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OTHING but a due Regard for the Publick, coifd make me med- dle with a Subject, where I fhall be necefiarily oblig'd, contrary to my Inclination, to write with a great deal of Freedom, of the late 3ehaviour of certain Perfons, whom, before 1 /ery much efteem'd : In the doing this, I nope to fhew, 'tis not Unkindneis for their Per- bns, but Love to my Country, which wholly nfluences me \ and, therefore, fhall religiouily ivoid faying any thing of them, but where :he Publick is concern'd in their Actions.

As I will not detract from their former Me- it, fo neither can I omit any thing that's ne- :efiary, to make fuch, as they have feduc'd. rom their Duty, perceive the fatal Tendenr y of thoie Divifions they have cre.ited, and re frill fomenting with the utmoli Applica- ion ^ and to let the World fee how highly ealbnable it is, when fuch Men a& 'a Part lb A 2

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inconfiflent with all former Pretences, to have always in our Minds that excellent Precept of the Gofpel, He that fiends, let him take heed left he falls 5 and that if we will do rightly, we mult be govern'd, not by Precedents, but by Principles ; which teach us to look on all, who, out of felrifh Views, aft contrary to them ( whatever Denomination they are willing to go under ) as Deferters, Betrayers, Rcnegadoes ', who do moreMifchief to the Caufe they pretend to be for, than thole, who openly profefs con- trary Principles.

Never was a Parliament better difpos'd than the preient, to have done ev'ry thing, that ceu'd any ways tend to promote the common Good \ and when the fo fealbnably Defeating the defperate Attempts of the Enemies of our Religion, Laws, and Government, had giv'n them the moil favourable Opportunity of removing out of the way, all that might diflurb our fu- ture Quiet, or hinder us from being the moil happy Nation in the World, and of conveying this ineilimable Blefilng to our latefl Posterity ; Then to fee Things take a quite different Turn, and the Hopes of good Men miferably fruflra- ted, mini provoke the Indignation of all, who wifh well to their Country \ efpecially, when they find, 'tis owing to thoje, who were efleemM Patriots, had the greatefl Share of the King's Favour, and got immenfly by his Bounty. Who is not furpriz'd to rind thefeMen hazard all by their Unaccountable Divificns ; and by joining with the Enemies of their Country, diiftrefs the King's Affairs, and prevent the doing thofe very Things, they themielves declar'd to be necefiary

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tor the Publick Safety ; nay, made that Nmfuv an Argument for obtaining the S.p^nif^ ■ I fS ^Ins Proc^i«g after (his vile, and

CauHf ^nner',hlS &* n^ Life to the Caule or Popery, and the P««i, : Hence the

3,:ta\Zh°th^n M '°0k °" their Game as Jolt, and think it in vain any longer to

rev'-vM5^ theStrea;"' have *« theirVopS rev.v d and are wonderfully elated ; and ev'rv

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Force cou'd not efled ; and that, if a afdden

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are engag d ,n ; and then, fay they it can't 2 doubted, but that we will take effectual Care that neither fhall get uppermoft again *'

ohettl'fffi them tVom beinS True Pro- phets, 1 ftall mew, lfl. To whaat Extremit

thof who" apt/° ?rry Pe°Ple- ^h- What n^ VI V f0r tne Government, are to ex- noVnil /an ^^ S" "PPermoft. **■ That nothing can be more perverfe than their Con-

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nft ey (eI1 on one mother with that im- placable Fury, that they hnrtcd themlelves more

t 6 1 than the common Enemy w«s able to do } and had not Jofephm been a 7*0?, and an Eye-witnefs, we cou'd never have believ'd the Account he gives of the Heights, thofe Quarrels were carry'd to among the befieg'd, without Regard to their common Safety ; notwithftanding they were prefsd to the laft Degree by Famine, and the Enemy.

2sor were the Divifions at Conftantinople be- tween the Greeks and Latims, who refided there, leis fatal, when that Place was belieg'd by the Turks \ and 'twas no fmall Occafion that that famous City, and with it all the Remains of the Greek Empire, fell fo eafily into the Hands of thofe barbarous Infidels.

But what need we look Abroad, fince we find by our own Hiftorians, that we were never con- quer'd by Foreign Enemies, or fell into any- great Miferies, but by being unhappily divided among ourfelves.

To give an Account of thefe Divifions wou'd fill a Volume } and therefore, I fhall only ob- ferve, that in Rdrr. the tfth's Reign, the Quarrels between the Two Brothers, the Pmteftor and Ad- miral, quickly brought the latter to the Block ; and when he was gone, the Protetlor himfelf fell a Sacrifice to the curfed Ambition of the Duke of Northumberland, who not long after was brought to the Scaffold, where he be- hav'd hinlfelf cowardly , and dy'd unpity'd. I mention this the rather, becaufe 'tis well worth obierving, that thefe Great Men quar- rel I'd among themfelves, as loon as the Re- bellions, rais'd on Pretence of the Church and Religion j were queii'd j and that it was on the

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Account of thefe Unnatural Divlfions, as our Ecclefiaftical Hiftorian obferves , that fcarce any Thing was feen, during that Excellent Prince's Reign, but Diforder and Confufion, both in Church and State •, which made Way for the Deftru&ion of the Reformation, and the Letting in of Popery, and Perfeeuticn in the next Reign \ and are thefe Row to be kept out, when thfe very Men, who are againil them, are di- vided ameng themselves, and hate one another more than the common Enemy.

If the Refentment of the Infolence, Ccvetouf- mfs, Pride, and Ambition of the Duke of Nor- thumberland, cou'd make the Prcteflant Nobility, who were engaged to be for a Protcflant Suc- ceffton, to dejert the Perfon they had fet up, and declare for the Popifh Daughter of H. 8. born in Incejl, whofe Religion render'd her in- capable of governing, except Ruin and Deflnx- tion may be call'd Government ; This fhe^ -, how dangerous 'tis , to have Factions in the Bowels of a Kingdom ; and that where Prc- teftants are divided among themfelves, neither Religion, nor any other Confideration, can hin- der them from gratifying their Refe?itment, ev'n to their oxtn Ruin.

If, as the Gofpel aflures us, it holds true of a Kingdom divided in itfelf ', that it cannot (land ; 'twill, no Doubt, hold as iticngly of any Party in a Nation, if thty chance -to be at Variance among themfelves ; and couftant Experience might have taught thofe Parties, which fo unhappily divide us, this Truth \ that when either of them were fo impoliticly, as to quarrel among themfelves, they have been

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quickly forcM to give Place to the Common* Enemy ; and then in the Anguilh of theif Souls, what Refolutions, what Faxos did they not make, of never fplitting upon that Rock, if ever, by the Folly of their Adverfaries, they got uppermoft again ? and yet almoft as foon as they did, thofe Refolutions were forgot, and the Devil of Ambition, Envy, and Avarice, fet- ing the Top-men at Variance, the Underlings divided of Gourfe, and came into any Mea- fures, which might prejudice the oppofite Lea- ders, without regarding how it affected the com~ mon Good ; and thereby they demonftrated, that they were not govern'd by Principles, but by the vileft Things they eou'd be govern'd •, viz.. the Tajfions of the Great Ones , which cou'd have no other Effect, than ruining the whole Party* and the Caufe, for which they wou'd have the World believe they were raoft zealous.

The fmaller the Number o{ any Party is, ( as that of honeft Men will never be large ) the greater is the Reafon for a Strict Vnim , fince by the leaft Divifion there's the utmoft Dan- ger, left the common Enemy, like a vaft Tor« rent, break in, and bear down all before them.

It's notorious, that the Party, which pre- vails in the latter End of the Queen's Reign, have, ever fince, a&ed after fuch a Manner* as if they had a Mind to perfwade the World, that the Majority of the Nation were Fools and Mad-men , but 'twas to be hop'd, that the other Party, oppofite to them in almoft ev'ry Thing elfe , wou'd have been fo in This, and warn'd by their Folly, have had fo much Regard to the Nation's Honour, and

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their Own, as not to give People juft Occafion to think oa vilely of them, when they fee, that by their intefline Quarrels, their King, Country ,. Liberties, Religion, and ev'ry Thing that's va- luable is expos'd to the utmoft Danger.

Foreigners , with Amazement, look on tbefe Divisions, when they perceive, that there's ftill fo confiderable a Party moft induftrioufiy la- bouring to deftroy both Sides, weaken'd by their Dijfentions.

Strangers think thefe Quarrels among Men, whole Principles are the beft calculated for the Good of Mankind, muft have fome extraordinary Reafon ; they can't well imagine, that They, who have caus'd thofe Divisions, have nothing to object againft the Prefent Adminijiration ; and that it is chiefly for the fake of a Jingle Perjon^ who, not content with the moft beneficial Pofls, threw up in a Pet, becaufe he cou'd not govern ev'ry Thing \ and then confederated with fuch, as 'till the Moment he declar'd himfelf a Coun- try Gentleman, he continually reprefented as the niefi- of Men, and Traitors to their King, and 0 untry.

It's a melancholy Reflection to confider, that Men of the rvoril Principles are more fteadily govern'd by them, than others by the beil : When the moft Celebrated Champion of H/gh- •'< urch went over to the other Party in the late Reign, he was not able to bring with him one Man, and his own Side hated him as a Re- ntgado ; nay, which is more remarkable, when that Minifter, who, for fo long a Time, had the Difpofal of ev'ry Thing, and thereby capa- ble of bbligm-g great Numbers, tbo' he did not,

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contrary to the Will of the Queen, lay downj but was turn'd out \ yet he cou'd not make any party, or the leaft Divifion among the Tories, much lefs was he able to prevail on any of them, to throw up their Places, and My in the Face of the Queen } but they all ftuck to their Principles, and to the Mimflty that continu'd in.

If any of their Leaders, tho' ever fo much be- lov'd, fhou'd, immediately upon Quitting his Em- ployment, enter into a New Alliance with the adverfe Party, and join in Voting with them, they won'd , no Doubt , defpife him as the mod; infamous of Mankind \ and what muft we think of a Whigg, who has acted fuch a Part, and of thofe, who have join'd with him I Venue was low enough before in all Parties, but after this, what will the World fay of thegreatefl Pre- tenders to it ?

The Difpute is not only about Places and Pre- ferments, but concerning all that can be valuable to an Engli(h~man : There are but Two grand Parties in the Nation, and fcarcea Man* or Wo- man, which is not of one, or t'other ; and tho' there may be feveral Things, done by their own Side, which fbme may diflike, yet if they do not diflike them more than they like their Party, they will come into ev'ry Thing eflential to it.

One Party by their Principles are for a Limited Monarchy in the Houfc of Hanover, for the Church, and Regal Supremacy, as by Law eftablifh'd ', for Tolerating the Protejhnt Dijfenters at Home, and Freeing them from thofe Hardfbips they were lately put under, for their Zeal, to the Proteflant Reliaion, and the Preteflant Succejfion ; and for Treating thofe Abroad, as becomes the Head

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of the Common Protejiant Interefl ; for Encou- raging Trade, Manufactures, Induflry, and ev'ry Thing that tends to the Publick Good.

The other Party, being by their Principles for Abfolutc Power in the ?opj\) Line, are, of Courfe, Enemies to Liberty, Property, and the Protefiant Religion ; are for a ftrict Union with the moft bigotted Papijls; for fetting up a Papal Indepen- dency in their own Clergy •, for Confounding the Reformed Abroad, as well as at Home ; and for Difcouraging by their perfecting, and other pernicious Maxims, all Trade, Adam* failure, In- duflry, and ev'ry Thing that's for the Publick Good.

Is it not unaccountable, that while one Party fcruple neither Lying, nor Perjury, nor Embroil- ing the Nation in a Civil War ; and think, that the Goodnefs of their Caufe fanctifies the molt wicked Means, which they carry on with great Unanimity i that the Other fhou'd be a Rope of Sand, have fo much Coldnefs and Indifference for their Caufe, that the leaft Trifle divides them ? Can any Thing be more aftonifhing, than to fee Men, poffefs'd of the bed: Ports, fly in the Face of the King, if be but exerciies the fame Power in Chooling his Servants, which ev'ry one of them think, they have an Undoubted Right to do.

Since we can To eafily forget thofe Daiir gers, we have fo lately efcap'd, as to take fuch Meafures, as will certainly involve us in the fame Difficulties*, it will not, therefore, be improper, to remind thofe Gentlemen of the Circumftances we were in at the latter End of the Queen's Reign, and of the Fate we fhou'd

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This Infatuation was owing to the Conduct pfthe Hi?}j-church Clergy, who, for feveral Years, f.emd to have had no other View, than to \inite with the Church of Rom?, in Order to ex- tirpate all Proteflants of what Denomination fo- <ver, and govern the Christian World as abf- lately as their Poptfh Ancestors us'd to do*, and, therefore, tho' they durft not barc-fae'd declare {or Popery, were coming ey'ry D;iy nearer and nearer tp it \ znd with indefatigable Zeal in the llniverfiries, taught all thofe Principles, which favour'd the Pretender's Intereft, and from the Pulpits and Pref, as well as Private Converfation, promoted ev'ry Thing that made for this De- fign, and reprefented thofe as Atheifls, Detfls, f'anaticks, &c. who thought themfelves oblig'd to keep the Oaths they had taken

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In the Reigns preceding the Revolution, tho' the High-church Priesis were againft the Pope's Supremacy, hoping to get that Power themfelves j yet afterwards defpairing of Succeis, and en- rag'd at the Toleration, Liberty of the Prefs, and the Vacant Sees, fill'd by King William, with Men, who, they knew, were utter Enemies to all Church-Tyranny ; and influenc'd by the Non-juring Clergy , they were refblv'd ( not to hazard Martyrdom, by bringing in the Pretender, but) to unite with Rome on its own Terms , and one Reafon, why their Idol does not diflemble his Sentiments, but lhews fuch an incurable Averfion to Protejlantifm, feems to be the Avoid- ing all Occafions of Prejudicing thofe, whom he is lure, as long as he remains nVd in Po- pery, will be unalterably attach'd to his Iftte- reft \ and who never thought the Church to be in Danger, but under zTruly-Protefiant King; and for feveral Years, have always declared It either m, or out of Danger, according as they found the Popifli Caufe to lofe, or get Ground. And 'tis notorious , that nothing provokes them more, than to fee a Man in earned quit the Church of Rome, and aft fincerely on Proteftant Principles \ of which we have a frefli, and fla- grant Inftance.

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unavoidably have met with, if the Rebellion had fucceeded.

The common People in the late Reign, were fo wrought on, ( which their Conduct has fince left us no Room to doubt ) as to be willing to join with the Papifis for the Deftru&ion of our Laws, Liberties, and Religion, on Pretence of Pre- ferving the Church, and Maintaining Hereditary Right % and with them the Tory Gentry, not on- ly thofe of broken Fortunes, but others were \villing to concur in the fame Defign.

This Infatuation was owing to the Conduct of the High-church Clergy, who, for fe vera 1 Years, ilem'cl to have had no other View, than to unite with the Church of Rome, in Order to ex- tirpate all Vrotejlants of what Denomination lb- ever, and govern the Chriftian World as abfi- lutely as their Popijh Anceftors us'd to do *, and, therefore, tho' they durft not bare-fae'd declare jfor Popery, were coming ev'ry Day nearer and nearer to it ; and with indefatigable Zeal in the Univerfirie-s, taught all thofe Principles, which favour'd the Pretender's Intereft, and from the Pulpits and Prefs, as well as Private Conversion, promoted ev'ry Thing that made for this De- sign, and reprefented thofe as Atheifs, Deijls, Fanaticks, &c. who thought themfelves obligVi to keep the Oaths they had taken.

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teftant Dijfrnters, contrary to the Principles of his Religion, a Toleration. I think, there can be no greater Proof of the Power of Refentment, than that it was able to make thefe Men deviate from their conftant Practice, and aft rightly in this fingle Inftance.

In the Reigns preceding the Revolution, tho' the High-church Priesis were againft the Pope's Supremacy, hoping to get that Power themfelves , yet afterwards defpairing of Succefs, and en- rag'd at the Toleration, Liberty of the Prefs, and the Vacant Sees, fill'd by King William, with Men, who, they knew, were utter Enemies to all Church-Tyranny • and inflnenc'd by the Non-juring Clergy , they were refblv'd ( not to hazard Martyrdom, by bringing in the Pretender^ but) to unite with Rome on its own Terms , and one Reafon, why their Idol does not diflemble his Sentiments, but fhews fuch an incurable Averfion to ProteJlantifmy feems to be the Avoid- ing all Occafions of Prejudicing thofe, whom he is fure, as long as he remains fix'd in Po- pery, will be unalterably attach'd to his Inte- reft ; and who never thought the Church to be in Danger, but under a Truly- Prot eft ant King; and for feveral Years, have always declared It either m, or out of Danger, according as they found the Popipi Caufe to lofe, or get Ground. And 'tis notorious , that nothing provokes them more, than to fee a Man in earned quit the Church of Rome, and aft fincerely on Protejlant Principles •, of which we have a frefti, and fla- grant Inftance.

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raisM to enfiame the Paflions of the Multi- tude, there can be no Doubt, but that they de- Jign'd to work 'em up to a General M.tjfacre of all they call'd Whiggs *, and they, who were let into the Secret, and faw how well prepared the Mob were, to execute their moft bloody Defigns, ('which they thought too well laid to mifcarry,) cou'd not deny themfelves the Pleafure of In- fulting the Whiggs, and advifing them to pre- pare to dye with Decency *.

In Truth , nothing lefs than their total Ruin cou'd fatisfy them ; fince they were for Patching up their broken Fortunes out of their Eftates ; and nothing cou'd have made thofe, who had Church-Lands, come fo readily into the Pretender's Intereft, as the Afliirance they had, that if they were oblig'd to part with thofe Lands, they fhou'd be amply recompenc'd out of the Eftates of the Whiggs ^ who, they con- cluded, wou'dj upon a Turn, be all attainted, as the Protefiants in Ireland, without Exception to Women and Children, were in King James's Reign.

Can any one think, that Confcience, Honour, or Love to their Country, cou'd hinder the then Miniftry from Acting fuch a Part, when he confiders, how they were Modelling the Army, and that if they had continu'd a little longer, they wou'd have disbanded all, both in Britain and Ireland, they cou'd not confide in ; and have rais'd fuch new Aien, as, they knew, wou'd be for their Purpofe ; and what cou'd have bin-

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der'd fuch an Army, join'd with the Irifit and French Troops, the Pretender wou'd have brought with him, and all the Papisls at Home, as well as Others, more inveterate than the Papists themfelves, from A&ing with the utmoft Cru- elty ? and after they were engag'd, if any one of them was enclin'd to have fhewn the leaft Remorfe, he coifd not have pra&is'd it with Safety to himfelf, or refus'd to have come into all their moft bloody MealV.res, againft fuch as wou'd have been thought the worft of Rebels, and Hereticks ; fuch, as the Non-juring Clergy, ( who call themfelves Protectants ) have unchurch'd, and unchriftian'd.

Can we doubt this was the Defign of theft Men, when to prevent the Proteflants here from having, in the Time of their Diftrefs, any Af- fiftance from Abroad, all the Troops in the Pay of Great Brit. tin were to be withdrawn, when the Army was too near the Enemy to make a Retreat, that the French might have the Op- portunity of firft destroying our Allies, and then of cutting thofe Br it if) Forces to Pieces, which were afterwards left to ftarve ; and this was to be praftis'd in Spain, as well as Flanders.

The Reader can't be better inform'd of the Methods, that, upon the Mifcarriage of This Hellifl) Contrivance, were taken to deliver us up to France, and the Pretender, than from the Re- fort of the Secret Committee, and an Impartial Pamphlet, Entitul'd, A Short Hiftory of the Par- liament ', to which, I have nothing to add, but that Providence preferv'd us from thofe wicked Defwns, on which no True Br it en, or Protefiant, can relied without Horror.

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The Tories, beipg thus happily difappointed, did not yet despair, hoping upon the King's Coming over, to have got the Adminiftration contimf d in their Hands ', but when they found the Chief of their Leaders were to be profecuted ', and all they had afted in Favour of Popery and the Pretender, was to be unravell'd, and our ancient Alliances to be renew'd, and our Trade recover'd, and improv'd, and ev'ry Thing both at Home and Abroad to be done, that wou'd ftrengthen the common Proteftant Intereft ; Then they defpair'd of doing any Thing, but by down-right Force , and pulling off the Mafque, fhew'd their implacable Rancour, firft in an Infinity of monftrous Scandals againft the Per- fon of the King, and the whole Royal Family 7 then in Riots and Tumults *, and at Jaft, in a downright defperate Rebellion •, in which had they prevail'd, I leave it to thofe Whiggs, who are now for dividing their Party, and making an Alliance with the Tories, to judge what wou'd have become of them ', whether any Thing lefs than their utter Deftru&ion wou'd have fatisfy'd that implacable Spirit, which fo vifibly fiam'd out in the High-cburcb, as well as profefs'd Pafijls.

And when a Stop was put to this defperate Rebellion, were they then contented to be quiet ? No, their next Attempt was to court, and that with no fmall Sums, an lnvafionoi their Native Country, by a Prince, * whole Character is fo well known.

Good GOD ! What Plunders, what Rava- ges,

• See A Letter to Sir], P. ani. Life of Patkul.

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ges, what Slaughters, and Deflations of ail Sorts, wou'd thefe infamous Confpirators, and their Champion, if they had met with Succefs^ have committed ?

Certainly, If the Tories are fo mad, as to en- deavour, out of Malice to the Bell of Kings, to involve themfelves, and the whole Nation in one common Ruin; Others wou'd be as mad as they, if they gave them the leafl Advantage by quarrelling among themfelves. 'Tis evi- dent from GylUnvorgs Letters, that they, who defigrfd this Invafion, were not a little encou- rag'd by thofe Divijhns \ to give an Inftance, or two of this , * It continues certain, ( fays he ) that the Aiifunder standing among thofe of the prevailing Party encr.eafes mightily ; it may be at- tended with extraordinary Conferences in the Ap- proaching Se firms of Parliament. -\- Air. Wal-

pole'-f Reply is remarkable. If it be not

the Effect of the prefent Difcontent, and that the Court will find Expedients to regain thefe Perple, I don't know ^ whether the Court will cv'n ve>i tvre to bring that Matter upon the Stage. That he had a different Opinion of the prefent Mini- stry is plain, by his faying, ]) They will prevail on the Mercenary Parliament to take Figaro tu Re-

folutions. The Englifh Almijiers, who are

are all furious Perfons, do not mince the Afatter,

xoe mufr make Vfe of this Opportunity, to

enter into Aleafwes againR People, who, certainly, will not do things by halves \ we rnufi ruin them, or be undone ourjilves.

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Tho' this Defign of an Invafion feems to be blown over, yet the Hopes of the Jacobites are kept up by the Divifions among the Wbiggs ; and they were never more active than at pre^> fen in Difperfing their Libels j one of which is addrefs'd to R. W- e, Efq-,

And fnou'd this reftiefs Party ever prevail, ( as nothing now gives them Hopes, but " the Vnaccown-Me Quarrels among the Whiggs, ) can it be imagined, that they will think their New King, or rhemfelves fafe, as long as there is any Number of Whiggs left to join thole Forces, which the Houfe of Hanover may fend by Sea from Their Acquifitions in Bremen ? As their Enemies have a new Motive to endeavour to extirpate them, fo one wou'd think they had a frtlh Rea- fon to unite heartily among themfelves.

If any can fuppofe, that the Difpute is only a- bout Places, let him but reflect how the Tories acted in King Williams Reign-, when the Animofities lyr ween the Parties were infinitely fhort of what t.,ey have been fince • that King, tho' he took all Meafures imaginable to bring them into his In- tereft, yet the more he carefs'd them, the more they endeavoured to weaken his Hands, and to clog his Ad miniif ration \ and as the Hopes of Reitoring the Abdicated Family encreas'd, fo did their Enmity and infolence to him, 'till at Jaft that gieat Prince, when it was almoft too late, law it was not in his Power to alter them.

Did not the fame Party jhew the like En- mity to the Queen, and her Adminiilration, 'till the lare Miniftry came into all the Meafures, that tended to bring in Popery and Slavery I and then did they not fall in with all their Might ?

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Things Handing thus, is it not amazing, that no Experience can render the IVbiggs wifer, but they muft quarrel among themfelves, and one Party of them in Oppolltion to the other, en- deavour to make the Adminiftration uneafy \ and hinder fuch Things from Pafling as tend to the Publick Good and their general Interefl:, to the great Joy and Satisfaction of the common Ene- my, who only wait for an Opportunity to de- flroy bodi of them?

Men in high Stations, tho' they have fine and florid Parts, yet if they want folic! Senfe, and a good Stock of real Vertue, to enable them to bear their Grandeur with Moderation, grow* giddy and infolent upon their Exaltation, and believing ev'ry Thing due to their fu per ior Me- rit, form Schemes of .Engrofiing their Royal Ma- tter, and think they are affronted, if any of their Creatures ( how well foever they may defe: ve it ) are turn'd out -, or their Prince bellows his Fa- vour without their Leave \ and rather than fuf- fer this, they will throw up, tho' in the Middle of a Sefllons, and not fcruple to embroil the Pub- lick Affairs, in Order to make themfelves ne- cefTaryi and to force the Prince to part with thofe, who, He judges, befl: deferves his Kicd- nefs, and to .employ none but them, and their Creatures \ and this, they think, is not fo very difficult, where the Parties are pretty equal, and they are Aire of the Afiiltance of one of them to diftrefs the Miniflry :, they then have nothing to do, but to inveaglc fome unwary Wkiggi to join with them, by promiling, when they gain their Point, Places to thofe who have none, and to advance thofe that have.

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That fuch a Defign was on Foot, when the King went Abroad, is plain, from two Perfons threatning to lay down, if that molt Noble Peer, employ'd fince with fo much Reputation/ was made the third Secretary of State ; this Info- lence, their great Intimacy with a G- — -1 in Difgrace, and trufty H- — e being ofHcioufly fent with a Scheme for the Parliament's Sitting during the King's Abfence, fhock'd many People, tho' far from imagining they were capable of Afting what fince has been done.

If a certain Gentleman contriv'd this Scheme to get the Staff, and govern England, ev'n his In- ftruments, can't hope to keep their Pofts, but by an obfeqninus, flavilh Compliance \ for whoever is infolent to his Prince, will be intolerable, when in Power, to his Fellow-Subjette y and he muft have a vitiated Tafte, indeed, who thinks it not better to ferve a good King, of whofe Favour he mjy be fure as long as he does his Duty, than be a Slave to any Fellow-Subject \ efpecially one, who lately wou'd have thought himfelf very for- tunate, if, inftead of forming Schemes for govern- ing thefe Kingdoms, he cou'd have found Means of being freed from the Inconveniences he then labour'd under.

Quitting of Places is no Crime, but if feveral cabal to throw up, when the Government has moft Occaflon for their Service, in Order to force it to comply with their unreafonable De- mands, this is a very Criminal Confpiracy ; efpe- cially, in that Perfon, who has not only got in- credible Sums for himfelf, but who cou'd ask no- thing of his generous Mailer, (and all the World knows, he is none of the moft model!: in. Ask- ing )

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ing ) for his Children, Relations, and Friends, but what has been giv'n him '■, This mufl: fill ev'ry honeft Briton with Indignation againft fuch vile Ingratitude.

Thefe Men feem to be very fenfible of what b3fe Things they are Acting \ and, therefore, to colour it over, they join with the molt inveterate Jacobites, in Infinuating ev'ry where groundlefs, fenjlefs, and mojl malicious Stories againit the Co- vemmem, and woifd have the World believe, that there are fuch Vile^ fuch Horrid Things to be done, as they dare not fo much as name, and pre- tend to pity thofe, who have fo little Honour as to keep their Places, and be employ'd in the dirty Work

If Defigns are carrying on, inconfiftent with the Publick Good, the Miniiters ought to keep their Places, in Order to prevent thefe /'// Defigns, 'till they fee, 'tis out of their Power to hinder them \ and then, if they throw up, and expofe thofe Contrivances, they ought to do it, without renouncing, with their Employments^ their Fide- lity both fo their King and Country, but when Men take a contrary Method, and join with the Enemies of the Government, in difperfing fenflefs Stories about Foreign Divorces, New Marriages^ and I know not what Idle Tales, purpofely to ftir up the Rabble to Sedition } it fully fhews by what Principles they are governed.

It's certainly, much for the Honour of the pre- fent Adminiftration, that they have no Way to blacken it, but by telling ridiculous Lies , tho' at the fame Time, they pretend it is out of Re- flect, they dare not name what is doings none, fu're, can be fo impos'd on, as to think, thac

Men.

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Men, who will invent the grofleft Calumnies to afperfe the Government, will be fo fcrupulous, as to conceal the Truth, when 'tis fuppos'd to be fo much for their Intereft to have it known > and wou'd fo highly gratify that implacable Re- fentment, which upon all Occaflons, both with- in, and without Doors, they have never faifd to m3 ke appear.

When feveral are in a Secret, it is very diffi- cult for them all to keep it, tho' it were their In- tereft \ and efpecially a certain Gentleman, who was always blabbing what he is fworn to con- ceal.

His whole Conduct flnce this Turn, and the New Alliances he has made with Sir W. W^—m^ &c. and which he openly brags of, mews, that Refpeft has no Share in his Silence j but wou'd he blacken, to fome Purpofe, thofe in the Admi- niftration, he cou'd not do it more efieftually, than by Charging them with fome of thofe Things he himfelf has been guilty of.

Can any One intend the Good of his King, or Country, who endeavours to feduce Members, or other Perfons, whether in, or out of the Ser- vice of the Court, in Order to diftrefs the King's Meafures, and create fuch a Mifundeiftanding, as has a Tendency to the worft of Evils j

Hoc hhacm velit, et magna mcrcentur AtriAd Mercede :

but 'tis impoffible for them to fucceed, flnce the Wifdom, Sagacity, and Penetration of the Royal Family, will eafily fee what 'tis they intend, and frustrate all their Traiterous Defigns.

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In former Times and foreign Kingdoms, when there were no difputed Titles, but all own'd the Right of the PofTefTor of the Crown, there have been Inftances, tho' very rare, of Men fo infamous, as to endeavour to fovv Diflentions in the Royal Family •, but they were fure in the next Reign, if they fo long efcap'd PuniQimertt, to meet with all the Infamy imaginable, in Or- der to difcourage fuch dangerous Attempts for the future.

I wou'd ask any of thofe, who are drawn into thefe new Meafures, how he himfelf wou'd like it, if after he had prefer'd a Man, whom he found in a neceflitous Condition, to the beft Service he cou'd bellow, and the Servant thus advanc'd, Ihou'd grow intolerably infolent, and pretend to govern the whole Houfe ; and becaufe his Ma- tter found it neceiTary to remove another Head- Servant, he fhou'd agree with feveral of the Under-lings, not only to quit their Places, when their Matter had the moft Need of them -7 but openly join with the Servants of one, who was not only a profefs'd Enemy to his Matter, but a Pretender to his Eftate *, and whom, 'till then he had always rail'd at as a vile Impoftor *, and inft- nuate the worft Things of the Beft of Matters, ( who had no other Fault, but that of being too kind to him,) and endeavour to create a Mifun- derftanding in his Family, and give fuch a Charac- ter of thofe Servants, who had always been faith- ful, and abhor'd the Ufing their Matter after fuch a Manner, as fhou'd difcourage the Neighbours from Dealing with them, however neceuary to their old Matter's Affairs.

Wou'd any Gentleman, who had the le3ft De- gree

C 24 1 gree of Senfe, or Honour, or had no Mind to be defpis'd by his Neighbours ; and cheated, and ruin'd by fuch wicked, confederate Ser- vants, take them again upon their own Terms ; fince This wou'd be to make himfelf the Ser- vant, and them the Mafter •, no, certainly, he wou'd firft try all the Servants in a Nation that cou'd be had.

I wonder, how it cou'd enter into any Man's Mind, to think, that a Prince, who has fhewn To much Firmnefs, Conjlancy, and Refoiution in all his Actions, cou'd poffibly be work'd on by fuch Methods •, the fame Steady Condutt^ which hinders Him from parting with Minifters, who behave themfelves well, ( as they who ferve Him in His other Dominions find to their Satisfaction ) muft prevent Him from taking thofe again, who have acted a different Part \ and if ever Men perceive a Prince can do fo mean a Thing, as to employ People out of Fear, and that he is ready to buy thofe off^ who oppofe his Intereft, he will get ten real Enemies for one pretended Friend •, efpecially* in a Country, where few think they are pre- fer'd according to their Merit } and as he wiH not have a Minute's Quiet during His Reign, fo no Revenues cou'd fatisfy the Covetoufnefs of fuch, who upon ev'ry Turn wou'd expect to be bought off

Men, who were infolent before, wou'd, upon gaining their Point, by bullying the Govern- ment, be much more fo, and openly defpife a King, who had fhewn fo great a Weakneis; and 'tis impoflible, but a Prince muft be fill'd with Shame and Confufion, when he reflected on

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what Opinion the Worll muft have ,oi ft m«u rcondua, fo infinitely belowthe D,gnny , and Honour ot ^/T^J^U^ wou'd rath.r employ one, who h£ been an Op.n ■PnPmv than a treacbtroitt Friena , vwi fed*. World, that there* : w Ty= c - pable to hold him, but that *****«? flbrifice ev'rv Thing, Civil and SaCr.d, to

^^r^r^^t ring into Play

3Stt let us, for once, W»MS Thing, that 7% , now m ft A~£-u for

££ ftouM take the lame Me^ouS w b. re ftor'd, what o:het E&a coud " ff of putting, the Governments ^« ** W& Caftiiermg both W«, fc^?-r ;t .' but it- other wou'd be always oppofu,g« 1

they are Men of -«/££%£» k not be

pable of aa.ng fuch a Pat vuju

very wrong to turn out the ** M<n to 0

tify the •»*£» he;r own conduft, try up Some, to pinny tneu , whofe

the former Merit ot that Petfon » «^ fake they feenfd chiefly to have Confederacy, and the Obligation tn_y der to him. , . , rT\m* of thofe

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his Attempt againft h:s Maker, that he had once been chief among the good Spirits, and a favourite of rieav'n, it Can't, fure, exciue Inch as are led away by one, who, tho' we fhoud allow him once to have been equal to an jiagel hf:tJ$L yet puff'd up, I had almoft laid, wi:h Lucijcris.n Pride, and falfn from his h <rh Sta* tion\ has firice afted the Fart of an A gel of D.irk?ie!'s \ not but that the Government will, no doubt, make a Difference between the Tnnp- hr. anithe Tempted •. and if thev will return to their Duty, they may be in the ljame State of F vour as formerly ; and all good Men, who have i'een their Error, will, to atone for it, aft with more th?n rrd'may Zeal \ and as they can have no Obligations to a Subjeft, equal to what they owe their King and Coun- try^ fo they will think, that the Lengths they have already gone to ferve him, is more than fufficient to take away any Cnarge of hgr.x- titude. But to go to the Bottom of the Matter,

Whenever, upon jufl Grounds, we have con- ceiv'd a g od Opifiioa of a Man, as we ought not, without evident Proof, to alter our aen- tlmeirs, Co neither fhou'd we make his Adions the Meafure of Virtue and Vice, and believe that Good and Evil may rather change than he •, whoever is not govern'd by Pr vaples, but tlvnks himfelf in the right, becaufe he follows fuch Leaders, 'tis a Mil on to one, but he is in the wrong, with Relation to the State as well as the Church, and can as little be a True Wtiggi as a True Prottfiant.

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Had a Certain Gentleman dy'd about the jTime the Report of the Secret Committee came out, he Blight have made his Exit with more Reputation, than he mini expect for the fu- [ture •, tbo' there were ibme, who did not, tvn then, think the /mpeacb'd Lords in any great Danger, when they faw, that Proceeding by Attainder^ ( the ufual Method in fuch Cafes J

was not only omitted, but the fame A -y

G /, and molt of the fame Council, pick'd

out by the late Queen s Miniitry, as the fitteft Tools they cou'd find for carrying on their Pnrpotes, were continu'd ; and Tvat Perfon, whole AffecYon for Thu Government coifd no more be doubted of, than his Abilities to ferve

it, was difnr'iVd from being S -r G — -/,

becauie he woud not come into their Mea- fures } than which, noth ng as ev'ry one is now convinced, cou d be more for his Honour, except the iteady Part he acted, when hr was out -7 he then was fo far from making Allian- ces with the Enemies of the Government, not- witbitanaing the Indignity he receiv'd , th.it he redoubfd his Zeal for its Service on all Occafions.

A noble Veer's lying fo long in Prifon, with- out any Steps taken for his Trial, tho' Scaffolds were in all Hafte built for that Purpofe, made molt People think, he knew what he dd, when he chofe to go to the Tower •, and that his not flying was no great Mark of Courage, iut the late cold, and lifelefs Carriage, to fay. iq worie of it, of a certain Gentleman^ who jnce appeared lb very warm in that Profecu- .ion, and who took to himfelf the whole Con- D 1 du&

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dv6: of ;t, has convinced the World, he is ca- p-tbie of giving up, ev'n the Juftice due to his Country., in the Inftauce of a Perfon, whom he liimfelf thought the greatett Criminal againft if, to the gratifying of thole Paflions, which, on ev ry other Occafion, have of late thrown him into fnch a Courfe of Behaviour, as wou'd become no Body , but one who is a profefsM Enemy to it.

All Parties mu{l hate Ingratitude, efpecially, fnch Monjirom ingratitude ! and he, who fo eafily broke thorow the greatett Ties , and the higheft Obl'gaticns, miift be fenfible, ex- 1 cep^ quite blinded by Paflion , that what he has done niuft demonftrate to the World, that no Side can have the leaft hold of him, but that they mutt all agree to look him as the the laft of Mankind •, and one wou'd think, that a Man of the leaft Experience coifd not but know, that the Tories h?d done too much agaitm him, as well as he too much againft :r°m ev~r to be forgiv'n, much lefs t rutted \- and that 'after they have made all the life they can of him, they will throw him by, as a tir'd Traveller does his dirty Boots, '.and have no more Regard to him than he has to his Matter.

As an Inttance of this, there were feveral among the rankeft Tories, who cou'd not for- bear to fay aloud, they were highly p'eas'd to fee him lick vp his own Spittle *, bu*t fnoifd he have the Favour to be admitted to come in at their Fag-End, wou'd it not fhew wonderful Ma- nagement, if from being at the Head of one Party, he was able, by his own Cunning and

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Contrivance, to place himfelf at the Tail of the other?

The Archbifhop of Spalato, when he was in England, in King James the Firft's Time, wrote feveral Difcourfes againft Popery, and not think- ing he was preferr'd here according to his Merit, ( being a Perfon of no Principles, bu^t ofboundUfs Ambition and Covetoufncfs ) went back to Rome -, where, the Pope, inftead of Adva: cing him, as he was made to believe, clrpp'i him up m the Inejuifttion, 'till he had anfwer'd bis own Writings - and, I believe, the Tories, had they it in their Power, wou'd ferve a certain Gentleman much after the fame Rate, 'till he had anfwer'd cer- tain Difcourfes, of which he is efleem'd the Au- thor *, and which reflect as much as poflible on

his New Allies.

Moft People thought, ( and I own I was of the Number ) that the Ufage tbit Gentleman met with from the Tories, was fulHcient to (View that no Price cou'd gain him , but, in Truth, they did not confider, that after the IVbiggs had been charg'd with Cheating, and Plundering the Pubiick, and no Proof was made of it, a Vote of the JHouj'e of Commons, of a Breach of Trust-, and Notorious Corruptions in any Man among 'em, who had been employ'd in fnch Eminem Pofrs, wou'd be of more Advantage to the T'jries, than all the Services he con'd do 'em \ and they were lure he fhou'd do 'em no Hurt, being refolv'd to expel him the Houfe.

The Tory Miniftry, in their Four Pdcipclk Years, rais'd not only more Money, than their Vrcdecejfors had done in feven, during the War \ but alio contracted more Debts than the former

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had clone in twice the Time ; what this was chiefly owing to, may be guefs'd by the Trea- furer's Letter to the Queen, where 'tis affirm'd, that * Same of his Fellow-Servants were for Cheating the Public k of 10OOOO 1. in the South Sea -Affair, at St. John, and others had 2O000 1 in that of

Canada ', and that the C r faid, that No

Government was worth fejfving9 which wou'd not let them get fuch Jobs. When Men had fuch Views, 'tis no Wonder, if they endeavour'd to throw Duft in the Eyes of the People } and to make themfelves appear more innocent, wou'd repre- fent the Whiggs as criminal as poflibie.

Nothing touch'd me more ienlibly, than a certain Gentleman's robbing me of a Patriot, and fubitituting in his Room, a Thing too pro- ftitute to be mention'd ', and yet I was io. blinded in his Favour, that I battl'd it out for him with the Tories, 'till he quite pull'd off the Maique.

Since this Apoftacy, I heard a Difpute be- tween a Creature of — — , and a fteady

Whigg, who, after having made a Companion between the two R /, as to feveral remark- able Circumftances in their Lives and Fortunes, laid, there was a greater Reiemblance as to their Minds, and there was nothing which one did, tbac the other, had he been in the fame Circumftances, won'd have fcrupl"d.

This provok'd the deluded VF- te to fay,

'Twas imnoilible for him to make the leaft

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Parraftei between a Man of the utmofi Sincerity, and a mecr Trickster.

To which the other reptyd, Your Man of the utmoft Sincerity muff, be arriv'd to a gre;:t Per- fection in the Art of Tricking if he, to im- pofe on h's Prince, and injure a FelU woub- je&, whom the King had promised fhoifd be continu'd in the Command or a Ya£ch, iiiit Caus'd it to be laid up, and then §oX it riew- nam'd, and under that Name beggd it for a near Relation -, and he added, \\ bat he moit wondered at, was, how he coifd prevail on others to join with him thus to evade a Royal Promife.

Cou'd the other R n, [aid he, do a more

tricking Thing, than to appear zealous for hav- ingfuch a Sum mov'd for, after fuch a Manner, and promife to make the Motion hinifelf, but inftead of that, when he coifd nor hinder it from being made, to get his Creatures to cyonfe it •, and chiefly for that Reafon, becaufe it was made after the Manner he advis'd.

To give a Prince, upon his Quitting his Place, the utmoft Afhirance of Zeal for his Service :, nay, make the Promoting of his Service a Rea- fon for his Laying down, and tell him, that as a Proof he wou'd always be oidg'd to be well with His Majefty, he wou'd beg a Favour of

Him, and that was the Houfe at C a for

Life -, and immediately upon this to act the

Part he did, fhews, I do your R a no Injury

in the Companion.

One, who can treat his King thus, will not, added he, care how he abufes his Fellow-Sub- je#s 5 of whom, iereral, tho? of the greateft

* Loyally,

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Loyalty, and who cx-icnted their Employments with Ability and Honetly, ( of which, if you pleafe, you lhall have a Lift ) were tnrn'd out to make Room for o:hers no ways qualify'd ; and to fliew his great Sincerity, lbme. of them^' as 1 am well inform'd, were d'Trhifs'd foon after they had received the firongeft Aflurances of Kindnefs and Frieadjhipt

To talk to the laft me Way, and to vo:e ano- ther, as in the Cafe of S ~n,. and others, is, no

doubt, a great Proof of bis Sincerity •, and to is his Joining with Tories, and doing ev'ry thing to make the Parliament impracticable, while he is charging others wth a Defign of Uniting with them, and Diflblving this Parliament.

To this the W- te, with Warmth,, reptyd,

Pho, this is meer Malice, 'tis impoffible for. a Man in h's Port, tho' he a&ed ever fo ftirly, and honeftly, not to be afpers'd :, and your Com- p.irifou is a meer Libel. Did ever our R — n, as you call him, promote Bills for Perfection, contrary to the Principles he was bred in, and then profeis'd, to the Opprefilon of his Fellow- Subje&s, and the Endangering the Proteilant Religion ?

I fhou'd think as ill of him, reply d the Whigg, if after he had complain'd of thofe A&s as a great Grievance, and had promis'd to endeavour the Repeal of them, if ever he got into Power ; when he had got in, he fhoifd then fp:rit up a Perfection againft the B. of B, for Maintain- ing thofe Rights, which belong to us ?s Men, as Cbriftians, and as Protejlants ; and £et up in Op- pofition to him a prevaricating Wretch, who op- pos'd him with as little Honefty as Sence.

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Pray Sir, be not offended at the Comparifon, did they not both rife by thofe Principles and Friends, which they both have defertcd and be- trayed ? and tho' the former Trickfter did ev'ry Thing that's vile, yet fure, he, who artfully skreen'd him, ev'n while he bitterly rail'd at him, is not only as great a Diflembler, but an Abettor, and Encourager of all his Villanies} I will grant you, that one of them is better at Flattery, Wheedling, and Cajoling, which makes him the more dangerous ", yet in dividing the Whiggs, he follow'd the Example of the other, who before had fet them at Odds on t retence of Setting lip a Land-Bank.

Are not both alike implacable, and refolv'd to crufhall, that will not truckle to them? Do not we Whiggs cry up Sir J. H——nd1 as a Man, whofe Vertues render bim a Credit to our Party \ and yet how barbaroufly has he been us'd, and how mean a Piece of ^>pight was it, to turn him out of the Commiflion of the Peace ?

Are not both alike fdfifh, and always acted with a View to private Interefr, tho' the former did not feem to fond of Money, as to fell ev'ry Thing j and where People had not Money to buy, to go Shares with them in the Profits of their Places •, I fhall crurge no Body with this Corruption, but only give you an Account of an Affidavit midc by Mr. Tb — B-~~ks9 the Contains of ir he told, as he depofes, many Months before this Change in feveral Compa- ny Inch can be Artefted by Perions of Re- putation; and are to this Effect.

E That

That Mr. did ptomife this Depo

rent, that he mou'd not fail of having a Place, it he wou'd apply to him in a proper Manner ^ that fome Time after Mr. D-y, Partner with Mr. /?/--«, fbew'd him a Letter dated at Chelfca,

fign'd R 1 M-n, wherein after mentioning the

Interefthe had with his Mailer , be faith,

You can eafily aflure your Friend, that all his Recommendation , without an Underftanding with me, will avail nothing; and Mr. D-y fur- ther <:dded, That tho' this Deponent fhou'd be recommended by the King himfelf, it wou'd tig- nify nothing, vinlefs he wou'd come into Mr. Af— ns Meafures \ upon which he did agree to give the faid M— n, a Bond of 1000/. to pay him a third Part of a Searcher s, Place, as long as he enjoy'd the fame ', and that he was enjoin'd to keep this Tranfadion as a great Secret } and that one Mr. Btrtue, about this Time, being turn'd out from being one of the Searcher's, at the Cuftom- Houfe, he has great Reafon to believe, that Em- ployment was fold to the Perfon, who now en- joys it for a greater Confideracion, than what he had ohlig'd himfelf to give.

This Deponent further faith. That during the

Time Mr. — - was T r of the A— y9

he, and his Partner, did borrow of Mr. M—n, ioooo /.at 17 per Cent. Interefi", which he veri- ly believes to be the Publick Money \ and the

rather becaufc when Mr — was out of

that Employ , they were clofely prefs'd by

Mr. M-n for the Money, that Mr. might

be enabl'd to make up his Accounts.

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To this 'twas reply* d, No Man, f bre, cou\] be fo much blinded by Covetoufneis, as for a little more Money, to ryn the Hazard of being thus expos'd • and therefore, the Story confutes it> felf.

To which 'twas briskly anfwer'd, That a Man once lent to Prifon for Bribery and Corruption (no Matter whether the Money was for him- felf, or Creature, ) becomes as harden'd, and impudent, as a Wench fent to Bruhrel for a lefs Fault \ but cou'd he offer qooco /. for one Purchafe, or were he worth but. one half fo much, as his Friends fay he is, ftippofes feveral inch Jobs mult have been done, without which,

no Government? according to L— d H f, ts

worth feruing ; and of thefe, you, perhaps, can give a better Account than I.

Be no longer, Sir, impost on \ have not we Whiggs Reafon to hate them both ? Did not one of them bring us to the Brink of Ruin ? and is not the other now, when nothing elfe can do us a Mifchief, likely to finilh what the other left undone ? Does he not lee'ra now refolv'd to confound, what he defpairs to go- vern ? and will he not fucceed in the Attempt, except they, who have made this Defection, endeavour, by a better Conduct for the future, to retrieve our Credit, funk now very low both in Town and Country ?

But begging Pardon for this Digreffion, I fhall now obierve, that the main Argument, by which fome hopj to keep their Creatures flill dependent on them, is, the Repreienting thofe, who have the Management: of Affairs, as not equal to the Charge ^ and tftat there-

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fore, of Courfe, it muft fall again into their Hands.

To this modeft Argument, which confifts in Over-valuing themfelves, and Under valuing ev'ry Body elfe, I fhall only lay, that the true Intereft of Great Britain is fo plain, that it can't eafily be miftaken, let there be but Honefty, Refolution, Steadinefs, and Application, Things will go well *, but if Men care not how they injure the Pnblick, fo thev get by it, and yet, at the fame Time, are willing to keep up Ap- pearances •, this, indeed, requires fuch Tricking and Cunning, as all wife, all boneft Men, care- fully avoid, and none more abhor than thofe at prefent in the Ad minift ration. And it's no fmall Proof, that fome Men want thofe Abi- lities they boa ft of, when they ufe fuch Ar- guments for themfelves , as oblige People to consider their former Conduct ; and make Com- parifons, which, they muft be fenfible, will ne- ver turn to their Advantage.

It can't be c\en\'d, that Things are now in fo good a Method, and fo quickly expedited in the Treafury, that the Lords Commijfunr, s never rife, 'till they have difpatch'ol whatever Bufinefs comes before them :, lb that at their laft Adjournment there was not a Paper left undetermin'd. There's now no Complaint of a Certain Office held in the Strand, or any where elfe, which difpos'd of Places to the high- eft Bidder * or of Grants of Places in Reverfum, or for Life to Children and Relations \ in- ftead of that, no fooner was the Management of the Pnblick Revenues in the Hands it now is, but there was an Order made to prevent

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any fuch Pra&ice in thofe Places, of which they have the Difpofal.

Upon a certain Gentleman's Motion for a Loan of 600000 /. at 4 per Cent, a worthy Mem- ber oblig'd him to explain his Project concern- ing the Funds \ which was ib deftructive to the Publick, that it funk Credit the next Day 10 per Cent, and with all the Intereft he cou'd make, he cou'd not get an eighth Part fub- fcrib'd •, nor was it intended by him, that any Thing ftionYl be tranfa&ed during the Seflions, or by Parliament, but to gain a Power for the Treafury to treat with the Proprietors of fo many Millions in the Interval of Parliaments ; a Power, that might make any one, who had the chief Direction of it, the richer!: Subject in Britain : and certainly, one, who had been vo- ted guilty of Bribery and Corruption, for Contracts he was empower'd to make for the Publick, if he had the leaft Regard to his own Reputa- tion, inftead of Courting fuch a Power, wou'd, to his utmoft, have declin'd the Accepting it j but if a Parliament had been held during the King's Abfence, as fome defign'd, there can be no doubt, but that this Contrivance had fuc- ceeded.

The Perfon now at the Head of the Trea- fury, ( who thinks it the Duty of all in Pub- lick Pofts, to avoid giving Occafion for the leaft Sufpicion \) was againit any fuch Power, and thought, that a Matter or fo publick a ^Nature ftiou'd be publickly tranfa&ed by the iioufe of Commons, to whom, of Right, it be- longs ; and accordingly it pafs'd to the great Satibfac"Hon of the Nation ; and this Thing,

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which was hop'd by the Jacobites , and their New Allies, wow'd have funk Credit, has rais'd ic higher than ever yet it was. And if this Succeis, as His Majefty tel!s us in His Speech, is chiefly to be attributed to that jujl and prudent ReTird^ which was fl)ewn to Parliamentary Enqa^e- mrrtts, wou'd not the Taxing the Contracts not redeemable by Parliament ( a Defign, a certain Gentleman ftill openly avows ) have deftroy'd Publick Credit, and ruin'd Thoufands of Fa- milies ?

There can be no greater Proof, that People are fully latisfy'd with what was done, than that among fo many Millions fubfcrib'd to the Go- vernment, there has not been 500/. demanded out in Money : And they can't but think the Treafury now in better Hands, when the Pub- lick takes up Money on fuch eafy Terms, than when it gave 6 per Cent, on the Malt - Tax ; tho' there was at the fame Time a Vr&mium of one, and an half per Cent, on the Land-Tax Tallies.

Tho' the Noble Peer, who was made, upon the King's Accedion to the Crown, Lord Lieu- tenant of Ireland, cou'd not, thro' his ill State of Health, go over, yet by his prudent Care, in getting the difaftefted remov'd, and recom- mending the moft zealous and aftive, Things were fo well manag'd, and that Kingdom f not- withstanding the vaft Number of Papilis, and other difaffe&ed Perfons ) kept in fo much Peace and Quiet, that the Government was able of the few Forces it had there, to fpare fjveral Regiments, for Reducing the Rebels in Great Britain. And had as proper Methods

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been us'cl here by thofe at the Helm, we had, undoubtedly, been as free from all Difturban- ces.

Had that Lord appear'd fullen, and clifcon- tented , for not being reftor'd to his former Poft, and tho' he had accepted another Place, yet had been too proud, and refty, to have acted •, he, certainly, wou'd have met with the Fate of a Late State fma?i; whole Pehaviour has been fo Unaccountable, that it leaves not thofe who wifh him well, any Thing to oiler in his Excufe.

We can only judge of Politicians by their Actions ; and if thefe tend to one Point, tho* ever fo vile, ever fo contrary to their, Prote- iiations, it wou'd be no Breach of Charity, to think they had Tb.it continually in View.

Were I a bold, daring Fellow, of a Humour to laugh at ev'ry Thing that's ferions, to ban- ter ev'ry one, 1 thought had lefs Sence than niyfelf*, and tho' of a ready Wit, yet of a Judgment none of the founded, and of a Re- futation none of the heft } and yet withal io extravagant in my Way of Living, that tho7 1 have had feverai Confiderable Places , of which, I always made the moft, yet my For- tune was flill defperate, and I knew not how to contract my Expencefc" •-, in this Gate, if I kept one Place in T-ruft, by which 1 might gain vaitly in Proportion to the Number of the For- ces in Pay \ and another, which I executed my- felf, afforded me a thoufand Opportunity getting what I thought fit \r\ a Time of War \ can it be fuppo 'd, that any Scruples of Con- science woLrid hinder me from doing all I fafe-

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Jy cou'd to encourage a War, efpecially a Civil War ? for the Carrying on of which, Money and Troops muft be had at any Rate j and where, if the Rebels mifcarry'd, I had an Op- portunity of fqneezing what Sums I pleas'd out of them \ and if I fucceeded in this, my next Step, no donbt, wou'd be to make myfelf ne- ceflary to the Government \ and in Order to that, I fhou'd endeavour to caufe fuch an Equi- librium between the Parties, that I might, by the Affiftance of my Creatures, turn the Bal- lance on what Side I pleas'd ; and if I thought the Party I pretended to be of, was too power- ful, I wou'd, underhand, do what I cou'd to weaken it, and to ftrengthen the other ; by this I fhou'd hope to be well with them, if my Defign of making the Government employ me, and my Creatures, upon my own Terms fhou'd mifcarry.

Now the Queftion is, Whether fuch a Suppo- fition as this, may not, in fome Meafure, explain the Mifteries of a Conduct otherwife wholly un- accountable ? Particularly, whether it will not unlock the Secret, why fuch a Party was form'd againft that General, to whom we owe fo many Obligations \ and who, in the Midft of a molt fevere Winter, by a Conduct, which guarded againft all Accidents, entirely diffipated the Re- bels, and put an End to a War, which might have been nurs'd up to the great Advantage of two Perfons ; between whom, tho' they both feenfd to aim at the Governing, and Engrcf- fing ev'ry Thing, there is at prel'ent a great Intimacy, and is likely to continue, while fuch an Active and Able Statefman and Soldier is to

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command the Troops '■, than which, nothing can be a greater Difcouragement to a New Re- bellion.

People were furpriz'd, to find fo little Re- gard paid to the frequent Petitions of the Mer- chants, complaining of the Interruption of their Trade in the Baltick, and the Taking fuch Num- bers of their Ships by the Swedes, and that ev'n while we had a Royal Navy in the Sound, they were permitted, with Impunity, to act the />/- ratcs \ but Gyttenborge's Letters help to explain this Miftery i where we find, that the Ships ta- ken from us, were to ferve as Tranfports for their Army. Had not this heflijh Confpiracy been feafonably difcover'dj what Sums might not the Vofls, a certain Gentleman then enjoy'd, have gain'd him by this Invajion •, fince no Expence wou'd have been thought too great, to have quick- ly got lid of thoie barbarous Ravagers. To be zealous, when in Play, for keeping up 32000 Men, and after a Ihort Interval of Time, in which, his Conduct was far from affording an Argument for Lejfeninp; them, to be as zealous againft Trussing the King, tho' but for a Year, with half that Number, is of a Piece with the reft of his late Actions.

If another Perfon, ( as 'twas repot ted ) faid juft before he was remov'd, That he had rather fee an Army of Swedes here, than the Acb about Occafioaal Conformity repeal'd\ I fhou'd not won* der, confidering from what Priefts he got his Church t Politick* \ and by what Artful .Man he has all along been wholly goveru'd in State- Matters.

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tt can't be fuppos'd, thefe Men had any hand in the Triple Alliance j ( and the fame, I believe, may be faid of the other beneficial Treaties, ) fmce as it was begun at the Hague by Mr. Stan- hope, and the Abbot Du Boisi fo it was finifh'd while the King was Abroad. And not to men- tion the other Advantages we gain by it, what can be more to the Honour, as well as Security, of the Nation, than that France fhou'd be oblig'd, at her own Expcnce, to demolifh the Port and Har- bour of Mar dyke , to the great Mortification of the Old, and New Jacobites.

But fir.ee 'tis laid, and ev''n by thofe who pre- tend to be WhiggS, that the Publick Good requires the Restoring certain Statcfmen •, they wou'd do well to tell us of one good Law that they caus'd to pafs •, ( fome, indeed, they hinder'd, as that relating to the Veflries, &c. J or any one Thing thay did for the Publick Security. Did they take right Methods to quell the Riots and Tumults, that were fpread almofl over the whole Nation ? What was done at Brijlol, and other Places ? Did it ferve any other Purpofe, than to encou- rage a downright Rebellion ? and here in Lon- don, in the very Face of the Government, its Friends were fo frequently infill ted, that the Ja- cobites had for fome Time, with too much Ap- pearance of Truth, the Afiurance to tell the People, that if they expelled to be fafe in their Houfes, or Per/on s. they must, at Icafl, be Neuters. We cant doubt, but that 'twas in the Power of fome Men, to have kept Things in a better Order, if we bir confider what Effft, the Hang- ing of fiie mean Rafcah ( which at lafl they were fore'd to come into) has had on the Mob •, how

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Where thofe, who are at the Head of Af- fairs, are fo cautious ( to call it no worfe ) of Provoking the irrecor.cileable Enemies of the Government, as not to take all Nccejfary Steps for its Security, but acl: a mean-, cowardly Part -, others, no doubt, will be fo wrought on by tbeir Example, as not to do Juftice on the King's Enemies, or to his Friends \ ar.d when they, who have more than a common Zeal for the Government , are term'd its too - warm Friends, and for that Reafon meet with Dif- .couraeements 5 there are very few, but who will quickly become hike - warm, and then io indifferent, as to defire to be well with the other Side, upon their own Terms 5 ( and a Compounding Party in England is no New Thing y ) let a Prince come to the Crown with ever fo geneual Applaufe, or let his Arms meet with ever fo great Succefs, yet fuch a Manage- ment mull daily caufe him to lofe Ground •, and by Degrees, ruin the beft Caufe in the Uni- verfe.

It did not a little encourage the Jacobires, to fee fo many of their Friends, who had fuffici- ently (hewn they wou'd not leave their Partyy continu'd in their Ports •, efpecially in the Com" millions of the Peace and M'litia.

There's a great deal trufted to theft Officer -, 'tis Thcyt who are to bring the Ring's Enemies to Juftice • 'tis They, who are to fuppreis Tu- multuous Aflemblics *, 'tis They, who are to F 2 put

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put the Laws in Execution againft Papifis and Jtfon-jutors :, in fhort, the Welfare both of King and People, does, in great Meafure, depend upon Their faithfully difcharging Their Duty ; and therefore, none, efpecially in unfettl'd Times, ought to be employ'd, but Zealous and active Men; but when thefe important Trufts are in wrong Hands, all Favour is fhewn to the King's Enemies, and his Friends, who can expect no manner of Juftice, are infulted by Mobs underhand encourag'd.

In fuch a Cafe as this, 'twas no Wonder, that the Enemies of the Government thought they had nothing to do, but to rile in Arms, and take PoflefFion.

During the War, or immediately after, when the Nation, frighten'd by the Danger from w^iich they were juft freed, wou'd have come into any Meafures for its Security, was the proper Time for making neceftary Regulations; what then cou'd have hinder'd doing Juftice to the Dljfititers, when there were few, or none to have oppos'd it, but fuch ( and this wr,s frefh in ev'ry One's Mind ) as either by Se- cret and Malicious Jnfmuattons fomented, or by an Avoxvd Indifference encouraged the Rebellion ? Who then cou'd have been againft Reforming the Vniverfnies, without being fufpe&ed to fa- vour the Caufe of Traitors \ when not only the Do&rines they taught, were moft inftrumental in letting the Nation in a Flame \ but 'twas no- torious what Part one of them was tp have ad- cd in that Trakerous Enterprise.

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Then had been the Time to have treated the Papists, who were mod forward in the Rebellion as they deferv'd ; That had been Wounding the Enemies of the Government in the tenderer! Part, and none of our Allies cou'd have blam'd us, if having a juft Care of our Prefervation, we had put all the Old Laws againft them in Execution •, or fram'd fuch New Ones, as might for ever have difabl'd them from doing us any Mifchief, and reimburs'd the Nation the Ex- pences they were at in Quelling thofe Rebels; but the Conduft of the Papists, ( who manage Things by a common Purfe ) and the Swarms of their Priests, who continu'd here after the Rebellion, as buty as ever, plainly fhew'd, they were under no fuch Apprehenfions. Can a Go- vernment long be fafe, which neglects to take all Jjawful Means for weakning its Enemies, and ftrengthning its Friends ?

We, alas ! were fo far from making the beft of the Fitlory, that the Jacobites publickly boaft- ed, we let all the Fruits of it flip out of our Hands; and that the fnflering the Prifoners to be plentifully maintain'd by their own Side in Jail, and letting fo many efcape, by Bribing Ju- ries, Jailors, or by Pardons, or Not being trfd, ( as the Cottons, &c. ) was not the way to frighten their Party from attempting the like again ; ef- pecially, if they obferv'd what Difcouragements They met with, who were the forwarder! in Op' pofng, or Preventing their Defigns.

The Tories faid, That had they in the Late Reign, taken any of the Whiggs in A&ual Re- bellion, they wouM r.ot have fufier'd them to have broken Pnfcns, if Loads of Irons cou'd have

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hindered it ; nor wou'd they have brought them to London, as to a Market, that thofe who bid the highest: might efcape, after having fqueez'd them by Reprieves upon Reprieves , ( each of which, tho' ever fo many were put in the fame Reprieve, cofl ev'ry fmgle Perfon an extravagant Trice ; ) and hang'd only a few poor Rogues 1 nor ihou'd they, by Jingle Trials, have put the Go- vernment to a vaft Expence; but by a fhort Bill cf Attainder, the ufual Method in fuch Cafes, have convinced the Whiggs, that whoever took vp Arms, be the Pretence what it wou'd, fhoifd certainly be hang'd.

Ev'ry one was at firft furpriz'd to fee, that tho7 all the Rebels might have been, with little Expence, try d in the North, where they were taken, and where the Witnejfes were ready at hand ; yet none but the poorer and meaner Sort were there try'd, but all of any Tolerable Con- dition, or Substance, were, at a great Charge to the Government, brought to Town • and the Trifons fo crowded with them, and kept there - foiong, as endangered bringing an infectious Diftemper into the Town •, and none bejng hin- dered from coming to them, the Party had an Opportunity to encourage them in their Okfli- nacy, to cabal together, to difperfe their con- certed Lies over th2 Nation, and create, efpe- cially, in the People of this Town, a Pity and Tendernefs for them, by Reafon of their endu- ring fo Long an Imprifonmcnt • and, by Execu- ting now and then a iwgle Perfon •, this, I fay, furpriz'd People, 'till they confider'd, that Aa Bargains coiPd conveniently be made but Here 5 and that Here was the Money of the Party, as

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well as their common Rendezvous *, and that it might well be prefum'd, they wou'd not fpare their Purfes, to fave the Lives of thofe, who had ventur'd ev'ry Thing for the Caufc.

Nothing is, certainly, truer, than the Charac- ter Tacitus gives of the Mob ; Nihil in vulgo modi- cum : t err ere ni yaveant : ubi pertimuere, impunb ton- temni. And Severity gives them an Awe and Re- verence for thofe who ufe it, and turns the Edge of their Hatred againft the Caufe, for which they fuffer ^ which makes them run from one Ex- tream to another. This is the Reafon, that where Arbitrary Power prevails, they quickly grow fond of their Chains, and hate the very Name of Liberty \ and we fee, that the fevere Executions in the Weft by K. James, to whofe Popifl) Government, they were then fo generally averfe, was far from hindring his fuppos'd 5o», from having his greateft Hopes from thence. Mever was there an Inftance of a Prince's being belovd by his Subje&s, who was not a itrift Oblerver of Discipline ; Hang well and Pay wet!, is the Hinge, on which Government turns •, and ours has been, in a manner, unhing'd, ever fince SacheverelCs Mob efcap'd unpunifh'd.

When People take up Arms on Account of Grievances , the Redreffing thofe, and Pardoning the Rebels, may, perhaps, be a proper way to regain them ; but when a fuppos'd unlawful Title is the Grievance, how can that be rcdrefs'd ? and when being protected in their Lives and For- tunes, will not at firft hinder them from taking up Arms, I can't fee, how That will afterwards do it ; and the Conduct of the/>i dm'd Rebels has fufficiently fhown, that nothing but Severity

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can have any Effect in fuch Cafes : But then' you mull be quick in Punijhing, and all at a Time ', 'tis That ftrikes the utmoft Terror -7 whereas Executing a fiagle Perfon now and thent and a good While after the Fall, ferves only to provoke *, and ( however it may conduce to the Purpofes of bad Men ) has the worft Appearance of Cruelty without frightning ; nay, if Men had a Mind to bring a Government into Hatred with the People, and create in them a Pity for its Ene- mies, what more effe&ual Way cou'd be taken ? and what a Handle miift it give them to make Tragical Exclamations of its Cruelty, and at the the fame Time, caufe them to defpife its ill Conduct, is too evident: Indeed, after People have been lb long detained in Prifon, without being brought to Juftice, it makes a Pardon neceflary.

If Men are in hafte to grow rich, there is, no doubt, more to be got by Not profecuting, or by Saving than Hanging , and we may guefs at the Reafon, why two Perfons, (not to mention others) One, who knew there was fuch plain Evidence againft him, that, in Defpair, he ftabb'd him- felf -, and the Other, tho now a New Ally, thought fo great a Criminal, with fuch full Proof againft him, as not to be admitted to Bail on any Tenns, were both difmifs d without any Profecution : Which made the Government cenfur'd for Clap- ping up, and Continuing fo long in Prifon, Per- fons, either really, or, at leaft, in the Eye of the Law, innocent.

Never was there an Inftance of a Plot fo gene- ral as This, and an Vnfuccefsful Rebellion attend- ing It, where all was not unravell'd •, but there

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may be Cafes, where more is to be got by Con-* cealing than Di (covering -, and Hujli-Money may amount to a very confiderable Sum.

Tho* we fhou'd over look this Conduct, yet did they manage better in other Matters ? the Tory Miiiiftry, we find, courted the People at a prodigious Expence, and Jacobite Papers were thrown by Bundles into ev'ry Corner •, and by Thofe Means they gain'd them over to al] their deitructive Meafures ; fo that 'tis plain, they who will court the People may be fure of them, ev'n in Things contrary to their ImereH ; but did we take Care to regain them ? tho' we faw, that the Jacobites, fenfible of the BENEFIT they drew from their Libels, were willing to run Ml Ha- zards, and come into Any Expence for diiperf- ing them.

The not taking off, at the Revolution^ two of the State Holy-Days, was* by fome, thought a great Negleft ; fince it gave the Higb-cfatrch Priefts an Handle to attack the Revolution, in fixing, in the Minds of the People, their Arbitrary Principles \ and the Compaffion they inlpir'd them with for the Sufferings of the Grand-Father, ( which fome of them heighten'd above thoje of our Saviour ) they eafily turn'd into a Love for the fuppos'd Grand-fun? and tho* they were Church-men, as Clarendon owns, who began the War \ (and 'tis notorious, that as the Presbyterians, by their Minifteis, peti* tion'd again ft Putting the Father to Death, fo they were moil active in Reftoring the Son ; ) yet the Pulpits, to make them odious to the People, charg'd them not only with Beginning the War, and Kilting the King, but reprefented ev'ry Wkigg as a Presbyterian and King-killer • and continue to

I 5° 3 do the [.wit to this Day with much.Succtfs : And when the Tories happily gave a juft Occafion for pitting down thufe Daysy by their Tumults and Violences they ffo» committed} and by tiie Marks of Diftin&ion they ev'ry where wore on one of them j which occalion'd the Pra&ifing the fame on the Pretender s Birth-day "7 yet iro Advantage was taken of this \ and 'tis no Secret, that a certain Gentleman, tho' he promis'd to be for it, under- hand made all the Intereft he cou'd agsinft it.

7>e fiftt Thing which gave the, 'till then, defpairing Jacobites fome Hopes, was, that Piece of Courtfhip paid to the High-church C.e gy, in making one of the chief Iuftruments of the late tnjamom Peace a Privy Counftllor j and I may ven- ture to fay, thatcv'rj Thing, fome advis'd, was of a Piece with this, and ferv'd to encourage the Enemies of the Government, and difcourage its Friends \ whereas a direct contrary Method had, by this Time, rooted ;; ill Jacohptifm $ or, at leaft, redue'd that taction to an inconliderable, contemptible Number.

Cowardly, Trimming Meafures are the more inexcufable, becaufe 'tis evident from all our Hiifories, that in what Reign foever there has been a Steady, Refolute, A&ive, and Vigorous Adminiftration, th>fc Princes have never failed of being Great and Gloriow, and having the People at their Devotion ; while they, who took a con- trary Method, which was generally owing to the Advice of Corrupt Miniiters, were perpetually un- happy.

\he Weight of the Government in all Reigns is fo Vry great, that, 'tis capable, whenever there is a Steady, Refolute, and Active Adminjftra-

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tion, to re&;fy all Abufes ■, or do whatever it thinks fit for the Publick Good. Had H. 8. been influenced by fu'ch Counfels asieem'd of late to have prevail d, he wou'd never have done fuch Glorious Things towards a Reformation j nor wou'd Queen Elizabeth ever been able to have com- pleat d it.

This Qiieon, who makes the greateit. Figure among our Princes, was moft eminently re- markable for that Steadinefs and Uniformity, which ran through all her Actions, during that Long, and Glorious Reign : By which Means She ba-ffl'd the many Attempts of her Foreign and Domeftick Enemies, and entirely broke the whole Force and Spirit of that Party among her Subjects, which was popifhly affected, and was very formidable in the Beginning of her Reign.

But to give a more modern Inftance, Crom- wel, notwithstanding the Badneis of his Title, and tho' he had the Nobility, Gentry, Church and Prtsbyterians aguinft him, yet by employing none but Aftive Men, who were hearty to his Caufe, and mortally hated his Enemies; he not only did what he pleas'd at Home, but made as great a Figure Abroad, as any of our Englifh Mo- narchs \ but his Son, who a&ed a trimming,, mean Part , quickly loft all his Father had gain'd.

The Whim who made the fir ft Stand againft Popery and Slavery in Ch. 2d s Reign, were very few • but they, by their Courage, Unanimity, and Steadinefs, mightily encreas'd, and lalfTd all the Defigns of the Court, 'til! the King re- lbiv'd to take off the Heads of their Leaders i G 2 and

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and tW he made life of the Vtmntt Stretch of the Law to do this, yet it wonderfully chang'd the Inclinations of the People, and put him in a Condition to acl: as he thought fit.

Upon the Revolution it had been eafy to have extirpated all Torifm, had vigorous Meafu res been taken \ but the mean Court fhip of thofe in Power to the Tories and High-church Clergy, in- stead of gaining them one Man, ferv'd to no other Purpofe, than to give them fuch Credit with the People, as to be believ'd in ev>y thing they faid againft the Whiffs \ efpecially, of their Defigns on the Church, notwithftanding the many Laws they made in Favour of it 5 which caus'd the King to judge it neceflary more than once to court, and employ that Party *, tho' as «ftea as he did it, the Nation was brought to the Brink of Ruin.

None, Aire, can forget, that the Queen's M— * — y, had not Providence lealbnably inter- posM, wou'd. in all Probability, have fucceeded. In all their mad Undertakings ; and to what Was this owing, but to the bold Steps they were always taking, and to their continually pufhing on, with the utmoft Courage, and Reloiution, fiheir wicked Defigns ?

The Whiggs in Ireland, tho' fcarce One in Ten, compar'd with the Papt/ls, and other Jar eobite<y yet keep them in great Awe and Sub- jection *, and this is chieily owing to t&eir Com- mons in Par iaaient, acting with lo much Vigour and Unanimity, never quarrelling with the Go- vernment, or one another,, abouc fuch Trifles, 12 too often divide us here.

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The fame Methods, no doubt, wou'd have the fame Effeft on the Britifh Jacobites, who be- ing SUves by Principle, and generally Sots by Edu- cation, are, upon no Account, fuperior to the Irifli Tories •, and, for the moit part, are a brag- ging, bluftering, cowardly Sett; of Men, whom the leaft kind Ufage, they always imputing it to Fear, makes infupportably ivfchrrt ; whereas if they are treated as they deferve, they, as con- ftant Experience fhews7 become moft tame, fubmiftlve, and fawning, like thole Foreign Slaves they fo much admire.

The Englijb, of all Nations, are the moft fond of fncli Bold, Enterprising Men, as lee flip no Opportunity of pufhing their Enemies} efpecially, in their Party Quarrels, where their Animofities run to the greateft Heights : And in Truth, that which has fo much endear'd the Tory Leaders to their own Side, was their taking all Occafions to opprefs the adverfe Par- ty j This made them give themfelves up to their Conduct, and ad with fo much Unani- mity under their Management.

If the iVbiggs, tho' perfonally as Brave as ever, have not of late, as a Party, fhewn fucfa Courage, Refolution, and Steadinefs, as they did here formerly, and do at preient in Ire- land •, this Change mull: be owing to the Mis- fortune of their having been under fuch Lea- ders •, who out cf narrow Views, and mean Courtfhip to their Adversaries, inftead of do- ing what was neceflary, for keeping up the Courage of their Side, did ail that was poffible to fink it j and to render them a mean, abjtft, <dilpirited, lifelefs Party, except in their Quar- rels

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I may venture to fay, that Two Perfons, whom I need not name, cou'd never have de- fied better Circumftances, to have done fuch Things for the Good of their Country, as wou'd have i'ecur'd them a Lafting Authority with all honeft Men , and they might, like Good Queen Zfc/i's Miniftry, have grown old in the Service of a Prince not giv'n to change, and have convey d, unenvy'd, what Riches, what Honours they pleas'd to their Pofterity, and been celebrated in Biftory, for the mbit Able, nay, the moft Honeft Statefmen, this Nation was ever bl'efs'd with. ri'l -

If the Wbiggs have no Mind to perifh m the Harbour, after having efcap'd fo many' Storms at Sea, they mult now refume their ibrmer Bravery ; and when Men are lb happy as to have fuch Leaders, who are as much above Fear, as Covetoufnefs, or Corruption, Courage naturally defcends, and infpires a whole Party.

And, furely, the Example of a Sovereign, Who ihews fo much ReJblucion and Steadi- Hefs in all His Actions, mult influence His Loyal Subjects, and m^ke them ad with Vi- gour and Unanimity, in Preventing the De- signs of ill Men, who, to throw us into Con-

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fufion, have been, ev'ry where, fo induftrious to create Divifion and Fa&ion.

Tho' this Pap2r, if it had fooner Teen the Light, might have appear'd with greater Ad- vantage, yet, if fome Men, having had Time to cool in the Country, had come up with fuch Difpolltions, as wou'd have made the Publifh- ing it needlefs, this wou'd have giv'n the Wri- ter of it the higheft Satisfaction *, and there's nothing he wifhes more ardently, than tfhat the fame Motive, the Love of his Country, which has made him, tho' with the utmoft Regret, to write after this Manner, wou'd give him as juft an Occalion to re fume his former Sentiments, and fay ev'ry Thing in Commendation of Men, whole Examples haye lb great an Influence.

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