A Second MODEST ENQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF THE Present Disasters IN ENGLAND.  
And who they are that brought the FRENCH FLEET into the ENGLISH CHANNEL, Described.  
Being a farther DISCOVERY of the Jacobite PLOT.  
Together with a LIST of those Noble-men, Gentlemen, and others now in Custody.  
LONDON, Printed for John Dunton at the Raven, and John Harris at the Harrow, in the Poultry. MDCXC.   

A SECOND Modest Enquiry INTO THE Present MISCARRIAGES In ENGLAND, &c.  
AS 'tis a sad Truth, that the Kingdom of England labours at present under more misfortunes than one, so 'tis as evident the Causes must be as various as the Effects they produce: What those are, has been already attempted, tho' it not being easy to do right to so vast a Subject, which is yet far from being Exhausted, it may not be amiss to make some further Disquisition into this matter. And whereas some pretend part of what has been already brought upon the Stage is very dubious, and depends only on the Faith of the Relator, it may not be an unnecessary piece of Service to trace up the late cursed Conspiracy of the Jacobites, as high as we can have any notice of it from plain and undoubted memoirs and Acts of State, most whereof cursorily known, tho' not adverted to, nor seen altogether, which would give Light to the whole: To which when there is added a List of the Names of several persons accused; nothing but a man of very abundant Front will hence forward dare to deny what is such palpable matter of Fact.  
But the restless Endeavours of a Party indefatigably bent to ruin themselves and Europe, are not likely to be discontinued with one ill accident; and tho' they cannot, or dare not make any open Effort for the Service of the Immortal and Eternal Lewis, as they and his own blasphemous Idolaters call him, yet we are not to think they have less poison than before, tho' it lurks more privately, and they dare not so bare-faced as formerly spit it abroad. And what Methods they still make use of, by what ways they can only possibly injure us, and how to prevent 'em in this, as Providence has done in the other, is the Subject of what concludes these Papers.  
In order to this, 'twill be absolutely needful to look back as far as the happy Accession of their present Majesties to the Throne of England, to the Confusion of Popery and Tyranny here, the Joy of all Protestants in general, and the Satisfaction of all Oppressed Europe, which could only expect to shake off those Chains the French had almost thrown over all their Necks by the assistance of England.  
This Settlement of their Majesties in the Throne of their Ancestors, by more and better Titles than any Prince in the World at present hold theirs, could not be expected without some opposition or discontent; but that any such should be raised by any besides the most bigoted of Papists, would appear too strange to be thought true, had we not of a long time felt the unhappy Effects thereof; and might have done so to more purpose, had not the Divine Providence most miraculously frustrated their damnable Designs.  
Several sorts of persons soon found themselves uneasy under the great and unexpected Change, most of which may be reduced under these following Classes:— Those who are, or pretend to be so, out of Conscience, Honour, and Loyalty: The Discontented for want or loss of Preferment: The great Criminals of former Reigns: The Debauchee and the Papist.  
All will pretend the first, and that nothing but pure Conscience hinders 'em from submitting to the present Government. But had that no Enemies besides those who are really so on this Score, England would be much quieter and happier than 'tis presently like to be. But how small the number is of true honest Men whom this misguided Principle really misleads, we may easily conjecture, if we consider what's so plain, a man would be laughed at for going about to prove it:— That no Man can do one thing out of Conscience, who makes no Conscience of all the other Actions of his Life.— For Instance,— To hear a lewd old Sinner, with his Head full of Claret, and Bones of Claps and Aches, to hear him cry out, 'Tis nothing but pure Conscience makes him an Enemy to the Government,— why, 'tis so unbecoming and odd a thing from his Mouth, that ' twoud be a very difficult matter to look Grave while he's telling it.  
Such as these we may be sure can't act out of Conscience;— of many others there's at least very great suspicion, however fair in the rest of their Behaviour. When a man shall very eagerly declaim against the Oaths,( as Instances have before been given) hinder others from taking 'em, and protest they'd ne'er do it themselves, thô reduced to the extremest misery,— to see such all of the sudden enlightened, as if by an Apostolical Influx, and have their minds changed at an hours, almost a minutes warning, and swallow what they have keckt at so long, just at that very instant when they must else have thrown up some comfortable Importance together with it; this all ingenuous Adversaries will confess looks so unaccountable, that his Charity must run away with his judgement, who can believe this looks either like Conscience or Honesty.  
The Biggot too must come in here, who no doubt was extremely disgusted he might now no longer show all the Religion he had in worrying such as appear to have more, for tis a question that will never be answered, How he can be thought to have any Conscience himself, who won't let another man enjoy his, if 'tis not contrary to the Government, and the common good of Mankind?  
Take these away, and then 'twill be easily reckoned how many remain upon this Head: For should a truly religious Man, who acknowledges we have received a great deliverance by their present Majesties, have yet some plausible Scruples on account of Oaths or other matters, which after the strictest inquiries he cannot get rid of, should such a one remain disatisfyed, and thereupon lose any Temporal emoluments, and yet behave himself soberly and quietly under the Government, and wish well to the Interest of the Nation, such a one ought no doubt to be pitied if not honoured: But how any Man of Conscience, unless the blind, bloody one of a Jesuit, can be willing to have his Country laid open to all the Barbarities of an Enemy more cruel than the Tartars; how he can enter into Bonds, Associations, and Oaths for this very purpose,— Let Dr.— himself, or the greatest Casuist they have amongst 'em answer.  
Another sort of malcontents, were such who had signalized themselves in former Reigns, for that mad sort of Loyalty which they had substituted instead of all the Virtues and Commandments together;— some of 'em really Notion-struck, and their Brains half-crackt with it, that 'twas impossible to beat in any thing that seemed to contradict this their darling Opinion; and others too proud to own themselves in any error, thô perhaps sensible on't themselves: Being willingly ignorant that true Loyalty is a firm obedience to Princes in whatever is lawful and according to Reason,— and any thing beyond this, nothing but mere Stuff and Cant, and as perfect nonsense as ever was spoken by Oliver's Porter.  
For the Discontented, on account of Places of Profit or Honour, they are a sort of vermin generally as numerous after any Revolution, as frogs after a shower of Rain; and these in no small numbers listed themselves under the Banners of the Murmurers; they were of the Fellows mind in the Play— Nothing less than being All Viceroys would content 'em; thinking what they did for the then Prince in running away from their old Master, to save their own Necks and Throats, was an Obligation he could never pay with less than half his Kingdom: And this indeed made some so saucy, they could scarce forbear huffing Majesty itself, till they were taught, it neither needed, nor would accept such ill-mannered Service.— Had these Persons, as has been formerly  told 'em publicly enough, but been so kind as to have opposed that Invincible Prince by whose abused Clemency they now live, they might have chanced to procure that Knocking oth Head or Hanging they have so long deserved:— But alas— their Talent lies clear another way— If you come to Fighting once, they are Unfortunate as well as their Master, and there's an end on't.  
In the next rank comes the Sparks that are humble Slaves to any Tyrant that will but let 'em run to the Devil without further trouble or molestation;— who having no sense of Virtue, have none of Honour neither, nor of any handsome or noble Principle. The fulsome Debauchery of the first of the Brothers Reigns, and the Devilish Godliness of the second, has made such Dare Devils of half the Nation, rendering 'em of no Religion, as a necessary step to one that was worse than none, that no wonder those who are afraid of losing Damnation, and having their Debaucheries now both frowned and lived out of Countenance, should be very much displeased they had not Toleration granted 'em whoever went without it.  
Nor must those great Criminals here be forgotten, who formerly gorged themselves, and grew so fat on the spoils of the Nation, that they long for't again as savourily as a Sheep biting Dog licks his Lips at a Flock of Sheep, when he has newly slipped the Halter for worrying 'em:— which when they found themselves disappointed in, no wonder they show their Fangs, and gern at the Shepherd himself, thô the Mungrils han't the Courage to fasten upon him, for fear of being knocked o'th' Head.  
For these last, they seem more inexcusable than any yet name— One would have thought Quarter for their Lives had been very fair, after they were delivered from the enraged multitude, than whom they needed no other Executioners, by that Prince whom they hated much more than Injustice and Perjury:— But after they yielded at little more than Discretion, and received their well-forfeited Lives: Nay, after their Estates too were secured, beyond one would think, their own modest hopes,— when they were at last skreen'd from the exemplar Justice of the Nation, by the same hand who saved 'em from their Vengeance, and only a very few Excepted in their Majesties unparalleled Act of Grace, 'tis after all a hard Case to decide whether they most expose in their repeated Endeavours all along to be as great Villains as ever, their stupid Folly, or damned Ingratitude.  
There's but one Party more, on some Accounts the most excusable of all the rest, namely the Papists: If these are ungrateful, stupid, head-strong; if these run their Heads blindfold into Nooses, and break all Faith and Law, and are extremely dissatisfied with a Protestant King, why 'tis much the Nature of the Beasts, and who wonders when a Serpent stings, or a Toad poisons: 'Tis their Religion, and there being Purgatory of one side, and Hell o' t'other, what marvel if when the painted flamme is represented so much more dreadful than the real one, they leap into the latter to avoid the former. Besides, to speak Truth, the poor wretches had a very hard bargain on't. They were forced to pay and pray too, and between the Priests and Ave-Mary's had run themselves both out of Breath and Pocket. The Cause had Exhausted 'em in every Town almost in England, Mass-Houses erected and Priests maintained. And 'twas very hard after all to lose all, and be forced to take up with a Bill upon tother World when they expected this their own. That they would have one push more for what they had hoped so hard and long for, and just slipped away between the Cup and the Lip, seemed very agreeable to their principles and practise, and indeed if there be a Plot without a Papist at one end or other on't, ye may safely venture to pardon all that are engaged in it.  
From such persons as these above described, the Government was to look for nothing but Murmurs, and, as Socrates said of his Wife, after so much Thunder some Rain was to be expected, so that grumbling noise foretold those accursed showers of Treason and Mischief which have since burst out to the Nations Trouble and their own Confusion. For let any Person but impartially examine the principles and circumstances of any whom he either knows engaged in this Plot, or an Idolater of the old Leek and Onions, and if he find him not easily ranked under one of those mentioned Classes, I'm extremely mistaken.  
Things being in this posture, the late K. James( let us suppose) now in Ireland, and the ragged Highlanders in Scotland declaring for him, or rather against their Neighbours Cowes, Sheep and what they could catch, the different Parties here in England struggling, and such a ferment in the Nation as could not but be expected after t' had been so violently shaken; then began to be hamered out a Design both here and in Scotland to reduce us again to our old Slavery and Misery, and bring back the fatal Cause of all, as has been unanswerably proved in both the Kingdoms both before the Councils and Parliament, from the very original Band and Associations, and concurring Evidence, and Confessions of some principally engaged in this Horrid villainy.  
For, not to take any notice of the late Kings Declarations( of just as much efficacy as the Popes Bull would be here) which like Vipers Teeth were sowed about the City by Vaughan and the rest of his Gang, which had been certain Death under any Government but one forgiving enough to Conquer any thing but hardened Ingratitude,— I say not at present to take notice of this early attempt in this place, since we shall meet with 'em again shortly, as 'tis hoped Justice will, Let us begin in Scotland and see how many Cockatrices Eggs have been brooding there, tho' all of 'em either addled or dashed to pieces. It may be worth the while to pass a short Remark on the Duke of Gourdon there, who after he had for some time held Edinborough Castle against their Majesties, after he had delivered it up when he could scarce well hold it longer, and was treated with so much Clemency both by the Government there and here, after he had been admitted to kiss the Kings hand, and gave his Honour a pledge for his Eternal Fidelity, he after all sneak't off to K. James, or worse, were't not the same, to the Court of the French Tyrant; by whose Example, joined with that of Hamilton's, we may see how little Trust there is to that good natured supposition of ours,— That 'tis possible in some Cases for the innate Honour and Goodness of a Papist to conquer the poison of his Religion, and in spite of his Faith make him brave and honest, whereas in these and many other Instances we see the the quiter contrary; that their Religion, such a one as 'tis, is too hard for their Morality, and the ●igot for the most part runs away with the Gentleman.  
One of the first signal discoveries made in Scotland of this Plot's being there on Foot a considerable time since, may be that of my Lord Ollyphant, at whose House in Bachan, upon advice given, were seized himself, and several Gentlemen more, with an Original Band of Association for the late K. James, signed by about 400 hands, whose exact Characters the Paper containing the account gives us a little lower;— Many of 'em such as were of desperate Fortunes, ruined in their Credit and domestic Affairs, whom no Law could reach, &c. Very fit Persons these to settle Three Kingdoms.  
And indeed we shall find few weeks but some steps or other of this grand Design were tracked by the sharp-scented Politicians of that Kingdom, to whose discoveries, as 'twill appear, we are not a little beholden for a clearer Insight into that Branch on't, which more immediately concerns us here in England.  
Thus about the beginning of March, 1689. was seized at Glasgow one Strachan a Papist from Dublin, who proved pretty ingenuous, and confessed he came an Express from the late King James, with Letters to the County of Arrol written with his own Hand, and several others to several of his Confidents and partisans, which he delivered with other Instructions relating to the same matters to Gourdon, late Regent of Glasgow, some of which cunningly done up in the Heel of a pair of shoes.— Which Gourdon being immediately sent for, the Messenger by the strangest Accident, or rather Providence in the World, met him on the road, without knowing him till he heard him name, and on Enquiry found him the Gentleman he wanted, kindly come half way to meet him, and seized him with Shoes, Letters, and all the rest of his Cargo as before discovered.  
The succeeding June, we find in the Scotch Paper an Account of that famous Person Nevil Pain, his business into Scotland, and Apprehension there. He gave himself out, the Paper tells us, at first, for one Watson, and then went by another Name, but at last proved to be Nevil Pain, better known 'twas supposed in London than there, however 'twas believed he could make considerable discoveries, and had been to that end examined before the Privy Council.  
Indeed he is a Person notoriously known both in England and Ireland. From the Playhouse, and feigned Plots he proceeded to real ones. In 1672. we meet him in Dublin, where the Irish Histories tell us he went by several names( as well as in Scotland) and was at last made use of by the Popish party in the Meritorious Work of raising the Mob of the City against the Recorder and Aldermen, or at least making such dissensions between the Populace and their Governours that they choose him at last for their Agent and made a purse for him, till on Examination all the Murder came out, 'twas discovered to be a Popish Intrigue, and there it ended.  
He was not less remarkable afterward in England, for in 1678. we find him with more than a finger in the Popish Plot, and for matters relating that way committed to Newgate. How dearly intimate he was with his Friend Coleman, appeared then from an Elegy he wrote upon him after his Execution, consecrating after their ways that notorious confessed traitor into a Triumphant Martyr.  
And who so fit as this remarkable Gentleman to negotiate in Scotland now, and try if 'twere not yet possible to buoy up the sinking cause? But alas there's very few of 'em are zealous enough to make Martyrs themselves, though they'l push orhers forward and save their own knuckles—. Poor Mr. Pain was not proof against a Halter, or if he were, things were made out so plain against him that 'twas too late to deny the Plot, concurring evidence coming in of all sides. Thus in June a Packet was seized at Lieth, designed to be carried Northward with the common news Letters, wherein was found a Letter from the late King James to his General and other Officers in the Highlands, and about the middle of this month, strict search was made for persons concerned in the Design, that branch of it relating to Edinburgh no less bloody and cruel then traitorous and wicked. Their Instructions of burning or blowing up the Palace of Holy-Rood-House being shrewdly confirmed by so great a Quantity of Powder, &c. being discovered in Blair's House, so near that Palace, and great Quantities of Arms seized in the Houses of several others dis-affected to the Government. On which a Proclamation issued out, bearing— That whereas there had been several Treasonable and Seditious designs, and combinations, set on Foot of late in both our Kingdoms, by persons Enemies to the Protestant Religion, and ill-affected to our Government, who have presumed to take Commissions from the late King James, intending not only to support the Rebellion in the Highlands of this our ancient Kingdom, as appears by Bonds, Associations and Letters, but likewise to form parties, & to create Sedition and commotion in other places thereof, to which end Henry Nevil Pain, Prisoner in our Castle of Edinburgh, a Trafficking Papist, was sent into the Kingdom, and seized in Anandale; and several of his Associates and correspondents have been by our Warrant secured in our Kingdom of England, and there being clear evidence of a correspondence betwixt the said Pain, and several persons in this our ancient Kingdom, and there being many suspect and disaffected persons lurking in and about our City of Edinburgh. Therefore we &c.  
'Twas but a very little while after this Proclamation, before the Borders were reinforced by several strong Detachments out of the Forces there, on Information of an Intelligence and correspondence between the Plotters there and in England. And there as well as here, there's hardly a Post but brings us an account of some secured, and parties of Horse still out after more.  
From all which nothing can be clearer then that this Wicked design was on foot in Scotland, and that those who managed it there held correspondence with others here.  
Whose Plots though laid as deep as Hell, were not concealed either from King or Parliament, appears plain enough even in those public memoirs we have of their Speeches and Actions. That the King knew 'em is clear from his Speech to both Houses, March the 20th. 1689. on occasion of the Act of Grace. A further Reason, saith he, which induceth me to this Act at this time is because I am desirous to leave no colour of excuse to any of my Subjects for raising disturbances in the Government, and especially in the time of my absence, and I say this both to inform you, and to let some dis-affected men see that I am not unacquainted how busy they are in their present endeavours to alter it.  
Nor did the Parliament themselves long want clear and visible demonstration of what the King had informed 'em, from persons deeply acquainted with the whole design. Thus in the printed Votes, No. 40. Mr. Gray Reported from the Committee of the whole House, that they had directed him to move the House that a Committee may be appointed to inquire into the Listing, Assembling and Exercising of Papists and other disaffected persons in Arms in several Counties of this Kingdom without Their Majesties Commission. A Committee was appointed accordingly.  
Then the House being informed that one Mr. Dodesworth could inform the House of several Regiment of Papists who had Listed themselves in Arms in Lancashire. 'Twas ordered Dodsworth should attend the House touching the same; and the next day accordingly attending he was called in and at the Bar gave in his Information of several Papists and others, who had listed themselves in Arms and had Commissions from the late King James, to be Officers for Regiments and Troops in Lancashire and other places. He then was ordered to appear before the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench to be examined concerning the same.  
We further find that Sir James Rushout, a Member of Parliament had other Examinations of the same nature relating to Worcestershire, on both which a Committee was immediately ordered to bring in a Bill for the more effectually securing Their Majesties Government, against all persons that conspire to raise Rebellion and disturb the peace of the Kingdom. Mr. Dodsworth's Examination before the Lord chief Justice having been red at the Bar of the House( as also the Names of the persons mentioned by him to be Officers in Lancashire) it was afterwards ordered to be delivered to one of Their Majesties Secretary of State.  
And all this surely is more then a supposal or suspicion only, had we no more evidence since to back it, but alas this was little more then the Embryo of the plot afterwards discovered.  
Yet such as 'twas 'tis a pleasant remark to those who can remember it, how strangely the well-willers to the work did magnify this business when 'twas first talked on, Though thousands grew apace, the numbers of the Papists in arms, we were  told was very formidable, and before they so much as ever met in a Body, they were made a complete Army.  
Thus we have traced the different Steps and Branches of this Plot, as they appeared in Scotland and England, discovered by the King and Parliaments of both Nations; and hitherto frustrated; wherein one remarkable passage was forgotten in Relation to Scotland, whither his Majesties care, like a kind Father, reached as well as to his two other Kingdoms, and directed 'em, in his Letter sent thither, before his passage into Ireland,[ To use their utmost Endeavours to discover the secret Practices and intrigues of all the disaffected Persons, and prevent all their ill Designs from taking effect.]  
What Measures were taken in England by the Jacobites on his Majesties truly Royal Resolution to expose His Sacred Person there, has been already  told the World. And I appeal to every bodies memory if that Party did not generally most extravagantly exult and rejoice when they heard on't.— e'en much good may it do 'em with all either they or their King have got by't; and all honest Men will for once be of their minds, and be as joyful as they for their lives on this occasion.  
The Generosity of the Party too is very well worth observing— when His Majesty was gon for the defence of his Country with most of his Army, then they thought and hoped easily to prevail against a Womans Management, never before versed in the Arts of Government. But they have very finely caught a Tartar— they have found a second Queen Elizabeth, with a Soul strong enough either to preside in Council, or head Armies— Nor dare they, as experience tells the World, meet her any more than his Majesty, who thundr'd 'em away from Salisbury, at the very noise of his Approach at forty miles distance; and after driving 'em here, has been forced to follow them so long in Ireland from Hill to Hill and Bog to Bog, that his Army can't choose but know all their Commanders by their Back-sides, which they have seen so much oftener and longer than their Faces.  
And since those concerned in this fine Project, which what it was the Memorial assures, and common Sense the same, that the French would not sand a Fleet, nor could at such a neck without intelligence and correspondence. Since they have so much consulted the Glory of England, 'tis pity but they should indeed be known to succeeding Ages, and their Names rendered as eternal as those of Herostratus and Nero.  
Not therefore to prejudice any, but leave 'em all to as fair a trial as Crone had before 'em, wishing hearty they may purge themselves, and after-ages may not have so many Englishmen recorded as the blackest of Traytors, t'will be yet necessary to give a List of those Men worthy— who are already committed.  

In the Tower.  
Earl of T●rrington.  
Lord Newburgh.  
Earl of Clarendon.  
Earl of Salisbury.  
Lord Forbes.  
Earl of Yarmouth.  
Lord Gryffin.  
Lord Rosse.  
Sir John Fenwick.  
Colonel Hastings.  
Colonel Butler.  
— Stafford Esquire.  
Captain Hatton.  
mayor Matthews.  
Mr. Bernard Howard[ the very Drawcansir of the party.]   

In Newgate.  
Sir Nicholas Butler— verily!  
Sir Adam Blair.  
Captain John Vaughan.  
— Throgmorton.  
— Turner Esquire.  
Captain rider.  
Captain Crone.  
Mr. Oliver St. John.   

In the Gate-House.  
Secretary Pepys.  
colonel Walden.  
Captain B—   

Accused, and in the Proclamation May 30th required to surrender.  
Tho. Tildesly, or— Tindesly[ excepted in the Act of Grace.  
Molineux.  
Tempest.  
Townly.  
Garlington.  
Standish.  
Gerrard's Son.  
Tho. Tildesley.  
Ralph Tildesly.  
Henry Butler.  
Richard Butler.  
Alexander Butler.  
Tho. Carus.  
Tho. Westby.  
William Westby.  
Harrington.  
Rob. Molineux.  
Massy.  
Penny.  
Carus.  
Byerly. al. Barlow.  
Goodan— Clerk.  
Goodwin— a Romish Priest.  
Will. Westby.  
George Carus.  
Thomas Butler.  
Stanby.  
Penalt.  
Knipe.  
coal.  
Carus.  
Woolfall.  
ducat.  
Colton.  
Thornton.   
These with many more of the same Stamp for whom Warrants are abroad, had concerted the Matters between 'em for a general Insurrection— The places of rendezvouz appointed on several pretexts at several places— One of the chiefest- the famous Cock-match at the Bathe— to spoil which some Troops of Guards were ordered thither, which we are not to expect they should have the Courage to meet, nor did they, but scattered and ran to Coverts as fast as Guilt and Fear could drive 'em, nor after all have they had the Courage to fire one Pistol for their Cause throughout all England, tho' arrived they were to such a height of Insolence, on hopes no doubt of sure Success, that where they had Power,( only in one place) Protestant Chaplains have been forbid to pray for His Majesties Success in Ireland, and the very Guards and sentries abused and affronted by such as knew where to have a sufficient Sanctuary.  
And now very plausibly may the Papists cry out as some of 'em do very impudently and loudly— You charge us with Plots— Here's one of your own— One in which Persons of the greatest Rank and Interest are embarked, Body, Soul and Estate( that out-throws Lives and Fortunes a Bar and a half at least) henceforward be silent; for if there were any thing real, at least the Protestants can Plot as well as we.  
To give 'em a full Answer— Do they think, or did we ever, that there are no Villains besides themselves, or that we are ignorant a Renegade makes the bloodiest Turk alive, and that mongrels are no better? Can we help a Knaves wearing the Mask of an honest Man, on purpose to disgrace him, as well as secure himself? How great the Interest of these Persons concerned is, appears from what has been already hinted— Their tame submitting without one Stroke struck for 'em in any place of England. Besides, There are very few of them Persons of any considerable Note, Interest, Reputation, or Fortunes— Nothing they had generally to lose but a carcase, and those not all of the Soundest. This they fairly staked; win— an Estate; lose— an Halter; they expected a Throw for't, and 'twas no great concern which side the die fell on.  
And yet more. That most of those concerned are indeed Papists, and professed ones too, is apparent from all the Proclamations and Acts of State yet mentioned.  
'Twill be now needful to describe the Methods by which this Plot was carried on, what of them are frustrated, what yet remain too, for viceable to their Designs.  
They and the Devil( to slander neither) did their parts; and had but Heaven stood neuter one hour longer all had been their own. How they were disappointed on the Fleet, has been already observed in the First Part, and is by this time all over Europe; who can't but esteem us the Darlings of Providence, and will still be so as long as a Protestant lives in the World.  
But tho' their Head be crushed, their Sting yet remains— haeret lateri— as has been observed; their Talent lies more in Lying than Fighting; the Nation is poisoned between Knaves of their side, and Fools on the other; the Symptoms are visible and dangerous, the parts swollen and very angry; Lenitive and Emollient Medicines must be made use of, or we are in a fair way to do their work, and ruin ourselves without their Assistance.  
It has been so long the best Game our Enemies had, to play us at one another, and save their often desperate Stakes, that it should make us ashamed to be tricked upon so dully the self-same way. This they have been, and are still as busy at as ever, tho' we may thank ourselves for the Success they find.  
Is not all the World convinced, That Union of Interests and Affections is the only way to make a Community safe and happy? The contrary is easily argued— Where there are two such strong Parties as are in England, by many years unlucky Accidents exasperated against one another, yet the Body of both firm to the Government, what can mine that and both, but setting these together by the Ears, and hallooing the Rabble of both sides one against th' other?  
That this is the present most dangerous, most successful, continued Labour of our common Enemies, not only ungrateful Experience and daily Observation informs us, but Majesty itself, in its Speech to the Parliament before-mentioned, wherein the King tells us, Amongst other Encouragements which I find, they give themselves, one of the ways by which they hope to compass their Designs, is by creating differences and disagreements, &c.  
And if 'twere possible to creep in even among that August Assembly, how much more in common Conversation among all Ranks and Degrees of the People?  
Here's such an one( cry they) a common Swearer, Drunkard, Whoremaster, and yet a zealous Churchman all the while, and a red-hot Jacobite to boot.  
This the Mob of one Party swallows very readily, and not having a Genie large enough to see the Fallacy out, runs along with this imposing Villain in the Conclusion he draws,  
Ah, they're all alike, or the most part of 'em; there's not an Halter to choose, they'l certainly betray the Nation to save their own Bacon, and persecute the poor Dissenters again.  
So there's one whole Coffee-house charged and primed, there wants but giving Fire, and that shall be done from t'other side rather than not at all.  
Well, these Presbyterian Devils, they'll never leave till they've brought all to a Commonwealth— Don't you see the Church must down, and nothing else will satisfy 'em— Better turn Papist, nay Mahometan, than let 'em get uppermost.  
A very fair Speech on t'other side I Now a clear Stage, bring the Combatants but in sight, and they'l at it as naturally as two Cocks, while the Rogues stand by, bet, and laugh, and are ready when both are weakened to fall upon both together.  
Nor indeed can any side be totally excused, since all Parties have a little touch of the Papist; their own Party is Infallible, and all the rest are damned heretics. This they are ashamed to own in general, but yet particular Instances make it plain 'tis their practical Belief. Every little Fret of Affairs sets 'em a madding one against another; and if the Pulpit has at any time begun the War, the Press has made sufficient rakehells; for 'twould break a thousand pair of Lungs, tho made of as sounding Brass as the Vertuoso's Engine, to be heard as far as the Press Edifies; nor is there any holding forth like that of the Hawkers.  
The English have been accounted a wise Nation; but would it not make a Man almost ashamed of his Country, to see the Venom of any malcontent licked up with so much greediness, as if all the Kingdom had the Green-sickness, and nothing but Chalk and Ashes could please it?  
Against those who are really Enemies to the Government, let's in God's Name be as vigorous as every honest Man ought to be, nor need we speak more than Truth of 'em; but then let's not mawl one another instead of them, nor Fire against our own Troops, because one part of them wears White and the other read; as great a Mistake as that reported of the Innis-killing-men at the Boyne, who in the hurry of the Battle met the King himself, and presented their Pistols at him, thinking him an Enemy.  
We have seen the Design, Original, Character, Names and Methods of the Plots and Plotters. Those of their Favourers who are not quiter lost, I'd fain try, if it might be possible, to fix a little Reason on 'em, taking them in the same Ranks to which they are already reduced.  
T'is a true Observation, that there's very little sound Reason in the World; and that most both of the great and little Actions therein, are directed from narrow Principles, Prejudice, Affection, or Example. The last of these has prevailed to render many Men well-Willers to the baffled Cause, which has ruined those already mentioned. 'Tis an easy, and lazy way of satisfying the judgement; This and that great and good Man, does or does not, he knows best, why should I be afraid to follow him; not reflecting that others as great, and good, and wiser, take quiter different Courses, which reduce things even beyond an Aequilibrium, at least leaves fair Reason to decide the controversy.  
If Conscience engages some Persons in the forementioned Matters, not to pass through all the intermediate Arguments, the scruple must at last Center in this; that all Kings, at least those of England, are absolutely irresistible;( for if ever Reason, there was now;) But let 'em consider, this makes as arrant Whigs and Rebels of all their glow, rified Confessors, as of any that came over with the then Princes Army.  
'Tis notoriously known, as they've been often  told, and can't answer it, who 'twas invited the Prince to London,( whoever did it into England) who took upon them to secure the Government; as soon as e're K. James was stepped out of Town; who turned out his Lieutenant, and put in that Brave and Honourable Person, who remains there to this Day? Here's Resistance, with a Witness; Has this been yet confessed by those who engaged in't? Have they hearty repented? What Pennance has been done for it, or public Satisfaction, and acknowledgement of their Wickedness and Rebellion? If the Examples of such weigh any thing, it must be certainly as valid, when all the Nation is of the same side, as when all the Nation is against ' em. If nothing then, neither now.  
The Jacobites, insisting on the Numbers and Excellency of those Persons, especially, of the Clergy, who espouse or favour their Cause, makes it almost necessary for me to undertake an Ungrateful Task; for, after having desired 'em to look over their Rolls again, and reckon how many they find who refuse the public Prayers for their Majesties, and particularly, for Success in the Irish Expedition( which Murders all their de facto excuses) and after hence, fairly argue, that all who use these sincerely are against 'em; all that do it Hypocritically are blacker within than without; it may be very diverting, to present the World with the Characters of a few of the greatest Sticklers, for the Cause, who are, or have been of the Clergy; tho' some of 'em have in this one thing shown a little Honesty, that they have thrown off the Gown, thereby to disgrace it no longer. Whence 'twill appear, as some Ingenious Men have observed, that K. James is the unhappiest Man in his Friends, of any one Living.  
Among other Instances, to give at present only these one in the West, another in the North, and some nearer home, but all in Persons sufficiently Remarkable.  
The little Northern Spark, who has lately been so civil to cast his Skin; and has been seen in as Conspicuous a Place, and as good a Light, as the Pillory can afford him; was as Notorious in the Country whence he came, as he has been since his Transplantation. He was indeed excellently qualified for a half-Martyr, among the Jacobites, being as Turbulent, and Abusive, as Scandalously Lewd, and Irreclaimably and Impudently debauched, as they could wish; a known frequenter of Houses and Persons of the worst Character, intimate, and long time and frequently alone, with common Harlots, adding Adultery to Uncleanness, and a hypocrisy so horrid for his excuse and pretence, that it shall never by me be recorded, lest Christianity itself should be scandalised for't, but sufficiently known, if you'll take the pains to inquire at New Castle.  
There's one precious Faggot, wee'll throw the other over as fast as possible.  
What think ye of others more Easterly, there are Persons to be name, who after a Life sufficiently remarkable for other things, their Sobriety and virtue, after expectations from Court, Frustrated by the unkind Departure of their Dear King James, have some of 'em, as has heen before touched, kept both their Places and Principles, declaiming as eagerly as ever, against that Government to which thep have Sworn, and by which they are protected. Others, after they have gone as fair Lengths as any, to obtain somewhat gaped after, have promised faithfully, under Hand and Seal, to swallow all the Oaths, though there were a thousand of 'em linked together( there are such Instances) on the valuable Consideration of warm Perquisites, and have yet mist on't; who immediately on this, fall a roaring out of their tender Consciences. How sorely were they gauled with what was required? And rather would they die a thousand Deaths, than comply with't; that being the very and only Reason of their missing what they so well deserved,  
But all those are drowned in the Western Belswagger: King James's Friend κατεξὺγην, honoured by that proud Name by him himself, the famous Dr. R— of S—; he who so remarkably distinguished himself by setting up the Rebels Heads, and lying with his parishioners Wife, and keeping her for his own proper use. This Loyal Pious Gentleman, when the Prince ●●nded, road away threatening, like half an Almanzor, to kill all his Army; but on the sudden posted for London, because they came on too fast, and and would not stay to be murdered. But 'tis a most uncomfortable Life to be in such a wide wandring City, without some good Company; on which, he sends for his old Acquaintance to come and live with him, promising her an 100 l. to furnish some Rooms; which was judicially proved against him, but a few Weeks since, by his own Letters, produced in open Court, and the Confession of the Woman, and as horrid a Story which as black as it seems several Circumstances are omitted, too undecent and horrid to appear in public.  
Hence would I not fall into the error I've blamed in others; nor condemn so much as all those who are for that Party: But this may be said, There are some great and remarkable Persons among 'em, and of the others, that we may safely challenge 'em to name any number worth taking notice of, which espouse their Party all England over, that are or have been exemplary, for Piety, learning, and Moderation( which used to be a Christian virtue) or who think not themselves too deeply engaged in the Transactions of former Reigns, to make a handsome retreat.  
But who would have expected so much Truth, and such a plain Confession, as their new Prayers already hinted, give us: Let 'em confess for themselves; and indeed they seem very much on the right on't, That they are without King, without Priest, and without GOD in the World. That they are without KING, is very true; for they aclowledge not This; and their Own moves about sonimbly, no Body knows where to find him, being a much better Horse-man than King William, whatever he may be for a soldier; for let him make never so much hast, he's got to the Rear of his Army, before the other can come to the Front; and before he beats them and gets thither, is clean out of sight. They are as much without Priest; for besides that some of 'em have slipp'd-shell, all the rest the Law has Suspended; and they are no better than mere Tubsters; and that they, and such as these already described, are really, as they confess, without GOD in the World, no body that I know will dispute with ' em.  
Some, who don't much trouble Conscience, but their humour lies more on the Loyal Side, seem shrewdly afraid that the Monarchy of England will be shocked, and its Constitution altered by this Breach in the Succession. For some-what shaking the Frame in the government, 'tis confessed; but Thanks to those who made it necessary, and had raised so many Superstructures upon it, that 'twas a wonder it stood without quiter pulling down to the Ground; and for what shaking it has had, 'tis only like that of a three, 'twill make its Root the firmer. Here's the pinch of the Question; Which would most have injured the English Monarchy, tying up the Hands and Arms of a King, as they pretend they'd have had done; or making so small a Variation, as has been done ten times before, and yet the Monarchy is still alive, and alive is like to be this many Thousand Years, if the World continues so long?  
If any are discontented for want of Preferment or Fortunes; Why are they so mad to venture inevitable Loss of what yet remains? Han't they fairly deserved to lose what they enjoy? The World runs round; and Ten to one they will have a share on't one time or other, if they don't force the Government to sand them out before their turn comes.  
What can the Debauchee pretend? Is't that there's none as bad as himself of our Party? All good Men wishes he were not mistaken, and groan for the time when a Drunkard, or Swearer may carry his Name, or Mark on his Fore-head, and only be clothed in those Rags they deserve.  
Can't these sort of Persons be content to go down to their Place in silence, but they must have all publicly Transacted, ride full speed to Damnation, and make a grand Parade to Hell? Will they still drink Confusion to King William as they are going to be hanged, and tempt a Man to wish all of their Party might take up so good a Fashion, were they Men and not Swine or Devils; so Noble and Royal an Example would Work upon 'em: We having now a King who may say of all other 'vice as of Swearing: He'd not have His Subjects use it till He lead them the way. A Prince who deserves, and has earned all those Tittles which Flattery gave those before him: The delight of His Subjects, the Envy of their Neighbours, and the Terror of His Enemies. Who has( or has done sufficient towards it.) Obliged, and really Gratified all Parties in every thing they could ask, but Destroying themselves and one another, has settled the established Government in Church and State, and given a Legal lasting Security to such as in some Cases differ from the first of these; who tho' absent has the Prayers, Hearts, and Purses of His People at His Service, as appears from the late generous Resolution of the City, to assist against any possible Danger with Voluntary Forces; Their marshal Genius not being yet lost, tho' oppressed with so long Slavery, nor is it yet doubted, but they'l approve themselves as brave as they have done formerly on sadder Occasions or before that when they have beat the Dans from their Walls, or their generous Lord Mayors stabbed, Rebels in the Head of all their Armies, Nor can they do too much for that Prince who has done so much, and ventured so far for them▪ Whom now His very Enemies aclowledge, brave almost to an excess, and themselves cringing and truckle to his Fortune. Who has Conquered a Kingdom, before other Princes have struck a Stroke, and goes into the Field to Fight, not observe and dog his Enemy: And who no doubt will be here again soon enough, for all His Rebels if they dare appear against Him which the French can't hinder without dividing their Fleet which expose 'em to our Force, as soon as we feel ourselves again. Who seems born for as great things or greater than he has yet accomplished, and France holds out all this while to make His Laurels the more Lively by their Conquest: Who appears yet destined for greater Victories, then any over Oppressors and Tyrants; and which none but Heaven can accomplish, viz. That Cursed Debauchery that over-runs and plagues the Nation, worse then all its former Miseries, and that Quarrelsome humour amongst ourselves; that has made us the Scorn of Europe almost this Hundred Years: And when this is done, His next Expedition must be to Heaven, for Earth can have nothing left greater, either to Employ, or Reward Him.  
FINIS.   

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