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C R  HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE DIEV ET MON DROIT   

A second Seasonable SPEECH Made by an Honourable MEMBER Of the HOUSE OF COMMONS, DEMONSTRATING The Necessity of the KING'S Restauration by this present Parliament.  
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1660.   

A second Seasonable SPEECH Made by an Honourable Member of the House of Commons.  
Mr. Speaker,  
IN this place, (the great Receipt of Grievances) given me leave to say, 'tis not the lest of my, that Wisemen being believed to admire nothing: I see, there's as great a necessity of my appearing sufficiently removed from that rank of men, as there is, of my avowing, that, there is nothing here done, which I do not admire. I have yet this of Felicity, that since I must want the advantage of being by you reputed wise, now, when I desire, and need it most, to enforce what I have to say: the Truths I am to discourse of are yet of themselves so palpable, that an esteem of the Speaker needs contribute but little to the procuring them a Belief. My Wonder, how great soever, equals not my shame, that I see myself One of those Many, have sat so long in so great an Exigency, and done so little. I look not upon the late Extravagancies and Disorders, this Nation has laboured under, so worthy my Dislike, or Admiration, as our present Lethargy, and unactiveness in not redressing those Distempers, which, if sooner removed, must yet have been confessed, to have had too long a continuance. That we come hither for this only end, will be sooner granted me by all, then a reason given me by any, why it is not done. If the difficulty be too great for us, we did ill in reassuming our Seats at all; and do yet worse, in not leaving them now, to more enabled People. We have not the Plea of being oppressed with Plenty. I cannot see such variety of ways apted for a Composure, as need engage us to the delay of considering which is best: Providence, and wise Fate having afforded us but one, lest in a Liberty we should choose for ourselves a Blessing, far less, than kind Necessity intends us.  
That the recalling of our King is this only way, is already grown almost as visible as true: and were it but confessed by all of whom 'tis believed, I should hear from the greatest part of this House, what now it hears alone from me.  
Had we as little reason to fear, as we have too much, that if we bring not in the King, he either already is, or shortly may be in a Capacity of coming in unsent for: Methinks the knowledge of his Right, were alone enough to keep just People (such as we would be conceived) from being accessary to his longer absence. Had we but the Bravery of some Heathens Story gives us names of, we should scorn there should be any could object to us, they wanted the Right and Justice we had a Power to do them. We are already, and but too justly, reputed to have been the occasion of our Prince's exile, we may with reason and equal Truth, (for aught I know) be thought to have been the Contrivers of it too, unless we evidence the contrary, by not suffering the Mischief to continued longer, which is now in our power to remove.  
Besides his right, inducement enough to engage his Subjects to his restauration, there's eminent in him so great, and so confessed a worth, that had he been born where he has been forced too long to reside, and had been always as much a stranger, as he has been these late years to England, yet his virtues singly considered, abstracted from any pretence, speak him the person most worthy of our choice: and were he as destitute, as he is blessed with a title, we could not pretermit him, without publishing our ignorance, or disrespect, of the most noted, and most coveted perfection this day has a being.  
To Omit (since 'tis impossible to enumerate all) the Excellencies with are lest his, I mean his gifts of Nature, given me leave to remark (what we have most reason to know) some few of those many acquirements he is obliged to our ill usage for. He has made his notices of all the Governments in Europe, and knows the affairs of each State in Christendom, as well, nay perhaps (through our faults) better than those of his own Country. He understands so perfectly foreign Dialects, that in all Audiences, his Grandeur, not He, will require the impertinency of an interpreter. He has not altered his mind, in the variety of climes, nor could be ever tempted, so much as to exchange his Religion, to be reestablished in that throne, his adversaries quite lost theirs, to dispossesses him of. And after all, his enemy's malice (by a most wise contrivance) instead of rendering him (as they wished) absolutely incapable, has but the more adapted, and fitted him for Empire.  
This is so true, and so well understood, that we all believe, whatsoever ours are, these will be the thoughts of the succeeding Parliament. These Nations, and with good reason, do so much long for their Prince, and dread their being by the next (as already by this Parliament) disappointed, that we must rationally conceive, that to be ascertained of succeeding, they will make Election of such persons, whose concerns, as well as affections, shall make them active for his Introduction.  
And, I appeal then to your own judgements, whither 'tis likely those People, as to their particular Interest more unconcerned, and probably less knowing in the affairs of the Nation, can or would obtain for any those terms, we are yet in a Capacity of procuring both for them and us.  
I must profess sincerely, it would be as strange to me, as a miracle, did I not know, that God infatuates whom he designs to destroy, that we can see the King's return to be unavoidable, and yet be no ways Studious of serving him, or at lest ourselves, in the managery of his recall.  
The people, though sensible enough, were the House of Lords readmitted with how little reason then, we could pretend to be a Parliament, and therefore with how much less, now they are excluded; would yet contentedly allow, we have Authority enough, to act the things they wish, and without questioning by what hand their felicity was conveyed to them, Enjoy it with a content uncapable of being allayed, even by a discovery of its irregular procurement.  
The General, that noble Personage, to whom, under God, we do and must own all the advantages of our past, and future changes, will be as far from opposing us in this design, as the design is removed from the disadvantage of the Nation. He himself is, I'm confident of the same opinion: and if he has given already no notice of it to the House, 'tis not, that he does not look upon it as the greatest expedient, but he only forbears to propose it, that he might not seem to necessitate us, and by an over-early discovery of his own judgement, be thought to take from us, the freedom of ours. Besides, we all see how much 'tis his proper interest, and though he has honour enough, to endeavour the happiness of his Prince without any other recompense than that of the satisfaction he will receive from the sense of so brave an action, yet has he no reason to believe he shall want any of the respects and honours, his relation and deserve can oblige a just Prince to make him a return of.  
Though I hope, now we have seen how much every thing advances the necessity and facility of our Sovereign's return: there needs no new motives to engage our powers and ministeries into a compliance with fate: given me leave yet to say, that if there did, the very consideration, that we can thus only save our sinking honour, and rescue the name of Parliaments from an inauspiciouness, should i● prove us in these thoughts, and press us to a resolvedness. How fair shall we appear in story? when from every pen, that among other ills mentions our seclusion, there drops this observation, That we and villainy were so inconsistent, that it was indispensably necessary that we should be removed, when that was to take place, and that the succeeding mischiefs (acted whilst a force often varied, never discontinued oppressed, the Parliament) vanished as soon as Providence blest us with an opportunity of evidencing by our removing them, how far we had always been from having i●troc●ed them.  
But to say no more in a business wherein I aught to hope, I have said already more then needed: I shall only beg, that a concern of this moment may have your first considerations, and that those Gentlemen (if there be any such) whose Caprice and Petulancy shall against all reason engage them to an opposition, would take care to be preassured, they may not be exposed, by posting up their names, to the fury of the abused people. I wish their apprehension of this danger may make them studious to prevent it; If it does not, they run the hazard of this course (a trick already tried) which though I do not approve, yet I must confess is abundantly apt to work a change, and to tender those persons sufficiently averse before, disposed, to tender the people's safety, as they do their own.  
FINIS.