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 OF all thofe Sciences which have en- 
 gaged the Study and Attention of 
 the human Underftanding, nohe is f6 
 nniverfally allowed to be attended with fuch 
 Difficulties, as the Legiflative, or Art of 
 governing Mankind. 
 
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 narchic, and defpbtic Governments, as well 
 as others mixed of thefe, and the almoft in- 
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 favour of this Variety, fo different from each 
 other, fufficiently evince the Truth of this 
 Manner of Thinking. 
 
 Yet, I know not how it comes to pafs, 
 though this DifHcuhy is dniverfally allowed 
 in the Abftradt, and a Genius for fuch kind 
 of Thinking conlidercd as extremely rare 
 amongft Mankind ; yet no one Thing is pre- 
 fumed to be fo thoroughly comprehended, 
 and examined with fuch Freedom, as the 
 Knowledge of Politics. Mathematics, Me- 
 taphy(ic3, the more elevated Arts, .and polite 
 Literature, are confefTedly acknowledged by 
 many not to be underftood by them ; where- 
 as we frequently fee a Tradefman fally from 
 behind his Counter, and excel, or think he 
 does, Plato and Arijlotle in legiflative Know- 
 ledge, and with as much Judgment as Lord 
 Eolingbroke has exhibited in his Idea of a 
 Patriot King, criticife and canvafs the whole 
 
 Syftem of the Ad n, confident as if 
 
 the whole Clue of the Cabinet had been de- 
 livered into his Hands, and the Deflination 
 of Fleets and Armies had been intruded to 
 
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 the Knowledge and Direction of his Brain 
 only. ' ! .. . , 
 
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 In Matters of fo nice and intricate a Na- 
 ture, when all the Parts arc even well 
 known, the judging right, and drawing war- 
 rantable Inferences, is attended with great 
 Difficulty and Puzzle to Men of great Ca- 
 pacity ; wherefore it muift, for this Reafon, 
 be almoH: inextricable to thofe whofe Abilities 
 are more limited, and whofe Lot it is to be 
 lefs acquainted with thofe Objects which come 
 
 before the m al Underftanding. The 
 
 intima penetralia^ and deepeft Reccffes of 
 political Mydery, are but little unfolded, even 
 to thofe who confider themfelves as Adepts in 
 fuch abftrufe Matters. 
 
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 withftanding what is aflerted by thofe who 
 
 criticife and examine the m 1 Meafures, 
 
 " that good Senfe is equal to the fcrutinizing 
 
 " the Condudl of our M rs, and invefti- 
 
 <■ gating the Truth and FalQiood of their Pro- 
 
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 often admired that Mea in CofFee-Houfes 
 ^d Converf^ktion, as well as in Writing, are 
 yet hardy enough to perfevere in pretending 
 to penetrate the Secrets of the Cabinet, and 
 
 arraign the M r before their unequal 
 
 Tribunal, like fome arrant Picicpocket before 
 the Mob ', and this too not unfrequently 
 when the m . 1 Reafons for adling as they 
 have done are not underflood by any Man 
 alive, out of the Cabinet, or even pcrfedlly by 
 ibofe who are in. •: :..;.. j>: 
 
 Above all thofe who prefume in this 
 
 Manner to arraign the m 1 Capacity, and 
 
 prefent Manner of public Proceedings, the 
 Author of the four Letters to the People of 
 ^nglan4, appears to me the moft extraordi- 
 nary and incorrigible ; and as it really fecms 
 that he is not quite divefted of common Senfe, 
 I am at a Lofs to furmize, why he Aill perfifls 
 in giving his Sentiments to the People on the 
 prefent Situation of public Affairs, as if it 
 yf&$ poffible he could be an adequate Judge 
 of that which, perhaps no Man living can 
 froipprehcpd thf whole Reafon of. 
 
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 I SUSPECT indeed, that he has been not 
 a little induced to the Continuation of his Writ- 
 ings, by the InfufHciency and ADfurdity of 
 thofe who have pretended to anfwer his for- 
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 The great Timothy, alias Tmoleon, a Dia~ 
 mond of an Auihor, though he may eq^al the 
 famous Greek, whofe Name he has purloined 
 in Integrity of Manners^ t^ncontaminated PrO'- 
 iiiy, and Love of his Country, is, I am afr^ifj, 
 rather too fwivel-headed and futile, to exa- 
 mine or anfwer any thing which r^qqirps^ tb? 
 lead thinking ; and the great Hybernian Pir 
 vine, too ftrongly tindured with one prevail*- 
 ing Faculty of his Countrymen, to make 
 much impreflion on the Minds qf iiis Readers, 
 in oppofition but to fecming Fads even and 
 very little Skill in Inference : Indeed it mud 
 he confefled, that his Produdion called a 
 fourth Letter, beginning with a Blunder, by 
 declaring to his own Prejudice, that the Au- 
 thor of the former three, was not the Author 
 of that alfo, and his mifcreant Mixture of 
 {jombafl and creeping Style, like Prince Vol- 
 
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 fetus hip-hop in one Boot and a half, exhibit 
 a mod excellent Sample of that Force in 
 -Writing, and thofc necefTary Powers which 
 he pofTedS for adequately trandating the Ora- 
 tions of Demo/lbeneSf a Subfcription to which 
 he is now folliciting, and which I iincerely 
 hope will be equal to his Merits. 
 
 Such Antagonids, like injudicious Advo- 
 vocates for Religion, ruin the Caufe they 
 would fudain, and putting their Shoulders too 
 boifteroufly to the Work, overfct on the other 
 Side, what they meant to preferve from fal- 
 ling on this ; or like fome Country Squire, 
 hapledly in Drink, who mounting his Horfe 
 with too great Alertnefs and Impetuofity, falls 
 on the other Side, without ever being feated 
 in the Saddle. To take the Tafk, and refcue 
 the M r from fuch unequal Hands, to 
 
 vindicate the Caufe of the Ad n, be 
 
 now my Lot ; refolved to roufe from that 
 lethargic State which has too long pofTefs'd me, 
 and with Courage becoming a Briton, to 
 draw my Pen againft this Enemy to the 
 
 M rs, giving him no Repofe 'till I have 
 
 qither fpilt every drop of his Ink, by his 
 
 anfwering 
 
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 anfwering me, or every drop of mine in my 
 anfwering him, 
 
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 And here, gentle Readers, notwithdandingr 
 the Vehemence of this Refolution, I give you 
 my free and folemn AlTeveration, that I 
 have not the leaft Connexion with the 
 
 Ad n. Nor docs it fpring from the 
 
 fordid Expedtation of Bribe or Penflon, but 
 from the pure and uncontaminated Love of 
 
 Truth, and Love of the M rs. And I 
 
 cannot avoid remarking, how ungrateful the 
 prefent Silt nee fecms in thofe, who beginning 
 with patriot Principles have been purchafed 
 
 by the M y to leave the Didates of Con- 
 
 fcience for thofe of Lucre. 
 
 
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 Even the dignified Informer has not only 
 
 mod (hamefully delerted the Caufc of his old 
 Patron, bat more than fulfilling Dodlor 
 King's Afllrtion in his Apology, who engages 
 to pawn every thing but his Soul, that for 
 doubling hi Pen lion he would change Sides, 
 is now become the rnoft vehement in his Pa- 
 per again ft the prefent Ad n, fagaci- 
 
 oufly fmelling, that having already received 
 
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 xtffkt they are forry tor hra^^ gJ^Ch liJm, and 
 fuggefling perhaps, their Reigh being nearty 
 expired, that no more is to be expedled, he 
 lUs (ackdd round on a mete Suppo^tion of 
 reaping Advantage on the bther Side, by a 
 fimely change of Parties'. Abbminable In- 
 
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 .' T ti E wonderfully profound Sam^ S — re, 
 £)'. D* alfo, after having received two very 
 good Livings for his political' ftodudions 
 aind Coffee- Hbufe Informations, now lolls in 
 his Coach, as filcnt and inanimate as a 
 leaden Statue; and being at Eafe himfelf, 
 cares not how uneafy thofe are who made 
 him fo, whilH; fome Men infinuate he is 
 ag^in returned to thofe Principles which his 
 Father never deferted. Indeed the Blacknefs 
 of this Ingratitude is more vilible in his Face, 
 than in any other Perfons on this Side the 
 Kingdom of -^^//p'cp/^/. 
 
 Verily, it is not much to' be wondered 
 at, that Dodor J—n H'-II (hould be filent 
 on the prefent interefling Occafion, though 
 in one of his maichlefs InfpeiStors he has ex- 
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 hibited ^ pretty Bit of Writing erioiigii agairift 
 the. Author of the Letters to the People of 
 England, modcftly attributing the Caufe of 
 
 thus attacking the M y to the Poverty of 
 
 the Authdfi greatly forgeting, for one Minute, 
 
 through his vaft Zeal for the M r, that 
 
 his Goods and philofophical Colledtioti were 
 then feized ahd fold by his Landlord for Rent. 
 And that his Head fo fublime, his Velvet 
 Coat and Embroidery, were only fecured 
 from the Claws of the Catchpole, by the 
 Clouds of Baron Htf/-— — ^*s Protection, 
 whilft his Coach was ilruck motionlefs, by 
 the gorgon Phyfiognomy of him who would 
 iio longer hire him any Horfes. 
 
 I s AY, it is not to be ivondered at that he 
 fits filent J becaufe, though the Truftees of 
 Sir Hans Sloane's CoUedlion have not fent to 
 the Devil*, they h^ive rejected the Doctor, and 
 
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 where he iays, " That no Man alive is to be found, equal to 
 " the Charge of fuperintending the Curiofities of Sir HaKt^ 
 " but himfelf ; and that if they omit him, they muft fend 
 *' into^tbe other World for another.*' 
 
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 -yet found a Man equal to the Tafk of fu- 
 perintending the public Curiofities. As to 
 the Choice of the fubaltern refugee Dodlor, 
 who is really a greater Curiofity than any in 
 the CoUedlion, it being almoft: impoffiblc to 
 decide to what Clafs of Beings he belongs. 
 I believe that is intirely owing to your Re- 
 commendation, andf poblifliing his Will in 
 Lydia^ m' filial 'Piety ^ from whence the Truf- 
 tees have taken the Hint of placing him 
 there, to incfcafe the Number of the Rarities 
 whilfl: alive- wherefore, I earncftly intreat 
 •all Foreigners who vifit- this Colle(5tion, to 
 examine this fingular Phaenomenon in Nature 
 with at lead as much Attention as all the 
 reft which it contains j particularly as he is 
 fond of being furveyed whilft alive, in that 
 Nitch which is deftined to receive him when 
 fmoked and dried hereafter. : 
 
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 This Silence and Refentment then, feems 
 juftly founded in the Dodlor y — n H-ll^ when 
 he refleds, that a Man who appears to be an 
 Epitome of all human Knowledge, a very 
 Microcofm indeed 1 Who at this Moment 
 gives equal Proofs of his underflanding all 
 
 Plants, 
 
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 Plants, from the Hyflbp to the Cedar ; all 
 Buildings, from the little Iron-Houfe, to St 
 Paul's Church ; all Hufbandry, from the cut- 
 ting a Weed, to the reaping a Harveft ; from 
 fowing a Grain of Clover, to planting all thic 
 Trees of the Creation ; from the feeding a 
 Rabbet, to the fattening an Ox : All Englijh 
 naval Hiftory, from the State of the Fleet at 
 Cafar*s Landing, to that which has been de- 
 feated by La Gallijjbniere : Every Foflil that 
 the Earth produces, every Beaft it fuftains: 
 The Hiftory of the Heavens, and the Revo- 
 lution of the Luminaries which they contain • 
 All medicinal Produdions for the Ufe of 
 Man : Obfervations in travelling through the 
 Eaji\ befides the Knowledge of Men and 
 Manners, in numberlefs Novels; fmall Squibs 
 of Politics, and Belles Lettres^ in Infpedlors and 
 Ranelagh Songs : Theology and Divinity in 
 God and Nature, to which he unjuftly imputes 
 his Ruin : The Ways of the great and little 
 
 World at A r's and St GtleiSy in the 
 
 botanic Garden at Chelfea : Tragedy, Come- 
 dy, Farce ip adling on the Stage : Belides a 
 Lift of ^f's, longer than the Muftcr-RoU of 
 the BritiJJj Mercenaries known and yn- 
 
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 of under (landing the Subjeds, that no Mat^ 
 pan pofTibly divine or decide on which Topic 
 he has bed acquitted himfelf, fuch an Uni- 
 formity of Writing runs through the whole. 
 This Ufage, I fay, mud undoubtedly raife his 
 ftout Stomachy and reftrain his mighty Hand 
 
 from fuftairiing the m 1 Caufe, when he 
 
 refledts, that though no Man is rifen from the 
 Dead on this Occafion, that he -and all his 
 Qualifications have been totally neglected by 
 the undiftinguifliing Truftees of Sir Haiiis 
 Shane's Colledtion, in favour of a Gentlemai^ 
 who pretends to nothing n^ore than what a 
 living Man may underfland. 
 
 Besides thefe many Nobles and Plebc- 
 rians who have mounted to high Ports, or been 
 
 fnugly rewarded in the Civil Lifts of E 4 
 
 and Ire—ds the Account of whofe Merits 
 would excite no fmall Adonifliment in the 
 People of this Nation, if juftly delineated, 
 and puzzle the ablefl Arithmetician to fum 
 up, being all equally filent, neither Hireling 
 or Bifhop taking up the Weapons in the 
 pi— I Defence, I am refolved to warn 
 
 Mankind 
 
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 Mankind of the fatal Confequences which 
 may attend an Inclination to liften to the 
 fedudtive Words of this infidious Author, and 
 fow the Seeds of Tranquility and Acqui- 
 efcence fo thick amongft the Tares which he 
 has planted, that Scripture (hall he inverted ^ 
 the former choak the latter, and all the Peo- 
 ple be fubdued to acquiefce in whatever State 
 
 the M rs /hall be pleafed to reduce 
 
 them. 
 
 In the Profecution of this Defign, I makf 
 no Doubt of convincing all Mankind of the 
 Truth of what I intend, and proving beyond 
 Contradicflion, that the Fourth Lettpr, fo 
 generally approved of, and applauded for it's 
 containing authentic Fadls, contains infinite 
 Mifreprcfentations, Mi/lakss, and Falfehoods. 
 
 To anfwer minutely every Paragraph of 
 fhis Performance, would be a Tafk too long 
 for me to write, and too tedious for you to 
 read; I {hall therefore obfervc only, that 
 through the whole Tenor of the Letter, he 
 
 imputes all the Caufe of the m 1 Mif- 
 
 p^rriages tq the want of Capacity^ and Weak^ 
 
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 on which he ereds the Column of his Ar- 
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 Superftrudture muft inevitably fall to Pieces 
 
 and end in Duft. 
 
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 The mod eligible Method of obtaining 
 Ais End, as it feems to me, is firil, fairly 
 and explicitly to give a Definition of Weak- 
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 neral, may not unjuftly be defined an Exhi- 
 bition of infufficient Means to obtain an End 
 adequate to the Defign ; it is inconfiflent, 
 IvhifBing, inane, unequal. 
 
 In particular, when every Symptom of 
 Behaviour contradids that Experience which 
 ought to have been the Refult of that parti- 
 cular Study or Occupation in which a Man 
 has been educated. 
 
 Whenever 
 
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 Whenever then an Objedt is purfued 
 uniformly and undeviating, fuch a Behaviour 
 can never be fairly prefumed to have taken 
 it's Origin from mental Incapacity, but muft 
 be afcribed to fome other Caufe. 
 
 : Let me then proceed to (hew, that 
 through the whole Condudt of the M rs. 
 
 one equable Purfuit has univerfally appeared ; 
 and in doing this, let me begin with the firft 
 Article, and fpeak to you. Sir, the Author. * 
 
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 First then, What can Hiew lefs Weak- 
 nefs than that cunning Conceflion and footh- 
 
 ing the French M rs, by our AmbafTador 
 
 at Paris, to get the Englijh Prifoners out of 
 their Hands, and then giving the Lands on 
 the Ohio to a ^aker^ the moft obftinate of 
 all Beings, to oblige you to reclaim them 
 again ? Are not both Views anfwered by this 
 Method ; firft, to get the Prifoners with great 
 Eafe, and fecondly, to preferve the Territories 
 with great Obftinacy? What if it do exhaufl 
 your Blood and Treafure, is it therefore a 
 Proof of Imbecillity in the M— — rs ? 
 
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 General? in America^ and a Force infufficient 
 to the Undertaking ; Is this a Weaknefs too ? 
 No> Sir, the M " rs know the Danger is 
 already too greats that thofe Americam will 
 foon fet up for themfelves, if not timely 
 pulled down by the judicious Hands of the 
 
 Ad ^n at Home, whofc Purfuit it has 
 
 long been, in all their Diredions to the Ame" 
 rican Governors, to eftabiiHi an arbitrary 
 Power, and eicclude them from the Privi- 
 leges of Englijhmen. 
 
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 Permitting the Prench then to feizc 
 on Virginia, or fome other Colony^ muft na- 
 turally humble the Pride of the American 
 Englifii it mud: reduce their Trade, and 
 tonfequently their Riches j by which it muft 
 prefer ve them more dependant on their Mo- 
 ther Country for Afliftance, through Fear of 
 the French incrcafing their Territories after 
 they are fettled on the Sea-Coaft of America; 
 
 Do you call this a Manifedation of m 1 
 
 Weaknefs or Incapacity ? Does it anfwer the 
 Definition a» laid down juft before ? This 
 
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 then, I affert, is a Mifreprefentaiion of tho 
 Affair. 
 
 Again, Sir, you prefume to impute the 
 Choice of General B— — /6 to the M— r. 
 Here you are once more miftaken, and much 
 out of Luck. The fagacious Choice of that 
 great General, was intirely owing to Mrs 
 
 B-//-— j^, the P r. She, as one good 
 
 Turn deferves another, being countenanced by 
 the ■ who receives Pofts and Peinfions, 
 
 though kept by the who gives them, 
 
 and being the Friend and Favourite of Mr 
 
 B k, as his laft Will and Teftament will 
 
 certify whom it may concern, prevailed over 
 the to prevail upon the — , who re- 
 
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 commended him to the 
 
 and thus our 
 
 Generals are chofen by the Demireps of the 
 
 Theatre, and not by the M r : And will 
 
 you, Sir, have the Cruelty to condemn a Man 
 who indulges his Miftrefs in the Trifle of 
 naming Generals to their Country's Ruin ? 
 
 This Article, as reprefented by you, is 
 then a falfe Fadt, and which I hope you will 
 
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 Edition. 
 
 Besides, Sir, by what Generals more 
 
 efFedlually than by B k and S y, 
 
 could the humiliating Scheme proceed; or 
 how could Mr /T— ^, Mr yf— — /V, and 
 
 Lord L n be difpofed of, and fent out 
 
 fo pertinently to anfwer the m— 1 Purpofe, 
 as by inverting the Order in which they 
 fhould have been difpatched ? Thefe, Sir, are 
 fo many Demonftrations of Uniformity of 
 Condudt, totally inconfident with the Idea of 
 Imbecility. 
 
 i COME now to accufe you of another 
 egregious Falfehood, which you have aiTerted 
 in this Performance of your*s. 
 
 You there fay, that the M— rs fent out 
 the Cannon, Carriages, Balls, and Powder to 
 America^ in four feparate Ships: This, Sir, 
 I alledge is a falfe Fadt, and that they were 
 not fent out in that feparate Manner. The 
 Truth is, an old Boatfwain, in fliipping thefe 
 military Stores, obferved the Impropriety and 
 
 Blunder 
 
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 Blunder of that Method, and at his Hint it 
 was altered : Indeed I muft confefs, that with 
 refpedt to the m 1 Care or Difcovery of 
 the Blunder, they might have gone in the 
 Manner you fay ; but, Sir, as the Boatfwain 
 faw more than the M— — r, and as the Stores 
 were not fent as you aflert, I affirm the Fa6t 
 is falfly reprefented by youj fliameful Be- 
 haviour ! And that, as the Roman Emperors 
 triumphed for the Vi<ftories of their Generals 
 at which they were not prefent, fo the 
 
 M rs have a Right to triumph for the old 
 
 Boatfwain's Difcovery, of which they knew 
 nothing at all. 
 
 However, give me leave to fubjoin, 
 that even fending the Stores out in the fepa- 
 rate Manner you mention, and purchafing 
 uninflammable Gunpowder, do not contradidl, 
 but coincide perfedly with that uniform 
 Syftem of humbling us, and the faucy Ame- 
 ricans. How then, even in that Senfe, can 
 it be called a Blunder or Imbecility in a 
 
 M r ? Your Servant, Mr Doiftor, what 
 
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 mining the Ruffian, Hejfian, and Prufftan 
 Treaties; and here you affiime a mighty 
 fliarp Sightednefs indeed, and inugine the 
 
 M rs did not know the Advantages which 
 
 the Treaty with Ri0a had given them over 
 PruJJia, and therefore, as mere Blunderers, 
 defeated th« advantageous Views of the firA, 
 by concluding the lad;. You imagine the 
 
 m 1 Noodles knew nothing of this, do 
 
 ye ? And that the fubtile Head of the King 
 of PruJJia had beaten them all hollow in this 
 Treaty, to ufe a Term intelligible to our 
 great Generals and great Statefmen ? 
 
 Here, again, you want Pepetration to 
 difcover the real Motive. Have you never 
 heard it affirmed, that England can never be 
 fettled 'till it is reduced to Poverty; that 
 this Nation, with Money in it, will never 
 
 quietly fubmit to m 1 Shackles, but kick 
 
 and fquawl for Liberty, like a Child with a 
 Pin ftuck into it's Pofleriors, or too tightly 
 fwaddled? To make you poor, is to make 
 you eafy ; to make you enfy, is to make you 
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 happy J and, to make you happy this Way, 
 is to make the M r your Mafter. 
 
 The Ruffian Treaty was a frugal Under- 
 taking, and the Money which that carried 
 out pi this Land would have been impercep- 
 table, and rendered you but little the poorer. 
 This then could not anfwer the m 1 In- 
 tentions, in making you needy and themfelves 
 eafy; it became their Duty, therefore, ta 
 conclude Treaties with Hejfey PruJJta^ HanO' 
 ver, and Hoiftein, to exhauft your Treafure 
 by Millions, as expeditioufly as pofTible, to 
 perfedt with greater Rapidity, the Work of 
 your Tranquillity and their Power. 
 
 Do fuch Proceedings bear the Marks of 
 Weaknefs ? Are thefe Things coincident with 
 th? Definition of Imbecility ? Are they not 
 apt, uniform, and eifedual ? Ah, Mr Dodtor, 
 Who is the Lyncem now ? 
 
 Again, what a Fufs you keep againft 
 the M y, about the expending Thirty- 
 two Pounds a-piece for the dead Heffiar^ 
 Horfes, and Thirty for the Hire of the liv-? 
 
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 poffefs a Knowkdge of any Beafts but AfTes. 
 Do not the Noble and Right Honourable 
 Grooms, whofe whole Skill and Underftand- 
 ing confift in examining a Horfe, commit 
 
 iimilar Blunders every Day ? Is not his . 
 
 ' duped by my Lord — , and 
 
 my Lord continually ? Will you infi- 
 
 nuate, or expedl that a M — -^r, who thinks 
 but little of Politics, ought to underftand 
 more than a noble Jockey, who thinks of 
 nothing elfe but Horfes ? Where then is the 
 
 m-! 1 Weaknefs in this Article ? Does not 
 
 all this form Part of that Syftem, of fooner 
 reducing you to Peace and Humiliation ? 
 
 You complain moft grievoufly alfo againft 
 the dooming the Subjedls of England to 
 
 triple Labour, for thofe of H r; Sir, 
 
 give me leave to afTert, that this is not only 
 Weaknefs in you, but impious alfo. Is not 
 the humiliating Scheme continued in this De- 
 termination, which proves your Weaknefs, 
 and are not the true Didates of Ghriftianity, 
 almoft forgotten in this Land, flrongly in- 
 (:ulcated by this m— I Proceeding, which 
 
 command 
 
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 command you to do Good to thofe that hate 
 you, and pray for thofe who defpitefully ufe 
 you? The being againft this Article then, 
 proves your Impiety j becaufe I am convinced, , 
 
 that this H n Preference has done the 
 
 Subjedts of that Country fome Good, and 
 
 obliged the whole People of E d to pray, 
 
 one Way or another, for all of them. 
 Where then is the Weaknefs of converting a 
 Nation to Chriftianity, which you have even 
 faid heretofore was abfolutely neceflary ? 
 
 The next Thing on which you plume 
 yourfelf moft highly, is what you denominate 
 the m- 1 Imbecility, in deferting the Al- 
 liance of a greater Power for that of a lefs, 
 by leaving the Interefts of the Emprefs-Qoeen, 
 and embracing thofe of the King of Prujta. 
 Here, my dear Dodlor, you have forgotten 
 and contradicted yourfelf, as I Hiall foon con- 
 vince even you and all the World. 
 
 Has it not been the conftant Drift of 
 your Letters, to aflert the NecefTity this King- 
 dom is under of relinquilliing the German 
 Interefts. This Alliance then with a lefler 
 
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 " Suppose now, Andrew ^ for Example, 
 that either you or I, no Matter which, 
 were in Bed with a Fair Lady, and either 
 you, if you looked on, or I, if I looked on, 
 no Matter which, fliould inlift that you 
 or I ought to relinquifh to the Lady all the 
 Intereft of the under or upper Sheet, no 
 Matter which, and yet you or I poffefTed the 
 whole of it at that Time. If you or I, 
 no Matter which, gave her one Half of 
 the Sheet, do not I or you thereby relin- 
 quifh one Half of the Intereft of the Sheet, 
 and therefore fo far obey the Commands 
 of you or I, no Matter which, who faid 
 I or you ought to relinqui(h the whole of 
 it ? Is not this very clear, convincing, and 
 m 1 Reafoning, Hey, Hey, Hey, An- 
 drew^ In like Manner put Germany for 
 the Sheet ; if I have given up the Intereft 
 of the Emprefs- Queen, which is twice as 
 muc^ as that of Pruffia^ and taken to the 
 
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 ** latter, have not I given up Half the SiiMi 
 *• or Germany, and fo far renounced the At- 
 " tachinents to German Interefts, as One. is 
 *' lefs than Two, or i Half than the Whole ? ** 
 Thus, Sir, has he not followed the very Dic^ 
 tates which you have been eternally inculcat-^ 
 ing, of relinquifhing the Intereft of Germany ? 
 Is not this 5elf-Contradi£tion in you, and very 
 bafe proceeding ? 
 
 Perhaps you may reply, as I fuppofci 
 you will, that the efpouiing the Intereft of a 
 weaker Power, is increafing the national £x-^ 
 pence of England -, damn the national £x-^ 
 pence, what is that to me, let the M-*- — t 
 look to that ; all I infid upon is, that relin«* 
 qui(hing a greater Part of a Thing for a lef- 
 fer, is fo far giving up the Intereft of that 
 Thing, as the little Part is lefs than the 
 greater, and to the Proof of the contrary I 
 defy you and all Mankind. And as to the 
 Confumption of Treafure, that coincides with 
 the humiliating Scheme ; wherefore, I think 
 it demon flrated, that the M— -r, in this 
 Article^ has outdgne his ufual Outdoings, and 
 at one Time followed yotir Syftem and hh 
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 ivhich will probaUy accrue to this Nation, 
 from quitting Auftria for Pruffia j it is Ten 
 to One, as we have relinquished the Emprefs- 
 Queen, that the Ruffian Emprefs will think 
 fit to renounce our Alliance, and then the 
 King of PruJIta may do the fame alfo ; by 
 which Means we (hall be quite freed from all 
 but H' ' r, Hejfe^ and a few other great 
 Potentates of that Kind. By this Method the 
 French f and even feme Germans^ knowing the 
 great Wealth that H " r contains, may 
 probably invade, and take that E— — te alfo. 
 Thus you will be abfolutely freed from all 
 Expence of mercenary Troops, all Attach* 
 ment to German Intereds, and reduced to fo 
 poor a State, that the M " ■ r muft be your 
 Mafter. 
 
 . Herb again, Sir, is that happy Union of 
 your, and the M ' ■ r's Sentiments, carried 
 to a moft extravagant Length and Advantage. 
 Have you the Face to call this too an Imbe- 
 cility ? Is not this the fouled of all Mifre^- 
 prefentations, and Mark of the moft con* 
 fummate Ignorance in political Affairs? 
 
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 Another frivolous Complaint you make 
 
 againft the M rs, for having reftored the 
 
 Val]iie of the military Stores taken on board 
 Prujfan Bottoms lad War, and affording a 
 Pretext for other Nations to claim the fame 
 Right, is equally mifunderftood by you. Do 
 you think this Conceflion was made, to give 
 them an Advantage in carrying prohibited 
 Merchandize to the French only ? No, Sir, it 
 was to make you fick of a War ; to reduce 
 your Trade, and encourage that of other Na* 
 tions ; to make your Privateers ineflltdual, 
 and a lofing Game, that you may be necef* 
 fitatcd tp fuc for Peace pn any Terms. « 
 
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 ' Pe AC £ is, and ought to be, the End and 
 Gbjedt of all M— rs j without Peace, How 
 can they fecurely manage any longer in the 
 Cabinet ? How (hall the Stocks be kept u^ ? 
 and, without Money, will they longer be able 
 to prevail, even over Placemen and Peniioners 
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 ^I-^ -r, is the fquandering the Nation's 
 
 ^loney. Sir, you know nothing of Man- 
 kind i an humble Heart is more acceptable to 
 Heaven, than a full Purfcj wherefore, as 
 great Treafure creates Arrogance and Self- 
 fufficiency amongft ypu, fo the^ wafting it 
 l)rings down the Pride of thofe Vices. Thus 
 your Morality is piended at the Expence of 
 your Money, and jn vfhat better Manner can 
 your Wealth be wafted. An excellent Ex- 
 change of bodily Goods for thoft of your 
 Soul, Things temporal for Things eternal ! 
 As the two Quaker- Women told the Pcoplie 
 }n the Park laft Sunday, or the wonderful 
 Mr Ftt — e to the Prcfljyterians of the 
 City, 
 
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 Now, Sir, you let fly your whole Artil- 
 
 i/sry againft the M r, about the JJk and 
 
 Expediency of a Mjlitia, >yith a rattling 
 Pomp and Parade of Honour and Glory to 
 (he K-7-g and Conftitution, Saving to the 
 Nation, and a Thoufand other Advantages, 
 which muft necefTarily fpllow the People's 
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 vour of a Militia Bill for this,Kingdom, I 
 am amazed ; efpecially when I conceive 
 there are many Reafons which oppofe fbch 
 an Ad in this Nation. This, Gentlemen, 
 is a commercial State, where the Inhabi- 
 tants (hould be all employed in Manufac- 
 tories. Now, Gentlemen, putting Arms 
 into the Hands of the common People, to 
 be excrcifed on Sundays only, who work 
 all the^jc Days in the Week befides, muft 
 neceflarily take Men from their Labour ; 
 wherefore, if a Militia of Sixty-five 
 Thoufand Men be trained to Arms, and 
 excrcifed on Sundays only^ will it not be 
 more detrimental to Trade, than Fifty 
 Thoufandy who, being inlifled as regular 
 Troops, are debarred from Labour, Mon^ 
 days, Tuefdays, Wednejdays, Thurfdays, Fri- 
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 proved beyond Contradi^ion, by feveral 
 Gentlemen, that a commercial State which 
 is rich and free, (hould never be intruded 
 with Arms to defend their Properties and 
 Liberties J if they are, will you not have 
 continual Infurredtions, and Oppofitions to 
 
 whatever Schemes the M -rs may dcf 
 
 vife ? And then the Nation can never long 
 acquiefce in ^fuch a matchlefs Ad*— — ^n 
 as the prefent. 
 
 « TTRE^ Carthage, and Marfeilles, Gen- 
 tlemen, were anciently Cities of very great 
 Trade, and great Freedom. The Citizen? 
 in thefe Places, by increafing Wealth were 
 foftened into Luxury, grew effeminate, 
 and, renouncing the Uk of Arms, were 
 conquered and endaved. God forbid, 
 Gentlemen, that we (hould not follow the 
 Wifdom of thefe Ancients. Shall we then 
 fuffer the People in this Kingdom to be 
 unfunk in Sloth, and intruded with Arm^i 
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 Bcfides, Ocntlcmen, we have much to lofe, 
 and therefore the People ihould never be 
 placed in a Situation to defend or fight for 
 it; whereas, poor, cnflaved, and uncom- 
 mercial States, as they have nothing to lofe, 
 ought above all Things to be trufted with 
 the Defence of it. Being inured to Arms 
 then, will cure Men of Effeminacy, which 
 Quality being coincident with extenfivc 
 Trade, whoever is an Abettor of a Mi- 
 litia, is therefore an open Enemy to the 
 public Welfare of this Kingdom^ Com- 
 merce. 
 
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 Foreigners, will, for Six- pence a Day, de-* 
 fend you, whilft the meanefl Engltjhman 
 in Trade, is getting a Shilling; this is a 
 clear Six- pence a Day Profit to the Nation, 
 by every Man not trained to Arms ? And 
 what Reafon have you to believe that thofe 
 Germans^ who are already Slaves, would 
 be glad to fee you Slaves alfo ? is it not 
 extremely natural^ for men to fee others 
 more happy than themfelves, and rejoice 
 in it ? for this Reafon, Gentlemen, I am 
 for trufting to foreign Mercenaries, who 
 
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 will undoubtedly fight your Battles, whilfl 
 you fnugly cat your Bec( and Pudding, 
 and ileep quietly in your own Beds. A 
 Camp is a dreary Place, a very wet Place 
 when it rains ; here you may catch Cold, 
 and then die of a Fever : Let thofe you 
 hire lie in Camps, die of Difeafc, or be 
 {hot, and do you avoid all Perils by Land 
 
 or Water, and truft to M rs and 
 
 Mercenaries for the Defence of your Li- 
 berties and Properties. Befides this, a nu- 
 merous Militia, Gentlemen, is a very dan- 
 gerous Thing, it tends greatly to increafe 
 the Power of the Crown ; now I J^fy ail 
 Mankind to fay that I have ever been in- 
 ched to extend the Prerogative, it has ra- 
 ther been imputed to me, that I wilhed to 
 place the Powers of my Office above the 
 Liberties of the People, and the Preroga- 
 tive of the K — g 5 wherefore, as a Miliiia 
 fo numerous tends to extend the Preroga- 
 tive, I cannot but oppofe it. , 
 
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 Number of Militia, about Ten or Twenty 
 Thoufand, juft enough to be of no Service, 
 no Man on Earth would more readily 
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 muft be of national Utility, I can by no 
 Means agree to. Befides ihis^ it is now an 
 improper Time for putting fuch a Propofal 
 into Execution. We are all bufy, and iri 
 daily Expedation of the French invading 
 us, What Neceffity can there be for ftich a 
 Force and Oppofition at prefent ? Stay 'till 
 the Ifland is conquered, or the M— r be- 
 come abfolute, and Things are fettled* 
 then you may find Leifure to indit^iite fuch 
 Meafures, in the Manner they ought to be; 
 wherefore^ Gentlemen, I mufl be againd 
 the Bill." 
 
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 See, Sir, what a refined kind of arguing 
 here is, nevtr and uncommon to your con- 
 traded View of Things, frefh Ideas on old 
 Subjeds, Marks of Genius Mrhefe tio Mart 
 cxpeded them, imperceptable to your ditil 
 Eyes : Will you call fiich refined Reafoning 
 
 m -l Weaknefs ? What a pretty Politiciari 
 
 you appear to be 5 I bcfeech you leave the 
 M — — r, and flick to Hypocrafes, yon m\l 
 never comprehend the Deligns of the former^ 
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 Besides thefe vaft Advantages which are 
 to be drawn from the Prefcnce of foreign 
 Hirelings, there is yet another which may 
 prove of great Utility. By Means of the 
 
 Hejiam and H s now amongft us, 
 
 our Troops may learn how to take a Drub- 
 bing from an Officer, without the lead mur- 
 muring or Complaint, and be prepared to 
 acquiefce in the Difcipline of an arbitrary 
 Government, when it happily arrives in this 
 Land. Wherefore, I think it highly neceflary 
 tiiat every common Soldier, and every Officer, 
 Hiould be exercifed twice a Day with an 
 Oaken Towel, by the Perfon who is next 
 above them in Command ; that is, the Cor- 
 poral to fag the common Soldier, the Ser- 
 jeants the Corporals, the Lieutenants the Ser- 
 jeants, the Captains ihtm again, and fo pro- 
 ceeding regularly through Majors, Colonels, 
 
 CJenerals, 'till it end in the G o him- 
 
 felf, to whom, do doubt, this Difcipline will 
 afford vad Pleafure, as a Thing which he has 
 long wifhed thoroughly to eftablifh ; and, in- 
 deed, if the £fFe<5t of drubbing, like the 
 efedrical Stroke, may be communicated from 
 Man to Man, by the fame Power, this Dif- 
 cipline beginning in him, and running through 
 
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 the Regiment, may be faid to be the Woric 
 of bis own Hands. This will convince thoft 
 Hirelings experimentally, that a free-born 
 Englijhman of all Denominations, can Aand a 
 Threfhing, as well as the bcft German Slave 
 of them all ; and that this Nation is as truly 
 prepared to become their Brothers in Bondage, 
 as they, or thofe wfio fent for them, caji 
 wi(h. 
 
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 This alonej in my Opinion, would be i 
 reafonable Caufe for the fending for thofe 
 Mercenaries'; nothing teaches Mankind i(^ 
 prevalently as Example } and it is, befides, a 
 jnoft convincing Proof, that Weaknefs in the 
 M— y did not bring them hither. 
 
 Thes^ mercenary G^rx^;j;7i then, having 
 
 firmly implanted in the Hearts of E -Jb 
 
 Subjedt^ a Reverence for Oaken Towels, and 
 in the Army a laudable Acquieicence in being 
 thus difciplined twice a Day, may return to 
 Germany^ their Worl^ being completed in 
 
 this Couatry, unlefs you E /h (hould unr 
 
 mannerly flrike again -, then, indeed, it may 
 be neceiTary to keep them a little longer, for 
 Peace Sake, and to b your Preceptors. I 
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 jg^ade on this Inftitudon, which is, that as the 
 Germans, from Experience, muft be the bet- 
 ter Mailers of Drubbing, that they fhould be 
 chofen to threfli the Englijh Army j this, I 
 thinkj >yould complete the Affair. 
 
 ' Will you now haye the Audacity to pro- 
 tiounce this an Jnftance of Weaknefs in the 
 
 • 
 
 M— rs too, or that three Millions of your 
 Money are mifapplied in bringing fuch Pre- 
 ceptors into the Land, with Dcfign to teach 
 you the true German pifcip)ine, and that 
 Valour which is only Secopd in Pignity, the 
 Paflive. 
 
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 "You may as well aflert, .that hiring a 
 Swifs^ a Nation remarkable for Learning and 
 every Part of Politenefs, to teach the R — 1 
 family French, is abfurd alfo j when every 
 Man knows, that a Native of xhtQantonsh^^^ 
 jhe Bleffing of Pronunciation, which a Pa- 
 rifian never arrives at. 1 . . 
 
 Again, what a Clamour you make about 
 praying for the Prince, as if he was in the 
 Icaft Danger of not reigning over this People ? 
 Who fhall prevent him ? Who dares to en- 
 tertain the minuteft Idea of fuch a Defign? 
 
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 Sir, whoever docs, will deceive himfelf 5 the 
 
 Subjects of E d arc too firmly attached 
 
 to their Allegiance, and have already fufFered 
 too much ever to think of another. 
 
 Havinq by this Time firmly proved, 
 beyond all poffible Contradidtion, that you 
 have all along mifunderftood the Reafons for 
 
 m- ^1 Condudl, in the preceding Parts of 
 
 this Produdtion, which I atu examining ; I 
 come now to prove, that you have equally 
 erred in what you have imputed to the great 
 M eM r. , 
 
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 The Imbecility which you have falily 
 afcribed to the M — ^i— r, has been already 
 proved to be inconfiAent with the Definition 
 of Wcaknefs in general; in the fucceeding 
 Parts it will be found repugnant to that in 
 particular al^o j which will doubly evince the 
 Falfehood and Mifrepreientations of this Part 
 of your Letter. 
 
 You pretend to afTert, that the M e 
 
 M— r never knew the Number of Ships 
 which were preparing to leave Brefi : How 
 then were they prepared for the Seas ? Were 
 they all concealed from the Eyes of Thou- 
 
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 lands of People at Brefi, and carried to Sea 
 in a Hand-Bafket, iikc Patridgcs brought to 
 Town by a Poacher to be fold ? Are the 
 French fuch very honeft Fellows, that not a 
 Man amongfl them would difcover the Num- 
 ber of :Ships equipping at that Port fbr a Sum 
 of Money, or we fo fcrupulous, that the 
 Secret-fervice Money could not be applied 
 that Way? 
 
 . . How came this M— — e M— — r to know 
 the Place they were going to, and therefore 
 fend to intercept them, tf he was not ac- 
 quainted with the Number which was de- 
 ligned to fct fail ? This looks but oddly on 
 your Side, Mr Politician, he might as eafily 
 have difcQvcred ©ne as the other. ' 
 
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 Besides, you infinuate, that it was the 
 Fear of breaking with the Spaniards that 
 hindered the M e M— r from oppo- 
 iing the French Fleet in the European Seas ; 
 here you are again egregioufly miAaken, re- 
 coiled the Time, and I fhall prove you arc 
 extremely deficient in that Account alfo. 
 
 
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 about this Time that the Treaties with Rujfta 
 
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 and Heffe^Caffel were concluding with G— /- 
 
 B n for the Security of H r F Before 
 
 thefe were completed, what an Indifcretion 
 would it have been to have fallen on the 
 French Fleet in thofe Seas, when the News 
 of a Defeat 9n their Part being inftantly 
 known, though War was not declared, might 
 have marched perhaps a Hundred Thoufand 
 French Men into H'^—^ry unprovided for 
 their Reception, and thus have defeated the 
 whole Syftem of Alliances, then forming for 
 
 the Prefervation of that E e, ruined our 
 
 beft and deareft Ally, and given the French 
 ail that immenfe Sum, which has been fo long 
 hoarding up in that Territory. Would not 
 this have been facrificing, at one Stroke, all 
 
 the Ufe of thofe Millions which E d has 
 
 already fquandered for the Advantage of 
 
 }{ r. Whereas, fending Ships to the 
 
 Banks of Newfoundland, had the Air of be- 
 ing adtive in the Caufc of E d j and the 
 
 known Darknefs of that Part of the World, 
 during the Time of the French Fleet pafling 
 that Way, offered no unreafonable Hope 
 and Prefumption, that the two Fleets might 
 not fee each other. Notwithdanding this, it 
 was neccffary to give the Ad 1 fighting 
 Orders, to pleafe him^ and amufe the People 
 
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 of this Country ; befides, if by mifchance the 
 two Fleets fhould mcef and engage, three 
 Months Time would be gained for conclud- 
 ing the Ruffian and Heffian Conventions, be- 
 fore any Intelligence could be brought Home 
 of a Combat between the two Navies j be- 
 caufe it muft probably take £ix Weeks to fail 
 to the Station off Newfoundland^ and an equal 
 Time to bring back an Account of what 
 happened. 
 
 Added to this, had a fuperior Fleet been 
 ffent out on our Side, we might have beaten 
 the French fo feverely, that we (hould not 
 have been half fo willing to make Peace 
 after a Vidory as after a Defeat. Now, Sir, 
 ivhere is the Ignorance or Imbecility in the 
 Conduct of this Affair ? Will you perfuade 
 me the great M-^ e M— r had not In- 
 telligence of what Ships were deftined to 
 leave France^ or that a Man who has been 
 round the World, and acquired Half a Mil- 
 lion, did not know as much as every old 
 Boatfwain, not worth a Groat, that there 
 reigned a total Darknefs on the Banks of 
 Newfoundland^ during that Time of the 
 Year j you may as well perfuade me, on ac- 
 counl of his exuberant Generofity to Mr 
 
 Robinii 
 
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 Robins^ who wrote, if he did not create, tfie 
 Merits of hi$ Voyage round the Globe, that 
 he does not value Money. 
 
 Happily gotten rid of that EmbarralT- 
 ment, let me now fee whether this great 
 
 M- ^r cannot be equally freed from all 
 
 Imputation of Imbecility, in ordering Mr 
 H — —ne to cruize between Newfoundland 
 and Cape Breton^ to intercept the returning 
 Fleet of Du Bois de la Mothe ; and in thi^ 
 Place your Story of the Similiarity betweeri 
 the Weft- Country Jaftice, your own blun- 
 dering Countryman I fuppofe, and the Head 
 of the Ad— — y, is very pertinent, is it ? 
 
 First of all, What Analogy is there 
 between a Juftice of Peace and a firft Lord 
 of the Ad — i— y ? A^d next, between the 
 Window of a Houfcj and a Streight betvireefi 
 two Lands ? 
 
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 how can a Country Juftice, wbrth perhaps Twd 
 Hundfed a Year, and a Lord, worth Twenty 
 Thoufand, be any Way alike? Money, yoii muft 
 allow, makes all the Difference between Men. 
 Can then two Mfen, fo much unlike in that 
 eflfential Rcquifite, have any Similitude be-^ 
 
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 |W€cn thet^? Jbere you are defeated then. 
 Again : How is a Window in a Houfe, made 
 of Glafs, like a narrow PafTage of ihe Seas, 
 made of Water? Here you are more mi- 
 ilaken than before ; for certainly two Men, 
 however unlike, are yet more refcmbling each 
 pther than the Sea b to a Glafs- Window. 
 ^JoWj Sir, what is become of your Story, 
 aud wherein corifids the Humour and Like- 
 nefs ? In the Ignorance, you will lay perhaps, 
 of one not thinking on the Window, and the 
 other of the ^afl^ge j very fine, indeed ! 
 Let me afk you now, put your Hand upon 
 your Heart, commune with yourfelf, as the 
 Quaker fays j Is it credible that a Man bred 
 to naval Affairs from his Cradle, that has de- 
 
 fervedly rifen to dired^ the Ad y, through 
 
 m ' " I Intereft and great Riches, could have 
 been ignorant that there is a Streight between 
 the North of 'NenDJoundland and the Conti- 
 nent, through which the French might 
 efcape ? If this cannot be credited, how un- 
 ju(l are you in imputing this Order of 
 H . e*s cruifing in that Part, to the Weak- 
 nefs of the Marine M * ■ * r ? 
 
 Do you imagine him unacquainted with 
 the Mariner's Charts, the Knowledge of a 
 Cabin- Boy ? This then is cruel, doubly in* 
 
 human, 
 
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 human, ofFenfive to God and Man. You 
 may as well believe he wouKi fct up a Whale-* 
 Fidicry in the Serpentine-River of Hyde* 
 
 Park, as fend an Ad 1 to cruize between 
 
 the South- Weftem Parts of Newfoundland 
 and Cape Breton, through Ignorance of the 
 Streights of Belleijle ; an Allegation of fuch 
 Conduct in him, to Imbecility, mud either 
 have proceeded from diredl Malice, or direft 
 Nonfenfe in you. Change your Sentiment?, 
 and boldly afTert, that the Globe which he 
 has furrounded does not contain fo fapient 
 
 and fagacious a M r. Pray, Sir, was it 
 
 not owing to Forefight and Sagacity on his 
 Voyage, that contrary Winds kept him out 
 of Juan Fernandes when he ftrove to get in 
 there, and the Spanijb Fleet was lying ready 
 to receive him ? Was it not owing to bis 
 great Sagacity, that the Manilla Ship left her 
 ufual Courfe to look after him, in a Latitude 
 which he had chofen to cruize in queft of 
 her, and in which (he bad never before pafTsd ? 
 Was it not owing to his profound Saga- 
 city, that when the Manilla Ship was on 
 Fire, he did not go near enough to be 
 burnt himfelf ? A Mark of Genius, not lefs 
 than that of the Child, who took his Hand 
 from a red-hot Iron Box without bidding! 
 Was it not owing to his particular Sagacity ,^ 
 
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 that ^ Fog, at his Return in the Englijk 
 Channel, prevented him from being taken by 
 \ht French Fleet ? Sir Peter Warren would 
 tell you, if be was alive, that no Man had 
 ever more Coolnefs in the Day of Combat, 
 pr greater Inclination to preferve the Line of 
 Battlp, whatever became of the £nemy'$ 
 ^hips. Thefe are the great Adlions, and 
 Proofs of Sagacity, that have placed him to 
 
 prefide at the Board of A y, and not 
 
 getting Half a Mjllipn, and marrying the 
 
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 Sir, tl^ere is but little B>eafon to under- 
 ^ke proving, that the Deftination of the 
 
 f^" 'Jh Fleet to meet Du Guay, was equally 
 
 meritorious with that of the former, the 
 
 People of E d expedt to be amufed in 
 
 different Ways by their M rs : As the 
 
 Fleet feemed too fmall in IVIr Bofcawen's 
 Squadron, that Fault was to be corredted in 
 this ; therefore eighteen Sail was to meet fix, 
 Ipecaufe Infufficiency (bould not again be com- 
 plained of ; and yet here again, by a Method 
 equally cfFcdual, the fame End of humbling 
 your Arrogance, by fruitlefsly fpcnding your 
 Money, and deftining your Fleet, was ob- 
 tj^ined, and the French efcaped perfedly well, 
 tinder the Idea of great Diligence in our 
 
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 What Affinity has your 
 Story of HounJIoW'Hc2Lih to the Fleets, 
 
 M' 
 
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 and turning the Poft to an Ocean and a Cape 
 of Land ? Truce with your Similitudes, good 
 
 IVIafter Dodtorj as to the M r's Rea* 
 
 foning about Di4 Guay*s Courfe, it was thq 
 beft he had, and you ought to be contented 
 with it. And as to the different Inferences 
 drawn by a Frenchman^ What Englifiman 
 pays the leaft Attention to what a French 
 Admiral infers? We are all free-born Sub- 
 lefts, epjoy our Liberty and Property, Roaft- 
 Beef, and the Lord's- Prayer j and as to the 
 Ship freighted with Lords and Admirals, 
 what Frenchman would dare to attack an 
 Englijh Man of War, whofe whole Loading 
 was nothing but Valour, — Valour of the firft: 
 Growth ? This then was Strength, not Vv^eak- 
 
 nefs, in the M r, as may be proved both 
 
 from Salluji^ and the Motto of the Taylor's 
 Arms, 
 
 Vis unita forttor. 
 
 With refpedl to the Dutch Troops, 
 Was it not according to Treaty ? And if xhcy 
 ^ould not come, to whom fliould the Blame 
 
 j)e imputed? If the M r had not fent 
 
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 Ships, might they not have urged that it was 
 impoffible for them to come without Tranf- 
 pons? Would you have this Fault fall on 
 him too, for omitting the fingle Circum- 
 flance of knowing whether they would or 
 would not come, before the Nation was put 
 to the Expence of fending for them ? 
 
 The Heffiam alfo : Can the tranfporting 
 them hither be an unneceflary Expence? 
 How can too much Treafure be expended on 
 Troops, wlio fought To bravely for us in 
 Scotland, and defended Bergen- op- Zoom fo 
 
 manfully ? Be fides, is not Profufion a m 1 
 
 Meafure, never to be deviated from i^ All 
 thefe Articles then, are fo many faUe Repre- 
 fentations in you, or want of political Dif- 
 pernment to penetrate the M— — r's Defign. 
 
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 As to the H i coming without Con- 
 voy, the Devil is in it if that could be an 
 Expence ! Thus, Sir, nothing can pleafe you ! 
 If thcfe Mercenaries come with Convoy, 
 then you grumble at the Expence j and if 
 they come without any, then you grumble at 
 
 m 1 Negligence : How will you be pleaf- 
 
 ed ? I warrant you, with hiring no Mecena- 
 i[ies at all. Sir, the M ■ '. rs know a Trick 
 
 worth. 
 
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 worth Two of that, and therefore you may 
 be filent on that Head» 
 
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 A N D as to the Care of the Windward and 
 Leeward Iflands, why your Joke of an Ad- 
 miral and a whole Fleet of one Ship, proves 
 too much againft you, which is, that every 
 Line of Battle Ship was commanded by an 
 Admiral : An Inftance of Attention, in the 
 Choice of the Commanders, not hitherto to 
 be found in any King's Reign over this Na- 
 tion ! Here, Sir, you muft own, that an 
 Attention to Commanders was not the Error, 
 wh?re every Captain was an Admiral. 
 
 As to your Strokes of Flies and Virtuofo*s, 
 
 and Fribbles, and M e M rs, of 
 
 fome knowing how to dired fmall Things, 
 and others of an equal Incapacity to the Con- 
 dudt of great and little Affairs ; as all that 
 
 the marine M r has done (hall be proved 
 
 not to proceed from the Motives which you 
 have afligned, the whole Force of your Af- 
 fertion falls to the Ground, and therefore that 
 particular Part needs no diftindl Anfwer. 
 
 Now, Sir, after having fairly difcomfited 
 all the preceding Part of the Fourth Letter,. 
 
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 I am come to the la(t great Imputation of 
 Mifcondud in the M— r, in the charging 
 him with which, you lay about you mofl un- 
 mercifully, and for which you feem to have 
 referved your full Vigour; like a fkilfuj 
 jockey, who holds in his Horfe 'till the laft, 
 when exerting his full Powers, he fteps by 
 his Competitors, and reaches the Goal vic- 
 tor iou fly. 
 
 Notwithstanding this Prudence, 
 i dare pawn every Thing that is, or ought to 
 be, dear to Man, that I prove, beyond Con- 
 tradition, that you have fet out With alTert- 
 ing a mod egregious Falfehood. 
 
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 Vou fay that the Fleet which was pre- 
 pared at Toulon^ the Soldiers that were tranf- 
 ported, and the Expedition to Minorca^ were 
 all known in EngLid, by every Man, in ja» 
 nuary laft. This, I muft aver, is an impu- 
 dent Falfehood j for you muft know, and 
 to you I charge it home, that this Prepara- 
 tion for an Embarkation was known in the 
 Month of "November by every one ; where- 
 fore lafk you, with what Face you can affert 
 that this Affair was firft talked of in 'Janu- 
 ary^ when there are Thoufands of Witneflcs 
 
 to 
 
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 to prove, that it was known in the Month of 
 November preceding it. Is this then behav-^ 
 ing like a Gentleman, alTerting a Thing to bd 
 
 known by the M r in January only, 
 
 that was obvious to all the World two 
 Months before? How can any Man prc- 
 fume to publifh fuch barefaced Falfehoods? 
 Is it a Wonder they treat you as a Libeller ? 
 
 T H u s I muft afTert, that you have begun 
 this important Affair of Minorca vvith a pal- 
 pable Falfehood : How then are we to expe<5t 
 more Truth in the fucceeding Parts ? 
 
 Would you then have us to believe the 
 ]V1 e M r did not know all this Pre- 
 paration as well as you ? And attribute that to 
 Weaknefs, when you fee the fame Conduct 
 in oppoling Macnamara'% Fleet, and the fame 
 Appearance of Ignorance, You mole-eyed 
 Politician, this Uniformity proves, that Im- 
 becility was not the Origin of fuch Pro- 
 ceedings. Every Court in Europe knew thd 
 Caufe of this Behaviour, the French Am- 
 baflador could have told you before he lefc 
 "England. 
 
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 At length, you cry, the Importance of 
 Minorca to this Nation, ought to have 
 alarmed the M— r, and detern)ined him 
 on providing it againft all Attacks. Of what 
 Importance is that Ifland to us, except to the 
 Trade of £■ ■ d? How then can you be 
 humbled, and reduced to the acquiefcing 
 Scheme, if ye are fufFered to bring Wealth 
 into this Country ? Is it not a certain Truth, 
 
 that the Nobles and M rs are always 
 
 greateft, where the other Subjeds are pooreft, 
 as Poland, z nominal free Country, is a fuffi- 
 cient Evidence? Will not this Negledl of 
 Mahon fall in with that Syflem, and bring on 
 what the City of London will tamely permit, 
 I hope, the Ruin of your Trade! Shall a 
 Merchant, a Tradefman, live with more 
 Honour to himfelf and Country, than a Lord 
 
 or a Member of P- 1 ? Befides this, the 
 
 Nation being fo far in Debt, is it not become 
 abfolutely necelTary to relinquiQi all Preten- 
 fions to that Ifland, and many other Places, 
 expenfive to the M r, and only advan- 
 tageous to the miercaniile Man, and the 
 Kingdom ? 
 
 Every 
 
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 Every Man knows, that the abfolute 
 Condition of being a M r, is the pre- 
 ferring German to Englijh Interefts, and that 
 
 whatever be the Fate of this Id — d, H r 
 
 is to be preferved j a M r then, who is 
 
 determined to keep his Place, whatever his 
 Country may fufFer, muft, through mere 
 Prudence, permit our Enemies to take Ma- 
 hon, to fave the Expence of keeping it next 
 Year, and of confequence Gibraltar alfo; 
 that if Money (hould be difficultly raifed the 
 enfuing Seffions, what would have gone to 
 the Defence of thofc two Places, may be ap- 
 plied to H' — r. Is this an Argument of 
 
 m 1 Weakncfs, when you plainly fee the 
 
 Syflem which has been fo long adopted, can 
 probably be otherwife no longer fupportcd ? 
 Thus, Sir, may it not be fairly inferred, that 
 inflead of examining into the Reafons of 
 what you mifcall a Negledt, that public Ad- 
 drefles of Thanks ought to be fent to the 
 
 M rs, from every Borough in £' d^ 
 
 for their great Sagacity in fuffering Mahon to 
 be taken, and the great Oeconomy in faving 
 this Expence for evermore to the People, 
 who have fo long been complaining under 
 thfsir Taxes, And, indeed, I fhould not be 
 
 H 2 furprifed, 
 
 
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 furprifed, confidering the prefent good Dif^ 
 
 politions of the Majority in P—--^ -t, if 
 
 jfucb a Proceeding fhould begin the Opening 
 of the Seflions, though the People requeft the 
 quite contrary of their Reprefentatives. To 
 fay the Truth, I can fee but one Reafon 
 again (1 the Lofs of Minorca , which is but a 
 Trifle too, a Lofs of your Trade only j for 
 which the M— rs have never cared Six- 
 pence, and which, as hath been already ob- 
 ferved, coincides perfedly with their Scheme 
 pf Ad . 
 
 So much being faid in favour of Inatten- 
 tion to Minorca, I fhall now afk you one 
 Queftion : Can you imagine, that the M — e 
 
 ^ r did not know that Ten Englijb 
 
 Ships, which were fent to the Mediterranean, 
 were lefs than Twelve French? Want 
 pf the Knowledge of increaflng Numbers, 
 is not the Fault which is attributed to him in 
 Money Affairs, why (hould it be imagined 
 in Ships? And J aflurc you, upon my 
 Honour, that he knows alfo, that a Forty- 
 eight Pound Ball weighs more than a Thirtyr 
 fix. How then could he be induced to be- 
 lieve, that Mr B — g, joined with Mr 
 
 ^ ie^ vrould defeat tke French Fleet; 
 
 ^fpecially 
 
 
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 cfpecially if it came into his Mind how well 
 that Navy behaved againft him laft War; 
 when, if a damned Irijh Raparee had not 
 cried, Chace ! the Frenchmen might have 
 failed three Feet to his one, as they did to 
 Mr 5—- ^*s, and cfcaped him. 
 
 The Number of Ships then, fenttothc 
 Mediterranean, could not proceed from Im- 
 becility, any more than the long Delay of the 
 Fleet at Spitbead before it fct Sail. 
 
 To do Jufticc, however, and not feem too 
 partial to the M r I am now defendir g, 
 I verily believe, that neither he, or the reft 
 of them, ever once imagined that the Citadel 
 of St Philip would have held out fo long, 
 or that La Gallijfoniere would have been 
 covering the Siege, at the Time of Mr B — ^*s 
 Arrival off Minorca, Indeed, there are not 
 wanting many People, who infer what has 
 been juft faid, from the Delay of our Fleet 
 in weighing Anchor, from the Delay in getr 
 ting to Mahon, and from the allowed Ab- 
 fence of all the Colonels and Sixty Officers ; 
 whilft others, falfly to be fure, fuggeft, that 
 this mutual Complaifance, in not deciding the 
 Vi^pry between Mr 5—^ and the French 
 
 Admiral, 
 
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 Admiral, had been fettled before their Sail- 
 ing ; otherwife, fay they, on what Account 
 could Mr B — g detain half his Line of Battle 
 from engaging, but through Fear left the 
 whole might defeat the French Squadron, 
 and then deftroy all Pretext for his not re- 
 lieving Mabon j or why did La GalliJJonien^ 
 vrhen he had maletreated fo many of our 
 Fleet, defift from compleating a Vidlory, 
 but becaufe he had been engaged not to de- 
 molifh our Ships ? But of this I pretend to 
 know nothing pofitively, any more than I do 
 of the Truth of Three Hundred Thoufand 
 Pounds being remitted to the French Am- 
 taflador, three Weeks before he left London, 
 ^hich is fo confidently afTerted. 
 
 Do you imagine, Mr Adept in Politics, 
 that the M e M r did not know bet- 
 ter than you what the E -Jh Fleet was to 
 
 perform in the Mediterranean ^ or what 
 Number of Ships were fitteft to anfwer all 
 the m 1 Deligns in that Sea ? 
 
 If you can make Converts to fuch Man- 
 ners of Thinking, I will undertake to con- 
 vert the Pope to an Anahaptifl^ the Grand 
 Sultan to a ^aker, the Jews to believe the 
 
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 Uejfiab already come, and yourfelf, that a, 
 Scotchman CAn love England. 
 
 This then which you determine a Blun- 
 der, in not fending out at firft a fufficieat 
 Fleet, and not reinforcing it at laft, proves to 
 jbe a refined Manner of Condudt, confenta- 
 
 |neous to all the previous m 1 Meafures, 
 
 and a Blunder no where but in your own 
 muzzey Pericranium. 
 
 The States of Europe knew the true Mo- 
 ! lives of all our m- ■ 1 Proceedings, the 
 Caufe of the Infufficiency of our Fleet, and 
 iNeglea: of ^/ Philip: Aujiria and Rujjia 
 more particularly have changed Syflems on 
 that Account. What fignifics it what two 
 \InJhmeny (hut up without Relief in Mahon^ 
 
 I thought about the Behaviour of the M r 
 
 and Ad 1, or what became of them; 
 
 when the Welfare of their whole Country is 
 hot valued at a Groat, but for the Civil Lift 
 and the Penfions which k fupplies, for 
 honeftly inducing Men to fhare in the Goods 
 
 of their native Land, and promoting m 1 
 
 Meafures? What avail your Endeavours to 
 rouze a People who have too much Know- 
 I ledge to cheriQi a Senfs of Feeling for the 
 
 Country 
 
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 Country which gave them Birth, Individual 
 Property, the Life of Sloth and Plcafure, 
 the Love of Riches, Diffipation, Gaming, 
 Gallantry, and Debauch, compofe the great 
 Objedts that at prefent engrofs the thinking 
 Souls of Englijhmen. 
 
 Thus, Sir, I flatter myfelf that I have 
 fairly proved, that every Thing material in 
 the Fourth Letter, is intirely groundlefs, and 
 
 that the m 1 Meafures ought, in no Senfe, 
 
 to be attributed to want of Capacity. And 
 through the whole Examination, I have made 
 it evident, beyond all Denial, that the Be- 
 haviour of the M rs cannot be imputed 
 
 to the EfFeds of Imbecility 5 becaufe the 
 whole Tenor of their Conduct has been uni- 
 formly one and the fame, without Deviation, 
 abfolutely contradictory to thofe Definitions 
 of general and particular Weaknefs laid down 
 in the Beginning of this Anfwer. 
 
 mm 
 
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 1 THEREFORE ftrcHuoufly infift upon 
 it, that you publi(h an immediate Recantation 
 of thofe Falfehoods and Mifreprefentations 
 which you have advanced in the Fourth Let- 
 ter, in Juftice to thofe great Perfonages whom 
 you have abufed, in Obedience to the Weight 
 
 of 
 
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 of my Arguments, and in Compliance to tfa^ 
 Gojivi<^ion of your own Confciencc. 
 
 Take my Advice, preach no more of 
 
 m-^ 1 Imbecility, change your Note, and 
 
 participate in the prevailing Scheme of re- 
 ducing your Fellow-Subjedls to a gentle Ac- 
 quiefcence in the Change of Government 
 
 which the M rs are labouring to produce^ 
 
 Have you the AfTurance to believe, that any 
 Thing which falls from your Lips can inHui- 
 ence a People to vindicate their Liberties 
 againft m^ -1 Encroachments, and contri- 
 bute to fave your Country, fuppofing the Dir 
 redors of the national Helm had an Inclina- 
 tion to wrefl them from us? Egregious Error! 
 abfurd Conception ! Remember the Fate of 
 thofe Greeks and Romans^ who, after vainly 
 eifaying to refcue their native Land from Sla- 
 very, and the Hands of Tyrants, were pro- 
 fcribed and affaflinated by the very People 
 they attempted ta preferve. 
 
 Relinqjjish your ill-grounded Jea- 
 loufies, do Juftice to thofe who diredt our 
 
 m 1 Meafures. Draw the of 
 
 with all the Gravity of a Roman Se- 
 nator, of ennobled Mien, fteady Deportment, 
 
 I penetrating 
 
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 f)enetrating Capacity, extenfive K^apwledge 
 of the Englijh^ and all other Interefts of the 
 Courts of Europe ; difplay his Skill in Trea- 
 ties, his Attachment to the Care of our Plan- 
 tations and Minorca^ his Contempt of H-^r 
 and German Advantages, and then add, his 
 Frugality of the public Money is equal to 
 chat of his own. 
 
 Draw the 
 
 of profoundeft Reach 
 
 in Politics, equally a Scholar and Legidator, 
 defpiHng all Addition of Wealth or Honour 
 to himfelf and Family, attentive to the pub- 
 lic Weal i mark his hofpitable Houfe and 
 generous Table, his exteniive Charity and 
 ineffable Humility, his Encouragement of 
 Letters and Rewards to Men of Merit. 
 
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 Let • be painted with a ModeAy in 
 
 his Eye peculiar to himfelf, his Soul feeming 
 to fpeak through it, his confcious Inequality 
 to the Tafk of governing a People 5 make 
 him the tendered Parent in ereding Patent 
 Places, to provide for Children almoft yet 
 unborn ; the moft affedionate Friend in giv- 
 ing Pofls, Places, and Emoluments, to one 
 diflant Relation, amounting to the Value of 
 Fourteen Thoufand a Year, without (baring 
 
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 one Sixpence in the Income ; diftinguifli him 
 of high Blood and ancient Family, of mildeft 
 and mod merciful Difpofition, difinterefted, 
 and unambitious of all, but ferving his dear 
 Country. 
 
 These are the genuine Charadters which 
 diftinguifh the Men of greateft Confequence 
 
 in the m 1 Diredlion. Write Panegyric j 
 
 provide for yourfelf and Family ; the very 
 Men who admire the Adions of TuIIy and 
 Demojibenes, in their flrenuous Endeavours to 
 preferve the Liberty of Rome and jitbens^ 
 if you were equal to them, would condemn 
 you ; there is no Rivalry between a dead 
 Greek or Roman, and a living Englijhman. 
 Will the Placeman, Penfioner, whether Noble 
 or Commoner, the Money- Jobber, 'Change" 
 Alley Broker, Contradors with the Go- 
 vernment, thofe faddlcd on the Backs of 
 others in Places, Curates, Redtors, Deans, 
 BiQiops, and one Archbifliop, Attornies, 
 Lawyers, Judges, Apothecaries and Phyfi- 
 cians, Cuftom, Excife, and Military Officers, 
 kept MiftrefTes and their Toad-Eaters, Ger- 
 mans in Place and Interefl at Court, with all 
 the endlefs ^c'^ of dependent Extravagance, 
 Affinity and Confanguinity, applaud you for 
 
 oppofing 
 
 
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 pppoHng the fpreading, with a liberal Hand, 
 that Money which already fattens, or they 
 hope will fatten, every Male and Female of 
 them ? Will they, divefted of the prevailing 
 Paflion of Self-Love, defire to fee the 
 
 M r change Meafures, or the Land 
 
 prow Great, which can only make them 
 happy by Profqfion. 
 
 Take the Admonition of a Friend; 
 change Sentiments, and grow Rich ; laugh 
 at the ridiculous Reputation of a cold Piece 
 of Marble, which may audacioufly tell 
 Pofterity, in the Year One Thoufand Seven 
 Hundred Fifty-Six, when, though threatened 
 with an hourly Invafion, the Englijh M— rs 
 were engaged in the Difputes of two Ita^ 
 
 liaji Strollers about a Song, and the P 1, 
 
 inftead of providing a military Defence for 
 national Security, debating whether the 
 Pleafures of one Man (hould prevail or not, 
 over the public Utility; when every Man 
 fold himfelf, as openly as an Ox at Market, 
 for as much ^s he could get, and every Un- 
 dertaking of the M r became abortive j 
 
 that you, a (lubborn Fool, continued, with 
 your feeble Powers of a Gpofc- Quill and a 
 Half-Pint of black Liquor, to warn this 
 
 Country 
 
 ».; . ! ■ 
 
eral Hand, 
 IS, or they 
 
 Female of 
 e prevailing 
 3 fee the 
 
 the Land 
 nake them 
 
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 Country of your Vagaries of impending 
 Ruin. How defpicable is this Figure at 
 prefent ! How inuch more will it be fo in 
 Futurity I 
 
 6EI.IEVE me, there are very few great 
 Lords or Commoners, who would not take 
 the Advice which I here give you, and barter 
 empty and fhort-lived Fame, for fubftantial 
 Riches. Then, as the Scripture fays^ Go 
 fhou^ and do likewife. 
 
 FINIS.