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ti # l to %$ LfMm ^ WmM ^ an 4 m ^ #% mwmm % 0 m + chiwJte ^ Uat % p £ jto ^ j { f m £ eH a « 4 that , / let tl ^ e jlfingtniuk what he will , it js tjieiii tbajt must help him in the day pf J warr . for ^ q . generally they arethe mo ^ t 8 L $$ taati 4 il sor t of pe ople , and the soberest ; , ; find , did desfre me to observe it to my £ » orfl Sandwich , among other things , th&t of all the
old army now you cannot see a man begging about the streets ; but what ? You shall have , this captain turned a shoemaker ; the lieutenant a bakery this a brewer ; that a haberdasher ; this cooiijipn sqlclier , a porter ; and every man in his apron and frock , &e .,
as if they had never done any thing else : whereas the other go with their belts and syirords , swearing and cursing and stealing ; running into people ' s houses , by force oftentimes , to carry away something j and this is the difference between the temper of one and the other ; arid concludes , ( and I
think with some reason , ) that the spirits of the old Parliament soldiers are so quiet and contented with God ' s providences , that the King is safer from any evil meant him by them one thousand times more than from his
own discontented Cavalier . And then to the public management of business : it is done , as he observes , so loosely and so carelessly , that the kingdom can never be happy with it , every man looking after himself , and his own lust and luxury ; and that
half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not so much as gathered . And to the purpose he told roe how the Bellamys ( who had some of the Northern counties assigned them for their debt for the petty warrant victualling ) have often
complained to him that they cannot gqt it collected , for that nobody minds , or if they do , they won't pay it in . Whereas ( which is a very remarkable thing ) he hath been told by some of the treasurers at warr here of late , to whom the most of the . € 120 , 000 monthly was paid , that for most months the
payments were gathered so duly , that they seldom had 6 O much or more than 40 s . or the like , # short in the whole collection ; whereas now the very commissioners for assessments and other public payments are such persons , and those tUat they choose lfi the country so like themselves , that
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^ i from top to bottom taere ia not a man carefull of any thing , or if he pe , * s not solvent ; that what . between t ^ beggar and tlie knave , the ^ ing . | ik abused the best part of allliis revenue . We then talked of ths n ^ f y , aad of Sir W- Pen's ™? to be a general . H £ told me he was alww 3 a conceited
ban , and one that would pixt ffce best side outward , biit that it was "his prer tence of sanctity that brQttghtTjatcrJn ^ tb play . Lawson and Portman , ^ nd the fifth-monarchy men , among vvrhom he was a great brother ,, importuned that he might be general ; and it was pleasant to see how Blackburne himself
did act it , how when the eomnjisfcioners of the admiralty would enquire of the captains and admirals of such and such men , how they would with a sigh and casting up the eyes , say , * Such a man fears the Lord / or * I hope such a man hath the Spirit of God . ' But he tells me that there
was a cruel articling against Pen after one fight , for cowardice , in putting himself within a coyle of cables , of which he had much ado to acquit him r self ; and by great friends did it , not without remains of guilt , but that hi ? brethren had a mind to pass it by , and Sir H . Vane did advise him to
search his heart , and see whether this fault or a greater sin was not the occasion of this so great tryall . And he tells me , that what Pen gives out about Cromwell ' s sending and entreating him to go to Jamaica , is very false ; he knows the contrary : besides the Protector never was a man that
needed to send for any man , specially such a man as he , twice . He tells me that the business of Jamaica did miscarry absolutely by his pride , and that when he was in the Tower he would cry like a child . And that just upon theturne , when Monk was come from the North to the city , and did
begin to think of bringing in the King , Pen was then turned Quaker . That Lawson was never counted any thing but only a seaman , and a stout man , but a false man , and that now he appears the greatest hypocrite in the world -y and Pen the same . He tells me that it is much talked of that the
King intends to legitimate the Duke of Monmouth - > and that neither he , nor his friends of his persuasion , have any hopes of getting their consciences at liberty but bv God Almighty ' s turning
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Mer # oin of Samuel Pepj / s } Esq . 673
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vol . xx . 4 it
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 673, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/33/
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