THat there is , or at least has been , an intended Invasion from France , Headed by King James , is too apparent ; and that the greatest Encouragement to such an Undertaking , must be the expected , if not promised Succours ready to join him upon the Descent , is as plainly evident . Now that there can be such a Party of Englishmen , and those professing themselves Protestants too , ( for the Romanists are no part of our wonder ) whose Reasons and Sense can be so lost and depraved , as to conspire with such a Design , is not a little stupendious .

The business of this Paper therefore , is to examine , What Consequences they can expect from the Success of such an Invasion ; and what Patriots they shall make themselves , in Assisting the Return of King James ?

In the first place , Do they flatter themselves , because , forsooth , the greatest part of our Invaders , for the more plausible pretext , are composed of English , Scotch , and Irish , Natives and Subjects to the Crowns of England , that therefore King James's Service ( so poor a mask ) is all the business of this Expedition ? Have we forgot since so lately in Ireland , the French King could hardly hold the Vizor on till the Conquest of that Kingdom , where the very Irish themselves began to be jealous ( and with too much cause ) of their pretended Friends , but intended Lords , the French ? And that no Anguis in Herbâ , no French Reserve lies at the bottom of this Invasion .

Secondly , Do they think this Succour to King James , tho in so important a Service as Resettling him upon his Throne , can deserve any grateful Return ? and upon that Encouragement they found the Safety of their Religion and Liberties , in any Promises of Security from that Obligation . Alas ! is it so late since woful Experience convinced them , that Acknowledgment or Gratitude , are no part of a Popish King's Principle ; witness , the unkind return he made to that very Church of England , that more than once , were so exemplarily zealous for securing the Crown upon his Head , in their strenuous opposition against both the Bill of Exclusion , and Monmouth's Insurrection . And if both those deserving Services , those accumulated Obligations were such feeble Cobweb-Lawn ; shall any thing done in his Service now , make a stronger Tye upon him ? No , quite to the contrary . For example , The Church of England had then twice obliged him , and never once offended him ; besides , there was not only a Coronation Oath , but his first voluntary Declaration at his assumption of the Government ; one would reasonably think enough to bind him to Performance . But how little all those Bonds signifie , when the Cancelling Hand of Rome came into Play ; we have but too much reason to remember . And if all those Tyes , I say , could not hold then ; what can we hope for , when there neither is , nor can be any Tye at all to hold him now ? For example ; suppose the blind and mistaken Frenzy of some of our Protestant Zealots , ( if that name can be proper for them ) , could remo●● him to his Throne ; what shall they deserve for it , any more than the Title of ●●p●●f●●●ble Servants ? Their turning him out from the Throne , together with the remembrance of the dear Irish Blood shed by them , and the rest of our Faults , are such Capital Transgressions , that the restoring him into it again , will not be half our Expiation . And supposing he Publishes the most mollyfying Declaration upon his Landing , that all the Eloquence of Rome can put together ; shall that oblige him ? No , so far from it , that it neither is , nor can be any more than a scroll of wast Paper . For supposing the Contents of it should run in these flattering Insinuations , viz. What wondrous Clemency he would shew us upon our return to our Allegiance , and with what Moderation he would Reign over us , upon our re-admitting of him to his Throne , with all the most solemn Protestations , and what not . Now as 't is unlikely that King James should ever return without Opposition , and undoubtedly a very strenuous one ; it being impossible we should be all drawn in with the specious Bait of sweet words , and fair Promises ; and consequently , he must have a Blow for it . Supposing , nevertheless , I say , his Party so strong , and his Success so great , as to recover his Kingdoms : Upon such a recovery , whatever he promises in his Declaration , is from that Moment , null and void . For the Consideration is not performed , and consequently , the Obligation cancell'd . For instance , he comes not in by our Submission , and return to our Allegiance , but by Force and Conquest . And as such , not only his Declarations , but his very Coronation-Oath , without the stretch of a mental Reservation , are all actually absolved . And if Law , nor Oaths , Service , nor Fidelity , as before-mentioned , were able to keep his Romish Zeal in any Bounds or Limits before ; what shall the loosening of 'em all expect now ? And consequently what driving Jehu must we look for , when that black Day comes , ( which Heav'n of its mercy keep far from us . ) And whatever private Gratuities or Favours some particular Eminent Protestant Hands may possibly receive for their signal Services in this Revolution , nothing of sense but must conclude us the miserablest Nation and People in the World .

Besides , could we look for Miracles , and expect a Reign of Clemency from him , our Religion and Civil Rights secured ; what a Crew of Irish Dear-Joys that come over with him , are here to be rewarded , all Preferment and Honours , nay , the fat of the Land to be canton'd out amongst them : And consequently the Power in these confiding Hands , the whole Nobility , Gentry and Commonalty of England must live under the check and awe of Tories and Rapparees , and submit to all the Insults of Miscreants and Vagrants ; and well we compound so cheap .

Nay , though some People fancy we shall at least enjoy this Blessing of being eased from Taxes by his Return ; 't is so much a mistake , that in the other Extream , that very shadow vanishes too . For what must this Expedition cost the French King , and what must all his Irish Arrears , and other infinite unacountable Sums amount to , which must all lie upon this ruin'd Nation to satisfy , with a very courteous Complement into the Bargain , if the French King will graciously and mercifully please to demand no more . Nay , perhaps the whole Charge of his several Years Naval Preparation ; ( for had King James continued on his Throne , most of all that Expence had been saved ) must lie at our Door , a Score too terrible even to think of ; and take it altogether , a very grateful Payment out of the Protestant Pockets to so prodigious a Champion of the Protestant Religion , as King L●●●s .

But for once ( though contrary to common sense ) granting we should allow all in his Favour , that the most zealous Jacobite can pretend , viz. That King James upon his return to the Throne , shall to a tittle perform every particular Article in his very Declaration , as plausible soever as it may be penned , viz. We 'll suppose , that the French King shall disclaim , directly or indirectly , all Pretensions whatever to England , that the Restoration of his Friend King James is his only part and design in this Expedition ; and King James on the other side , shall abjure all manner o● violation to the Laws , shall support the Protestant Religion , and ( making a Sea-mark of his former Wreck , ) shall peaceably keep up to the full observance of so generous a Profession : granting all this , I say , and whatever other imaginary Security his dreaming Party can form to themselves ; nevertheless , in the fairest Face , let us observe the dismal and tremendous Effects of his Restoration . 'T is known to the whole World to what the French Ambition tends , viz. Universal Monarchy . And 't is as notoriously famous what Desolations and Ravages the Arms of France have made , and how formidable that Successful Destroyer is , even to the whole united Powers of Europe . And as his present Majesty King William , is , possibly , ( without a vanity ) the Leading Champion of the whole Confederacy , and all little enough to make head against France ; upon King James's return to the Throne , here is not only so potent an Arm as the Alliance of Britain lopt off from the Confederacy , but added to the Strength of France . For tho in his Reign before , he only stood Neuter , with little or no other Assistance to his Idoliz'd Grand Lewis , than his heartiest Vows and Prayers for the success and prosperity of that encroaching Enslaver of Mankind : Yet now he will lie under a more pressing obligation ; and the least return even of common Gratitude for his remounting him on his Throne , will be to list under that Tyrant's Standard , and joyning the Arms of England , to the finishing and crowning the whole Designs of that universal Aspirer . And as the whole Confederacy already , is little enough to match him ; upon this Revolution in England , 't is impossible to ex●ect less than that the whole Cause of Christendom must sink , and all Eur●pe truckle beneath him . And whilst the English hands must be●● so great a part in th●s fatal Turn ( to give it no harder Name ) what is it but a making our selves the Monsters of Mank●nd , the inevitable instruments and Tools to that grand Cut-throat of Christend●m . And what has some little palliation on his side , as having the pretence of Renown and Honour , in the Quest of Laurels and Enl●rgement of Empire , &c. will on our part amount only to Butchery and Desolation , for meer Butchery and Desolations sake . The Gl●ry , if any , will be Lewis's , and the Infamy England's . Infamy indeed , ( if we meet with no worse Reward ) when we consider what barbarous part we must act in the yoking and shackling of Europe . But suppose it end● there , and that will be the only Brand in the English Scutcheon : And that Lewis in his grasp of Universal Empire , shall exclude England from any part of his Feudatories , and Tr butaries , viz. he sh●ll make Golden Promises to King James , and once in his life ( his first vertue of that kind ) keep Faith , and no worse follow , ( a very unlikely Flattery : ) yet what an Eternal Shame to the Old English Honour , the sleeping Dust of our Third Edward , and Fifth Henry , and indeed the whole British Chronicles , is our portion , in aggrand●zing of France to that prodigious Bulk and Growth , and dwindling our selves to that diminutive and despicable state and condition , as are and must be the unavoidable consequences of King James's Restoration .

Granting the Jacobites therefore , all their own Delusions can shape , that King James shall forget and forgive ; shall rule by Law , and turn a Saint upon a Throne : And that the disinterested Lewis shall have no other Designs upon England , but purely King James's Assistance ; yet still the most they can look for , is perhaps , to enjoy a little English Liberty ( upon their own supposition ) during the short Remnant of King James's Days , whilst his Gray Hairs , perhaps , shall fill the Seat : But I wonder any reasonable man , that pretends but to common Sense , can think it possible that France should engross the Dominion of Europe , and England ever hope to continue the only Exempt from the Universal Yoke ; Is there that Frenzy so mad as to fancy it ? No , all our best Hopes will be to be swallow'd last , and the annexing of Brittain , a Province to France ; and consequently to groan under all the Slavery and Vassallage of a French Government , is the undoubted Fate of England ; and hereby the Restoration of King James , in its favourablest Aspect , brings no less Fatality along with it , than entailing of Misery upon us to the end of the World ; and all the Honour our Protestant Restorers will reap , is to be the Ruine and Curse of their whole Posterity , their very Names and Memories loath'd and abhorr'd to all succeeding Generations .