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Had that generous Monarch been now alive, and obferv*d what wild and inconfiftent whims catch the atten- tion of the multitude, his opinion would probably * have been ftill the fame, for who is more wife, than ' him that can pleafurably fubmit to be cheated ? The modern fcheme for Writing politicks is to get together all the tittle tattle of the times, whe- ther pick*d up at private goffippings, or publick news (hops, and in every vacancy of known fadts, v/hich are only here and there fcatter*d al^ large, 10 throw in the others by v/ay of amufing incidents, to fill up the fpaces, and bundle the whole together, by way of elegant romance, not confidcring how :3t-; T B much ■HMinmiiiiPii : [ 2 ] much eafier it is to fill peoples heads with fiditious whims, than to eradicate error. Jf men of letteradid refledl a moment on the confequences naturally refulting from works meerly calculated to inflame the minds of the people, they would furely be very cautious what kind of thoughts they committed to the prefs, and how they endea- vour'd to inculcate into the weak or prejudiced, fen- timents tha^t evidently contribute to unloofe the tyes of affed^on and duty, and break the bands of unity, between the legiflature and the fubjed, and between man and man : or at lealV when fadlion fcduces them to turn their talents this way, they would be very careful to reft folely on fa6ls, and not in order to be admirM, ground their whole doArine on fidion. • The main end of this kind of writing is to fet the people a flaring, and the author's principal merit coo0fts, in the di^culty of being underftood. For that; i;eafo^ he will meet prefent applaufe, and as his I^bour-s outrun the capacity of every perufer, fo are they to be juftly concluded the work of fome emin^t hand. However this approbation happily l^s. iiQ longer, than until fome dextrous enquirer tryches the performance, as Itburiel did the toad in Milton., when inftantly the fallacy's unmask*d, and the deceiver appears in his natural fhape and colouring. ^. :. . , , v ' , We are to corifider the pamphlet before us in the light of a novel, that by being interlpers'd with fome fa.6lsi, and much virulence, has the fandlion ltapip*d upon it of a very excellent compofition. 3 Thofc t 3 ] Thofe who read it need not to bt told that the firfl: feven pages are meer invention, at kaft appear not with any kind of evidence to (hew the contrary, and in the middle of the eighth page we fall upon afimple fadt, but whether that be true or falfe in the light the author has dated it, is another qucflion. This is the fecret treaty of HanaUy propos'd by the Em- peror, and rejeded at the Court of Great Britain^ and as our author fays by the inBuence of the two B rs. Thofe who do, or think they know bet- ter, are of a very different opinioh. But we muft iirft c»n(ider, what this author has forgot, that is^ whe- ther this treaty ought to have been rejected, or not> and then by whom it was rejefted. The treaty of Hanau was on the carpet at the fame time with another negotiating at Worms ; and it's very difficult to conceive how they could both have operated to efFecb, and therefore if it was true, as I think has never been difputed, that lord C— ^-^Z patronis'd the lad, it is mod probable xhix he reje£ted the firft. And SiS it is likewife a very well known fad, that he was ftrongly opposM by the two B — i— rs and their party, in regard to the treaty of Worms, it is next to certain that they efpous'd the treaty of HanaUy and this author may well fay its drange that the two B ^-rs (hould oppofe the treaty of HanaUy which intended the peace they aim'd at. But it is full as drange how he came by his information, which is not only wide of truth, but proves fo on the face of the argument, even as himfelf dates it. But we diall meet with dranger things than this, in tvcry page we purfue. ; . i Ba The '[4] The truth of the matter is, that the treaty of Hanau was negotiated to counteraft the treaty of JVorms^ and becaufe the latter took eflfeft, the for- mer was in courfe rejedted, and the moft that can at prefent be faid of either of them, is, that the one pointed out a well concerted war, the other gave us a chance for returning again to our old pacific difpofition,which fufficiently confirms, that the notion of the two B rs having prevented its taking place, is a meer whim. .^.iwiiM .^.^ .^ x — n* - I muft here beg leave to make an obfervation which will be found to hold true through the whole courfe of this difpute, which is, that the author of the examination has either miftaken his leflbn, or his warm fpirits have carried him beyond his judgment or knowledge, or both. For this, as will be leen, e feme ly part itiotvs of the ,'i [ 7 ] rtie people, or in any rcfpe<5t to bring them to their fcnfes, unlefs he fuppofcs all the better part of man- kind educated at BiUingfgate^ is to me totally incon- ceivable. Neither can I reconcile another particular to common fenfe, which is that the two B— — rs affefting to diibelicve the report of a growing re- bellion, Ihould inBame the people into a refentment againft lord G— ^//f, upon a Juppqfition that he in- tended thereby to caft the flur of jacobitifm upon the violences of the faSiiony and to derive an argument from thence to be the better jufiified^ in a farther profecution of the war. If fuch inconfiftencies can any way be reconcil'd, it is by prefuming here, that the author intends no very happy compliment to his hero, but for my own part, I muft honeflly confefs, this is, if poffible, more incomprehenfible than the preceeding. The next ftfbion of page 1 1, is an inftance how partial every man is to his own failings, and how fevere upon thofe of others, to fee the epithets, pajjionatey znd frantic ufed, and forgot at ilmoft the fame inftant, and even apply'd to a matter that feems to have been very calmly conduced, muft furely induce this gentleman to recoUeft how much he forgets himfelf ; for if he had confider'd how flowly we came into the war, and how cooly we purfued it, he would never have dreamt that either paffionate or frantic people had any thing to do with it. But how this furnifh* d the fakion with time and leifure to concert fdme new pretence to keep up the fpirit of oppojitiony the writer only can account for, and this paffionate temper produces cm effe^ of ' ' which ■I I I \ I I [ 8 ] wbrcb it will be proper to furnijh the world with three notable ififtances. •' ■•' '• ■ ' • ' ' There is fomething in the next paragraph, page 12, a litt'-* perplexing in one of the notable inftances of fending commodore Barnet to the Eafi Indies^ which no mifreprelentation could give a foreign comple^lion to, becaufe it may be truly faid^ that the E 1 I a C y ftands indebted to the two B'--^rs, for the favours they have Jince received at the hands of M, de la Bourdonnais. The next notable inftance is Icfs wild and incon- fiftent, and the fadl, as the author would have it, ftands thus. The new miniftry defir'd that Leftock might be recaird becaufe he differed with Matthews^ and were the warmer in their inftances, as having heard that it was the common difcourfe in France^ that Leftock wou'd not fight. This the old miniftry op- pos'd, and why they did fo appears by the means they purfued afterwards, to ruin Matthews and fave Leftock. Though Matthews undertook the com- mand in the Mediterranean on their exprefs promife to recall Leftock, This is the genuine fenfe of the paragraph page 13, which I could not repeat with all its virulence and verbofity without offending the ear of a modeft reader. I can't help thinking with this author that Mr. Matthews was much tlie honefter man of the two, and that as it relates to the engage- ment in the Mediterranean had very hard ufage. But that the French knew LeStock would not fight, or that the old miniftry promised Matthews he ftiould be recall' d, requires fome better proof to be credit- ^dj other wife I conceive this writer is acting the fame part, 'Id with ph, page inftances } Indies^ foreign that the the two ceiv*d at d incon- have ic, t Leftock Matthews, s having mce^ that iftry op- e means and fave he com- 1 promife ^e of the leat with ding the ing with honefter engage- ige. But jht, or e fhould )e credit- the fame part, [9 3 part, he complains of, in the two B— rs, and very unbecoming a man of honour. , ^ j /,.>:„.. . The next is a notable inliance indeed, but the writer wants temper to relate the affair, as it really was. For although it may be very true^ that ttie fcheme was well concerted between the allies, for the carrying the war intoFrance, on the two diflferent fides, and had a reafonable appearance of fuccefs ; yet as ex- perience convinced us after ward s,th at the£)«/cvi? would not fight i I believe there were other reafons given, why various propofals were not accepted, than any impediment laid in the way by the two B— rs. But what that arm.y was, confiding of Englijht Ha- noverians, Aufirians^ and Dutch, amounting to 85,000 men, fiujh^d with the viSiory of the 'precede ing year, had no exiftence but in the author*s ima- gination i nor does it appear that the Auftrians and Dutch had ever yet been try'd, or in the victory, I fuppofe pointed at. Is it very clear that the Hano^ verians did their duty ^ I remember the general opinion was otherwife, and fo it was in re- lation to the condu6t of affairs in Flanders, and both until now remain uncontradided. But whe- ther the crime of inaction is to be placed to the account of general PFade, as under the direction of the two B— — rs, or to the duke de Aremberg, as was then generally reported, or perhaps to what feems really the fad, the fuperiority of the French army, and the queftionable condud of the Dutcb^ it is evident from the author's own fhewing, that materials for a fiege were to be brought from a place very diftant \ and if it be likewife true, as is C here [ JO ] here admitted, that the French took the field earli'^r, and gain'd a place or two of the Butch barrier •, it is moft probable their army was fuperior, or bet- ter provided, or both ; and it is not eafy to be con- ceived, how the allied army were to penetrate into France^ or form grand fieges, when on this gentle- man's own fhewing, they were not in a capacity to prevent the enemy taking their towns. In which light the wifdom of the two B rs is fufficiently apparent, when on the requifition of the artillery, they objefted both to the parting with it, and to the expence of ill tim'd, and romantic fieges. I muft confefs the examiner Ihines in this article, for he fhews, whether defignedly or not, the two B— rs in a very happy light, at the fame time that he makes a raw army, and part of them not to be depended on, capable of doing more under general fVade in one campaign, than the great duke of Marlborough was able to effeft after all his vic- tories, and in the face of a better general, with a fuperior army. But this I only rank among thefe fort of pleafantries, wherewith this gentleman has very fuccefsfully amufed the public. As we travel through page i6and 17, we find the drama working up, to fome kind of Ihape and colouring : And the two B— rs on the point of being difcarded themfelves, removing all their op- pofers, and introducing into their places, fuch whom they thought moft eligible. It is amazing in this inftance, as well as in many others, how the public came to miftake this author's drift, and ran away with a notion that he was writing againft the two Id earli'^r, barrier ; r, or bet- :o be con- :trate into is gcntle- apacity to In which JiBciently artillery, , and to fieges. I tide, for the two ame time them not re under reat duke I his vic- , with a ng thefe man has we find ape and point of heir op- s, fuch azing in ^ow the and ran lind the two [ " ] two B— — rs when it is evident that he only here and there abufes them to give the better colour to his main deHgn, which is to celebrate them as the greateft politicians, Britain ever produed. For this on his own fhcwing was a ftroke of politicks that out Cecil'd Cecil, fince to be abfolutely in dif- favour of their fovercign, whofe patience could endure no longer, confeious that hemuji have determin'dwitb- in himfelfto abandon them, and the B — rs thus circum- ftanc d enabled to per form their contrast with the broad- bottoms, is too broad an abfurdity for any body to produce but the examiner, unlefs he means thereby to joke with his reader, and turn the whole conduct of his piece into irony. Perfonal refledlion feems to be the glory of this author, abfurdity his delight, and fair argument his averfion. A perfon is here fingled out from the herd of broad bottoms to be Ihewn away to the publick as an adual adherent to the pretender, confeffing all this to his fovereign, who likewife knew it before, and is now forced upon the throne by the influence of the two B rs. I fhall leave that gentleman to vindicate his own honour, which I fuppofe he is able to do, but there is fomcthing fo extremely fenfelefs, not to fay wicked in thefe fort of rcfledions that may render them much below the notice of a man of dignity, and I don't fee why, if there is the lead fpice of truth, in thefe warm and unguarded fuggeftions, but that the two B— — rs might without any regard to the fanftionof their fovereign, have new moulded th« conftitution into wh ihape or figure they pk and [• iii t 1* ] and at a time too when they chiefly fear'd being themfelves difcarded. Many wild fancies I have heard in difcourfe, and read in pamphlets, relative to public affairs, butfuch (luff as this, lb unground- ed ^nd incongruous, I believe is not to be match'd, by the mod fanguine partizan, that ever let loofe his imagination, or fuffer'd his pen to fcribble at random. But he has happily clear'd all this matter up in the next page, and after a courle of un- matchable elegancies in defcribing the triumph of one of the B rs at the head oi' the broad- bot- toms, he feems to think that his relation will fur- pafs the cowfrehenjien of all mankind who jhall here-- after read the fiory of thefe times. I will beg leave to add, that it really furpaffes the comprehenlion of all who live now, and conceive that pofterity will fee it in the fame light we at prefent do, which is that of a romance, calculated to enrich the book- feller, and to deliver down the author as a pcrfon of unequal'd invention. ' • ' ■ ^ • But as if all the worft paflions that ever dif- graced human nature, were concenter'd in one man, and blended into one performance, envy muft among the reft expofe its fnaky ringlets, and point at men, whom the fame author Ihews to be ex- quifitdy wife, becaufe, they had not great fore-fathers^ nor were of equal extraolicn to a thoufand other lords and gentlemen in this nation. I have omitted their want of abilities equal to tl>e fame choufand, by reafon that I would not have the examiner eter- ^nally contradicting himfelf. For it is 'but too plain on the face of his own (hewing, that had we a thou- fand t 13 1 fand fuch cunning men, as he makes the two B— r^ to be, I cJon't know what would become of us. But as to their defcent and pedigree I fhall leave it to be fettled between Mr. Jnftis and the examiner. -» After all this which is heretofore faidto furpafs human comprehcnfion, we find in the iaft fedion of page 19, that, the fecret caufi of this ^ however ^ cannot be long looked for but it mufi be found. And found it is in the Corruption eftablilh'd by the late E— - of O-'^^d. There is I am afraid but too much truth in that gentleman's cftablilhing cor- ruption, and that it has operated in many refpe6ts very fatally. But feems to have very little to do with the prefent argument, the management of the-r— f and the conteft between contending mini- fters, in the light here ftated, as will be evidently Ihewn in a few pages forwards, where it comes more aptly in. In confequcnce of this great difcovcry, it feems the poor Tories were drawn in only to be cheated, and the Jacobites with good reafon found caufe to rejoice. This good reafon is that few of them were the better for the change, inftead whereof the Whig influence predominated more than everj and the Jacobites rejoice in having aded as joint tools with the Tories to bring all this about. This is one other of the excellencies of this author in matter of argu- ment, but . jfleftions thereon are endlefs, they hold fairly through, and mark themfelves as they pafs. It may here be particularly noticed in the examin- er's favour, that he is rather a man in the reading, than in the argumentative world, and therefore 3 writes I r H J writes better than he conceives. JIIs pamphlet is a common extraft from what has been pubhfh*d before in the State of the Nation, but very differently underftood. He has meerly confider*d two points, one the order of time, which is well preferv*d, the other is to keep the two B rs conftantly in his eye, and to make them the butt of his invedtive. But various matter occurring that he could not otherwife tell how to account for, his fatyr is often turn'd into panegyric, and thus without difcern- ing it mofl commonly compliments thofe he intends to condemn ; in a word, the whole is fomething like a young lawyer's common place book, which was he to publilh with his own refledlions, would equally catch the attention of the multitude, and ■with the aid of a florid ftyle, be much more read than Coke upon Lyttleton, tho' in fa6t one con- tinued abfurdity. There was a performance of this nature appear'd once before entituled, Fasten De- te£fedy which like this was admir'd for its incom- prehenfible qualities, and for being thrown together in the fame manner, with the advantage of many .words for a little money. This I fay is the courfe of the examiner's writing, and therefore to ex- pe6b fiafts, or when they appear rightly reafoned upon, is quite out of the queftion. The two R rs are now getting over the moft eminent men in the city of London^ by the means of remittances, contrads, fubfcriptions, and bene- Which is richtly enouj ' :mbarg( 'gf cd, and he might have added by hints given them, for the railing or lowering of the public funds. But iilet is jlifh'd erently points, d, the mtly in edive. jld not i often iifcern- intends icthing , which would de, and >re read ne con- of this ion De- incom- ogcther )f many I courfe to ex- eafoned hemoft e means d bene- igh ftat- n them, : funds. But [ 15 ] But this f?it is in fome meafure wrong turn'd, by fhewing immediately after, that they pufh'd for popularity by taking away the negative from the lord mayor and aldermen. But how this populari- ty connects with getting over the moft eminent men, is not cafily reconc'^ed, and ftill lefs withit- felf ; for nothing is more true, than that they did not acquire popularity thereby, fo that here is a fuppofition without ground ; nor in this part is the fa6t as ftated, for the reafon for efpoufing the anni- hilation of the negative, was rather to check the power of a majority of aldermen in a diflrerent in- tereft, than to make themfelves popular by oblig- ing the common council who have not an equal weight in the city with the court of aldermen, though more in number. Thus we fee what a kind of reafoner we have to deal with, and what the effeft of medling with politicks, and difcourfing of pub- lic affairs as matters of amufement. / ; A happy invention that runs away with erery thing and fettles nothing, next brings the D ■■ ■ on the ftage to be play'd off as the dupe of the two B— — — rs, though it is not fliewn that any- one point was thereby attain' d *, but on the contra- ry, if the fyftem given them by the examiner be the true one, by giving the D-— the command of the army the whole became totally deftroy'd, for who can reconcile an unalterable difpolition for peace, a refolution of getting out of the war at any rate, with the employing of a voung man in his full fpi- rits and vigour, and or" naturally a gallant turn, at the head of an army ? That they courted his in- tereft i H! I K '6 ] tereft may be very true, but never for the pur- pofe of a peace made him a general. This anfwers Jtfcif and therefore merits no farther refledion. • Thefe inexperienc'd fancies are followed by others, that I know not what denomination to affign them. It is a charafter obliquely drawn of this young gentleman that is perfeftly fhocking. It is making him the agent of infamy, partiality, and oppref- fion. And this without the illuftration of a fingle fadl, or even the pretences of one, which in my humble opinion returns it Jl upon the examiner's own head with intereft, and I think it is very hap- jpy if he efcapes fo. His virulence has aftonifh'd iile all along, but here is perfedly amazing. The courtier in this, has out blaz'd Billingsgate, and the gentleman is degraded below a common porter. But this is the fpecie of writing that cajoles the iriob, and has that kind of policy foe its guide, that it directs a man to level himfelf to the ilandard of thofe he writes to. , . . s , The exemplification of this, as it is term'd, only improves the invedtive, and fafhions it into a kind of demonflration, that the examiner was not to be impeded in his courfe, fo long as our language af- forded words fufficient to feed his fpleen. So now one two B— -rs are forming a defign to create an enmity between another two B rs, which might eafily have been executed, if the charaders of the two noble perfonages were as different, as the examiner has drawn them. His judgment in this particular feems to be of a ^ece with all the i'eft of the performance, as it is difHcult to difco- r^ "^ " • vcr :he pur- anfwers i:ion. T Others, ;n them. young making oppref- a Tingle 1 in my aminer*s ery hap- [tonifh'd y. The ite, and 1 porter. joles the s guide, itandard I'd, only to a kind ot to be ;uage af- So now create an 1, which hara6ters erent, as jdgment th all the to difco- vcr ver whom he intends to abufe, the tWo B— — rS or the D— — , or both, they arc introduced as equally operating in the fame bad mcafures, and are fo hard to divide, thit one knows not by any art how to feparate the knave from the fool, or to give either his proper charafter. But this is not the only part where morality is wanting, as well as good manners, nor indeed Where a wrong, or a whimfical judgment is made of the mofl: com- mon tranfa(ftions. ' , If the examiner is the perfon, whom the town points out as the author, it is wor d^rful that he fhould lay fo much ilrefs on «t fubjeft, that is fo very well known to have nothing in it, or at this time of day be to learn, that the F— — -r and the H — .r A — • — t are upon extreme good terms; fhould it pleafe the Almighty to take one out of the world, that the M y would be dill the fame. Can any man who has forty years pafs*d over his head not know, that all diftance of this kind is po- litical afFeftation, and that the two B-— rs and H A 1 ftand as well with each other as any three people in the world ; why then this af- fected railing at the deceased M— -r and at the twoB rs ? Don't you know. Sir, that the P— es men arc only a body of referve, to be ufed on a pinch, and that hereafter you will not be thank'd for thefe broad pufhes ; where then is all your pene- tration as a ftatefman, ydur reafon as a man, and your language as a gentleman ? all facrificed to a farce, or non-entity. However as you have jumbled it together it may ferve well enough for a winter's P evening !;l . CC cc III m mii ii ^ [ 22 ] _ ,. welfare •, and if he only means that, the danger fccms wholly to cxift in his own crazy imagination; and is mention'd rather for the fake of faying fome- thing, than meaning any thing. But if he means, that a connection between them may produce a ftanding army, in my humble opinion, it will have a dired contrary efFeft j becaufe, while there is peace and harmony, a ftanding army is out of the queftion -, befides the examiner ought to know that the calal, as he ftiles them, have a better ftand- ing army at command, and more ftiitable to their fupport, than any they can put the D — e at the head of; and if according to his own reafoning, they would keep the D — e dependant, they would not, had they power, qualify him to command them ; fo that take it which way we will, the ftanding arr /, and all the nonfenfe about it, is a dream. At home the King is general in courfe, and whoever is fo de- puted abrcad, at his return his commiflion ceafes, and with it all this wife reafoner's conneftion. The examiner, I muft confefs, underftands his trade, as he rather writes to the paflions, than to the lenfe of tlie people, and has aded his part with great ftcill and addrefs. His bufmefs is to move, rot convince j and ftiould this after all turn out a piece of Court legerdemain, calculated to carry off" the attention of the people from fomething more to the purpofe -, they muft not be angry at being deceiv'd. I have full as good grounds for this fug- geftion, as the examiner has for any I have yet met with. As we proceed the fufpicion increafes upon u?, and when we confidcr who is the real hero of ! danger ?ination; ig fome- e means, reduce a it will lile there is out of to know er ftand- ; to their the head ey would not, had i fothat T /, and U home is fo de- n ceafes, on. ands his than to )art with move, urn out to carry ng more it being :his fug- lavc yet increafes •eal hero of [ ^3 ].. of this performance, and the critical time of its firft publication, I anf almoft confirmM in the faft. It is evident to me, that the examiner is not a ftranger to his fubjedl, from whence I conclude, that by his playing tricks with it, fomething more is meant, than appears. The D — e for a few pages has had the honour of being abus'd by him, he is now in a fair way of being made a hero -, in one page he rails at him, in the next coaxes, and in the laft almoft deifies him -, I fuppofc we fhall have all this over again and again in due time and order. It is impolTible to anfwer thefe kind of works re- gularly, it is like a party of foot, purfuing a troop of light horfe, or fcampering among the mountains after highlanders. We were juft now perplex'd with a whim about connecting the civil and military power -, and now a kind of fadi: is in queftion, I fay a kind of fa6t, becaufe he keeps upon the prefump- tion, with a guard againft being caught by any dirc6t alTertion ; he would fain have it believ'd, though he knows it is not true, that the common men are diibanded, and the officers kept in full pay, which he means, if he means any thing, by the manner of difbanding now, different from former cuftom, and the fituation the miniftry remain in, to raife a new army at their own pleafure : Now to make this mat- ter fhort, I do plainly aflert, that the army is dif- banded, in the fame manner as has been accuftom'd on the like occafions ; and that neither he, nor I, nor any man living in his fenfes believes, that this miniftiy, nor any other, unlefs we fuppofe them mad, would fct up a military power in oppofuion to their ii, (■!' t 24 ] their own, which, as I obferv'd before, has a much better bafis, and is moft devoutly to be preferv'd. But without thefe flights and wildnefles, there is no getting on with fuch a long chain of Nothings ; and therefore the D— e, the army, and the two B— rs ; the two B--— rs, the army and the D — e i the con- nection, the danger, and the horror j the horror, the danger, and the connection, and fuch like ilujBT ad infinifum, jingled, varied, travers'd, and confound- ed, with great vigour and fprightlinefs, marches in terrorem^ through at leaft ten pages ; and then we re-enter again, with only a parenthefis of fo many pages, on the old fubjedt. That is to fay, that he only begs leave to fay^ with all imaginable refpeSi for the iUuftrious perfon, we have been dif- courftng of with the moft grateful fenfe of his merit and fervices^ which ought to he acknowledged^ encou- raged, and rewarded, in every way but this ; let me have leave to fay, and I hope every heneft man in the kingdom will fay with me fir ft, ^c. That him, who begms with nonfenfe, generally concludes with jargon j and therefore I fhall beg leave to fay, what every man of fenfe, who reads with any degree of at- tention, muft neceflarilyyiy, that enough has been faid to make us all ftare j and fo we will renew the old fubjeft again, and fee what page 33 can contri- bute to amufe us farther. We are now got to the removal of the E — of C).«^«.. And this too feems to have been the work of the two B— rs, which indeed is equally proba- ble with moft of the examiner's fuggeftions, and of a piece with them all j but as they have been fo very ^ cunning t «5 ] cunning all along, and done fuch wonderful feats in* the ruining of the war, in conneding the military and civil power, in eftablifliing {landing armies, ma- king the ^— their prifoner, the P e their ad- verfary, and the D — e their dupe and dependant. And in all things underftood, and purfued their own iniereft with fo muchr art and addrefs, and with fuch fuccefs, as when in disfavour with their S — n, to give him a new M — y. It is wonderfull how they contriv*d, on their puQiing out the E — of O — ^dy to let the only man they fe- /d, get into poffeflion of the reins of power, in preference to themfelves. If we could manage to get this happily accounted for, the reconciling of fuch obvious con- tradictions would not be attended with any !:ind of future difficulty. Political penetration would then ftart up in quite a new light •, and impoflibilities, incongruities, inconfiftencies, and fuch like, would be conquer'd with great facility ; black provM to be white, and white black ; this, that, or any thing as happens to come uppermoft. But for (his, we are now to offer further evidence. This evidence is, that the two B rs were brought up at the feet of W"-^^ who was their Ga- maliel in politicks, and therefore firft turn*d him out, and put their adverfary in. No, they themfelves were fuffer*d to continue. Though it is fhewn fome pages paft, that they did not get in until] fome time after, which is indeed the truth \ but as it now anfwers belt, we will have them in at firft, and a few pages hence, we will contrive to turn them out again, ajs the two B — rs are good for E nothing !:» i ''i I ill! ijM [ >6 ■] T>r f,-tf .• nothing biit to be baridycd about, like a couple or Shuttlecocks, and played, and placed, and dandled with, as beft fuits the author's convenience ; and therefore it is time to fee what is next to be done with them. _v /. "r r .'',■■^L^':^,.h The examiner is certainly a very merry fellow, as well as an eminent politician, and however cun- hing he makes the two B — rs to be, his own dex- terity ftill triumphs over all. For now we arc about to fhew that thfefe wife two B — rs have neither parts nor character, which is provM by their keep- ing their own fecrets fo well, that their having a hand in the removal of the E — 1 of O—