IT is no less Common than True , that desperate Diseases must have desperate Cures , and that ill-minded and malicious men will not leave any Stone unturned to gain their wisht-for ends ; let the Design be but propitious to their Cause , they never stand to parley about its honesty , but wrong or right resolve to attempt it ; and according to this Verse , Flectere si nequeant populos Acharonta movebunt .

which is too too apparent in these Times , when the Nation is ready to be split in pieces by the Hellish Designs and Contrivances of her two Grand Enemies , Rome and Faction ; who like Juglers , deal under Board to bubble the credulous Rout into the belief of the well meaning of their Designs ; when all that have their Eyes or Understandings find them to be no otherwise than the Hocus Tricks of Jesuitical Legerdemain : yet notwithstanding the many Discoveries and Discouragements they have met with , they are still resolved to persist , and not only venture the hazarding of their Reputation and Lives , but even the Damnation of their immortal Souls ; and all this under the mask of Religion , and doing God good Service : so that the Nation now happily escaped from the Roman Tyranny , is like to fall into the Factious Golgotha , and be once more turned into a field of War and Bloodshed : but God who seeth the Contrivances of our Enemies , will laugh them to scorn , and the sons of men shall have them in derision . We have now blessed be God a Wise and Gracious Prince , a Faithful and Understanding Council , by whose endeavours and Gods blessing we are in a fair way of returning to a setled Peace again , did not the restless Designs of a Party ( who do falsely style themselves Protestants ) amuse the Hearts of the people , and put an odium upon all His Majesties proceedings .

But , that it may not be thought that the Nation is void of Loyalty and Obedience , and that the Subjects are become altogether Rebellious , the Truly Loyal have taken such courses by way of Adresses , as to assure His most Gracious Majesty of their Fidelity and Resolutions to be ready to lay both their Lives and Fortunes at his most Sacred Feet , in vindication of his Person and Prerogative , if ever occasion shall require ; and amongst these great numbers of Adresses from Counties , Grand-Juries , Justices and Corporations , there is one now in agitation by the Loyal Young Men and Apprentices of London , which for the Loyalty of their Intentions , and Number of Subscribers humbly desires to have Acceptance from His Majesties Royal Bounty : But no sooner was this Loyal Adress made publick , but it meets with the calumnious railing of Factious and Disloyal Spirits , who do not fear to blaze their Impudent Lyes and Railings in the face of the World , to put a stop to this Loyal Intention ; to attain which , they give out by their Partial Mercury , That the Loyalty of this Design was hatched in Newgate by Priests and Jesuites ; That it is a Second Part of Captain Tom's Plot , and carried on by Raskals and beggerly Vermin , enticed only by Pots of Ale , and many such Billingsgate-Reasons , and Stories which I shall forbear to mention . And though I do not know the Author of this Calumny , and so can say no more , than that I take him to be one whose Reason consists in Railing , and his Honesty in abusing his Betters , like the envious Dog in the Fable , who will eat no Hay himself , nor suffer those that will . But as for his Pimp Dick Janeway , him I know , and will leave it to the World to judge if he be not a person whose very name is Scandal to the Books he spues into the World . But that I may shew you the Impudence of their Intentions by the Lyes they vent into the World , I will give you the true Original of this so Loyal and so much envied Address .

1. As for the first Promoters and Inventers of it , Be it known to all the World , that it was neither a Priest nor Jesuite , but the honest Intentions of some Young Men of good Parentage and Principles ; whose Names may be seen in the Address it self , and who are always ready , when call'd by Authority , to stand to their Address and Principles ; but why they should give Account of themselves to Hen-peckt-Dick , I am not satisfied , but can say they are such that Janeway himself may be glad to earn his Bread from .

Secondly , That it is a Capt . Tom's Plot is so ridiculous a Story , that nothing but the Bigotted Faith of a Factious Fanatick will credit or give ear to ; for I here challenge all the whole Tribe of factious Pensioners , and all the Cabal of restless Scriblers to prove one word in the said Address that can be screw'd up to that Notion of Plot , unless they can make Loyalty to the King , a Plotting against his Person ; and thankful acknowledgment of our Duty and submission of our selves to His Majesties Service to be resisting his Authority ; unless , I say , they can prove this , they cannot bring our Loyal Address under that scandalous name of Plot : but since Dick and his Tribe have said it , there are Thousands will swear it , and so it is , a Plot it must be .

A third Sham or Odium that is spued upon this Loyal Address , is , That it is carried on by Raskals and beggerly Vermin , &c. I dare say , there is no such Vermin concerned as those that crawl'd after the Duke of Monmouth's Coach from his Wapping Treat , rending the ears of people with Factious Huzza's , and G — dam — upon the Duke of York , and No Bishops . I warrant these were no beggarly Vermin , nor inticed by Pots of Ale ? I can assure Dick Janeway we have no such Vermin concern'd in our Address , we are all Abhorrers of such Factious Huzza's and Wapping Treats ; but we will leave Dicks Vermin at Wapping and Billingsgate , the place of their Nativity and Breeding , and return to vindicate the Truly Loyal from that scandalous name of Vermin , and let Dick Janeway know , that the major part concern'd , are Sons of Gentlemen , who daily see how the Decay of Trade increases , by his and his Fellows Designs , that they are more willing to venture their Lives in his Majesties Serviee , than to become Free-men of this City , if they must enter into Poverty and Freedom at one time ; And if Dick can produce one Vermin concern'd in the Address , for shame let him produce him , and in lieu of him , I will produce Thousands , the very meanest of which , is able to buy Him , Care , Curtis , and Vile , and all their Lands and Tenements , Goods and Chattels , who , I think , are such Vermin as to have no more than from Hand to Mouth ; and did not the Times aford matter to Scribble on , and Books to Publish , would be glad to pass from door to door to receive the Alms of those Vermine , as he calls the Sons of Worthy Gentlemen , whose Parents will give him no thanks for his Complement .

Fourthly , Another Sham or Slur that these Cheats put upon us , that are Truly Loyal , is , That we procure Subscribers that never knew what they subscribed to ; this Sham is so evidently false , that nothing but the Impudence of a disturbing Whig durst vent it into the World , and it is so ridiculous a Story , that all that see or hear it , will rather be incited to Laughter than desirous to Answer : but that Dick may not vaunt of his not being Answered , let him know , I take his Author and he for two of Goatham Politicks , for there is not one that subscribed that did not first read , and then consider the whole substance of the Address , and were so far satisfied of its Loyalty , that had they a Thousand Hands none should be wanting to farther so laudable a Design : which is not only to show our Loyalty , but to regain our Reputations , which was blemisht by our Predecessors in the late Times of Presbyterian Disturbance : and though Mounsieur Impartial charges us with medling with State Affairs , it is evident by the Address it self that we do not , but rely upon His Majesties Wisdom in governing the Nation . A thing he and his followers have resolved not to do , but if possible , to have themselves the only Counsellors of the Nation . But let them know , that all that have set their Hands to the Address are devoted to his Majesties Service against all his Enemies , as well Papists as Commonwealthsmen ; and in the mean time value the railing of Dick and his Tribe no more than to make them the subject of laughter , and the sport of their Discourse ; a thing he has truly merited by being concerned in anothers Affairs . But we may see which way the wind blows , when all things that have Loyalty in them go down like so many Hob-nails , and when all are called Vermin , and such Names that dare say they love the King , and will die for him ; And as for that Letter published in the next Mercury , I take it to be a Pig of Dick's own Sow : For suppose Dick Janeway should agree with Harry Care to send that Letter to him by the Penny Post , might not Dick say with a safe Conscience , that he received it by the Penny Post , and so put it upon whom he pleases ? And yet the Loyal Apprentices be Innocent ; for I know none of them of those damning and blaspheming Principles ; and all that ever I can hear of , detest such Practices .

But I am credibly inform'd , that Dick Janeway would be honest if his Dame would let him : Alas Poor Dick ! I thought whereabouts thy Shoe rung thee ; so that I see it is not for want of Will , but for want of Power , that Dick Janeway is not a Tory . Well , as a Friend I 'll give him my Advice , I would have him put it up for a Grievance next Parliament , or get a Cross , and Lord have Mercy upon us , set upon his Door ; for certainly a Wise-ridden-man has the greatest Plague upon Earth . I 'll only teach Him a short Prayer to use in the time of his Tribulation , and so leave him to the Malice of his Female Tutor .