Great News from the NORTH: GIVING A True Account and RELATION OF THE Seizing of several Great Officers, Soldiers, and other Eminent Persons; Particularly, One of the late King's Domestic Servants: TOGETHER With their Horses, Arms, and other Considerable Booty; designed, as is supposed, for Ireland.  Licenced, and Entered according to Order. 
SInce Almighty Providence has so Signally manifested its Power, in the Preservation of these Kingdoms, from the Bondage of Popery and Slavery; we cannot but wonder, that there should be any of that Faction remaining to Support so Tottering a Cause. And yet it is too Evident, by the Sedulous Endeavours of our Implacable Adversaries, that we have still too many incendiaries and Beautifeus amongst us, as to raise that Fading Smoke into a Flame. These are the people, whose very Rudiments and Fundamentals distil ●nto them the principles of Cruelty and Rebellion; that have Commission for Murder, and Dispensation for Destroying Heretics. But all their Stratagems are ●n vain: nor can it now be expected that any reasonable person should be so Insatuated, as once to suffer it to enter into his mind to bring us back from a Flourishing people, a settled Throne, and a Unanimous Establishment, to a Voluntary Bondage; or Subject the Serenity of a Halcyon Galm, to the Storms and Tempests of a threatening Tyranny: Yet notwithstanding the Tranquillity which these Nations sensibly feel and possess under the Benign Influence of so Gracious a King and Queen, Established in the Throne, and the Assurance we have of the Protestant Religion, confirmed to us with all our Rights and Liberties; there are yet a sort of Malcontents amongst us, that, like the Murmuring Israelites, despise the Manna, that Heaven showers round about their Tents, the true Religion, and Light of the Gospel that shined upon them; and Lust after the Onions, and fleshpots of Egypt. These are the Murmurs, that are unadvisedly desirous to bring us back to the fleshpots of Egypt; The Bondage we have ●o lately and miraculously Escaped. Of this sort are those, who by a Treacherous Revolt, (at least Neglect) betrayed their Trust in Ireland, to the great prejudice of the present happy Establishment of this Nation, and the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom; that Interest which they thought to have utterly subdued, crushed and oppressed by an Insulting power of French and Irish Papists; and thi● with all the Demonstrations of Cruelty, that could be expected from a mo●● Incensed and Barbarous Enemy. And not only in Ireland, but the Kingdom 〈◊〉 Scotland, where some have fallen under the suspicion of Undutifulness and Di●loyalty, and yet some of them professing themselves Protestant's. But that an● Hero English Soul should so Degenerate, is to be more admired, if not deplored Yet it seems amongst us, there are not some wanting, who after so great a Deliverance, are desirous (if it lay in their power) to inflame their Native Land and appear Reprobates to the Grace is offered to them. This is the Subject 〈◊〉 our present Matter, and appears by these Gentlemen and Fugitives mentioned in this Narrative, who have endeavoured to get off to the professed Enemy, an● Disturber of the Peace and Tranquillity of these Kingdoms: and labour to brea● the wholesome Measures, hitherto taken for our Security. And tho' these Incendiaries of the Nation, and disturbers of our public peace, have found al● their Attempts hitherto unsuccessful, through the Vigilance of those who are in Authority; Yet do they still, like Catiline, attempt higher ills, although 〈◊〉 be to their own Destruction.  
Amongst this numerous Train, whose Persons as well as Intrigues have been from time to time detected, the following persons have been lately Discovered, with a Design of going over into Ireland to join Arms with those Combinated Rebels, the French and Irish, against the present Government.  
The Principal of these Persons now taken and secured, was Col. L—gg, Brother to an eminent Peer of this Realm, with whom was one Hay●ood, another Eminent Officer, and several more. Enquiry was made into that matter, and it appearing more and more suspicious, that there was some design on foot to raise Commotions, or to get over to the Popish party in Ireland, such diligence was used by the Officers of the Militia and others, that for the preventing the Mischiefs that might arise through neglect, the said Colonel, and above twelve persons of Note more were secured, in order to their being examined, and brought up to London; their Horses were likewise seized, with valuable Materials and Furniture: And amongst the number of those taken, we have an Express by a Letter, that upon scrutiny and strict Examination, one of them appears to be, or very lately to have been, the late King James' Domestic Servant; by wh●se further Examination, it is not doubted a great Light may be given into the dark Contrivances, and underhand Deal; so that the secret Intrigues of the Papists, and their Agents may be blasted, and utterly defeated in these Kingdoms; and that as they all along have experienced, they may find, that they are but vain Projectors, since their Wisdom is ever luckily turned into Foolishness; and that God being on our side, it is evident, that Man's Counsels and Devices cannot prosper against the Strength of an Almighty A●m, who has Power to Will and to Do what ever he pleases in Heaven, and in Earth.  
FINIS.   

LONDON, Printed for Thomas Rogers, in the Year 1689.