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It has puzzled the Wits of the Friends of this Adminiftration to find what to commend, and we are reduced to fo ftrange a State that Courtiers now are at a Lofs to flatter. Yet how little foever I love high-flown Panegyrick, or a. Time-ferving Tongue, I am as little pleafed to deal in Cenfure -, but when Misfortunes rife to fo great a Height, 'tis impoflTible for Patience to lafl:,, and . People put to tlie Torture will exclaim. Whea we faw a Minifte^ of confefled Abilities force4 from the Helm of Government, his Royal ' Matter's Favour and Protedlion not availing, we B ' :: ' were ' ■i^Htiffii' \ were told by the prefent Cabal that this Violence was done to M- y in order to bring back the Golden Age. A Golden Age indeed,, it has been . for them, fattening in Places -, 'I cannot fay of great Credit and Honour (I wifh I could; yet of great Emolument ; but to this Country an Age of Calamity and Ruin. The Date of thisO-i— y is yeir fhort, the Enumeration of the Services rendered to Great Britain during this Inter — e — urn is Hill fhorter, for it takes up no Point of Time ; but the Effects of its Power ftrong in the S e for Purpofes beft unattained, weak and impotent in every other Place have been fcverely felt by this Nation, and are long to enumerate. I Ihall con- fine myfelf, however, to the Conduft of the War, which has prefented to us a very difmal Sceqe. The Glory of tne BritiJb'Arms was great thro* a long and uninterrupted Series of Tim«. A Curfe on thofe Accidents, on thofe Councils which have given an Interruption, for I hope it will prove but an Interruption (if this War lafts j and that too of a fhort Continuance, that our Difgraces will not fufvive a weak Adminiftration which cannot fupport itfelf long, and muft fall by its own Inability, that our militaryReputation will be carried to a greaterHeight under the Aufpices of the prefent Illuftrious and Royal Line, than at any other Period of Time ; for it would be ftrange, if the perfonal Bravery of the Family (hould not add fomething to our ancient Renown. Yet now how are the Mighty fallen ■ — ! and, what is an Aggravation, while they are led by a Race of Warlike Prhices. But I choofe to draw a Veil over the Shalne of my Country* rather than dwell on a Rcprcfentation of Things ib - offenfive. to the Pride of an En^lijhmait -y for 1 Jiope we are not yet fo humbled but a becoming iPride dill remains in i5r////^ Breafts* fomcRefent- raent for Misfortunes brought en them by ill Con- \ , du£t.- ( 3 ) dud, fome Diftinftion between the Contempt and Efteem of the World. But the Caufes of our Difafters arc not fo to be paft over. I will not enter into a Difquifition whether a War upon the Trade of France might not have been carried on with more Advantage than upon the Continent ; but whether the Meafures which it has been judged proper to take, have been purfued with publick Spirit, with the Addrefs and Ability becoming Miniftcrs ; nay, whether with common Prudence, or the Icaft Regard to the WcUare of this Country. 'Tis flrange ! *tis aftonilhing ! that wifer Councils have not been followed by our Minifters even for their own Sakes, becaufe the Glory would have re- dounded to them. But whether the Defign is to h— m— e the Spirits of Englijhmenj and make them t— ,-e for the Y— e, or our Minifters are really un- able to raife themfelves aiKi the Nation abov? the low State to which they have brought both •, it becomes us not to fee our K— — nor oufelves fo ferved j not to fee Violence done, Difgrace fix*d on M— , and at the fame Time both on one and the other, and Mifcry into the Bargain on ourfelve^. As for the Confideration of any concerted PJan, any fix'd Quota's, any Alliances formed, this Admi- niftration has faved me as well as themfelves that Trouble. They are the fortuitous Events of Time alone during this War which I have to confider j for our Minifters feem to aim at nothing more than to be Retainers of Fortune by the Day, refolved td fpend the laft Shilling of Britijh Money (which is paid away in all Parts of the World) in Support of undigei):€»d Schemes, and ill-calculated Meafures. There was a Time when our Negodations in fixing the Contingents to be finiftied by the Parties con- cerned in carrying on the War, did Credit to this Country. W^hen the Emperor was tofurnifh9o,ooo Men, 66^000 Foot, 24,000 Horfe and Dragoons, ' riisj' :■-.--, ^■■. , B 2 ■■'-^ not I i (4) hot reckoning what would remain in Hungary or other Parts ot his hereditary Countries. The Statics General j02,oco Men, 82,000 Foot, 20,000 Horfe and Dragoons. England 40,000 Men, 33,000 Foot, 7000 Horfe and Dragoons. This was the grand Foundation, befides the Affiftance given by other Powers during the War. Upon now different a F'oot Things are carried on at prefent, I am afliamcd to relate, r ''■*^' .^ -? I will fay little of what preceded that memora- ble iEra, Chriftmas 1 745. The A6lion of Det- fingen, as it is the'laft Taltc, which Britons, here- tofore glutted, have had of Vidlory will not eafily be forgotten i nor the Field on which they took their laft Farewell. The Conqueft of Cape Breton j a Conqueft, the moft important, beyond all Com- parifon, that ever was made by this Country, has been fufEciently fet forth by the Joy and Applaufe of the People of this Country ; and pleafed I am, that my feeble Voice would on this Occafion, fliould I attempt to fay any Thing, be loft in the general Acclamation. I hope, as no Force can deprive us of this great Acquifition, as France can never take it by any other Means than of our own Miniftry, that no Treaty will ever put her in Pofreflion of it •, tho' upon fuch Terms flie would giv^ up every Foot of conquered Country. For who will give us Security, that the next Day ftie will not recon- quer that Country, and leave us diverted of both, and the Jeft of the World ? ^ ^^ .rt But without this Confidcration, the incftimable Value of Cape Breton alcne affords fufHcient Rea- fon why we ihculd never part with it *, for what- ; - ever prrcate Perfons may, the Publick can receive ,, no Compcnfation for it. And, I hope, as this Ad- miniftration had nO Hand in taking it, they will have none in delivering it up, and that the only ^ Concern which they ftiall have had in this impor-, , (s) ^ tant Place, will not be that fimply of fevering it for ever from the Britijh Dominions : For the taking it fprung from the Councils, the' it was not compleated till after the Refignation of the late Minifters. It is the fame with fome othef great Events, for it cannot be doubted to what the furprifing Succcfs of the Allied Arms on the Side of Italy is owing, or that, to trace out the Caufe, it will be neceffary to go farther back than the Date of the prefent Adminiftration,who are faved from finking by the Effects of the Wifdom and Pru* dence of the Man whom they have opprefs'd,who like worthlefs Heirs live on the unimproved Stock of their great Predeceflbr : I wi(h, for my Coun- try's Sake, that Stock would laft longer ; for when one confiders our ill Succefs in every other Part, except where the Influence of his Councils could reach, there is too great Reafbn to fear that Stock failing, Beggary, and the moii abjedt State will enfue. I difclaim any Attachment, any Connexion with any Perfons, but thofe who Ihall labour for the Good of their Country •, I will as heartily oppofe one Minifter as another, ading contrary thereto in what Refpe<5t foever. At the fame Time I will render Juftice to every Man, tho' unknown ; 'tis in vain to deny it : Time has fliewn, that the late Minifter's Plans were great, his Defigns well con* certed and efficacious •, fo efficacious, that they have prevailed long after the Power has been cut off, in Ipiteof the Clog, in fpiteof the want of Addrefs in his Succeflbrs, which has difcover'd itfelf in e- very one Thing without Exception, which they have undertaken; that they have eclipfed his Glory, is true -, not however bv fuperiour Brightnefs (would they had !^ but by the Interpofition of an opace Body, which has ftruck a fatal Chil- nefs on our vital Heat and Vigom This fhort :^^:- ■:.■'■■- ■ "" ■' ^:V' -: " .'' , '"~ .^■" -. .:. I. >;. >v Re-* ,. ; ,i,. >i .i ! i (6) Rctrofpci^t I have taken, with this fole View of find- ing out fome Incentive for our Minifters, -willing to excite them, if poflible, to make fomo Effort for their Sinking Country i for if they are not dead to all Senfe of Shame for thcmfelves, to all feeling for the Public, if they regard any Thing befidea their own fordid Gain, if they have any Thoughts becoming Men, the Conmparlfon, their Meafures and the Succefs attertding them, afford Matter for very pungent Reflexions j but if the Objedk is too un- pleafing for them to caft their Eyes on, it is worth our while, when Men have made (bch grand Profeflions of publick Spirit, and difinterefled Zeal for the Welfare of their FcUow-SubjeXs, to compare their Cotidud with the Condudt f thofe whom they have fo vilified and abu- ed on that very Head. CoiTipare then the Meafures, in what are they different ? except that at prefent they are lefs efFe£tual, and more expen- five. Compare the Meafures, and need one ask if lUch Oj)J)ofitiOh was any thing more than the EffeX oi thb repining Envy of Men of ioftriour Parts ? This was fufficiently evinced in the very fiift Step taken by the Cabal, I mean with regard to the Hire of Hanoverian Tro^- . This Mea- fure exclaimed againft in Privr l, yet fupported in public by the fame Perfons,. was at laft made tL Handle, for tbrcing from the Diredtion of Publick Affairs the Man who was the grand . ObftaClc to the Blefl^ings which they had in Sto>j for the Nation. And now the Wifh'd-for Time was come, the Great ^ra, the Angmenta * "Nafcentia of lafting Hap- .-V v- Et frkptt indplidt fro<^^ men^^.'^:^'^^ti !^afcil6rt me, they are not yet begun. It w^^ only ih the Imagination of the credulous, who were fed '■ ... ■■ : ' : ' .; ' ." ■■ "with * "^hkhliavft'fcttiR h^M ijy MathematiciaBs, \vhtther any -thing or nothing. a^-^v.^-^wA '--'i 'fe-V' ^ (7) with AiTuranccs, that au honourable Peace would •be obtained, or the War prudently, vigoroufly and frugally conducted *, that a thorough Reformation. would be wrought at Home, all Grievances rc- drefs*d,and we once more put on as good a Footing as the Revolution, or its Coniquences, had at any Time put us. This Expe(5lation was greedily en- tertained, nay, the Certainty of thefe Events reckoned on by fome, becaufe the Miniflry was at this Time joined by a Set of Men, who had pub- lickly declared they would never fit down con- tented, till they faw an entire Separation -of the Ele<^oratc from Englaftd. Who not vcrfed in Po- litical Craft, would imagine that at this very Time the fame Meafure fo condemned, fo exploded, was carrying on,nnd indeed carried on truly to the Ruin of this Country ? For if 1 6oco Hanoverians had been this Year taken into Britijh Pay, as tlie pre- ceding Year, and not Fooo only, the Viftory at Fontenoyy tho' dear bought, had in all human Probability been ours.But infteadof ViAory, wiaat happened on that Day an Englijhman cannot without Grief and fccret Compundion fpeak out. Our EUie* mies tell with Pleafure. I cannot let pafs without Notice, the Manner of taking thefe Troops inta Britijh Pay. A Subfudy was granted to the Queen of Hun-' gary by the Parliament, but a Bargain previoufly made by the Miniftry, that her Majcfty (hauld therewith pay eight thouiand Hanoverians j and what was very drole, this Bargain was never *de- nied at that Time, tho* it was defigned pwpofely to fcreen the Blufhes of the new Profelytes, and has been fince owned, pubHckly owned, to have been made entirely in Complaifance to them. The Difadvantages of this Method were the Pretence it gave for new Levy- Money, as well as the Money generally paid for tlieir Return to foreign Troops when .A^:i^'>ift-l'"','< ^^■'•Wl^''-y-^}-^ .'iv- - -J 1 V t li i' ss M :-4 i! (8) - ; when difmifs'd, which was allowed by us, was I fup- pofe allowed by the Queen of Hungary, and will I luppofe be allowed again by us. Some People perhaps will laugh at my Wrong-headednefs, and call thefe Things Advantages : I envy not their fuperiour Judgment, -nd the Light in which they fee Things. Advantages I will allow there may have been ; but to Greaf Britain I am fure they were not fo. To thefe Difadvantages we are to add, that we paid thefe Troops, and the Queen of Hungary had the abfolute Command of them, and might have ordered them on what Service Ihe pleafed, how contrary foever to tht Inclination or Judg- ment of thofe who paid them. So that the only Difference between the Meafurcs this Year, and the preceding Year was, that the jf^umber of the Troops was ieflened fatally for us, more Money was paid in Proportion to the ^umber, the ab- folute Command of them was Ibd:, and an Abufe attempted to be put on the Underflandings of the People, as if Hanoverians were no longer in Britijh Pay, tho' paid with Brii^h Money. The Advantages were, the Prefervation of a few Gen- tlemens Complexions, (\ am a little afhamed to mention fo (light an Affair on fo ferrous an Occa- fion) but it is well known to have l/een the princi- pal End propofed by this new Difpofition of Af- fairs. Some pretended to defcry this farther Ad- vantage, that the Hanoverians being nominally difcharged from our Pay. we were not fo liable to have that State-Trick play'd on us, which we had experienced in the Hejfians, who were conti- nued fo many Years in Briti/h Pay, and upon a Retrofped appear to have been of no Benefit to the State, Wife Projedors, who could fo propofc to hedge in the Cuckow ! 1 hope they allow they have fince had their Underftandings enlarged by theCondudof our Miniftry.,. ^ ' " ' '^ ;. r'-:" :. '■'- But % of But C9) But to proceed with the Tranfaiftiont of th^ Year 1745 i the Afluranccs given of the Difpoli- tion of the Dutchy who upon our taking vigorous Mcafures, were to heartily join in the War, the Certainty which fome People pretended to have of their furniiliing 40,000 Men for the Field, greatly contributed to accelerate our warlike Refolutions. The Number of Men which the Dutch really fur- nifhed for the Field, and their Behaviour in the Field, are indelible Monuments of the Difcern- ment of our Miniftry, and their great Infight into Mankind. If this Behaviour of the Butch furprifed our Miniftry, they were the only People furprifed by it, the whole World befides expeded it. For was it not rcafonable to fuppofe, that if the Dutch dreaded the Confequences of declaring War againft France^ they would equally dread whatever would be fure to draw from France a Declaration of War againft them ? And tho' in a late Adbion the foreign Troops in Dutch Pay did make fome Stand, yet they were fallen upon by tht'Frenchy and forced upon their own Defence ; and I believe it Will be allowed, that there is fome Diftin^ion to be made between adling on the of- five or defenfive. I fuppofe too without waiting to fee the Dutch defert the fortified Towns in the Low- Countries, with as much Readinefs aS if they had thereby got rid of fome tirefome Burthen •, it would not have been a very difficult Tafk for Men of fo grcrtt Penetration as our Miniftry is bleft withal^ to have learn'd their Way of thinking, with regard to their Barrier, the Va.lue they fet upon it, now much or little they had c^he Prefervation of it at Heart *, for from fuch Circumftances, it might have been poflfrble to have formed fome previous Judg- jBient of their Cordiality and Affection to theCaufe. Tho' I doubt they had too other Motives fc * their Condu^l:. For tho' the Dutch have been perhaps ^^' - > Q ■ - ■ .the * ..*■■ ns ■v^ \ t 4 (10) the Dupes of the French, and we moft certainly the Dupes of the Dutch^ yet the Weaknefs of our Councils has been a great Caufe of the whole. For till more Honefty, more Wifdom, more Ability, more Difcipline, particularly in our Navy fliall appear, who lefs infatuated than ourfelves, will exped Succefs in the Execution of our Aflfairs ? And give me Leave here to a(k, what is Raftinefs ? Is it any other than a blind precipitate Undertaking of Ends, for which fufficient Means have not been provided. If this Rule is juft, it is eafy to per- ceive, that a Perfon may be at the fame Time both rafti and ftupid. Nay, that there can be no Rafti- nefs without fome Degree, fome Mixture of Stu- pidity. For Difpatch in the Execution of well-con- certed Meafures is the higheil Praife. So far is a Man's Stupidity from being a Security againft rafii Meafures, that it is from this Root alone they fpring, they can never happen without it. But I am gone a little too far in Point of Time, it will be neceffary to look back •, for notwithftand- ing the intolerable Load of Debt which the Na- tion groaned under, and tjie fad Profpeft of ftill adding Debts to Debts, to the great Surprife of all Men knowing in Money Affairs, a Bargain was unwarily and ignorantly made by our Miniftry, by Means of v/hich the Rate of publick Intereft was^ unneceflarily raifed, to the great Oppreflion of the Publick as Debtors, to the great Detriment of the old Creditors of the Publick, whofe Capital was thereby leffencd in Value, thro' the Fall of publick Stocks, which foon enfued, to the great Difcourage- ment of Trade, which is generally carried on by fome borrowed Stock, which mufl now advance its Intereft:, in Proportion to that of the Publick, and to the great Diftrefs of the Means of carrying ' Vfi the War. While I am on the Head of Money Affairs," it will be proper to obferv* on the extraor- dinary rtainly oi our le. more Navy- is, will ffairs ? hnefs ? taking 3t been o per- le both ► Rafh- of Stu- ;ll-con- far is a ift rafh le they Time, hftand- he Na- of ftill e of all Hin was ry, by eft was^ of the of the tal was publick )u rage- on by ance its k, and arrying Money »traor- dinary ( «« ) dinary Bills of Experlces, of which not to tire the Reader, I will only give an Inftance or two. Our Troops in the Year 1 745, amounted on the Efti- mate to 5194 Calvalry, and 19,420 Foot, together- 24,614. In the Accounts of the War Office, there is annexed to this Lift of Forces to be employed in Flanders 9 an Eftimate of 11,918/. 11 s. for For* age and Waggon Money. Befides this there is in. the Accounts of this Year, 100,000/. for the ex- traordinary Charge of Forage, Waggon Money, and other Expences incurred or to be incurred, 't- may perhaps be worth while to compare this witli what was heretofore looked on as fgfficient for this Service ; for in the Year 1703, a Regulation of Forage and Waggon Money was made on the Foot- ing of what the Troops received in the preceding War, according to which Forage and Waggon Money for the general Officers and Regiments of Foot and Dragoons, was fix'd at 16,259/. ^5^- The Dragoons amounted to 1 355, Foot to 15,008. And the Forage, Waggon Money, and Recruits for the Foreigners in Englijh Pay, purfuant to Treaty are charged at 20,000 /. The Foreigners amounted to 21,612 Men. And again, in the Augmentation of 20,000 Men the fame Year, to be paid one half by Eng- land^ the other by the Dutch ^ the Reckoning upon this Article is nearly in the ikme Proportion, viz. 9260/4 for the 10,000 i whence this vaft" Difpro- portion between the prefent and former Times, I who am not (killed in making up militaryAccounts, am unable tp fay ; for the great Lofs of Maga- zines, for wliich an extraordinary Bill was afterwards brought in, could nbt at that Time be forefeen. There are I own tacked to the Article the V7ords *' And other Expences •," but to afkwhat thofc o- ther Expences were would certainly be very imper- C 2 tinenc ■-yJi.: y>k;w.<«Ai-*' kViir ^i ■ i \4 * U I I I n { 12 ) tinent, and to find Fault without afking would be equally or more impertinent, at leaft in me, who am but a private Man. But this is not all, for there is an After-charge for Forage of 92,861/. us. 4^. Cover and above the 100,000/. and 11,918/. 11s.) Magazines taken by the Enemy included, which ihe^Vs, notwithftandinjg what ignorant People may have thought, that the former Sums were infufficient. In order to view thefe Articles of Expence in their proper Lights, I will only obfen/e, that they are cxclufive of what ought to be deducted on thisHead, from the eftablifhed Pay of the Cavalry, exclufive of the Forage of the General and Staff-Officers of the Hofpital, and exclufive of the extraordinary Charge of Forage for the foreign Troops in our Pay. And that a Ration coll the Government 10 Pence, fi. 'Ration per Day is fufficient for a Horfe, if the For- age be good, and confifl of 16 Pounds of Hay, 6 Pounds of Straw, and about 3 Quarters of a Peck of Corn. For from thefe Articles one may form fome Idea of this Charge. Some of the Means by which this great Expence was incurred were thefe : In Summer, the 6 d. deducted for For- age was not placed to the Account of Forage. In Winter, Forage was delivered out at the Magazine for 6 d, per Ration, for which the Government, however, when they bought in paid 10 d. But if any Officer was furnifli'd any other Way than from the Magazine, he was allowed ^d. upon every Ra- tion, on a Suppofition that he thereby expended more by 4.d. than he would have done at the Maga- zine for the fame Quantities -, tho' in Fa£t he bought at Sd.i, whereby he became a Gainer (if the ^d, was paid clear of Dedudions) of 3 Half-pence on every Ration, which was an Encourage rr.ent to the Officer not to buy at the Magazine provided for that Vurpofe. Whether by this Pradlice any Lofs arifcs to die Publick, or in what Manner, if any , Thing ( '3 ) Thing remains at the End of the Ytfar^ it is ac- counted for, may be worth Enquiry. I am far from thihking th,ait there were not other Means by which this great Charge was brought on the Nation, it could not have been by thefe alone. But I pofliibly am very much out of the Way in ftudying how Ttungs are in the lead to be accounted for^ while others in a'Manner more adapted to their Purpofe ftudy only how to avoid accounting for them ac aH. Tho' every Body has heard of the Thinnefs of the Troops in General at the Battle of Fonunoy^ I will not fcrutinize on this Occafion the real Strength of our Army •, for tho' it iKould appear that when publick E:ipencc?s sre on the one Hand immenfely encreafed, on the other publick Services are extremely leflTened, what would be gained in the prefent Temper of Mankind, by the Dffcovery but the unavailing Knowledge that private People gain beyond Meafure, and that the Publick is be- yond Meafure abufed ? There was a Time, •* Whtn " paying the Army any otherwife than by the *' Mufters of effeftiveMen was look'd Ofi as a great M wafting of the publick Treafurc.'* There is charged for Bread Waggons 49,960/. is, tod. for the 24,614 Men. A/Vhereas, according to the Ac- counts abovementioned made up In the Year 1703, Bread Waggons for 40,000 are fet at 20,000. For Mareflial Kortigfeg, being hisMajefty's Proportion, of the Confideration for his Services, 7042/. ^s. id. This by the Words feems to have been a free Gift and A6t of Generofity. Marefhal Konigfeg^s Ser- vices are fo well known, that I need not fay any Thin£ 3n that Head. As to the eight Weeks Pay to the Hanoverians fortheirReturn, amounting to 5yi965l. 9J. 2</.|. I will fay little, concerning the ufual Cuftom on thefe Occafions, which is to allow fometimes a Month, fometimes a long Month of 42 Days -, if there Ii n V, (14) there is an Inftance to be found of eight Weeks allowed, tho' it may differ in particular Circum- ftances, yet it will without Doubt ferve for the Juftification of fhewing this Favour to the Hano- verians. But if we had forefeen the Neceffity which would arife for taking them again into our Pay, the Impoflibility of going on without them, this Expence might have been fpared. But our Adminiftration has- a6led like a coy affedled Mi- ftrefs, whofe Surrender is preceded by a thoufand ridiculous Extravagancies. ... Excludit Revocaty &c.* ' ' In the Navy too, the Difference of Expence between the lall War with France^ and the prefent is furprizing in many Particulars. If the People wonder, that when our annual Expences are fo much greater, yet our Efforts are impotent, and the Event fo difgraceful to us, tho' that of the lalt ^ar was fo glorious there is one and the fame Reafon, both for the Enormity of the Expence 3nd the Suceefs attending it. The like Influence produces the like Effect univerfally throughout, as well here at Home, as in every other Place where we are concerned. But as Accounts are too dry and unentertaining for the Generality of Mankind to enter into, I will referve what Obfervations I have to make, for a feparate Treatife, in which I pro- pofe when I have Leifure to fhew with how little CEconomy this War is carried on. In the mean Time, I will juft fay a Word of the Remittances for paying the Troops Abroad. In the Year 1 743, the Contract made with Mr. Gore for 10 Guilders, 1 3 Stivers for a Pound Sterling, was the Subjed of great Complaint and feveie Inve6lives againft the Adminiftration j it having appeared that M. Muil- man ^lid Wilkinfon^ had offered 10 Guilders 16 St. for a Pound Sterling. After this publick Notice • • -^ '■■•""■' .; ''''■" ' wha • Tercn. Eunuch. (IS) x^ho can doubt that all poflible Care has been taken to procure the bed Bargain which could be obtained ; I own I have no doubt. And tho' in the Pay of the Hejfmns for the Year 1 745, a Pound Sterling is reckoned but at 10 Guilders 10 Stivers -, yet to fufped that the remaining fix Stivers were divided fairly between our M rs and the Remitter, or even to commend thc'.r fquare dealing with the Remitter, by fuch equal Apportionment would be downright Scandal and Malice. I faid before, and I repeat it again, I have no doubt as to their having made the beft Bargain they could. — It has been faid, that the foreign Troops have a right '* * To a Pound Sterling, or the Produce of a Pound Sterling in Butch Money, for every 10 Guilders 10, we are obliged to pay them, and confequently our remitting their Money at a higher Rate, than 10 Guilders, 10 Stivers per Pound Sterling, -can be of no Advantage to this Nation, nor can our remitting it at a " lower Rate than 10 Guilders 16 or* 18 Stivers '* be anyLofs." Was this the Cafe, there would have been a Merit, which I wonder was not in- filled on, in remitting the Money for paying the foreign Troops at no higher Rate than 10 Guilders, 10 Stivers, becaufe the Remitters being EngUJhmen^ there would have lefs Money gone out of this Nation by 6 Stivers in every Pound Sterling. But without (laying to make Obfer- vations on the Abfurdity of this Pofition, which cannot fail at firll Sight of coming acrofs every Man of the leaft Refledion, I will go to Matter of Fadl. The Treaty of 1745, by which the Heffians were taken into Br i tip Pay, fays, that the Pay Ihall be fettled on the Foot of the Treaty of 1702. Articles 5 and 6, and of the Treaty of Thefe two laft Treaties cc cc cc cc cc 726, 740. refer, • Sec Uic Debates in P- ntm ■i w 'il i ■ . r l> -i! I! :l (16) refer, a* w^U a$ <^t of 1 745, to th^ Treaty of 170?, for the Regulation of their Pay. Upon <u)nful(;ing the Article 5 an4 6» of the Tre»ty of lyoZf ther<^ i;s rvpt a Wor<i of their Pay j the 5tli fays, that the Recruits /hall be on the fame Foot n^ thofe of the States-General ; and the 6th> that the Waggons and other Equipage (hall likewife be on the fame Foot ; the 34 AttjcJc, however, of the Treaty of 1702, fays, that the Heffians fiiall be paiid on the fame Foot 9» the States-General pay their own Troops i a|id if ihefe are iiQt the prefent Conditions., I can Hnd none at all. If then they are to be paid on the fp.-ve Foot as the Du^ch pay theirs, what have we t^ do but to purchafe J)ut£b Money as cheap a^ we can ? To get as piany Guilders, or as many Stivers as we are able for a Pound Sterling of Engliftf Money to pay thofe Troops witlial ? Can any Thing he plainer ? put to kave this Affair. Qn what Side foever one turns ones Ey-es, ejccept were the unreftrAined, jininfluenced^ uncorrupt Spirit of Parliament fu- iperintends and watches ov^ the publick Good. Abufes Q^ various Kinds fo abound in aimoft all the Concerns of this Coi,intry, that one may ven- ture to affirm, that no Opportunity is omitted of jmpoverifliing the Nation, that every one who ferves has his Province of PI — ^, for the Prefe- rence ot ferving upon the loweft Terras is a poor Obligation. If then iUch Advantages are to be drawn from the Continuance $f a War, one may <;xpe<5t to fee an End of it, when Avarice, (atiatcd wjyth Gain, becomes moderate, and feel* Compaf- fion for a fufferinjg Country. i . But the Sqene changing, let us turn our Eyes on the RebeJ^on j Jet us ^e H an inteftine Vi(ar iias been managed with more Vigour and Cirbunt- fre^lion than ^ Foreign one. Tho' we fboyld be forced to allow, that our Minifters were afleep at that •K''; . ' < '7) tWc Time, when they received the firft NtWi I'rom * Abroad of War levying in this Kii gdom ; yet fuch News could not but awaken their Vigi- lance, and the near Approach of Danger add a Cioad to their Underftanding, and call forth their latent Parts. And now atter this Nod we may ( xpecft to fee' them, teady to riin the Race, like a Viiant refrelli'd with Wine; nor is it poflible to fuppofe, this Tempeft not only impending but dif- tovered that any Opportunity was omitted of giving the Subjecl Protedion, which is the firft Caufe of the Inllitutio.i of Government, and in all free Countries the only End of Allegiance. It was Mortification enough to fee our Glory blafted Abroad; dur former Credit now only ferving to remind us of what we were, but-to fee too the Evil brought hbnie to our very Doors^to fee an Admi- nillration dilatory to extend the Proteftion of the (government againfl; the Violence of Rebellion Cif it is polfible to imagine fuch a Cafe) muft have "been to the Sufferers a Heart-breaking \ to their ' rellow-Subjeds, Matter of thehighclt Pity. Yet how tinder fo vigilant a Miniftry, the Rebellion fofe to fb great a Height, and lafted lb longj how Irom fo fmall a Beginning it over-run fuch a Tra<jt of Country, and involved Multitudes in the ut- fiiofh Calamity, I am at a Lofs to fay* That the Pretender's Eklefl: Son was a long Time unob- ^ ih'v^d m Scotland, perfonally fomenting Difturb- unces, and preparing "War on the Crown of Great Britahty is now a Secret to none. When the ' Flame brOke out thaithe Well-^affeded, if they could have obtained tieave^would have made Head ' againft, and if not have crufh'd^ the Rebellion in ' its Infkncy, at leail have greatly retardi^d its ■ Progrefs, is pretty well known. Whereas .the '■iy. • The News w*b faU , by Way of Hanevft. to come from the King of PruJ^a^ .-.W*-' \ 1; 1 I I ( >8 ) Advantages obtained by the Prctehdef" drew irf Numbers, who probably would never have joined the Party without them j fome perhaps for want of Prote(5tion, who were much to be pitied ^ and even for others, wliofe faultering Allegiance was completely feduced by an Appearance of Succefs, if no Regard orCompalTion was to be had to them, yet fome Regard, fomc Compaflion ought to have been had for thofe, who by this Increafe of Strength of the Rebels, became more expofed to their Op- preflion j and there was yet a greater Confidera- tion, the Danger to the Crown, to the Liberty, Laws and Religion of this Country, for by this Delay, the Rebellion we all know, grew fo formidable as to (hake the very Throne. What other Care was taken, what Orders iflued, and Of what Date, I cannot fay, I Ihould be very glad to be informed. The Battle of Prejion-Pans was tought on the 2 ill of September^ fome Months after the Pretender's Son landed in Scotland ; "Which, tho* late in Time, was yet in one Senfe precipitately engaged in, and ought to have been cautioufly avoided, as the Rebels were grown fo ftrong^ till a fufficient Number of Forces had been drawn together, to have made the Blow fure. And tho* the Rebels attacked the King's Army at ' Prefton-Puns, on the other Hand tlie Orders were faid to be pofitive and abfolute for bringing on an A6tion as foon aspoflible. If the Pretender '^s Son had profited of that Opportunity, had march- ed on direftly to England^ the Pannick it would have ftruck his Succefs and elated Fortune, might have had an extreme ill Effcdt. But his Stay in Scotland giving Time for more cool and ferious Reflexions to take Place, he found very little Ac- count by his Expedition into England. So that by great Lyck and kind of Infat«acion> the Advantages gained by tKe Enemy at that Tune proved not fo? ..AA.'^ -• ( J9 ) fatal to us, as there was a Poflibility of their doing, cfpecially as a Set of Men, who had been long in- jurioufly traduced, made no other ufc of that fair Opportunity which prefented itfelf, but as in a fort of Pijrgatory to clear their Charadters, and convince the World, that upon the moft trying Occafion fcarce a Man was to be found in South Britain^ who was not a Friend to the prefent Fa- mily. But no Thanks for this to the Councils of pur Miniftry •, this was owing to the Uprightnefs and Integrity of Men, whom they had on this very Head fo calumniated, fo often, fo unjuftlyabufed. But as thefe Gentlemen very probably meet witt^ great Reproaches and Scandal, from thofc wha. were difappointed in their unjuft fexpe<5bations of Aififtance from them ; let us on our Part do them . Juftice, and found forth the Praifca' they have defer ved. ' To the Battle of Prefion Pans fucceeded that of Falkirk^ where the fame Troops which had behaved notorioufly ill at Preftori Pans, were em- ployed again, and by a like Behaviour occafionecj a like Misfortune. The firft was entirely the Fault of the Troops, the fecond of thofe who employ- ' ed them, for they might have fent others in their Stead. For it will not be pretended that the Govern- ment had no more Horfe to fpare for that Service, it was given as a Reafonwhy more Horfe was notf fent, that the Country cpuid not fubfift them, but furely it could as well fubfift Horfe that had never failed in their Duty, as thofe who had given fo fad an Inftance of what was to be expelled from them. But the great Mafter-piece of Politicks remains to be related. A Mafter-piece (I fpeak it in fober Serioufnefs) fufH^ient tp aftonifti and puzzle the whole World i I mean with regard to the 6000 Men which the Dutch were obliged by Treaty to "* f9r the Relief of this Country. The Dc- *P ^ • figna :'!K' w X ( 20 ) figns of great Miniflcrs arc generally impenetra-' hlc till fome Event difcovers their Aim v but the Defigns of our Minilters are To deej)ly laiJ, io great Matters arc they in the Art of Sinking, that hot even the Event lays their Meaning open to \hc View of the World. Of this Sort was that great Stroke in Tohticks I was fpeaking of; for the \Vorkl are even now at a Lofs to devine why Six Thoufand Dutch were callni into our Aid, whg coukl not poflibly atl at all, as being under, the Capitulation of Tournaj, by whieh they were re- flrained from bearing Arms againll: the King of France or his Allies tor three Years. The Dutcfj indeed had the Caution to demand of the Jl'l^c Deia-i 'i'ille, the French Minifter at the Hague, whether or no the King of France abetted tlie Undertakings of the Pretend-^r, or held him as an Ally. The French Minifter very readily denies that the Pretender is an Ally of the Crown of Frence. This Decla- ration fufficiently anfwered the Purp6res of the Dutch, who had no need to make any fartlun- En- quiries than as to the j^efent Time, but being let at Liberty fo far, were unwilling to (hew them- felves worfc Friends, than all the reft of the World, who to do them Juftice generally accept-our Money with great Willingncrs, how little Advan- tage foevcr we are likely to draw from it; We ac- cordingly take the 6000 Dutch into our Pay, and are at the Expence of tranfporting them into Fjh' gland, wl'.en the King of France, in a very un- friendly Manner, (tho' it m.uft be ov/ned, he wa's at open War with us, and a profefs*d Enemy) without making his Intentions known before w^ had tranfported them, fuffers us to put ourfelves to that great Expence, after which he orders thefe Troops (before we had made the leaft «fe of them), back to Holland, and by fpeaking a Word obliges us; to retranfport them tliere. Suclta Jeft diid Derifion 1 fl?*S (2>) .. pciifion are we to thofe who are round about us, rlow then to replace thefe 6000 Dutch is the Qiie- ftion. Why ? very properly, with 6000 Heffiam. We have now bought Experience. The Dutch have given a fufficient Warning to us. Care is taken, we are clear, that the Ihjjians were never Prifoners to tlve French^ or under any Articles of Capitulation. The Ueffuins arrive, what is the DilBculty now. Vv'hy ? There is no Cartel for Ex- thange of Prilbners fettled with the Enemy. I believe there never was at any Tinje a Cartel fet- tled with Rebels ; and People who fight pro a^is l^ focisy are not to entertain any Confiderationof that Kind, but that is not the Cafe of Foreign Troops J and the Cavi' made by the Hejfians oji this Head, fliews our great Want of a Man of A- bilities to direft Qur Affairs, who would have fa- pulated exprefs Conditions, and guarded ai^ainfl: that Policy, fo prevalent almoft every where at prefent, of ufing every Art to preferve Troops. The Heffmns however did, I believe, ferve linder one of oui- Officers in beating up fome Parties, but this was faid to be the Eiiedt of that Officer'* Prudence, aiid not of thofe who fent for thofc Trpops over, and tho^ the beating up a few Par- tics was of no great Cpnfequencc, if tiie Prince of Ilejfe in order to fave Appearances had givtu Leave f^r fo doing -, yet it is affirmed, that Leave iwx^ not given, at lealt avowedly even for this, To have fallen gn " two fuch Plunders fuccpffively could hot have Happened but from an extreme little Share of Luck as well as of other Things. ' When our own Troops were called Home, it was Matter of great Surnrife to People of but common Underftanding, to find them landed here in the South, when they might with equal Eafc have been landed in the North, where the Rebel- lion at that Time raged, ai^d where by their Pre- ■' ' * . ■ - • fence i. si It '11 IIP ' ■ 'ill li .1.!' (22) fence they would have difcouraged the Growth of it. This fome having obferved a certain Degree of Heavincfs in the Underftandings of our Mini- IVers, pretendea to account for upon that Principle, as Bowls by the Power of the included Lead are carried in a Curve Line to their Mark -, others excufed it by pretending it was done for the Secu- rity of the Capital. But the firft Conjecture ha§ fmce been confirmed by a late Event, which It will not be amifs to compare with the former, for by the Comparifon and Concurrence of corrobo- ratingCircumftances the natural Awkwardnefs, an4 eilrayed UnderP-anding of our Minifters will ap- pear, for in the late Expedition to Port Lorient, after Admiral Leftock had lain Wind-bound a lon§ while at Plymouth, it was thought proper to fend a farther Reinforcement to that Undertaking, which was ordered to embark on the River Thames^, it) order to Coaft it round to Plymouth, for which purpofe it was neceflary, that the Reinforcemer Ihould wait for fuch a Wind as would carry Mr. J^eftock out of the Channel; whereas had they marched by Land, the Roads and Weather good, they might have probably reached Mr. Leftock be- fore he could have found an Opportunity of fail- ing. But this was during the Summer, in Winter by a ftrange Inverfion of the order ot Things, we unneccflarily feek the Fatigues and Lofs of Time attending a March in bad Roads and bad Weather, ilowjver, one agreeable Reflexion occurs upon the whole, for if the Pretender could not fucceed a-r gainft fuch an Oppofition, as made fome People afraid the Government was be--ed ; our Security is very great i he can have very little Chance for the iuture. The infinite Lpfs fuftaincd by our Merchants ^uring the Time the French amufed our Fleet by in Invafion, with which they threatened us from Dunkirk^ ;!* of ( *3 ) Hunkirk, will n^t foon be forgot by them •, their Misfortunes and diftrefs*d Circumftances thereby brought on fomc of them, will not fail of re- minding them perhaps as long as they live. Tho* moft Men of any Refledion were perfuaded, that the French never intended to make any confidera- ble Effort in Favour of the Pretender -, that their Scheme was no more then to create Difturbances in Great Britain, by Means of her own Country- men, at as little Expence of French Troops as pof- fible, to deftroy Britons by Britons^ as ilie had before in Germany, Germans by Germans, and divert the Attention of our Fleet from the Protedlion of our Trade i tho' this Opinion Was founded on a great deal of Reafon •, for whatever Benefits wc enjoy under the prefent Royal Family, of which ho Man can be more fenfible than I am, in what' ever Misfortunes a Revolution would involve us by a Cllange in our Religion or other Means : They very little Regard the King of France : Nor can it be fuppofed he troubles himfelf with the Mode of Worfliip, which prevails in Great Britain, pro- vided it be not that of the Roman Carholick ; for I believe it would be no very pleafine Profpedt for him, to fee the Power of the Court oi Rome ex- tended, and its ancient Tyranny beginning to revive ; nor would it be very agreeable News for him to hear, that thofe Shackles of ourTrade andL— yf^our im- menfe publick Debt j were ftruck off and annihilated. Yet all this I fay in Praife of our Adminftration, for 1 do not profefs finding Fault •, on the contrary, I am glad for my Country's Sake, when there is a PofTibility of commending their Meafures. And Chcy certainly did right in taking all the Precau- tions againfl the pretended Invafion, as if it was really intended *, for (as a famous General of old feid) " I did not thirdc this could have happened, *! wouW have bgen a verv poor Excufe." But what i i'' ' i 1^1 i^/i ( 24 ) • what I blame, what the Merchant, and the Countr}^ who is a SiifTerer thro* him has to complain of, is that, confidering we had the Experience of the French playing that Game ( I can call it notliing elfe) upon us from Dunkirk^ when no Rebellion fubfiiled in this Country -, a Rebellion raging, very little Share of Siigacity and Forecaft was rcquifite to forefce mat they would not fail of renewing the fame Game, when they could do it to fo great Advantage by ftriking a double Terror, and ren- dering the Rebellion more formidable at Home, by Dangrrs threatening from Abroad. And yet as little Forecaft as was rcquifitej it was all want- ing to our incxpreflrible Diftrefs ; for being fuf- prized by a vShew of Preparations at Dunkirk, and obliged to collect almoft all the Ships we could for this Service •, in a very fl)0»-t Space ot Time we loO: a very great and furprizing Number of Merchant- Men. Whereas, if a Man of Abilities had had the Diredion of our Affairs, he would have taken early Care fo to have difpofcd our Fleet, that fome Ships might have been Ipared foi' the Prote6tion of our Trade near Home •, and tho* by calli'ig fome S//ips Home, he had lefTened the Security in other Placeo, would not have left the mod material one quite dcfencelefs. Nor muft I pafs over in Silence the original Caufe of this Dilafter, as well as of niany others, the unaccountable Delay of fup- prefTirtg the Rebellion. But tho* our M rs ' Genius doth not if. in Land or Naval Armaments, nor in the Management of Finances -, perhaps we fhall find it in the Affairs of the Cabinet, in im- proving at the different Courts of Europe all the ravourable Opportunities, which offer themfelves for the Advancement of the common Caufe. The Difpofition of the Eniprefs of Rujfm, in the Year 1745, towards the Eleflor of Saxony^ and the ftrong Declaiationa which flie publilh'd of ifirm ( 25 ) -a firm Refolution to fend him powerful AfTrftancf ,* wfien the King of PruJ/ia was meditating an Irrup- tion into Saxony^ are well known. All the World is witnefs of the Effedts of her Imperial Majctty of Ruffians Declarations ; and the Check they gave to the Projefts of that Prince, who, to do him Juftice, doth not want Difcemment and Infight into Men or Things, is fomc Sort of Proof of th^ Se- rioufnefs of her Intentions, even to thofe who have not had any Opportunity of being informed of the Tranfa6tions of the Cabmet at that Time. The vigorous Meafures which the King of PruffiaSsLW the Czarina ready to enter on, dilcon- certed his Schemes, tied up his H' ids, and ren- dered for fome Time the Man, who was one of the principal Caufes and Support of the Diftur- bances of this Part of the WorW, as a mere Cypher in the Affairs of Eurape : At this Tim" ac this critical Time, who of all People in the World fhould find the Means to extricate his Prujfian Majefty out of thefe Difficulties •, and by a pref- fing * Soliiokation at the Court of Petershourg fet him at Liberty to purfue Views fo fatal to the Caufe which we make Profeffion to efpoufe:. No one furely can fulbcdt thofe very People, E whofc * To convince the Reader, tbtt Great Britain U not hereby meant ; 1 will quote Part of the Treaty of Warfanu concluded this Year, January tht 8th ; wherein it is faid, ** That if in *' Cohfequence of his P«/^ Majetty the Eleftor of Saxonfs Engagements by the prefent Alliance, his States in G/rm^ui); ihould be attaok'd, beikles the <f&£live Affifiance the Allies would give for his immediate Defence ; they would ufe their utmoft Efforts to procure him from the AggreiTor full Sacif- '< faction for the Damage he may thereby follain ; and for th'C "' Purpofo, in Cafe any of the Countries (hould be feized on, *' they fliall not lay down their Arms untill the (ame be " fully reftored to him. Art. 7th.'* This is a full Proof of our friendly Difpofition towards his Polijh Majefty : Which will j^rther appear, whenever the Letters, which in this Year pafled ^Ktweea ch^ Courts of ftttrjbourg and Lndan come toli^ht. «. *< IM 111. f m\ 5l 1!^ (26) whofc Schemes to baffle, and Exp^nees to frufr trate, he looks on his nioft elTential Intereft as well as Glory. No one fiirely can fufpe(5t, that thofe very People fhould now with a more than Chriftian Charity (which only requires to turn the other Cheek alio) induftrioufl^' confirm that Power in his Hands with which he was about to fcourge them» Ihould pull down with one Hand, what they build up with the other, Ihould undermine the Queen of Hungary by their Coun^ cils, while they fupport her with their Purfe. For from fuch inconfiftent Conduft what could we ex- pert ? I would willingly fet in the ftrongeft Light, would give all the Force they are capable of to the Arguments which were faid to prevail with . — s, and were with great Earneftnefsprefs'd on the Court of Petershourg for the Attainment of this End. It was faid that the Treaty of Brejlaw^z.%. renewed by the Courts of London and Pruffia^ to which nothing was wantir^g but the Acceflion of the Queen of Hungary^ for whom reafonable Terms were already procured from the King of Pruffia^ that her Obftinacy protraded the War, that to give her Succour would be an Encpuragement ta that Obftinacy, would be kindling up and fpread- ing farther that Flame, which ought to be extin- guifh'd, that if there was no other Remedy for her Obftinacy, fhe ought to fuffer the Confe- quences of her own Folly, that the War ought to be reduced within narrower Limits, in order the more eafily to put an End thereto. Tho' the Authors of the Treaty of Hanover went upon the Plan of the Treaty of Brejlaw^ and exprefly and avowedly copied after it, it doth doth not follow, becaufe the Authors of the one. Treaty were extremely juilifiable, were higMy commendable, that the Authors of the other were not highly biameable. It often happens to low C27) Undcrftandings to fervilely imitate Men of great Genius, in what they think a fimilar Cafe, with- out fufficiently confidering whether the Circum- llancc of one, and the other Cafe entirely corref- r)nd. That the Circumftances here widely differ, need not mention. The firft Time that a Truft or Confidence is placed in a Man, if that Perfon deceives thofe who Truft him, the Fault is gene- rally placed to the Account of him who deceives, but the fecond Time of thofe who trult. What then are we to do ? Wage eternal War ? No cer- tainly, but if an Opportunity offers to reduce fuch a Perfon to an InabiUty of doing Mifchief, I would fooner truft to fuch Inability than his broken Faith. The Spirit which governs the King of Pruffta is from Experience very well known -, it is very well known that he is a Proteus ^ whom no Engagements but fuperiour Force can bind ; what then has been done by the Renewal of the Treaty oi BreJlaw^zxiA o — -r wife Intrigues at the Court of Peters bourg ? Why ? — took the Czarina'^ took the Ele6tor of Saxony out of our own Scale \ and out of the Enemies Scale, what did — take ? No- thing at all. If we made the King of Prujfia an, apparent Friend, it was eafily feen, that he was dill a fecret Enemy; that he concealed himfelf only to gain Time, and difperfe that Tqmpefl: which was gathering on the Side of Ruffia, that he would be ready to declare himfelf, as he Jiad before done, whenever the Occafions of France fliould require, when we Ihould not find it fo eafy to engage again the Eledlor of Saxony and Czarina in our Caufe. Accordingly we Bnd him (if any Credit is to be given to publick Accounts) making Preparations, no one (I believe) fufpefts with a Defign of affifting the Queen of Hungary •, but I fear if flie finds it poffible to pufli her For- tune in Prrjence, and the NeceiEties of France E 2 urge ■ I |1 I" i urge, to nip (as he for ever will do) our SucccfS in che Bud, and blafl our riling Hopes. And what has been the Confequences with re- gard to the Elector of Saxony^ whom — drove, — forced out cf our Intcreft,madehim pay feverely, nay» almoft reduced to Ruin, for engaging in it. At prefent there is great Probability of his being as clofely united to Francty as the firmeft of her Friends. We do our own Bufinefs, work our own Deftrudlion by our ill-formed Councils and miftaken Conduct, more efFe(ftually than the Ene- my. Give me Leave, while I am fpeaking of the Eleftor of Saxony^ to makeup the Account more compleatly, which I was dating above ; for— have not only taken the Elcftor of Saxony out of our Sc?.le» but placed in the Enemies Scale. If we are fa adroit in the Caufe of our Enemies, if wc have an Adminiflrallon fb IttcUdes ingeniofa fuasy Wlio can wonder at our abjeft State ? But I muft not !b let pafs that tinfel Reafon, that Mockery of common Senfe, that Impotency of Undcr- ftanding, by which it is pretended, that keeping the Ruffians out of the War, was the ready Way to Ihorten it. A moft excellent Method <i Ihorttning the War, by rejecting new Allies, and rend ring our old ones fo weak, as not to be able to carry it on ! A moft notable Way of procu- ring Peace ! How could it poflibly Ihorten the War, but by our Acceptance of a bad Peace ? If refufing to increafe the Number of our Allies, was a likely and proper Means of putting an End to the War, there is ftill a more likely, a more proper one by throwing down our Arms, and re- ceiving the Law from the Conqueror. I believe I need not purfue this Point any farther. I hope the Nation will agree, that the moft proper Means - for mwEss^s^ ( 29 ) for Briuns to have fought Peace, was by endea- vouring at a Superiority over the Enemy. But we have fo bilked and bafRed the Defigns of thofe who were well inclined to our Caufe, fo abufed thofe who were engaged in jt> fo marred all Things, that if Heaven doth not do more for us, than we ourfelves can do againft us, we are irrecoverably loft. The intereft of the King of Prujfm^ or, what is more materiaJ, the Light in which he fees his own* Intereft, tho* fo vifible, fo obvious, has been fo little under ftood, or if underftood, has been fo little regarded (not I hope upon any Confiderations which I Ihall immediately mention) by the Directors of our Affairs, that I will fay a Word on this Head,tho' touch*d upon before. It is undeniably our Intereft to raife the Houfe of Auftria to fuch a Height as to be a Balance to the Power of France, and that too as independently as poflible of the other Princes of Germany. But from thence to imagine that it is the Intereft too of the Princes of Germany , to fix fuch a Power in the Houfe of Auftria, is, to reafon for them upon the Footing of our own Intereft, and not of theirs. It is the Intereft perhaps of all the Princes in Ger* many (and I am afraid it is but too well under- ftooid by moft of tlicm j to deprefs the Houfe of Auftria, and leflen that Power which many of them have fenfibly felt, and which is capable of being exerted on many more Occafions than that of France, It is more particularly and moft certainly the Intereft of thofe whofe moft confiderable Ter- ritories are remote from France For it is the JProximity of Power, which offends j it is the fame in high as in common Lif^ j a Perfon, tho* ever fo opu!ent,at aDiftancegivesnoUneafinefs. A rich Neignbour is often dreaded. Add to this that th^ King of PruJ/ia is in PoffelTion of the rich Pro- vince of Sile/ta ; to which his original Title is no ,"•) mot 6 i»i i'^ . m..) li' m more than a Conqucft made by a lucky Opportu- nity on a Power, when at Liberty infinitely his fuperior. Looking on Things in this Light, can any Man doubt that the King of Pruffta will place his Security any where but in the Power and Fricndfhiip of France^ and Weaknefs of the Houfe of Ji], riay while he has the probable Means of ^ffedting it ? From this appears the Folly of our Meafurcs ; our fole Aim is to gain the Superiority of FrancCy and upon the leaft Froljpedt of Succefs the King of Prujfia by his Interpoution is fure to ruin the Whole •, whereas wc can never do any Thing efFeftual wi*-hout becoming fuperiof both to France and Pruffta •, of wluch the Pruffians and Saxons afforded a glorious Opportunity •, but it was a Pearl before Swine. If wc have found Time for us wearing a Lock behind, and the Czarina again overawing the Prujfians by her Declarations ; I hope flie will not be again difcouraged, tho' Amends cannot be made to the Publick tor the laft falfc Step. A falfe Step which will coft this Nation great Troubles and many Millions of vain Ex- pencc. There is a 'tide in the Affair i of Men Which taken at the Floods leads on to Fortunti Omitted all the Voyage of their Life^ Is bound in Shallows and in Mz/^riVj. — Shakeipi The Saxons are no longer ours, and the Affairs of Europe are in many Refpefts very differently circumftanced from what they were at that Time \ what the Lvent will be Time only Can (hew. I fhould rot know where to find an End was I to enumerate all our Misfortunes in the Year 1 745, PicctolGiro ma largo Campo delle Difgracie » but I muft take Notice of the little Care taken to put OJiend in a proper State of Defence, the only Place capable Ml retarding the Rapidity of the Enemies Con- S^ ' ' ,r«r ■ ' . . . ■ , C30 - . quefts. It will 1 fuppofe be faid, we could notv prevail with the Qyeen of Hungary to do it ; I be- » lieve it •, nO more than upon any other Perfon in any Thing whatfoever, that regards the Advaiice-, mentofthe common Caufe. I. am forry there is no more Ability, no more Addrefs. With thC; Year 1746, we renew our infufficient Meafures and tread again the old unavailing Tra6t, knowing no other Means of carrying on War, but by. raifing Money at an e Rate at Home in- order to pay Men to be knock'd on the Head, Abroad, and fatiate the Sword of our . Enemies with Slaughter. This indeed, u^n the Principle, laid down before, is one Way of putting a fpeedy End to the War j for it is impoflible we can long iupport it. ,^.,,:,- ,'^,- ^.:^.^^tr: «>:^;^;:"-.M;{*;«i2 v-- ^'"^V^i^. Britons heretofore led on another lload, taught their Allies other Means of finilhing their Wars ; i am forry now they are forced to learn thefe. . I fay forced, for all the World khows it is a Force, both on the S '■ and the P — — c ; of the former this Year furnilhes a flagrant Inftance, when upon the private Intrigues of the Cabal M «— y, was threatned with P- — .— r— Diftrefs and the. Menaces of Exchange- Alley alTaulted the Palace.^ But I hope, notwithffanding their great Difcoverics in Politicks, and new Methods of effecting a Peace, that thefe Gentlemen do not think that the bad Circumftances they have brought the "Nation inta will give a Sanation to a bad Peace, that Mifchicf preceding Mifchief will excufc Mifcliief, or the Commimon of an old Fault juftify a recent one : If they .entertain this Notion, or flattef themfelveg with this Security, I hope there will be Spirit enough rife in "the People, to convince them of their Error. But to proceed to the Adminiftration of Affairs of the Year 1 746. It is no Secret that the M — y ft * ( 30 Tranfa6tions at tins Time afford a large Field for Obfervatiohs. But fomc certain Abufcs were of too great a Magnitude for me to purfue, common I'ru- dence difbates to decline giving my Thoughts con- cerning thofe who received certain Propofils, who sfeproved, who confirmed. But on one Hand, if tne Greatncfs of the Evil, which impofes Sileftce gives me for ipy Country's Sake Concern ;, on the Hand, the Isilence ^ves me very little, becaufe the Enormity cannot be latent, aqd the People, cannot but be excited by their Diftrefs to inform thjeihfelves if immenfb Sums have not been iquan- d^ed away on the Dfegs 6f Mankind in a Time of publick Want. *Tis thfe greateft Degree of Servi- tude Where the Senfes are held in SlaV^ery as welt as the Perfons, when People dre forced to allow, to affirm, to ddiberatcly determine, that Wron^ is Right, and Right .is Wrong, or Five a lels Number than Foiir. There is fomething more manly, lefs fhocking to human Nature, when the fame Ends are attained by direct and arbitrary Command. How happy are \^e who are fo free from any fuch State ; amongft whom impartial En- quiries ^Vws^ys prevail, and are as certain to be fol- lowed by impartidl Judgments. But was it not aftonifliing that a Sett of dirty Money Jobbers,^ thofe Hsrpies of the State, who were glutting them- fclves with the Blood of their almoft expiring Coun- try, wbuld have the AiTurahce to didate to the Na- tion, who Ihould be the M-— ^r, like Roman Le- gions, nominating him Emperor, with whoni they could ftrike the moft advantageous Biargain : What i miferable State is poor Etj^Jdnd reduced to, it a few Brokers have really this Power .? What a Cre- dit to our M— — *- rs to hold from fuch ^^afters ; and yet this was great Matter of Triumph, till Time expofed the Nakedncfs of our M rs, jInJ the Bargain of their Proreftors. ' ,The ( 33 ) The Profufion of publick Money (o exceeds all Meafure, that one would think the Conduftors of our Affairs entire Strangers to that trite Maxim, that *' Money is the Sinews of War." As in- deed it is of every Thing elfe, in which laft our M ■ rs feem to the Misfortune of their Country, to be pretty great Adepts. For Favour and In- tereft is purchafed in every Part beginning from Places, which 1 will avoid naming, down, througlf all the Offices where the great Bufmefs is Jobs connived at by Superiors, down to the low uncon- fcionable Dealers oi Exchange- Alky \ and ftill lower, if any Thing can be more fo, this is. the extenfive Bottom, is the fo much boafted broad Bottom ; this the Bafis of the prefent happy Adminiftra- tion. I V ill mention an Inftance not for its Par- ticularity but for its Newnefs, as the Abufe, which I believe is not older tlun this War vt'i^ France^ is again renewed at this Inftant of my Writing. The Commiflloners for managing the Lottery ufed to receive a hundred Pounds for their Trouble ^ and this was I believe a pretty ample Recompence, at leaft, for fome of them, who never attended at all. But row their Salaries are increafed to 150/, for which I know no Reafon but that too general one amongft Placemen, Uappetit vient a mangeant. This perhaps will be lookM upon as a Trifle and confidered by itfelf, I own it is of no grand Im- portance •, but when one refleds on the Multitude of Abufes with which this Nation is over-run, the Sum Total is not only conCiderable but amazing, nor to be parallel* d in any other Country. . . If thofe who receive the publick Money make light of thefe Affairs, I am fure the Neceflities of thofe who pay, will not fuffer them fo to do. The entire Lift would furnifli large Volumes. This now mentioned is only diftinguilh'd as the Abufe of the Day v almoft every Day producing F . ncw> 'J@t»-^u^ ...;ui^i{^'*»9«J!i%,. i III (34) new, But to jpafs from the private to the publick Vks of publick Money. At this Time we took 1 8,000 Hanoverians into BritiJIo Pay. On which Occafion I cannot reftrain ('how late foever my Congratulations come) from congratulating my Countrymen oji their Reconciliation, on the Renewal of Friendfhip and Amity, on the entire Obli- teration of fome of the grcatcft Feuds and Ani- mofities which have of late Years been raifcd in this Country. But general Comphments will not fuffice on this great Occafion. I mufl: in particular congratulate a certain Sett of Gentlemen, on that Dawn of Light which now opened on their Un- derftandings, which fhcws us the Fallibility of hu- man Preception, fince we find ourfclves fome- times miftaken in thofe very Points, in which we thought ourfclves moft clear. But nunquam fera ejl ad bonos mores via. And as is * declared in a publick Manner by a Lift of very honourable as well as very diftinguilhing Gentlemen. There is nothing more becoming a Gentleman, than to ac- knowledge himfelf to be in the wrong, as foon as he is fcnfible that he is fo, 6f<r. This great and grave Authority will I hope fecure me again il any malign Interpretation, and that it will be admitted our new Minifters have acquired Glory by the Change, and glorious before their Change, all the "World allowed they were. From Beginning to End then glorious. What would one more ? Some pretended there was a Diftindion between Ha- noverian Troops ot the Year 1 744. and the prefent Year. And it miift be granted there was a Dif- tindtion, which was only this in the Year 1744, we paid 16,000 Hanoverian^ ; and it was at the fame Time agreed that the Elector of Hanover fhould furnifl: 6000 on his own Account. This Year we pay 18,000 exadly at the fame Rate as we * See the Letter of the Court Ma;ual. ^ --— — • # , ' " ( 35) we did 16,000 in the Year 1744 •, but the Troops to be furnifli'd on the Part of the Elcdor of" Hanover^ were this Year forgotten. In 1 744 we had in Effect 22,000, this Year but 18,000 -, fo that in Reality »ve pay more Money for fewer Men. Under the fume Directors our Succefs in Flanders tliis Year was much the fame as the laft. Great Expe6lations were raifed here in England^ mighty Threats were thrown out, of what would be done, if the French but dared to come out of their In- trenchments : They did come out : And what then? Why? they beat us out -of our Intrench- ments. In this Adion, notwith (landing our Boafts of the Number of eiFedive Men to be brought into the Field, the Sum Total of our Forces fell very lliort of 60,000. The French heretofore fung 7> Deum^s for our Vi£tories : We are by one De- gree more moderate j we allow them the Vi6lory and only Claim the Advantage. What mighty Confequences are we not to expeft if Viftory ever falls to our Lot when our Defeat has been fo fatal to our Enemies ? If we do fo great Things when Fortune crofles, what Ihall we not do when llie fmiles ? I wifh my Countrymen would leave this trifling : There is no good in this "palliating. No Man would contend with more ]E.?s^ernek than jnyfclf, for what would be of real Ufe to my Country : But what boots it to deceive ourfelves, we cannot deceive the World : We only add Ri- dicule to.Misfortune by endeavouring to difguife it. But it is pretended that pur Defeat was attended with no ill Confequences. Good Gods 1 A De- -feat attended with no ill Confequences ! In what World do we live ? What new Ideas ! By what Means did this ftrange Event come to pafs ? Is not the A6tion itfelf, the very Defeat infcparable from ill Confequences fufficient- and too many? Doth it not difcredit us with our Allies, abate the . .- F 2 ^ Spirit n ^-»~— -«-^— ' ( 36 ) Spint of the Soldiery, and leflcn their ConfidefKC , in their Leaders : How difficult is it for Troops beat once, and again to face the Enemy with the lame Expe6Vation of Succefs, on which Bravery greatly depends. Had the Vidory been ours, it might have procured us Friends, of which I think we have fome want, and engaged thofe heartily in theCaufe who are now afraid, and whofe Fear is a dead Weight upon us. Is the Lofs of this Advantage inconfiderable ^ But how came it attended with no more ill Confequences ? The French had already done almoft every Thing, had gone to the utmoft Bounds, nor had where to pur- fuc without Hoftily entenng the Territories of thek good Friends t!.c Dutch. For I think we retired there, and fought Protedion in a neutral Country : Is then our Security that we have no more to lofe, arc fallen to the Ground, and are fafe in the Low- nefs of our State ? Till the French think fit to create new Enemies, by delating War againft the Dutch, or force them (if they think it for their Advantage) to a more abjed Subferviency. I wilh I could leffen in Fad the Advantage of the Enemy. But what will Words or falfe Colouring avail -, the Mis- chief will fliU remain, and is not lb to be removed. 'Tis more eligible that the People (hould be in- formed of their true State, Ihould know that their ** Pow^r is delivered into Captivity, and their ** Strength into the Enemies Hands •,*' that fenfible of their Situation they may make fome Effort for the Salvation of their Country. I have taken fdme Pains to Point out in this Treatife what appears to be the true Interell of this Country, and tjie only Means to obtain Succefs : I have no other View than the Good of my Country : No Attachment to any particular Man, nor will to any who ihall not fhew himfelf both capable and willing to ferve ' his Country. .v v ^v^ " .f: > . ' . . - « . That ( 37 ) That at prefent our Councils and Meafures are infufRcient. Fads and a conftant Train of ill Suc- cefs give-a melancholy Proof. For if our Mis- fortunes are not owing to our Councils, to what are they owing ? If to want of Force and Sup- plies*, why was 4 H— fquander'd to main- tain certain Perfons in their Places at Home in fpitc of their P— , which ought to have been em- ployed, if it could have been fpared by the People, on our Operations Abroad? Or why is not more Care taken that the Numbers fliould be compleat ? There is one principal Caufe of our Calamities ♦, there arc thofe wno know, who have experienced the Truth of what I am going to fay ; if a Man is forward to undertake whatever is pro- pofed for want of Difcernment of the Difficulties, iiich a Man is the Perfon for our Miniflry's Pur- pofe, but if the Miniflry are told their Schemes will not execute, if Difficulties are ftarted, the Perfon who ftarts them is judged ipfo faSio incapa- ble of doing Service. Whereas it feldom happens that Difficulties are furmounted in Pradice, which have not been previoufly raifed, and well confider- ed in Council. I hope there are Men of thi? Country able to render Service to it, that Spirit and Underftanding is not totally decayed in this Nation, and loft from among us, that there are Men left, fit for military Operations, but the moft nice, the moft difficult Difcernment is that of Mankind •, and yet without that Difcernment nothing is more evident, than that all Things will moft likely go to Run^, and the Unfitnefs of Per- fons and Things confound all Meafures. But we are fo far from difcerning from having an Infight into the Abilities and Difpofitions of Men, that we have feen the great Authors of our Misfortu::3s not only proteded from Juftice, but after fatal Experience of their Condu^, preferred to Dignity - • ■ - - and r ■ f (38) and high Truft. The Expedition to Port Lorient will be famous as long as Englijh Hiftory fhall laft. I am at a Lofs to account for this Diverfion as it was called, a Diverfion it was (I am forry to fay it^ to all who wilh us ill. Some pretended that the Report univerfally credited the laft Spring of an immenfe Damage clone by a Conflagration, was look*d upon by our Minifters, as a certain Omen of a future Event, and that flufliM by this Hope alone, without knowing or enquiring whe- ther Port Lorient was a Place of Defence, what Cannon was neceflary, what was the Approach, without confidering the well-known Dangers Q,i the Bay of Bifcay^ undertook the Accomplifh- ment of this kind ot Prediftion. Tho' I find great DifRculty in agreeing, that our Minifters could be infatuated to fuch a Degree, by this Superftrtion, I ftiould be glad to hear any tolera- ble Reafon afligned, for fo precipitate, fo ra(h an Undertaking, tho' the Thing is paft, and has fo niferably failed, becaufe it would in fome little Degree appeafe the Minds of People, and relieve them from tlieir dreadful Apprehenfions of future Condud. Wt ha'-e done Damage to the Amount of fome few thoufands of Pounds to the French^ at the Expence of | a Million to ourfelvcs, and ri- diruloufly kick'd againft the Pricks. It is faid, that the firft Projed: was to fecond fome Attempts -which the People of New England were to make on the French in thofe Parts, which s not impro- bable for (if I am not greatly mifintbrmed) this Secret Expedition to Canada was exprefly men- tioned in the Commiflions made out for fome Offi- cers, which were at tliatTime lliewn about Town. How this Plan came to be laid afide, and the People of New England fruftrated in their Hopes and Expences, \ am totally ignorant^ After this the .^r ^ ( 39 ) the AfFulr went thro* various Metamorphofes, and while our Minifters fat brooding on a vaft Abyfs of Ignorance, Orders were fucceeded by Counter- Orders, till the "World were tired with Laughing, when at length, by a kind of falfe Conception, this notable Scheme was produced. As to what re- gards the Naval Part of this Expedition, it is faid, that the Admiral in his Voyage overfhot his Port, having miftaken the Ille of' Belkijle for La Groie^ the Place of Rendezvous, to recover which he was obliged to beat a whole Day to Windward, and thereby alarmed the Coaft. But upon Conclufion of this grand Enterprife, the Hurry was fo great, that the Admiral fent Notice to the Land Fcrces, that if they did not reimbark immediately, he fhould be obliged to fail without them, nor was there Time found to give the Ships a Place of Rendez- vous, by which Means Major B ■ ■■ who was feparated with fome Tranfports from the Fleet by Strefs of Weather, was forced to return to England to get Information concerning the Admiral. Lfpon the whole, one may venture to declare, that the Wifdom of the Diredors of our Affairs is un- fathomable, and their UnderfVanding paft finding out. But I am afraid this Affair will not fo end, and I could wifh that when our Forces could do nothing effedual, with regard to Port Lorient^ they had not done what is ineffedual with regard to t've War, had not pillaged the Coaft, which pi- rat a-^' :Gnd of Warfare, is ruinous to particular psii ;f,r, and trifling as to the Whole. I heartily compaii.onate thofe who live near our own CoafV, to the Lot of fottie whom it will probably fall to make Retaliation, to pay feverely for this impo- tent unavailing Moleftation of the Enemy. As I am exprelly treating of the Condud of the V/ar, I muft not let pafs unnoticed the Difcipline of Navy. Th;it Effeminacy which has unftrung the / !i :ne *'f^Mi4iit^^mimf^^. , — i l >" r I (40) tlie Nerves, unmanned the Vigour of our Marine, is a Prodigy, which I hope future Ages will wonder at as much as the prelent ; for I hope it will never be paralleled while Time endures. Whence this Difgrace, in that Part of our Strength which iifed to be our Glory and Pride, the Knvy and Terror of the reft of the World ? The Extin- guilhment of Liberty, ufually extinguifhes all Virtues together with it. Nay almoft all Virtues muft be extinguifli'd before Liberty can be fo, or the People made to bend to the Yoke ; yet perfonal Bravery is generally the laft. But in a Country where Virtue and Liberty go Hand in Hand, where National Probity and I^reedom fup- port each other, how came thefe abjed Sentiments toprevail ? Parties. >' Tnftances other Times have afrorded, but this gi. Defection is entirely new ; in former Days the Evu was timely prevented, but fmce that unhappy jEra, February 1743-4, it has been^nurfed up and encouraged by Impunity. This has been the Root of that Evil which has fo di- ftrefsM our Naval Affairs. The Protedion given by principal Men of the State, the Honours Ihewn immediately on his Arrival to an Officer of confiderable Rank, fent Home under an Accufation of Crimes of the high- eft Nature, were enough to confound all Ideas of Right and Wrong. Awd what has fmce been done, has but * increafed the Evil. But this is not the Sum Total. If on one Hand there are Complaints of Acquittals, on the other Hand there are Com- plaints of a quite different Nature. With how much Grounds let Captain IVeJfs Defence tell as well as the 19th Article of the fighting Inftrudi- ons, which requires the Van of Our Fleet to fteer witlr the Van of the Enemy, and appoints no Signal, becaufe it is always to te done, when the A "« " - ^ '- ' -^---•- ' -- \. '•' ' > Enemy * See the Remarks on Mr. Lejlid^ Sentjnce. Printed (or ir, P^'thhy near S/. P.:ul'%. ■>-.d '.gj^liS^,. .iA,;ic..^ . V-: .(( (C cc 4C ,<( (C C4I) Enemy ftcers to Windward, that very AS: of the Enemy is in place of a Signal, is the Signal. As to a later Trial, I will juft touch on feme of the Refolutions, * to which the C— M came previous to giving Sentence. They are curious, and fo extraordinary, that I woiUd fain flatter my felf, that the like will never appear again. I'hey come to a Rcfolution, " Thiti: no Diredlion was given to the Fleet the Night of the loth of February 1 743, by the Night Signal then made to form the Line of Battle, and to bring and keeping the Line. And theDay Signal for forming the Line abreaft, ceafed to be a Signal by ceafing to be vifible." A Fog may render a Signal invifi- ble, and yet no Officer I believe would think the Sig- nal ceafed to be a Signal becaufe it ^eafed to be vifible, but on the contrary would continue in the Execu- tion till he was other wife directed. Article 5th, 3d Paragraph. " The Court are of Opinion, that " after the French Admiral made more fail, and went ahead of his Majefty*s Fleet the nth of February^ the Admiral afted in Breach of his Duty, and brought his Majefty's Fleet into improper Danger, by bearing down on the Rear of the Enemy's Fleets and engaging the Spanijh Admiral ; whereby the Van of his Majefty's Fleet, and the Rear of the Enemy's Fleet were refpedtively oppofed at unequal Ad- vantage." Compare this Opinion with the Opi- nion delivered Article 7th, Paragraph 5th. *' The Court are of Opinion, that it was the Admiral's Duty to have returned with the Namur to the Engagement with the Real^ tho' he had four ^ Ships inadive in the Rear of his Divifion", By the firft of thefe Opinions, it is declared, that th? AdQiiral oppofed the Rear of the Enemy Q with * See the Refolutions of the Court Martial, ^c* Prinued Sax ■ir^_ Wibb, n«M St. Paut%. C( cc ^c cc cc ^c xt cc cc .cc .cc cc cc I 1 (42) with too many Ships, and their Van with too few. How confillent this is with the other Po- rtion, viz. That the Admiral after having re- tired out of the Line, to avoid being run foul of by the Marlhrotigby inftead of advancing towards the Van of the Enemy fas he did in order to engage the Hercules^ which was the Ship then ahead of the Real) ought to have returned to the Engagement of the Real in the Rear, I will leave to the Gentltmen who com- pofed the Court Martial to reconfider, tho* their prefent Confideration can make very little amends to the unfortunate Admiral. Nor will it be any excufe to fay, that the Marlborough being unaflifted by the Ships aflern, Mr. M ws^ ought in Confideration of their De- fault, to have returned to the Engagement of the Real^ for if he could have feen, or had been informed of their Mifbehaviour, this furely was not the Method to have been taken. No. The Admiral ought in fuch Cafe to have appoint- ed other Commanders of thofc Ships. But was I to make Obfervations of this Sort, or Comparifons of the Difagreement of one Refo- lution with an another, a Volume would fcarce fuffice. How furp*-ifing fo ever this may be in Matters of mere Judgment, fomcthing more fcrange flill remains. For in Matters of Fad, one finds the Fa<5l ftated in one Refolution entirely different from what it is in another, and that too in very material Points. For Inftance, 3d Refolution on the 13th Article fays, Refolved unanjmoufiy, that it has appeared to the Court, that the Vice- Admiral and his Divi- fion did Chace the Enemy on the 15th of February in the Morning, in Confcquencc of a Signal frorri "e Admiral. ■' ' ft <•»' ,a.. ^--sb This ( 4.1 ) This Fact as here ftated cjFeflually deftroys Mr/ Maihews\ Defence, whp fays, he difcontiiiued the Chace in Obedience to his Inltruftions. For here the Qiieftion arifes, why then did you renew the Chace the next Morning? Was it not equally contrary to your Inftrudlions on the Morning of the 13th, as the Night before ? For a Signal to the Vice- Admiral to Chace with his Divifion could have been given with no other Dc^fign but to attack the Enemy, but ' . the loth Relolution on the J 5th Article it is, Refolvcd unanimoufly, that it has appeared to the Courr, that the Signal made by the Adiniral on the ;> \\. of February in the Morning, was for the Admh..l to fend out Ships to Chaoe. How mate- rial, how.efiential is this Difference ?" For the In- tention of fending out Ships to Chace, was only to defcry what thofe Ships were, winch the Vice- Admiral made the Signal for feeing. This Tingle Inftancc, I think may (land in the Place of many. After this I think it is unnccefTary to fay any thing more on this Subie(ft.I Jio'pe-if there has been any" Mittake, it has been a Miitakc of the Head, and not of the Heart V that we fliall never fee the Time when a Minilter's Will {hall become the Rule of Judgment, his Favour or Refentment the Meafure of Juftice, his Word the Stamp which Ihall fix pretended Merit or. Difgrace on Mens CJiaradters,- for fuch an Ufurpation muft foon create a Dependency, deftruttive of all. Notions of Honour and Spirit, and fatal to the Welfare and Liberties of the Country wherever itfhall prevail. Hanging out Terrors on one Hand to. thofe who do right, giving Encouragement on the other to thofe who do wrong, cannot fail of finking a State into, .the moft defpicable Condition. There is yet another Light, in which we ought to view the Proceedijigs of a certain C. M. for when I G 2 confider ( 44 ) cot^Iider the Attack made on a Court of Juftice, iind the Manner on which that Attack was fupport- ed, I canno' forbear extending iny Views farther than that V. i- Martial. The Land Force kept up in th.s . ^ngdom, has introduced a Change which has long given great Apprehenfion to all «hofe who have any Regard to our ancient Confti- tution. It has done more : It has given Terror to fbme left the Military Power (hould grow too ftrong for the Civil Magiftrate •, and tho' the Navy has never been look*d on as carrying with it any Degree of Danger to our Conftitution, for that very Reafon in fome Cafes it may be the moll proper Means to prepare the Way to begin the Prelude, to make the Experiment how far Things will bear. But happy it was for as that Things were not prepared on all Hands to com- plcat our Misfortunes, that a Perfon of Refolu- tion and Spirit,, able and willing to repulfe the Tnfuk, and withftand the Attempts of Men how- ever great and powerful by their Party, or employs prefided in that Court. But to return to the Dif- couragcmenc and Hardfliips of our Seamen,- wha with too great Reafon complain of the immenfc Navy Debt, and their uncome-at-able Arrears. With what Reludanee muft they enter into the Service, with what Ill-will execute it when they know, that after all, in order to obtain what is indiiputably their Due, their hardly earned Wages,. tl;ey are obliged to ufe a tirefome Sollicitation of many Years, tor which their Wages when obtain- ed are fometimes fcarcc an Equivalent. This I readily believe gives great Concern to fome of high Station in that Office, as I am perfuaded- every thing doth, which is afRidive of this Coun- try, but in the prcfent Difpofition of Affairs it is unavoi<iable. -^^ -"» »t » ' *-* f^* .f; ■ '? ■' '■ •• - '>! ;, > I- '>■■<■ f. , Vi.. ••- ,■•■•■ . »* i. -ijl-V' n ISi) <V; :. The -A. '•M^' - I (45) The Marines and the Nation are both abufed, by the long Detention of their Pay in the Hands of Adminiftr4tion -, and to make the Marines Ibmc Amends, the Nation is further abufed, as their ^ ViftualUng is not dedu<^ed out of their Subfiftence Money. Their long Arrears, I own» are in fome Meafure, tho' not ahogetHer, occafion'd by their original Eftablifhment •, but then, why were they liril put ? why are they now continued on fuch a Foot ? Another Method by which this Debt has been carried to fuch a Heighth, is very extraordinary, whenthe Adminiftration avowedly intend to employ 50000 Seamen, they alk a "Provision for 40000 only. It is pretended in * Excufe for this proceed- ing, that it is impoffible to find Funds, to raife Moaey for the remaining loooo. J ,, Is it poflTible to imagftie, that this Argumlfit is made ufe of by the fame individual Perfons, who in fever^l Inftances as well of C6nl;ra(5fcs at Hc:.ie as Abroad, oh an infinite Number pf Ar- ticles have been fo lavilh of Britijh Money ? Will their own particular avowed Diftrefs as Mihift'er^ (for I would not willingly llippofe that Ghara(^(et entirely forgot by them 5 never teacih them rn6re Wifdom ? Is not this a vtfi^ pretty Account of the State, into 'whicfh they hav6 confefTedly brought the 'Nation, and ihtd wHa^ 'ftill worfe State thejr a^^ bringing, it ? Is not this Acknowledgment of public NecelTity, a moft prefling Argument for OEcono- my ? Is it not a high Aggravation of thoft' in- Bargains, by which the Publick lias been fo great a Lofer ? When the Public cannot pay its hecefla- ry Expences, muft it wantonly and idly lavifh away hundreds of thoxilands on the Dregs of Man- "■ • Tho' in the late War 8000 Marines went to making up the '40^000 Seamen : And-thc r^afonable Way: of refornsing now, would be by making^a better Uft of fev&er Men : Yet this very Ejtti^e is evidently ill-founded, as new Funds have becnefta- blitfa'd Itnce' this Pr^i^licc begap, aod more 1' fear will hp fo. t WM '.*m\ • I^ipt triicj V» ijb low a Siaic ? Is K not too iftoni/h- J»5P» that iyjieri W(j av^^ • ^ I j^ ;^ia^jt6 tfictr own f Recount, fpi^^^ Years 56^ im never left than ib Shtps, of tne. Ljoc. To Very tew, in tlie Tmfe of ifee Rebcltron, which Vo'^ were, "mtndrawn fn^aenly ^cn molt wanted; what Service they hayfc done m the preleiit War, what « 5h!p$ pf the pMmy. tak^^^ pr^,^ycn eng^^ed^ W|5iil3 ^giye niie a Tfeafurc. ^ Wi^!l ^ ^^^ ^ .P'v^^^ '^?' loon receive? l^oroe afle^ mat leaving. thts Jfyl^ey tp be pjd at a ititure jiri^ Is an !Ea{c -^ tjp t{^ prfl'^nff, Jf It ^afilEafe, if Men <?ian be fa- iisne^ E^^- ^IP' ^"¥^^ Jfe9 ^" ^^ 'thlV l^Janneij, . 'tis an Ear&,t}vkt iniuk neceflaril'y be prodiwve of . jgreat yp^aiu^ds, ^ For by thele Means, ir Things h be had, ^j\^ is one B^y or other to Be paid thejn, jj^j httie VegarSedj and it is Vjdi ttve _ illc in ji\^ ^eij[>^, *^ wkh a private JVlan. , . \a J^ a private Man dtjw^ >» jM AccovintSii h^ no Attention to th?. Kates by jWiiicli h^ vontr^jfts,, for wh|a^ he wants Eipenen<^e Ifi^s, ^hat tl\e nio^ afljuent tortiirie is hotc^iial io^ljis {^egl^&^,a|3^ .J ^Mvit .fej,otli^^. ui^t^ayre of ,Th^^ greats Jy encrcaies the rnce of Things, aiid this not upon the ( . ip ^imCdmntiiltoBfcts oflheAdoiifiJtyiii 1 ? if ^iiiii|c t^ '^^^' ' jdlwagrs Jirer)i:ihifEt 4f the.i3'N/(^; AcjOPvanfi. £»( %^ tbc. A^'^^^" fecviid. tJity.NAikh £ttiu#M. (^i|)ict«4i;il|i9 ji^s jof iyj.lcb wat ior fome Years left almoil eotiirely'' to thein« (47) teiii)^tliTii^;i b,ooo ottly,Btit h!W#!ft Uf6n tft« 4b,ob6 i iTo that, if ttiert ^*^ art EfbbR/hitttftt ^ ^O,(ibo, thfe >^ry ftving whith might Wltli i^jifcf dEcbtit^tny bic tn^dc, wbuixl amount to tt^af sti mti^ <l& Wife Charge of the ixJdWctial i'o,mb. ArttH^ prefent atygmtfed Accdtmt thiiftirt tbHit lictie f imc |te ttiii^c tip iif 'the Publtek nitJs'hti to m^int^irt any fedit i ailtd th6 !Mfeyeiic6 of To-day 'of ft'- lrh6rr6# i? Ho^ 'fb cdrtftclei'^te, ftik' t fcjjpbfe ^ tJon'V ftir^gihe ito tiiiiJ Credit gii^^en us ^6 b/e accdtiht- tcS fc^r in tfie 'Hb^t Age, SO l!hat S;(^6 iazil^ (1^ AfcVo^a to "hatch MiMf^ 'for otirfeJVes. 'Sitt thfe Ptfbiick t thihk hk's k R'igh't to be W0rAV6d OTi t1* ftekd, by What Authority this Is dohe .^ tJhfO'rt- Te6n Acdd^M:9, Cofi^^rTgerfcifes Xjub^fpe^ed m^ ^1^^^ the Ekctife 'df fexp^iiif^^ ifrtTbiiff^, tho* lidt WoViMfpr. ifedt a ^dtt iiVbiv(!(J '^n4 'ddfigjied Pifrddfe^Sf r'dfirting Thfe HktiOn *^ In H!f^ ^Jthotit ^conrertt -bf Wliariient, ft a IVleaftire 'ilhift d6^t ib lie ah'(Vvere^ fbr, ^fpedially When it diftrefes tm '^i^r^f^s'the'piibltckService fo much, ^s in'theCafe df theNiiVy; Adci'to this,thataftrarigeScidiA^hefs dr ufl- "i^irtun^^fc Attemibn tb efl:k!iii(hi% Wfi^ni Ihta^it 'by pci-fbtial Sratlflcatitlns, ,pi%irail's 'in iU 'pUr Af- 'tairs. For Ififtartce, Iriftead" of "ftlpptyif^ hrfUnii' t^oh With Sdiphtir dil'fc^ frbm lUfy, We piirchate '^it heifc in Etis^^nd in ot^er to fend thefe, % mich ^e brtnefe-^iiarity p^y the Pi'dflt bf ihe Wefiihant hei'e, and the FitJgKf tidk to'iHe iiti^i- the Increafe of the pubjick Debts, in the fame pro^ ' ''portion as'rhe^Pubhclc Its IncbrtVettifeiicy theit Power .' cncreaies together with it, and a |;reat many other Purpoics are ferved, jDifeount on Navy^Biils iA]\ ibnktirrtfe prbdtiCe tttOre lltttreft in la few I3^s -VTin. - , _ V ; ■■ -than ;?3;;* Thti hai beto.aecbrM'h^rtmfbHrinmegalFnaice.-lind which diiTcrs Ycr^Htkle fi'^m ievyfog MoBty^mtkcht'i^nAti of ■r Parliameot. •^ 1^^ . X48 ) than oth':r Means in fome Years : But this is not all the Seaman has to conqplain of •, for during fo great i)elay, many Accidents may and no doubt do fall out. So that a great deal of Money muft for Want of Claim be abfolutely loft to the Seamen, and funk in the Purfe of the Government. While I am writing I am pleafcd to catch at the Kews of intended Reformations, which are faid to be in Confequence of fome Enquires made laft Year. In the Enquiries, however, of laft Year, I do not hear there' was any Notice taken of the Diflfereiice of E3q)ence between Horfe and Dra- goons, tho' that Evil has been otherwife often and much complained of. The Difference between the Eftabiiftiments, for ijhe Horfe Dragoons and Foot For laft Year, and former Eftablifhments during all the laft War, till after the Peace of Utrecht for .the like Numbers, wlU appear upon Comparifon to have amounted to 1^8,829 A i^s. (which is more than a feventh of the whole Expence) not in- cluding the encreafed annual Charge of the Forces at Portmahotiy GibralUtry and, the Plantations, the///]g^^- /«^^ Regiments,, Invalids, and independent Com- panies ; nor the 15 new raifed Regiments. The like Difference upon the ten Regiments of Marines amounted to 15,086/. 13 j. 4W. and the Dif- ference on the Garrifons to 13,077/.. 5</.|j which is niore than a Third of the whole Expence of the Garrifons. The prefent * faving upon breaking Part of^ the Horfe and r^i(^ng Dr^oons in their Stead, as ■^ -' the ' * The DIfterencQ between the Pay of the Number pf A^cn contained in two Troops of l^orfe Guards, and WaJ^Sy Moufi/ague's, and //""^ytoWs Horre, according to their Efta- blifiimeiKts ; and the Pay of the like Number ot Dragoons, ac- cording to their EiUbliAitxnent, would amount to about 45,000 per Jnnum. which, if it was to take Place immediately, would be the fivine. This I mention, becaufe 1 am fure our Miniftry do not ibaa i|iJieed of that f.£tltious Credit, which has been ^e(aim©d at in a low Way, by giving in the pubUck Papers afalfc ^ Accouotof thi« as well as fprne other Thing?./!? w-r.^ ij-';«v. ■•*.'■' :.. : ( 49 ) the Ml .ken from the F/ilabhfiiment are many of them put upon PenP^op-s -, and rhc raifing Dra- goons will coft: a conilderablc Siit. -n Levy Money, I cannot now cop pi»tc i;ny moie thin the faving which is talk'd of by taking a'va/ Mi/ Colonels and Lieutenants Colonels of Marines^ tiii it ihall be known, what Confideration they arc to re- ceive. Whenever it (hall be thought proper to re- gulate the Dragooijs or Foot in any Articles con- formable to former Lftabhfiiments, fuch Reforma- tion will be of conftant Benefit to the PubUck, till the Abufes are renewed, or othf r innovations (hall arife, bccaufe they are li!:tly to U kept on Foot after the War : For 1 fear we (hail nevci fee thofe Times which our Forefathers have feen j when an Army in Time of Peace would have been Icok'd on with Amazement, would have been look'd on as an entire Difs— n of the C — n -, but Circumftances are ftrangely altered. Many other Things have been rcprclented as may be feen in the R— , but notwithftanding the ij,rcat and undoubted Authority, upon which they have oeen made public, and fpread thro' the Nation, what has been done ? Amongft other Things, Complaints have been made of the want of Checks to prevent falfe Mutters. But there can be no other Checks upon falfe Muilers, but the Care of a Miniftry •, (or let what Laws will be made againlt any Abufes, the Efftd will be according to the Admhiiftration of thofe Laws, and in Proportion to the Spirit and public Zeal of thofe who are invefted with Power. The fingle Power of Placing and Difplacing is fufficient without particular Laws for this Purpofe, and thois who depend on the Favours or Frowns of Minifters will govern themfelves thereby. They have in- deed made one Exa;nple, and are juft entitled to H . fay ( 50 ) fay with GIppius, * Non omnibus dormio, Tho* they had probably flept in that Inftance, if the ^ had not pulled them by the Ear, and awakened them by publifhing that very Cafe ta tlie World. I (hould be forry to be too rigid j I would not knowingly commit myfelf to the Ha- zard of fuch Imputation ; for, far from depriving our Miniftry of any Praifc, I would ghdly che- rrili with Commendation, any Difpbfition to do Good to the People •, but Fads, I think, will fuf- fiently fecure me againft any Appearance of too great Aufterity, will amply juftify what I fay. rhere is no Proportion between the little AfFec — n, which we fhew on one Hand of OEconomy, and our vaft Prodigality on the other •, I will not now enter into Particulars, wnich would however be of great Confideration, was it not for Things. of ftill much greater Confideration-, I have touch' d on fome Things already, and perhaps may do more fome other Time, but, at prefent, a greater Care prefleth for what is the whole Ex- pence of each Year, the many Milhons we annu- ally lay out, but a lavifh Profufion of the Public Money, while our Schemes are fo inadequate to our Ends, that there is no human Probability of Succefs, and the People ftill from Time to Time become 0-1 Dedecgrmn pretlofus emptor. ■ • • There is wanting to this Country not a flight and delufory but a great and thorough Reformation, not only Reformation, but Addrefs and Policy, Thefe * Cipp!us was ufcd to proflttute his Wife for Gain, and countejfcit Sleep during the Vifu^ of her Gallants, but when a rcribn canae whom he did riQjt like, he woald fudilcniy dart up with thefe Wor'd:, iii/.' immkus (f>rmo, ^" '-"".. '" . - 0J - (51 ) Thefe arfi the only Means by which Britain or any other Nation can thrive. At prefent we are Itl-groiinded^ we are wrong in Fundamentals. • Good Gods ! What, probably will be the Confer quence of either an inactive or an a6live Cam- paign. Inaftion will be terrible to a People already exhaufted. Adion in the Situation we are unlupported by Allies, felf-deceived in Num- bers, will, I fear« but add to oyr Misfortunes. If thofe who command fhall be able to furmount fuch Difficulties, it wilf greatly redound to their Ho- nour ; the Nat/on will be proportionably in- debted for fuch Services, but the Task is hard up- on them, and, I fear. Things have not been fo prepared in the C— — et, to give room for great Expedations in the Field. And yet it is upon this Hope, that we go on mortgaging every Thing that we are worth, and launch out fuch Lengths, that not only we ourfelves, but lateft Pofterity will have occafion to curfe our Folly. I would not that we fhould reckon too much on our Suc- cefs in Proverue ; if it ihould occafion fome Diver- fion of the French Arms from the Low Countries^ will it not in fome meafure occafion a Diverfion of the Queen of Hungary^ Arms from the fame Place, whofe Numbers at other Times have been far from com pleat ^. And 1 Ihall be glad if ~ nothing elfc happens to diflrad and divide her Force. But what can v/e do if the "Putch are aver fe to en- tering heartily into the War? Why ? Convince them$ that we have not, nor will have any other Object in View, but to humble the Power of France \ tliis perhaps will be an Inducement, will giva them a better Opinion of Affairs, and when we have done this, if we fhall think fit to do lefs, they perhaps will do more. They fee our Foible» (50 • fee us difpofed to be the Knight-Errants of Eu- rope, and while we are fo employed, wait to fee ^vhat Chjnce may produce for theio. But if the Temper of the Dutch is not to be altered, fliall we fuffcr them to become a Prey to the French ? With- out considering how reafonable or unreafonable it is for us to undertake thcit Defence, do we take the Way to fave them, or if they are refolved •not to be faved, fhalj we, or can we pretend to iave them ? What then, is the Queen of Hungary to perifh, while we but look on. I agree it w6uld be more eligible to fupport her : But if we have not the Option, it is better for us not to fall with lier, and join our Fate to her^s. If there is a Dif- pofition in others to co-operate, if the Princes of Cermany, the Dutch or other Potentates will afford us fomething to work with, it may be an En'^ouragement for us to attempt fomething, but without it we are as mad as if we would attempt to tr^ad tiie Ajr, or walk on the Moon and Stars. That the Chances of War are fometimcs very Turprifmg, I own, and a Handful of Men do "Wonders •, but would any cne in his Senfes engage nt fuch Odds ? Our Miniilry ought' to be well in- formed of the Inclination of the Dutch. If it is not certain that it is very different from any thing which has hitherto appeared, we have nothing to do but to withdraw ourfclves from the Continent, collect our Strength v/ithin ourfelves, and make War on the Trade of France^ where we fliould wound her in her tendereft Part. The Money already fpent on a Land War, employed on annoying the Enemy by Sea (in a Manner dilTercnt however from what has been hitherto praftifed, particularly with Re- fped to Spirit and Vigour) would have ere now '^ ^X reduced (S3) reduced France to the loweft Ebts drained her Treafure, and made her Glory wither. But after all, it is neceffary to make a Diverfion in [the L<m Countries^ to keep the Evil from Home, and prevent France from making England the Scene of the War. If France^ when a Rebellion ravaged this Country, (hewed no ferious Intention of invading us in thofe Circumftances can we think ihe will ever dare undertake it at any other Time ? But let France do her worft 5 a much lefs Ex- pence than we make at prefent in Subfidies and Armaments would provide for our Security at Home, would maintain 12 or 14,000 Men or moife if neceflary, to be ready at Hand during the War, to defend our Capital, and quiet the Fears and Apprehenfions of the Pufillanimous, and thereby fupport Public Credit and the Funds, yrould tnable us to make proper Djfpofitions in other Parts of the Country, and at the fame Time keep a Force at Sea, which would be a farther De- fence againft any Attempts oi Prance on this Coun^ try and flrike Terror on her, not only ftrikeTerror, but bring Calamity and Ruin home to her Doors ; by throwing our Expences into this Channel, our Money would circulate amongft ourfelves, as is the Cafe oi Fr/ince at prefent, while we ar^ now con- ftantly letting the Blood out of our Bv.jy. All this I fay upon a Suppofition that Things really ftand on the Footing which our Miniftry repie- fent, that there has been no Poflibility of wprking on the ina6live Temper of moft of the States of Europe, I believe, however the World is pretty well con- vinced of the contrary, if proper Attention had been had to the Inteicit of this Country, and the Means of carrying on the War eflfe<filually. I do pot care if iphe Natjon \% favcd, by whom it is . " ' j^onev ( 54 ) done ; I fliall be as glad, as heartily glad to fee the important Service performed by thefe, as any other Men. Yet thofe furely are not the Means which have been taken •, nor the prefent Managers I fear the Perfons. If Men try a Thing again, and again, and find after all, that they cannot fiicceed, in commonPrudence,they will retire from the Laughter of the World, and that for which they are unfit. •But if fuch a ftrange Ttch of Gaming prevails,' that a loofing Gameltcr irretrievably dipt, is re- folved to continue the Game at all Events ; I hope the Nation will confider, that it is at their Expencc he plays at the Expence of their Treafure their Olory, their Intereft and their Trade. In this Cvor- rupt Age it would be ridiculous to wonder at the flrong Attachment of Placemen to Places. I wonder, .however, that the Bulk of Placen>en, who pro^ bably would be the fame under one Minifter or another, fhould choofe to fupport a Sett of Men whofe Councils are inefFedual in every Thing but in working the Misfortunes of their Country. That they fhould not endeavour to take to them- felves a Head, whofe Meafures might do Credit to themfelves and the Nation. No doubt there are who have Talents equal to this Purpofe. But if there fhould be found Men refolved to uphold at all Events, an Adminiftration precipitating the Nation into evident Ruin, both Abroad and at Home i I hope there will be found thofe who will exert themfelves to redeem their Country out of fuch Captivity, who will call their Bonds from us, and fet the Nation free -, in which Cafe it is no vain Hope to exped that it will recover its ancient Luitre and Glory. In fome Countries Men have been capitally accufed of undertaking Employ- ments to which they were unequal ; but what do they deferve. who intrude themfelves by Force, . who •*i who fiHing, with an Infufficicncy fatal to their Country and fhameful to then>felves, tlie ^reat Places of the State, fupport themfelves by a Cabd, whofe all-grafping I'ower, derogates from the Ho- nour, tarnifhes the Luftre of the C — n, ancf is deftruftive of the Constitution, whofe Meafuresf i nvolve us in Difgrace Abrond, and enci'eaffe of Debts and Poverty ?.t Home, together with a Train of Miferies always accompanying a corrupt Poverty ? What is the Purpofe of this anti — r— 1 Combination, this anti-conftitutional Fadlion. Is their End a Gratification of their Ambition -, is it for this they wreft the Reins of Government out of the Hands of M y ? If fo, how well their Purpofe is anfwered, let a conftant Succeflion of Difgraees during the prefent Admitnftration tell ; I may keep Silence, where Fiffts fpeak. But if Avarice is the Motive, if the Enjoyment of their rich Pafture (excufe me that I ufe fo groveling an Idea, while I fpeak of fuch exalted Spirits) is their grand Point of View j let not the Spirit of this Nation, tho' baffled by the Defedtion of pretended Friends be entirely cxtindt, nor Ihe fuffer herfelf motiorvlefs snd fetifelefs to be preyed on like a dead and corrupt C^cafe, let not they who have b|een ufed not to be ^fmtif»g to their Country's Caufe^ for tvet thf6* a SulTeimefs of Temper gratify thofe, ©f whoiiTtljey moft com- plain by a Defpondeftcy ^«d ferVJle Stifemiflion. Granting them in Coftttdefjrtion of fiaving ufed them ill,and at the Perfuafion ptthaj^fe of thofe who wilh better to the Mi"niftry th^ th^ profefs the Pri- vilege of ufmg them wkr as ill as they pleafe to the great De n 6f the People, who look upon an Ac e as an A n of Meafures, and are at Lofs to find the meaning of fuch Proceedings, and account for fuch Condud. V '*i...-a > 1. y • •->//, .v. (56) ^ It is at length to be expefted (\( there is any) the fullen Humour will be foon over, when thofe ' who have a true Senfe of the Sufferings of their * C — ry, will regard their Country as ftill entitled ^ ~ libl their Services, and that the Vainnefs of an O '< will not be look'd upon as a ftronger -' Argument now than heretofore. l*--: ■..a..-v i::>- t , ^ k>*- t , . •' - ,- ■' ( i. '•■■■ , - ; ! ; I ; „• ' . ' 1 .'■••,■ . ' i.; '. • ; • ..u --» f\'i I ■ 'J- • ri- ■■;; •■ 1 i. \ y '•"■■S' I N I S. 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