Tuesday, September 5. 1704.

Numb. 53.
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I Came in the last Review, to some Nice distinctions, which I cannot but think very necessary, in Order to make the Understanding of the Present Case easy, as to the Hungarians and the Emperor.

I have Granted as much in behalf of the Hungarians, as can in Reason be desired: I have allow’d them to be Oppress’d, Persecuted, Plunder’d and ill Treated, even more than I can heartily suppose they have been; I admit all the hard words they give the Emperor of Germany and the Jesuits; all the Blood and Rapine Committed, or pretended to be Committed, upon the poor Protestants of that Distracted Kingdom; and all this, whether true or no, I Grant, to avoid the trouble of the Argument.

This may perhaps make it justifiable for them to Depose the King of Hungaria, but it cannot make out a Reason, why they should depose the Emperor of Germany; suppose Male Administration does qualify People for the Disciplining their Governours, deposing their Princes, and the like; it does not at the same time furnish them with a Title to Invade their Neighbours; it may lead them to dismiss Tyrants, but not to meddle with any Tyrants but their own; Insurrections of People may be for the Recovery or Defence of Liberty, never for the making of Conquests –

If they proceed to Conquests and Invasions, there is certainly something else in their Design than the Recovery of their Liberty, and the settling Religion: The Grievances of the Hungarians can give them no Title to Ravage Moravia, Plunder and Destroy Austria.

They have not Declared War against the Empire, no, nor against the Emperor, as such; to make Depredations therefore, upon the Hereditary Countries, does no way Comport with the Terms of their own Declaration, wherein Prince Ragocksi tells the World, they take up Arms for the Defence of their Religion and Liberties. Defensive Arms cannot be supposed to Invade and Ravage their Neighbours.

If we were to consider the Hungarians as a Nation at War with the Emperor, then indeed we might allow them to push him to all the extreams possible; but then we must at the same time allow them to be Confederates of France, and Enemies to the Grand Allyance; we must call them Our Enemies, and must concert Measures to endeavour their Reduction.

But in the present Circumstance, I am willing to look upon them as the Opposer does, and call ’em an Opress’d People, a Persecuted, Injured Nation, who forc’d by innumerable and intolerable Impositions and Oppressions, have taken Arms to recover their Liberties.

As they are such, they cannot pretend to demand any thing but what is in Order to restore their Liberty, if they do, they cease from the first Pretension, and appear to us in another Capacity.

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If the Hungarians fought meerly to ruin the House of Austria, they must be our Enemies, because they Attack our Ally and Confederate, the Emperor; but all the Depredations they make by force, out of the Limits of their own Country, and all the Demands they make by Treaty, other than is their Right, either by Nature, or Constitution of their Country, are all Excentrick and Foreign to the Pretences they make of Religion and Liberty.

’Tis therefore necessary to distinguish between the Hungarians taking Arms for their Religion and Liberty, and the same Hungarians pushing their Designs farther, to Articles which have no Relation, either to Religion or Liberty.

As the former, we not only are bound to think well of them, wish well to them, and assist them, but her Majesty and the States of Holland have done it; they have offered them their Assistance in the best and properest manner, both for themselves and for us.

You have offer’d them Assistance! says a Wise Objector, what! you have offered to be Guarantee of a Treaty; but what’s that to the purpose? ’tis other sort of help they want.

This comes directly to the point; ’Tis true, we do not Assist them to Ruin the Emperor, ’tis for the French and the Duke of Bavaria to do that; ’tis the business of the Confederates, as Friends to both, to bring all Matters to a fair adjustment; to obtain Peace for the Emperor; Liberty and Religion for the Protestants of Hungaria; if they are not content with it, ’tis a sign they aim at something more than what they pretend, and I cannot help saying I am afraid it will appear so.

If the Confederates by their Influence upon the Imperial Councils, can bring the Emperor to hearken to Reason, and Grant his Hungarian Subjects such a Peace, as ’tis reasonable they should be contented with; and the Confederates offer their Guarantee to secure what they so obtain; I am content to appeal to all the World, whether they do not do as much for them as they ought to ask; and whether the Refusal is not a Scandal upon the Sincerity of their real Intentions?

If the Safety of the Empire is not, as things now stand, the Security of the whole Confederacy; if the Empire be not at this time the Bulwark of the Grand Allyance, why then has the Duke of Marlborough March’d so many hundred Miles to the Banks of the Danube? Why have we made so many Panegyricks and Encomiums on the Zeal and Generosity of Her Majesty, and Her Forwardness in the Common Cause, and in saving the Empire from the Impending Ruine? Can this consist with sending Troops, Arms or Money to the Hungarians? – As Mediators we may Serve and Befriend them, but as to War and Fighting, we must be against them, or else we draw the English Sword against the Protestant Religion, and fight against our selves; every Gun fired by our Assisting the Hungarians against the Imperialists in Hungaria, is directly fir’d at the Duke of Marlborough, and the English Army on the Rhine; can we send one Army to save the Emperor, and another to Pull him down? This would be such preposterous doings, that no Nation in the World could justifie it; and the English Councils must be the very Emblems of Confusion, whenever they act in such a Ridiculous Manner as this.


ADVICE from the Scandal. CLUB.

THE Design and Desire of Our Society being the Reforming, not Exposing the Vicious, they cou’d not but be very well pleas’d with the following Letter, which by the Contents appear’d to be Wrote from one of the Gentlemen who sent us the Letter about the Numb. 3. and had sat up 3 Nights endeavouring to be Drunk, but could not compass it.

Gentlemen,
THough in my last (Directed to the Youths of Scandal) I told you I was not Drunk, yet I hope you have that Charitable Opinion to believe that no Man would Write so loose and Wicked when he was throughly Sober; I Repent, and also ask your Pardon for what I then Wrote; and beg of you to insert This as a Memorial to the World of the same;
From your Humble Servant,
K.
Tuesday, Aug. 29. 1704.

The Letter being so very Ingenuous, the Society declar’d they accepted it as a Testimony against the Humanity of Drunkenness; and a Proof, that Wise Men are always asham’d of it when they are Sober; and farther concluded

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2. That if a Man of Sence falls into a Mistake, when he comes to himself again he is never asham’d to acknowledge it.

3. That ’tis no Disgrace to any Man to make a Publick Confession, of a publick Crime; because no Man ought to be asham’d to repent of what he should be asham’d to do.

4. When a Man has made his Error publick, ’tis a Debt due to Moral Vertue, to make his Acknowledgment reach as far as the Crime.

Wherefore, the Society Declar’d, this Gentleman had made full Amends as to Man, and therefore Ordered him the Honour due to a Penitent, viz. to be Recorded in their Book of Reformation Fo. 1. for the Number of Convert Drunkards are acknowleg’d to be very Few.

The following Letter the Society has Ordered to be publish’d for Sundry Reasons; for tho’ the Latin be as vicious as the Author, the Morals to be Drawn from it, they take to be very good.

Ad ingeniosissimum Auctorem Review.
Amice Colende,
ADolescens sum, & nuper adolescentulæ spondebar; sed non potebam e jus parentium consensionem acquirire, ut eam conjugarem; ergo optimum meum modum putabam eam violare, cui facilè ejus consensionem gignebam; & cùm factum persicuissem, diversìs Personis revelebam; (quia mea facultas non est arcanum retinere) pro quo èjus Pater me vexare minatur: Ergo auxilium tuum in hoc orarem.
Totus tuus Servus &c.
Septembris primo.
1704.

This Letter they Order’d to be Translated as well as such sort of Latin will bear it; that the Ladyes, for whose Instruction they Write this, may not be at the trouble to enquire the Meaning.

‘I am a young Man, and lately courted a young Woman, and we had promis’d one another; but being not able to obtain her Friends consent to Marry, I us’d my best endeavours to get to Bed with her without it; which I easily effected. I had no sooner done this, but I began to talk of it, (keeping a Secret being none of my Talent,) and now her Father Threatens to go to Law with me: Therefore I pray your Assistance in this Affair.’

Tho’ the Society thought the Publication of this a sufficient Caution to the Sex, in General, how they venture upon the Honour of the Men, yet they could not but add some necessary Remarks here. As,

1. A Woman that will take a Man’s word in this Case, really ought to expect such Usage.

2. He that Lyes with a Woman on a promise of Matrimony, is a Knave if he does not perform his promise, and a Fool if he does.

3. A Woman ought in Policy, tho’ no such thing as Conscience was concern’d in it, never to admit a Man on the most Sacred promise in the World, for the following Reasons;

1. Because she is under his Lash for ever, and Subject to the Insults of his Tongue.

2. He will always plead his Merit, and think her obliged to him.

3. He can never believe she will be Honest, because, Once a Whore and always so.

4. She Forfeits the Dignity of her Office, as Wife, and makes her Consent of Marriage, which should be esteemed a Favour obtain’d by her Husband, be a Bounty bestow’d upon her.

But as to the young Rake that sent us the Letter, the Society Ordered him to be told,

1. That his Latin in as bald as his Action is Villainous, and so he might as well have wrote English, if he had known how.

2. He ought to be Punish’d for deluding the young Woman, but he ought to be hanged for telling of it afterward.

3. He has Committed two Crimes against Man, for we suppose he don’t trouble himself about that against his Maker.

1. A Crime against the Family, in Debauching a Person they thought too good for him to Marry.

2. A Crime against the Sex, for betraying the highest Confidence could be plac’d in him; and therefore of all Villanies in the World, this must be allow’d to be the most Ungenerous.

At last this Gentleman desires the Assistance of the Society, by which they understand, he means their Advice, which they are free to give him as follows,

1. That he immediately apply himself to the Father, and offer to Marry the young Woman, if she be Fool enough to have him.

2. That he agree to tell all the World his Name, that no other weak Sister may venture upon him.

3. That since he has declar’d himself such as Villain, as not to be fit for Human Society, he would please to dispose of himself into her Majesty’s Service, where he may Expiate his Crime [228] by the Service of his Country, and perhaps stop a Bullet from killing an honester Man.

4. There is another Method to rid his Native Country of such a Betrayer of Secrets, and that is, to hang himself out of the way; but they Advise him to let that be the last Remedy he takes, when all other means fail.

The Society having occasion to bring before them a Certain News-Author, something more frequently than has been lik’d by the Gentlemen concern’d; in Civility to them, he thinks fit to desire them to tell the World in their next, what they mean by 6000 Men forming the Siege of Landau, and the Duke of Marlborough’s Army being Compleat. Postscript to the – N° 1452.

The Gentleman that seems under some difficulty for being concern’d in Robbing an Orchard, shall have an Answer in our next.

Mr. T.B. also shall hear from us in our next.

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THe Book mentioned in the Journal of July, Entitled, A Critical History of the Doctrines and Religious Worships, Good and Bad, that have been in the Church, from Adam, to our Saviour’s time; wherein is found the Original of all the Idolatries of Antient Heathenism, explained, with relation to those of the Jews; and will be Printed for John Taylor, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and George Sawbridge in Little-Britain.

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