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CONTAINING, Some REMARKS on a late PAMPHLET, intitled, A Free and Candid Inquiry^ &c. // there mt fame cbofen Ctirftf Seme bidden Thunder in the Stores ' of Hem/n, Red with uneommon ffratk to hlaft the Man Who owes his Greatnefs to a Country s Ruin t Addison's Cato. DUBLIN: P^fited in the Year M Dcc tuu 7i"3 t>>A»i: .'-iaidii T^ .. v-^ t. V.J ^^K'! H' <"«•.">.: f». >M fi- ^^ A- •'' #■■ • ■'*' f i s ,,i«^..i( T. . -.r-.*.^-**-..***!^'*- (nM^s-a^-'j ' Jrtfc.«*«Pi*-«»»J3N -V.J^I^^MWBi'W^ r-(*M*»*^— •^**»«^'*' «.-*B»t.fc»-«-*'i*-^*»w<«''*«»^*'*'*^'>'*"'*-.-"-~i-^^*.' . i-..-*,;^,»^a«>u«^- , ^ i*— i*— •• f- ,-i i ,*,: «'i LETTER T O A Perfon of Diftinftion in Town, r.- FROM A Gentleman* in the Country. My Lord, Y OU defire my Opinion of the Pam- phlet you fent me, L.nd I think it the firft unreafbnable Injunction I ever met with from you : It is aProdudtion of fb odd a Nature, that it is very hard to reduce it to a Sulked for Criticifm : To fay the Truth, its firil Appearance is fo ambiguous, that it has puzzled many People to determine whether it is intended to befriend or hurt the Caufe it would feem to efpoufe. For my Part, I think that, on a minute Perufal, there is no Diffi- culty in feeing that the ^Author was ferioufly doing his beft : There is a hearty Zeal and Intereftednefe appearing, in the ftrongeft and moft unaffected Colours, through many PalTages of it, that muft, I think, leave little Doubt of the Gentleman's Sincerity, with every Reader of tolerable Difcernment. . A 2 The naeBHHH I }■ ! [ 4 ] The Difficulty I Complain of does not there- fore confift in any Uncertainty about the Inten- tion of .this Work, but in the Irregularity of the Manner, and Abfurdity of the Matter, of the Arguments ; the confident Aflertions of the moft notorious Fatfhoods, and the poifbnous Virulence of the Refledlions : For c\\ thefe, and numberlefs other Peccata which occur in every Line, put the Patience doubly to a Trial ; firft, in following fuch an Author through all his tedious and ridiculous Perplexities j and next, in reftraining from that Invedive, which, however merited, does no Honour to the Ob- ferver. I fliall, however, at your Defire, let you know what occurred to me on the Perufal of this extraordinary Piece. I will take no Pains to methodize or adorn my Thoughts ; they ^e your Due, you fliall have them in their natu- ral Drefs, and, I hope, will approve them $ but let your Good-nature, I beg you, aft only on your private Judgment, and do not hurry them to the Prefs merely upon your own Liking $ your Eye fees fahfe through the Medium of Friendfhip, therefore take ibme auxiliary Opi- nion, not fubjedt to the fame Deception, to your Aid ; if your Opinions concur, you have my Leave to print what I fend you ; if the Sentimei\t-s are nugatory or injudicious, they will, at lead, do no Harm ; they are the Produce of a good Intention, not gloffed or varnifhed with a fplendid Didlion. I know not yet how long my Letter will be ; • ~ but [ 5 ] but if it can conveniently be done, \ think- « News'paper will be the bed chofen Vehicle for Obfervations on a Writer of this Clafs : There is A Propriety, methinks, in difplaying even weak and intentional Villainy, and exhibiting an Incen- diary in the fame Manner, which Cuflom has ap- pointed for the advertifmg of Icfler Rogues, and han|png them out to the public Caution. — But this to your own Difcretion. . I will not, however, ufe you fo ill as to de- ceive you, and therefore will not pretend that your Commands have been my fole Motive for this Letter : they, indeed, have added much to my Alacrity ; but I muft alfo confefs, what would certainly be collefted from my following Senti- ments, that I take great Pleafure in an Occaiion oF declaring my Feelings on a Subject of this Na» lure, and glorying in the Profeffion, that I am inviolably attached in Favour of that Intereft Which is the true, old Bafis of this Kingdom's Welfare, and which this Writer has laid himfelf to ridi- cule and abuft ; my youthful Blood beat high in iti Behalf, and the Experience of many Years has applauded and confirmed my Choice. Do not, however, think yourfclf excufed from Seve- rity, when you exadl even thefe pieafing Decla-> rations from me in a Manner fo very dilagreeablo as inveiligating this Author through all the Turns and Doubles of his fcandalous Performance. It is, no Doubt, thought intolerably infblent, in your polite World, that fuch ufilefs and inglo- rious Members of the Community, as we Coun-' try Gentlemen are, fhould prefume to fpeak of political 1 t > I. ■ r 6 ] political Movements with any Degree of Free- dom ; but it will be (b, even in Defpite of our- ielvcs i few landed Men find themfelves free from this impertinent Piece of Vanity ; I don't know how it is, but a Property in the Soil of the Coun- try will ftill bring with it not only a Solicitude and Concern about every public Meafure, but al(b an idle, tho' irremovable. Prejudice that we have both a Right and a Power of cenfuring them i Tiiiy, a better Right than many who, though con- cern'd in the Condutt of Atfairs, are no Sharers in the Evtints that may happen. I Willi you had told me who is thought the Au» tlior among you, for, at this Didance, it is hard to guefs I every Reader has, indeed, the higheft !Heaibn to fuppofe in general, if not from the Motto, at lead from the Matter and Form, of his Treatiie, that thif excellent Diflertation on Politics and Properties is the Work of no other than (bme Mt* tie, four^ attemlTng Chaplain ; all that Rancor and Bitternefs, that entire Deficiency of Humanity and Politenefs, that Stead inefs in Falfhood, that alternate Adulation and Infolence, both exerted with precipitate Stupidity, and that /^//>ig- Man* ner of exhibiting his grand Patron's domefticFtf* fues and Genero/ity, are palpably the Effluvia of fuch a Compofition, the Refult of, at kafiy two debauched Parts^ a pampered Stomach and a heated Brain. But I wi(h we knew the Name; for my own Part, had jthe Book a little more of the Buffoon in it, I would venture to anfwer for the Author, and fill up the Blank in the Title p2ge, with the recommendatory Epithets o^Apf- \ li Para'ite^ and SPY. But i The Juilice of thefe Ihfmuations I leave to the public Deciiion, and the due Refentment a^ainil the Propagators of them, to the Breaft of every honed: Man in the Kingdom ; the Flame of con- icious Integrity and Loyalty, muft kindle, in an Inftant, at fuch infblent Mifreprefentations. But this is not all i we, who are Eye-witneifes, can eafily fee and refute the Faldiood ; it is not there- fore intended for us, this babling Author does but echo the Cry of the Leaders of the Pack ; the grand Machine to.be played upon our Happi- nefs, is to confound the Interefts of the Conftitu- tion with the Interefts of the Party ; and, on op- pofmg the latter, we are reprefented, on the other Side of the Water, as difaffeiled Subjeds to our Sovereign, and dangerous Rivals ivO our Englifo Brethren. Thus is private Ambition to he gratified under the Pretext of the public Good, all Oppot fers to be branded with the Epithet oi f amicus ^ and the moCk difhonourabie Odium to be thrown upon the general Principles of this loyal People : nay, fo far down does this deep-laid Plan defcend, B 2 ~ that 1.0 i 1 1* ] th:|t a paltry, imr^enary Judg^ of A^i;ze ftwll catqh ^he Cue^ and* on hi9 Return &om Circuit, m»k« a fQj(5mn Report of the Dif^fffilion of a Set of Gentlctnein of the moft uitfuHied Fame, and cxt^five landed Properties in their Coun^ des \ Vouchers and Securities for good Beha-^ viour, fufficient, one would imagine, to over- throw the Authority of the connbiped Bmb, y. :* Biit (lirely, we may, notwithf^anding this, keep up our Sphrits, and not fear any bad Effect from this dcteftable Manner of Proceedings how- ever enraged we may be againd the Authors of It Qur Ki\g, his Miniilers, and th& People of fa^hndf will reQ)e^ our Alliens as the filreft Spoke/men for our Principles, and wilinot fail to allow them all that Weight which we Jbmcr our- felves they deierve. On a late important June* ture we manifefted a Firmnei^ to our prefent glo^ rious iSuccefTion, /«// as inviolable as any to be found in the royalDominions. A great Part of this was, doubtlefs^ owing to the Stdttfman who govern'd us at that Time : But I quefliion whether a political Cafuid: would not ^\qw f&me finalll^or' tion of the Merit to the Difpofition of the People, efpecially as there were ibme Commotions in our Neighbourhood, where there was a Multiplicity of Statefmen at the lidm. To add an undeni- abk and more recent Proof of our carrying our Loyalty and Aflfe(^ion even to a Nkeiy, look back to the exemplary Proc^ings againft an inconfi* derable Individual, tempted by an ill-judged Zeal to treat our Governors and Englijb Friends in Words that feemed to want their due Refpe^, and [IS] and let our AWIty, in punilhing this olfenrive Incautipn, fpe«k^loii4 in ourJ^h«tf, In (hort, it is to be fccn through all this Part of our Author, that he would have us, in every Inilance, confider ourfelves as Englijhmen i we arc to venerate the Hem of every Garment which comes frefli ©i:t oi Engiijb Air, and aflift in the Promotion of ri/^rji Scheme propofed to us by fuch as bear a CommilTion figned there, on Penalty of being ftigmatized with the Mark of DISAF- FECTED j and what is all this for? " Why *' truly, fays the Author, bccaufe, fooner or ^* later, we all have iflued from thience." — Here, had he but Senfe or Ingenuity to obferve it, he has reconciled the, whole Matter in his own, Wordsi I for though the Majority of us are do-. fcende '* tification TO upstart Pride, is to see those ** OP LESS Wealth in higher Rank, and '^ MORE RESPECTED, ^c.** £ut above all, in the Beginning of the 14th Page, one would ima- gine his chief Patron was fitting for his De(c|[ip* tion, though it is evident, on the whole of tlie . Context, [ 15 ] • Cpntext, that it is a Scrap of that Scurrility vent- ed every Day in Cabals againft a Man who is an Honour to his Tinrte, and to his Country.: Many fiich involuntary LikenefTes of his own Friends, may be feen through this iAuthor*s Performance. Much more may : be faid on this Part of the Pamphlet than is worth troubling you with; the Reader may fee aknod every Line abounding in Sentiments correfpondent with thofe which I have already remarked. \ But an extraordinary Stroke occurs in P, ii. He (eems to retra<5t a Cbnceffion he was on the Point of making, and will not allow us any De- gree of Opulence, for that would admit of an In- ference by no Means to his Wifties. However^ to comfort us, he immediately after aflures us, that our mod fanguine Wifhes would be anfwer- cd, if a Scheme^ propofed about two Tears ago, fbtmid take place \ and the only Fear the good-natured Gentleman has fi-om xhii glorious Event is, that we (hall grow too rich and too happy upon it, froni whence may ari(e Vanity, and Luxury, and a vicious, frantic, and profligate Behaviour. For my particular Part, though fifty Winters fiave fc far reduced my Paffions to the Authority of Reafon, as to infpire me with a thorough DiA guft and Conten^f * for the Folly of Vanity and Luxury, yet I would, . ,with great Security of Mind, give my Confent to open the Sluice to all that Inundation of Wantonneis with which this Author fears our Country would be overwhelmed in Confequence of this Event. To be (lire it is hard to fay, how far the Affcftion of our Neigh- bours )l ii i ;■ ' boars may tempt tb^m tb force tipdn us a Fropor-^^ tion of Happtnefs tbac mtiy itflnc our Morals, and turn our Heads. But, I think, one may, wkk^ feme Degree of Probabiitty, %, that they would adt tht PbyJiciaH as well as the^it/#iiaf, said chat every Hab^raj which might; accracv would be prevented, from dbthg much MiichaeC by proper EvacnatrottsJ . ThuB fliould woi^jn my Ophiiony bctecuried itoxti wa:j«liig wanton dfid vicious; but fhould any Degree of Infedlion ftfcal in afxiong: us,: vre might have.ourfpiritual as weil zapoiitfcal Dolors fern w4, whoy by their exemplary LtveS,i and excellent Endawtztcntfiy would thoroughlyi extejimmate eveiy Kinc% Of Ijnn;HOf aHty^ arid pro«» pc^e the |ntf»eilfi of Virmcj^ :tke ^sioaien^ y*^ are at present, and have ^en- herctoTove}. ble^t (^ yfi^ t lei|vc us no R^om; to d<^ibt s^o^tkcM ConduA in this Particular, ..., ,.. ^..,,^;^ ^ ^ 3 I .lown I tbinli^' it a little odd) ^hat this ^r^y Author dpie^ aqt do us ^ ^#YO|lu: ^dwelling; a \Ui\^ upon this Subj^cl i, one^^Mou^c}- imagine that a Cata/irapbcy of this-Natuie, derives a. little Points to reconimend and make it palatable ^ for, wlm> cy^r he may jtihittk, we,^ a/, ff^^j f^tryy, canpot )iclp thipking it .a, Clwnge of, tpa, mvchJimp^ff lance to^ be salhly agreed to ; Oay^ Irc^n te^ t|i% ^at fome pf us hav|b fo :mu4h:>of rdie Stu|>idity ef thoCiiniaKe in our fj^f ains,,^ asiMotito-fee 4iftin(!t]y all liaerei^dvafitages artfiQg outof it to thi^ Kingl- 4$mi wlMchi are fa palpable tb> the Eyes; o£ Poli*- itki0ns y . ai^^ iwhat is mane fthaiD aiJy fbnie bf thciff very Pbrfonsy whofe A^ent tiv the' Aflfair -jimy; periapt, be dfxtaw^ necefibsy^ afepofniiie enough Ill l^ll enough to thank, tha'. no human Aflurahces, do Compacts, though ever Co folemn, no fpeculative Cbnclufions, though ever fo artful and mafterly, nothing under an immediate Voice from Heaven to injoin it, can, or will, be fufficient with them, or any Man of Senfe or Principle, to run the dreadful Hazard of the Effect of fuch a Scheme. This may, polTibly, be an Error in ua, and we may be pitied, by clearer-fighted People, as blind to our own Happineis: But our national Bigotry to old Cuftoms is well known, and I really fear this is one of the Inftances in which our Natures are irreclaimable. Y But what are we to conclude firom his fupeffi- cial Manner of fpeaking of this infetided Change f Surely, hercan^t be weak enough to think us re- conciled to it : It is, therefore, either becaufe it will not ftand the Teft of a minute and candid * Difcuffioni or, that he imagmes it needlefs, as impoifible, to make it palatable to our Reaibn ; for that it is not fbat, but our Pallions are to be influenced, in order to ef¥e£t this Scheme ; Cor- ruption and Menaces are to be the Inftruments to work with, and Ambition, Avarice, or Fear, the lading Qualities of every Man who joins in jtis Promotion. I fhall riot now, unneceflarily, detain your Lord- fhip's, or the Reader's, Time, by enlarging on the many unanfwerabie Obje^lions tothis defbnjc- tive Revolution ; fuch as, the fmall Security we fhould have in bur Rieprefcntative Body, reduced (at \^y t6 one Third df its prefent Size,' arid tranfported; oftce a Yedr,"'to flahd oUr Bulwafk C in »i»-i -T" ^ ( i g [ i8 ] . / in the midft of five hundred Pcrfbn^, 'who; tho*' extremely well difpofed to the Wclfiarc of this u/efitl Ifland, may yet chance to differ, fomc- times, in Opinion from the aforcfaid tiny Gorpo- ration i the Pojftbility that, out of thefe our Cham- pions, one half, or more, may fo far contract an Englijb Tafte, and fall in Love with (bme pretty Employments, as to forget- poor Ireland in a good Mcafure \ more^fpecially, as they might not have left many valuable; Memorandums behind th n ; the Gonrenience that fome of the current Coin of this Kingdorn wouM be of to thefe our Refidents in London \ the Dilapidations that may accrue to Manfion-featsf ahd Improvements, and Bdggary to Tenants, by Means of their abfent Owners \ the Addition to the Number of our, ^ready too numerous, Abfentees ; the Decay of our Metro- polis in its Imports, Mahufa^iiir^, Buildings^ and Inhabitants ) the Care that woulc^be taken to prevent us from putflripping our Neighbours, by levying a few fuperfluous Shillings in thePound, among manyother f^lutary Laws, which Vvould pro- djgioufly encourage the Cultivation of this Coui^ try, and forward our prcfent.t^briving Situation, and againft which we could never murmufi ^ having given our own Confent. •— All thele, and number lefs otlier Coniiderations, that muftilrike the Attention of every Perfon interefted in the Fate of this Nation, I fliall forbear to dwell upon at prefent^ and refer the cu^ous Reader 'for a , more particular Inyeftigation of the Mifchiefs ; that muft arife to us, from this Eycnt, to two Panjphlets, publifhed about two or. three Years \ ago, » [ '9 1 tgo, in which he will; find the principal Argu« ments, on both Sides, fet in Contraft to each ot^ier, and will fee, in. the ftronged Light, the Superiority of the Negative. . It is: an old Obfervation, my Lord, that there is no Tenet in Phiioibphy (b abfurd, but has had its Advocates ( the fame may be certainly faid of Politick; Vanity. and Singularity are, generally, the Sources of the f)Hl, ^and may have their Share in the fecond ; • but, I believe, there is an Ingrer dient in the latter, which feldom enters the Com- pofition of the former, and that is Self-Intereft; The Philofophcr is little the better whether a Planet be in Conjun^ionox n6t, though the party^ Wxiter may receive fome Emolument from th^ C/mn-Scbeme i the Speculator will never be the richer for (hewing that this Globe of ours moves in a Circle or anEllipfe, but the Politician may i)od his Account in driving lis into Excentrici$y out of that proper and diftin^l Orbit in which our Creatpr has plapefi us, and in which we havfc rjwolved, with finall Variation, from the Bcgin-f ing. This Hint every Reader^ and Hearer, of new-fangled political Syftems, fhould bear in his^ Memory, and ufe his Caution accordingly, more efpecially at this Time, when a temporary Power di di/iributing makes it the Intertft of many to recommend a Scheme, which a fmall Share of Penetration muft demonftrate to be the moft rabnftrous, deteftable, and pernicious, tliat ever was formed againft the Happinefs of a Kingdom. But I am growing more prolix than I intended -, fd hard it is to eontroul a Courfe of Thought on C 2 an T '■ [ 20 ] an interefting Sub^edt, be the promoting Caiifc (ever Co mean and frivolous. The Interval^ from the 1 4th to the 1 7th Page inclufive, is a Jargon of the thickcft-laid Fal(^ hoods that were ever obtruded oh the Public, as, indeed, it mufl necefTarily be, when the Delign was to vindicate the mod iniquitous Plan of Pror ceedings that was ever concerted againft the Re* pofe of a defervlng People. The many Untruths and Contradidtions i that every I^ine contains, I fliall leave to the Animadverfion of every Reader who knows any Thing of the Traniadions of laf^ Seflion ; one or two, only, I cannot refrain from ^leaking to. The firft is, the ftrange Metamorpho* fis he fpeaks of, where ^ the Jauncb good Courturs^ *' as if touched by fime magic f^attd, 4/ once be^ ^^ came Patriots ; and many, vtbo hfid foemerly faffed ^ for ftduMcb Patriots^ were /aid $0 turn CoUirtit/s,*^ «^ Nov, the Truth of that Mat«ei> is, that tbo/e^ who then became (as he fays) Patriots f^am Courtiers, in Fadt underwent no Change, at all, but in the Manner of exerting their former con- ftant Principles j they were always Piitriots in the true Senfe of the Word ; they fliewed an equal Attachment to both Parts of the Conftitution,' in order to keep the Ballance poi(ed, and thereby prefcrvc the Good of the whole j they kept up the Dignity of the Crown, becaufe it was necef- fary to the, Support and Happinefs of the People. Oh the other Hand, thefe fplenetic OppoferS^ who (as our Author fays) bad formerly faffed far fiauncb Patriots, &thtr irom Envy or peribnal Pique to the Head of die oth^ Jntcreft, or th« ' Hopes (I ai J . Hopes of having their mighty Eloquence and Importance bought over by warm Employments ; theft Gentry, to their immortal Honour, thcfc Patriots, united all their Force with that Aflb- ciation, whofe every Scheme tended, in the moft dangerous Degree, to the Ruin of the Country. TYitfirJt aded confiftently with their Condu(ft of many Years before •,. they were and are the Guar- dian-Angels of that political Equipoife, on which our Felicity depends ; and, as fuch^ flew off at ^e Appearance of Ambition incroaching under the Mafk of /^//;ori/y. i:i^' .;^! if::- How conformable the Conduct of the othef Side» on this Occafion, was, to their former De- clarations, is moft contemptibiy apparent. Good Heaven ! what a Sight ! to fee the Hokest Mak^ the inflexikle Prince of Patriots^ ftanding fingle ii> the Negative to every Reiblution that pafled a^ Cenfurc on a dijinne^ Servant of tie Public^ and^ ibroug^ him, on his Si^povters, whonnade the Protedtion of a Mi&reant the Trial of their Abt-« lities, which were next to be turned upon the Vitals of the Country ! How low is he fallen \ How irretrievably \i£t in every Opinion ! > But, to do Jullrce to his Mafters, hehaa^iDi his Reward, and (o have others of the fame Clalar (b that, though tncoDfiftent with their Appellor/ tion, they have exadly purfued their Intentions^ which, doubclefi, long have been to watch a di-» vided Channel of Power, and throw tbenireives \nXo tbat^ whofe Waters may raife them on the Surface, though their Coumry fhould perrih ill the Ddqge ^ by this they h^ve the double finjoy"^ ment x|i ment of oppofing this Imcrcft they invctcratclyr bate, and receiving thofe Emoluments from one Side, which their Want of Principle, «"d Want of Confequcncc, have long fincc (hut the Doot againft from the other. ^ j .», You remember, my Lord, Sbnkcfpear^s ImagC' of the Fluduation of human Matters, the Tide in the Affairs of Metiy which taken at toe Flood leads on to lor tune \ omitted^ all the Voyage of their Lives' u hound in Shallows, — - To this Tide have our' Patriots committed themfelves \ and, I fancy, a political Philofopher will think they^ are now at^ High- Water. ^ ..Vroj . <[' But for ever be remeinbered, for ever honour-' ^d, the Names of the illuflrious Few, who,> though formerly hurried, by their Frienddiips and Conneinons, into, a Path diflin^t from our Coun-^^. try!8 Friends, now generoufly relinqui/hed e^ery; inferior Gratification, and buried every private* Ariimofity in Oblivion- 1 Their Country called,' and fpread its inviting Banner, to which, with Alacrity, they repaired, and, by their inviolable Firmnefs, (hared the Gbry of it's Vidtory. The String of Interrogatories, fb impudently'" produced in^ie 17th Page, are, really, very^un- parallelled ; there is not a fingle one of them to^ which an Anfwer, dirc(5tly contrary to the Wifht of the Queftioncr, may not be, with. the grtatefti Truth, returned; I (hall, therefore, lake my: Leave of them, and proceed to the grand Defign^ of his Work which next appears, only bbferving the great Modefty and Reafbnablenefs of ourV Ai^tlior, in deciding fo material a Matter by his *'^ . finglc • I D 23 ] ilngle AuthcM^ity, as he does toward the End of this Page. - f Give Ear, ye Nations, let England, Ireland, and Italy rejoice at the Sound of the Praife, and Enumeration of the Virtues, of our Metropo- litan ! An arduous Taik ! — But our Author takes the eaficft, and, indeed, the only, Method, of performing it; he invents, and alTerts, them. Confcious of his own Dependence on him, he fakes more than ordinary Pains to blind us into a Belief of his Impartiality, confeflcs, that wbat corner from a Man, tied faft to a Party, mujipafs for nothing, and blunders at the Author of Roger, rather than omit a Stroke at a Pamphlet, which id never to be forgiven by the Proprietors of the Charadlers It fo humouroufly,' andjuftly, expofcsl To reprefent the Man, who is in this Kingdom the bcft intided to the firft Honours, and greateft Confidence, both of his Sovereign and every Vice^Roy, as dilcontented only on Account of the Preference Ihewn to another, and every Odium thro*«rn Upon the laft as taking its Rife entirely from this Source, is an Tnfinuation as ridiculous as falfe. It is, indeed, very true, that a Defici- ency of proper Salifications prevented the firft from being joined in the Cabal, and changed that •Deference, which was his Due, into an infolent and inveterate Oppofition. We vill allow that he has, all his Life, wanted PafTions and Princi- ples adapted to the managing Junto, and he is, at . the fame Time, fo happy as to want every Wi(h of enjoying what he is thus, by Nature, unqua- lified for; but to reft the numberlefs Imputations . I.:'-'-'' thrown, ■■■ '<. i 24 ] thrown, from every Sjuarter, upon the other, on this chimerical Foundation, no Perfon will con** fcnt to, when Fouchers^ and FaHs, ofier every Day to fupport them. I (hall not, however, unneceflTarily talk myfelf to dcvclope the Injuftice of the Eulogiums which Qur Author has here (o plentifully bellowed on his Patron ; they arc, indeed, no more to the pro- mired Intent of his Book, than a Catalogue of thd Virtues of an Hero of Antiquity ; for though the Head of our Church ^y:re i idued with every Ex* cellence of St. Peter in his private Capacity, few Perfons would therefore reft their political Belief on his Infallibility, and follow him blindfold into deftrudive Meafures, though hiis Sandtity were infinitely more rigid than even his own Writer adventures to defcribr; it. I (hall, therefore, only defire the Reader to ob- ierve, whether he cioes not fee this Artificer of Virnies chuckle at his Arrival in his well-known Province of Adulation, and revel there at large : With what a prodigious Shew of Impartiality he conduds th^ whole \ and how particularly emi- nent this appears in two of his Afertions ; one, that the blackeft Crime alleged is impoffibJe to be true i the other, that none of thefe Afperfions were thrown till within thefe three Years. A com- petent Knowlcge of human Nature will (ufficiently anfwer the firft, and every Pcrfon*s Memory the latter. The (ubfequent Story is of the fame Connexion widi the Title Page as the precedent Encomiums ; but he has deicanted on it in fuch a Manner, that , I muft beg Leave to fpeak a few Words to it. That That the Offer, there mentioned, ^sib cnadef tr> that Nobleman, all, that I have met with, reft thoroughly convinced of; that on being made public, it was flatly and peremptorily ^4/>^ much more than a Promife woul4 he paid for any fuch Services, when the •Scale was once turned, may be judged from the diftin- gui(habte Honomr and Hontfty of theiPromtfer, and other Leaders of that ^ide, of the Qgeftion. Su^pofing, therefore, all the Difparity that is in- .finna^4 Jii^titreen the CMtt and the Vdue Xabt received for it ; yet, tj© everyone whp is acquainted with the Chara(jtcir and Conduidt of the Bidders (and the lov*iefl of the P«ople,^tl|ey viould j^di;«r«»,; confider them in their proper Light) it will nev^xf alie<^ the Probability of the Fad, but only demonftrate th j wretched Defpondency they were then labouring under, offering, exorbitant Intereft fbr ready Money^^ like Bankers on d^e . Point of failing, B|it, tflat ,the perfcm fliten^pp^d D IS, [26] is, and wifl be, of more Weight and Significance, in the political Ballance, than a Feather^ or a Grain of Sand, we will fubmit to the Determination of the Event, when every Friend of Ireland (ball, with Joy, behold it preponderate on the ufual Side ; Ambition, Avarice, Corruption, and Vice of every Kind, will then fly up and kick the Biam, and there fufpend aloft mod eminently ridiculous to the mofl inconfiderable Spedators. r * The Author's Art, in this Place, is really plea- fant enough ; he would invalidate the Charge by telling us, " that this Propofal was made to the Nobleman at fecond-hand, and to that feeond by a third ; this, fays he, mufl take away all Autho« rity from the Story ; nor could one of his Eft- " perience and acknowledged Abilities be fo indif* •* creet in conducting fuch a Scheme." We will, - indeed, allow his Patron to hjyire Ibme Experience and Abilities in bugger-mugger^ private Matters, though dellitute of evMy Quality requifite for public Adminiftration ; good Senfe, and Cunning, are not only diftindt, but rather incompatible, • and he muft be dreadfully unfumiflied with the latter, who would, in Peribn, make fo cri^Tiinal an Offer to one whofe Integrity would flame at the Men- tion, and prompt him not only to expofe, but inftantly chaftife, in proper Terms, the infolent Propofer. It is true, indded, that even in this Cafe an eafy Recourfe could have been had to the old Expedient ; the whole Proceeding could have been flatly /ind peremptorily denied, but not to much Purpofe i for, I believe, few will think, with our Author, that neither of the Parties could be capa- ble t( C( (t M M » i [27l ble of a dired Lie *, (b that the black Overture would, in fuch a Cafe, have been inftantly and diredly fixed on the prime Source of it. AH this was foreiieen, and EmiOaries, therefore, eni- ployed to employ others to make the Propofal to the Perfon aimed at -, by paOing thus through a Multiplicity of Hands, it became eafy, at any Time, to deny, and retrad, and throw a Mift^ as they imagined, around the whole Affair, in Cafe of a Refufal. But I cannot help thinking if was a little (hallow -, for the Method of Proceedr jng was fb extremely like and natural, that it throws the higheft Ludre of Credibility on the Story, againft which the Author produces it as a forn>idable Argument; ' ^ f . If it were a3 true, that die mitred Invader of our Peace is as much abovi jvery fordid Ah of Cor*- ruptioHf and has too much Virtue of bis own to traf- fick for the public or private Virtue of another j as that the Nobleman, before-mentioned,y?or«j every Temptation to Penality, and exerts a Spirit that will make him honoured and beloved byPofte* rity, our Church and State would not be infefled and di(honourcd as tliey now are by the PofTeilbr of the firft Dignities in both. The additional Motive urged, at the fame Time, to gain this noble Profely te, our Author treats as incredible from its Abfurdity ; and the Abfurdity, according to him, confifts in thefe two Particulars ; ift. . ** That a Man muft divefl: ** himfelf of all Probity before he could bring him- " felf to think offuch an Expedient.*' 2. "That " it was what he, nor no Man upopJ^arth, could D 2 undertake. ( «8 J ♦^ undertake for, nor, with all the Power of the '♦• Crown centered in himfcif, could make good." The firft we will readily grant as an undeniable Propofition, but, by no Means, ds an Argument ; the fecond we muft as readily deny, and, for its Falfity, refer every Reader to a fliort Refkdtion on the Nature of our Conftitution, by which, as well as by a little Experience, he wilf^inly fee the Connee (ick. Mor (hall I refute the Defence made foj the Negled of his Diocefe ; if he would but abftain from his Com-^ tnijions, we Would k-eadily pardon his OmiJ/ions \ there arc many Precedents for the latter, but very few for the former ; not above two or three uport our Records. Nor (hall I now be (b needlefly feverc on the reft of our mitred Peers as to (ay, that their unnatural Situation in the Legillatur^^ has been the Cau(c of more Commotions, than any other one Defe6fign, and was n^ver indulged in it without dirmi! Con^quences ; and as to Reafon, that, I ^ E believe, [ 34 ] believe, will never be fatisfied that the People fliould ever abridge their Rights by the Sia^e of a Grain of Sand to humour any Perlbn who is cm- ployed, and imrufted, for nn other Purpoft, but the exad\ and nice Prefervation of even the fmall- cil of thefe very Rights. Tho* this Indulgence Ihould never go fartlier than a certain Limit, yet it is fo far a Wrongs and the AHTertion of its Propriety as much a Paljboody as if it were to be ever fo extenf^vcj it. is not, therefore, by any Means, to be received among a free People, even ip the mod rcflrained Senfe.-r- But what End can be put to this Argument ? May it no^ be qfed to purlodn from us every Liberty, every Bleiling^ we. enjoy,' by infenfible Degrees; if the Defires of the Governor are to be the Modus of the Pe(>r ple;'s Compliance^ what an unbounded Field (hall we have for Civility ! ' ' ^ : Here, my Lord, are Manwaringi, Montagut^ and Sibtborp agarn foi: us ; thefei are the identical Dodtrinesthat were propagated through JEit^/tf/r^/ to pay Homage to the infernal Laud at jthe Ex- pence of the Nation's Peace and Welfare. Re- JpgSli Compliance^ and diitiful Acquiefcence^ arc Pre0es worn above thefe hundred Years by T'if^fr^ Servility^ and Difpiritednefsy three Gentry who are always in waiting to conduct us to the Tem- ple of fpiritual and civil Slavery. But we have profited little by our Annals, if we commit our Happincfs to the Care of any poHtical i/ii f j «c << ^:.1iJDk,;' and, tho' thu$ Iri^kM- Ipua^ itf^rric^ .;>! c:,, Vvulenfce and tpall in eVery ^ Wpr^/' If couched under a djf- /|ial^qi>^e,A^P|Kftrapc(&, inclined me much, for a Tine, io aforibe the whole l^erformance to the -.r^i^erendrMountebank 1 pointed at in theBegin- ^niijg bit. my Letter, t^ou know the Man, my >iLot4 ^and h .Kind of ^/ i vou will not, tjiere- _ f«tfe, 1.^r|<^y. c^1:efm thi$ Allufion belbW his , S)*gnity i if you ihould, you liave but tb picture F to ' ) t 42 ] to yourfelf the Shrugs the groteique Look, ,thc Turn of Voice, ^d all them other Recommen- datipps of, his Humpvir,. which I have fecn you ilare.at, while others laughed ; pidhire thefe to your Fancy, and you will find the Thought full worthy of him. I think you may fee in it the Spite that naturally ariies from Detet^ioii andPif- grace. I may be miftaken, but I (hrcwdly fiif- pedt him. This Paflage is extremely like, and the whole Book difplays Judgment enough to be his. You know how much pf the latter appeared, whenever he ventured to digrefs from the Pro- vince that chara^eri^d hin). . i Had the Author of this'Mv. jor confidered his youthful Hero merely a^ a Vegetable, (and as fuch only can any Excellence bf" f; und, or, in- dee4, any Chars^dlcr be given of hirn) wp might have allowed the Juftice of it ; but it can n^ver . be applied to him as.a ili^n. ^ I will, therefore, beg Leave ^to helpliim. to a tClnd of Rhapfody in its Stead, every Image whereof will be universally allowed to be taken from Nature, and is full as poetical as his own. ' „ " yff M thnti tin: f^i^ Pofuti^ iAit uni v«f fal Ciy in their Pnvour ! - . ny iii - i But pray, my Lord, obfcrvefh&Repc^titiocic of tint old laft Shifii of the lofing Side, vrhicb duf Author has, more thsfcn once, ende»voarcd to play upon us V I mean, the repreiendng vbeFaityhe hates 8^ irretrieveably phinged in the Tonrentof advevfb Fortune, c^nd inculcating t^^udp^erof not driving again(^ the Stk ev^r, i^en^er bim odioua and cdHcmpttble I one is, fii&Namo, which It io Iboekingiy diftgreeafale in its 3ound, that it has a|wayii licen a Bar fl-tainft Honour, Truft, and Preferment, to thoife who have been poffefled of the lame unhappy Circumftance. The other is, hia Accent, whidi is fo exceflive drauliug, and pr9wnck that it abfolutely makes him unquaH- fiod tojjhak for a Body of Men, to every Indivi« dual of whom h« ia ib prodigioudy infefjor in thia^ Psffti^ular. If tjiefc Rcaiqns are not thoy^t ful- ficient for excluding him, the Reader may fee many more, full aa juft and weighty, in the fame Page (42.) nicely deHileated, and beautified,' with another Quotation at Bononn, very appli-' cable, and entirely new. The etbeff fays our Author, has no Fauha of this Nature ; bim we fee jujl as he is -^ and as fuch, indeed, he is a moA defivable Creature for the Place he aims at s he is Aaron' ^ golden G?/^, and to be placed, by iw'm, oiv high, fbr the infatuated IflraeUte$ to 2A be peru(fcd, at this Time, by our Repre/hUatives in Parliament y and tbr fveral Ele^o'rs. It will I not, however, be ' icf' >. its Ufe, tho' contrary r to his Intentions ; for, us I have before obferved ' his- Violence makes him blab out the true Senti*: ments. Characters, and Schemes of his Mafters. I own, he is fo abominably ftupid in many Places,^ that I am not without Apprehenfions of bein^ laughed at for being at the Pains of animadvert- ing on them. For that Reafon, as your Lordfhip . will obferve, I have pafled over many Things, that occurred to me, in Silence, and have feiddm indulged myfelf in cenfuring the mere Author, when the Party, he ipfeaks for, are not con- cerned. Gracious Heaven 1 what a Crifls are we now at! what a Height of Infoience and Prefump- tioh muft a Party have arrived at, whenWretches,. like this Author, are encouraged to* vend Trea- fon againil the public Good 1 How (hould every Man of the Community exert himfelf in his par- ticular Sphere, oown from the Legiflator to the Mechanic who votes for a Magiilrate ! The Caufe is the Caufe of Honeily, of Virtue, of Liberty^ of Loyalty ; our Sovereign is our invariable Friend, our Enemies are his, and he will joy to find us fleady and relblute in preferving the Inte- r^fl he has long loved, and on which the Happi- ness of the Nation abfolutely depends. My lafl Letter from London affures me, that the Deftgn of the Union is determined to be fet on Foot here next SefTion ; it makes much Noife u -. there. [47 1 there, it feema^. and in condemned with Abhor*- rence by every Per(bn but thofe who expedt their private Emoluments from it. His G— , and his Son, are preparing to come over, an^, I am told from Duhliny that the P . • is fo elevated at their Approach, as to have difgufted, and loft, ftfme of his neareft Friends by his Inlblence with- in thefe few Months ; a good Prognoftic ! (b will nforcedf ufiH^tfiral^ Intereft forever moulder be- foce the /r»<, the natural^ and the lofting one; Men cannot be detached from the latter but by bafe Means, and on iuch a rotten Balis can no ; fubftantial Stnifhire be raifed. ^ "The Event, my Lord, in a few Months will verify this, and we (hall fee. our Adminiftration (hake off its prefent diftorting Biafs, and revert, "like a well-tempered Bow, to its natural Redtitude ; "While the Schemes of our Enemies (hall fink be- neath the Weight of that national Intereft which they ieiem to hold in Derifion. tam^ lyjr^/LoRD, ft ..A, V Tour Lord/bifs mofl obliged^ And obedient bundle Servant. :,' A « <> '\* F T N is: -i'-" ihi 'S- .rr-H ",• WF^ff 'W^^i \y #i'' yuAfitkOked. rft>J , |^ifl , v.^.i ..vir. . .>! ^j i:^:.;^..^ ^.■.- ^ , .,^^ ^- ^ 1 the i>-^ of D-4r^^ ?1(9PWJ>W^ to be knowa at tnisTfmc. ^ / , ., ^«C>i43lkMfi^: :i«diefB i9r>niiApi«^j3di4firatidb4^^ by FatlA:r Nert of ?>