This Reafoning, D'anvers tells us,
was never yet answered. But (fee
p. 701) and we fhall find he has an-
Iwer'd it himself, where he asks, "whe-
ther it would have been an eafy Mat-
ter to drive an Army of 10,000 Swedes C
out of this Kingdom?" Now he mo-
deftly demands, What Danger we can
poffibly apprehend, if 20,000 Men
were to land upon us?

Szubstreet Journal, Jan. 9. No, 159.
Of the Original of the GRUBEANS.

a Sketch of the Nature of these antient
Companies. Firft of the GRUBEANS,
otherwife called the Grubftreet Society.

Now, if all Men are of the Worm kind, or fo reprefented, it was natural for the Wits of yore to divide the whole Species into feveral Claffes. Not only Worms, but all Infects and Beafts have ferved to diftinguifh the feveral Capacities and Inclinations of the rational World.

SIMONIDES With lighter Air

In Beafts, and Apes, and Vermin paints the Fair: The good SCRIBLERUS in like Forms difplays The reptile Rhimefters of thefe later Days. HARTE's Ep. on Satire Another Enemy to our Society reprefents modern Authors by Six Hieroglyphics,

The Flood, Flame, Swine, the Lion, and the

When the Brains perish'd in a human Head.
Ye groveling, trodden, whipt, ftript turn-coat,
Things,
[Stings, &c.
D Made up of Venom, Volumes, Stains, and
Dr YOUNG's Ep. to Mr Pore.

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Mævius, in his Epiftle to the pre-
fent Lord Mayor, obferv'd, that the F
Street, in which the PEGASUS is fituat-
ed, gave Name to the Society. But, I
think, our very venerable Society gave
Name to the Street, as Newgate to New-
gate-freet, Lud's Caftle or Gate, to
Ludgate-freet, &c. as Brother Stow's
Survey of London manifeftly fhews.

But 'twill be ask'd, how came we to
be called GRUBS. This is anfwer'd
by an inveterate Enemy to our Society,
in his Epistle to Brother More of Ab-
eburch Lane, that in general,

Upon reading thefe Lines, fome may think the Pegafian Members juftly intitled to the Appellation of Snakes: But I fhall prove the Propriety of our antient Title, GRUBS.

And firft, a Snake is made up of Vanom and Stings; whereas we have neither Venam nor Stings. Like GRUBS, indeed, we leave behind us a kind of fhining flimy Trail, difagrecable, 'tis Snakes are fwift in their Motions; true, but not destructive. Secondly, whereas the contrary is the Property of GRUBS, and therefore fome call them Slugs.-Laftly, Snakes caft their flouths or Coats, and put on new ones every Year; but we are forced to make our

Gold ones ferve feveral Years.

GRUBS, and not Snakes, are therefore our proper Emblems, which may be further prov'd. Thefe Infects are more frequently bred in human Heads than Snakes; especially if GRUBs are, Has BAILEY affirms, a Sort of Maggots. E'en BUTTON's Wits to WORMS fhall turn, Who MAGGOTS were before

These Infects are very fond of Cabbage, an Herb facred to the Poets of former

the antient Poets than to the modern;
as it was the Crown of the former, it
is the Food of the latter.-The obfcure
Crawling, in oppofition to Soaring,
makes GRUBS the more proper Infects
to denote Writers of our Rank.-I can't
think our Name deriv'd from a GRUB,
fignifying a Dwarf or fhort Fellow, in-
timating we are low Writers; much
lefs from grubbing up Characters; (See C
p. 12. Vol. I.) but rather from the
maggotty Grubs, fo well known to our
beloved Kinsmen the Gardiners. As to
our being called GRUBEANS, it's a
Corruption of our true Name; the

Free Masons may as properly be called D the ungenerous Man can excufe himMASONIANS.

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received no better Return, than to be
told, He had the much envied Pleasure
of reading fome celebrated Authors in
their Originals. All the World will
agree, fuch Ufage would have justified
even a Craftsman against that Minifter.
But whatever Attempts fome Per-
fons may make to afperfe an Adminiftra-
tion, or whatever their Motives may
be, 'tis infinitely lefs criminal, than
for the Friends of thofe Minifters to B
betray and deceive them. Not that a
Man is obliged to run any Length, or
concur with unreafonable Measures:
But when a defigning, mercenary Crea-
ture, unfteady in every Attachment,
has no Motives of Gratitude and Ge-
nerofity, but facrifices every Thing to
his own Intereft, what Abhorrence does
he not deferve. This Character is
compleatly infamous; is diftinguished
by mean Parts, and low Cunning, a
flavifh obfequious Temper, and a vain
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Conceit of great Abilities. Whenever
you difcover fuch a Man, fufpect him
for a Shuffler, and when you detect
his Deceit, Common Senfe will teach
you to defpife him.

The Craftsman, Jan. 13. No. 341.
D'anvers a Prophet.

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HIS Journal is one continued Compliment, from fome fuppofed Correfpondent, to the Craftsman, on the lucky Event of feveral Predictions he gave out in fome former Papers.

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Hath it not already obliged them to reduce their Dividend? and brought them under the prefent critical Dilemma, as to their Bonds? See p. 1079 E. With Regard to the S. Sea Company, you very early obferved, that the Afiento Trade was a lofing Contract; and that the Annual Ship, granted as an Equivalent for it, befides the Difadvantage it brought upon our African and American Trade, by their Tenders, &c. it occafion'd frequent Differences between the two Crowns, expoled our Merchants to Depredations and Infults, and made the Spaniards fecure from any Reprifals. And tho' for these feafonable Notices you have been infulted and reproached as an Enemy to publick Credit, have not all you faid of this Company proved true?-Have not the Directors own'd, they have fuftained great Loffes in Trade, and that great Frauds have been committed in the Management of it? See p. 583.

Did not the worthy Sub-Governor himself tell us, that the Company was not one Farthing in Disburfe on Account of TRADE? Tho' he had juft before confeffed, the Company had fufE tained infupportable Loffes in Trade, which obliged them to reduce their Dividend from 6 to 4 per Cent. in order to account for the immenfe Load of Bond Debts, and to annihilate a confiderable Part of their Capital, for the Payment only of half of it? See p.721. -Have they not acknowledg'd their Loffes in the Greenland Trade, and given it up? See p. 1081. Have not fome Perfons fhewn an Inclination to give up Part of the American Trade; even the most profitable Part of it?

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You have often explain'd, fays this Writer to D'anvers, the evil Confequences of Power given to Directors to coin Money in the Shape of Bonds; to enter into chimerical Projects of Trade; to permit, and be Themselves Goncern'd with the Companies Servants G in Frauds and Embezzlements.

You was early in explaining fome Frauds in the E. India Company; and have not fome late Discoveries demonftrated the Truth of what you then charged them with ?Is not the fent Decline of their Trade (notwithftanding an Excife to fupport it) a Proof of fome bad Management ?

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Thus ftands the Cafe of the two great Companies. One of them made Application to Parliament laft Seffion, which will probably bring them there again; and the other, 'tis faid, have Thoughts of applying there for fome Indulgence, without which they find it impoffible to continue their Trade with Advantage.

The Cafe of the Charitable Corpo

Fation is ftill depending before that auguft Affembly, and the Gentlemen of the York Buildings Company feem refolv'd to feek Relief, or Juftice, in the fame Place; fo that our Reprefentatives would have Business enough this Seffion, tho' they had no Standing Armies nor Excifes to encounter.

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good Runners, they might have landed them, and fetch'd 7000 more, with- ' out Hindrance from us; fo that we ought not to be without this double fecurity of Fleet and Army.

Some Army then is neceffary against Foreign Invafions, tho' not against po-1 pular Infurrection; the natural Strength of the Kingdom, the Militia and Civil Magistrates, befides the Influence which the Difpofition of Employments, gives the King over the Nobility and Gentry in every Country, would be fufficient against all popular Infurrections; efpecially, if it be true, that there is no C Difaffection among us but Jacobitifm, and that the Church is converted.

I fhall conclude with an Obfervation you have often made, viz. That fuch B Corporations are not only deftructive of Trade, dangerous to Liberty in general; but, by Fraud and Mifmanagement, are commonly attended with great Loffes to the Proprietors themselves.

London Journal, Jan. 13. No. 707.

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On the ARMY.

[N Anfwer to the Craftsman (See p. 1119, Vol. II. 8, Vol. III.) we shall firft fhew, fays Osborne, the Neceffity and Reasonableness of having fome Regular Troops; and then confider the Weight of the Objections against it.

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An Age ago Europe had nothing but Militias; but ever fince Card. Richlieu fhewed the Way, all this Part of the World is got into the dreadful Custom of keeping up a mighty Force, and the moft powerful of all thefe Kingdoms and States is our next Neighbour, our conftant Rival in Trade, and between whom and us there can be no common Interest. This neighb'ring Kingdom keeps up great Armies; and we may appear too inviting, if we lie in fuch an open and unguarded Condition, that the Success of the Attempt may appear not only probable, but certain. To this 'tis faid, What is our Fleet for? The Anfwer is, To do us all the Good a Fleet is able to do: But a Fleet is neither Omnipotent nor Omnipresent; an Enemy may be fo fecret in their Defign, and bring over fo many Thousand Regular Forces in a few Veffels, that we may be abfolutely unprepared. A H ftrong Proof of this is, that the French in Q Anne's Time; fhipp'd 7000 Soldiers in Eleven Fregates, of which we knew nothing till three Weeks before they put to Sea; and had they been

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But Mr. Trenchard says, "That Army which can do no Hurt can do no Good; and, if it be fufficient to oppose a foreign Power, it is fufficient to fupprefs the Subjects at Home." The first part of this Affertion is only a tri-" fling Jingle or Turn of Words: For it holds as ftrong against all Power upon Earth, as against an Army. The Truth is this: If it appears that a Body of Regular Troops ought to be kept up against Foreign Invafions, it's our Duty to keep 'em up, tho' they may poffibly do Hurt: But that they can conquer the Parliament and Nation is a ridiculous Suppofition.

Our Reprefentatives are our Dernier Refort from Oppofition; fo that while they continue uncorrupt, 'twill be impoffible for a King of England, with fuch an Army, to fubdue the Nation, or make himself abfolute; but if ever they fhould grow fo corrupt, as to give into Arbitrary Power, our Dernier Refort will be, Ourselves Sword in Hand.

When the Craftsman afferts, "That during the Wars between the Houses of York and Lancaster, they disbanded their Armies as foon as the Action was over, and fcorn'd to fecure themfelves, by fubjecting the Kingdom to a Military Government," he does not confider, that their Armies were then the Vafals of their feveral Lords, who, after the Battle was over, went home to their

feveral

feveral Huts and Vafalage. The Kingdom was then a Military Government; and all Lands held by Military Service.

What is faid that Q. Elizabeth had none but Train-Bands against the mighty Force of the Spaniards, is nothing. to the Purpofe; for who can tell the Event, if the Spaniards had landed z0,000 Regular Forces? The Queen indeed feemed not to fear; but wife and brave Men feared, and one of the Veres declared, he trembled for the E-. vent; and 'twas believed, that had the Spaniards joined the Prince of Parma's Forces, and landed, we had been conquer'd but God preferved us.

Weekly Miscellany, Jan. 13. No. 5.
Of Civil Power in Matters of Religion.
[Continued from Vol. II. p. 1115.]
THE Question now to be difculs'd

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great Hardship, that they fhould be denied the Liberty of educating their Children their own Way? Yet this they now think it reasonable the Magiftrate fhould fubmit to!

The Legiflature encourages one Method of Religion, in Diftinction from all others. You think it reasonable they fhould encourage all alike. What is the Difference? Why this; that in the one Way the Magiftrate propagates. one Syftem of Doctrines, which in fome Points may poffibly be erroneous: In the other he would propagate many Syftems, which he may be morally certain will be erroneous. The Dif Cfenters would have the Church of England open wide her Gates to many who differ from her in Doctrine, to all forts of Sectaries and Hereticks, who

pals for Chriftians, and interpret Scriis, Whether the fut ream Legif- pture as they are able. Let Mr Chandlative Powci, has a Right to limit the D ler anfwer to this Point, and then tell publick Encouragements, allotted to thoje us why Mr Wolften has not as good a who shall be appointed to teach the Peo- Title to a Benetice as he. But why ple, to the Miniery fo fubfcribing.] does Mr Chandler plead, that all, but profeffed Deists, fhould be admitted to Ecclefiaftical Preferments? The only good Reafon why Deifis fhould be excluded, is, that the Magiftrates, as Chriflians, ought not to encourage an Oppofition to Chriftianity. And is there not as much Sente in saying, that the Magiftrate, as perfuaded of the Soundness of the Church of England, Fought not to encourage any Sect which fhall oppofe her Doctrines?

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Let it be granted, that in fettling the publick Revenues upon the Clergy, the Legislature confider'd the Church of England as conftituted according to the Order and Appointment of Chrift. It follows; fo far as the Diffenters differ from us in Doctrine and Worfhip, fo far they must be fuppofed by the Legislature to have departed from the Doctrine ard Will of Chrift. In this Cafe the Legiflature may permit Men. to differ from thein; but have no Right. to compel any to join in a Worthip, they don't approve. But--Are they But--Are they bound to encourage an Oppofition to what they apprehend to be the Doc- G trine of Chrifti Little will it avail to fay, there is no Infallibility in the Legiflature; for, fallible as it is, it's the Judgment, according to which they muft act. Will a Father, in chafing a Tutor for his Children, take one that agrees with, or one that differs from. him in Judgment? When the Schifm Bill was offer'd in a late Reign, did not the Diffenters complain of it as a

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The next Queftion is Ought the Corporation and Test Acts to be re-. pealed or not? To determine this Point two Things must be confidered: 1ft, Whether thefe Laws propofe a just End? 2. Whether they pursue the End by just Means?

The ultimate End of thefe Laws is

the Security of the Church of England asly Law established. (Stat. 10 Anna cap. 21 The immediate End, fubfervient to the other, is to keep Nonconformifts of all Sorts out of Offices Civil and Military; and out of the Government and Direction of Corporations;

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