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The History of England from the Accession of James II, Vol. 4

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FN 456 London Gazette, August 21 1693; L'Hermitage to the States
General, July 28/Aug 7 As I shall, in this and the following
chapters, make large use of the despatches of L'Hermitage, it may
be proper to say something about him. He was a French refugee,
and resided in London as agent for the Waldenses. One of his
employments had been to send newsletters to Heinsius. Some
interesting extracts from those newsletters will be found in the
work of the Baron Sirtema de Grovestins. It was probably in
consequence of the Pensionary's recommendation that the States
General, by a resolution dated July 24/Aug 3 1693, desired
L'Hermitage to collect and transmit to them intelligence of what
was passing in England. His letters abound with curious and
valuable information which is nowhere else to be found. His
accounts of parliamentary proceedings are of peculiar value, and
seem to have been so considered by his employers.

Copies of the despatches of L'Hermitage, and, indeed of the
despatches of all the ministers and agents employed by the States
General in England from the time of Elizabeth downward, now are
or will soon be in the library of the British Museum. For this
valuable addition to the great national storehouse of knowledge,
the country is chiefly indebted to Lord Palmerston. But it would
be unjust not to add that his instructions were most zealously
carried into effect by the late Sir Edward Disbrowe, with the
cordial cooperation of the enlightened men who have charge of the
noble collection of Archives at the Hague.

FN 457 It is strange that the indictment should not have been
printed in Howell's State Trials. The copy which is before me was
made for Sir James Mackintosh.

FN 458 Most of the information which has come down to us about
Anderton's case will be found in Howell's State Trials.

FN 459 The Remarks are extant, and deserve to be read.

FN 460 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 461 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 462 There are still extant a handbill addressed to All
Gentlemen Seamen that are weary of their Lives; and a ballad
accusing the King and Queen of cruelty to the sailors.

"To robbers, thieves, and felons, they
Freely grant pardons every day.
Only poor seamen, who alone
Do keep them in their father's throne,
Must have at all no mercy shown."

Narcissus Luttrell gives an account of the scene at Whitehall.

FN 463 L'Hermitage, Sept. 5/15. 1693; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 464 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 465 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary. In a pamphlet published at
this time, and entitled A Dialogue between Whig and Tory, the
Whig alludes to "the public insolences at the Bath upon the late
defeat in Flanders." The Tory answers, "I know not what some
hotheaded drunken men may have said and done at the Bath or
elsewhere." In the folio Collection of State Tracts, this
Dialogue is erroneously said to have been printed about November
1692.

FN 466 The Paper to which I refer is among the Nairne MSS., and
will be found in Macpherson's collection. That excellent writer
Mr. Hallam has, on this subject, fallen into an error of a kind
very rare with him. He says that the name of Caermarthen is
perpetually mentioned among those whom James reckoned as his
friends. I believe that the evidence against Caermarthen will be
found to begin and to end with the letter of Melfort which I have
mentioned. There is indeed, among the Nairne MSS, which
Macpherson printed, an undated and anonymous letter in which
Caermarthen is reckoned among the friends of James. But this
letter is altogether undeserving of consideration. The writer was
evidently a silly hotheaded Jacobite, who knew nothing about the
situation or character of any of the public men who m he
mentioned. He blunders grossly about Marlborough, Godolphin,
Russell, Shrewsbury and the Beaufort family. Indeed the whole
composition is a tissue of absurdities.

It ought to be remarked that, in the Life of James compiled from
his own Papers, the assurances of support which he received from
Marlborough, Russell, Godolphin Shrewsbury, and other men of note
are mentioned with very copious details. But there is not a word
indicating that any such assurances were ever received from
Caermarthen.

FN 467 A Journal of several Remarkable Passages relating to the
East India Trade, 1693.

FN 468 See the Monthly Mercuries and London Gazettes of
September, October, November and December 1693; Dangeau, Sept. 5.
27., Oct. 21., Nov. 21.; the Price of the Abdication, 1693.

FN 469 Correspondence of William and Heinsius; Danish Note, dated
Dec 11/21 1693. The note delivered by Avaux to the Swedish
government at this time will be found in Lamberty's Collection
and in the Memoires et Negotiations de la Paix de Ryswick.

FN 470 "Sir John Lowther says, nobody can know one day what a
House of Commons would do the next; in which all agreed with
him." These remarkable words were written by Caermarthen on the
margin of a paper drawn up by Rochester in August 1692.
Dalrymple, Appendix to part ii. chap. 7.

FN 471 See Sunderland's celebrated Narrative which has often been
printed, and his wife's letters, which are among the Sidney
papers, published by the late Serjeant Blencowe.

FN 472 Van Citters, May 6/16. 1690.

FN 473 Evelyn, April 24. 1691.

FN 474 Lords' Journals, April 28. 1693.

FN 475 L'Hermitage, Sept. 19/29, Oct 2/12 1693.

FN 476 It is amusing to see how Johnson's Toryism breaks out
where we should hardly expect to find it. Hastings says, in the
Third Part of Henry the Sixth,

"Let us be back'd with God and with the seas
Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
And with their helps alone defend ourselves."

"This," says Johnson in a note, "has been the advice of every man
who, in any age, understood and favoured the interest of
England."

FN 477 Swift, in his Inquiry into the Behaviour of the Queen's
last Ministry, mentions Somers as a person of great abilities,
who used to talk in so frank a manner that he seemed to discover
the bottom of his heart. In the Memoirs relating to the Change in
the Queen's Ministry, Swift says that Somers had one and only one
unconversable fault, formality. It is not very easy to understand
how the same man can be the most unreserved of companions and yet
err on the side of formality. Yet there may be truth in both the
descriptions. It is well known that Swift loved to take rude
liberties with men of high rank and fancied that, by doing so, he
asserted his own independence. He has been justly blamed for this
fault by his two illustrious biographers, both of them men of
spirit at least as independent as his, Samuel Johnson and Walter
Scott. I suspect that he showed a disposition to behave with
offensive familiarity to Somers, and that Somers, not choosing to
submit to impertinence, and not wishing to be forced to resent
it, resorted, in selfdefence, to a ceremonious politeness which
he never would have practised towards Locke or Addison.

FN 478 The eulogies on Somers and the invectives against him are
innumerable. Perhaps the best way to come to a just judgment
would be to collect all that has been said about him by Swift and
by Addison. They were the two keenest observers of their time;
and they both knew him well. But it ought to be remarked that,
till Swift turned Tory, he always extolled Somers not only as the
most accomplished, but as the most virtuous of men. In the
dedication of the Tale of a Tub are these words, "There is no
virtue, either of a public or private life, which some
circumstances of your own have not often produced upon the stage
of the world;" and again, "I should be very loth the bright
example of your Lordship's virtues should be lost to other eyes,
both for their sake and your own." In the Discourse of the
Contests and Dissensions at Athens and Rome, Somers is the just
Aristides. After Swift had ratted he described Somers as a man
who "possessed all excellent qualifications except virtue."

FN 479 See Whiston's Autobiography.

FN 480 Swift's note on Mackay's Character of Wharton.

FN 481 This account of Montague and Wharton I have collected from
innumerable sources. I ought, however, to mention particularly
the very curious Life of Wharton published immediately after his
death.

FN 482 Much of my information about the Harleys I have derived
from unpublished memoirs written by Edward Harley, younger
brother of Robert. A copy of these memoirs is among the
Mackintosh MSS.

FN 483 The only writer who has praised Harley's oratory, as far
as I remember, is Mackay, who calls him eloquent. Swift scribbled
in the margin, "A great lie." And certainly Swift was inclined to
do more than justice to Harley. "That lord," said Pope, "talked
of business in so confused a manner that you did not know what he
was about; and every thing he went to tell you was in the epic
way; for he always began in the middle."--Spence's Anecdotes.

FN 484 "He used," said Pope, "to send trifling verses from Court
to the Scriblerus Club almost every day, and would come and talk
idly with them almost every night even when his all was at
stake." Some specimens of Harley's poetry are in print. The best,
I think, is a stanza which he made on his own fall in 1714; and
bad is the best.

"To serve with love,
And shed your blood,
Approved is above;
But here below
The examples show
'Tis fatal to be good."

FN 485 The character of Harley is to be collected from
innumerable panegyrics and lampoons; from the works and the
private correspondence of Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, Prior and
Bolingbroke, and from multitudes of such works as Ox and Bull,
the High German Doctor, and The History of Robert Powell the
Puppet Showman.

FN 486 In a letter dated Sept. 12. 1709 a short time before he
was brought into power on the shoulders of the High Church mob,
he says: "My soul has been among Lyons, even the sons of men,
whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongues sharp
swords. But I learn how good it is to wait on the Lord, and to
possess one's soul in peace." The letter was to Carstairs. I
doubt whether Harley would have canted thus if he had been
writing to Atterbury.

FN 487 The anomalous position which Harley and Foley at this time
occupied is noticed in the Dialogue between a Whig and a Tory,
1693. "Your great P. Fo-y," says the Tory, "turns cadet and
carries arms under the General of the West Saxons. The two Har-
ys, father and son, are engineers under the late Lieutenant of
the Ordnance, and bomb any bill which he hath once resolv'd to
reduce to ashes." Seymour is the General of the West Saxons.
Musgrave had been Lieutenant of the Ordnance in the reign of
Charles the Second.

FN 488 Lords' and Commons' Journals, Nov. 7. 1693.

FN 489 Commons' Journals, Nov. 13. 1693; Grey's Debates.

FN 490 Commons' Journals, Nov. 17. 1693.

FN 491 Ibid. Nov. 22. 27. 1693; Grey's Debates.

FN 492 Commons' Journals, Nov. 29. Dec. 6. 1693; L'Hermitage,
Dec. 1/11 1693.

FN 493 L'Hermitage, Sept. 1/11. Nov. 7/17 1693.

FN 494 See the Journal to Stella, lii. liii. lix. lxi.; and Lady
Orkney's Letters to Swift.

FN 495 See the letters written at this time by Elizabeth
Villiers, Wharton, Russell and Shrewsbury, in the Shrewsbury
Correspondence.

FN 496 Commons' Journals, Jan. 6. 8. 1693/4.

FN 497 Ibid. Jan. 19. 1693/4

FN 498 Hamilton's New Account.

FN 499 The bill I found in the Archives of the Lords. Its history
I learned from the journals of the two Houses, from a passage in
the Diary of Narcissus Luttrell, and from two letters to the
States General, both dated on Feb 27/March 9 1694 the day after
the debate in the Lords. One of these letters is from Van
Citters; the other, which contains fuller information, is from
L'Hermitage.

FN 500 Commons' Journals, Nov. 28. 1693; Grey's Debates.
L'Hermitage expected that the bill would pas;, and that the
royal assent would not be withheld. On November. he wrote to the
States General, "Il paroist dans toute la chambre beaucoup de
passion a faire passer ce bil." On Nov 28/Dec 8 he says that the
division on the passing "n'a pas cause une petite surprise. Il
est difficile d'avoir un point fixe sur les idees qu'on peut se
former des emotions du parlement, car il paroist quelquefois de
grander chaleurs qui semblent devoir tout enflammer, et qui, peu
de tems apres, s'evaporent." That Seymour was the chief manager
of the opposition to the bill is asserted in the once celebrated
Hush Money pamphlet of that year.

FN 501 Commons' Journals; Grey's Debates. The engrossed copy of
this Bill went down to the House of Commons and is lost. The
original draught on paper is among the Archives of the Lords.
That Monmouth brought in the bill I learned from a letter of
L'Hermitage to the States General Dec. 13. 1693. As to the
numbers on the division, I have followed the journals. But in
Grey's Debates and in the letters of Van Citters and L'Hermitage,
the minority is said to have been 172.

502 The bill is in the Archives of the Lords. Its history I have
collected from the journals, from Grey's Debates, and from the
highly interesting letters of Van Citters and L'Hermitage. I
think it clear from Grey's Debates that a speech which
L'Hermitage attributes to a nameless "quelq'un" was made by Sir
Thomas Littleton.

FN 503 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, September 1691.

FN 504 Commons' Journals, Jan. 4. 1693/4.

FN 505 Of the Naturalisation Bill no copy, I believe exists. The
history of that bill will be found in the Journals. From Van
Citters and L'Hermitage we learn less than might have been
expected on a subject which must have been interesting to Dutch
statesmen. Knight's speech will be found among the Somers Papers.
He is described by his brother Jacobite, Roger North, as "a
gentleman of as eminent integrity and loyalty as ever the city of
Bristol was honoured with."

FN 506 Commons' Journals, Dec 5. 1694.

FN 507 Commons' Journals, Dec. 20. and 22. 1693/4. The journals
did not then contain any notice of the divisions which took place
when the House was in committee. There was only one division on
the army estimates of this year, when the mace was on the table.
That division was on the question whether 60,000L. or 147,000L.
should be granted for hospitals and contingencies. The Whigs
carried the larger sum by 184 votes to 120. Wharton was a teller
for the majority, Foley for the minority.

FN 508 Commons' Journals, Nov. 25. 1694.

FN 509 Stat. 5 W. & M. c. I.

FN 510 Stat. 5 & 6 W.& M. c. 14.

FN 511 Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 21.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 512 Stat. 5 & 6 W. & M. c. 22.; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 513 Stat. 5 W. & M. c. 7.; Evelyn's Diary, Oct. 5, Nov. 22.
1694; A Poem on Squire Neale's Projects; Malcolm's History of
London. Neale's functions are described in several editions of
Chamberlayne's State of England. His name frequently appears in
the London Gazette, as, for example, on July 28. 1684.

FN 514 See, for example, the Mystery of the Newfashioned
Goldsmiths or Brokers, 1676; Is not the Hand of Joab in all this?
1676; and an answer published in the same year. See also
England's Glory in the great Improvement by Banking and Trade,
1694.

FN 515 See the Life of Dudley North, by his brother Roger.

FN 516 See a pamphlet entitled Corporation Credit; or a Bank of
Credit, made Current by Common Consent in London, more Useful and
Safe than Money.

FN 517 A proposal by Dr. Hugh Chamberlayne, in Essex Street, for
a Bank, of Secure Current Credit to be founded upon Land, in
order to the General Good of Landed Men, to the great Increase in
the Value of Land, and the no less Benefit of Trade and Commerce,
1695; Proposals for the supplying their Majesties with Money on
Easy Terms, exempting the Nobility, Gentry, &c., from Taxes
enlarging their Yearly Estates, and enriching all the Subjects of
the Kingdom by a National Land Bank; by John Briscoe. "O
fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint Anglicanos." Third Edition,
1696. Briscoe seems to have been as much versed in Latin
literature as in political economy.

FN 518 In confirmation of what is said in the text, I extract a
single paragraph from Briscoe's proposals. "Admit a gentleman
hath barely 100L. per annum estate to live on, and hath a wife
and four children to provide for; this person, supposing no taxes
were upon his estates must be a great husband to be able to keep
his charge, but cannot think of laying up anything to place out
his children in the world; but according to this proposed method
he may give his- children 500l. a piece and have 90l. per annum
left for himself and his wife to live upon, the which he may also
leave to such of his children as he pleases after his and his
wife's decease. For first having settled his estate of 100l. per
annum, as in proposals 1. 3., he may have bills of credit for
2000L. for his own proper use, for 10s per cent. per annum as in
proposal 22., which is but 10L. per annum for the 2000L., which
being deducted out of his estate of 100L. per annum, there
remains 90L. per annum clear to himself." It ought to be observed
that this nonsense reached a third edition.

FN 519 See Chamberlayne's Proposal, his Positions supported by
the Reasons explaining the Office of Land Credit, and his Bank
Dialogue. See also an excellent little tract on the other side
entitled "A Bank Dialogue between Dr. H. C. and a Country
Gentleman, 1696," and "Some Remarks upon a nameless and
scurrilous Libel entitled a Bank Dialogue between Dr. H. C. and a
Country Gentleman, in a Letter to a Person of Quality."

FN 520 Commons' Journals Dec. 7. 1693. I am afraid that I may be
suspected of exaggerating the absurdity of this scheme. I
therefore transcribe the most important part of the petition. "In
consideration of the freeholders bringing their lands into this
bank, for a fund of current credit, to be established by Act of
Parliament, it is now proposed that, for every 150L per annum,
secured for 150 years, for but one hundred yearly payments of
100L per annum, free from all manner of taxes and deductions
whatsoever, every such freeholder shall receive 4000L in the said
current credit, and shall have 2000L more put into the fishery
stock for his proper benefit; and there may be further 2000L
reserved at the Parliament's disposal towards the carrying on
this present war . . . . . The free holder is never to quit the
possession of his said estate unless the yearly rent happens to
be in arrear."

FN 521 Commons' Journals, Feb. 5. 1693/4.

FN 522 Account of the Intended Bank of England, 1694.

FN 523 See the Lords' Journals of April 23, 24, 25. 1694, and the
letter of L'Hermitage to the States General dated April 24/May 4

FN 524 Narcissus Luttrell's. Diary, June 1694.

FN 525 Heath's Account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers;
Francis's History of the Bank of England.

FN 526 Spectator, No. 3.

FN 527 Proceedings of the Wednesday Club in Friday Street.

FN 528 Lords' Journals, April 25. 1694; London Gazette, May 7.
1694.

FN 529 Life of James ii. 520.; Floyd's (Lloyd's) Account in the
Nairne Papers, under the date of May 1. 1694; London Gazette,
April 26. 30. 1694.

FN 530 London Gazette, May 3. 1694.

FN 531 London Gazette, April 30. May 7. 1694; Shrewsbury to
William, May 11/21; William to Shrewsbury, May 22?June 1;
L'Hermitage, April 27/Nay 7

FN 532 L'Hermitage, May 15/25. After mentioning the various
reports, he says, "De tous ces divers projets qu'on s'imagine
aucun n'est venu a la cognoissance du public." This is important;
for it has often been said, in excuse for Marlborough, that he
communicated to the Court of Saint Germains only what was the
talk of all the coffeehouses, and must have been known without
his instrumentality.

FN 533 London Gazette, June 14. 18. 1694; Paris Gazette June
16/July 3; Burchett; Journal of Lord Caermarthen; Baden, June
15/25; L'Hermitage, June 15/25. 19/29

FN 534 Shrewsbury to William, June 15/25. 1694. William to
Shrewsbury, July 1; Shrewsbury to William, June 22/July 2

FN 535 This account of Russell's expedition to the Mediterranean
I have taken chiefly from Burchett.

FN 536 Letter to Trenchard, 1694.

FN 537 Burnet, ii. 141, 142.; and Onslow's note; Kingston's True
History, 1697.

FN 538 See the Life of James, ii. 524.,

FN 539 Kingston; Burnet, ii. 142.

FN 540 Kingston. For the fact that a bribe was given to Taaffe,
Kingston cites the evidence taken on oath by the Lords.

FN 541 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary, Oct. 6. 1694.

FN 542 As to Dyer's newsletter, see Narcissus Luttrell's Diary
for June and August 1693, and September 1694.

FN 543 The Whig narrative is Kingston's; the Jacobite narrative,
by an anonymous author, has lately been printed by the Chetham
Society. See also a Letter out of Lancashire to a Friend in
London, giving some Account of the late Trials, 1694.

FN 544 Birch's Life of Tillotson; the Funeral Sermon preached by
Burnet; William to Heinsius, Nov 23/Dec 3 1694.

FN 545 See the Journals of the two Houses. The only account that
we have of the debates is in the letters of L'Hermitage.

FN 546 Commons' Journals, Feb. 20. 1693/4 As this bill never
reached the Lords, it is not to be found among their archives. I
have therefore no means of discovering whether it differed in any
respect from the bill of the preceding year.

FN 547 The history of this bill may be read in the Journals of
the Houses. The contest, not a very vehement one, lasted till the
20th of April.

FN 548 "The Commons," says Narcissus Luttrell, "gave a great
hum." "Le murmure qui est la marque d'applaudissement fut si
grand qu'on pent dire qu'il estoit universel. "--L'Hermitage,
Dec. 25/Jan. 4.

FN 549 L'Hermitage says this in his despatch of Nov. 20/30.

FN 550 Burnet, ii. 137.; Van Citters, Dec 25/Jan 4.

FN 551 Burnet, ii. 136. 138.; Narcissus Luttrell's Dairy; Van
Citters, Dec 28/Jan 7 1694/5; L'Hermitage, Dec 25/Jan 4, Dec
28/Jan 7 Jan. 1/11; Vernon to Lord Lexington, Dec. 21. 25. 28.,
Jan. 1.; Tenison's Funeral Sermon.

FN 552 Evelyn's Dairy; Narcissus Luttrell's Diary; Commons'
Journals, Dec. 28. 1694; Shrewsbury to Lexington, of the same
date; Van Citters of the same date; L'Hermitage, Jan. 1/11 1695.
Among the sermons on Mary's death, that of Sherlock, preached in
the Temple Church, and those of Howe and Bates, preached to great
Presbyterian congregations, deserve notice.

FN 553 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 554 Remarks on some late Sermons, 1695; A Defence of the
Archbishop's Sermon, 1695.

FN 555 Narcissus Luttrell's Diary.

FN 556 L'Hermitage, March 1/11, 6/16 1695; London Gazette, March
7,; Tenison's Funeral Sermon; Evelyn's Diary.

FN 557 See Claude's Sermon on Mary's death.

FN 558 Prior to Lord and Lady Lexington, Jan. 14/24 1695. The
letter is among the Lexington papers, a valuable collection, and
well edited.

FN 559 Monthly Mercury for January 1695. An orator who pronounced
an eulogium on the Queen at Utrecht was so absurd as to say that
she spent her last breath in prayers for the prosperity of the
United Provinces:--"Valeant et Batavi;"--these are her last
words--"sint incolumes; sint florentes; sint beati; stet in
sternum, stet immota praeclarissima illorum civitas hospitium
aliquando mihi gratissimum, optime de me meritum." See also the
orations of Peter Francius of Amsterdam, and of John Ortwinius of
Delft.

FN 560 Journal de Dangeau; Memoires de Saint Simon.

FN 561 Saint Simon; Dangeau; Monthly Mercury for January 1695.

FN 562 L'Hermitage, Jan. 1/11. 1695; Vernon to Lord Lexington
Jan. I. 4.; Portland to Lord Lexington, Jan 15/25; William to
Heinsius, Jan 22/Feb 1

FN 563 See the Commons' Journals of Feb. 11, April 12. and April
27., and the Lords' Journals of April 8. and April is. 1695.
Unfortunately there is a hiatus in the Commons' Journal of the
12th of April, so that it is now impossible to discover whether
there was a division on the question to agree with the amendment
made by the Lords.

FN 564 L'Hermitage, April 10/20. 1695; Burnet, ii. 149.

FN 565 An Essay upon Taxes, calculated for the present Juncture
of Affairs, 1693.

FN 566 Commons' Journals, Jan. 12 Feb. 26. Mar. 6.; A Collection
of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695
upon the Inquiry into the late Briberies and Corrupt Practices,
1695; L'Hermitage to the States General, March 8/18; Van Citters,
Mar. 15/25; L'Hermitage says

"Si par cette recherche la chambre pouvoit remedier au desordre
qui regne, elle rendroit un service tres utile et tres agreable
au Roy."

FN 567 Commons' Journals, Feb. 16, 1695; Collection of the
Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695; Life of
Wharton; Burnet, ii. 144.

FN 568 Speaker Onslow's note on Burnet ii. 583.; Commons'
Journals, Mar 6, 7. 1695. The history of the terrible end of this
man will be found in the pamphlets of the South Sea year.

FN 569 Commons' Journals, March 8. 1695; Exact Collection of
Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695;
L'Hermitage, March 8/18

FN 570 Exact Collection of Debates.

FN 571 L'Hermitage, March 8/18. 1695. L'Hermitage's narrative is
confirmed by the journals, March 7. 1694/5. It appears that just
before the committee was appointed, the House resolved that
letters should not be delivered out to members during a sitting.

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