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Show "9 alarm to thofe who [rate arm; in their hands" faid one member; " I cannot but obfervc that the Monte of Commons is now in fear of the army", laid another. * Plain as it was for what end the army was kept up, the people ilumbered. The exigences ofthc times called forfomething more than votes and pamer-nfo/zrtiom. What was the conlequence of this national cowardice and inacti- vity .9 "England faw herfelf engaged in the expence #600,000 Pounds fierling,to pay an army and fleet, which certainly (lays Rapin) had not been prepaf red 'ro mate war wit/2 France on FOR THE SECURITY or ENCLAND".-Spiritcd refolves may pleafe‘ the ear; fcnatorial eloquence may charm the eye, but thefe are not the weapons with which to combat {landing~ armies : thefe was not thofe, which freed this Capital from {tationed regiments ; they are not thofe, which will ultimately But I for- bear: time will unfold, what I may not foretell. The Britilh Court,'never deflitute of plaufibilities to deceive, or inventions to enthrall the nation, appropriated monies, railed by Parliament for the purpofe of difbanding the army, to their continuance, Jr and uniformly purlued limilar meafures, till in. the year 1684, "the King in order to make his people fenfible of their new flavery, affected tomulter his troops, which amounted to 4000 well-- armed and dilciplined. "i IfRapin denominated fo {mall an armament, z‘lre flarvery of the fizbj'ec ‘? under Charles the 2d:--- Vhat would he call the ltate of Britons under George the third? With 4000 troops the kingdom it ieems was reduced to" fervitude: but the ipirit of the nation lbon after rofe. * 7 Greys Dtb'ites, in Parl. p. 7i, 2, 3. '7 5:2: Kings Speed: Oiuber 1678. IRapin, rote. In 1685 complaint was made in Parliament, " that the country was weary of the opprellion, ‘ and plunder of the foldiers"; " the army (it " was laid) debauched the manners 0le" the people, ‘~ their wives, daughters and l‘ervants." t The grievance became intolerable-and what was happy, it was not too mighty tor oppolition. James the fecond, had only 14, or15,000 troops,--and no riot act The barbarities of a Kirk, and the campaign of a Jeflei‘ies, could not pats with impunity. 'rna REVOLUTION liicceeded and James abdicated his throne. Such was the fate of one, who vainly afieeted to play the defpot with about fifteen regiments :_ had he been encircled with an hundred, no doubt, he had reigned an applauded tyrant-flat- tered in Mr ally, with that lying appellation-- " t/Je wig/Z and Me {zg/Z (if 10.2235." Jr ' The army of the prefcnt king of great Britain is larger than that with which Alexander fub. G dued ‘ 8 vol. Grey's Dv:bates 365,6. 1‘ Patria: Patti, chumopdpzc "as part 'of an infeription on the marble itatue erected to Charles the feeond, as worthlefs and odious a Prince as any in the hiliory of England. Sue Rapin 734. l7ol. Edit-liven Richard (the third ) generally reprcfeutcd, both as a rnonfler in perfon and difpolition, hath however had panegyrilis who allirm, that he was remarkably genteel, and the fig/2‘ of Kingi. more unricnt fiatutcs. p. 39:,3 Sec Barrington's Obf. on the ' 'l‘hus that iiifolenttyraut, Hen. am .who dil'graCCd his fpecies by repeated violations of his mofi {olcmn vows and the practice of open debaucheryaud riot ; a dcfpot, who, loft to‘ the coni- mon feelings of humanity made his laws more bloody than thol'e of Draco or DionyliuS, and caufed a greater number of executions, than any other King of England. 1* Char‘dC-tc- rizzd on the Journals of the houfe of Lords, as 3 Prime of wan/15mm good/15f: and mug/"dam. See the fame Ollcrvations 4"", z and 472. Surely He who calls the RitioNiNG Mo N A Rcu. " the wifcfl and MK} ch/ngf' ought always to be {ufpectcd of burlefquc and far-cafm, ér fomcthing. worfe. |