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A47483	A modest answer to Captain Smith's immodest memoirs of secret service and his remarks upon the D. of S---'s letter to the House of Lords humbly dedicated to the Right Honourable, the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament assembled by Ric. Kingston.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?; Smith, Matthew, fl. 1696. Memoirs of secret service.; Smith, Matthew, fl. 1696. Remarks upon the D--. of S-----'s letter to the House of Lords concerning Captain Smyth.	1700 (1700)	Wing K613; ESTC R28760	16,651	43

Abilities in the Black Art of Scandal and tricking up other Peoples Malice into a gaudy Dress of Words to delude the Vulgar Readers into a good Opinion of what he is advancing How easie a Matter this is for a Man of Parts to do that gives himself a Loose into the Common Place of Railery without confining himself to the Laws of Truth or the Rules of Decency and Good Manners is very intelligible to Men of Sence They both abhor the Practice and make allowance for it while the meaner sort are captivated by the Stile and led Blindfold into Error I shall therefore disappoint the latter and I hope oblige the former by answering Matter of Fact only without being at the trouble to remove the Rubbish and Trumpery that encloses it The Preface acquaints us how provoking a thing it is to a Man of any Spirit to be treated with Contempt which I suppose is no new thing to him and he has no reason to be in such a Chafe or Passion about it since he never was nor deserved to be treated otherwise He is ambitious you see all along of a Considerable Title and yet is angry that his Adversaries have found a fit one for him viz. Fool or Madman tho others are of opinion he has so great an Alloy of the former in his Constitution that he is in no danger of falling under the denomination of the latter Nor will they allow it conferr'd upon him by the Malice of his Enemies since it has been the whole study of his Life to acquire the Title They are pleas'd as a Specimen of their Good Manners to join Quality with Insolence which is an Argument the Dung-Hill and the Tann-Fat lay too near both their Fathers Doors for either of them to pretend to be Gentlemen How might I expatiate on so fruitful a Subject but I hate to be thought a Trifler He runs on with the old story of Stifling and Deprecicating his Services which methinks 't is now high time to give over since with all the Interest he has with a Party to assist him he could never persuade any body to believe that he has done any Service but what he has been very well paid for and his bold demanding and threatning for more has made him slighted and despised by every body His Insolent behaviour at Kensington caused him to be discharged the Court. Tho he gave away some hundreds of his Books among the Honourable the House of Commons he could not find one Member that would deliver his Petition to the House He has addrest to the Right Honourable the House of Peers and their Lordships have commanded his Book of Remarks to be burnt by the Hand of the Common Hangman Whither will he go next Are not the King Lords nor Commons Able to Judge of the Merits of his Service Had he Wit to his Malice and Power to his Venom he would set the Kingdom in a Flame I will next proceed to his Grievances and the First that presents it self is a Complaint That he was taken up by a Messenger when the Plot was warm and this he construes as a Design upon his Person and Papers when any thing besides himself would have known that it was to comply with his Request of being concealed that they did it tho they would not trust him with the Reason why they did it Had he any harder measure than others under his Circumstances Was not Sir Thomas Pendergarst and Mr. La Rue that were the First Discoverers of the Assassination-Plot taken up and committed Was not Mr. Fisher and Mr. Grimes that knew more of the Plot than the Captain can honestly pretend to taken up by Messengers and kept sometime Prisoners in their Houses Is there not many Reasons to be given for these Prudent Proceedings Well! in some colder Clymate 't is possible our Doughty Captain may come to great Military Preferment but certainly his Head is not long enough to make a States-man In his next Complaint he Fights in the Dark and gives us an unaccountable Stretch of his Talent Some Body he leaves the Reader to Guess who he says supprest Sir William Parkin's Petition which after the ineffectual Application of the House of Commons pray observe it I had says he the Fortune to prevail with him to make What an incredible Story have we here That after the Honourable Members of the House of Commons that visited Sir William in Newgate could not prevail with him to make a Confession yet our Captain that was his utter Aversion effected it Can any Man in his Right Mind imagine that Sir William Parkins was so void of Sense to believe that Smith could more effectually prevail with the King to Pardon him than a Whole House of Commons Away Captain This Remark lies so Wide and Broad 't is impossible to swallow it without Choaking Farther he says The Lady Parkins went to Kensington to give a Petition to his Grace the the D. of N. to deliver to His Majesty His Grace had prepared the King to Receive it was expected the D. of N. sent to enquire for the Lady Parkins she was not to be found yet a certain Person without so much as a Letter to Guess at his Name or Quality found her when no body else could and sent the Lady away full of Sorrow and Despair assuring her it would not be received There is little Reason to believe the Lady would take her Answer from any Person but the D. of N. who had promised to deliver it nor that any Certain Person would suppress a Petition that His Majesty expected When Smith told this Story first he laid the Blame upon the Lady for not coming to Kensington till the Council was up and gone and the King retir'd into His Bedchamber tho now he lays it upon a Certain Person His Invention is so Barren and he is at so great a Loss for New Matter that he is forced to harp upon the same Strings in his Remarks that he had before almost fretted to pieces by his nauseous Repetitions in his Memoirs His Interest in Hewet and Sir William Parkins is still the Burden of the Song and yet neither in his former nor latter Book takes he any Notice that Hewet has deny'd it upon Oath and that Sir William has branded him with a Hard Name and discharged the whole Party from trusting him with the Knowledge of their Matters for tho he was his Wifes Relation he knew him too well to repose any Confidence in him To magnifie his own Intelligence through both his Books he undervalues the discovery of Sir Thomas Pendergarst and Mr. La Rue tho the whole Nation is satisfied with their Candor and Sincerity in the whole Affair Upon this Head he has so remarkable a piece of Effrontery that I cannot pass it over without admiring at his Confidence in setting up himself for a common Calumniator and one that never Starts in publishing the most Notorious Falshoods in the World

would have Hang'd his for half the Money To prove his ability to serve the Government instead of Firm-ground he lays hold on two slender Reeds which are too weak to bear the weight he lays upon them and yet upon examining are strong enough to wound his Credit and destroy all his pretension to Merit from them His Topping Instance is from his Intimacy and Interest in one Mr. John Hewet who was employed by certain Jacobites to deliver their Forreign and Inland Letters when they durst not trust them by the Common Conveniencies The Captain has truly described his pretended Correspondents Employment but trifles and imposes upon the Reader when to make his Intelligence apappear more considerable then it was he is forced to set him up for a Gentleman John Hewet was a Poor Lad kept upon Charity and the Jacobites experiencing his Fidelity trusted him with the Delivery of their Letters but for the Captain to pretend to an Interest in that Boy and in six or seven Months time to make no better use of him is to say he had undertaken a Province he knew not how to manage or in truth that he had no Interest at all in him Had there been such an Intire Trust and Confidence between the Boy and the Captain as he pretends to Jack Hewet was able most Weeks in the Year and almost every Day in the Week to have put a Pacquet of Letters into the Captains Hands that being Discreetly Managed might have been safely returned to Hewet and afterwards have been delivered by him as directed without the least suspicion that they had been opened Such a smart touch as this had been service indeed and deservedly would have made the Captains Fortune but since this was every day in the Bov's power and he would not oblige the Captain with it there is no reason to believe that the Boy would trust him with a greater matter and what in all probability he was not trusted with himself for none but Fools and Madmen would put so many Lives into the Hands of a Lad but of 13 Years of Age. But that which puts an End to the Captains Pretence of Corresponding with Hewet is That John Hewet being Interrogated upon Oath by the Lords in Parliament declared That he never Acquainted Captain Smith with any of the Jacobites Secrets but finding him Inquisitive and Prodigal of his Money he collected News out of the Post-Boy to get some Money from him under pretence that it came from France Captain Smith was present when the Lad made this Oath and as he made no Answer to it then neither has he attempted to disprove it in his Memoirs tho' he has impertinently wasted 14 Pages in giving Reasons why he Corresponded with Hewet when Hewet has Sworn he never Corresponded with him The Competition and Credibility is to the Captain 's Disadvantage the Lad is upon his Oath and the Captain but on his Honour The Captain assists the Boy with an Excellent Character and so gives him Credit against himself but neither the Lad nor no Body else that know him will bestow one favourable Word upon the Captain So that Pretence is vanished His next Assylum or Argument to prove himself capable of discovering the most Secret Caballings and closest Designs of His Majesty's Enemies Nay if he might be supplied with as much Money as he wanted That it should be utterly impossible for any thing either Foreign or Domestick to escape his knowledge was because Sir William Parkins one of the Chiefs of the Jacobite Party was his Unkle and not only trusted him with his choicest Secrets but employed him to Court other Men to assist in the Design take Commissions under him and I know not how many other Good-Morrows as Incredible as his refusing to get a Thousand Pounds upon a Point of Honour The bare recital of these Improbabilities as they are apparent in his Memoirs naturally lead me to ask Captain Smith a few short Questions What necessity was there to be at so much Charge in Corresponding with Hewet when Sir William Parkins was so Free with him that was no Stranger to all their Designs What made him ignorant of the Day when the Treason was to be acted since all the Conspirators knew of it above a Fortnight before Why was he not more Plain and Particular in his Letters to my Lord D when his Grace and Mr. V. so often desired it There is no question to be made but Sir William Parkins could have furnish'd him with the whole Matter and there can be no excuse for his Non-complyance with his Grace's repeated Commands but that either the Captain forgot to ask his Unkle and then he neglected his Business Or that Sir William Parkins could not tell him and then no Body will believe him Or that Sir William would not tell him and then 't is plain he would not trust him so that take it which way you please it looks with an ill Face upon the Captain and he would do well to lay his Services a little closer together for the future Among other Names that he gives us a Catalogue of as his Acquaintance among the Quondam Jacobites he is pleased unluckily to mention Captain Porter Let us hear what that Gentleman is pleased to say in the Matter whom the worst of his Enemies never accus'd for prevaricating in any thing relating to that whole Conspiracy About a Fortnight or thereabouts since having an Opportunity to Discourse Captain Porter I took the Freedom to ask him Whether he knew of any Correspondence and Trust between Sir William Parkins and his Nephew Captain Matthew Smith Captain Porter was pleased Answer That once and no oftner as he could remember Captain Smith came into a Room where Sir William Parkins Himself and others were in Consultation upon their Business Captain Smith was no sooner sat down but by a private Intimation from Sir William Parkins they drop'd the Subject they were discoursing on and fell a talking about another Business And when Captain Smith left the Room Sir William Parkins took that Advantage To forewarn his Friends that were present from keeping Capt. Smith Company or Discoursing any of their Matters before him 'T is true says Sir William I Married his Aunt and therefore am obliged to be commonly Civil to him But pray have a care of him He is a and a Fellow that I never trusted This Relation upon my Request Captain Forter was pleased to give me leave if I thought fit to Publish in his Name and he would own it And after this he that can believe any thing that Smith says will boggle at nothing Another Witty Gentleman and of great Integrity and Honour that is no Stranger to Capt. Smith who will quickly tell you his Name tho' I am oblig'd to conceal it told me he knew Captain Smith was the utter Aversion of Sir William Parkins the Scorn of the whole Family and never fit to be trusted with any thing that he could Tell