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 ,T will eafily be granted! 
 me, that the People of 
 this idand are, at this 
 Time, very much out 
 of Temper : The Di- 
 vifions and Parties a- 
 mong them are vvork'd 
 up into fuch a Fermentation, as the 
 like has not been known iince the 
 unnatural Wars, which raged in the 
 Bowels of the Kingdom, and overturn- 
 ed the very Foundations of the Condi- 
 tution ; what the End of thefc Breaches 
 will be, none yet knows. 
 
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 Were Men enclined to the leaft Mo- 
 deration, or were their Anitnofities 
 carry'd on with any regard tojuftice, 
 one would wait a while in Expe£lati- 
 on that, by keeping within the ordi- 
 nary Bounds of Government, they 
 would revolve into Peace, and, recpn- 
 ciling the Parties together, they would 
 at laft fee their mutual Miftakes, and fit 
 down by the Damage they had done 
 one another. Let By-gons be By-gons^ 
 as is the Saying in the North, and a- 
 gree at leaft fo far as to keep the Peace ; 
 and had there been any Hope of this, 
 no Man, that had any regard to the 
 Good of his Country, would be back- 
 ward to fet his Hand to it, much lefs 
 would be ipftrumental to hinder it* 
 
 But it is in vain to throw Water up- 
 on this Fire ; every thing that is faid 
 to pacify, a (lifts the Ferment, and pro- 
 vokes farther, though it be faid with 
 the greateft Sincerity, Indifference, 
 or difinterefted Honefty in the World ; 
 neither is it any more to the Purpofe, 
 to enquire from whence this Fury pro- 
 ceeds, and by what Degrees of Rage 
 Men arrive to a Spirit truly impla- 
 cable ; 'tis enough that the Faft is too 
 true ; We find it, by fad Experience ; 
 
 there 
 
(5) 
 
 there is no difputing the Truth of it, 
 any more than there is difputing the 
 Juftice of it, with the Parties : The 
 Temper is gone beyond the Bounds of 
 Reafoning Influence ^ the Parties are 
 {o far from being in fpeaking Terms 
 with one another, that they are not in 
 fpeaking Terms with any, who offers 
 to interpofe in the Quarrel. 
 
 While this is the Cafe, I fee no- 
 thing, in the ordinary Courfe of Argu- 
 ment, is capable of doing any Good. 
 But to carry on the Allufion above, of 
 a Fire which has gotten to fo great a 
 Head, that throwing Water on it, in- 
 ftead vof quenching It, rather makes it 
 rage the more ; I fay, to carry on the 
 Allufion, as whar the late dreadful 
 Occafiori of the Fire near the Cujlom^ 
 Houfi will help to make familiar to 
 us, when the Flame gets fuch a Head 
 •as/to contemn theiirdinary Means, the 
 People' appjy thcmfdves to the extra- 
 ordinary. Viz. blowing up Hdufes from 
 the Foundations, &c. 
 5 ^n. This is fomething of the Defign of 
 this Book, only wifhing the Engineer 
 better Luck than it is faid one had in 
 the Fire aforefaid, who went to blow 
 up a Houfe to flop the Fire, and 
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 blew Up himfclf with it. Hbweverj 
 the Service being neceffary, this muft 
 be put to the Venture. I Ihall endea- 
 vour to give no Offence to any, and 
 Jhall hope, while they are fo eager in 
 calling for Juftice on others, they will 
 not do Injuftice to the Perfon who en- 
 deavours to fliew them the Way to 
 Peace. The Method to bring Men to 
 Reafon at this Time, and on this ex- 
 traordinary Occafion, muft, as is faidy 
 be out of the common Courfe rf 
 things, and muft be by blowing ufy if 
 we can, the Foundations upon which 
 all the Refentment is laid, which oc- 
 cafions this Tumult and Hurry among 
 us. i 
 
 Let us then enquire coolly what is 
 the Matter, that the good People of 
 Britain are thus immoderately angry 
 one with another ; and, to make it in- 
 telligible, each Side fhall tell his own 
 Tale. The TORY fays, ^ He is 
 
 * unjuftly fhut out from the Favour of 
 
 * his Prince ; deprived of all Opportu- 
 
 * nity of fhewing his AfFeftion and 
 
 * Loyalty to his Perfon or Govern- 
 
 * ment; condemned as an Enemy to 
 
 * his Succeflion, tho' nothing was ever 
 
 * more remote from his Thoughts; 
 
 \ charged 
 
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 charged with Crimes and Defigns^ 
 which he is not in the lead con- 
 cerned in ; that he has not a fair 
 Field given him, to fhew whether 
 he would be a faithful Subjeft or no; 
 that he has neither Room to re^ify 
 any Midake he has made, or make 
 Amends, by his future Zeal, for any 
 thing paft; that if a Man be re- 
 proached in the Army for failing ia 
 his Duty, Want of Courage, Conduft, 
 or Fidelity ; yet he is never deny'd 
 an Occafion to wipe out the Stain, 
 by fome future Aft of Gallantry and 
 Bravery ; but that here he is con- 
 demned as a Traytor, without either 
 Leave to vindicate his pad Conduft, 
 or reftore the Honour of his Cha- 
 rafter, by a future, fteady, faithful 
 Adhering to his Prince, and to the 
 Intereft of his Country. They, the 
 Toriesy complain, that they are branded 
 with unjuft Marks of Infamy by the 
 rude Cenfu res of the Populace; hunted 
 down by a hot Scent and a full Cry ; 
 that a Torrent of popular and tumultu- 
 ous Infolence is pour'd in upon them 
 from the Prefs, the Pulpit, and the 
 f Incendiaries of their Enemies Party i 
 f that they are mark'd out for the 
 
 ' Fury 
 
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 Fury of the Rabble, and fet afidc as 
 Vi£iims to be facrificed to the Re- 
 fentments of the People, as foon as 
 by the Helps of fuch Methods as 
 their Enemies take, thofe Refent- 
 ments may be ripen'd up to a Pitch 
 fit for Mifchief ; they alledge^ that no 
 wife Government ever thought it 
 their Duty to make heir Subjefts 
 defpair; neither that it was thought 
 Prudence to put any one out of the 
 Power of meriting, by a dutiful and 
 quiet Behaviour ; whereas now 
 they fee no Room to be Loyal, no 
 Admittance, whatever tiujy would be^ 
 becaufe of what it is fuppos'd, ar?d 
 that wrongfully too, they have been ; that 
 every Avenue to the Prince's Favour 
 is fbut up; they are reprefented as 
 Enemies in the grofs, and can fee no 
 Remedy, but that they muft fuffer 
 under the Scandal, although they 
 have not failed to give all the De- 
 monft rat ions of Fidelity and Aife- 
 ftion, that they have been permitted 
 to ihew; and have no Misfortune 
 but this, that although they arc 
 more difintereftedly Loyal to the 
 Royal Family, and to its Succeffion 
 to the Crown, than thofe who op- 
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 * Occafion of being accepted, believ^d^ * 
 
 < employed, trufted, and all Opportu- 
 
 < nities given them to prove themfelves 
 
 * in the Royal Intereft : urhile juil the 
 ^ Reverfe is the Cafe of the Toriesy who 
 
 < fufFer und^r the Slander, all Oppor- 
 
 < tunities being diligently taken from 
 
 * them to prove themfelves innocent, 
 
 * and to make the wrong done them 
 
 * to appear. 
 
 ' The Tory goes on, and (ays, * 'Tis the 
 
 * mofl: provoking thing in the World, 
 
 * that they come now into no Com- 
 ^ pany bat they are treated as Crimi- 
 *' nals, as Tray tors, as Men that ou e 
 
 < their Lives to the publick ClemeiSicy, 
 ^ and are . threatned frequently with 
 ^ bein^ brought up before the next 
 ^ Parliament as fuch ; that they are 
 ' told, they are not fit to live \ that 
 
 * Jultice fhall be done upon them e're 
 
 * it belong.*, whe^ther they mean t|[ie 
 
 * Jufticeofa legal Profecution,'orthat 
 'Street Tuftice, which has been the 
 ^ Fate of many innocent Men in the 
 
 * World, they know not, neither do 
 
 * they always explain themfelves when 
 
 * they fpeak of tliofe thjngs; they add, 
 
 * that if they enter but into a modeft 
 
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 Vindication of themfclves, and men- 
 tion the late Mcafures with the ieaft 
 Offer to defend them, they have no- 
 thing but Axes and Halters talked of ; 
 and the bringing every Man to the 
 Block, &c. that had a Hand in them, 
 is the mildefl: of their Difcourfc; 
 that they have it openly proposM in 
 publick Prints, that the Tories have 
 nothing left them, but to difpofe of 
 their Eftates, md remove with their 
 PerfofjSj FamlieSf and EffeSis^ into fome 
 foreign Country^ 8fc. intimating, that 
 they fliall not be permitted to enjoy 
 the Benefit of the free Air of their 
 native Country, as not being efteem- 
 ed worthy the Privileges of Englifb' 
 men or Britains ; becaufe they, who 
 were in Power, did not pleafe the 
 Pl^hfgs in their Adminiftration ; they 
 alledge, that they are not treated fair* 
 ly or honourably, in that not only 
 is talk'd of, which 
 
 Jufti 
 
 they 
 
 not the leafl: Fear of; but that the 
 Clamour is fuch againft them, and 
 pufh'd on fo artfully by their Ene- 
 mies, as that Juilice feems to Hbe 
 defign'd to be forc'd and aw'd a- 
 gainf); them ; and that they are to 
 
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 * he feflcn upon, for Fear of difplcaf- 
 ^ ing the Mob. ^ 
 
 They make Complaint of divers il- 
 legal and unprecedented Steps taken 
 by their Enemies, in order to provoke 
 tne People to be tumultuous and 
 uneafy, in fuch a Manner as evidently 
 jhews^ that it is their Blood, and not 
 an exa£i, Arid, and legal Enquiry, that 
 their Enemies pufh at; declaring, 
 
 * That they defire no more than that 
 
 * Juftice may impartially be executed ; 
 
 * that they fliun no legal' Profecution ; 
 
 * tfiait it is a Teftimony undeniable, 
 
 * that their Oppofers are afraid the Par- 
 
 * liament Ihould proceed by an un- 
 
 * byals'd, impartial Inquifition, and 
 
 * jealous that, on a fair Trial, they fhall 
 
 * he cleared of the Charge ; otherwife 
 
 < riiey would not take thefe extrajudi- 
 
 < cial Steps to try if they can make 
 
 * by Clamour, mob the Parliament 
 
 * into it, and- as it were force the 
 i p s to find them guilty, for 
 
 < Fear of the Fury of the People. 
 
 Thefe are fbme of the Complaints 
 which that Side make ; and feeing the 
 Oppofer." arc for Appeals to the Peo- 
 r)le, and the Caufe muft, of Necef!ity» 
 he thus tryM without Doors; I fhall 
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 examine, as nigh as I can, how far ei- 
 ther Side feems to make good what 
 they ailedge, that we may judge a 
 little what is likely to be the IfTue of 
 all thefe things. 
 
 To this End, I add here what the 
 JVhi^s fay on their Part ; leeing, to do 
 Judice, both Sides ought to be calmly 
 heard, and fully, patiently, and freely 
 fufFered to make the beft of their 
 Caufe. 
 
 The Whigs^ on the other Han J, are 
 warm in the affirmative of the 
 Charge; they fay: * The Nation has 
 ^ been betrayed ; the Allies abandoned ; 
 
 * a treacherous Peace made ; the vi- 
 
 * Gorious Arms of the Confederates 
 ^ check'd; Vidory ravifli'd from 
 
 * them ; Spam ^nd the Jndiesy which 
 
 * they fought for, given over ; the Ca* 
 f talans drawn in, and then difhonour- 
 
 * ably left in the Lurch ; the Allies 
 
 * bully'd and hefl:or'd into Compli- 
 ^ ances ; the Trade fold to the French ; 
 
 * the Army drawn away, and the Al- 
 f lies expos'd tp have been ruin*d ; a 
 
 * fccret Correfpondcnce with the Fre- 
 ^ tender carry'd on, to the Prejudice of 
 ' thp Royal Family of Hanover^ 8fc. 
 f fk^t fucji things muft not pafs un^ 
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 * punilb'd; fW if Juftice fee not done 
 
 * on evil Minifters, there will be no 
 
 * E^d of Oppreffiori ^ that th(?re is Jio 
 
 * riftoring our Reputation abroad, or 
 
 * giving Satisfaftion to our Aflles, if 
 
 * the Men who did thefe things are 
 
 * not punifli*d. The^ add, /to the Ju* 
 
 < ftice of the Nation demands thefe 
 
 * Menfhould anfwer with their Heads 
 
 < for abufing the Country, wafting the 
 
 < Treafure, concerting with the de- 
 
 * clar'd Enemies of the Kingdom, and 
 
 < joining with trayterous JacohiteSf 
 
 < to overthrow the Proteftant Settle- 
 
 < ment at Home, and let in a foreign 
 
 < Power from abroad. 
 
 Though this Part is containM in 
 few Words, yet it takes in all the ca- 
 pital Charge which the Whigs bring 
 againft the late Miniftry, for which, 
 they are told, they rauft be brought to 
 Juftice. There are indeed particular 
 things which they infift upon, and 
 which they fay likewife, are criminal; 
 -iz. ' That they difpofTefsM an upright 
 Miniftry ; advifeci the Queen to dif- 
 folve the beft of Parliaments ; impof. 
 ed upon Her Majefty deftrudive 
 Schemes, ; led Her to unprecedented 
 Stretching of Her Prerogative, in 
 
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 pardoning SacbtvereU^s Kioters -, mak- 
 f ing Troops of Lords; entring upptk 
 Negotiations contrary to pubfickEn^ 
 gagement; breaking Her Royal 
 W— d, and the lih\ that they are ao 
 countable in Parliament for all tbefe 
 things, and ought to be brought to 
 Jufhce, as well for advifing a feparate 
 Treaty, as for making it \ that they 
 heaped Injuries and Indignities upon 
 Her Mijefty^s beft Servants; pub? 
 iifh'd i;eproachfut Libels agalinft auc 
 Allies; offered IndigjUities to Am- 
 baffedbrs, contrary to the Law of 
 Nations ; took the Army out of the 
 Hands of thofe, who Iiad raifed the 
 Nation to the higheft Pitch of Glo- 
 ry, and put it mto the Hands of 
 fuch, as the Nation had no Love for, 
 or the Allies any Confidence in ; that 
 they funk our Credit, fpoiPd our 
 Trade, ipent our Moriey, and run 
 us yearly into Debt, though the War 
 was at an End. * If there is any thing 
 n the Pamphlets of the Party, which 
 s not contained in this Colledion, I 
 defire it may be fuppos'd, and (hall a& 
 efFeQiiaUy notice it in the following^ 
 Pifcourfe, as if it had been at large 
 pxpreffed. 
 
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 r, Before any Epqmry is made ioto 
 tbe Matters on e^her Side, this; is 
 lH}f|it)iy ofl^red lis the more immediate, 
 sold moil neqc^lprary thing now to be 
 fpal^en to in ^h^lfof one Side, 'S(iz, 
 Tten< although wq?y Jot of tbj^ Ai^ere 
 tf^:; yet that th^ Method taken now 
 by tjie €oiiiii¥)nJi^^I^i i$ contrary ta 
 al} th« Rules. i^iJu^fifi, :^uity, Cba- 
 if:i^llC!erand HonWF i feeing no Man is 
 1(3^ k§i try'd feui^ by his Pea's, nor 
 tp hi^ :^o^yii9:^ but by Evidence i 
 veb^ea^ thks railiiig poputair QanKKK^ 
 ag&inft i£j^ and as it WW pro^ipt- 
 i»g: the Parliainef^t^ is not only wju-^ 
 lious to the Fai^hjapiejQt it fclf, as if 
 they would not do Juftice withput it, 
 ©r that they would b^e byafe'd and 
 aw'd by it into condemning , Men, 
 whether guilty or no; but is highly 
 fcandalpus to th^publick Juftice, and 
 inittrious to the Perfons ^bo are ac- 
 f^Q^y reprfefenting them as unpopu- 
 lar, as Men obnofxious, and whom it 
 will be rcandalou$ not to condemn ; 
 reprefenting th^m as Men that mud 
 be facrificed to appeafe the People; 
 and that it is neceilary to put them 
 to Death, whether guilty or not. 
 
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 ^ We are not without Precedents in 
 Hiftory of Cafes like this, wherein the 
 Clamours of the People have been 
 raifed up to fatal Heights, by the Arts 
 of bloody and cruel Men ; and the 
 Commons have been provoked to Se- 
 dition and Tumult, on the Suppolition 
 of publick Injury being done by fuch 
 and fuch Perfonsy jpointed out to 
 them by the Authors of thofe Tumults ; 
 which Peribns have fufl&red unjuftly, 
 and innocent Blood has been brought 
 upon the Nation, by the fame Me* 
 thods which are now taken in the 
 Cafe before us ; for Tumults once 
 raifed, feldom end but in Violence and 
 Blood. * '^** '-'^ 
 
 Nor is it criminal to fay, that even 
 Parliaments tbemfelves have been hur* 
 ry'd, by thefe popular and tumultu- 
 ous Methods, to do things whereof 
 they have been afhamed; and have 
 acknowledged the fame, by making an 
 Order, that it Ihould be raz'd out of 
 their Journals, and ihould not be 
 drawn into Precedent for any future 
 Houfe to be direfted by ; which (hould 
 for ever, if I miftake not, warn not 
 Parliaments only againfl: being preci- 
 pitated or byafs'd, in Matters of Ju- 
 
 ftice^ 
 
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 ftice, by Tuihults of the Pdople ; but 
 fhould alio warn honeil Men from 
 making Attempts on the Publickj to 
 hurry them upon the fatal Offence of 
 ihedding innocent Blood. 
 •I TheConfequences of thofe Rabblings 
 and tumultuous Calling for Juftice in 
 thofe Days, are too well known ; and 
 that three Victims were offered Upon 
 .the Altar of popular Rage, which td 
 this Day the whole Kingdom laments 
 oven^ and earncftly wifheth it had not 
 been done: Thofe were the Earl of 
 Straffordy the greateft and gallanteft 
 EngtifhmAn of that Age ; the Archbifliop 
 of Qsnterhur^i and King Charles L 
 
 One would think thofe Examples^ 
 which none can approve, and few will 
 attempt to defend, might warn the 
 People of this Kirigdom, againfl ad^ 
 mitting Juftice to be influenced from 
 the commoii People, by fingling one 
 Men for Impeachment, calling for Ju« 
 ftice; that is to fay, for Revenge, by 
 the Mouth of the Mob. 
 . If thefe.Men are guilty, fiat Japti/t^ 
 none can hinder the publick Juflice 
 from taking its Courfe; and thofe 
 who are bufy at this Time, raifing 
 Clamours and Rabbles co pufli Juftice 
 
 C be=- 
 
1 \ 
 
 f ' 
 
 ( i8; 
 
 beyond its Bouuds, and to drive the 
 Law fafter than it ought to go, ftjouW 
 be better employ 'd in formiqg fuflfi- 
 cient Evidence to make good the 
 Charge againfl: them, in order tdbriiig 
 it in a legal Way of Profcciition ; or 
 let them prove, if they can, ^ M^hat 
 Part of JulHce is it they are n6w aflr- 
 ing ? What Tendency has this Method 
 to legal Trials ? Indeed none but what 
 tl y will be afhamed to mention : It 
 can be no Help to Evidence 5 it ra- 
 ther feems to be a Method taken -to 
 fupply the Want of Evidence ; and if 
 fo, it is fuch a Method as honeft Mea 
 will tremble at, and all Men ought to 
 
 blujfll for. TA'/ 3tlU 
 
 Let not fuch Men flatter themfelves, 
 or the People, with faying, that Go- 
 vernments cannot be influenced to do 
 Wrong ; we hope the prefent Govern- 
 ment will not; but has there not been 
 a Time when publick Jufl:icd has beietl 
 influenc'd ? as in the Cafe of the Earl 
 of Strafford beforementioned ; confent- 
 ing to whofe Death, King Chai^les L 
 never forbore mourning for, no not at 
 his own : It is not the Queftion, whe- 
 ther the prefent Government wilVor 
 can, be influenced'; the Attempt to do 
 
 It 
 
 
(19) 
 
 it IS Criminal : And it is the Queftion, 
 whether we ought to try if they may 
 be (6 influenc'd or not ? Suppofe, foV 
 the Purpofe, that we are fatisfy'd fuch 
 ov fkch a Witnefs againfl: a Criminal 
 will not be bribM to withhold his E- 
 vidence, or will not be fuborn'd to 
 bear falfe Witnefs ; or that the Judge 
 will not be b'yafs'd, by any Method 
 that may be taken, to give a falfe 
 Judgment, or pafsan unjuft Sentence ; 
 it is not, however, the lefs criminal in 
 tfjofe who tamper with them, in order 
 to bribe, fuborn, byafs, or corrupt the 
 faid WitnefTes, Judges, &c. 
 c Likewiie we find fome fay ; That if 
 the Man is innocent, they do him no 
 'Wrong ; he will be acquitted, and 
 come off with Honour; his Reputation 
 win be clearM up, and he will be the 
 better for the Juftice done him. This 
 wicked Way of arguing fhews the 
 Worft of Malice ; is it then no Injury 
 to render an innocent Man fufpeded ? 
 It*is>fome Scandal to fay, a Man has 
 d6ne enough to merit being put in 
 Hazard of Life, and brought upon his 
 Trial; and therefore Grand -Juries 
 Were appointed firft to judge, whether 
 there appears fufficient Ground to put 
 
 C 2 a 
 
 * 
 
'4 
 
 J 
 
 !| i 
 
 / 
 
 y' 
 
 a Man to the Trial ; if not, they 
 bring in the Bill, Ifnoramw; which is, 
 in the EfFeft, rejeding it: This fuf- 
 ^ciencly acknowledges, that as a Man 
 ought not to be condemned without 
 Guilt, or calumniated without Caufe; 
 fo neither dught he to be put upon a 
 Trial for his Life, if there appears not 
 fufEcient Ground of Guilt, and fuffici^ 
 ent Evidence of Faft, to make the 
 {^ageing him necefTary and reafonable: 
 Jt is not fufficient to fay, that if he is 
 innocent, he will be ac(|uitted ; Sup- 
 pofe a Man were to ride through a 
 Town, compleatly arm'd Cap a Pf, 
 with Armour of Proof; is it lawful to 
 fire a Mufquet at him, and fay, we ar« 
 fure he cannot be wounded? It is no 
 more lawful falfly to accufe, than it is 
 lawful wrongfully to condemn; and 
 either of them are a Degree of Mur- 
 ther, if the Cafe be Capital. >l mv/ 
 I never find any People opprefs'd 
 with ClaniQur, but even, whether 
 guilty or not, they fufler Injury . by 
 the publick Cenfure ; if they are not 
 guilty, doubtlefs their Injury is greatr 
 eft; but if they are really guilty, even 
 thaj: Guilt is unjuftly aggravated upon 
 
[icy 
 
 is, 
 fuf. 
 ^an 
 iiout 
 ufe ; 
 on a 
 i not 
 fBci^ 
 
 the 
 able: 
 he is 
 Sup- 
 igh a 
 
 ful to 
 (^eare 
 
 is no 
 
 ^ it is 
 
 and 
 
 Mur- 
 
 )rers'd 
 ether 
 jry . by 
 re not 
 greatr 
 even 
 upon 
 
 them, and they are reprefented to the 
 World ten-fold worfe than they are. 
 In the next Place, the Injury to }u- 
 ftice it felf, and to the Conftitution of 
 the Government which we live in, is 
 great ; it is not perhaps irreparable, ais 
 It is to the Perfon accufed ; but it is 
 fcandalous to the Government in its 
 Praftice, and more {o in its being con- 
 niv'd at : It is an Injury to Juftice ; fdr 
 it is trying and condemning, hrevi 
 Mahuj without Form or Procefs; which, 
 as it is contrary to the Rules of Ju- 
 ftice, fo it overthrows the very Na- 
 ture of Juftice it felf ; becaufe it con- 
 demns without a Hearing, not giving 
 the Perlbn accus'd Liberty to artfwer 
 for himfelf ; it blafts with the Breath of 
 Man; whereas Juftice, and a legal Pro- 
 fecution,is the Sentence of Heaven it felf: 
 He that falls under publick Calumny, is 
 condemned, and not convifted ; is fi- 
 lenced, but not heard ; and, I may fay, 
 he is executed, but not put to Death; 
 for Slander, and univerfal Cehlure, 
 is the worft Sort of hanging Men in 
 Effigy. : ' ' ■ 
 
 It is a deplorable thing to fee, how 
 far this is the prefent Praftice in this 
 Kingdom ; and what Numbers of in- 
 nocent. 
 
( ( 23 ) 
 
 nocent, uioflFeqfive People have fuf- 
 feredy and continue to fufFer, under 
 this Jnjuftice : of which the Memory 
 or the Qyees' is one of the greateft 
 Jnftancesy who, in her Grave, is 
 treated with fuch Contempt, as if She 
 
 Jiad tieen tne greateft Enemy this Na- 
 tion ever had; as if She had deOgn'd 
 to betray the Conftitution; give us 
 Vp to Vopfry and the Pretender ; things 
 which Her Majeftjr abhorred, and of 
 which not a Man is, or can be pro- 
 
 .dpc'd, who can offer the leaft Proof; 
 But I fhall return to this again. /nnr 
 
 .P Having faid, that this is unjuft; 
 that thus condemning Men without 
 
 'poors, is injurious ; I mud add, that 
 
 ;it would be fo, tho' the Pcrfons were as 
 criminal as they are fuppos^d to be: 
 fl^re it may not be amifs to fay, that 
 \t is unjuft to the Conftitution ; for it 
 is taking away the fundanlental Privi- 
 lege of an Eftglijhmafi^ who demands, 
 
 !by Law, the Privilege of not being 
 condemned without a legal Tria I. The 
 
 'grqit Statute, . call'd M/ig»a Chart a^ is 
 the Fundamental of an Englijhmm^ 
 
 Xiberty ; and as it was purchas'd 
 
 .with the Blood of the People of Eng- 
 Ufjd^ our Anceftors, we have an inde- 
 ^^ feifible 
 
ve fuf- 
 
 under 
 
 lemory 
 
 ireatefl: 
 
 e, is 
 
 s if She 
 
 his Na- 
 
 JeGgn'd 
 
 ;ive us 
 
 things 
 
 and of 
 
 be pro- 
 
 \ Proof: 
 
 n. 
 
 uniuft ; 
 without 
 id, that 
 were as 
 to be: 
 hy, that 
 t ; for it 
 al Privi- 
 Icmands, 
 )t being 
 \l The 
 hartdj is 
 
 iirchas'd 
 
 of Eng- 
 
 an inde- 
 
 feifible 
 
 fcifible Title to every Claufc theWm 
 And this now (pcakiog of, wifl be 
 found to be one 0* f hr principar Ai3 
 ticles of this Charter, in thefe Woitfst 
 
 ^4^, Up; XXIX. ai^d thcTiil#br 
 ^sChapter Is, thae Noi^e jbdlBetm^ 
 dmffed't^fPhaut TH4L If theKrrt^ ctfri- 
 qotcbndernn a Subjea without i\mii 
 Trai, neither /rtfiay any t\k da k j 
 lefs imay it teJavl^ful for fhe8u&e6H 
 to condemn one another, dH thd^^erfon 
 Wed have ajair. and a legd Tiki: 
 Now this pjibhftiog Men tb be M- 
 ty by PaittpWets, JttjIM^uJj, fcurrlous' 
 Libelsj. pubhtk Prkiti^, d-r. wlti^^re^ 
 ^ Appeils wm Rabble, againft tlw 
 ?erfons mentioned, as being Crifiiinals.. 
 May, IS 4>fle of the 'worft Kitt* of 
 condemning witliout ^ ft Trklj ^and it 
 may be.quetfoned, U'hcther ever Mert 
 fo pubJickly infuked, ean have ^' fafc; 
 rnal afterward: it were to be wjfli- 
 ed, Men would confide r \Vliat th«?v 
 do m fuch a Cafe; 6nd whether,^ 
 while they talk of Liberty, and the 
 
 Pi> 
 
«^ 
 
 Privilege of BngUlbmen^ they are ;ri6t^ 
 iffo fa^ioj taking away the Engliflf Li- 
 berties in the worft Manner imagi- 
 naW?. 
 
 When Men are publickly calumnti- 
 ated, the Charge againft them made 
 popular, and the Commons have once 
 received an univerfal Prejudice jn thpir 
 Pisfkvbur. where Ihall a Jury be. 
 found, who can b^ faid to pafs. fairly 
 upon th^m ? For, as the Jury muft be 
 chofen out of the Commons for a Com- 
 moner, and tjie Peers for a Peer;^ 
 if th^fe are prepoffeffed, by any popuf 
 lar Miftake^ in; Prejudice' of the Per* 
 fpn, how can it be faid, that he is 
 fairly jtried by tb. Laws of this Land? 
 Every Perfon brought jpon his Trial 
 for Live and Death, as v/e ftyle it, is 
 allowed to challenge a certain Number 
 of thofe who are funfimoned on his 
 Jury peremptorily, withouj: iliewing 
 any Caufe ; but if he can fliew fuffia-^ 
 ent, legal ObjeQions, he may challenge 
 more as he a 
 
 as many 
 
 gal Ob)e£^ions agajnft, 
 
 bring fuch fe- 
 
 lt is allowed to be a legal Objeftion 
 againft any Man, and ihall barr his 
 being admitted on the Jury, if he has 
 declared himl'elf to be an Enemy to 
 
 the 
 
 
e n6ti 
 
 ilumni- 
 made 
 ^e once 
 n thpir 
 ury be. 
 fairly 
 nuft be 
 a Corn- 
 Peer; 
 y popu^ 
 ;he Per* 
 he is' 
 J Land ? 
 Trial 
 le ity is 
 dumber 
 on hiis 
 iliewing 
 ivfuffia4 
 
 :hallenge 
 ; fuch le- 
 
 )bjefl:ion 
 barr his 
 if he has 
 ,n€my to 
 the 
 
 ( 25 > 
 the accufed ; if he has decIarM before^ 
 hand, that he would find him guilty^ 
 or that he believ'd he deferv'd to die, 
 or any fuch Way ownM himfelf per- 
 fonally prejudiced againfl: the Man 
 who is to be try'd; let this be 
 brought home to the Cafe, here is a 
 manifeft Attempt to prejudice the 
 whole Body of the People of EngUnti 
 againfti certain Perfons, as againft Cri- 
 minals, Nvhoougl^t to be put to Death; 
 if the pefign took EfTefj:, the Perfons 
 cannot be try'd according to Law; 
 for no Jury would be empanneli'd, a- 
 gainft every one of whom they might 
 not la'wfutly except, challenging them 
 as havipg declared perfonal Enmity 
 againft the Man who they were to 
 try ; yrhich Enmity unqualifies them, 
 iy the Laws of this Land, to be of 
 the Jury in that Man's Trial; fo that, 
 I fay, this Way of publickly condemn- 
 ing Aden without Doors, is not only 
 injurious to the Perfon accufed, but 
 is deftruSive of our Conftitution, 0- 
 verthrows the Law, and deftroys the 
 Liberty of the People of Brit ait?. 
 
 If this will not move the People to 
 forbear this unjuft Treatment of thofe^ 
 thoy bate, to what other iMotive Hiall 
 
 D they 
 
( 26; 
 
 they have Recourfe ? The Complaint 
 made here, is not againft the Govern- 
 ment, the prefent Miniftry, or th» 
 publick Juftice ; neither fhall they have 
 any Reafon to be offended ; but the 
 Injuftice complained of by thefe Dif- 
 courfes, is that which is done in the 
 Streets in publick, in lewd Painphlets, 
 Libels, &c. and in fiery Difcourfes, 
 Sermons, &c. tBngs rvhich no Go'VeVn- 
 ment can affrove t)f; they do tkeir ut- 
 moft Endeavour to ftir upand inflate 
 the whole Kingdom againft :the late 
 Queen's Servants^^- for a£ling in the 
 Adminiftr^tlon in a Manned 'uri|ile'af- 
 ing to a Party; which a&ing, were 
 it more criminal than even they can 
 fuppofe it to be; yet is no J this Pro- 
 ceeding juftifiable, either by th6 Laws 
 of Heaven,' or of this Kingdom; and 
 this Injuftice, we are told, they think 
 they have Caufe to reprefent in Pub- 
 lick, that all indifferent Men may 
 judge of the Treatment they receive. 
 Let us fee if it be not difhonourable 
 to the Government it felf; if the Go- 
 vernment is upright, if the Kjffg^s 
 T-jrone is ejiahlijhed in Righteoufnef^ if 
 the Statutes have their free Courfe, 
 and the greatcft as well as the leaft 
 
 >,' »»« 
 
 ei)^ 
 
 > t. 
 
Go- 
 
 (27) . 
 
 enjoy the Proteaion of the Law; 
 wha,t then means this Way of Pro- 
 ceeding? (i,) Does not the Government 
 fuffer^ as it were, the Sword of Ju- 
 ftice to be taken from them ; and 
 the W'ork to be put .. out of their 
 Hands, refer ving onJy to themfelves 
 the Power of being little better than 
 the Peoples Executioners ? What Go- 
 vernment but tl's, would bear to 
 have infolent Pamphleteers tell them 
 in Print : My Lords^ We how fuch or 
 fuch Men to he guilty^ and tve EXPECT 
 you Provide us their a leads? If they 
 had oeen condemned, after a fair Trial, 
 upon PaHiamenitary Impeachment, ;hey 
 might, with more Juftice, have faid ; 
 Such and fuch, Men have been fairly trfd^ 
 And are convUied of Treafon^ and tve ex" 
 feci they fhould he executed according to- 
 j^aw; feeing by the Statute of i^ IVil- 
 lUm III. Cap, 2. it is provided, that No 
 Pardon under the Great Seal of England; 
 he Pleadable to an Impeachment by the 
 Common^ in Parliament : This had been 
 fpeaking in the Language of the Laws 
 of the Land : But for Subjeds to fay 
 to the King ; We exfeci fuch Mens 
 He ads y or juch Mens Impeachments ; for 
 If^f: Jay, they J RE GVILTT; 
 ' ' . * D 2 this 
 
w 
 
 ( 28 ) 
 
 this is a down-rizht Infurreflion upon 
 Juftice, taking the Sword oF the Law 
 out of the Hands of the legal Autho- 
 rity, and making their Pnnces little 
 more than the H A N G M E N 0? 
 the People ; obliging them to put to 
 Death whoever Tumult and pojpulac 
 Malice giv^ Sentence upon : It is true^ 
 it may be faid, that the People con- 
 demn not, in jo far as that they do 
 not put their Condemnation in Exe- 
 cution ; but it is anfwer'd, that thus 
 to condemn, is to make the Execution 
 f/ire as Checqae ; for if a Government 
 is capable of being awM into pafs- 
 ing Sentence, neither will they dare 
 to defer the Execution, when the feme 
 Power commands or fays,. WE E X- 
 PECT IT, which is the fame Ef- 
 feft. (2.) What needs all this Re- 
 proach upon the Juffice of the Gor 
 vcrnment, if they were not afraid 
 that the Government would not dp 
 Juftice ? If they believed the Admini-! 
 ftration true to the Intereft of their' 
 Country, why is all thisClambur raif- 
 ed ? It is the ftrongeft Satyr that 
 could be made upon the King, an^ 
 upon the Miniftry ; fure they are ve- 
 ry difxcrent in the Regard that they^ 
 
 • think 
 
(' ( 29 ) 
 
 thiak the MiniAry may have ta Ju- 
 ititip; that diey tiiifik th^fe extifajudi- 
 cUl Ways needful to v^ork them up 
 to it ; why muft the Goveiinment pc 
 toWby every Hot-fpur, tl^t tijePeoph 
 EXP B C Tjufiice, if tbire was no 
 ^qoni to queftion, whether r they 
 would do Juftice. or not f There <»ri 
 be no greater Satyr upon the Govern- 
 iTient, than that to demaod Juftice, 
 ^s it Were, Veffee m la M4i0^ Sword 
 in Hand, and to threaten them with 
 the BLe&ntment of the People, if it 
 be r not donef. There is no n^ed to 
 dim good Pay-mafters ; current; Mer^ 
 cha|it3, who gay their BiBs ^t Sights 
 ne^d not be direaj:ned -, no Man fays, 
 5/^, J EXPECT jQu wiU' net fml to 
 fay, me M the D*y^ uniefs there is ibme 
 Ground to fear, or Room to fufpeft^ 
 that he will not make a punQual Pay^ 
 niont v none but Bankrupts are ar- 
 reted before their Money is -due, by 
 Way of Security ; in a Word, this 
 Language to a Minlfter of S^te, is as 
 plain as tht Englijb Idiom will admit 
 of fpeaking, that we fear you will not 
 do us Juttice; and therefore a late 
 foolifli Author, who is very well call- 
 jBcJ, a young Squirey who publiftkl a 
 
 Letter 
 
 ■ f ■■ 
 
do) , . . 
 
 Letter to my Lord //.^^-^— jc, cavli 
 not have more infulted that ii6bie 
 Lord, however unjuftly he did it ; 
 ftrongly itnplying, that he thbp'glit 
 hisLordfliip falfe to the Truft r^pps*(i( 
 in him^ and not likely to do hisJDu* 
 ty : It is not more or lefs than a 
 clear Suggeftion, that we fear the Mi- 
 tiiftry, as ferhafs former Miniftries have 
 doney win regard, principally, thiir 
 private Advancement and Intereft, and 
 fatisfying themfelves with having 
 gotten into warm Pofts, and having 
 turnM thofe out who they defir'd to 
 be rid of, will think no more of do- 
 ing their Country Juftice-, but give a 
 Teftimony to the World, that it ^a$ 
 not the publick Grievance which the^ 
 ftruggled to redrefs, fo much as the 
 private Advantage of getting into Pla- 
 ces of Profit and Truft, which they 
 fought J which having obtain'd, they 
 will be willing enougn to look no far- 
 ther, but to be quiet, and let the pub- 
 lick Juftice fleep in their Hands. 
 
 It is evident, here is a Wrong doj^e 
 inany Ways; (i.) To the Per fins ^ ac^ 
 cufing them wrongfullj^; (2.) To th^ 
 People^ by their being impos'd uponj 
 (?0 ^*^ the Government^ fufpefting them 
 
 •of 
 
ii6bie 
 id it: 
 
 s bu* 
 
 :han i 
 [le Mi- 
 ff ka.ve 
 , thiir 
 ft, and 
 having 
 having 
 rir'd to 
 of db- 
 
 give a 
 ; it ^as 
 :K they 
 
 as the 
 ito Pla- 
 h they 
 !, they 
 
 no far- 
 le pub- 
 
 doilie 
 VtSy acr 
 
 To th^ 
 upon J 
 2 them 
 ^ of 
 
 of Sincerity ; C4); T^ '^^ Lams^ invert- 
 irig their Execution^; and Cs^.J^ the 
 Conftitmotfj robbipg ; tbe Kingd|3in of 
 the Privileges whkli t^elooe to it as a 
 Nation. All this is thje E^^ of the 
 ndw Methocf now prad^js'd in this King- 
 dv^p^. whereby innocent Men are brand- 
 ed with Infamy ; becaufe they hi^ve not 
 better Meani ^tp, condemn them : The 
 Pcopje are fjrlLanimated againflr ; th^ip; 
 an^ brought up. to a blind JUge, in 
 which they would doom their King, 
 tfeicl Father, Pt any other, to Death, 
 without Fortn^^ of .Law j and thi^ i^'imade 
 ufe of to iniluenc^ the Persons iq wjiofe 
 H?nds Juftice is depofited in Trufeothat, 
 whether guilty br not, the Perfoii ac- 
 ci^fect^may fii^f; charging them .with- 
 out;]' jGuilt , try fo^ them without , Juries, 
 j)affihg Sentence^ without Hearing, and 
 executing them without Law* ; ; -j . i 
 Befi()es,all this,_,it is a plain Indicati- 
 on that there are inqt Crimes enough in 
 the Charge to fiqd the accusM Perfons 
 guiltyj, in the prdinary Courfe of Ju- 
 lliCe; and reajly if there was not fome- 
 I thing more in this Part imply *d, than is 
 fcxprefsy, I can fee nothing in all this 
 Noife 5 if there is nothing conceal'd, I 
 fey then, I cap fee no Policy in it; and 
 
 I 
 
\ 
 
 C 3*J ' 
 
 if there IS, ! fee rto Honefijrin it7;ancl 
 be it Which Wjiy it will, it is <fif/M- 
 fruJetftiali is well us extra-juJic^d ; if 
 they Werclbre of their Blow, why all 
 thi^ Pdpbfetrity need fall? In the ^ 
 and Awlicks oT Towns, tfie furer t 
 fiegtH S^e of their Mines, and of an ef- 
 fedual Bl6*»^ when they come to ipf-^ngi 
 the moii»fc Care is taken to prevent the 
 leaft Knowledge of the Place wher^ 
 they" apc^carry^ on j a profound Slencd 
 is kept atiout the Pa^rticulars, as whdi^. 
 how^ind where the Mine is to fpritig, 
 afid thd Attack to ^be made; hereby 
 theiieK appears an extraordinary Diffi* 
 dence in the SubAance, that io many 
 Shadows are iummotied to help to maK^ 
 it up; what need of Bringing in the Rab- 
 bles, and the Cries of lihe Mob, todriv^ 
 Juftice^ if it were likely to go without 
 thofe Whips and Spurs of the People? 
 Oh the ether Hand^ if this be the Cafe | 
 at Bottom, it mud be allow'd to be 2k 
 fed Cafe; none can plead againft a De- 
 mand of Juftice ; every Friend to the 
 Conftitution defires it, and, if concerned, 
 iubroits to it ; but the pufhing Juftice, 
 by Clamour, without Doors ; the con- 
 demning Men in the Streets, by Pam- 
 phlets and Satyrs; and the threatning 
 
 the 
 
it; anci 
 
 extra" 
 
 M; if 
 
 why flU 
 e pieges 
 tiieBe- 
 
 f fflCf- 
 
 s^enc the 
 ; where 
 d Silence 
 whd^^ 
 
 fpring, 
 hereby 
 
 ry Diffi- 
 
 fa many 
 
 to make 
 
 1 theRab- 
 , to drive 
 
 without 
 s People? 
 
 the Cafe 
 d to be a 
 nft a De- 
 nd to the 
 wncern'd, 
 g Juftice, 
 ; the con- 
 by Pam- 
 :hreatnlng 
 th€ 
 
 
 Oj ) 
 
 the Covcifnmcnt into Meafures, by tell- 
 ing them, the People EXPECT this or 
 that From thetn $ this is a new, and, I 
 think, an unjuftifiable Way of doing 
 Jnftice, though the Perfons were the 
 word Criminals j and therefore, though 
 it is not the Bufinefs of this Difcourfe 
 to defend the Caufe here, anymore 
 than it is theirs to condemn unheard; 
 yet this leads of Courfe to examine, 
 what the Perfons accus'd fay for them- 
 felves in it. 
 
 Having thus exposM the popular Rage 
 of the Times, and ftewn how abfurd, 
 how unjuft, and how incbnfiftent with 
 the publick Liberties this Matter is« 
 it feems but reafonable to enquire into 
 the Sobftince of the Charge* and there 
 to fee what it is thefeMen, who we call 
 the li^ Mintflrj^ have done to bring 
 this iJfage upon them; what they are 
 guihy of ; what criminal Things can bo 
 laid to their Charge ; and how they 
 defend thcmfelves againft them : In do* 
 tag this, the Writer of thefe Sheets (hall 
 fay nothing of his own ; but fet down 
 precifely what he hears that thefe ac- 
 cused Perfons fay in their own Defence, 
 without making any Obfervations there- 
 on ; fo that he may not thereby wrong 
 
 E ihem^ 
 
 I ' 
 
( 34) 
 
 them, by fuppofing, that this Is all they 
 have to fay, or affirm any thing in 
 their Behalf^ which they do not advance 
 for thertilelves. 
 
 : The making the Peace is the firft 
 and mod capital Charge among all that 
 we meet with, in the clamorous Wri* 
 tings againll the late MiniCiry ; and for 
 which their Heads arc EXPECTED, 
 as Authors exprefs it. 
 
 To this, we are told, that they reply ^ 
 That France firfl made Overtures to Her 
 Majefty for a Treaty ; that they deny 
 the flanderous Parr, and challenge their 
 Enemies to prove the leaft Tittle of it, 
 1//Z. that they follicited it from France, or 
 received any private Advantages to in- 
 troduce it ; that if Bribery or Corrup- 
 tion be found in their Hands, they de* 
 fire to be purg'd in the ftridcft Man* 
 ner,« that to fay, they begged a Peace, 
 or bought a Peace, or were bribed to 
 give a Peace ; this, they fay^ is Slander 
 and Malice; and that it ought to be 
 proved, or not to be fpoken ; and they 
 ought to have Juflice done in their 
 Behalf, againd thofe who a /firm and 
 publi/h thefe things, and arc not able to 
 bring legal Proof thereof; neither, fay 
 they, ought fuch things to be publiihed 
 
 upois 
 
 
ey 
 
 In 
 ice 
 
 irft 
 hac 
 iTri- 
 for 
 ED, 
 
 Her 
 
 leny 
 their 
 Dfit, 
 e, or 
 o in- 
 rrup- 
 7 de« 
 Man* 
 ^eace, 
 A to 
 ander 
 :o be 
 they 
 their 
 
 )U(hed 
 upoi; 
 
 upon them among the People, to raife 
 Mobs upon them, and prepodefs the 
 Nation, unlefs they had legal Proof, 
 and before they had been legally con- 
 vided thereof; feeing by M<^gna Chart a^ 
 as aforefaid, no Man is to be condemned 
 without a le^al Tryal hy his Peers, Mag. 
 Chart, cap. XXIX. 
 
 They alledge. That although none of 
 the Confederates were to treat with 
 France without the reft of their Allies; 
 yet that it was not unlawful to any of 
 the Confederates to hear Propofals, or 
 receive Overtures from France towards 
 a Treaty, in order to communicate them 
 to the Allies; 'f otherwife, then, they 
 fay, the War had been eternal, and all 
 Means of a Treaty of Peace had been 
 deftroy'd; which would be both unjuft 
 and inhumane. 
 
 Thej fay, that as the Overtures of 
 Peace wete made by France to Her Ma' 
 jefty at that Time ; fo had they been 
 made to Holland before the Treaty of 
 Ghertrudeniurgh, and at another Time 
 to the Duke of Savoy ; that the Queen 
 took no other Steps than the Dutch and 
 the Duke of Savoy did, in the like Cafe, 
 viz. to communicate them immediately 
 |to Her Allies ; and they deny, that they 
 
 El entrcd 
 
( l6 ) 
 
 cntrcd into any private or fcparatc Trea- 
 ty with Prance^ before the faid Over- 
 tures were made Publick, and commu* 
 nicated to the Allies, as afarefaiJ; and 
 fay io this Cafe, as iefore^ that it ouehc 
 not to be charged upon them, unTefs 
 there was Evidence thereof; which they 
 likewife challenge their Accufers to pro- 
 duce. 
 
 They fay^ that when France firft made 
 Overtures of teace to Her Majefty, the 
 iAnfwer given them here, was to this Ef^ 
 fe(5t, and no other, viz. That Her Ma* 
 jejiy would hear what they had to offer • 
 snd that if they thought ft to put it iH' 
 to Writings fignd ty fuch as had Juffi' 
 cieMt Power to figu the Jawie in the Kin^s 
 Name^ the Tropofals Jhould te commuMt' 
 caied to the Allies, and when the faid Al' 
 lies had given their Anfwer to the Jame^ 
 it Jhctild he given them to tranfmit to 
 their Maftr ; they fay, that pofflbly they 
 might be told, that they would do well 
 to make fuch Propofals as they thought the 
 ALLIES would judge a fufficient 
 Ground (ff a Treaty, ana fuch as would \ 
 fatisfy the Allies of the Sincerity of the 
 King their Majier; otherwife no Treaty 
 conld he expelled; Her Majefty heing\ 
 refohsd not to treat without the Concurs 
 
 rence 
 
TF 
 
 Tra- 
 Ovcr- 
 
 mmu* 
 
 • and 
 ought 
 uoTeis 
 
 :h they 
 to pro- 
 
 [l made 
 ty, the 
 this Ef* 
 ier Ma" 
 to offers 
 ut it in' 
 had Juffi- 
 he King's 
 comwuni' 
 
 • faid Al- 
 he fame^ 
 anfmit to 
 ibly they 
 / do well 
 bought the 
 
 fufficient 
 as would] 
 ity of the 
 no treaty 
 efly heing\ 
 he Concurr\ 
 rence 
 
 C %7 ) 
 
 time of Het Allies^ nor to make any 
 ftace^ without SatisfaSiion to the jufl De* 
 nmJs of all Her ALLIES. 
 
 That uppn this Declaration on the 
 Qu^n's Part, the French Agents drew 
 ^p Six Heads of Propofals for a Treaty, 
 corruptly called afte/wards^ Frelimina'^ 
 fiis ; that the Miniftry here neither aft- 
 ed one Way or other in forming the 
 faid Propofals; but took them in tbefe 
 Terms f Her Majejly commands us to ask 
 if thefe are the Offers yon make? And 
 when they had anlwer'd, XES; . it was 
 reply'd thus ; Her Majefly will communis 
 eate them to Her Allies^ ./ * - 
 
 They fay^ That immediari!|y Her Ma-' 
 jefty did communicate thefe Propofals 
 to Her Allies; and that no private or 
 feparate Convention, Agreement, or Trea- 
 ty of Agreement whatfoever, was made 
 with the French by !Ier Majefty, or any 
 of Her Servants, to the Day the faid 
 Propofals were made publick. j 
 
 How the faid Popofals were receiv'd, 
 and how the Mtniilry were treated in 
 publick Prints and Papers hercy as well 
 abroad, they fay^ that as they took no 
 Notice thereof when they had Power to 
 refent, aod to puniih it, neither do they 
 lefs contemn it now. 
 
 When 
 
"\ 
 
 ( 38 ) 
 
 When the faid Propofals were made 
 Pubiick, and the Allies were to give 
 their Anfwers to, and Opinion of them; 
 they Jay^ it was, doubtlefs, lawful for 
 Her Majefty to do the like ; adding^ that 
 as fome of the Allies were brought, 
 chiefly ly Application from hence^ to de- 
 cline a Treaty; fo Her Majefty ha^^ 
 in Juftice, Liberty to give Her Opinion; 
 viz, that She thought the Propofals of 
 France were fufficient, though not for a 
 Peace, yet at leafi for the Ground of a 
 Treaty ; they fay, that Her Majefty, be- 
 ing earneftly defirous to put an End to 
 the Miferies otEurope^ and to give Peace 
 to Her People, and feeing a Treaty un- 
 reafonably oppofed, did publickly de- 
 clare Her Willingnefs to have a Treaty 
 begun ; and wrote to that Purpofe to 
 all Her AllieSy inviting them to fend 
 Plenipotentiaries to Vtrecht for that Pur- 
 pofe 5 all which, they fay^ was done o- 
 penly, avowedly, and without any fe- 
 cret Gonjundion with France whatfo- 
 ever, as has been fuggefted ; and all 
 this, they conceive^ Her Majefty was, by 
 Right and Juftice, as to Her Jllies ; and 
 by Her unqucftioned Prerogative, as to 
 Her own People, lawfully empowered 
 to do ; and confequently, they fay^ any 
 
 r c 
 
fe- 
 
 tfo- 
 
 all 
 
 by 
 
 and 
 
 Is to- 
 
 rersd 
 
 any 
 
 of 
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 of Hec Subje<3;s and Servants might law- 
 fully execute Her Majefiy's Orders there- 
 in. 
 
 The Treaty being commenc'd, they 
 • alledgCy that Her Majefly plainly per- 
 ceived, that fomeof Her Allies feemed to 
 ad with lefs Sincerity than was expeded; 
 and that it was difcoverej, that Mea- 
 fures were concerted for the deflroying 
 the Treaty, rather than the making a 
 Peace ; and it beings ^irfl^ Her Majefty's 
 Refolution to bring the faid War to an 
 End, if fafe and honourable Conditions 
 could bt obtained; and. Secondly.^ Her 
 Opinion that She \vas not candidly ufed» 
 in the Management of the faid Treaty, 
 ly [ome of Her Allies \ and the French^ 
 at the fame Time, offering to give fuch 
 a Pledge of his fincere E^Hre to make 
 a Peace, upon Terms f=.fe and honour- 
 able to all the Allies, as could not be 
 reafonably deny*d to be fufEcient, uiz.. 
 by putting Dunkirk into Her Majefty's 
 Hands; an Advantage which, had ir 
 been gained by Arms, at the Expence of 
 much Blood and Treafure, would have 
 been efteemed equal to the mod glori' 
 ous Campaign: Upon thefe Confidera- 
 tions, they Jay, that Her Majefty found 
 Her felf oblig'd to ad more feparately 
 
 than 
 
( 40 ) 
 
 than ottierwife She had propofed todo^ 
 and after having in vain endeavoured to 
 perfwade SOME of the Allies to be in 
 earned: for a Peace, to let them know 
 She was (o Her felf, and by making a 
 Ceflation of Arms with France for two 
 Months, to difappoint the Defigns of 
 thofe, who drove to br! jg on the O- 
 perations of the Campaign, in order 
 to put a Stop to the Negotiations of 
 Peace. 
 
 In all which, they fiy, as Her Majcfty 
 ad:ed nothing but what the Allies, i in 
 fome Meafure, drove Her t'j «=i ' ceffity 
 of doing; fo She a(3:ed nuttung but 
 what She was empowered, by the Laws 
 of the Land, to do ; acknowledging Her 
 undoubted Right of making Peace and 
 War ; they fay^ it feems ftrange Her Ser- 
 vants fhould now be queftioned for o- 
 beying the jull Commands of their So'^ 
 veteign. 
 
 They alUdge alfa^ that the Terms of 
 the Peace being the Refult of a km^. 
 Convention at Vtrecht^ are not in v> 
 prefent Queftion* being fuch as wci^ 
 publick, and difputed by all the Con- 
 federates abroad, and agreed to by Her 
 Majefly, and approved in Parliament by 
 the whole Reprefentative oiGreat Britain; 
 
 which 
 
to do; 
 red to 
 
 be in 
 
 know 
 kings 
 ^r two 
 gns of 
 theO- 
 
 order 
 ions of 
 
 Vlajcfty 
 lies, I in 
 ceffity 
 ng but 
 le Laws 
 jingHer 
 *ace and 
 Her Ser- 
 ti for o- 
 heir So- 
 
 'erms of 
 
 
 
 
 WCl^ 
 
 a 
 
 it in 
 
 as 
 
 he Cort- 
 > by Her 
 ment by 
 f Britain; 
 which 
 
 (40 
 
 which if it (hall not be allowed to jufli- 
 fy Her Majefty*s Servants in their Share 
 of the Tranfadlion, then,/?)' they, no 
 Subje& can ever be fafe in the Admi- 
 niftration of publick Affairs; adding 
 only this, that if any Corruption, any 
 ' unlawful Correfpondences, any Attach- 
 ment to the fntereft of the Enemy, can 
 be alledged againft them, they are will- 
 ing and ready to anfwer the fame, as 
 tke Laws require; at the fame Time 
 complaintHg^ that they ought not to be 
 arraigned by Pamphlets, and popular, 
 injorious Treatment, fuch as is incon- 
 fiftent with the Juftice due to all indif- 
 ferent Proceedings; neither ought the 
 People to be artfully prepoflefs'd, who, 
 perhaps in Cafe of Trial, may be madd 
 the Judges of their Defence, and pafs 
 upon them for Life or for Death ; they 
 alleigey that the Government are the le- 
 gal Protedors of all Peerfons accufedj 
 from any unjuft Violence, as the Judges 
 are their Council, in Matters of Law ^ 
 and that to fuffer Perfons to be out- 
 ragioufly afTaulced by lewd and fcurri- 
 lous Pamphlets, when they are fuppofed 
 to be coming into the Hands of the 
 Law, they fay^ is a mod illegal and un- 
 juft Ufage of them ; feeing every Man 
 
 F It, 
 
( 42 ; 
 
 is, in the Senfe of the Law, a good Mztil 
 till fomething is legally prov'd to the 
 contrary. 
 
 They complain of the Injuftice of 
 charging the Queen with a^ing con* 
 trary to the Grand Alliance, and Her re- 
 peated Promifes from the Throne, in 
 fending to, or receiving Managers from 
 France^ to treat feparately of a Peace, 
 without the Knowledge or Confent of 
 Her Allies : — Words of Scandal, mali- 
 cioufly framed by a Party of People, 
 who falfly call themfelves. The Citizens 
 of London ; and publiihed in a Paper, en- 
 tituled, Inftruilions hy the Citizens of Lon- 
 don to their Reprefentatives y &c. with 
 Defign to reproach the Memory of the 
 Queen, and blacken thofe they are pre- 
 paring to deftroy. 
 
 They fay^ THAT Her Majefty never 
 fent to France for Managers, ^c, that 
 it is difhonourable and unjuft to the 
 Queen s Memory to fugged fuch things, 
 unlefs Evidence thereof was offered to 
 prove its THAT it has been lawful in 
 all War, and in all Ages and Nations, 
 to receive any Overtures of Peace from 
 any Enemy whatfoever; and it would 
 be an unchriftian, unnatural War, if it 
 Mas otherwife, as is chferved above; 
 
 THAT 
 
 
to the 
 
 ice of 
 g con- 
 tier fe- 
 me, in 
 s from 
 
 Peace, 
 ifent of 
 I, mail* 
 People, 
 Citizens 
 )er, en- 
 of Lon- 
 c. with 
 
 of the 
 are pre- 
 
 ^ never 
 U. that 
 
 to the 
 1 things, 
 Fered to 
 awful in 
 Nations, 
 ce from 
 t would 
 ar, if it 
 f above* 
 
 THAT 
 
 ( 4? ) 
 THAT It never was the Defign of Her 
 Majefty, or was She advifed, much lefs 
 prevailed with by any of Her Scrrants, 
 to receive Managers from France, to treat 
 feparately^ &c» neither was any feparate 
 Treaty carry'd on, till the Treaty for 
 a Cef&tion of Arms in the field, to 
 which Her Majefty was compelled by 
 the Oppofition, and, as She conceived, 
 unfair Treatment which She met with 
 from fome Allies, in the Profccution of 
 the Treaty of Vtrecht^ wherein Her 
 Majefty believed a manifeft Defign was 
 fet on Foot, to oblige Her to carry on 
 the War whether She would or not; 
 in which Ceftation nevertheless, no ex- 
 pofing Her Allies, no laying them open 
 to the French^ &c, as is pretended, could 
 have been reafonably charged on Her 
 Majefty, |or Her Minifters, though the 
 other Troops in Her Majefty's Service 
 had obey'd Her Orders; feeing the 
 Duke of Ormond had Inftrudions for a 
 defenfive Conjunction, if the Enemy had 
 attack'd the Allies, contrary to the faid 
 Conjundion ; and the evil Confequcnces 
 which follow'd, they fay, were occafi- 
 oned by the Temerity and Unskilfulnefs 
 of the Confederate Generals ; and their 
 Obftinacy, in carrying on their Schemes, 
 
 F 1 con- 
 
( 44 ) 
 contrary to Reafon, and Martial Expe- 
 rience; and againft a General, to whom, 
 it feems, they were not equal in the 
 Art of War ; they fay farther, THAT 
 it is a falfe Suggellion to fay, that, by 
 the Grand Alliance, no Overtures were to 
 be received, but what were made to all 
 the Confederates at once; that if that 
 were fo, then, they fay^ was the Grand 
 Alliance broken by the Dutch long before, 
 who, as they have been informed, re- 
 ceived Overtures from Monfieur Ptttt^ 
 cam^ Minifter of HolfleiH; and with 
 whom Monfieur Mefnager himfelf conr 
 tinned incognito^ ieveral Months before 
 thofe Overtures were communicated to 
 the Allies ; and that it may be remem- 
 bred, that the Allies took Umbrage 
 thereat ; fo that the States were oblig'd 
 to publifli, as Her Majefty did in the 
 like Cafe, that they had not entred, nor 
 would enter into any Negotiation of 
 Peace without the Allies ; after which 
 fpllowed the Treaty of GhertruJenhurg^ 
 which none of the Allies fcrupled to en- 
 ter into ; although the firft Overtures 
 thereof were not made in general to all 
 the Allies feparately, but to the Dutch 
 particularly, in order to be communi- 
 cated to the refl: of the Allies ; as was 
 
 pre- 
 
 
xpe- 
 [lom, 
 i the 
 HAT 
 t, by 
 ;re to 
 to all 
 
 that 
 jrand 
 lefore, 
 ;d, re- 
 Petti- 
 
 with 
 f cour 
 before 
 ted to 
 emem- 
 nbrago 
 oblig'd 
 in the 
 d, nor 
 ;ion of 
 
 which 
 ettiurgy 
 
 tocn- 
 ertures 
 
 to all 
 
 Dutch 
 nmuni- 
 as was 
 pre- 
 
 ii 
 
 b 
 
 (45) 
 
 (>reetfety the Cafe, in the Overtures made 
 to Her Majefty before the Treaty of 
 Z/treebt, 
 
 F6r confirming what they fay, as a- 
 bove) they refer to the Words of the 
 Grand Alliance it feU, which are as fol- 
 low, *viz. '* It /kail net he permitted t$ 
 * either Party^ vohen the VVar is ence 
 *' ieguMy to treat of Peace with the Ene* 
 " wy, mlefs faintly ^ and with the common 
 " Jdvice of the ether Parties." this, 
 they fay^ is all that the Grand Alliance 
 binds the Crown of Great Britain to, in 
 the Affair of a Treaty; and /i&^ here is 
 no mention, that it (hall not ^Je lawful 
 to the Queen of Great Britain to hear, or 
 receive Propofals of Peace from the Ene- 
 my, in order to communicate them to 
 Her Allies; and that it would have been 
 abfurd, and without Example, to have 
 put fuch a Claufe into the faid Trea- 
 ty. 
 
 Much lefs is it true, as is pubHihed 
 in another injurious Libel * againft 
 them, that, by the Grand Alliance, nq 
 Prppofals or Overtures of Peace ought tp 
 have been received, but what were 
 made to all the Confederates; no fuch 
 
 Ar- 
 
 ; Lctfer to Tho. Burnett, E/jj 
 
(46) 
 
 Article, or any thing relating thereto,' 
 being to be found in the Grand Alliance 
 it (elf; and as they conceive fuch a 
 Pfovifion would have heen ufelefs^ feling 
 the Overtures for a Treaty being made 
 to any one Branch of the Confederacy, 
 in order to be communicated to all the 
 Allies, is ededtually making Ovtrtures 
 to all the Allies. 
 
 Likewife they fky^ That Her Majefly 
 received thefe Overtures from Prance^ 
 in no other Manner, the Difference of 
 Dignity excepted^ than as Minifters of 
 State receive Offers relating to things 
 not mentioned in their Inflrudlions for 
 Treating, ad referendum^ to be commu- 
 nicated to the Allies, and their Anfwer 
 to be returned ; which is fo far from 
 being an Entring into a feparate Nego- 
 tiatioQ, that nothing could be more 
 furprizing to Her Majefty, than the 
 Cenftrudfion which She found put upon 
 it; or more difobliging, than the re- 
 proachful Reprefentations which were 
 made of it, as well abroad as at home ; 
 which was Part of the Reafon of thofe 
 juft Refentments, juch Her Majefty and 
 Her Privy Council thought them to he at 
 that Time^ of the CondudJ: of the Im- 
 perial Court, and of their Minifler re» 
 
 fident, 
 
■^» 
 
 were 
 lome ; 
 
 thofe 
 'y and 
 
 he At 
 e Im- 
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 fident. Which are now mentioned to be 
 Criminal. 
 
 Jhty deny receiving thefe Propofds of 
 France^ in order to a feparate Treaty^ 
 QT that there was any feparate Treaty 
 carry'd on with France by them, before 
 or after the faid Overtures were made, 
 till other Incidents made Her Majefty 
 think it needful to do it avowedly and 
 openly ; as in the Cafe of the Ceflation 
 of Arms, and withdrawing Her Troops 
 from the Confederates ; which Her Ma- 
 jefty found Her felf obliged to do, hav- 
 ing been impos'd upon in an unreafon- 
 able Manner ; as is expreded more fully 
 in the fevjeral Declarations of the Rea- 
 fons thereof, made, by Her Majefty 's 
 Orders, to the Plenipotentiaries of the 
 States, and of the other Allies concerned 
 at Vtrecht, 
 
 They fay^ It is an Evidence of the In- 
 juftice with which they are treated, 
 that fuch things are named to be in the 
 Conventions and Treaties of Alliance, 
 between Her Majefty and Her Allies, 
 which are not really to be found there; 
 neither are they. Bona Fide^ fuppofed to- 
 be inferred from, or contained in the 
 true Intent and Meaning of thofe Con- 
 ventions ; but are publickly and ialfly 
 
 (aid 
 
( 48 ) 
 
 faid tx> be there, to impofe upba the 
 People, in order to raife feditious and 
 tumultuous Clamours againft tbeoi; 
 thereby to jufiify the Defigns of thofe, 
 who publickly and (hamefully owo, 
 they leek the Blood of innocent Men ^ 
 at the fame Time they take Notice^ 
 that, in feveral Conventions and Trea^ 
 ties between Her Majefty and Her Al- 
 lies, for carrying on the War, the Quo* 
 tals and Proportions of Ships, Troops, 
 Aibfidies, Sums of Money, &c. to be 
 contHbuted by each Ally, are exprefly 
 flipulated, and were al\j^ays exadly com- 
 ply *d with, on Her Msycfty s Part; but, 
 on the contrary, feveral of Her Allies, 
 and fome of thofe who carry the Com- 
 plaint of ending the War higheft, w<^re 
 far from contributing their &id Quota's 
 and Proportions thereto, which, by the 
 faid Conventions and Agreements, they 
 were oblig'd to do* impofing upon Her 
 Majefiy, or at leail bringing Her Majc- 
 fly to a Neceflity of fupplylng the De* 
 ficiency of the faid Negled ; or to let 
 the War be carried on in a Manner' 
 which couki not eonfift with Her known 
 Zeal for the common Caufe, or the true 
 Intereft of the ^Confederacy. 
 
 They 
 
the 
 and 
 
 they 
 
 r 49 ) 
 
 They Jay^ That not only the Replies 
 publiUied to the Reprefentations o^' 
 thofe Matters, made here by the Houfe 
 of Commons, do plainly acknowledge, 
 that the States of Holland did not fur- 
 ni(h their Number of Ships, &c. but the 
 publick Accounts of the Kingdom will 
 fhew, where the Britifh Nation paid im- 
 mehie Sums for the extraordinary Expen- 
 ces of tile War, which the Allies ought 
 to have paid their Proportion of ; or, a^ 
 leaft, to have paid fuch like Sums ; 
 which would, if paid, have made the 
 faid Service more efFedual *, which faid 
 Payments^ in Part, occasioned that 
 great Dtbt, for Payment whereof the 
 Fund of the South Sea Comfanj was e* 
 refted by. Parliament. 
 
 Thejf refer^ for the Particulars of the 
 Inequalities put upon them by their 
 Allies, to the Reprefentation of the 
 Houfe of Commons of Gfeat Britdin^ 
 made td Hfer Majefty ; wherein the 
 £ime is »t large fpecificd, only fubjoin- 
 ing, tha;t it is too well known to be 
 contradifted, that when Her Majefty, 
 
 in the Time oi the Earl of G— n*^ 
 
 Miniftry, made frequent Complaints 
 of the faid Deficiency of Her Allies, 
 and preffed them to make good their 
 . ... t,r G Trea^ 
 
( JO) 
 
 Treaties, She receiv'd Anfwcrs to this 
 Effeft; That they were heavilj frejfed by 
 the War ; that they were reduced to fuch 
 Exigencies^ as permitted them not to eX" 
 ert themfelves farther ; and thaty if their 
 Mies inftfied upon ity they muji bring 
 the War to a Conclujion^ and make Peace on 
 the bejt Terms for them/elves that they could 
 obtain : This they appeal to feverai noble 
 Lords, concerned in the Adminiftration 
 of that Time, for the Proof of; and this, 
 if true, they fay, they think juftifies 
 Her Majefty in Her Refolutions taken 
 at that Time, to expeft the full Quo- 
 ta's of Her Allies, in every Occadon of 
 the War ; feeing it was reafonable that, 
 if the Jllies expected the Per^ mance 
 of the Grand Alliance on th art of 
 Her Majefty, in carrying on the War ; 
 Her Majefty likewife fliould expcQ: the 
 Performance of the particular Con- 
 ventions, m^de in Confequence of the 
 faid Grand Alliance; whereby each 
 Power was engaged to, and with the 
 other, for their refpeftive Quota's of 
 Ships, Troops, Subfidies, &c. the 
 Breach whereof, and more efpecially 
 the infifting upon thofe their deficient 
 Performances and Payments, as being 
 really no Infractions pf the laid Con- 
 ^.i,,.... .. ventions 
 
 I 
 
 to 
 
T 
 
 this 
 
 ihy 
 fuch 
 
 their 
 
 mng 
 
 \ceon 
 
 couU 
 
 loble 
 
 ation 
 
 this, 
 ftifies 
 taken' 
 Quo- 
 ion of 
 I that, 
 nance 
 art of 
 I War ; 
 lathe 
 
 Con- 
 of the 
 each 
 
 th the 
 •^a's of 
 the 
 
 ecially 
 
 ficient 
 being 
 
 dCon- 
 
 entioDS 
 
 c J.) 
 
 mentions and Agreements, had been u 
 fuiEcient Argument to juftify Her Ma- 
 jefty, if She had thought fit, as it is 
 evident the Queen did not ^ to declare 
 Her felf difengagM from the Alliance, 
 and at Liberty to treat with France 
 by Her felf. 
 
 But they fdjj That as Her Majefty 
 was always zealoufly attached to the 
 Interefl; of the Allies, and had not 
 taken the Advantage which their not 
 peribrming their Conditions gave Her 
 juft Reafon to do ; fo neither at lafl-, 
 although it was Her earneft Defire to 
 put an End to the War, and for that 
 End Slic did earneftly prefs them to a 
 Treaty ; yet Her Majefty continued to 
 aO: in an Union of Meafures with all 
 the faid 'Allies^ 'until it was evident to 
 all the World, ' that they had entred 
 into feparate Meafures, and ibme of 
 them with Her own Subjefts, incon- 
 fiftent with the juft Defne of putting 
 an 't^ad to the Miferies of Europey 
 which, Her Majefty acknowledged to 
 be moved by; and appear'd not only 
 refolv'd to pulb on the War againft 
 all the Remonftrances to the contrary, 
 made by Her Royal Command*^ ; but 
 to Oiblige Her Majefty, on Pretence of 
 
 G 2 the 
 
( 5» ) 
 
 the fald Alliance, to do fo likewife ; 
 whereupon Her Majefty thought fit 
 to (hew Her felf fo far refolvM in Her 
 faid juft Defircs of an Honourable 
 Peace, as to agree to a Ceffation of 
 Arms with France^ upon fuch advanta- 
 geous Conditions neverthelefs,i//«. the 
 Surrender of Dunkirk^ &c. as the Con- 
 ferlerates could not contend, were e- 
 qualtothe mofl: glorious Campaign of 
 ■ihe "War. /. ■/; : . 
 
 Thefe Things, they /ij," together with 
 much more which they might, brings if 
 need were, they think fufiicicntly prove, 
 that the Queen entrcd into no Mea- 
 sures which were inconfiflcdt with the 
 Grand Alliance, when Htr Majefty 
 received Overtures of Peace ^om France*, 
 but that, on the contrary, it/ was law- 
 ful for Her Majefty, or aciy other of 
 the Allies, to have received the fame 
 Overtures J and to have tranfmitted 
 them to the Allies, in the fame Man- 
 ner as was done on Her Majefty's 
 P;rt; and as tp what followed, they 
 give the Reafons above, as the Ground 
 of Her Majefty's Proceeding in that 
 Manner, 
 
 '^■-y- :A-^ 
 
 They 
 
-^ 
 
 ewife ; 
 rht fit 
 n Her 
 arable 
 tion of 
 Ivanta- 
 fiz, the 
 e Con- 
 «rere e- 
 )aign of 
 
 icr with 
 Wwgj if 
 7 prove, 
 o Mea- 
 irith the 
 Majefty 
 
 Frame; 
 iras law- 
 Dther of 
 he fame 
 ifmittcd 
 le Man- 
 4ajefty's 
 'd, they 
 Ground 
 
 in that 
 
 pej 
 
 C53) 
 
 They fayy that to expofe the Weak- 
 ncfs and Folly of their finemies efFe- 
 ^ally, they need do no niore than 
 to recite an Article in the pretended 
 JnJtruBions of the Citizem of London to 
 their Refrefentatives^ printedin the flyim 
 ^fij Feb. 17. wherein are thefe fooliln 
 
 Words ; " By whofc Advice the 
 
 ^ Whig Miniftry and Parliament;^ and 
 " the Duke of Mariboroughj were turn- 
 ** edofF; contrary to tlie Affurances 
 *< which Her Majefty had givti» to 
 ^ Her Allies, as well as to the Oire- 
 « ftors of the Bank of England, 8rc. '* 
 fignifying, that the Allies had coirdern- 
 cd themfelves iii Her Majefty's dome- 
 ftick Affairs; and had taken upon 
 them to interpofe in the continumg, or 
 removing, Her Parliament and Ser- 
 vants : An Experiment of fuch dange- 
 rous Confequence, that, had Her Ma- 
 jefty admitted it, they leave it to com- 
 mon Judgment, what niight have been 
 the Iffue ; and they think Her Servants 
 would have been juftly liable to Cen- 
 fure, who would have ventured to 
 have advis'd giving up he Honour 
 and Prerogative of their ^.overeitii'V to 
 a Foreign Nation ; ard they leave it 
 jikewife to common Judgment, what 
 
 His 
 
 * 
 

 ( 54 ) 
 
 His Majcfty would fay, if any Fcwrign 
 Power or Potentate fliould offer to 
 interpofe in his eftablilhing the Admir 
 niftration of Affairs ; or offer to direS 
 Him who he Ihould employ, or jjpt 
 employ in his Service. ,^.v 
 
 They fy^ it would be reafbnable to 
 deHre thofe Citizens, as they call th|^f||- 
 felves, to give the World an AccQqnisy 
 to which of the Allies Her Maj^qfty 
 engaged, or gave Aifurances, That 
 She would not turn off the fVhig jj^i* 
 niitry, the Parliament, and the !puke 
 of Marlborough? And whcither, if ger 
 MajeAy had done fo, , it had not been 
 to itiake thofe Allies P«.egents of Great, 
 Britain \ and the Whig Miniftry, Par^ 
 liament, &c. independent of the Queen ; 
 and confequently Her Superiour^, ra- 
 ther than Her Subjefts ? ^ • - , 
 f UktvfifG thej fayj That if Her Ma- 
 jefty did not give any fudi Affuran- 
 ces, then, as it is evident, nothing, 
 was done in changing Her Servants, or 
 diffolving Her Parliament, but wbat^ 
 by the Conftitution, Her Majefty had 
 qi legal Right to do; none of Her Ser- 
 vants can be made accountable for con-^ 
 curring with Her Majefty*s Pleafure 
 tjierein ; neither then can it be faid,i 
 
 that 
 
w 
 
 IVOt 
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 that the Parliament was diflUvM, or 
 the IVhig Miniftry turn'd ofF, contrary 
 to A(Tikiiances given to the Allies by 
 Her Majefty ; and Her Majefty did 
 continue the D. of M — ~^ in the 
 Command of Her Armies, a confide- 
 rable Time after the faid Foreign Ap* 
 plication^ though under no Obligation 
 to the Allies to do fo; nor was he 
 difmiis'd till other Circumftances in 
 Her Affairs obliged Her to make Al- 
 terations in the military, as well as 
 civil Difpofitions. 
 
 T% y^^y. That whereas the Direflors 
 of the Bank at that Time, took the 
 Freedom to a£^ in an unprecedented 
 Manner, which Her Majefty, in Her 
 Royal Goodnefs; was pleafed to pals 
 over ; yet it is believ'd that, in after 
 Ages, it will fcarce be found, as it ne- 
 ver was in former, tha*- Subjeds {hall 
 treat a juft Sovereign u. fuch a rude 
 Manner, and receive no othrr Re- 
 proof, nor be made fenfible ot the In- 
 folence of alTuming to themfelves the 
 Office of Counfellors to their Prince, 
 without any Licence or Authority for 
 the (ame. 
 
 . Thej 
 
( y< ) 
 
 Thn Ukewife/9, That it is uajuft to 
 fa,y, that the dtfmd C^xfequetfces of the 
 Campaign, after Her Majefty hada- 
 greed to a Ceflfation of Arms^ was OQ- 
 cafioned by the Brifijb. Troops with**' 
 drawing from the Army ;) but thcjr. 
 give it as their Opinion, leaving it tOr 
 others to judge, whether they are^ in, 
 the Rights Tea or No ; that the Aliie& 
 having fupply*d their Army with a 
 Number of Troops, at lean equal, if 
 not fuperiour to the Bmilby beUeved 
 themfelves as much fuperiour in tho 
 Field to the Enemy as they were be- 
 fore, defpisM and reje£fced a Cei&dDH^ 
 and continued to ad: of&nfively, o^it;. 
 to offer the Enemy Battl^ and to bfr* 
 liege Qutfnoyy which they did take ia 
 the Sight of the French Army ; that 
 they believed themfelves fecure from 
 any Danger of the Superiority of tfae 
 French ; and it was boaflsd K>c them 
 in the publick Prints, that theu the 
 Allies, were ftronger in the Field, aft 
 ter the Britijh Troops were gone^ 
 than when they were with them, and 
 more unanimous ; thoM the French 
 would be beaten, and the Queen Ihonld 
 lofe the Honour of having affifted 
 therein: That upon this extravagant 
 
 Be- 
 
( 57 ) 
 j^dief they continued to be puffed up 
 with the lame ContenGipp cf the Ene- 
 my, which fo often h-'d caufed them, 
 to flip the Occafions oi an Honourable 
 t^eace, and ib many Years to boaft of 
 being at the Gatei of Farisy in one 
 Campaign more ; which Contempt of 
 the Eneiiniy led them to enter fo far 
 into their Country^ not regarding the 
 Strength ^ey left behind them, as 
 well on their Right Hand, as on their 
 Left, that gave the Enemy, who they 
 contemned, an Opportunity to cut off 
 their Provifions, beat the Troops 
 placed in an unfoldier^iike Manner, 
 to fecurc their Conlroysj and to fur-t 
 prize their grand Magazine, which,, 
 with the fame unexampled Security, 
 was left in a defencelefs Village, when 
 the ftrong City of Douaj was withia 
 two Hours of it^ by Water or by 
 Land ; fo that the difmd Conjequemes 
 of the Cumfdign feem, as they think^ to 
 be owing td the Security and Temeri- 
 ty of the Allies^ to fay nothing of the 
 juft Hand of Heaven upon them, and 
 not at all to Ceffation of Arms, or 
 the withdrawing of the Enti[b Troops; 
 unlefs they will acknowledge, that if 
 his Grace the Duke of Ormond had 
 
 H been 
 
 ', # 
 
r*^ 
 
 ( 58 ; 
 
 been in their Camp, he would not 
 have fail'd to have convinced their 
 Generals, of the unreafonabie Hazard ; 
 and have perfwaded them to have at- 
 tacked Maubege^ rather than Lafidrecj; 
 in which Cafe the Enemy would not 
 have been able to have made any 
 fuch Attempt ; nor would they have 
 been expofed to any Difficulties for 
 their Convoys or Magazines. 
 
 Thefe Things, they fay, if weigh'd 
 with equitable Thoughts, will ferve to 
 fliew, on what ground lefs Pretences 
 they fuffer, under the Clamours of a 
 Party ; how the People are impos'd 
 upon in things of the higheft Nature ; 
 and with what Arts, and by what e- 
 vident Falfhood, the Charge againft 
 them in thefe things, as well as in 0- 
 thers, is maintained ; they doubt not 
 but, with thinking Men, it will be of 
 Weight, to fee how trifling, how 
 foolilh, and how falfe the Matters are, 
 of which their Libels are likewifecom- 
 pos'd ; and for which they afTume the 
 Power of demanding, what they are 
 pleas'd to call, Juftice. 
 
 They fajy That they think the Tables 
 are turn'd in this Cafe ; and that it is 
 the late Miniftry who fhould demand 
 
 Juftice 
 
not 
 their 
 zard ; 
 ive at- 
 rfdrecy ; 
 d not 
 e any 
 y have 
 ies for 
 
 ireighM 
 erve to 
 ■etences 
 
 irsbf a 
 LtnposM 
 Mature ; 
 what e- 
 againft 
 as in 0- 
 lubt not 
 ill be of 
 g, how 
 ;ters are, 
 /ife com- 
 fume the 
 they are 
 
 le Tables 
 
 that it is 
 
 demand 
 
 Juftice 
 
 ( 59 ) 
 
 jTuftioe againll fo crnel and illegal 
 Treatment; and that as they are will- 
 ing to fubmit to the Law, and to be 
 brought to the ftri£teft Tell of their 
 Condirft ; fo thofe who have thus vio- ' 
 lently fallen upon them without Doors, 
 are, as they thinks within the Reach of 
 the Law ; for falfe Accufation, mali- 
 cious Profecution, and a proceeding, 
 which, as Juftice does not approve, fo 
 they hope the Government will npt 
 allow. ' '^ ' > 
 
 Th^jfyy That the Fury of their E- 
 nemiesis come to fuch a Height, as the 
 Goyernpient does not fufFer, even to 
 cond^mn'*d Makfaftors; that the In- 
 jury ej^ten^ls to the reproaching them 
 with thofe very things, which even 
 their new equitable Oppofers ap- 
 prove of; and for which any Minifters 
 of State would have expefted the 
 Thanks of their Country ; as particu- 
 larly,] the Expedition to Canada; 2iRd 
 the worthy Citizens of Londoriy as they 
 are pkafed to call themfelves, are dif- 
 posM to jnftruS their Repreientatives, 
 to enquire, Horv the Exf edition to Cana-< 
 da came to, mi/cany? To which the Mi- 
 niftry might anfwer, by asking them; 
 How^ Sir Cloudefy Shovel came to be 
 
 ,-ti^ H 2 drown- 
 
( <fo) 
 
 drowned? Viz, Becauie the Ship funk 
 that he was on Board of; or how three 
 large Men of War were caft away on 
 the Goodwin ? Viz, Becaufe a Storm of 
 Wind drove them on the Sand; or 
 how Sir Francis Whetler^ with five Shipsy 
 came to be drown'd in the Bay Gi- 
 brdtar ? Viz> By being embayM on a 
 Lee Shore, with a hard Gale of Wind; 
 fo the Squadron being taken with a 
 hard Gale of Wind, in a Fog, a ftrona 
 Current, and no Anchorage, though 
 they had the heft Pilots on Board, and 
 good Ships, were driven upon the 
 Rocks on a Lee Shore; and it is a 
 Queftion much more rational to ask, 
 how any of them efcaped, than how 
 the Voyage mifcarried. ' 
 
 They fay. It is their Opinion, that 
 they might, with much Juftice, anfwer, 
 that this Expedition was defeated by 
 the immediate Hand of Providence; 
 and that Heaven fought againft us in 
 that, as it did in almofl: all the At- 
 tempts of Defcents, c^c. of which not 
 one was undertaken during the whole 
 War, but it mifcarry'd, from that of 
 Camaret to this of Canada ; or that Hea- 
 ven yifibly turn'd the Scale of War 
 in Ettro^e in Favour of France, from 
 
 the 
 
funk 
 :hrec 
 y on 
 m of 
 ; or 
 Jhipsf 
 yGii 
 on a 
 Vind; 
 'ith a 
 trona 
 
 lOU^ 
 
 , and 
 1 the 
 t is a 
 D ask, 
 I how 
 
 , that 
 nfwer, 
 :ed by 
 dence ; 
 
 us in 
 he At- 
 ch not 
 
 whole 
 :hat of 
 Lt Hca- 
 f War 
 from 
 the 
 
 (61) 
 
 the Time that the Peace of Ghertruden^ 
 burg was wickedly rcjefted ; having 
 that very Year given the Confederates 
 the fiital Blow at Almanznj and after- 
 wards twice beaten them out of ail 
 S^ipf to the Gates of Barcelc^n', over- 
 thrown the Britijh Fleet at Cinadd \ 
 and at laft overthrown all the Mea- 
 fures and projcSed Conqueflrs of the 
 Allies at DeniLin ; forced them to raifb 
 the Siege of Landreey^ ' though their 
 Army was fuperiour ; and taken Douay, 
 ittSpight of the Gafconades of Fmh 
 C&ttnt de Soijfofts, 
 
 They f My ^ That the quitting Cdndda tt) 
 the f tench by the Peace, feeing it was 
 never in the Power of the Qjieen to 
 pofT^fs it; and the leaving Cufe Briton 
 to the trench^ upon Condition of their 
 quilting all NtyvdScotiaj Annafolis^ and 
 allthelfland oiNenfoundltrnd^tTUCG^t the 
 Privilege of makii.g ufe of that Part of 
 it, which is of no Vfi to us, and of 
 little Vfe to them ; advantageous Ex- 
 changes to the Britiflf Commerce^ and 
 they fay, that they are content it fhauld 
 be written on their Graves, that they 
 fettled the Britijh Dominions, Trade, 
 and Fifhing, in thofe Parts, in fuch a 
 Manner as is exprelftd in that Treaty : 
 
 And 
 
(62) 
 
 And that it was owing to them, that 
 frame will have every Year more than 
 half the Number of Ships lefs in the 
 Banking Trade than they had before; 
 and England will have double the Num- 
 ber of Ships, than ever She employed iiHi 
 that Trade; beddes that, they can 
 now neither take the Filh fo early, or 
 cure it with fo much Advantage as the 
 Britifb ; having fo much a greater Di- 
 ftance of Place to carry it to, after it 
 is taken: All which ar^ fuch evident 
 Advantages to the Britifh Trade, and 
 Difadvantages to the French^ that they 
 think they dilcharged their Duty to 
 their Country as became them, in fet- 
 tling it as it was ; nor could more hav^ 
 been expeSed, unlefs they had been 
 aflually in Poffeffioa of Canada^ Qafer 
 Britoiff Nova Scotiay Newfoundland^ and. 
 all the Colonies of North Jmerifia; 
 which, it is evident, they pufli'd fair- 
 ly for ; but hope no Miniftry will prp- 
 tend to account for thofe DifappQint-. 
 ments, which it is not in humane Power 
 to prevent. 
 
 They thirsk^ That it might with as 
 much Juftice be enquired, who ad- 
 vis'd the (Jueen to fecure the Ifland of 
 Minorcaj2ind the bcft Harbour for the 
 
 Royal 
 
I 
 
 that 
 than 
 in the 
 efore ; 
 Nura- 
 
 yMim 
 can 
 ly, or 
 as the 
 er Di- 
 fter it 
 v'tdene 
 and 
 they 
 uty to 
 in fet- 
 re hav^ 
 been 
 
 9^) and. 
 \merktL ; 
 I'd fair- 
 ^ill prp- 
 ppoint-. 
 Power 
 
 ivith as 
 
 ho ad- 
 
 [land of 
 
 for the 
 
 Royal 
 
 (^? ) 
 
 Royal Navy in the Mediterranean ? Why 
 Her Majefty kept Gibraltar ? And who 
 advised to have a Squadron of Men of 
 "War always kept in the Streightsf 
 as well to fecure our Commerce, 
 as to keep up the Honour and Ter- 
 ror of the Britifh Naval Power, in 
 thofe remote Parts of the World. 
 
 That they are ill treated likewife in 
 the Difputes which are now fet on 
 Foot, concerning the French making a 
 Harbour at Mar dyke : They fay^ that the 
 furrendring Dunkirk to be deraolifh'd, 
 was procur'd by the Queen ; that the 
 moft earneft Sollicitation of the French 
 Court, tofpare but one of the Sluices, 
 for no other Ufe, than the carrying 
 the Land Water off, and a neceuary 
 D reining the Country; fome Delays 
 were ufed by the French^ in Hopes of 
 obtaining their Requeft ; but that Her 
 Majefty infifted upon the entire De- 
 molition, and abfolutely refufed to 
 fpare the faid Sluice ; forefeeing what 
 ill Conftruftion would have been made 
 [.'ere of fuch a Conceflion, by Men who 
 put the worft Senfe upon Her moft 
 juft and reafonable Aftions ; that this 
 alone put the French upon theNeceflity 
 of making lome other PafTage tor the 
 
 faid 
 
\h 
 
 (64) 
 
 fald Land Water, is pUiQ ; but if the 
 FreMchy under that Pretence, make any 
 Harbour^ Forfificdtsofty Bapffy Pm^ Or 
 other Reception for Men of War; as 
 St will be a manifefl: Contravention pf 
 the Treaty, in the trueDefign^ Inteati 
 and Meaning thereof^ it cannot be 
 charged on theMiniftry; and it is not 
 doubted but, in fqch Cafe, his prefent 
 Majefty will be able to do himfelf 
 Juftice on the French \ and to ]tho^ 
 who objeft, that Providon was mi 
 made againfl: it in the Treaty ; it is 
 anfwer^o, that they ihoutd examin^^ 
 whether it would not haVe been thq 
 fame Thing, if the Treaty of Ghertru^ 
 denburg had taken Place ; and if any 
 Provinon had been made therein, that 
 the French make no other Harbour 
 near Dunkirk^ or within any certun 
 Diftance thereof; wherefore, they fay^ 
 it cannot be juilly faid of then\, that 
 they mocked the Kjngdom with Affnirances 
 of being free from the Danger of. Dun- 
 kirk ; and that it is yet more unjufl 
 to fuggeft to them, that they did 4- 
 greey that the French fhouU make a new 
 Harbour at Mardyke: Thej fay, that 
 in all the former Treaties, when the 
 Whig Miniftry ruled, it was thought 
 
if the 
 ;e any 
 r/, or 
 ir; as 
 ion of 
 nteAti 
 ot be 
 is not 
 irefenc 
 limfelf 
 
 IS not 
 ; it «s 
 imm^ 
 sn thfs 
 hertru^ 
 if any 
 f that 
 arbour 
 :ertun 
 
 ^y ^ay* 
 chat 
 uratjces 
 
 Duiit 
 unjufl: 
 did 4- 
 
 y that 
 en the 
 loggbt 
 luf. 
 
 (ufBcIent, If the Fnuch King could be 
 brought to confent to demoliiht cbe 
 HarTOur, as well as the Town of Dfin^ 
 ^ifi ; not making any Provifion againfl: 
 the opdning another Harbour at Mar^ 
 dyke, OP ih any other Place, Tbey fay^ 
 k waa i'mpdffible for the Mitiiftry to 
 kno^, what Methods the Tvm/^^Riog 
 wbold takeL for preferirlng the Com^ 
 Bierde of nia SubjeAs; and as they 
 had no Imagination of its being praAi* 
 cable to rtiake a ne\V Harbour at vf/^r* 
 rfj^fff, any more than at Diep^ Havre^ 
 or any other Place; it might have been 
 elcpeAed, with as much -Juftice^ that 
 the Miniftry (houW ha^e forbidden the 
 jFrencb Ring making any other Har- 
 bour, in any other Parts of his King- 
 dom |whi(!lt the People who treated 
 at ^hcnrkdenhufg mvtx thought of, arty 
 more than they ,• and which it was not 
 to be expected he would have comply'd 
 with, tf they had. 
 
 They fay^ That they wonder with 
 what JnftiCv'^ Men can charge them, 
 with agreeing to give the French Leave 
 to buiki another Harbour at Mardyke^ 
 they faf^ that it fliould feem thefe Men 
 would hive it believed, that the King 
 of Ftcincc had fubmitted lower in this 
 
 \ Treaty^ 
 
( <J6 ) 
 
 Treaty, than ever they found him wind- 
 ing to fubmit in the former Treaties, 
 which were had with him in the Mini 
 flry of the Allies; feeing they bring 
 him with dcfiring the Queen of Great 
 Britain^ to give him Z. EA FE to build 
 Fortifications, or to make Harbours in 
 fuch or fuch Places or Parts of the G)aft 
 of his own Dominions; which, they 
 fayy ill agrees with the other parts of 
 the fame Libels, wherein the late Mi- 
 niftry are charged with iieeking^ Beg-^ 
 girig^ nay, even with Buyif/g a Peace 
 from the French; which ContradiAions, 
 they fay ^ are Evidences of the Malice, 
 as well as of the Weaknefs, of their 
 Enemies ; and prove, that it is dot fo 
 eflential to them to maintain the Truth, 
 or the Confiftency of what they fay, as 
 it is to fay fomething very Evil a* 
 gainfl; t!ie Queen, and Her Adminiftra- 
 tion; in order to keep up the Ferment, 
 which, by the like Practices, they have 
 raifed among the People; and by which 
 alone they can expect to opprefs and 
 overthrow the Perfons who they aim 
 to deftroy ; and who, by juft Methods, 
 they find it ioipoflible to hurt: They 
 fay^ that if the French King had ftipulated 
 in the Treaty with Her (ate Majefty, that 
 
 he 
 
ties, 
 
 f ink 
 
 ring 
 
 treat 
 
 )uild 
 
 s in 
 
 :oaft 
 
 they 
 ts of 
 
 Mi- 
 
 Peace 
 ^ions, 
 [alice, 
 their 
 IOC fo 
 
 rruth, 
 ky, as 
 vil a* 
 niftra- 
 rroent, 
 7 have 
 which 
 fs and 
 y aim 
 jthods. 
 They 
 ulated 
 y, that 
 he 
 
 
 C ^7 ) 
 
 he (hould be at Liberty to make and 
 fortify another Harbour within a League 
 of Dunkirk^ it might be ask'd them; 
 why they agreed to it ? But if no fuch 
 Agreement was made, and the French 
 King ads contrary to the true Intent 
 and Meaning of the fiaid Treaty; the 
 Queftion returns; why do they fufFer 
 him now to do it ? And why, if they 
 do not like thereof, do they not fend 
 a Force to oppofe it, and to caufe the 
 faid Works to be likewife demoliih- 
 ed? 
 
 They fay likewife, That they are 
 greatly injur'd, with refpecSt to the 
 Treaty of Commerce; that they have 
 therein done nothing injurious to the 
 Trade of Great Britain; that it is their 
 Opinion, the Treaty, if made effedual, 
 would' have been very much for the 
 Advantage of the Britifh Commerce; 
 but if not, they are not to be charged 
 with any thing; feeing they made the 
 Treaty in fuch a Manner, that, albeit 
 they bound the French to the Perfor- 
 mance, on their Side ; they left it open, 
 on the Bntifl} Side, to take Effed, or 
 not take Effed, as the Britifh Parliament 
 ftiould determine; leaving M to the 
 People of Britain to judge, what was 
 r 1 2, for 
 
r 
 
 ( ^8 ) 
 
 fortheir Advanuge, and what' tvasliot ; 
 ib that the (aid Treaty is not able to do 
 any Prejudice, unlefs the Parliament 
 make it effedual : They fay^ that the 
 late MiniClry are not concerned in the 
 Dirputes on one Side or other ; that if 
 the Parliament does not approve of the 
 Treaty, it is void ; and if they do or 
 fliall, it may take Place when : they 
 pkafe ; and they heartily wifll, that if 
 the Treaty which they concluded, be 
 not for the Advantage of Britain^ it 
 may be fet afide, as there is Room. by 
 their ^Articles to do; and that (ome bet- 
 ter Conditions njay be propofed, ; by 
 which that Trade may be carry*d on, 
 more to the publick Advantage than it 
 would have been by that Treaty; 
 which they very much fear, will not 
 be found poffible. . i] b: 
 
 They fay likewife? of , the Treaty of 
 Commerce with ^pm^ That they be« 
 leve the fame tor be calculated for the 
 general Advantage of Britain ; in that 
 the Duties in Spaitt^ as well of Impor- 
 tation as Exportation, being formerly 
 unfettled, and lefc tp the private Trea-* 
 ties between the Merchants and the 
 Farmers of the Cuftoms, not only .oc- 
 ca^fion^d unreafonable Inequalities be- 
 •'"':.! . tween 
 
 •i^^c 
 
not; 
 t> do 
 pent 
 t the 
 I the 
 lat if 
 f the 
 lo or 
 :tfaey 
 hat if 
 d) be 
 in, it 
 im.by 
 e bet- 
 I, ;by 
 *d on, 
 han it 
 reaty; 
 ill not 
 
 ity of 
 
 ey be- 
 er the 
 n that 
 mpor- 
 mcriy 
 Trea-' 
 id the 
 ly .oc- 
 cs be- 
 tween 
 
 ( 69 ) 
 
 fW^ifl' one Merchant arid another; 
 bit likewife gave Leave (o the i/^A- 
 i^i^s to make Betnand^, 'at their 
 Pleafure, of fuch Duties as would bd 
 cq^t to a Prohibition ; xvhfercas by 
 thfe 'Treaty, they had brought' th|{ 
 SfMdj^di to reduce all tlieiv Dories, 
 as Avi&ll upoh tmportatioh, as upoil 
 Lari<l-Orriagc from one Province tq 
 ahother, to one equal, afdenaitlea 
 Rate-^ which, as they conceive,' Vas ar 
 Damage to the Spamards, and an Ad- 
 Vantage to thtSrniJh; znddieyfa]^ 
 they bave heard, that the Court of 
 Madrid 2Lr^ very wiffing to make void 
 that Part 6f the Treaty, and to 
 ft and upon the fatrie Foot as they 
 were before, whenever the By'/V//J Go- 
 vernment fhall think fit ; and that 
 they are very defirous to have it fo, 
 as what they yielded to with fome 
 Relufiance, ^t the Reaueft of the 
 Britiflj Miniftcrs, on Behdlf 6f the 
 En^lijh Merchants. They fyy that if 
 the French continue to trade to the^ 
 SpAfiifh Wefi'Tndies^ Which yet they ^0^ 
 n<Jt believe, it cannot be laid ai:; 
 their Door ; feeing they made as mucH ' 
 Provifibn againft it in the Treaty^' 
 as was in their Power; and if the 
 '•• •• • Sj>H' 
 
( 70 ) 
 
 SfdmdrdSf or French^ do not perform 
 their Treaties; they doubt not, His 
 Majefty will always be in a Condition 
 ^o oblige them to it. 
 
 It is farther contained in the popu- 
 lar Charge upon the late Minifl:ry, 
 That they were in the Inter eft of the 
 Tretender\ that they had entred into 
 Meafiires to overthrow the J£i of 
 Settlement^ and prevent the Succef- 
 fion of the Royal Family of Hano» 
 ver. 
 
 It would f^em to reproach die 
 Principles of any Man, in Matters of 
 Government, if he fhould venture to 
 fay publickly, that he did not believe 
 tjiem guilty of this ; fo univerfally 
 has it been reeeived, and fo pofitivei* 
 ly is it affirmed ; yet we muft ac- 
 knowledge, that no dired Proof, or 
 Evidence thereof, appears ; neither is 
 any Teftimony of Fafts offerM by a- 
 ny one, to our Knowledge, in this 
 Cafe. This Difcourfe is not defigu'd 
 to vindicate any one in this particu- 
 lar, or in any thing elfe ; but to ftate 
 the Cafe, as it Hands, between the 
 late Miniftry, and the People of Great 
 Britain'^ and to let the Readers fee, 
 
 what 
 
•fortn 
 His 
 
 litioA 
 
 •% ... ■ .' 
 
 popu- 
 liftry, 
 F the 
 into 
 m of 
 uccef- 
 Ha?f<h. 
 
 i the 
 
 ers of 
 urc to. 
 lelieve 
 erfally 
 ►fitivei- 
 ift ac- 
 |of, ot- 
 her is 
 by a» 
 n this 
 figa'd 
 &nicu- 
 oftate 
 n the 
 Great 
 s fee, 
 what: 
 
 
 ( 7« ) 
 
 what they fay in their own De« 
 fence. 
 
 i'Theyfujiy The Cafe, as it ftands be- 
 tween Parties, amounts to no more 
 at pi^efent, than an Accuiation with*- 
 out Doors ; what it may be, is ano- 
 ther Queftion. That it is a Maxim in 
 Equity J that no Man ought to be pub- 
 lickly cenfur'd without Evidence; 
 and it is a Maxim in Law, That no 
 Man ought to he condemned without a 
 Trial; both which Maxims are now 
 deftroy'd by thefe tumultuous Accufati- 
 ons: They fajj they have no Recourfe, 
 but to declare their Innocence; and 
 coniplain ferioudy of the Hardihip 
 they fuffer, by being thus treated: 
 THET SJTj that they fuffer the 
 niofl: unexampled Ufage m this Mat- 
 ter ; that they have never entertained 
 the leaft Intelligence with the Pre- 
 tender J or with any Perfon in his Be- 
 half; that they never failed of their 
 Duty, in doing every thing that 
 was needful, and in their Power, to 
 oppofe and refift him ; that if any 
 thing was, at any Time, offered a- 
 gainft his Intereft, either in or out 
 of Parliament, they always join'd with 
 it, and came into all the Meafures 
 
 which 
 
( 7» ) 
 
 which were ever fet on. Foot, agaialft- 
 him. .o':ii'A 
 
 That the Peaqejtfdf may teftify 
 this for them ; wherein, they i\oc oi^-^ 
 \y obliged the Kingr of FrancR tc; thruft: 
 him, w Pretender y> out. of his Eing« 
 dom;* but cblig'd ; hirn to engage^ 
 that he fhould never fufFer lvm> \tQ 
 return; bringing the fkid French Kioj^ 
 to acknowledge the Succeffion of His 
 prefent Majefty, in the ftrongeftMan* 
 tier pofnble ; and en^ging him, iiii^ 
 der the moft facred Ties of Honou^^ 
 never ta give any Difturbance,. dr-* 
 rcSIy or indiredlly, to the faid Proi 
 teflant Succeffion ; or to aid, adiil^, en^ 
 courage, or fupport: any that ifhould 
 offer to dlfturb it. 
 
 They fay i That they- left nothing un. 
 done, which it was in' their Powf:^- to 
 do, to fecure the Ha/Mver Succelfion^ 
 by thcfe Engagements ; as for their 
 employing Jacobites in leveral Cffices, 
 &c* it is known, they could employ 
 none who did not take the Jhjura^ 
 iion Oath ; and as they complain now 
 of the Hardlhip of being judgM, and 
 Xvrongfully cenfured ; fo they thought 
 it hard- to adjudge any Man ta be 
 ^Jacohte^ who, in all the moft fo- 
 
 iema 
 
.■/ .'i'.'i 
 teftify 
 
 t Olli/4 
 
 thirufb 
 
 ith \to 
 Kio^ 
 
 of His 
 Man* 
 
 , no; 
 
 on6u!f^ 
 !£,. 4r* 
 Proi 
 
 i^, cn> 
 iOiould 
 
 ing un» 
 >wfi?: to 
 
 r their 
 Cfflces, 
 employ 
 Jbjura' 
 in now 
 'd, and 
 thought 
 I to be 
 noft fo 
 
 lema 
 
 (7?) 
 lemn Ways> and in fuch as the taw 
 tlidught fiifficiemj had given Satisfafti- 
 on, of their being in the Intereft of 
 the Proteflant Succeflion : And if a- 
 ny were in that Intereft, after fueh 
 AfTurances given, the Mifcbief of their 
 abominable Perjury was their own ; 
 neither were the publick Affairs in- 
 jured, or the Succeflion weakened 
 thereby : They fay^ if it had been o- 
 therwiie; yet that they did all that 
 the Law required them to do; and 
 tKey a^rniy that feveral of the fame 
 Kifid Cjf Jacobitesj as they are now 
 chilled, were often, and all along, em- 
 ployed by the Miniftry before themy and 
 without any Danger to the Proteftanc 
 Succeffion. 
 
 They farther fan That, as to JaeO" 
 bites J fet whomever their Enemies 
 pleafe be called fo; yet it does evi- 
 dently appear, in the whole Courfe 
 of tneir Adminiftration, that what- 
 Ufe foever they might make of them, 
 that yet, as Jacobites^ they never did 
 any thing for them ; and their worft 
 Enemies cannot bring any Proof, that 
 they entred into any Meafures for 
 th^ Setting the Pretender on the 
 
 K Throncj 
 
,X'. 
 
 Throne ; or for overthrowing or rfi- 
 feating the H^nffver SucceJJionr jj -^ < 
 
 The) fay J That it is an unrearohabte 
 and unaccountable thing, that ]\4eni 
 fliould condemn them as Jacotites^ 
 and as Enemies to the Succeflion; 
 whereas not one Word of Evidence 
 has ever yet been offered fo prove 
 the FaS; that it is very ftralnge, 
 that in an Affair of fuch a Nature^ 
 where a Negotiation required many 
 Hands, none fhould be found that . 
 could bear Witrtefs of it, if tru^)^ and 
 it is no lefs dranse, that (bch a Sjaa- 
 der Ihould be (o carryM on againft 
 them, when not a Man can be round 
 to bear Witnefs of it. 
 
 They fay^ They are conteilt before 
 Hand to fqbfcciDe to it, tbjat who- 
 ever has had ,the leaft Cprrefponf 
 dence with the Fjfetendery or virith a- 
 ny Perfon what/cieyer in bis B^half^ 
 is guilty of Trearfoiij and they de- 
 fire as heartily as they can do, that 
 fuch may be dete&ed, and pueifli- 
 ed in the m'oft exemplary Manner. 
 . They dedafe, That fince the la- 
 mented Death of their fate Sovereign, 
 they have omitted nothing which be- 
 came them, as dutiful and loyal Sub- 
 
 jefts, 
 
labfe . 
 Went^ 
 
 lion; 
 
 lence 
 
 )rove 
 
 suige, 
 
 iture^ 
 
 many 
 
 that 
 
 and 
 
 Slan- 
 
 Sfainft 
 ound 
 
 L . . 
 
 before 
 who- 
 refpon^ 
 ^ith a- 
 B^haif^ 
 ey de- 
 '9 tliac 
 )uQiQi- 
 ner. 
 :he la- 
 ereign, 
 ich he- 
 al Sub- 
 jefts, 
 
 (7?) 
 
 jcQsj, to fliew theii Zeal for his pre- 
 fcnt Majefty's Service; and they e- 
 fteeni it their particular Misfortune^ 
 if they have not yet had the Sue- 
 cefe of iatisfying His Majefty of their 
 Siacerity; believing that God will, 
 irt his ^ood Providence, yet encline 
 Hij Majefty to think favourably of 
 them; aod will remove the Slanders 
 of their Enemies, pr move His Ma- 
 jefty ^o refent the Injury done there- 
 by to his faithfulSubjefts; and to 
 judge them according to that Good- 
 nefs and; Wifdom wpiph he is fo eqii* 
 liently blefs'd with. 
 
 "" The^ y^^> They doubt not but that, 
 rn Time, the Abfurdity as well as 
 Malic?e of this Charge, viz, of their 
 hef^g for the Pretender ^ will appear ; 
 feeing they muft be fupgos'd to know 
 very little either of the Conftitution of 
 this Proteflant Kingdom, or of the Af- 
 feftion of the People, on one Hand, 
 to the Hanover Succejfion ; and of their 
 general Averfion, on the other, to 
 the pretender-, if they had ever ima- 
 gined any Schemes for the altering 
 the Succeilion were prafticable here; 
 and they muft be worfe than mad, if, 
 after fo many Settlements of the Suc- 
 
 ceffion, 
 
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 ce(&on, and the tonfolidating them 
 into one indifToluble Knot, oy the 
 Union of the Two Kingdoms, they 
 were capable of receiving any No« 
 tions, or entertaining any Though^ 
 of attempting to put the Tretetider up- 
 on this Nation ; they are witling to 
 hope, the World has a better Opi- 
 nion of their Sences, than to belibvei 
 that they, whofe Fortunes were never 
 defperate, and whofe Intereft in the 
 Adrainiflration was not fmall, as well 
 as in the Favour of their Sovereign, 
 were under any Temptation to play 
 a defperate Game, fie for none that 
 had any thing to hope for, or any 
 thing to lofc * , . 
 
 But waving all thefe circumftahtial 
 Parts of the Argument, they defire 
 no Favour, tis they are toldy they are to 
 exPeSi notte^ if there can be the lea ft 
 Tning proved upon them, of being 
 in the Intereft of the pretender. 
 
 All the reft of what is alledged, fo 
 entirely depends upon thefe Heads, 
 that they feem to require no other 
 . Anfwer. than what is contained in 
 .ihefc: The Cafe of pubiick Treafure, 
 wrtch^;fome would pretend to charge 
 thftn^h Embe;&zelling, they fay^ re- 
 
 quires 
 
 t 
 
 » 
 
 *■»■ 
 
any 
 
 (•■7n 
 
 quir6' ho Anfwer, till firft the Ad- 
 counts are Audited in the Exchepter^^ 
 and then if any thing apjEMSars to 
 charge them with, they muft anfwer 
 to it m the ordihanr Courfe : They fy^ 
 the Affairs of the Trcafury and Exche- 
 quer, are things, in a Method of Ma- 
 nagement, that no Treajt/reff ChaneeBw 
 of the Exchequer y Teller y or Whatever 
 Office he be, through whofe Elands 
 the publick Monies are pafsM, can 
 mifaj^ly or embezzle the fettle, but 
 it mufl: be known, and may be de- 
 tefted, either by fuperiour or inferiour 
 Officers ; and they demand, where 
 the Man is that charges them ? And 
 that, till fuch are found, they ought 
 not to be reproachM; neither ought 
 any to fuggeft, that they have mif- 
 apply'd the publick Money, till their 
 Accounts being calPd for, it appears^ 
 that they are not ready. 
 
 They likervife fay^ That they have 
 not run the Nation into Debt (ince 
 the War, otherwife than the juftDif- 
 charge of what was in Dema^^ and 
 the necefTary Annual Support of thf^ 
 Government required ; and, for thi 
 Sake of their Country, they ftaj bfc 
 glad to fee other Ways andpiea^s 
 
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 jband out chin occurred tx> them, % t^e 
 Support of the AanutI Charge of tlju^Oq* 
 vcriMiient; and that no fitrtber^ Debts 
 were to be contrgEted, or Taxes jcais^, 
 for that Parpofe; proteffiogy that 4t 
 \ws not in their Popver, pr not i^ their 
 Knowledge, to do it br any Ptb«r 
 JVms and MtMs^ than thofe wb^ 4^ 
 lau Parliament approv'd of. 
 
 Tbefe are fome of the Aniwerf, 
 1 which, we are told, thefe M^giye 
 ^tq the Charge which is broug)i|t Ji- 
 gainll th^ni without Doors; ana to 
 the Pamphlets written againfl them, 
 as well by Squire Burnett^ as others : 
 I ipake no Obfervations thereonj bay- 
 ing neither Room or inclination to qo 
 it; thofe who like them not, may 
 refute them, if they think they are 
 
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