But Needham's versatility was matchless, and on the 15th of August the Rump had thought it best to reappoint him to the editorship.[1] Since then, having already in succession been Parliamentarian, Royalist, Commonwealth's man or Rumper, and all but anti-Republican Protectoratist, the world had known him in his fifth phase of Rumper or pure Commonwealth's man again.

Not only in his journals, but also in independent pamphlets, he had advocated the Good Old Cause.

One such pamphlet, published with his name in August 1659, under the title of _Interest will not lie_,[2] had been in reply to some Royalist who had propounded "a way how to satisfy all parties and provide for the public good by calling in the son of the late King": against whom Needham's contention was "that it is really the interest of every party (except only the Papist) to keep him out." One can understand now why, in the Royalist squib lately quoted, Needham was named as "the Commonwealth didapper"[3] along with Milton as "their goose-quill champion," and why the public were there promised the pleasure of soon seeing the two at Tyburn together .-- But the final performance of Needham's, it is believed, was a tract called _News from Brussels, in a Letter from a near attendant on his Majesty's person to a Person of Honour here_.

It purports to be dated at Brussels, March 10, 1659-60, English style, and was out in London on March 23.

The publication is said to have been managed secretly by Mr.Praise-God Barebone; and, though the tract was anonymous, it was attributed at once to Needham.