mischief lies within the sphere of his cashiered power, in such a conjuncture of Time as this, when the Nations hopes, are in a full and just expectation of receiving a perfect cure of those bleeding deep wounds, and wasteful, and consuming miseries made, and continued by him, and his fellow plotters, which they have so long lay panting and groaning under?  
The Star and blue Ribbon, he speaks of, will be every way as fit, for the shoulder which hath given him and his party such a shove, and as deservedly, as a hempen halter will be for this forgers own Neck: And 'tis very possible and probable too, They may both take their different effect in due time, though we see what art is used to thrust that shoulder from its due merit by such the Forgers subtleties. The Romance of his Waldense Dulmano, biting the lip, with all the Dependent sequel of such a parcel of Mountebanq●●●y that it confutes itself in its own relation; as also other his so 〈…〉, insinuated by bits in a subtle way of seeming Drollery, 〈…〉 toothed in its sense and signification: And the aim of all is 〈…〉 & vulgar apprehensions, & draw them again into 〈…〉 As they may yet once more (if possible) fall under the worrying power of him, and such like Ravenous Beasts of Blood, Prey, and Rapine: Sir, your Nets are seen, and your fallacies fail you, The hooks you mention are laid too visibly; The fish you would catch, are so far from swallowing, they will not bite at all; you were best therefore go shave your own beard, as you have those, in your Letter, and your Scull too: And if your brain prove not thence more pregnant, 'Twill serve (However) to stuff your powch in stead of what, such your Angels were intended, to have holpen you too: And I would wish you also to take this Advice from a friend, Give over your Angling this way, and appear no more in public at the side of this Pool, lest you be tumbled in over head and ears, and yourself become both the Bait and Prey to those you thus endeavour to catch, and delude by such your Drolling subtleties.  
And now having done with your forged Calumnies, I shall upon this just occasion, desire leave to tell you, and those whom they were intended to beguile and work upon; that the Prince and sovereign (whom it is so apparent, your grand aim by this design was to wound, though through the fictitious sides of others, set up in your own Fancy) is one, to whom both you and they, owe a Duty, and Allegiance, by all the Laws of God, Nature, and the Land. And however, you for your part, have a mind to forget, and are not pleased to own it, it is (however) not the less his due: And it is not altogether impossible, but upon better and due consideration, of the horrid guilt you lie under, Divine Grace may hereafter be so infused into you, and you thereby be made so sensible of your Crime, that perhaps you may yet cheerfully return to such your bounden duty, and by your future demeanour, wash off those stains, wherewith your guilty Soul is now so foully bespotted: which that you may the more readily do, I shall truly, and as knowingly, as I believe it is possible for any in this Nation, give you this just and due character, of that most virtuous and excellent Prince, whom (whatever your thoughts are now) it is possible you may one day esteem it your chief honour to style, your dear and dread Lord and Sov●●●igne, which is truly such, that in the opinion of very many wise and knowing men, it would put the whole Christian world upon some difficulty, to find his parallel or equal in all respects; His Birth and Extraction is known to be so transcendently illustrious, that what Prince is there upon Earth, that can challenge a greater or a more Noble, and Kingly, and for longer continuance, for Centuries of years: His Person so lovely, amiable, and graceful, that it even captivates the eyes of all Beholders, and everywhere generates, a noble and generous affection, respect and clemency, from the chiefest Enemies of his Ancestors, and of our Nation and Dominions. His parts and endowments such, that were we free from subjection to him, by all Laws, and to make search throughout all Nations and People, for a complete and well accomplished Personage to Rule over us, common Fame and Report could not but send us to him; so meek, gentle, and sweet of Behaviour; so firm, constant, and obliging in his Friendships, so mild, modest and patient in his Afflictions and Sufferings; yet upon occasion so full of Princely courage and magnanimity, so knowing and discerning in his Reason and Judgement, and by his retirement, so fitted and adapted for moderate Government: but above all, so firmly and irremoveably fixed, to the profession of the true Protestant Religion, testified many ways against the cunning Arts, and subtle attempts and allurements, of the most inveterate enemies thereof: That it is an infamy, never to be washed off from this Nation, (Unless the now general vote and desire thereof be harkened to, and take effect in such manner, as may in some sort purge the same) that such a Prince as he, so qualified in all respects, and so innocent likewise, as to the first cause of difference, and ever since, also, saving his desire, and pursuance of his just and undoubted birthright; a thing which the meanest of us would be condemned for by all, even by our very selves, should we omit, or be negligent of, were it but for a poor Cottage; I say, that such a Prince as He, together with his Illustrious, heroic, and high-born Brethren, (all of them, even in this their eclipsed obscurity, the renown and glory of our Nation) should (as is hinted before) be chased from such an ample and splendid Patrimony, and large Dominions, and that by his own Native Subjects, and Liege People, and suffered to wander, nay, by their means hunted from place to place, from one Nation (as is premised) to another People, and forced to live upon the alms and Charity (as it were) of those, who doubtless are not without their grand design upon Him, and all his Dominions, as (it may be feared) Time will sooner or later clearly manifest, besides, the subjecting Him, and that whole Royal race, by this means, to the Enticements and Allurements, and to the Stratagems, Nets, and Entanglements of those Romish Rooking Gamesters, who are ranging in all parts for their prey, and will be sure to leave no stone unmoved, to work their wicked ends, where such a quarry of Royal Game, are to be flown at, and with such advantage (as the case stands with them) to be attempted; that the very contemplation thereof, cannot methinks but draw Tears from the Eyes, and almost Blood from the Hearts, of all Pious, Loyal Protestant Christians, who have any sense and feeling, as they ought, of that deep dishonour and reproach, which by this very means, must needs redound to the professors of the true Protestant Religion, in all parts and places whatsoever, and no less sport and pastime to the great Vicar general at Rome, and his Court and Conclave: but as in the ground where Gold grows, nothing (it is said) will thrive but Gold, so God hath hitherto preserved this virtuous Prince, most firm, sound, and en●re, in the true Orthodox Faith, and no doubt but will so continue Him, and make him not only in Title, but really and indeed a most magnanimous Defender thereof, against all its adversaries.  
And whereas there is either a real or seeming fear in some sort of guilty people (and thereby the desired settlement much disturbed and retarded) that if the old Government take place again, and the right Pilot come at the Head and Stern thereof, that there will be such rancour, malice and revenge put in practice, by the all along adherers to the Royal Interest, against such as any time opposed them; and thereby such loss, damage and sufferings sustained, with divers other vain and empty fears, jealousies and conjectures. Now, as the true Character of his sacred Majesty himself, is before very faithfully expressed, so surely it will nor seem incongruous and impertinent upon this just occasion likewise, to interpose this sincere and unfeigned protestation, on the behalf of those Adherers to the Royal Interest; That as their principles are truly Christian, so they most earnestly desire to pursue the due practice of them accordingly. And whatsoever is forged in that malicious piece, before at large spoken of that Loyal party, especially the main bulk and body of them (who are only considerable in this case, and Extravagants and not to be regarded) are so far from any thoughts of rancour, Malice, and Revenge, in that particular, or any aim of making good their Losses by the Estates of others (a usual vogue raised by our Peace-opposers) that they do as fully and unfeignedly forgive them, and all sorts of them, as they desire of Heaven the forgiveness of their own transgressions, and do so far detest the thought of repairing their losses, that way feared, that to see his Majesty restored, and thereby a firm and lasting Peace settled, that so it may be conveyed to posterity, they would not only very cheerfully fit down by all their Losses and Sufferings, but many thousands of them willingly sacrifice much of their present Fortunes, and some of them their Lives too, as a grateful offertory for such a seasonable and all-healing mercy.  
FINIS.