Saturday, September 16. 1704.

Numb. 56.
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I Advanc’d a Proposition last Paper, That there is some difference between Popish and Turkish Tyranny, in opposition to those People, who have had the Turks have taken Vienna.

I presume, that when I say those People were Mad, or out of their Sences, ’tis the kindest thing I can say of them; for unless I will suppose them so, I can do no less than offer Reasons why they would think it proper to have all the German Empire stoop to the Green Ensigns of Mahomet, and the Turkish Half-Moon Erected on the Tops of their Spires, in the room of the Cross.

I Confess ’tis a hard Choice; and I hope we shall never be put to that Nicety to determine, whether Christendom shall be devoured by Popery, or Mahometanism; whether Turkish or Popish Tyranny shall over-run Europe.

But if that unhappy Crisis were come, I think every considering Protestant would soon resolve, that ’tis better of the two to be oppres’d by the Errors of Christianity, than the Enemies of it; if I am to be Murthered, Rob’d, Plundered and Destroyed, I had rather a Roman Catholick was the Butcher, than a Turk; I had rather he had the Power over me, that acknowledges Christ, than he that despises him, and defies him; rather he that kills me, because I don’t Worship Jesus his way, than he that does it, because I own him at all.

We acknowledge a Papist may be Sav’d, tho’ some Restrictions may be in that Article too; but we Grant that a Turk cannot, because he scorns the Blood of a Saviour, and despises the great Mystery of God, manifest in the Flesh.

The Papist hates me, because he thinks me an Enemy to Christ and his Church. The Turk hates me, because he hates the Name of Christ, as such, bids him defiance, as a Saviour, and declares Universal War against his very Name, and all that profess to Worship him.

Europe in General have esteemed it a Stated Maxim, to joyn all their Forces to oppose Turkish Power, and to keep Mahomet out of the Bounds of Christ’s Flock; all the Powers and Princes of Christendom have preserved this Principle, as well from Policy as Charity, to joyn in keeping out the Turks.

Self-Preservation prompted them by the Natural Motions of their own Reason, since to give him farther Footing, was, by yielding to the Destruction of their Neighbour, to make way for their own.

What those People imagined to themselves, who would have Kara Mustapha the Grand Vizier, Master of Vienna, I cannot imagine; nor can I suppose they ever considered, whether the Protestant Powers of Germany could better oppose the Turks, after the Emperor was subdued, than before.

I presume they never ask’d themselves what Course it was probable the Turks would have [238] Taken next; they never gave themselves leisure to consider whether the Protestant Circles were not next to the Emperor’s Hereditary Countries, and whether a Balsa of Vienna wou’d not have been a very uneasy Neighbour.

Without Trespass upon their Prudence, I may very well believe, they never examined what would be the Consequence of 200000 Victorious Turks, settled in Austria and Vienna, Garrison’d with 30000 Janizaries.

That all the Protestants in Germany had different thoughts from these Gentlemen, is very plain, in the strong Efforts they made, for the Preservation of that City, in laying aside the Difference among themselves, and Protestant as well as Papist joyning their endeavours to expell the Barbarous Invasion of the Turks.

To this purpose we saw the Electors of Saxony, Father to the Present King of Poland, at the Head of his Protestant Army, came in Person with all his Forces, to deliver the Emperor; the King of Prussia sent a strong Body of Brandenburghers to the same purpose, and these made no scruples rather to fight for Popery, than suffer the Turkish Troops to break into the Empire, and subdue the Barrier of Germany.

The Present Duke of Bavaria, tho’ always a Catholick, and a most Zealous Prince for the Establishment of Popery, as he has since made appear, yet made no scruples to joyn with the Hereticks of Saxony and Brandenburgh, to keep out the Turks.

Nay, all Europe, the Swedes, the Lunenburghers, the Dutch and the English also were preparing large Bodies of Men to the Assistance of the Emperor, in Order to help keep up the Imperial Power, and prevent the Eruption of Barbarism into these Countries, the Neighbourhood of which must have had a Terrible Influence upon us all.

What then these Gentlemen could pretend, who Flattered themselves with the Terrible hopes of such a Desolation in Europe, as that Conquest would have made, I cannot imagine; and therefore in Charity to their Principles, I call it a Politick Madness.

’Tis the very same unthinking State-Frenzy, that now Possesses those People, who would have the Hungarians Dethrone the Imperial Government; and in Order to Restore their own Liberties, Destroy the Emperor, and Reduce the German Power.

To explode the preposterous Madness of this Doctrine, I must be excused, if I Ravel into the Affairs of Hungary, even to the very bottom, and if in so doing, some Nudities appear; if it shall be made out, that this Insurrection in Hungary is not so much Protestant, as we imagine; if it shall appear that the Protestants there, have in some Measure pull’d down the Destructions they have met with upon themselves, by imprudent, rash, and unjust Proceedings; If I shall demonstrate, that now they have had opportunities to secure their Religion and Liberties too, but have neglected both, in Order to carry on Designs of their own, which have been both unjust and unreasonable: If these things come to light, they that are offended, must blame those People who are the Cause of these things, not our Relation, which as it has from the beginning pretended to impartial Truth, so resolves to pursue it thro’ all the Reflections and Reproaches of Parties, whether on this side or that.

And first I cannot acquit the Malecontents of Hungary, for I am not to be expected to call them by the distinguishing Title of Protestants, the greatest part of them being generally otherwise: I cannot acquit them, I say, of being the original avow’d Authors of the last Turkish War.

’Twas these very Men that Leagued with the Turks against the Emperor, that solicited Aid of Barbarous Mahometans, against the Christians, and that at last brought the whole Power of the Turks upon the Frontiers of Christendom.

Had the Turks taken Vienna, and ruined the German Empire, as by Consequence must have follw’d, had the Victorious Banners of Mahomet been now spread on the Banks of the Rhine, and all the Upper Electorates been Conquered by their Numberless Troops, as without Question would have been, had that Town been Taken, we had owed it all to the Hungarians.

They were the Men that began the War, that invited the Turks to invade the Empire, and joyn’d all their Forced with them in the Action.

I am loth to aggravate the Circumstances of this Action; I am loth to look in all the black Consequences, even to the Protestants, as well as to the rest of Europe, had this Fatal Piece of Treachery taken its desired effect.

In this, God Almighty Mercifully Protected these Parts of the World, and Declared that he has not yet resolved to remove his Church out of Christendom. It might, without much arrogance be said, That had this Invasion succeeded, as these Gentlemen wish’d, and fought to [239] Procure, by this time there might not have been left a Place in Europe, where the Name of Christ should have been call’d upon, or his Redemptions acknowledged, but his Church had been trodden under Foot, and our Posterity basely made Slaves to the Ottoman Power, and bred up in worse than Pagan Idolatry.

But God in Mercy to these Nations, broke the formidable Power of this Invader, and signified his Displeasure to the Procurers of that bloody Eruption, that most of them fell in the wicked Attempt.

Some People may take no Notice of this Matter, but I cannot help Noting here, That after this strange Attempt of the Hungarians, to bring in the Turkish Power, the Divine Protection visibly forsook them; and as before they were Generally Victorious, and beat the Emperor’s Forces upon all Occasions; So after this, God Almighty seem’d to dispirit them, and they never made any one Attempt with Success; continued Vengeance pursued them till it had quite broke and dispers’d them.

And ’tis not the least Reason, why I am the willinger to tell the World, that the Insurrections in Hungaria were not meerly Protestant, because the particulars of this part of the Tragedy are black, and I would do the Protestants that Justice, to clear them of as much of it as possible.

ADVICE from the Scandal. CLUB.

THE Society receiv’d a Complaint lately, against a certain Magistrate, for that he having been made a Trustee for some Moneys Appropriated to better Uses, had misapply’d it and bestow’d a Large Sum of it in the Laudable practice of Eating and Drinking, Anglice, Feasting and Drunkenness.

Mr. Mayor appear’d to the Charge, but put the Society to an Unusual Trouble to Make him understand the Meaning of the Word Appropriate, which as he said was not in Use in his Country; at last when he perceiv’d himself a little laught at, his Worship told them plainly, they us’d him very ill; that he liv’d in a Great Trading City, and such Barbarous Words were not made use of among them; that they Generally spoke plain English among the Weavers of N—h, and desir’d they would Talk no Latin to him, if they did, he wou’d not Answer them.

At last, having made His Worship understand the Word, and desir’d him to answer to the Matter of Fact; he told them, he could justifie that when Money was left by Will to any Use, tho’ never so Pious and Charitable, it was Lawfull to spend it in Feasting and Trifling, and told them he would be Tried by the Chamber of L—n.

The Man having thus appeal’d from the Jurisdiction of the Society, to a higher Authority, they Referr’d the Matter to the proper Judges, and sent them to G—d Hall.

A Pious, as well as Ingenious Gentleman, having desir’d the following Lines may be published, the Society could not refuse it, the Latin being as Extraordinary, as the Subject useful; but the Author of This desires such Gentlemen to take this Hint, that English Verse would be much more Useful to the Publick, as well as Greatful to the Society, the Latin being understood but by a few, and seems to favor of an affected Ostentation of Parts.

Not but that, on Occasion, the Essays of the Learned shall have their Place with all Deference, in Our Paper; but English Verse would be particularly obliging.

Meditatio in Mortem.

Grava quies somni, placidaq; simillima Morti,
Longior at Mortis, gratior ergo venit.
Asf animaest pers ipsa Dei, super athera scanden;
Neo dormit, nec nil, nec moritura perit:
Corpus & in miserum jam dedignata reverti,
Cognato cello reddita, gauder, Ovat.
Sed venial tempus quo corpus putre refurget,
Nil mortale ultra, Numinis instar crit.
O gratum Mortis Munus! Per quam licet ire
In Pacem aternam, perpertuasque domos!
Vita dolor tota est, Mors lux, finisq; malorum,
Principium vita, deniq; laeta quies.
Vana, & stultitiae quamptena est vita caduca
Tunc primum sapiens vum moriturm bomo.
Dura est vita: morti falix: thivita superstes
Angelica: bic (vel Rex) nemo redire velit.
Ergo mibi mortem facilemda, &simper amicam,
Coelesti adventum corrcelebranie choro;
Per Christi mortem nobis Victoria paraiest,
Et tumulus victus; Mors quoq; vita juret.

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The Gentleman, who in a Letter from Snow’s Coffee-House, Cavils at an Error of the Press, in a late Poem call’d A Hymn to Victory; may please to see it rectified, if he thinks fit to Read the Second Edition; and if he had not wanted Charity for the Author, might have suppos’d it to be a Printers Error at first, unless he can have the weakness to believe, the Author could mean, that Men could flye when they were Dead. – If he therefore please to Read Lye for Flye, or Vanquisht for Slaughter’d, all his Long Letter will be Answered.

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A Hymn to Victory. By the Author of the True Born English Man; and Dedicated to the Queen. The Second Edition, and with Additions. Printed for John Nutt, near Stationers-Hall.

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