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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mithode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 I C O/i-U^JV^'*^*''^*'*^ T H E /< f Cafe Re-ftated ; ,.. *'a *" O R A N St f 1 s ; p I* ■ •' EXAMINE of a late Pamphlet, I N T I T L E D, / Tie State of the Nation for the Tear 1747, &c. i Wherein the Difingenuity, and fccret Views of the Au T H o R are expofed, and the Con- duct of the prefent Administration explained and juftified, / / 1'": In a LETTER to a Friend. V*^^- Timeo Danaos et dona ferenteSj if f LONDON: , Printed for M. Cooper, at iht Globe ^ in^^"^ Pater-nofier-Row. ^ ( Price One Shilling, ) X.. ■ ^' . •0-3 (3) 1 -« f: THE Cafe Re-ftated, &c. iT- Deeemher 31, 1747. iWy Dear Friend^ WHEN Men of your Capacity and Experience alarm themfelves about publick Affairs, on the Report of any puny Adept in Politicks, who, from his Garret, fets up for a Cenfor of publick Meafures, and Re- former of the State, it becomes the Friend to offer the faithful Hand towards leading from the Path of Illufion. Nor does it lefs behove the true Patriot to ftep forth, on fuch Emergencies, and diilinguKli himfelf from thofe, who, under fair Pretences, work to undermine the Government, and ruin the State. A a Nothing (4) Nothing can appear more cvident,th4n4^^ the Author of The State of the Natipn 'Mr the laH Tear^ the Work thrt has raifett'fewt gloomy Ideas in your Mind, has b^dia'X^|t«^ to diftiefliug the State, in order tofrbri^^t]^ fome (ignal Conv4>ition, asne^f&ry tiiv^ra[f#s producing a Change in the Conftitution ; or, in the Words of a late extraordinary * Pam- Y>\\\^i^ot refloring theoldConllit^ition, Nothing is more certain than that this pretended Patri- ot, would bring upon us, in reality, all thole big impendent Evils which he luggefts, and feemingly writes, to avert j for cautious and covered as he is, we find him, on Occafions, expofing the cloven Hoof, and betrayingthe deep Secrets of his Scheme, After he had wrote a Book, perhaps the moft licentious and feditious that has ap- peared in our Age; after he had given the Miniftry the highcft Provocation, and fur- nifhed them with the moft colourable Prc^ text for attempting a Reftraint of the Prefs 5 after, I fay, this mafqued Patriot has done all in his Power to irritate and inflame, he puts his Readers in Mind that the Court is hatching a Scheme for fubverting our Li- berties, *I * Apology for the Ccndiifk of a late celebrated fccond- rate Miniller, ^c. 3 I (5) « * I thought it proper to fay fo much, as it is part of the State of the Nation to un-» derAand our natural Rights, and to be guarded againft a Billm Embryo^ projedling to deftroy them : fince it matters httle that we have (hewn what particular Affairs are traniadling, when perhaps one is in Agitatipn of more Importance to our Wel- fare than all the reft put together' i A Man that apprehended an Intention to reftrain the Prefs, and really wifhed to pre- vent it, would write with Decenc) and Calmnefs j and if he found Fault with the Minifterial Condu^, would fpcak of Mini- ilers with Deference and good Manners* But he who would urge on every Meafurc for inflaming the Minds of the People, and ripening them for a Change, would ufefuch Means as fhould appear more hkely to hurry on the inflaming Meafure he pre* tended to dread and explode. Thus are we told by the late Mr. jy n himfelf, or his Apologift, that in order to bring on, with the greater Certainty, a War with Spain^ which would open a Way to that old Con- ftitution he was fo pafiionately fond of, he managed his Defence of the Convention fo as to d^eat, rather than promote the pacific Purpofes of that Compact. * And for this • Reafon^ ♦ Page 65. c c c « c < c < € ( 6) Reafon, fays the Apologif}, Page 45, tho' I was not at Liberty to oppofc the Con* vention dircAly, 1 took care that my Jufti- fication of it (liould rather inflame, than abate, the Feuds and Heats both within Doors and without; infomuch that I may fay, I had contributed as much to the Sfani/h W'jir, by my Manner of oppofing it, as thofe that had openly recom- mended it/ ^ This Legacy of Mr. /F- n\ whether his own or another's, has opened the Eyes of the Publick in regard to the Sempronms*^ of the prefent Age ; and it is to be hoped, for the future, they will be watched and guarded againft, as being more .dangerous than thofe whom we look upon as our here- ditary Enemies. I'he French are at prefent our open Enemies, and as fuch, 1 am for. purfuing them to Dcibudion, as far as is confident with the real Interefl of my Country ; but I have no Notion of rifking the Welfare of dear England out of Refent- ment to France, becaufe I have been taught to hate Frenchmen as our hereditary Enemies* ' f.This hereditary Animofity our Author builds upon for declaiming Englijhmen to a difrelifh for Peace, tho' there be no Profped ofS'JCcefs by a Continuance of the War. But 'I M (7) But this Writer, like that of Rr^Ho?7 detcBed, knew the Excefs of our Propcnfity to hate the French, and thinks to play the fame Game, by Aid of that national Weaknefs, with equal Succefs. The Author of FaSfion defeSIed, lured us to provoke France, I may fay wantonly and injudicioufly, to declare War againft thefe Kingdoms ; and the Author of the Stateof the Nation attempts to lure us, in his Turn, to a Continuance of that War, againft all the obvious Lights of Reafon and Experience. Are not the Schemes of both thefe Writers founded on fimilar Plans ? Does not the latter, who urges the Increafe of our Debts and Taxes beyond our Strength, toprofecute an inaufpicious War; does not the former, who wrote us into too good an Opinion of our own Force, and too mean a one of that of France ; do not thefe Deckimers, I lay, work upon fimilar Plans ? And what other can this Plan be except that of Mr. /^_: n\ wherein he recommends the following paflfive Condua: to all fuch as wifli well to his beloved old Conjlitutwu ■ * * Let all who are fond of War^ and * Parades on the Continent, be indulged. * Let all who would maintain a large ftand- * ing Covps of cherijbea foreign Mercenaries', * have * Apology, P*ige 49. t € t I t € € 4 € < € (8 ) have their Way, Let thofc who would increafe our Debts, be plcafed. And let tbofe who would prolong the War^ to inaeafe thefc Pledges, and for a Pretext to continue the aforcfaid Mercenaries in our Pay, be praifcd and fupported. In fhort, let all who would impoverilh the People, in or- der to humble them ; and corrupt theoi, in order to efface all generous Notions of Pofterity, and their Country, out of their Breads ; let thofe, I fay, have Rope enough, and they will better anfwcr our Purpofe than France^ even if fhc w^re fin* cere and inclined to ferve us.' Who, in his Senfes, can argue againfl the Reditude of Mr. W ■ " » n% Scheme ? 'Tis founded on Maxims felf-evident and uncontrovertible. If People are forced upon an unhopeful Attempt, are obliged to purfue ill Succefs, and have their Burden augmented in order to continue fuch Purfuit, mufl not the Confequences be Difcontcnt, Sedition and DifafFedlion, which generauy grow up to Convullions, and often to an entire Change of Government ? And who, that allows himfelf Time to refled in the leaft, can dif-believe that the Views of this Au- thor, who has transformed himfelf into va- rious Shapes, the better to impofc and de- ceive, arc the fame with thofe eflablifhed by the Apologift and his Brother ProteuSy the Author of FaSiion deteSied ? This (9) This latter, as the other two, cloathed himlelf with PFhiggi/h Principles, as molt hkcly to anfwet his Purpofe of Deception, though his whole Scheme was mo(t noto- riouily built on Maxims diarnetrically te- pugnant. And to glofs over his Deception, he fets out with this pompous but dangerous Propofition. * The Criterion of a f^big * CondnSi is to refift and reduce the Power of * France: On this Bafis was the Syftem of that voluminous Writer built, and on the like has the prcfent Wi iter raifed all his Engines for unhinging our prefent h^rpy l^fta- blifliment. "Brance^ with him, Is to have no Peace/ let her fUe never fo humbly for it, till (he is conquered and undone. — ' It was a Maxim ' among the old RomanSy fays he, never to * leave an Enemy unconquered/ But that we rnay be the more animated to indulge to the national Enmity to France^hG fets before us the Examples of our wifefl Monarchs, as he mifcalls all thofe, who, to fubdue the French^ had well nigh ruined the EngliJIj. * * In the time of our Edward III. Unifor- * mity of Adion appeared in its full Spirit * and Splendor, this at once animated our < Councils, and gave Vigouf to our Arms. < The fame Prince that headed the Army, B 'ruled f rage 2S. ( 10 ) ruled in the Cabinet : Nor has there been a Svvereign, from the Time of this Edward to that o/' Elizabeth of ijn mortal Memory, but what looked on the Court of France as their Enemy, and always fo- treated it. After which a long Interval furnifhes us at ' once with different Politicks, and lefs glorious Monarchs, till Wilham III. like anotlier good Angel, appeared to redeem our pail Follies, to recover our loft Conn- merce, and to infpire us wuth a juft Senfe of the imminent Danger attending us, by being in Friendfhip with France: You will necelTarily obferve a String of tacit Reflexion on our prefent Monarch for not headinf:, our Army, and Inaccuracies, or rather Inconfiftencies, pompoufly blended together, and ornamented with the Sandion of fome of our moft revered old Kings, pur- poftely toimpofe on the too good Nature of Engltjhmen, who are taught, from the Cra^ die, to boaft a Hatred to the French, Had not this inaccurate V/riier built too ftrongly on our Prejudice to that Nation, he would "not have let fucn Examples before his Rea- ders, as ought, in reality, to raife their Indignation againfb him. Is there one ever fo little read in our Annals, that knows not that the Ambition, or rather, the Enmity of our Ed-^ards and Henries to France, had vainly cofl this Nation an Ocean of Blood and ^ ( ^o and Treafure. And how much more of 'both we fpent in latter Days, to indu ge to our natural Prejudices, I leave this Author to calculate. But upon what Grounds do thefernaflced JVhm raife their Propofition, that theCrt- terton ^fift and Condu£i auc, u^cYm^r of France ? WoMlf'bigs undertake the Redudion o( France without any Profpedt of Succefs ? Would they de- ftrov Bneland in a fruitlefs Attempt of re- ducing France ? Such cannot be the Policy of miirs, unlefs of fuch Whigs as the Jpo- lo'ri/i paints out all our Statefmen fmce the Reiolution to have been. But that a Name I venerate, as much as I do that of IVbtg la its genuine, primitive Meaning may no longer fufiFer by Pretenders ^nAf alp Bre- thren I beg leave to deny this Propo- fuion to be true, for the following tew Reaions, among a thoufand, that might be inftanced. The Whigs m Charles 11. Reign, pe^e- cuted the Enrl olDanhy, afterwards Dnkeot Leeds, and prinoipal Promoter ot the Revo- lution and would have brought him to the Block', the- it was notorious that he was an Enemy to FraiKe, and had obftrufted a,l her Machinations at our Court, while he . had any Influence the^e. as «PF^»'-^^^by>^ ( 12 ) Meafiircs purfued as foon as he was obliged to retire, ■:'"i5JiM^ • . ^ ■ ■ In King WiUiam's Reign, the Whigs in-r dicated no innate Averfion to FrancCy when they could advife and condu(St the 'Partition ^Treaties, which, in their Confequences, gave Spain &nd the InJies to the Houfc of Bourbon, and for which thefe Whiggip Counfellors and Negociators wefe afterwards impeached by a rank ^ory Houfe of Commons, an amphibious Generation that brags of Principles and have none. There is no denying, that the obvious Meaning of the Partition T^reaty was increafing the Power of France j and fuch were its diredt Confequences ; nor can it be lefs denied that it had been propofed, negociated, and con- cluded by Whigi Abroad ; defended, main- tained, and applauded in Parliament by Whigs at Home j fo that refijling and reducing the Power of France was not always the Criterion of a Whig Condu^, But to bring the Point Home to our pre- fent Whigs, who are not, it is to he hoped, lefs Whigs than their Anceftors, nor of the late Mr. /^— — «'s Complexion, I fhall appeal to the Condud of the prefent Admi- niftration all the late Reign, and mod of the prefent, and I afliire myfelf *hat it will be admitted the Mi niilry all ti.c while were of the ^V;| ( 13 ) the true lold JVInggifi Standard. It is nptOr rious> that an almoft implicit Cx^pfidence was repofed by our Court in France eyer fince the Acccflion, till the Death of the Emperor Charles VL a Period of near thirty pars. During all that long Period, this Podrinc now laid down as fundamental, was ridi- culed and hooted at in our moft Auguft Affemblies, and a new Credendum fubflituted in its room, njiz. 3elieye in FrancCy and Sufpea the Houfe of Atiftria j pull down the latter, and aggrandize the former. And^ Sir, fhould you have forgot that the long Oppofition of the few grumbling fortes iii Parliament, was founded on the Admini- ftration*s conftant Adherence to this Doc- trine, I beg you will, to juftify me and fatisfy yourfelf, confult Monf. Rou//ef^ iColledlions, fo reveied, and often appealed to, by the Author of FaBiojz detected. In order to juftify this new-fangled Docr trine, of hunting down France at all Hazard and Expence, it is laid down as ^ pojiulatum^ that the French are our natural and implacable Enemies, thp* this be a Principle vyhich that Nation cpnftantly and abfolutely difavow and deny. And, indeed, one need not wonder at this fo peremptory a Difavowaljif it be confidered how extrava- gant, feroce, unnatural, impious a Principle that of an unrelenting Hatred is ; how re- i If' (14 ) pugnant to the Law of Nature and Nations, not to name that of the Gofpel, which I am forry to fee fo Uttle venerated of late. ■ Now whether the French do or do not merit the Charafter, I fliali not take upon me to determine at prefent ; but this I am very clear in, that they are extremely pru- dent in difclaiming it, and that this wife Conduct of theirs has been, in feveral criti- cal Conjundures, of mighty ufe to them. Why then, fince it is not unlawful to learn even from Enemies, do we not follow the wife Condud of the French in this refped, rather than juftify that implacable Hatred with which we charge them, by avowing it to be the ruUng Principle of our own Condudl ? May not Foreigners juftly retort upon us, whenever we call upon them to afTift towards reducing andhumbling France^ * Whatever comes from you of this Kind * deferves to be fufpeded j you avow your- * felves to be the conftant, unalterable Ene- * mies of that Power, and therefore we * may doubt, that you mean rather the Gra- * tification of your Prejudice^ than the * Security of our Freedom and Interefts ?* And I am not fure but the Weaknefs of the prefent Confederacy againft France, is more owing to the Opinion which Foreigners entertain of our falfe Prejudice to that Crown^ than to either the Gold, orfuperior Politicks ( 15 ) Politicks of the French Cabinet. Behold how cahTily all the Powers of Germany, the Houfe of Jiijlria excepted, the Dane, the Savcde, in riiort all the Powers of Europe, except Rtijia, which may be lured by^thc Charms oi our Guineas, to move, or feem to move, to our Aid 5 fee, I fay, how compofed and fercne all Europe look on, while this hated Power pufhes her Conquelts almofl to the Heart of Holland. There can polTibly be but three Reafons afligncd for the general Inattention of the Powers on the Continent to the. late Rapi- dity of French Conquefts, inz. That they conceive the B^Uance of Power to be in no Danger, that Phantom which turned fo many Heads in England fince the Revoluti- on ; or that they fuppofe the Intereft c^ //. r more confulted, and more nearly concerned, than that of England, in the Commencement and Confequences of the prefent War ; or, laftly, that thefc Powers, confcious of our avowed Prejudice to France, feem not in an Humour to indulge to our national Weaknefs. - ■ ' May it not be fuppofed that thefe neutral pov.'crs had obferved this Prejudice, or the li\V-:^kQfR r ftrongly operating, when we v/antcnly plunged ourfelves into the War, and induftrioufly brought it Home to the Dutch? M i I ir H ( 16) Dutch? They might obfervc tis tranfporting a large Body of Troops to the Continent, againft the Opinion of thofe next expofed to the Power of Frame. They might like- wife fee us marching the fame Troops beyond the Main, to draw the French out of jiiiflria^ Bavaria^ and Bohemia^ where they were interring the Flower of their Forces, and finking their cleared and heft Revenues. They might behold us, after the miraculous Elcape at Dettingen^ rejeding a Peace which would have reftraified France^ and prevented her ulterior Conquefls, re- conciled the Empire, fecured the Dutch Barrier, and produced general Safety and Tranquillity. Such mud have been the neceffary Confequences of the Peace v^^e rejeded at Hanau in 1743 5 and fo obvious 'ivere they to all Europe, that 'tis no Wonder none of the neighbouring Powers have ever fince interfered either to join us, or compofe the Quarrel. All thefe capital Errors, Errors that have run us already thirty Millions in Debt, that have loft all the Anjlr i an Netherlands ^ and almoft undone the Dutch, were owing cither to a ftrong Prejudice to France, or in Javcur oill—r. Take it which way one will, it was unreafonable and unwar- rantable ; yet fee how partially the malked Scribe I am confidering, buries in Oblivion all (19 ) tliofe Lights of Rcafon and Prudence, which evidently point out to us a Difcontinuance of the War when there are no Hopes of its becoming fuccefsful. ■* * A Peace as firm and lading as glorious * and beneficial ; not produdive of new * War, hor making Peace and War equally * expenfive to us j not keeping us always in * Terror, and uf)6n our Guard ; not fearing * Invafiohs, nOr dreading internal Enemies ; * But a Peace that mufl make the French * perpetually dependent upon us, that will * cure them for ever of fetting the World in * ai Flame, and make thern as much the * Contempt, as they are now the Dread of * their Neighbour?/— Again, * The Nation^ * expels it dbrie^, (fuch a Peace as he Die-- * tares above) they want not a Peace by * Negociation, h|ut by Arms; a. Peace f that will execute itfelf and be perpetual/ *,l ,- 1 J > .V ~ If you had not known the paft ill Succefs of our Arms, and the prefent Imminency of the Danger of our beft and powerfulleft Allies, would you not conclude, on th$ viewing fo imperious a Mandate to out Miniftry as the above, that our national Troops had taken up their Winter Quarters in ihtljle of France, that Paris wasaiieady in our Hands, and Verfailles the Head C 2 Quarters • Rig- ', 1^ i\ u ■f' ( 20.) Quarters of our Royal Leader ? — -^ Peace that muft make Y\2Siz^ perpetually dependent Upon us, — Such a Peace the Nation 'exr[ pe^s.^^~"^But it fiiuft be obtained by the S'wordy not by the Pen, Pray, Sir, what do' you think now of an Author that had fo dread fuUy alarmed your Fears? Cs^nrV.ou rcflcdon the gloomy Profpe<^ of our Affiir/S^ and confided 'this didatingPolitiqian as atrqc Friend to the Caufe and Royal Family liQ <; pretends to ferve ? h not 'the Mafk lifted up high enough here tP expofc to yout View the Incendiary and concealed J e ?, Need you a more pregnant Proof that this r/«3^V Performance, apd fu^h I haye Rea-. fons for believing it to^b^, conjes frqnija Partizan of France on ohe hand, and or the other, from a fccret Friend to Mr, Wr^^ — «'s old Con/titutton ? ' \. , . • . ♦ > You may poflibly bc|''at))e 'to guefs, ^^Bq,' I {hould be in an Error, who the French Partizan can be, by the ppnipouSj but un- meaning Detail of the Ejection for the Cky of L— », in which eight ^whole Pages (from Page 35 to 44) are employed to Ipt the World know that a certaiii M—- ^ — t was too hard for the jlldermeny whether by dired: or indireSl Means is another Queflion ; and that ** The City of London, has * always been coniidefed of diltinguifhed * Weight, * Page 43. *> n ( 21 ) * Weight, and J hope will prove fo in the \ Houfe by tfx Vakie of her Reprejentatiyes^ * which have never bqen equalled in my Ttme^ ' as being all Men of Senje^ undevotcd to * any Fa^ion.' i I hope, that not only the City of London^ but all our Cities and Boroughs are rcpre- fcntc;d bv Men of Sen/e and Integrity, free from aU Prejudices in favour of any foreign Country^ from whence they might be originally deriveki but let the Suppofiiion be never fo ftrong in favour of their Parts and Probity, I cannot fee why either the Eledion of l,^^r-r--ny or the Metit of the prefcnt Repre- fentatives, are bawled into this Work,unlcfs it\vas, ti^at ^«^, G|f our Authors, perhaps not in fu^h ,.Qipi4ci?ce as the Qther, had made this iPufh f9r ppening the Purfe of his Chum, by offering him the fulfome Incenfe of a P^«,, which diurnally Plays the Fool for .B— d.v ii^ti oi.s. . ■ -'■ : ' ^...; And now, Sir^ that I have laid my Thumb upon my Men, I hope you will be of Opinion that y-ou had unnectfTarily ad- mitted of an Embarraffment of Mind, which I am endeavouring tp remove. You may perceive by the Work, which is obvioufly fwelled out to an rj^igbteen Pennyworth for the main Purppfc pfG^/«, that the Authors are in no Secrets of State, and are of no ■ ;" Weight ll M ii -.; .. f M r:1 ( « ) Weight or Confeqiiencc. You may obferve that cne pufhcs to be taken Notice of by thofe he rails at, and the other to be taken Notice of by his CW/^^^i:^ ' Such are the Duumviri that affume pre-' fcribing to the Court and Miniftry, and that put you in a Panick by infinuating,that our Governors were willing to make Peace without hazarding the Continuance of a fuccefslefs War, in order to beat France int^ . an entire Dependance on this Nation. The Jirji in the high Commiflion, draws hisowft' Portrait tacitly in the flattering Encomium's bcftowed on the French for the unijorm and judicious ConduB of their Princis ani> Ministers, which are enforced by the Tran flat ion of part of k pompous Dccla^ mation fpoken by M. Pavilion^ on his being admitted a Member of the Academy of Sciences at Paris^ in the Reign of Lewii XIV. I wifli we Englijh were as national as the French \ but we too early and eafily forget the Source wearefprungfrom, whereas others retain the pa trial Leven for more Ge^ nerations than one. * j — And could I fuppole voi;, by thh Time', at any Lofs concerni/i^ the aflTociate Scribe^ I would dired you to the Plain Reafoner in 17+5, the State of the Nation in 1746, and the G»—ry fix Days in the Week. But he ftiines fo much like himjelf in this doughty Performance,that I fhould think it impollible for J. obferve of by e taken ne pre- y, and ng,that. c Feace e of a mce intf> . . The bis owfi )miums )rm and S AND by the Dccla- is being ?my of ■ Lewii lational d eafily ivhercas Qre Ge- * : Time', Scribe^ foner in ^6, and But he loughty pollible for (23) for you to miftake him. In the firft you jmay find him calling the Nation Beetles for mt feeing that the Revenues ^France are lefs than ours -, for not looking on France at beft but as a Bugbear that frightem iveak Spirits J and for not believing that, to flounce deeper in the Mire is the Way to get out of it, or to increafe one's Burden is the furell Way to get rid of it ; or, to ufe the Rea- foner s own immediate and more pertinent ExprelHon, nat the Increafe of our publick Debts ^ is the mofi probable y if not the only Means of lejfening our Taxes, But I had unwarily like to have wronged ©ur Author of the very Flower of ail his wife Rcfle*- isown wpujid iricrity ^o the lething Proofs r make )ver his pu will of this 51. 52, borrow an lejift prefeiat ;w Ally ;^ourt of iffla w>ll not any B French f of their into the an equal as aie ^ aheady i i (25) * already there of the Allies; nor find any • Ally capable of doing her any impor- « tant Service. The Event in the Eye of, < Common Senfe, is very clear. France mujt ' bejoon ruined and exhauftedy both by Sea « and Land, except (he can find Means to < conquer, which, at lea ft, is not very pro- < table, either in the LowXountrtes, or in « South France.— Spain may be loft to her * foon, and then the very Bufis of her Sup- •port falls of courfe."- As to the revolting « State of Genoa, tho' it may require « fome Time to clear up, has no very fa- « vourable Afped towards the Hcufe ot <■ Bourbon, but rather feems on the Point of < eminent Dejtruaion, The Soldiers on « our Part, and for ought I can fee, the Ge^ * nerals too, as full as good as ih^ French; ' our Succefs on the Side of Provence, pro- ' bably a Ballance for the Lofs of the Lcw- * Countries.^Thtxt is the beft Appearance, * that our Army in the Low-Couiitries, this * .Year will be a Match for the French.-^ *" And'as the Affairs of Europe in general c are in a very hopeful Way, by the happy ' ProPT^/i of the Arms of the Allies on the < Side of South France, I ihould not in the * leaft doubt, that when his Royal Htghnejs ' the Duke, fliall be appointed to command « again in Flanders, but that we (hall have * a pka/dnt Pro/pc^ on that Side.'— Then as tor 'his Exaaitude in Matur of Figures D and Mmmtiii »nm a » M m , ■\ ! Hi' ( ^« ) ^d national Expcnce, you (liall find Kim* miftaken in little more than aftftgle MUlicri }n his Calculation of the Money granted for the Expence of the prefent Year. : You cannot hence, Sir, avoid'pereeiving ^ Unfitnefs of fo loofe a Calculator and D-bler in Politics, for the high Privilege hd arrogates of alarming a Nation, dilating to a Court, and Jweating a Miniftry, * < The Way to give Health and Vigour to * the State, is the fame, as to cure malig- * nant Diforders in the human Body, that * \%io i2iy,hy Sudorifics 2ind FerfpiraUon :— * In this Manner I piopofeto treat the Body * Politic ^777;2Z^//y, until all its grofs Humours * evaporate/ — ^You fee you are to be plagued annually with the Empirick's Prefcripti- ons, unlefs he is taken do^'vn in Charity to the 'Public. For want of this Precaution the kft Year, we are troubled with him at prefent. But as the late Sir Richard Steele had heretofore filenced Partrige by expofing bis Impoftor, fo it is to be hoped his Bro- ther Graduate may hereafter be ftruck dumb by being thus ftript of thofe fpecious, patriot Trappings with which he covered himfelf the better to impofe on the Credu- lity of the People for the Promotion of his Scheme, in favour of Mr. W- n'^ cherifhed old Conftitudon. Even in regard to this Scribe, we know by Experience that he * Page I . ..\. V5 * ■■»■ '«7 I 1 Kid* iilliori edfor eiving Dr and egehe ;ing to ;our tof malig- c, that ion :— sBody imours tlagued fcripti- irity t6 ion the him at d Steeli cpofing tis Bro- ftruck )ecious, covered Credu- n of his regard ticc that he > la fM ( 27 ) he mends by Cowedtion, or at leaft dares, not offend, after Convidtion> in propria prfona. For bein^ detedled, about three Years ago, by aii able Pen *, he never after pretended to appear a Reafaier, chufing to cover himfelf under another Appella- tion!. ^ 1 i 1 ' ^'c!*^* ' 'Tis probable, tho' we ihould beat hiift out of his prefent title, this Author will affume another the next Year ; for the Mau wants not for a modeft Affurance, as you may judge by his exulting in his Lucu- bration of this Year, for the Ej^aaitude of his Calculations, Obferva^ions, ajid Predic- tions in his lafl. There is fomething very peculiar m the Conftruaion of this Writer's Mind, which one (hall not often meet with among Eng- i{Pmen, and which would incline me to fufpedt that fome Foreigner, or Spawn of a Foreigner, may be not only his Inftigator^ but Coadjutor likewife, in his reiterated Attempts to impofe upon the Public. He has gone on from Winter to Winter for three Years paft, promifing Wonders, and fccuring no Succefs ; and yet tho' our Affairs grow every Day more defperate, or at leaft, are in as unthrivmga Way as ever, this intrepid Scribe goes on prefcribing the £ime Dofe to us, which we experimentally found to be noxious and ^ D 2 unwholfome, • Plain Anfwcr to tK« Pl^ln Reafoiier. |!lf :n:25S«**n5aB««** . Si t- iri ) I I i- ill ' ill ;! ■ I- ; • 1 I W' ■ ;i 'I 'It ( ^s ) tttiwholfome. Fallen deteBed, from whence this Writer probably may have taken the Hint he annually purlues, affured us of beating Fr^«<:^ in a Campaign ; next Year comes out the Plain Reafoner, who gives the! like Aflurances with as little Reality j then appears the State of the Nation of laft Yeaiy tepeatrng the fame AiTeverations, and with as Httle Foundation ; and yet in the pfcfent Year we are Hill told we ihall hm%France, by a Continuance of the War, the* full four Years Experience, one would think, ouffht to make us wifer than to take his Word, and him more modeft than to offer It. 1 -iLii-r- There is fo great Petulancy, not' t6 lay ArroP-ancy, in thus perfevering to impofe upon the Publlck, after being fo often de- teded and in the wrong, that one may very fpecioully be allowed to prefume that fome pert Foreigner or his Ofispnng^^ eggs on this Writer, and clubs with him m the Labour. The Politics of France are known to b- too refined for the grofs Underftand- ings of the Majority of Engll[hmn, Jem^ pronius, is reprefented, by Mr. Addijon, bellowing moft in favour of Liberty and the Commonwealth, when he was deepeft in the Intereft of Ccefar. And I don't find, if the late Mr. W- — « i^ay be credited, but part of our People may match even the French for Art and DifTimiilation. But ''it-. ■ ,.:V^ '■if. f hence n the uS of Year es the! then Year, I with •fcfent 3* full think;^ ke his lan to t6 fay impofe :en de- le may ne that r, eggs , m the known rftand- Sem- 'Iddijon^ and the peft in find, if redited, ven the But s •> •If .( 29 ) . But to have Recourfe only ta the Work before us for the Proof of the Depth of EngUfh Policy, fee how furiouily this Author mouths at France^ proclaims her Jnability, and promifes her Redudion, when (he is on the Verge of fubjeding Holiami, of kindling a third fuccefsful Flame in /4^/>', . and of rendering ineffcdhial, all our Efforts to ftrengthen ourfclves, by a Corps of Rt/JJian Auxiliaries, and by en- gaging the G^rw^w/^ Body in our Caufe, Muft we not deem an Author uncommonly adroit that can perfuade us he is in earnell ^ ^11 the while that he is fpiriting up the Nation to purfue an, unequal, unfuccefsful Conflia:? If, before France had won an Jnch of the Aujirian Netherlands, Hie was able, to baffle and beat us, what View can we have of Succefs againft her in the pre- fent flourifhing Situation of her Affairs on the Continent ? But we are told by *his adventurous Mo- nitor, that her Succeffes in the Netherlands go for nothing, inafmuch as we fhall be able to ruin her^ in one Summer, by Sea, then get all her Trade, which he admits to be more lucrative than ours, and fo make ourfelves whole at once for all our Ex- pences fmce the Revolution, by adding the profitable Trade of France to our own. As •ill ■II ( 3<> ) As extraordinary as this Scheme for dedu- cing France may appear to you, there is nothing plainer under the Sun than that fuch is^the purport of all this Writer*s pre- fent incoherent Lucubration, if a Work, which has neither Order, Connexion nor tealoning, may be faid to have any Meaning at ail. You will find the Work a whole, compofed of Parts as little relative to each other, as they are altogether to the Defiga of the^Performance, which niay be fuppofed to have been the giving a general idea of the State of our Affairs. But how is this attempted to be performed by the Author, by jumbling together feveral detached Sub- jedts, moft of them quite foreign to the «nain Defign, in fo disjointed a Manner, that the firft Part of the Work may as well be the latter 5 and either, or both, the Middle. , r i . The Writer had catched the Itch of dab^ ling in Politicks,would write to get a Penny, to alarm the People,to anfwerthe fecretPur- pofes of his mafked Party, to blacken and diftrefsthe prefent Miniflry, andtoreftore a late fallen Minifter. In fuch a Flow of different Ideas, what could a weak Brain do elfe but ftuff into his Work all the good ^Things he had heard or read of, whether pertinent or otherwife ? Thus may we account for the Detail (Page 24.) of the Chancellor of the Ex rs ^ ^ ^^ Method ( 30 Method of afcertaiftiiig the ^antum of the. current Supplies, and the manner of raifing; them. So llkewifc may be accounted foir. th« whole tedious Progrefs of the late Elec-* tion for L «» and pai^ticukrly his out- doing, Page jA^), where he prefents hi* Reader with the. choice Nofegay of a Simile, which^ for its Beauty and Pertinence, may be as well the Offspring of the Laureat as the F-^l. ' ff any on© has feen a young Girl ' diiappointed of her Huibaad the Momeuit * the Fricft was: going to join their HandSj, * fo now looked Courtier at Courtier, Cor- * poration^Maii at Corporation-Man.' — - And what was it that nad wrought thi^ wonderful Surprize in CorporatiQn-Mei> ^nd Courtiers ? Ihe fudden Appearance of tfiva potent Ad^erfaries that had been hid be-- hind the Curtain^ as he tells in the fame Page, which were Sl-^y, B-^^ll Sind St-^n if the learned Author 'be in aa Humour to vindicate an intimate Ac- quaintance. The Author himfelf bed knows with what View he has fpent fo mi|ch of his ' Ink, ,1 i -^ \; W ( 32 ) • f Ink, and filled fo many Pages of his Work/ to (hew us, that he had read the Treaty of Munjier had been concluded in 1648, that of the Pyrenees in 1659, that of Nimegue?r m 1679, and the Peace of Ry/wick in 1697, and to give us a juft Idea of his Accuracy, he defcends to be fo minute as to inform his ilUterate Readers, that this laft Treaty was concluded in the Month of September, He had finifhedthe Portraiture of hi sEx/7<^/V«^^, if he had inferted the Day of the Month and Hour of the Day; but Homer himfelf nodded fometimes. Nor are we to wonder if one fo much more intent to frighten and deceive, than to let right and inform, fhould interlard his Work with fuch Scraps of Hiftory and Hearfay, as might fet his Readers a ftarine,, and in their Surprize, forget or overlook the main Drift of his Undertaking, which was to over-load and perplex the Nation by t^- Continuance of an unfuccefsful War, th- better to reftore the late Mr. W ns Old Conftitutmt, Behold how judiciouny. Page 34,^ he blends the Dutch with the Mini/try in a flrong Oppofition to the H r A* — ^t, or, as he more elegantly phrafes it, that rijing Geiiius oj the Nation, But being one of thofe accurate Scribes that never diflies up a What to their Readers without a Wherefore, he prefently acquaints us what had principally ' ('33) ^principally occafioncd this Coalition, * It * was, he fays, f^age35, ihtJiartingM^ an * antiquated Right in the Duchy of Corn" * wall" But behold the Author's 'edifying Pcrfpicuity in developing hi$ Subjed, and/ clearing it up gradually to the Underlland- ing of the meancft Capacity. Firfl, he Jiarts up a Right which puzzles the Reader . to find out ; and then pretently fets his Mindat Quictby informinghimthat, ^ There * was at this time produced to light iome * old Records of the Duchy, which feemed * to give a Right to the Prince oiJValeSy aS *Duke oi Cornwall, of convening any * where, within the Limits of the Duchy, * a Parliament of Tinners, to be continued * together as long as their Principal, or his * Deputy, by his Diiedtions, (hould think 1 convenient/ ' Here was Matter enough to alarqi the Miriiftry and the Dutcby who might be overthrown, the latter by Lewis XV. and the former by the late Minifter, ftiould the lack-learning Cornwall Parliament be per* mitted to fit. * This, to be fure, at fo de- * licate a Crifis, alarmed the Miniftry, and * put them on ufing their heft Endeavours * to obviate fo Jii-portant an Oppofiuon as * fuch a Ballance againft them mufi: have * created.' But this MMance fo exceedingly dreaded, as you Ihall fee by and by, was^, however, S . . ini .1. ■A'l m irl'i :•*' n 3 it It ^9>i ; ill ( 34 ) jn ruch imparual Hands, us tbat it was npj likely to prove any Ballance at all. Mt * happened very luckily for them, that thefe < Records were Dot in the Hands or Power * of anv of the Duchy Officers ; they were < in the Hands of an eminei^t Lawyer un- 'bvafled to either Party, and to vvhpm « both made a very arduous Applicatir c on *— It concerns not the Public, we wiU iuppofe, who ihtunbyaljed Lawyer w^?, or how aptly the Epithet mav be annexed to the Profelfion of the Law, how he came bv the Cuftody of thofe imponant i^aW^, what Rigb't he bad to det^ip them irpm Kim who could alou'. be intitled x^ the 'Poffeffion of them ; nothipg of .al| this, without doubt, was thought licceffary by the Author, or fo accurate a Pen would have obliged the Reader, wbo rhuft prefently after wonder exceedingly why the Dutch and our C^ourt were convulfed, firice an nnbyaffed Gentleman had the Cuftody of the Records, which, by being m ^the pro- per 'Hands, qould alone contribute to prg^ ducetheConvalfion. !' Yet tho' tbele tremendoois P^r^to^«/'^ were i'n Hands not to be comipi.dh^ Vi:o^ mifes froniL — r Hr— e, ov Gold uii^Vf- mifes from A- ■ -n S-«-t, we fhall find the Dutch and our Miniilry driven to t^e very Verge of Oefpair, for fe;^r^ the Lawyer ■fliQuld not love.Gc/4 or iliould drop; the ' " ^ • • Zuhjlance / thefe ower were , un- iciitir ; wiU uxpd came cords'^ irqm ex- the this, try by would jfeutly Dutch ce an jdy of e pro- ) prQf bmnts y Pr<> all find to tlie ^awyer Gp; tjoe ihjlance ( 35 ) Siwjtauce' 10 crvtcn at the Shadow. — How little and weak; d'o Men in the highcft Sta- tions appear, fofnCtimes, wheh produced in their native Coldiiis ! behold how xhtHigh a^d l^lgttyy bath at riomq, and Abroad, ti'^i^bie at a Phantom. * * .While thjg Was in Agitation,, and both' •;'Sici^s in doubt which fhqnld fudcecd, botb •'tjie 'i)?^/^/^" and Bnfijb M^^y were at* * ^tXt iViti l^ijds ■ for fear of the Event. 'They weigh^cf'ei'ery CifCtrrnftance, can:-^ •^^ai&d every Meafure, and (ju^^led and^ * fierplexed themfelves, to no Purpofe, Re^ ^ fiixion 'Worked ' on Refiexidn, Tbdugbf ort ''' Thought y they looked on tfh'e anothet^ ' like Men bev^ild^red in a Storm (an Tm-^ *' provement of the late poigtiant 6'/W/(^ o^ * iH^ young VVoihan that had loft •xHuJband *■ before fhe hati one) expcdlng every Mo*^ * ment the fini/hing Guil, that muft give?* * them ' their ^iittu^^ — -Nay, %^ ; do not defpair for af^'ihis" melancholy painting.- You fliall find our Author can as readily^ extricate his Aoiori^ as confound and per- plex them 5 an,d he (liull do this in a man- nef,' which no other Writer, iii the World but hi^f^V ^vould have underfaken oi^ thought of. While the defp;\irin5^ IM-^ landers and our MiniHry wert" iii this di- ilradted Condition, not knowiV^ whether to hang or diovvn, behold how' a Dawn of E2 Day ^ m I m n ( 36 )' Day broke in upon them to M ihe.^_ ^ejs to Safety. 01 Boay and M.nd !1.-When fuddcnly a Glare ot Ligni ' anoearcd from a Qaarter they leaft ex- . vST the Halcyon Day returned, and .Sincd all their Ca.cs tnto Joy^and ' TrLlpo..--How poeuca^^ Sdt'a, nrip-htened ah their i^ares .— *«• ^ n-iight have 101 varn {bed with. i./^/,/.«.^, were filed by^ht^ ^^^^^ ^^.^_ foiuing. P'^'"*. ^-^ iat a.ch fmall Slips be-. liant Diamonds. But "ch jn F^^^^^ to our Aiitho , ^"^ . ^^-^ proper. returp.ed. but "^J^'f ^ V« /« ^/^ ^"'i'"' ^'^We^neiggSe^f'lhePo"^^^^^ :::';e' ^' Tfe^arSily intimated to the . K 2 the Neceffity ot learning the Senti- ' "^T^^^^Sf. tLy Sed for fome . ingly ^PF^^^^; "S Vough, when at length ' time with 7e> > o' s «"""& » . jj^ey I- ( 37 ) •they were told with a gracious Smile, that • their Safety purely depended on the Diffom • lution of the Parliament.' Some have fuppofed, 1 hope invidioufly, that all this was of the Author's own pure Invention ; becaufe, fay they, 'tis unlikely the late Minifter^ who always was, and is ilill, cheriflied by the P e, would give Advice that (hould put not only his royal Patron, but himfelf too, more in the Power of the Miniftry than ever. He muft be weaker and more felf-denying than he is deemed to be, to acepi!ion, as tky the Nature and Extent of Governmer^t, I beg leave to trouble yota with a few of his^|^ m^^;z^ Principles on the Subjedl. * * ^i^tf * Miiiifter in a free State either proceeds oii * a mw Blany or moves hy none at all If * on a new one, the Chain is broke that-pouM * boid the State together^ aiid if on nom at * /z//, then the Spirit of the People governs7'^ For my pact, though I perfoade myielf there is fomething very new and (hining in all this, I readily own it beyond the fcanty Meafure of my poor Comprehenfion ; there* fore humbly leave the Difcuflion of its Sub- limity to the Literati at Tom's or Child\ ^^ well as of the Super-Elegancy ^ the hari monious Author on the Stupidity of Mrni^ fterial Men. -f- < It's a Pity that even the * moft defperate Neceffitics of the State * won't turn the Minds of Minifierial Men * to the refledting on the impending Danger; * nor • Page 65. f Page 24. ^s ( 39 ) 'nor feek to ihelter themfelves under * tht hafpitabU Cover of evident ReBi^ ^ ^Wf/&c,— But to the Author's principal To (hew then his Drift at once in its ftroiTgeft Light, I fhall quote his own Words as being undoubtedly more apt thail any I could fubftitute in their Place. * ' I r doubt not to fee this War happily ended, f with the entire Deftruttion of tht French * Commerce ; which muft be done, or as I f have ihewn before, all our Labour is in 1 yain, our Pebts are much too high to be f paid, by any other Means in Nature; and * as they muft be higher, there is no alter* * native left us, but to have Peace on our own * Terms^ or become the Slaves Qi France, ^m^ I Jn a Word, onetfrnmuji now fall, which, iJiext under Heaven, is in our own Power fto 4«termine,* 45^. .';you may obferre here, Sir, that old Ro^ man Spirit which glowed in the Breaft of thofe renowned Republicans during the Fmkk Wars. Delenda eji Gallia. Bvl^ tain or France, now 7nuft fall% and we arc here advifed to run the Ililk -of that tre» mendous Fall^ to obtain a Peace on our own Terms, ^ Bi]it you are not to fuppofe our Author fo muchg Vifionary 4s to build upon Miracles only, I affiire you he has his Pouch well ilored ■* Parr A /»■« < ^ » -^■.- s^^ u^. ■il J I i'lhi ■li J! tfi ( 40 ) ftored with IJopes^ which you will find to be folidly grounded. * ' Our Hopes, in the * mean time, are centered in the Prince of * Oranges getting the better of the French * Party, and efFedually rooting them out * of the Army and Government j on the * RuJjanFovccs coming timely intoourAid; « on our Naval Affairs being purfued with * Spirit ; and of our bringing fuch an Army * into the Field, as may be able to ftce the ^ * French." - ' ^ ' iix;^J-?f^-~- Here is the whole Chain of his political Strength for giving France the Fail he would perfuade us to attcr ^pt 5 but fbould any of its Links give way, I apprehend it too obvious that we may receive the FaM in* {lead of giving it ? ' It may be impradicable for the Pririce of Orange^ and perhaps not fafe for him, to attempt fo thorough and fuddcn a Ckange in the Army and Government, as the Au- thor contends for, while a powerful, fuc- cefsful French Army is within the Territo- ries, if not the Bowels, of the Republick. Here then may we be allowed to fuppofe that this firfl Link of his Chain may faiU— Let us efTay the next. The Rujians may be prevented by dome- flick or neighbouring Diftradions, either real Qx pretended y may be impeded in their March, Jhould they march in earneji, cither by S.A (+1) by FrulJia or France 5 may come too late to. obftrud fuch Conquefts of the Enemy, as may reach even the Vitals of the Republic ; or, fhould none of thefe Impediments inter- vene. Frame may ftill be an over match for the Confederates in the Field, by means of Swedijh, Prufftan^ and other German Auxi- liaries, or by a forced Augmentation of her native Troops, to make a dernier Effort. In either Cafe, what would become of Ho/- landy fliould this Link likewiie fail ? and, to our very great Sorrow, the Appearance is but too ftrong, that it may. The fourth Link of his Chain, I chufe to conlider before the thirds being naturally and more immediately connedcd with ih& Jecond, which related to the Ruffians, If the Ruf- fians ihould not join us, there is no Appearance that we can bring fuch an Army into the Fields as may be able to face the Enemy ; and even if they fhould, 'tis a doubt, a very great one, whether France might not out- number, and over-match us after the Jun6tioi\: Therefore at beft, this third Link of the fanguine Author*s Chain of Hopes^ is but Conjedural. Would then a wife Man or a Friend to our prefent Eftablifliment, rifque the Fate of the Nation on a fimple, I fear arv untenable Conjedlure? I appeal to your, and every P cader's Underftanding, if the Author has noc here evidently difplay'd the Hoof, and confirmed hiinfclf to be oi the JVinningtoni" But (4^ ) But as greateft Strefs is laid throughout the whole Work, on the third Link of thb imaginary Chain, that is, on our conquering and retaining all the French Colonies, before France overcame the Butch, we will examine this Point feparately and more minutely. This is the more neceflury, that the Author himfelf tells us that both we and the Dutch arc inevitably undone, unlefs we fucceed in the Attempt. But is it not probable that we arc declaimed into a Defire ot making an Attempt of fb fickly a Contexture, in order to a Reco- very of the oldConfiitution, This important Conqiieft, according to this difpatchin^. Scribe, is to be made in one Sum- nier or our Miniftry defcrve to be hanged. * ' Oivr naval Power, while the Dutch cover <- the Seas with Privateers, may finifti the ' Deilrua:ion of the Frehch Trade, with ■« great Facility j and this, with due Attention, * may be effeded in one Summer, • Again, < \i our Fleet cannot make fuchaPeace as ' < we want iti one Summer, I know what '« foiriQ People dr/erve: , , ,, It were to be wifxied the Author had told us in what particular Manner he would ad- vife the attacking the French Settlements, that we may be the better able to judge of his military Skill. Bnt fince he has not thought proper to let his Readers be as wife as himleU, for I will fupoofe he had formed a Scheme ot the ConqueA he intended ; fince, I fay, he h.;. not informed the Public, how the Con- Page 30, ^.1. (43 ) qucfl may be made, I (liall 'endeavour to point out the Probability of our making none that can balance the Rifque, (hould we make the Experiment, by continuing the War. AH Queen Anns War, we were as much Mafters as Sea as now, and we were Con- querors wherever the War was kindled on the Continent ; yet we never attempted a Con- queft of the French Colonies, but once of Gi- nada, in which we failed, and not for Want of either SkiU or Reiolution, fo much as through a natural Impradicability that attends the Attempt of fuch diftarJ: Conquefts from.a brave and the mofl experienced Nation in the World in the Art military. We topk Cape^ Breton-, but had the French Miniftry done their Duty, as they eafiiy might, in fendiiig • early and neceffary Supplies to Loiiisbourg, we might have had fufficient ReaOn to repent us of the Attempt. Bat are w ^ prefumptuoufly to exped that the Court of FAV7;7r^ will be al- ways as remifs, .and that we flvall always have the like Succefs ? I don't know what might have been the happy Confequence, if the Blow had been immediately followed after the taking Cape- Breton -, but if the mod intelligent, in the Strength of both Nations, in that northern Part of America^ may be credited, we have no chance of conquering Rebeck, without which all other Acquifitions there would turn to little Account. So that in north America^ theCha;ice of oqr not fucceedingto root out ^F 2 the : 'I m Hit .Ji'iii; Ill i ^tlil' w (44.) the F/"^«^/j there, is at beft, precarious, per- hapb impradicable. And Vv^ere it othcrwile, I fear the Conquefto ot Fr^ince in thcNet norlands would render us vciy tnidabie on a Peace, on whiehOccafion,! apprehend we fhailbe obliged to reilore Cape^Breton, the only Conqueft we have been able to make, fmce the War, with all our vaft Sup-- -iiy by Sea. We are next to examine ; Feazibility of iubduing the French Sugar Colonies, the only they have in America^ except their Settlement on the River Mtffifipi, which I Ibppole the Au- thor himlelf would not advife attempting. The Principal of the French Sugar Settle- ments, are Martinico and St, Domingo, or Hijpaniola divided between them and the Spaniards. To begin with the latter, I will take upon me to affert that the French alone on that Ifland, are able to raife 20000 effec- tive Men, willing and able to defend their Properties againft a foreign Invader. And we may naturally fup'^ofe that the Spaniards on the Ifland, would rather aid their Catholic Neighbours, than us Proteftants. Befides, it is no Secret, thft the principal Harbours of that fine Ifland, particularly thofe in iheFrnch PofTeffion, are regularly and fl:rongly fortified. In fuch a Situation then, can we fuppofe the Conqueft of this French Sugar Colony to be fo pradlicable and eafy, as this adventrous Writer would perfuade us it is ? Is there not greater likelihood, that the French, from fo f opulous a Colony, contiguous to Jamaica, may f 45 ) may invade that Ifland of ours, than that wc fliould be able to fubdue them ? The Probability of our fucceeding againft Martinico is ftill ftronger againft us, if it be true, as I take upon me to fay it is, that the French are able to arm 40000 good Men in Defence of that valuable Ifland. There is not one acquainted with the vaft Superiority of the French in thofe Parts, that wonders not they had not invaded our Leeward l^zuds fince this War, and that fcrupies to own they might, the two firft Years of it, have ruin'd all thofe Iflands in a Fortnight. There is no Difputing that they had Force enough at Martinico only, to do the Work ; nor can they ever want it when inclined -, or fear fucceeding, if the Superiority of our naval nForce, don't prove the Safety of our Fellow- Subjects in thofe Parts. l^ht French^ 'tis true, have a few more fmall Sugar Iflands, fuch as Guardeioupe and Mariegallante 'y but they, if conquered, would be but a poor Equivalent for the Con- tinuance of an expenlive and unfuccefsful War. And I am not clear, that we could fubdue even thefe fmall Colonies with all our Mari- time Force, confidering how populous and well fortified they are, the Weakncfs of our contiguous Colonics in Men capable of bearing Arms, and their Diftance from this Center of our Force and Power. iin the bcft T^rms that can be obtained before the Enemy *sConc[ueils reach the Vitals of the Dutch f Surely, my Friend, the Eligibility of the alternative is too obvious to need Arguments If w? continue the War, aqd it prpve un- fuccefsful, the Dutch will be undone, and we fijwft N buried In their Ruin. The Conqueft of thi^ French Colonies, and the Deftrudlion of their whole Commerce, is a mer^ Chifper^, as I h^ve flicwn before. Could the Coqqueft be made, our Allies would^ and muft be obliged to join fo far with the Enemy, as to cxac?- a Reflitution of whatever mjght be wrefted from the French m the new World. It would be impoflible to mal^e Peace without fuch Re- ilitution, unlels France be driven out of all her Conquefts in the Nether lands y which may be rather wifhcd for, than relied on* Yet fee how differently this Writer pretends to judge of the Matter. * ' In this I fee not any rational alterna- * tive, nor can conceive on whdt Terms it's * polfible to n^ake Peace, but fuch as mud * be attended with inevitable Ruin.'— This inconflftent Aqthor argued to the fame Pur- port |n his State of the Nation for laft Year 5 and yet fince his writing that incendiary Piece, we have had fuch Overtures of Peace made to us by France, as might be em- braced even in a fuccefsful War. What ij 1 :/i^=j c. « *^ Al-^A *l^<.«-« C^^l of (54) of the War, xh^n for France to offer reCtorinz all her Conque/ts, in Cafe a imderate Settlt ment fmdd be agreed to for Don Philip in Italy, ^ and that a fmall DiftriSi in the Dut^ €hy of Luxemburg, contiguous to the Territo^ riesoj France en that Side, Jhould be yielded to that Crotsfn ? Thefe are foch Preliminaries as I prefume to ailert were offered by Fraftce,znd repeated. And pray, why may not a Peace found- ed on luch Preh'minaries be made without being attended with inevitable Ruin, the Confequence, according to this Author, of making any Peace, till we fball have con- quered the French Colonies, and pofTeffed ourfelves of all their Trade ? But herein cfpecially appears the Amhot'^ Secret Views. With him, our Ruin is inevitable if Peace be made 5 and why ? but that he fuppofes and very juflly, that the Continuance of the War muft fo perplex us, that we {hall plunge into any Meafure that promifes any Relief, or even a Change of Pvdifery, which is fome Alleviation in Pain. But our Miniftr}^, who have no View but to the Honour and Happinefs of their Country and Prince, will, 'tis to be hoped, entertain other Notions concerning Peace and War, in a Conjundure the moft critical and perilous that has ever been known. And if they are to blame for any Part of their paft Condud, 'tis, that they did not clofe with the Propofals of France, before flie invaded the TcrritLTicsof^V/^wiand that they «« «4 ( 55) they abetted an Attack on the Ge?2o^Jl', a neu- tral Nation, which brought on the Invafion of France. For tho* fhe may have made, or liflen- cd, to Overtures fince 5 nay, tho' fhe and Spain may have complimented us with the fending Emiflaries Home to us to treat of Peace, yet I cannot perluade myfelf that the French are- as tradable now, as before the Conqueft of Bergen-op-zoom, And flill, I am of Opini- on, 'tis our Intereft to liften to an Accom- modation on the beft Terms that can be ob- tained. If I could fuppofe that the flipping fo fa- vourable, I may fay, happy an Occafion of putting an End to the War, was owing to the Tenacioujhefs or Corruption of any Mea in Power, 1 (hould as readily give them up, as I do the late M r, for rcjcding the Offers of the lafl Emperor, at Hanau, But I will hope the Error lies eljewhere^ for the Sake of Englijhmen \ and that, for the Sake oi England, no Intereft will be more re- garded or cherifhed than hers, in any Ne-. gociation that may be now on the Anvil, or may hereafter be fet on foot. Before I take Leave of you, or quit this Writer,(o extolled and fupported by theiSer- vants^nd Dependents of a Ferfonage, as be- loved as he is wife, good, and eminent, I cannot, in Gratitude to the Royal Youth who commanded for us and our Allies A- broad, but animadvert on the Indecency ©f this Sciibein regard to that illnflriojis \\i-yo no lefs confpicuous for military Skill than pcirfonal n i 5^ ) -r t n««nf • » Whm the OaUt of U-rlhm^: • ticijlar and dlftlna "om w»a«. "•*" . ^ srffc,in%he^ *i -id lite £^.W. (aod 2^i;^^^^.K^rl«^^ . ^nd when we F^'^^i'^'lXmokQ: Regions ; . Power, we fetchj«^tt« Horn » ^^ ^^^ . ^^ « hat>py in t^^t, we always 5^"" r^' J ,_ „ „„ » -Co.ildy.li 'mfg'"* *«/i"°^^ d«d»imii« h«r law » Ifeis Addrefa opfift you, Trm nyrs, «c. ♦ P^gcig. + W» No. 259. r Bswat '. ' of Ac ration. •, thftt ft pfo*-- .ry I 'om very IS i-' rfFerencej i.iilillDri, ir'givc tne tit^. The. Provincet, m natural Regions ; laft i had bPiftufebf hax into » '? J5y thi% has brought « :.l 'd ^^