London Country Journal (Newspaper) - December 1, 1733, London, Middlesex The O U N T R Y J 0 URN A THE G R A F T S By CALEB of Gr December upon Parties CALEB THING is more nothing more in the Conduct of publick than a of I mean not only that private is jabout Individual find enables to as it into the and Hearts n of and to within them latent which their true ancl are often in but I mean principally that political is of the fame though I think not altogether the fame as the which flows from Nature but requires more to be by and by Art. This is that Talent of which is fo rarely found in of fiber Countries which abounds fo happily in of Great It is by that They the of other Courts j prevent their or never fuffer be by It b by that j They watch over the Tranquility at what Effect every and much more every Step make will have on the Sentiments and of This Part of human is therefore every where of Ufe but is of in free where a greater Regard is to be had to the various Fluctuations of Parties to Ithe Opinion and Prejudices of the Without fuch a Regard as Combinations of peculiar which We commonly can never be improved and in j to the beft it is to any great Undertaking or even to conduct Affairs in their j A Want of this Discernment of if I am sot extremely defeated the of who with fo Vigour the and the of the Duke of Several of Them were Men of very great and yet We to be that They in have no this if We reflect howl even the Genius is to the Spirit of when He hath once overheated his All Men are but here lies the Some fuch as by by their own or by the of vvho fight under their may now and then deviate into and into Error of long and fatal But there are fame fuch as I not mention upon this Them for another and a who never deviate intp the Road of by no meeting enough to excite guiding a that follow but never tread ori his there are I whole Privilege it is to proceed with all and from in. perpetual Maze unmeaning Schemes of having nothing to do with the of this Cha rafter I return the former to who led the at its in the Time of King the The built all their Hopes of was This frighten and force the King into a but They did not enough the Methods They took equally proper to frighten force a great Part of from by of the of that They did not confider that They put in twenty Years had palled from the Reft or at ion i and that the in Favour of the Church and the had prevailed during one half of that and very during the that They had the accidental of for but the fettled Habits of Thinking Them They were going off from a broad to a. from the a Part of the Nation and This at a. when They ia more than ordinary Concurrence of the whole They enough that They the very Nature of- their and giving an Opportunity to the ' was then in the of the a to grow up into a. Party and fuch a Party as would at the People with upon Principles in and to a capable to all The fame and the fame and which out with upon many a few Years lay fiill in the Hearts of Men 5 and and wearing but by but yet to be and to be blown up If We compare the Conduct of the long Parliament in 1674 and with the which had been lately during the Administration of the with the Secret of the fecond Dutch and many other and Practices of the which were then come lately and very authentically to Light j with the State of which was then under a real and of to fay no the Ail of Settlement was but ill if We make this it will yet appear that the Proceedings qf the Houfe of Commons were though they were nor they were nor that any Danger could be then apprehended from to the Enemies of the in Church and State and yet even then the old Fears began to and of falling back under the Influence of Presbyterian and Republican Principles began in the Houfe in the It is true that This had no immediate the Plot broke out afterwards like a mighty in which little that began to bum were This great made the Church and continue to run into as They had begun to do and the fole of Parties was That of the Court and the as long as this Parliament Bat it was evident delicate an that former the katt Alarm given to the or to who valued on the Principles of Loyalty ia would be to open which were skinned and to two new out of the of the ' Parties were not the long Parliament a general Opinion well enough founded on their precedent that however angry the King might be with the or the Parliament with the a few popular Steps made on one and a little on the would Matters and Them to all former hot therefore as the Parliament and as much as feme People might think that They exceeded their yet it was difficult to even People that a would Things to the laft Extremity They had fettled and with fo much or draw the Sword a to whom They had borne fo much But in the which the was not the fame and I as as I upon which no Man liKely to contradict me mult whit made the be of. That of whom I this for the fame as I would quote Clarendon Charles the Ludlow for ' In the Year 1676, before We have Grounds to affirm that the of excluding the D. of York was but not before We have that it might be in the Thoughts of who flood in the to the were very to procure of the long fo that negotiated the Affair with the who had concurred in a Vote for to and undertook that a Parliament to grant the a than They would ever find This would The were in for this Coleman d for and their in it was to divide the King and is tto conclude that vyho in it at the Time I upon Party were at as much when their Views This Parliament had a and thorough Examination into the with and the Project of the had been though not in the laft May We not take it for granted however who were new to carry the in the in They foon attempted to carry and who the that be and the They obliged to .in order to overcome I might not They think this Parliament o uch tefs proper than any other to and in thought Doubt io far They better than the who came mro the upon very But as to the of engaging a new fuch the Event that the King judged better than in the of this who had been long by the and by the were encouraged by the Conjuncture to lift up their They took Advantage of the which the of the the Ufe made of this all over the They could not be more zealous in this Caufe than the Members of the Church had to be but They for it. In whatever their Management They were certain it is that They were very and very in the tions of the which followed the long according to who that many of the chofen into this Houfe of were He might have faid as as good of the two which followed and I of Them The who all their in order to the cf ori this Turn in the as an Advantage to Them and it might not have a if They and the had improved it with more But They were far from doing as Rapin feems to when He that for the Presbyterians was in the BUI for of int more owns that many began to declare openly in Favour of tht upon This the behaved very that They on Body of the Clergy and that They made the and apprehend that a with it pulling the zoas Several other to the might be collected from this who reads will not be I vi that fuch Proceedings as Both in gave an Alarm and ft Them Parallels between the late and the Times; and to the Fears and the which agitated The of doing This But are frightened out of their be apt to be At the fame that of a Church others prevailed a alter the Government of the State; of a not only the but the of the Many well-meaning fays upon began to dif to apprehend that a Change of Government was came to think fays the fame Author upon another at though far Decency's Sake his Brother waj only of fame He ufes this remarkable Things taking the fame in the Year 1640? and there was to that bad no. better Intentions towards the King now than the Enemies of King the had ton aids But whatever Tome particular who knew irreconcileable with the as well as the or fome about them of religions intend I am far from that the who promoted the beant in the contrary it is plain that They | meant to by that very the in Church and The quote asd to others the fame is not to what but what was apprehended for as the Whig and Tory long after j - were were theft Farties at divi p. 39^. lb. lb. lb. not fo of of Cal Differences as by the which or of
