memory of ,steven ,gibbs 7#aich-bjji74  
,transcriber's ,note3 ,this e-book1 a   
pamphlet by ,daniel ,defoe1 was         
originally published in #agab1 and was  
prepared from ,the ,novels and          
,miscellaneous ,works of ,daniel ,de    
,foe1 vol4 #f 7,london3 ,henry ,g4      
,bohn1 #ahee74 ,archaic spellings have  
been retained as they appear in the     
original1 and obvious printer errors    
have been corrected without note4     ,a
 ,seasonable  ,,warning  ,and ,,caution 
,against the  ,,insinuations  ,of       
,papists and ,jacobites  ,in ,favour of 
the  ,,pretender4  ,being a ,,letter    
from an ,,englishman at the ,court of   
,,hanover4   ,and thou shalt teach these
 ,words diligently unto thy ,children1  
and shalt talk of them when thou sittest
 in thy ,house1 and when thou walkest by
 the ,way4 ,deut4 vi4 #g4  ,and what    
thou seest write in a ,book4 ,rev4 i4   
#aa4   ,,london3 ,printed for ,j4       
,baker1 at the ,black-,boy in           
,pater-,noster-,row4 #agab4     ,a      

,,seasonable  ,,warning ,,and ,,caution 
,,against ,,the  ,,insinuations ,,of    
,,papists ,,and ,,jacobites ,,in        
,,favour ,,of ,,the ,,pretender4   ,why 
how now1 ,england6 what ailest thee now8
 ,what evil spirit now possesseth thee6 
,o thou nation famous for espousing     
religion1 and defending liberty2 eminent
 in all ages for pulling down tyrants1#a
 and adhering steadily to the           
fundamentals of thy own constitution3#b 
that has not only secured thy own       
rights1 and handed them down unimpaired 
to every succeeding age1 but has been   
the sanctuary of other oppressed        
nations2#c the strong protector of      
injured subjects against the lawless    
invasion of oppressing tyrants4         
,footnote #a3 ,edward ,,ii41 ,richard   
,,ii41 ,richard ,,iii41 ,james ,,ii4    
,footnote #b3 ,in the several barons'   
wars in the reign of ,king ,stephen1    
,king ,john1 c4  ,footnote #c3          
,especially of the persecuted           
protestants in the ,low ,countries1 in  

,queen ,elizabeth4  ,to thee the        
oppressed protestants of ,france owed1  
for some ages ago1 the comfort of being 
powerfully supported1 while their own   
king1#d wheedled by the lustre of a     
crown1 became apostate1 and laid the    
foundation of their ruin among          
themselves2 in thee their posterity#e   
find a refuge1 and flourish in thy      
wealth and trade1 when religion and     
liberty find no more place in their own 
country4  ,footnote #d3 ,henry ,,iv41   
who turned papist1 and with much        
difficulty granted liberty to his       
protestant subjects by the edict of     
,nantes4  ,footnote #e3 ,the ,french    
refugees1 who being received here1 are  
grown rich and wealthy by our trade4    
,to thee the distressed ,belgii#f owe   
the powerful assistance by which they   
took up arms in defence of liberty and  
religion1 against ,spanish cruelty1 the 
perfidious tyranny of their kings1 and  
the rage of the bloody ,duke d',alva4   
,footnote #f3 ,the ,flemings1 when      

threatened with the inquisition from    
,spain1 under the reign of ,philip ,,ii4
  ,from thee the confederate            
,hollanders#g received encouragement to 
join in that indissoluble union which   
has since reduced the invincible power  
of the ,spaniards1 and from whence has  
been raised the most flourishing        
commonwealth in the world4  ,footnote   
#g3 ,under ,william ,henry1 the first   
,prince of ,orange1 who formed the      
revolt of the ,dutch provinces1 and laid
 the foundation of the ,states ,general 
and their commonwealth4  ,by thy        
assistance they are become the bulwark  
of the protestant religion1 and of the  
liberties of ,europe2 and have many     
times since gratefully employed that    
force in thy behalf2 and1 by their help1
 thou1 who first gavest them liberty1   
hast more than once rescued and         
preserved thy own4  ,to thee the present
 protestant nations#h of ,europe owe    
their being at this day freed from the  
just apprehensions of the growing       

greatness of ,france2 and to thy power1 
when acting by the glorious protector of
 thy liberty1 ,king ,william1 is the    
whole ,christian world indebted for     
depriving the ,french tyrant of the     
hopes and prospect of universal         
monarchy4  ,footnote #h3 ,the circles of
 ,swabia and ,franconia1 the            
,palatinate1 and the countries of       
,hessia1 ,wirtemberg1 and others4  ,to  
thy blood1 thy treasure1 the conduct of 
thy generals1 and the vigour of thy     
councils1 are due1 the glory1 the fame1 
the praises1 and the advantages of      
twenty years' war1 for the establishing 
and restoring the liberty and religion  
of ,europe4  ,when posterity shall      
inquire into the particulars of this    
long and bloody war2 the battles1       
sieges1 and stupendous marches of       
armies1 which1 as well with loss as with
 victory1 have been the subject of thy  
history2 it will for ever be frequent in
 their mouths2 ,,here the ,british      
troops1 fighting with dreadful fury1 and

 their usual constancy1 shed their blood
 in defence of the protestant cause1 and
 left a bloody victory to ,god's enemies
 and their own2 as at ,steenkirk1       
,landen1 ,camaret1 ,almanza1 ,brihenga1 
and the like3 or1 ,,here the ,british   
troops1 with their usual valour1 carried
 all before them1 and conquered in      
behalf of the protestant interest1 and  
,europe's liberties2 as at ,blenheim1   
,ramilies1 ,barcelona1 ,oudenard1       
,sarragossa1 ,blaregnies1 c4 ,here the  
,british navies triumphed over ,french  
greatness2 as at ,cherburgh1 ,la ,hogue1
 ,gibraltar1 c4 ,there their land forces
 reduced the most impregnable           
fortresses2 as at ,namur1 ,lisle1       
,menin1 ,tournay1 c4  ,and wherefore has
 all this ,english and ,british blood   
been spilt8 ,wherefore thy nation       
exhausted2 thy trade sunk and           
interrupted2 thy veins opened8 ,why hast
 thou struggled thus long1 and with so  
much vigour1 as well with ,french       
tyranny abroad1 as popish factions at   

home1 but to preserve entire the        
religion and liberties of ,europe1 and  
particularly of this nation1 and to     
preserve our posterity from slavery and 
idolatry8 ,principles truly noble1      
worthy a nation's blood to protect1 and 
worthy a nation's treasure to save4     
,but what has all this been for8 ,and to
 what intent and purpose was all this   
zeal1 if you will sink under the ruin of
 the very fabric ye have pulled down8   
,if ye will give up the cause after ye  
have gained the advantage1 and yield    
yourselves up after you have been       
delivered2 to what purpose then has all 
this been done8 ,why all the money      
expended8 ,why all this blood spilt8 ,to
 what end is ,france said to be reduced1
 and peace now concluded1 if the same   
popery1 the same tyranny1 the same      
arbitrary methods of government shall be
 received among you again8 ,sure your   
posterity will stand amazed to consider 
how lavish this age has been of their   
money1 and their blood1 and to how      

little purpose2 since no age since the  
creation of the world can show us a time
 when ever any nation spent so much     
blood and treasure to end just where    
they begun3 as1 if the hearts of our    
enemies prevail1 we are like to do4     
,let us reason a little together on     
these things1 and let us inquire a      
little1 why1 and for what reason        
,britain1 so lately the glory of        
,europe2 so lately the terror of        
,france1 the bulwark of religion1 and   
the destroyer of popery1 should be      
brought to be the gazing-stock of the   
world8 ,and why is it that her          
neighbours expect every hour to hear    
that she is going back to ,egypt1 and   
having given up her liberty1 has made it
 her own choice to submit to the stripes
 of her taskmasters1 and make bricks    
without straw4  ,we that are            
,englishmen1 and live from home among   
the protestants of other nations1 cannot
 but be sensible of this alteration1 and
 we bear the reproaches of those who    

speak freely of the unhappy change which
 appears in the temper of our countrymen
 at home4 ,it is astonishing to all the 
world to hear that the common people of 
,england should be turned from the most 
rivetted aversions1 to a coldness and   
indifferency in matters of popery and   
the pretender3 that they1 who with so   
unanimous a resolution deposed the late 
,king ,james1 as well for his invasions 
of their liberty as of their religion2  
and who with such marks of contempt     
drove him and his pretended progeny out 
of the nation1 should without any       
visible alteration of circumstances1 be 
drawn in to favour the return of that   
race with all the certain additions of  
popish principles in religion2 ,french  
principles in government2 revenge for   
family injuries2 restoration of         
abdicated and impoverished votaries2 and
 the certain support of a party at home1
 whose fortunes and losses must be      
restored and repaired out of the ruins  
of their country's liberties4  ,to what 

purpose was the revolution8 ,why did you
 mock yourselves at so vast an expense8 
,why did you cry in your oppressions to 
,god and the ,prince of ,orange to      
deliver you8 ,why did you rise as one   
man against ,king ,james and his popish 
adherents8 ,why was your fury so great1 
and your opposition so universal1 that  
although he had a good army of veteran1 
disciplined troops1 and a powerful      
assistance from ,france ready to fall in
 and join him1 yet they durst not1 when 
put all together1 venture to look you in
 the face1 but fled like darkness before
 the sun1 like guilt before the sword of
 justice2 or as a murderer from the     
avenger of blood8 ,was it all1 that you 
might the better weaken yourselves by   
ages of war1 and they might return      
again1 and bind you like ,samson1 when  
your strength was departed8  ,when this 
was done1 why did ye mock ,god with a   
thanksgiving1#i and banter the world    
with your pretended praises to heaven   
for your deliverance8 ,why1 when you    

appeared by your representatives in     
convention and in parliament1 did you   
make so many fast days1#aj and days of  
prayer for the success of the arms you  
took up1 and the war you carried on for 
the finishing and securing this great   
work1 called the pulling down of popery8
 ,was it all1 that after having spent   
twenty years of war1 and a sea of blood1
 ruined trade1 exhausted your treasure1 
and entailed vast debts on your         
posterity2 you should calmly open your  
doors to the fugitives you had found    
out1 and let in again the popish tyranny
 you had driven away8  ,footnote #i3    
,the ,thanksgiving for the ,revolution4 
,footnote #aj3 ,monthly fasts appointed 
the first ,wednesday of every month     
during the war in ,king ,william's time4
  ,for what reason was it that you      
presented the crown to your benefactor1 
called him your deliverer1 and made him 
your king2 and having done so1          
maintained him upon the throne with so  
much vigour1 fought under his banner in 

so many battles1 and with so great      
animosity1 and professed to stand by him
 against all his enemies at home and    
abroad8 ,why is he in so many           
addresses#aa styled the rescuer of this 
nation from popery and slavery8 ,why in 
so many acts of parliament#ab is he     
called the great deliverer of the       
nation8 ,why in so many sermons preached
 to men1 and prayers put up to ,god1 has
 he the title of the instrument blessed 
by heaven to free these nations from    
popery and arbitrary government8 ,was   
all this done1 that your posterity being
 brought back into the bondage their    
fathers were delivered from1 should with
 the same alacrity call him an invader1 
an usurper1 a parricide1 and their      
fathers1 rebels and revolters8          
,footnote #aa3 ,vid4 ,the ,collection of
 ,addresses in ,king ,william's reign4  
,footnote #ab3 ,act for ,offering the   
,crown2 ,the ,claim of ,right2 ,act for 
,security of his ,majesty's ,person and 
,government1 c4  ,why was the crown     

entailed by so many provisoes1 reserves1
 and limitations8 ,why the names of     
every person that should succeed1 so    
expressly and particularly mentioned and
 set down8#ac ,why so many acts of      
parliament#ad to secure that entail1 and
 punish with death those who should     
reject or oppose it8 ,why was the       
settlement of the crown thought to be of
 so much consequence to the public good1
 that the two daughters of ,king ,james1
 the late blessed ,queen ,mary1 and her 
present royal majesty1 thought          
themselves bound to agree to the same   
for the safety and peace of their       
country1 though it was in prejudice of  
the right and possession of their own   
father8 ,was it all1 that the return of 
these things might be made upon the     
people with the greater weight1 and that
 posterity might be prejudiced against  
the memory of the two royal sisters1 as 
accessary to the ruin of their own      
father8  ,footnote #ac3 ,vid4 ,the      
several ,prayers ordered to be read in  

,churches upon the occasion of the      
,fasts in ,king ,william's time4        
,footnote #ad3 ,vid4 ,the ,act of the   
,settlement1 and the ,act of the ,union2
 the ,act to extinguish the hopes of the
 ,jacobites2 and the ,act for farther   
securing her ,majesty's ,person and     
,government4  ,why was ,king ,james and 
his popish posterity entirely excluded  
for ever from enjoying the imperial     
crown of these realms8#ae ,why were so  
many acts of parliament made to         
extinguish the hopes of his race1 and of
 their party1 and for farther security  
of her majesty's person and government8 
,why was the settlement of the          
succession in a protestant line made the
 principal reason of uniting the two    
kingdoms together8 ,and why was that    
union so vigorously opposed by all those
 that adhered to the jacobite interest8 
,was this to illustrate the return of   
the abdicated line1 and by the greatness
 of the nation's endeavour for keeping  
out the pretender1 to justify his using 

them accordingly when he comes in8      
,footnote #ae3 ,vid4 ,the ,act of       
,parliament for settling the ,succession
 of the ,crown on the illustrious ,house
 of ,hanover4  ,why was the union       
declared to be unalterable1 and1 as some
 say1 the power thereby taken out of the
 hands of the ,british parliament to    
change the settlement of the crown1 or  
to name any other persons than those of 
the illustrious house of ,hanover to    
succeed2 and1 above all1 why was that   
severest of all oaths1 the abjuration1  
contrived2 by which it is rendered      
impossible for this nation1 upon any    
pretence whatsoever1 to receive the     
pretender but with the black stigma of  
an abominable perjury8 ,was this that1  
with the greater reverence to laws1 and 
the greater regard to the solemnity of a
 national oath1 we might all turn tail  
upon our principles1 and in defiance of 
,god and the laws1 bow our knees to an  
abjured pretender8  ,for ,god's sake1   
,britons1 what are you doing8 ,and      

whither are you going8 ,to what dreadful
 precipices are ye hurrying yourselves8 
,what6 are you selling yourselves for   
slaves to the ,french1 who you have     
conquered2 to popery1 which you have    
reformed from2 and to the pretender1    
whom you have forsworn8 ,is this acting 
like ,britons2 like protestants1 like   
lovers of liberty8 ,nay1 is it acting   
like men of reasonable souls1 and men   
who have the light of common sense to   
act by8  ,that we may move you1 then1 to
 consider a little the grossness and    
absurdity of what you are doing1 dear   
countrymen1 be prevailed upon to debate 
a little with yourselves the state of   
your own case1 which ,i shall briefly   
and plainly lay before you1 thus3--     
,the government having thought fit1 for 
reasons of state which ,i have no room  
to speak of in this place1 to separate  
from the confederates1 as well in the   
field as in treating with the ,french1  
and unhappily1 ,i doubt1 to make a      
separate peace2 among the several       

improvements made of this by the enemies
 of ,britain1 this is one1 viz41 to     
encourage and increase the friends and  
interest of the pretender1 and this they
 do upon several foundations4 #a4 ,upon 
a supposition1 or suggestion rather1    
that the ministry1 because they have not
 thought fit to carry on the war1 are   
therefore coming so entirely into the   
interest of ,france1 that they must of  
necessity comply with the ,french king's
 demand of restoring the pretender4 #b4 
,upon a like ill-grounded suggestion    
that the people of ,england and         
,scotland are more inclined to receive  
the pretender than they were formerly2  
in both which suppositions they grossly 
impose upon you1 and yet by both they   
subtly carry on their crafty designs to 
delude the more ignorant part of the    
people of this nation1 and to prepare   
them1 as they think1 for the coming of  
the pretender3 as appears thus3--  #a4  
,by persuading the common people that   
the ministry are for the pretender1     

they1 as far as in them lies1 make a    
breach1 a misunderstanding1 and lay a   
foundation of jealousy and distrust     
between the people and the government1  
enraging all those who are zealous for  
the ,hanover succession1 against the    
ministers of state1 and so increasing   
the dangerous divisions that are among  
us1 the closing and healing whereof is  
so much the duty and interest of all    
faithful subjects1 that they may the    
more unanimously and sincerely join     
together against the pretender and all  
his adherents4  #b4 ,they intimidate    
those great numbers of people who1 not  
so much acting by principle as example1 
are unwilling to show themselves in any 
cause which they have reason to fear is 
declining1 and therefore act with the   
less zeal for the true interest1 by how 
much they see1 or think they see1 the   
great ones of the nation fall off from  
it4  #c4 ,by suggesting that the common 
people of ,great ,britain are more      
inclined to the pretender than they were

 formerly1 they think they bring them   
really to be so1 and encourage all the  
endeavours of those who labour          
indefatigably all over the nation to    
have it so4  ,to undeceive the good     
people of ,britain1 therefore1 in these 
things1 dear countrymen1 ,i beseech you 
to consider1  #a4 ,that whatever we may 
dislike of the proceedings of the       
ministry1 and of the government1 of     
which this is not the place to speak1   
there is no greater cheat can be put    
upon you than this is2 for1 whatever the
 jacobite party may promise themselves  
from the ministry1 the ministry do not  
yet own their measures to tend that way2
 they do not act avowedly for the       
pretender2 they do all things yet upon  
the supposition of the protestant       
succession1 and carry it as in the      
interest of the house of ,hanover2 and  
to say they are for the pretender1 is to
 charge them with the greatest treachery
 and hypocrisy1 and is such an insolence
 in the jacobites1 as the ministry ought

 to show their resentment at them for1  
and we hope they will do so2 besides1   
there is a manifest difference between  
the fears of honest men1 as that the    
measures of the ministry may encourage  
the friends of the pretenders and on the
 other hand1 the insolent way of the    
jacobites claiming the ministry to be   
acting in their behalf2 while therefore 
the ministry appear to act under the    
scheme of the ,hanover succession1      
whether they are sincere or no1 it is a 
good answer to a jacobite1 whatever it  
is to another1 to say1 it is an         
unjustifiable assurance1 and an affront 
to the government1 to boast of the      
ministry being in the interest of the   
pretender4  ,it is also well worthy the 
consideration of the good people of     
,britain1 that at the same time these   
men would have you believe that the     
ministers of state are bringing in the  
pretender1 they would also have the     
ministers of state made believe1 that   
the generality of the people are        

inclined to receive the pretender2 by   
which double-faced fraud they endeavour 
to restrain you1 the people of ,britain1
 from appearing against the pretender1  
for fear of offending the government2   
and to restrain the said government in  
the same case1 for fear of the people4  
,as they go on in these things with too 
much success1 it is a very sad          
consideration to all true ,british      
protestants to find that a party of men 
among us1 who yet call themselves       
protestants1 fall in with them in many  
things1 fomenting the divisions and     
breaches that are among us1 weakening   
the constitution1 and pursuing such     
principles as tend to destroy our       
liberties2 by whose arts1 and by the    
subtle management of which party1 the   
revolution wears every day more and more
 out of date2 the principles of liberty 
decay2 the memory of ,king ,william     
sinks in our esteem2 the heroic actions 
of that prince1 which were once the just
 admiration of all the honest people of 

,great ,britain1 begin to be lost upon  
us1 and forgotten among us1 and to      
become as a mark of infamy to the       
nation6  ,every considering protestant  
cannot but observe with horror1 what    
swarms of popish priests from abroad1   
and jacobite emissaries at home1 are    
spread about among us1 and busily       
employed to carry on these wicked       
designs2 how in disguise they run up and
 down the countries1 mingling themselves
 in all companies1 and in coffee-houses1
 and private conversation1 endeavouring 
to insinuate with all possible subtlety1
 favourable notions of the pretender    
into the minds of the people1 thereby to
 pave the way1 and to prepare you for   
receiving him2 such as1 that he is the  
lawful son of ,king ,james2 that he is a
 protestant in his heart2 that he will  
abjure the errors of popery as soon as  
he has an opportunity2 that the late    
,king ,william promised to prove him a  
bastard1 but never could do it2 that it 
is hard to reject him for what was none 

of his own fault1 and the like4         
,although thinking men can and do see   
through these things1 yet1 as they are  
calculated and prepared to deceive the  
ignorant people in the country1 it is   
earnestly desired of those who have     
their eyes open to the said popish      
delusions1 that they would endeavour to 
undeceive their brethren and neighbours1
 and earnestly persuade them not to be  
imposed upon by the jesuitical          
insinuations of the popish faction1     
furnishing the poor honest people with  
just reasons for their adhering to the  
protestant settlement1 and full answers 
to those who go about to deceive them3  
which answers are such as follow3--  #a4
 ,it seems absolutely necessary to      
remind them of the reason of the late   
revolution2 how ,king ,james ,,ii41 by  
his popish counsellors1 priests1 and    
jesuits1 had laid the foundation of     
overwhelming all our liberties1 in an   
arbitrary1 tyrannical government1 ruling
 us without a parliament to redress our 

grievances1 and1 by a standing army1 to 
execute forcibly his absolute commands2 
how he had engaged in the overthrow of  
our religion1 by undermining the        
constitution of the ,church of ,england1
 erecting an arbitrary ecclesiastical   
commission to dispossess our            
universities1 and displace our ministers
 in every parish1 and then to establish 
popery throughout the whole nation4  #b4
 ,that in this distress1 the whole      
nation applied themselves to the ,prince
 of ,orange1 whose right to the         
succession made him justly appear as the
 proper person to assist and relieve    
this oppressed people2 which prince came
 over at our invitation1 was blessed    
with success1 and all the favourers of  
popery and tyranny sunk at once2 ,king  
,james fled with his queen1 and that    
person whom he called his son1 and whom 
we now call justly the pretender4  #c4  
,concerning the birth of this person1   
the nobility and gentry of ,england who 
invited over the prince1 as may be seen 

by the memorial they presented to his   
highness1 alleged1 that there were      
violent presumptions that he was not    
born of the queen's body1 which1        
however1 they desired to leave to       
examination in a free parliament2 which 
also the said prince expressed in his   
declaration1 and that he was willing to 
leave the same to a free parliament4    
#d4 ,that before a free parliament could
 be obtained1 ,king ,james withdrew     
himself1 and carried away his pretended 
son into the hands of the ancient       
enemies of this nation1 and of our      
religion1 the ,french1 there to be      
educated in the principles of popery and
 enmity to this his native country4  ,by
 which action he not only declined to   
refer the legitimacy of his said son to 
the examination of the parliament1 as   
the ,prince of ,orange had offered in   
his said declaration1 but made such     
examination altogether useless and      
impracticable1 he himself 7,king ,james7
 not owning it to be a legal parliament1

 and therefore not consenting to stand  
by such examination4  ,by the said      
abdication1 and carrying away his said  
pretended son into the hands of the     
,french to be educated in popery1 c41 he
 gave the parliament of ,england and    
,scotland abundant reason for ever to   
exclude the said ,king ,james and his   
said pretended son from the government  
of these realms1 or from the succession 
to the same1 and made it absolutely     
necessary for them to do so1 if they    
would secure the protestant religion to 
themselves and their posterity2 and this
 without any regard to the doubt whether
 he was the lawful son of ,king ,james  
or no1 since it is inconsistent with the
 constitution of this protestant nation 
to be governed by a popish prince4  ,so 
that there is now no more room to       
examine whether the said pretender be   
the lawful son of ,king ,james1 or      
whether he is1 or will turn to be a     
protestant1 the examination of the      
legitimacy by parliament which was      

offered by the ,prince of ,orange in his
 declaration1 having been declined by   
his father1 and himself having been     
delivered up into the hands of the sworn
 enemies both of our religion1          
constitution1 and nation4  ,if ,king    
,james would have expected he should be 
received as his son1 and succeed to his 
crowns1 he should have suffered his     
birth to have been legally determined by
 the ,english and ,scotch parliament at 
that time1 and have left him in good    
protestant hands to have been educated  
in the protestant religion1 and in the  
knowledge of the laws and constitutions 
of his country2 in which case it was    
more than probable1 had his birth       
appeared clear1 and his hereditary right
 just1 the parliament might have set the
 crown upon his head1 and declared him  
king under the protection of their      
deliverer1 the ,prince of ,orange3 but  
to talk of it now1 when his birth has   
never been examined or cleared up1 and  
while he has been bred up to man's      

estate in popery1 and that the worst    
sort1 viz41 ,french popery2 and after   
the parliament of the respective        
kingdoms uniting in one1 have by an     
unalterable1 indissolvable union1       
settled and entailed the crown upon     
another head1 viz41 the present queen1  
and entailed it after her majesty in the
 most illustrious house of ,hanover1 the
 next of blood in a protestant line3 to 
talk now of proving the birth of the    
pretender1 and of his abjuring his      
errors and turning protestant1 this is a
 fraud so absurd and ridiculous1 that we
 hope the people of ,great ,britain can 
never be blinded with it4  ,especially  
considering the party who talk of these 
things to us3 and this ought to move the
 good people of ,britain to receive the 
proposals of the pretender with         
indignation2 for who are they1 dear     
fellow-protestants6 that persuade you to
 these things8 ,are they not the friends
 of ,france and ,rome8 ,do not all the  
papists join with them8 ,do not all     

those who hated the revolution1 and who 
long to restore arbitrary government1   
join with them8  ,why1 if he will abjure
 the ,romish errors and turn protestant1
 why1 ,i say1 do the papists speak in   
his favour8 ,do any sect of religion    
love apostates6 ,those who forsake them 
and abjure them as heretical and        
erroneous6 ,if they were not well       
assured that whatever appearing change  
he may make1 he will still retain a     
secret affection to popery1 they could  
not be rationally supposed to speak in  
his behalf4  ,but if that is not        
sufficient1 what do they say to you as  
to his love of the liberty of his       
country8 ,has he been bred up in a      
tyrannical absolute court for nothing8  
,can he have any notion of government   
there but what is cruel1 oppressive1    
absolute1 and despotic8 ,what principles
 of government will he come over with8  
and as he has sucked in tyranny with his
 milk1 and knows no government but that 
of the most absolute monarch in the     

world1 is this the man they would bring 
in to preserve the liberties and        
constitution of ,britain8  ,when set    
upon the ,british throne1 who are his   
allies and confederates8 ,will he be so 
ungrateful as not to be always at the   
devotion and command of the ,french     
king8 a prince that took his father in a
 fugitive1 an abdicated and ruined      
prince1 when his fortunes were          
overthrown1 and his crown taken from    
him2 that made so many efforts to       
restore him1 and hazarded his whole     
kingdom for it3 if he forgets the       
kindness shown to his father1 can he be 
so ungenerous1 so unthankful1 as to     
forget how the king of ,france nourished
 him from a child2 how1 after his       
father's death1 he hazarded a second war
 to proclaim him king of ,great         
,britain1 and what expense he has been  
at to put him in possession of it8      
,should he forget all these obligations1
 he must be unfit to be called a        
,christian1 much less a prince4  ,if he 

can act so barbarously to the ,french   
king1 his benefactor1 what must you     
,britons expect from him1 who have done 
nothing to oblige him1 but have for     
twenty-four years kept him and his      
father in exile1 and treated them both  
with unsufferable indignity8 ,if he can 
be ungrateful to the king of ,france1   
who has done so much for him1 what must 
he be to you1 who have done so much     
against him8  ,again3 if gratitude and  
honour have any influence upon him1 if  
he has any sense of his obligation to   
the ,french king1 will he not for ever  
be his most hearty1 obedient1 humble    
servant8 ,will he not always be in his  
interest1 nay1 ought he not to be so8   
,is he not tied by the laws of          
friendship and gratitude to be so8      
,think1 then1 dear ,britons6 what a king
 this pretender must be2 a papist by    
inclination2 a tyrant by education2 a   
,frenchman by honour and obligation3 and
 how long will your liberties last you  
in this condition8 ,and when your       

liberties are gone1 how long will your  
religion remain8 ,when your hands are   
tied2 when armies bind you2 when power  
oppresses you2 when a tyrant disarms    
you2 when a popish ,french tyrant reigns
 over you2 by what means or methods can 
you pretend to maintain your protestant 
religion8  ,how shall the ,church of    
,england stand1 when in subjection to   
the ,church of ,rome8 ,you are now mixed
 with dissenters1 and some are uneasy   
enough with them too2 but our church    
will then be but a dissenting church2   
popery will be the establishment2 the   
mass will succeed our common prayer1 and
 fire and fagot instead of toleration1  
as you know was our case before2 for it 
is not the first time the papists have  
been tried4  ,nor did ,queen ,mary      
promise1 nay1 swear less than is now    
promised for the pretender2 for she     
swore to the ,gospellers of ,suffolk to 
make no alteration in religion2 and     
they1 like the blinded protestants of   
this age1 brought her in1 for which they

 were the first that felt the fury and  
rage of the popish party1 and so we have
 great cause to believe it would be     
again4   ,,the ,,conclusion4  ,consider1
 then1 honest countrymen and            
protestants1 what you are doing2 look on
 your families2 consider your innocent  
children1 who you are going to give up  
to be bred in abominable superstition   
and idolatry2 look on your dear country1
 which you are preparing to make the    
seat of war1 blood1 and confusion2 look 
on your neighbours1 who1 while they are 
resisting this inundation1 for you may  
be assured honest men will resist it to 
the last1 you are to fight with1 whose  
throats you must cut1 and in whose blood
 you must dip your hands2 and1 lastly1  
consider yourselves2 how free1 how      
quiet1 how in peace1 plenty1 and in     
protestant liberty you now live1 but are
 with your own hands pulling down upon  
you1 so far as you entertain thoughts of
 the pretender1 the walls of your own   
security1 viz41 the constitution1 and   

making way for your ,french popish      
enemies to enter2 to whom your religion1
 your liberties1 your estates1 your     
families1 and your posterity1 shall be  
made a sacrifice1 and this flourishing  
nation be entirely ruined4  ,in the last
 place1 all that have any concern left  
for the good of their country1 and for  
the preserving the protestant religion1 
will remember how much it is in the     
power of the people of ,britain for ever
 to discourage all the attempts to be   
made in favour of these popish enemies1 
and to overthrow them in the execution2 
and it is on this foundation that this  
paper is made public4 ,the late letter  
from ,douay1 written by some of that    
side1 who very well understood the      
pretender's true interest1 acknowledges 
this1 and that if the people of ,england
 could not be wheedled and deluded into 
the design1 it was never to be done by  
force4  ,and is this your case1         
,britons6 ,will you be ruined by a      
people whom you ought to despise8 ,have 

they not been twenty years trying your  
strength1 till they find it impossible  
for them to master you8 ,and are they   
brought to such a condition as to use   
all their arts and shifts to bring on a 
peace2 and will you be brought now in   
cool thoughts1 and after so long a      
struggle1 to do that yourselves which   
you would never let them do2 and which1 
without your most stupid negligence of  
yourselves1 they could never do4  ,for  
this reason1 ,i say1 these lines are    
written1 and this makes them just1 and  
the argument rational4 ,if ,i were to   
move you to what was not in your power1 
,i should easily be answered1 by being  
told1 you could not do it2 that you were
 not able1 and the like2 but is it not  
evident that the unanimous appearance of
 the people of ,great ,britain against  
the pretender would at once render all  
the party desperate1 and make them look 
upon the design as utterly              
impracticable4 ,as their only hope is in
 the breaches they are making in your   

resolutions1 so if they should see they 
gain no ground there1 they would        
despair1 and give it over4  ,it would   
not be worth notice to inquire who are1 
and who are not for the pretender2 the  
invidious search into the conduct of    
great men1 ministers of state and       
government1 would be labour lost3 no    
ministry will ever be for the pretender1
 if they once may but be convinced that 
the people are steady2 that he gets no  
ground in the country2 that the         
aversions of the common people to his   
person and his government are not to be 
overcome3 but if you1 the good people of
 ,england1 slacken your hands2 if you   
give up the cause2 if you abate your    
zeal for your own liberties1 and for the
 protestant religion2 if you fall in    
with popery and a ,french pretender2 if 
you forget the revolution1 and ,king    
,william1 what can you expect8 who can  
stand by you then8 ,who can save them   
that will destroy themselves8  ,the work
 is before you2 your deliverance1 your  

safety is in your own hands1 and        
therefore these things are now written3 
none can give you up2 none can betray   
you but yourselves2 none can bring in   
popery upon you but yourselves2 and if  
you could see your own happiness1 it is 
entirely in your power1 by unanimous1   
steady adhering to your old principles1 
to secure your peace for ever4 ,o       
,jerusalem6 ,jerusalem6   ,,end ,,of ,a 
,,seasonable ,,warning ,,and ,,caution4