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Jh a Letter t o a Member of Parliament. The Third ji^dition, reviewed and correaed. Cic. Orat. PHiLir. ada. LONDON: Printed for A . P rice, nea r Temple-Bar. PA ^0 1 .Vr d I.,, »^^^» AW ?:" --'3 withdraw frortCr„^ed^*«''''r. •fte Contagion w«bc<^ tX/Sl tocTSS! fi i^ />• 1 r o lignant, cither to be cur'd or efcap'd. But the Situation of my Afftirs could not J»crmit me to retreat : I was (till conBned to this Capital i where I have lived in a daily Obfervadon of fome new Apodacy in private Men, fonic new Impofitioa upon the Public, and fome new Infult upon chft « • « ♦ i~ - Ytt anxious and uneafy to me, as this State has been, I have no Reafon to repine.— I have thenee had Opportunities, which I could never otherwife have had, to difcover my own Errors, and the. Errors of the Nation, in Regard both to Mea-' furcs and to Men ; and to be thoroughly con- vinced, that we h^ye fatally imputed the Original of all our prefent Misfortunes, to a falfe Caufe ; afcribing that to a Want of Integrity, which pro- ceeded only from a Want of Power in our f^rft Leaders ; not arifingfrom their Folly, or their Faulti but created by yourfelf, by me, by the whole Na- tion, blipded by Paflion and Impatience, enflamed and infatuated by the infamous Mifrepref'^ntations^ and 'treacherous Profeflions of a few faJfe and in- tfercfted Men, to whom, combining for our own Deftrutf^ion, we refigned our Underftandings at that Time.' : ' ^ I have . frcqueritly had Occafion to review the , Folly of this Condu6t,and to refied on the ftrangc' Gircumftances of that Event. — How an Admini- ftratFdff of our own chufing, who, in the (hort Space of three Weeks, while we remained united | t^^fupport them, had not only routed the ob- noxious Minifter of that Time, but changed the plicific Meafyres, and induced both the Parliament and bis M-^^ — -y to efpoufe the national Plan ^ who had already put the Treafury, the Army, and the Fle^, in a Word, the whole Force and Power of his Government, into the Hands of Men de- termined to purfue that Plant-^How thefc Men, who * *»4»' But the me to i where me new ipoficioB (>on the State has e thence therwife and the to Mea- ly con- Original Caufe ; lich pro- our f^ft ir Fault; lole Na- enflaoKd ntatiops^ and in- :>ur own dings at riew the i ftrange Ad mini- he Ihort i uaited the ob- iged the irliamenC il Plan I, my, and d Power Men dc- fc Men, who Jl^ih ' L*"' ■"°"' '""' ^^ ''x Favourites of the whole People wo-e.deferted, in a Manner, by S""^^'''? °'c^°'r,8 '"y Thing farther for the Mi »nd«hen finally delivered up, on Account of that Incapacity to created, to the groundlefs Race and unjuft AverHon of the People. ^ I have feen that Avcrfion managed with fuch VUlany and Ar^ as to become a firm Support to a profligate Admmiftration 5 who by Means of that Md that alone, have eftablilhed themfelve. in a every Length of Infolence and Oppreffion : im- pudently counter-afiing, backwards and forwards. profefled. luft as it might ferve the temporary Pur- pofes of their own Ambition and Security • con- rummg the Strength and Subftance of the Nation celstui, becaufe it was not tbtir mm War —con. eluding that War with an in P—e'l^ich thj have t<,///«//^ made precarious, ftameful, and Co'u^"? i*H fft'^,1?'" ""i"'"™P''d in this wicked mfffiv^ ',1/ "il" '"'= ^°"' '""^ ^" Mankind, fub- miflive to all this; tame, abjca, paffive with your Eyes but half opened to your ConSn _ son^'^L'tfR'''''^ '^'ir^^'"' ''~^"- g)ne, or the Rum that muft enfue i and to tWs Hour doubtful whether any Gppofition ftoSd be made, or any Endeavours ufed, tS redeem the Na! non out of dm Bondage, or to refcue "Jr S-n out of the Hands ofthofe treacherous' Servants who have taken him C_pt_e in hisCtl3 ftiU detam bim Prifoner on his T— e to this State of Things, I think myfclf bound in A 2 i3„ >ii a more efR-f^iwi n«. . ^" " ''* done thofe Sts ,0 ,""' ^'""f. ^hanby extending D.dua"on of ftS, pla^ ^'"^ j'°"' '" "-efe Sheets. , cret of our m _ ^^7'"°P^"''>'«MeSe- Home as Abroad fiiiL ,k f ""™^> »' *"" « The two B ij whn k.j • • J Jong endeavoured r^ L l .J°'"«d' and had quainted at that TiZ-w '^""'J"= "«■* ""t »<:- Coadjutors w thi o^ "commended themfelves as theirParMfo wen %??'~'^"°"", F''^'' h-d played major P rt of L^ ,^1 "a "''' 'i?" ^^^ from the curidhis"*.... 'J^'"frAl'^"'"'^ •• They fe- polition that ,h,„ P°"'''**St'"e«. under a Sup. They had verv «ri? k ')'' "'* Minifter :- by treating/ ' they aSed at fi?ft^^f,k^ '■""7"' '''' «'"'- And the new Min (kr Z\ P'"<^« <> Submiflion to uponeverv-In,i:„;jr'. .■!'■"*''* 'wee done "pon evSi ft,;^"?'' ".'«? '"" f»«™ i" *eir Way; n^n tr/'wh^TeVtion "' r"'".' ?^^/' '"'S*'' were fuffered to r,n!,? • T ^ ""'^ "^'a™ 'hey they heU befo^rrCh:" *' "^^ "'''"''' ««* But«w«not >^.i,« f-, them to ftand, i„ that Coolcienoc!^ ner Errors, it be done ' extending have ur.de- ■k Sheets, a le who^c Se- as well at "f the EarJ > and had r» had, by *re not ac- imfelvcs a$ lad piayed ^ from the : They fe. der a Sup- s Councils nifter : -^ Jealoufy ppofition, they foon ny: Ani niilion to ous to re- •b — t, the and pror ■nee they che*»*», aients of ce done ir Way; t length ans they > which and, in I that ( S ) JM Manner in thofe Stations. They knew tl»ai the Succefs of the War /wS.vk V^ * "^* a*d his mSZ; T^''''^'t V^' "- Minis the Difpolal of thnf. T7 ^. ^^^ '^^''^ "^^^« "P by It was neceflary for the B~rc h., t r» ' and ( 6 ) •nd for the Purfuit of which, they were even in ,1... we jiari of Ur/orii, while the two B „ without any Difficulty, continued to profef, the fame Prmcplcs (every where ei.e but in the'^^t^v wh ch ihey could do without any SufoicionT; ceeltlthTt-^TXiSt^^trSr prove the Heat and Piejudici of the pfople o a' perfona Attack upon 'the _ himfei;? aCd ol Protefuon from the ill Conlbquences S ^HrJand"?"".-"'^!^'"'^ chTMann;*": rz^^Vr'^'"^ ^"' "'"■°"' ^°°" »nd with- Z in' M^^Z ""= ""^ '-' ' - ^^ C^-b-e w j"rllv,H fpr*""!"'"" of thi, /„r« Vmm. it was refolved, That the B rs (hould found forth h fr»l"r rf '^f.";'' ^■"'°" °' ">e Abilities of wifh ,h ^'?'''"> d-ftouraglng, « the fame Time .heirPar,n,ouldm,i„uin?'^.t°fci- of Rtt^a for the two B_« T„ all ,he Exceffi^ ot their Fury againft the Perfon and 'Stf mL r ^u')'=y ""'' 'ikewife, to nro- mote a favourable Opinion of the clrdor Q tne two B — - rs, m Contradiflion to the /ir«« Intentions, whiih they were pleaftd to attriCe to the new Part of the AdminiLtion ; li* whfch .they were to inculcate upon the Under! ingsof their ftr y, and at the factious Meetings in tifc 0^/0? /^^2»„»/Z.r and L.nJon, and in every Corne? of Sedition where they correfponded in the KLg! When !vcn in thit le Head of ^— — % profcfs the rpicion, as isMcafures icr to pro- e, to im- oplc, to a } aiTured 'es which lanncr of and with- C—b — t Union, it und forth bilities of icTinle, a or An- Fricnds, icrs, on iftinftion Exccflcs afurcs of :o pro- or, Jnte- icions of ■ foreign ibutc to I which of their City of rncr of King- Wh en ( 7 ) When, by thefe unrufpefted Arts, thev wen grown fufliciently popuUrf and had puffed^n^ 2f ft^on 2 ,^^' lTP"""y ""'' Countenance oi i-a«ion, not to be able to judge coolv of the BWnS u ^l"** °'^*' "<=* Minifter and hij Fnends, hat there was no Probability thev could ^SJtCT V^fr^'S'"'" open iXc-Sl" with that Kind o Unguage, which, tho' loneufed ule there before, obftrufling, thwartine anddif ^tmgev^^Meafureofihefar. S'the"yhd W?i„ , V . ■ ■> wd affiired their Col- m^c^tofuppoy"'"^''''^ ^"^ ■"«. "Ponth; whote!to wkH, M -"^"'^.i. '"''' P"''^P^' ftcf'tly pleafed n>orelde;:nd:ntof tLiTlf '"'^'" '"^" ''^ eft of ''/hf i^ ^"""^ 5'' Frror:-The young. his '^* iJ!" *'. '^'"* unfortunate Idea. ?,Ljr«^r" . preferred him to, but. hke SextU! ^mtus, who threw away his CrutcL rhf Moment he was elefled P»^. he p« Xall .^ humble Devotion, which he had ever before « prefled. and by which he had fo fataliy de^dv^i and the Commencemertt ot the War rn^TVT* • iflCftafed. hm Opinion of 4eirAbH L l^''** ror aEffi»«a». Tili then th*ir OKfl^^^^- ^"P*' d«ubt, *herte, 't™'8'« n« Ptt«S fr^^S^ both «h* - fii£Kd G-1f„^S^«fS?'^]L c<»^r«d. if it^had not be.nSdt*^'*^ whom 'It was fem over tor their JL^Ja^' ^, wa«evidei«t. That tfiev afted ^if^^'*"' « chher as ,; ft.4 or War^.^"r ';:!"">*»• Obie Wonder, a- give him jffer him to Atn^ fo dc- > deteftably tcreftofhis to facrifice Jblic Mea- d with his lis Bofom, in Regard ?Jy in their nt, unnatu- limfelf, by a Fadlion, fucli a dan- *, and his 1 then, the iuccd ibon Pretender^ T—e. f obfcrvcd Allies, of behaviour, ioJent Op- ar. The 'lied, and le E — of *** and age in the ) the H— jparations n Favour and ridi- culed i u ] tuled accotdingly J every Man was bullied mi £ • '^ f d'u-'d tofuppofe, Thatthefe was one V .? ^^"""^ *;'!° "'°"''l tafc' on in that Caufe. .f the Defcent ftould be made , and every Ma^w« > branded as a Fool, who manifefted a Belief. ,h« any Invafion was intended at all: —Nay this im- pudent Jffeclatm, was carried to fuch an Extent the Broad-hltomsHho' not long after brought into the Hrft and moft confiderable Employnfe™ fc^u^';?iT'^ I'l'^^ "« perfevereyKoi^ ftrous Dilbehefofthe moft notorious Faft. till the breakmgout of the Rebellion, made it impoffible to fll'T^ ^°"^'' = ^'"' ^y 'hefe IMeans. the poo° S ■ f °"' -^"f "" °"'y P« off from thri Guard in that critical and dangerous Coniunaure but fuchan utter and univerfal DifcreditwasS w the Defign, that the Bulk of thePeople were inHam'd to greater Refentment againft Lofd G^TZn fh?/A.?r " S"PP°fi"°n. that he in^edT this Artifice to caft a Slur oijacohitifm upon the Violences of the Faftion. and to derive K! fZ°" D T "'""• '° be the better juftified in. farther Profecution of the War J "'"='*'»» ^In thispaffionate and frantick Manner, the whole Seffionsof ,743-4, or • 744. paOed away . everv Day producing new Motions of Abfurd ry for d.fcardmg the Hanoveriam, for recaHna 2^L national Troops, for abandin^ our A fief f" the Mircarri;ge of "heir tfnded I„ T*' "P°lf r/"s4!!°" ^T ^^'-^dlt J wf ^^^^^ or^«»/ ifr//^/;; which was followed hu , n- 'X'r °^War from G..«, 5° Zagain^ftV^^'^ And this falling out at the latter Endof Ztf. li i ( 12 ) Jfofis, when the Faftion found it was become not a little difficult to urge any longer, that we were not Principals in the War, or to fet thcmfeJvcs as fh-ongly agafnft it, as they had hitherto done, the Recels moft opportunely fumiflied them with Time and Leifure, to concert fome new Pretence |o keep up the Spirit of their Oppofuion. ' "By this Management, however, the Nation had been wrought into fo paffionate a Temper, that h's did not think it prudent to make any Changfc in his Adminiftration : And, at once con- fcioiis of the EfFea: of their own Operations, and pfcfuming on the Strength they had thus wicked- Jy acquired, the two B ■ rs ftcadily purfued ^ the fame Conduft of obftrufting every Propofi- tion in the C- 1, for the effedual Profccution of the War ; of which it will be highly pro- per to furnifh the World with three notable Inftances. Firft, at the latter End of the Year 1743, the new Part of the Miniftry, after the French had at- tacked the Allied Army, commanded by his Majefty in Perfon, finding Hoftilitics commenced, • and being certain, that the French would lofe ho Opportunity to attack us in every other Part, propofed to fend a ftrong Squadron to the Eaji- Indies under Commodore Barnet, to protect our Trade and Settle^ments there, and to be before- hand with France: But this Meafure, which none of the Arts of Mifreprefentation could give a foreign Ccmplection to, was, by the two B rsy abfolutely rejected ; becaufe it muft be fuppofed, recommended by their Rival : So that it may be truly faid. That the E-^t-l^a C y flands in- debted to Them for the Favours they have fince rc- c'-'-'ed at the Hands of M. de la Bourdonnais. Titc ?:ezv Part of the Adminiflranon, in the next \ become not that we were themfeJves as erto done, the I them with new Pretence cion. i Nation had rempcr, that to make any at once con- >erations, and thus wicked- adily purfued cry Propofi- 1 Profccution highly pro- ^rcc notable ar 1743, the reticb had at- led by his commenced, • would lofe y other Part, to the Eaji- protect our be before- which none 3uld give a fo B n, •e fuppofed, t it may be y ftands in- ive fince rc- onnais. ion, in the next r 13 ] ■Mt Place, being appriz'd of the great Differences fiibB mg between Maub^vs and £«««* taT Med.urr.nean, and very juftly appretod „g "ome U^ Confequences from that DifuAion, betwfen the F never 0/«^iConnftinfi «Ircm^^h ro?''" "^ "«"» ' Four- Pounders Fortv ?" > '^ p' °'^?"y twenty. «y or fo„y"^o^:^:^;^^o„^/-/-. ""''J'''^- ■^er, was permitted to be brought ° fe '"'"''■ would notfufferit. th, w? ^ " ^"^* >•* fure J they hTf'lLu ■ " 1",^ '^ot their Mea- and, m o?der to ^^e "h''°"'^ "^ "nfuccefAl . b/u ;K:fe -td '': r ^"^ urual Courfe of E Enrfi^r' '""":?'"« *° "* whole of the War ^"''^''O"". through the ders ; haranguM%t;;;V*u'^fof^o*" "'°'''''- M^'s^. r^ff ^-''-rfhf^Tfn: borne unlVs'thete' dd I'T'""! '° ^ their Quota: url'H Th , be brought to p;,y they ^uld" nofcontlnt J' """"^l^' *'>«her lealt a Fourth Par^ of the ch^"'' " "*' " "' ed. That he could n„, • ^r"g!= » *"'* ''onclud- ConWence, or to P^ Jf„'/^ h-s Co„d„a to hi, -fe.whatwas'^o^r^'-.l'^.t-^ait And "'i; I ;■ II [ i6 J And, now, new Negotiations were fct on Foot to regulate tnis important Point, which he weJI knew muft confume, as it did, the whole Summer j ora« Jeaft as much Time, as was ncccffary to prevent the Execution of this Plan. And thus, under this affedled Air of Prudence, and a falfe Regard to anObjeft of 18, or 20,000 /. Value at moft (for the whole Expencepropofcd was but 70,000 /. for bringing up the Cannon, and about 7000 /. for opening the Ground before thofc two Places) this inviting Opportunity of carrying the Arms of the Allies, in the fecond or third Year of this War, whither they could never penetrate, till the laft Year of That^ conduced by the Great Vivkzoi Marlborough t was loft. The twoB rj, now become fenfible that his -_ — »s Patience could not endure any longer ; con- fcious that he muft have determined within him- felf to abandon them, and to throw the entire Management of his Affair^ into the Hands of the new Part of the Adminiftration ; and aware, that* he had no other Expedient to fave the Nation from being facrificed in the Profecution of the War, or to redeem himfelf out of thofe Fetters, which his old Servants, whom he had not only raifed, but favcd, were ungratefully preparing for him, TheB rs^ I fay, thus circumftanced, now thought it incumbent on them, to perform their; Contradt with the Broad-Bottoms: And, accor- dingly took that defperate Step, of forcing his '- — ; — to difmifs every, Perfon in his Admini- ftration, for whom, after what had pafTcd, he could retain the leaft Regard, or in whom he could re^ pofe any Confidence or Truft, in order to make Room for an equal Number of their Confederates in the^ Oppofition : — All of them Men who had render'd themfelves perfonally obnoxious to his—, either by promoting or countenancing fuch per-^ final A Family upon h Asl Tender will not But thei lingular] Silence. Prafticc that Gu decent ] feftion c his Atta and put ofdeclai ciples, ( counten! His - ing hov\j believe, fufficieni who ma good Pai the Hrft tinues wi than aim But t Pcrfons 1 peared i It was th not worl vern by I they cou over the Underfta moft info Nothir unpreced I Foot to ell knew r; orac vent the •udencc, 3,0OO /. ^fcd was >n, and re thofe :arrying rd Year rate, tiU : Great that his ', con- in him- : entire J of the e, that ' Nation of the Fetters, ot only •ing for d, now n their, accor- ng his dmini- : could uld re^ I make derates bo had his—, I per-. ( 17 ) fonal Attacks on his Charadler, his CondiK^, his Family, as had a Tendency to (hake the C— - upon his Head. As i do not dcfire to enflame •, as I have a Tendcrnefs for fome, and Charity for others, I will not be over ^articular in my Recolleftions : But there is one of the N'umbcr whofe Cafe is fo Angularly black, that I cannot pafs him over in Silence. He had been long guilty of treafonable Praftices, and he knew his — had'fo many Proofs of that Guilt before him, that he thought it the moft decent Part he could aft, to make a frank Con- fcffion of all :— 'Accordingly, he did fo ; avowed his Attachment to the Pretender and his Caufe, and put in for a Court-Abfolution, on the Merit of declaring, that he had renounced his former Prin- ciples, quitted his former Party, and would never countenance either again. His , on the other Hand^ not know- ing how to help himfelf, and being prompted to bciieve, that he ought to efteem this Declaration a fufficient Security for the future Allegiance of him who made it, not only took all he had faid in good Part, but fuffered him to be placed in one of the firft 0*-s about the C— n ; where he ftill con- tinues with greater Marks of Influence and Favour, than almoft any other Man. But the more obnoxious and dangerous thefc Pcrfons were, {o much the more proper they ap- peared for the Purpofc of this audacious Attempt. It was the Bufinefs of the B rs^ as they could not work upon the Inclinations of their S— n to go- vern by his Fears j and, upon the fame Principles, as they could not hope to eftablilh their Authority over the People, by any longer Ddufion of their Underftandings, to confirm it by the proudcft and moft infolcnt Demonftration of their Power. Nothing elfe can account for the irregular and unprecedented Manner, in which thefe Men were C intro* ii! + ! '^ ii' r >8 1 introduced bloated with Pride, purpled and inflamed wit|i tjjc inward Workings of thole v.^ripys PaiTions, ^h^ct) may be fuppofed to agitate a Man in the very A6k and Execution ot fuch a Meafure : — A Meafure, which raifcd, in the r^me Inftant, A-i^ftzement, Abhorrence, and Com- paffion intheBreaft of all the Speftators of this un- exampled Scene i — who behdd, what had never b^^n ken before in fuch a Light, and in one View, the Arrogance of a M r, the Impudence ana iofoltnt Carriage of a iF » and the Fortitude of a( diftrcfftd P-^ — ■, forced out of his C 1 ta> receive the 1.— w from his S ts, in the Face ot his Peqple ; and yet, in Appearance, the only Man unmoved, thcoughout the whole Courfe of this unparallellcd Tranladion. To look back upon this Event, and to kqow, that his M cnd\jred it, that the Nation con- nived at it, and chat no fatal Confufion imme^ diately followed from it ; is a Matter of Aftonifli- rncnc to uS, the Hving Witneffcs of this Conduct, and will furpafsthcComprehenfionpfall Mankind, who fhall hereafter read the Stpry ofthefe Times. Minifters have been torn from Kings, and Kings have been obliged ro (loop to the Power of great Subjc6ls. — This was done in the Reigns of King Jcht, of Henry III. of Edward II. and Ricbardll. But it was never done till the Tyranny of thofe Princes, by attempting openly the Laws and Li- berties, and trampling upon all the Rights of the People and Mankind, had juftified and reconciled that that C< Laws, but by Nation the Lo their P greater a mild mittcd, Injulfic fuch a fuch a 1 that ev ©ther C And have ev tion, an ceflary i parent I cwn ; r arft Prii be, of i againll ' all toget their -^ the Po^ neither i their ow Abilities and Ger . The 1 long loo may it this, anc ruptlon, i^rumenc '^ss^wwiwiBsag wsmm .,' luccd in Officers Waiting ■ JJ n ion that I Elbow purpled of thofe ) agitate ot fuch j, in the nd Conx- f this un« lad never ne View, ence and rticude of 1 tO; the Face the only ^ourfe of kqow, tion con* •n imme* Aftonifh- Condudt, y/Iankind, Times, nd Kings of great of King icbard II. of thofe and Li- US of the econciled that [•9 1 that Condui^, by the great and fuperjor Law of Laws, Necejftly : — Nor cren then was it ever don^ but by Force of Arms : The Force of the whole Nation armed againll the Prince, and. united wiih the Lords : — But that a Cabal, in the C Is of their P , of a P commanding Armies greater than any this Country ever paid before ; a P — — entiiuled to the AfFcflions of his People, by a mild and juft Government -, who had never com- mitted, or attempted to commit, a fingle A<^ of Injultice, againft any one private Man : — That fuch a Cabal fhould obtain fuch a M — ft — y over fuch a P e, is the firft Inftance of the Kind that ever dilhonoured the Annals of this or any Other Country. And yet neither the Body of the People, who have ever loved their old monarchical Conftitu- tion, and that Prerogative, which they know k^ nc- ceffary to its Support ; nor the Peers, whofe ap- parent Intereft it is, to maintain the Honour of the * e inviolate, from whom they derive their cwn i nor the Commons, jealous, as, from the firft Principles of Prefervation, they muft naturally be, of all ariftocraiical Encroachments, interpoled againfl; This, the worft Species of that Gf ««j.— But all together, fupitjely, meanly, ferviiy, fuflfered both their --, and Country, to finlv proftrate under the Power and Infblencc of a Faaron, founded neither upon the Merit of their Fore- fathers, or their own j upon an Extraction fuperior, or upon Abilities equal, to thofe of a thoufand other Lords and Gentlemen in this Nation. The fecret Caufe of this, however, cannot h% long looked for, but it muft be found. — And may it be a LelTon to all future Princes, in this, and every other Country, That though C/;r- ruption, in the Beginning, may be a proper In- ftrument to dcltfoy ilic Liberties of a People, ic p >, .. .11 W' mln I. I *Mmd^~-m-' < 20 ^ will become, in the End, an Engine to cndave the Prince himlelf ! /, , . But that baneful Influence had now fhed us Ve- nom upon all Orders of Men ; and, agreeable to the Virulence of the Humour, were the Eruptions it cau fed. That putrid Body, of which the E— of O d had been the Head, poifoncd the vcfjr Air with the pellilential Breath they uttered on this Occafion : For though they looked on the Promotions of that Day, as lo many Injuries to the Members of their own rotten Corps, the In;ereft they had in the Caufe, made Amends for the Effe£f. Hitherto, the two B rs had been confidered but as the Rump of the C— b-^ t, but now they were be- come manifeftly the Head : All Things were in their Power ; tor they had fubdued h— m who had the Diftribution of all Things j^ and hence they were led to extol this atrocious Outrage to the R— 1 Dignity, with an Impudence that was fcarce furpaflcd by the Outrage iifelf : According to the Language they publicly uifed, in every public Place of Relort, it was a more glorious Illu- ftration of the ExcelK-ncy of Whig Principles, than ever had been difplayed before ; not excepting the noble Stand made by Hampden in the Ship- Money Affair, or the united Efforts of the Nation againlt the Tyranny of King James. In transferring, therefore, their Allegiance from tjie T to thefe pretended Supporters of it, we are to fuppofcihat they put in for a Share of the Patriotifm they fo highly praifed : And we are fure, that in Return, they promifed tbctrjlelvcs every Boon and Gratification their greed' Ar ur es coul ' crave, the Power of their Patrous beitow^ or the Plunder o( the whole Nation furnifh. The interefted Part of the poor Tories, who had been drawn in to give their helping Hands to this I t 21 ] this Confufion, by the ant Word ^^ ^^^ .^7^^; Bottom, and the avowed Caufc whxh had been affiencd for the Renewal of the Oppofition againtt the new Minifters, now thought the Day was come, when the partial Diftributiun of Emo umcn« was at an End -/and that they fi^o-»^^*^^^;'"^^^;^ the Reward of their Labours, in aflifting to bring about this glorious Change. ,w,. ^.»^t^ Even the Jacoi^ites rcjoyccd alfo m this memo- rable Event i which they had Senft enough to torelee, would contribute greatly to advance their Views -—And they were the only P^vrty that rc- ioyc'^d with Reafon 5 for they were the or>ly one who were not difappointed in their Expeftat^ons and Conclufions from it. ^. ^ . . For as to thofe of the firft Clafs, they al- ready polTcfb'd too large a Proportion of the Spoil, to dare, as a Body, to refent any Neglcft or Dif- appointment, for fear of lofing what they had : — And, as Individuals, they had made their Lea- ders too flrong to apprehend the Mutiny of a Few • or to fland in Fear of the Abilities or In- tereftof any One, or of any Ten among thenri 1 and were, therefore, the very firft to feel the Cold- nefs, the Ingratitude, and Contempt which they had fo many ways deferved. As to the Second, they were obliged to content themfelvcs with the Advancement ol two or three Men, whom they had fufferedtotake Shelter amongft them, tho' more properly belonging to tne third Clafs, than to theirs-, and with a Bill for the Qualification of Jufticcs of the Peace, which, when granccd, they found impradticable and ufe- Icfs : To which, by way of Make-Wei^hi, were thrown in eatain hungry C'» Jich-Liv;;igs, to gratify a vt. v tew C^r.rry C .r^^y.ncn of rhcr re- fperhvf Nci^-hooui. ••!.?, an' a • >r liie lame Nuinocf ot ^^jdu-wai:cis Pi.tces, to-doie -.^-bout a'.nongj ,! i 1 ! [ 22 } among thofe who were of Confcquence to them in their Ele ns. But eveirthefe Scraps and Fragments which had oeen icattcrcd amongU them from the M - . ] Table, ti)cy wtre not Jong fu0ered to pirtake of • On tue contrary, the more weak and miferabie they appear'd, the lefs Compaflion they found; liJI ar Je:,'gth, finding every Door of Preferment fhuc againlt cftem, and overcome with Shame and Vexa- tion, they abd'nted themfdves from the Service of f- — , which had been fo little ferviceable to them • awd retiring to their Country Seats, wifely bethought thcmfelvts, that Frugality and Occonomy, were ^l.[T'] ■' u ri ^ ,""'.'■"■ ^'^y '° Affluence, than tiiar which led to the Exchequer itfelf. And, as to the Nation in general, hurried as they ftad been from Principle to Principle, drawn from one Attachment to another, and withdrawn at laft rrom all Attachment whadbever, by the reiterated iJiJappointments they had met with, they had hardly any Idea kit of what was Right ; they faw no ferlon in whom they could confide j they were js much at a iofs as to Fads, as Charaftcrs ; tftey knew not what to believe or difbelieve ; and under this cruel Uncertainty, they could neither relettle any Opinion, replace any Confidence, nor L?- ^U^ Judgment cither of this, or any other public Affair. ' Hence, therefore, it was, that a Proceeding of fo fliocking a Nature, fervM rather to confound Uiem yet further, than to clear the Way for Con- viction J and, that a profound Cdm fucceeded to the Joudeft Storm, which had ever agitated this Nation in the Remembrance of any Man alive, i^rom the Extremity of an intemperate and in- connitent Fury, tho' proceeding from honefl In- dentions, and pointed to juftand honourable Views, they luak at once into a /rtnfelcfs Stupidity, into a . total I I [ 23 1 . total Inattention \o every Step' or Meafure ot *;heir Government -, to an Infenfibility of every Abufc in the Conduft of their Affairs; and of that moft fatal and ignominious Train of Events, which foon fo'low'd, without any Interruption, one upon the other •, to the Shame, Diftrefs, and al- moft Ruin of the Community. So fatally did the Refentment of having refign*d their Senfe and their Principles to a Set of Men, by whom they had been fo cruelly betray*d, operate ! And fo frantick was the Refolution they came to, never to rcfpedi, to follow, or to truft any Man, or any other Set of Men, again ! This was the State of Things and Men, which enabled the two B rjand thdr Jiiies toeftablifh themfelves in that exorbitant, that unconftitu^ tional, and that ufurped Power, which they have enjoyed from the Beginning of the Year 1745, to. this Day. And fuch a State, of Men and Things, one would have thought, was very fufficient, for that Purpofe, or any other Purpofe, without any farther Frovifion. But their PofTefllons, and the Profits of them, were fo great, that they believed the Rifk was fuitable ; and, therefore, that they could not infure too high, or extend their Precautions too far. Accordingly, they fet themfelves in the next Place, to take fuch a Part of the Citizens o^ London into their Connexion, as fhould enable them to trample upon the reft •, and to obtain fuch an ad- ditional Strength in the C — b — t C 1, as fliould render them as fccurc within, as they were ftrong without. Firft, then, as to the City, they m^d^fure of fuch among the leading Citizens, as were fitteft for their Purpofe, by the Means of Remittances, Contracts, Sublcriptions, and Benetits of Embargoes-, and they lii I 1 Il 1 ! i" [ 24 } they made a Pufh for Popularity, by giving up the Point, fo Jong in vain foJidted by the Common- Councii, that the Lord-Mayor and Aldermen fliould have no Negative on their Proceedings : And as to the C — b — t, they not only introduced the D into it, but to engage him ftill ftronger to their Incerefts, entruftcd him with the Command of the Engli/h Troops, then worried the Duub and at laft compelled the Q. of Hungary, toconfenc to the Extenfion of that Command over the whole Confederate Army. The D was, at that Time, popular ; and he was undoubtedly brave : The fecond is a Quality cflVntial to a Soldier •, and the firft was a Circum- ftance convenient forthem : But there were other Cir- cumftances attendant upon the Choice, which were yet more convenient to the 5-— -n, than either of Thefe, and which defervc the moft ferious At- tention of the whole People of Great Britain. By inverting the D in this Command, they ' naturally fixed him in their Inrcrclts, and at the fame Time rendered him, in fome Points depen* dant upon them. They were aware, that a Time might come, how Jong foever the Interval might be, when a Leader of his high Rank and Ciiarafter, might be their only Rcfoiirce, and under whofe Shadow they might once again force themfelves into Power, and give the Law in the C — b— -t, if all other Means fhouldtail. They alfo flattered themfelves, that to carry fo great a Point for a favoured 5— », might be no difagreeable thing to a F r, very under of that S—n : And, omnipotent as they had ren- dered themfelves, they were not above taking luch a Step, to recover fome Portion of the Favour they had lofl, as, at the fame Time, efientiajjy ftrved their own peculiar Interefts. There \'i (25) There was, betides, another Convenience, re* fulting from this Deftination of the D— ^, which they had in-their Eye ; namely, that it rendered their Domination over the Officers of that Army, much more efFedual and lefs obnoxious.-^^For any Hardlhip, Severity, or Revenge, might be exer- cir?d by them, any unjuft Preference might be ihewn under the Colour of his Authority, and then imputed to him : By which they were eafed^ fo far as it occaHonally fuited their Inclinations, of the Burden of Solicitations, difcharged from the Odium of all Denials, fcreened from all Convic- tion of Partiality, Influence, or OppreflTion ; and yet, upon the whole, they remained equally Mafteri in reality of all Rewards and Puniflimcnfs. — An^ U was no Ways difficult, when proper, to let In- dividuals underftand, that the Sweet of the former flowed from the two B — ri ; and the Bitter of the latter, from the D e himfclf : To which may be added, that they had it at all Times in their Power, to prevent the D e from taking more upon him, than they thought proper to permit, by direfbing, or caufing him to do, that which they knew muft render him obnoxious as a Man j or by diftrefllng him on the Head of Supplies, render him unfuccefsful, and, by Con'fequence, contemptible, as a Commander, ► But to exemplify, yet farther, the Advantage they derived from this Meafure in favour of the D— , and how admirably it was adapted to remove their Fears, eftablifli their Power, and gratify their Revenge, it remains to be told. That there was but cne Perfoti in Br — », from whom they had any Thing to appre- hend : A Perfon, v/hofe natural Intereft, fooncr or later, was likely to be too mighty for them ; whofe- natural Inclinations were too noble and too good to be debauched by any Temptations ; who having no Pur- poles to ferve, but fuch as were both innocent and meritorious, was oiy of the Reach of Terror; and who D had Ml kad too reverentwl a Regard for his R F , too tender an Affeftion for his Pofterity, too high a Value for his own GIory» too wafrfi a Zeal for the Splendor of the Bnti/h Monarchy, and too paflionate a Concern for the Welfare of the Britijh- Nation, to make the fmallefl: Sacrifice to fo infa- mous a CabiCl : AJlriSi Union in the R— I F—y muft have plac'd that Pcrfon where he ought to be piac*d, at the Right-Hand of the T — c ; a Situation too clofe to h's 's Ear, for any wicked M— r to fuffer an H — r ap — t to occupy j efpecially an H— -ap — with fo much Application to learn what was right, fuch fupcrior Opportunities ©f knowing what was wrong, and fo honeft a Heart to redtify the one, and to profecute the other. That, therefore, this Jiri5i Union might be rendered as hopelefs as their Management could render it, they not only followed the Foot-Steps of their great Original, the E — of ^ in making or widening a Breach, as they followed him in every Thing elfe that was v/eak or ill, but they improved upon his Pra6kice, by bringing forward the y — r B — r on the Stage of Adion, with all the Advantages they could heap upon him •, that by fome dazzling Exploit, he might eclipfe the E— 7r, that they might create a Jealoufy between both ; or nourifh an improper Arrogance in the one, which they, imagined would not fail to beget an improper Refentment in |he other : And that from every one of thefe Con- iequences, they might draw Ibme confiderable Ad- v;intages to themielves, by playing upon thePallions or Prejudices of their R — A M — r. it is no Breach of Charity to fay, fuch was their Purpofd : And it is out of all Queflion, that .this P'jrpofc of theirs hath been efFcdually defeated : For fuch was the good Scnfe, and fuch the happy Teniptr of the P , that he betrayed no Re- icn[n.;;nt, he entertained np Jealoufy, and he re- ceived • ( 27 ) ceived his 5— r, as often as he bad an Oppor- tunity to receive him, with all the Diftindion due to his Birth and Services. But if in this one Particular, this notable Mea^- furc has fail'd, in every other it has anfwer'd their mod fanguine Expedlations. Nothing hath been more frequent in former Times, or is in its own Nature more reafonablc, than P y Enquiries, and more particularly into the Conduct of a long, expenfive, and un* fortunate War : But if any fuch Motion fhould -be made under the prefent Difpenfation, may we not expedl to be told, that the complying with it would be injurious to theD , who had the : chief Command in it, and ungracious to the whole R F ? If, to (hew the Neceflity of fuch an Enquiry, it fliould be urg*d, that our Mufters in the Field feldom exceeded half the Number given in upon Paper, or (lipulated for, in our Conventions^ Or promis'd in — ^-, or provided for by the Na- tion •, and if, in fupport of this Fa6t, the free Declara- tions of every Officer without Doors who had fcrved Abroad, or even the Intimations of fomeofthem within, Ihould be cited ; would not the Anfwer be ready ? The D — ^ has mufter'd them complete : The D—^ has certify'd them complete : Will any Man dare to difpute what the D--' alTerts ? Will you credit common Fame againft the D— *-'s Report ? Will you countenance the Intimation of any Infe- rior Officer againft the Authority of the D—^ him- feif? £j?r. There is no Man who reads this, who does not feel the Force of fuch a Battery •, and who will not acknowledge, That the Virtue and Spirit of thefe Times, are abundantly be in« 10 have ifs thro* Allies , as CO \6t fur- Thrifty s if they ig hath ly other to be 1 to {et ?rve to :ing the of pre- es, was ■, I am of the >n him> D much V wirk- cd ( 29 ) ed it may feem, was not only their conftant Ea- deavour, while they were Under-Adors or Co-ad- jutors in the C — b — t, but the fettled, dctcr- piin'd, nay Itipulated Plan, upon which they pro- ceeded with their new Allies, when they got the whole Power of this Country into their Hands, as in the Sequel will be made fufficiently plain : But, unwilling as I am to fuppofe, that any fuch hor- rid Pradtices was try'd on a P of fuch Hopes, I can fcarce avoid it, when I refle«5t upon the more horrid Prafticcs, which the fame Cabal had pre- vioufly try*d both on S — v — n and Subjeft , an4 when I alfo reflect upon the obvious Confidera- tions, which might ferve as Inducements to it : As 1 ft. His natural Temper, which was warm; 2d, His Rank, which put him above the Controul of any Colleague •, and 3d, His Inexperience in the Pra<£lice of War: All of them fuch Ingredients in the Compofition of a General, as could not faU to lead him into fome Errors, and to create fuch Mifunderftandings and Diflentions, as had an un- avoidable Tendency to ruin the War. But, as if thefe Simples were not likely to worfr up a Ferment fufficiently ftrong, we find them, moreover, infifting, on his, the D 's, having the fuprcme Command of the Dutch, even after the Stadholder had been chofen ; rcfufing to ac- cept of any Temperament ; rendering it thereby impradicable for the two Armies to join, confe- quently rend^ering both Armies unferviceable, and at once furnifliing the States with Pretences to excufc -themfclves from putting the Power of the Repub- lic into fuch Hands, as would have exerted it ho- neftly againft the common Enemy, and fowing iuch Seeds of Animofity between his R — H — and his B er the P of O , as, in Con- \\ ^^ I I currence with all the other Parts of the Manngc- menr. could npt fail to operate ro the Rum of the ( 30) thef War •, but ft ill in fo artful a Manner as to fcrccn themfclves from all Poflibilityof Accufationonthat Head ; as having that plaufible Pretence always at Hand, That it was for the Honour of the Nation, and for the Honour of His , that they had infifted upon this Point -, and thereby fo involv- ing the L) in the vifible and more immediate Misfortunes of the War, as to make it impoffible to charge Them indiredlly, without charging his R H direftly ; and by Confequence ren- dering themfclves invulnerable, but through the Side of a favourite P — of the Blood R— . Jf it Ihould be urg'd, Thar, according to th^s Reprefentation, the D himfelf hath as much Reafon to complain of their Perfidy, as either the * * * * his F , the P his B r, or the whole Nation in general, it would be readily granted he hath : Bat then, had the War prof- per'd under his Diredion, he would have owed his Eftabliftiment to his own Importance, and muft have reduced Them to a Dependance upon Him ; whereas the Cafe being as it is. They, as the only Conquerors, confider Him but as a Dependent upon Them, and make Provifion for his Greatnefs only to fupport their own. And here let us paule a Moment, to refle<5t on the Danger of too ciofe a Connexion between the Military Power, and That of a Cabal, not only in the ufurp'd PoffefTion of the Civil, but fo dcf- perately tenacious of it, as to put all Things to the Hazard, rather than fuffer it to be torn out of their Hands, even by him who gave it. It is necdiefs to fiy, that the very Notion of an Army in Time of Peace, is abhorrent to the Genius and Conftitution of this Kingdom ; and that even, to this Hour, the Military is rather tolerated from Year to Yeat, than made a Pare of the National Eftablifhment : Thefe are Fadts known ;o fcrccn 1 on thac Iways at Nation, bey had involv- mediate ipoffible ;ing his nee ren- ugh the ; to this s much ther the — r, or readily ar prof- >wed his id muft n Himi the only nt upon efs only efled on between not only : fo def- hings to torn out • otion of rrent to igdom ; is rather ; a Fare re Fa6ls known (3') known to every Body : But every Body docs not know, or does not confider, how peculiarly alarm" ing any Extenfton of that unconltitui tonal Power is at this Crifis, or what Convulfions it may ona Day give rife to. It is the Ufe only that is made the Pretence for any fuch Extenfton : But 'tis the Jbufe we ought to guard againft : What under a mere Subjed: might only create Difplea- fure, under one that is fomething mvre^ may both create and warrant Sufpicion, if his known Firtuef did not forbid us to entertain it : That, however, fome very Orange Attempts have already been made with regard to Court-Martiaisc&nnot be dcny'd; and that the prefent Plan of reducing the Army is very different from Thofc formerly obferv' i, may be col* lefted by any Body, who will be at the Trouble of comparing them : According to That now in Operation, the F.ftablilhment, both in Englandind Irelandy will confift of many more Regiments than ever were admitted before *, and while the Public is artfully taught to meafjre the Redudlion by the Numbers of private Men difcharg*d, it will be eafy for thofe in the Command, to augment then* to 60, or 70,000 Men, without.the Addition of a fingle Officer, without any extraordinary or per- ceptable Movement, and by the common Method of recruiting only. Thefe, it muft be owned, are ugly Symptoms j and thefe, perhaps, are not the worll that might be ipecified: Tarn Marte quam A/^rfftWi?, is a Saying which may be applied with as much Propriety, almoft to every Officer who has a b— in cither *****, as to Cafar himfeJf. In vain, therefore, do weclamour'fcr Place-Bills^ to guard againft an unnatural Influence in P ^, if for every Door we Ihut, wc open two ; and if wc fuffer the brave Man who had !^(5tsd th« Part of ''! it' i y i!l|i Ml I of a Hero abroad, to be cxpol'cd to the Necefllty ot adting the Part of a ProiiUuteat Home. In fhort, the Continuance and Growth ©f that Influence is at all Times to be dreaded } but never more fo, than when it is liable to the Direftion of the Military, or offuch an AiTociation oflnterefts, as amounts to the fame Thing, or as may be prelTed into the fame Service : 'And on the other hand, when the Military is put on as high a Footing, as the LegiQative, we may be fure the Hntid of E/au will foon prevail againft the yeice of Jacob. A Body of Men that bore the facrcd Name of Par- liament, (whether they were juftly entitled to it or not) were once ejeded by the Creatures of their own Power ; and if we do not apprehend, that the Jikc Violence can be ever again committed, we ought to recolledt, that our Anceftors did not ap- prehend it could ever be committed at all. Upon the whole, then, let me have Leave to fay, with allimaginable Refped for the illultrious Perfon we have been difcourfing of, with the molt grateful Senfe of his Merit and Services, which ought to be acknowledged, encouraged, and rewarded in every Way but this ; Jet me have Leave to fay, and I hope every .brave andhoneft Man in the King' dom will fay with me, ift. That the veiling the P with the chief Command of the Army, was a Mcafure which arofe from the moft infiduous Advice, which was calculated to ferve the moft unjuftifiable Purpofes, and which hath already pro- duced the moft tragical Effeds : And 2dly, That the continuing bfm in the faid Command, after the Con- clufion of a Definitive Treaty had taken away all rea- fonable Pretence for fo doing, and under theDomina- tion of a Fadlion potent enough to concenter in them- felves all the efientlai Powers of the M— re— y, cannot be regarded, but as an Attempt to perpetuate the jcefllty dF that t never tion of iterefts, preflfed " hand, ing, as ^i Efau oh, A ofPar- d to it )f their that the ed, we not ap- to fay, 5 Perfon grateful M CO be n every U and I ; King- :ing the ny, was ifiduous le mod idy pro- rhat the he Con- ' all rea- )omina- in them- -rc— y» rpetuace the ( 33 ) the AcquiruioQ thej have made, and to hold the JVl-n-rc-y in perpieiual ValFalage. V^e have now fcen the JB — rs mounted on tlb^ Shoulders of the - — - : We have (hewn the Sjtcps they tpok to attain that monftrous 'Elevation j and we have pointed out the Means, by which they expeft to lecure their Stability. from the* Removal of the E — of , to the Clofc of the Year 1744, it was but natural for the Paflibn of the Times, the Variety of theTranf- aiijions, the infinite Arts that were ufed to dif- guife the Truth of Fafts, and the intricate Natufii of many of thofe Fafts, which do not immediately,' fomctimes never, come into the publick View, to create a Doubt, on whom to fix as Author of any one Adt in the motly and mixed Adminiftration, during the Interval : But from that Period ther6^ can be no longer any t)oubr, to whom to give the Braife, if any praifc is due •, and on whom to bieftow theCurlesof the Nauon, if any Curfes are Jue to Thpjfe who have had the Condud of our public i^iwirs. J have already faid, that They had determined, n^ 1 have faid more, that they had flipulated with their new Allies to ruin the War : Both which Aljertions have fomethingin them fo extraordinary, thap I ihould not cxpedt them to. find Belief, if they were not uniformly fupported by the whole Tenor of their Management ; if forae undeniable Proofs had not already occurred in the Courfe of thefe Sheets ; if the Matter ol Fafl had not been ac- knowledged, nay gloried in by fome of the greateft and ablelt of thofe, who were Parties to the in- fangous Gontraft, of which this was the principal Condition ; and if the B — n themfelves, though charged with it, both in public and private, had ever dared, either in public or private, to deny it. But in Cafes offuch enormous Guilt as this, fuch B is ii ■ill .1 r^ n I r 34 ) is the Weaknefi or Gcncrofity of Mankind, that after the ftrongcft Proofs, and even after Con- fcffion of the Faft, cither they have fome Re- mains of Diffidence, or Returns of Curiofity j and for that Rcafon it may be expedient to offer fuch farther Evidence, as may fervc both to illuftrate and account for fuch a Proceeding, at once fo defperate in its own Nature, and feemingly fo con- tradiftory to the Interefts of thofe who put it in Praftice. Firft then. The two B rs had been brought up at the Feet of H^ (who was their Gamaliel in Politics) and had afted an Under-Part in every pacific Meafure, which had been the Difgrace of his Adminiftration. When he refufcd to affift the Emperor in the War of 38, and ;for Want of that AHiftance, theHoufeof Jujiria was dejJrivedof the Two Sicilies, as alfo of other States in Italy f and Borrain was ceded to France, they were of his Ca^al in private , and in public his Advocates i when ucthing but a War could fecure us from the Pirifeics' of the Spaniards, they countenanced- him in \i\C^^hbention, and every other wretched Subterfuge he bnd Rccourfe to, with a Purpofe to avoid it ', and wHen it could be no longer avoided, they alfo countenanced him in all the feeble, dila- tory, ruinous Meaflr^s he took to render it ineffec- tual, and thereby j-^ify his own Backwardncfs to enter into it. ^ ,, . When, therefore,' ?r- was removd, and they were fuffered t(^^continue, it was but natural that his Followers fhotild fill up their Train ; for, how much foever they were pleas'd with his Re- moval, or had contributed to it, they had kept the Secret, fowell, that it'-was fcarcc fufpedled : In this Following confifled theirStrength, not in their Parts, or Charafters : They knew it, and they made ^u_:- T^ir^rtHfrnn* arrorHinplv ! The new M' 8 '^ Plan d, thac r Con- nc Rc- / } and :r fuch luftrate Dnce fo fo con- put ic brought ■amaliel n every yrace of iffift the of that rived of n Italy, were of locates } IS from enanced /retched rpoie to ivoided, le, dila- c inefFcc- rdnefs to v*d, and t natural in ; for, his Re- lad kept acd: In t in their ley made M •$ Plan ( 35 ) Flin was diametrically oppofite to That of the Old : The — • had embraced it, becaufe it appeared more agreeable to his own Glory, and the FigHre chefe Nations had ufed to n\sikt amongft their Neighbours : He that propofed They knew would lead, which was by no means favourable to their Views and Intefefts i and the Method they took to fupplant him, was to recommend the 0/d S^Jlem, in Contradiftindtion to the New \ and under the Pretence of that Confijlency^ which they had not obferv'd thcmfclvei, to engage the Phalanx ^ whco Time Ihould ftrvc, to avow it. But this AfFedation of Confidency was no other than the Glofs which they endeavoured to fet on their own Rottennefs : They had been fond of Peace, only becaufe they were fonder of Corruption; and as a fteady Perfeverance in the Right was juftly ranked among the Virtues, they knew they had Partizans firm and intrepid enough, to pafs an obftinate Profecution of the Wrongs upon the World, for thtfume Thing. They were, moreover, encouraged in tl is Profc- cution by the almoft incredible Change which their Allies, in the Oppofition, had found Means to ef- fedb in the Opinions and Behaviour of the People *, for tho' the War was a Meafnre which they had call'd f<9r themfelves ; tho* it had been advis'd, recommended, and fupported by Parliament ; tho' it was confident with all the Principles of Policy, purfued by all wife Nation5, and in particular with thofe of This } and tho' it v as certain, that the con- trary Meafure, would, in the prefent Cafe, have re- figned the World to France^ that an Acquiefence in the Grandeur of that dangerous Neighbour, had never been countenanc'd by any upright Parliament, nor endured by the Nation, nor ever avow*d by any Minifter, till both Minifter and K — -r-, in. the Reign of Charles IL were bought and fold by iL 2 thole ( 36 ) ihofe of Frahce, not ever made a Point of €fe' pofition» till the difcarded Miniftcrs of that and the next intamous Reign, fet ir up againft the Meafuwi of King miliam., \hy^ tho* all thfife Fadls wcrcnoi torious and undeniabic, the new Minifters were rcn- dccd unpopular, by followiug the very Maxims which had rendered ail other Minifters popular : Ih proportion as their Credit grew tarnilh'd, that of thfc War did the faaie; and, intoxicated with the Draught they had fwallow'd, the Public were induced ib forgive the Tools of ^— »s hated Adminiftratibnt rather than confide any longtr in the Efforts of thofc whofe Glory ic had been to remove him. This is fufficient toa,ccount for the Obftacles raisM by the two 5— rj,and the Clamour they made againft the War, while they adcd only an Undcr-Part in the carrying it on : And without flopping to won- deri that the fame Pretences, which had operated fo forcibly upon the Public againft their Rivals, and which ought to have operated with double that Force againft them, had, from the Moment they carry'd their Point, no Operation at all ; ^r to afk, as others have done. Why when they found them^ fclves Mafters of die C— b— t, they did not aft as cavalierly in it, with Refpeft to Meafures\, as they had prefum'd to do with refpedl to Men ? I (hall proceed to explain, firft the Motives which indue *d them to take that prepofterous Determina- tion to ruin the War, which, in contempt of their Notions of Confiftency, they had promised to fup^ port ; and then the feveral Steps and Gradations by which they obtained their Ends. On the firft of thefe Articles little need be faid ; for nothing can be more evident, than that, if the War had been fuccefsful, even in their own Hands, the Honour of that Succefs would have redounded to the Jirf Jdvifcrs of it j in which Cafe it was rcafonable to expeft, that the Tide of Populariiy would nc of C%< bat and ch^ le Meafures Is were noi s were rcn- y Maxims opuUr : th , thatofthfe [le Draught rnduc*d ib iniflraeibh^ Efforts of ehim. tacles rais*d lade againft €r-Part in ig 10 won- :)perated fo ilivak, and louble that jment they -or to afl<, )und themw lid not aft !eafureSt as to Men ? ives which Deterrnina- pt of their s*d to fupr Gradations ed be faid ; hat, if the wn Hands, redounded afe it was Popularity would ( 37 ) vrould once again have turn'd in their Favour ': f^otsi City- Recorder, or a Corporatioh-Toivn- Clerk could then have made a congratulatory Speech^ or drawn up an Mdrefs, but the Eyes of the People vould have been turn*d upon them ; whatfoever had been faid in favour of thofc National TopUksy the Obligation of Treaties, the Reafonablenefs of fupporting our Allies, and Nccefiity of averting the Honour of the Nation, and the indifpenfable Duty of retrieving our commercial Intadft, rivalled by France^ and invaded by Spain, would have been fiiid in Favour of Them : And it would have been utterly forgot, that ever They had been confidcred as Fsdls, or Tools, or Hanoverians. Nor was this the worji which the B- ■ ■ rs had to expeft from a profperous Iffue of the War -, for they had the fame Reafon to expeft, that the Power of their Rivals would have return'd with their Popularity, and that the Negotiations for a Peace would have been entrufted to them ; in the Courfeof which they might have difplav*d fuch Parts and Abilities, and realizM fo many Advantages to the Nation, as had put them out of the reach of Oppofition for the Time to :ome : Under their Direftion, No Search would have been the >/ Preliminary we had fjgn'd with Spain; and the al^fo- Ivti Demolition of Dunkirk (not fuch a Colltifroe Stipulation, as that which at prefent fo highly and fo juftly offends the Public) had been the ># we had fign*d with France: Inftead of obliging our Al- lies to ^i/}?^^/^ with our Engagements, wehdd fulfilled them -, inftead of gratifying our Enemies at their Expence, we had gratified mm at the Expence of our Enemi-s ; and as to Cape-Breton, inftead of proftituting the Honour of the Nation, by fending Hcfiages to France by Way of Pawn for Its Rejlitution, it had remained to the Britifh Empire, as an ckrnai Proof oi the Rectitude of a Syftem, 31 \". ' li! ) f ( 38 ) Syftem, which had been ennobled by the Efforts mi King H^iiliam, and the Triumphs or the Duke of Marlborough ; and which had never been difcoun- tenanced, but when a French Miftrefs had the Af- ccndency in the Bed-Chamber, or a French Mi* nifter in the Cabinet, Thefe would have been the Fruits of their Labours, with rcfped to foreign Affairs ; and, in virtue of the Importance which they muft have unavoi- dably derived from fo many important Services, they would have been abl« to difpcrfe chofe Locujfs which had fo long devoured the Land i and to pro- mote thofe Reformations^ which the Public had once fo impatiently demanded, and which They had never been able to promote effectually before. This is fufficient to fhew, what prfonal In* ducements the two B rs v/trt direded by : And now it is fie to fhew farther what additional Strength this left-handed Biafs ot theirs received from ihcir new Allies of the Broad-Botiom : The Latter, it feems, had luffered themfclvcs to be fo jockey 'd in their Treaty, had come in upon fuch low Terms, in Comparifon to the Height of their Demands, and were, moreover, fo disjmnled by their Infide- lities to each other i that they found themielvcs at firft more uneafy in the PoffefTion, than ever they had been in the Purfuit. As they had never efteemed the B rj, after this Treatment, they could not help diflrufting them ; and they had no Way to be fecure in their Employments, but by putting them, the B rj, on fuch Meafures, and driving them on fuch DifHcuItits, as fhould at the fame Time expofe them yet farther in the C— b — t, and render their own Services fo much the more ne- cefTary for their Support : With this double View, they infjllcd on the Neceffity of faving Appearances for a Sefljon at leaft, and in order thereto, of ading in fuch a Minner, as fhould feem to reconcile the two ( ^9 ) two fecmingly-oppofite Charafters of Patriot and Placeman : This the B^^-^rs, wanting either Cou- rage to deny, or Skill to obviate, were forced to yield to, tho*'aware of the Perplexities and Mifchiefs it would unavoidat3ly bring upon them : Accor- dingly, during that whole S — — n, the* Broad" Bottoms adted in fuch an ambiguous Manner, alter- irately oppoHng and fupporting, condemning and approving. Battering and abufing both Meafures and Men, as confounded all Principles of Judg- ment, or Probability of Gonjedlure. Such Place- men, fuch Patriots, fuch Politics, had never been feen in this Country before ; and the Nation was more intent on gaping at this incomprehenfible Phcenomenon, than in attending to, or guarding againft, the Dangers it foreboded. But we ought not to hurry over this Scene without throwing a due Degree of Diftindion on the principal Aftor in it. There was one Man among the Broad'Bottoms of affeded Candour, but no Principle ; fluent Tongue, and fteady Counte- nance ; who, on the Merit of having been ill-ufed by /iT— , and too well ufcd by the P — of , had fet himfelf up as the Cicero of the Times for Eloquence j and as another Cato for Inflexibility : This Man, this great Man, was purpofely left out of the general Promotion, that he might come in afterwards with fo much the more Weight ; that he might be at Liberty to ufe fuch Language, and raife fuch DifHcuities and Obdrudtions in the Courfe of the S n, as, on the one Hand, (hould oblige the B rs to perform Articles-, and, on the othtr, fhould furnilh them with Pretences, to oblige the * * * • to do the fame. Thefc Articles were two : The one oftenfiblc and peculiar to the Broad-Bottotm : The other non- oftenfible and common to both the contrafting Par- ties. The firfl: comprshended the Difmiflion of half the m ■ ii f i ; i 1 1' ' t t i 1 1 ! 1 ' ;1 \ 1> ( 4P ) t^c Hamvma^ Forces, by, >yay of Tul) to the^ Populace : And the other , xh^ Ruin pf the War,' The Br rj were willing enough to comply with the former, when they confidered its Operation with refped: to the latter: But when thfey cpn* (idered farther, of what more immediate Impor? tance it was to tfiemj to recover if poflible Ibme Degree of Favour in the C— b— t, juft fo|" the Sake of making the Time they fpent there, fo mgch the more eafy to themfclvts, they were for poit- poning the Experjment ; at leaft they fb pt-etended \ and in Adions of this double Nature, it is' im* poffibleto know when Men are firjcere :The Broad* Bottoms^ on the contrary, would hear of no Delay j 9iT\d ihtw Undertflker-General debated the ^^atter fo fiercely with tht younger, that he who had talked up his Abilities fo h'gh, for the 3^ke of tcrnfyinp; others, grew frigWd for himfelf; and rather cf^ofe to comply with his Demands, than remai;) any longer the Bt^t of his abiifive Oratory ; which, fri- volous as it was, he could neither bear or repel. But though the B rs had not Courage enough to interpofe themfclves between the ** * * and this Jinii'D'mmock^ they had Artifice enough to take off the Edge of his Weapon, before they fufFcred him to fl:rike a Blow. For they not only induced him to give Leave, that his ****** * fhould have 575965/. DifmilTion-Money, for the faid Moiety of his Forces in Briti/h Pay, under the Pretence of de- fraying the Charge of their March Home ; but that the faidMoicity, inltead of marching Home, fhould pafs into the iservice of the Queen of Hungary % who was, moreover, complimcnred with an addi- on.tl Subfidy of 200,000/. for their Pay, till the Temper of the Times wouKf permit their being re- placed on the fame Footing as before. It was in this manner the Broad-Bottum^ jufti^y'd all the Licence they had taken, in (re» jng i.f H^ r [ -41 ] // r Jols i and, in particular, of the Dangers and Diftradions to be apprehended from the H -It Troops. But, not to lofe Time in- expofing fo glaring an Affront to the Common- • Strife of Mankind, and which no liarfguage is ftrong' eribiigfi to expofe as it diferves, I ftiafi now proceed* toremihd you of fuch other Mcafures, as were the Gi-owth of this Year, and which had as manifeO; a Teiidency to ruin the War. The Campaign of this Summer 1745, being the. firft in which his R^ H the D~ had; ihcCbmmand, it was natural to e3Cpe^, as well be- caule he was a fa/ourite S— n, as bccaufche was their own EleSfi That they would either have fur- niOied him with fuch ^y?««f* and Advices, as; Ihould have enabled him to make his firft Effort witl^; Honour to himfelf, and Advantage to the; Comtnon Caufe j di^, at leaft, wifhiuch Caution^ as fhould^ have fecured- him from any remarkable Re- pulfe •;• and no doubt they would have obferved' this Diredion, if thc^'Succefs of the War had been their Object ; but oppofite Views, requiring oppo» lite Condud, it appears, ift, That rSo' Thought v/as everentcrtained of procuring an equUl Body of Troops • to replace the 8000 Hanoverians transferred to the Auftrian Service : 2dly, That under the Notion of 80000 Men, they fuffercd him to take the Field with no more than 50000 j that is 10 fay, 20000 EngJifhy 8000 Hanoverians^ and 22000 Dutch : 3d!y, That it was an avowed Article of their own Belief, that the Hanoverians codd not fight ; and of all the World's that the Dutch would not fight 5 whence it follow'd, that the fuppos'd effedive Part of this Army amounted to no more than 18000 Foot, and 4000 Horfe, or thereabouts : 4thly, That the French, which were rated here at 120,000, did really amount to 70000, and were moreover en- Crenched up to the Teeth, under the Countenance F of Hi ilii ill > u ^'jwVV*i,,_^^, ! ( \ L [ 4* ,1 of their Sovereign, and the Conduft of clici" abjcft General: And 5thly, that tho* the Difparity wai fe notorious, inltcad of dircfting their young Hero tp aft on the defenfivey which icerncd to be the only fenfible Part he could aft. they, the very Men (who the Year before wppld not permit thfc Allied Army, which was then as much fuperiop to That of France^ as xhdiioi France was to the Allied Army, to make any Effort at all,) direftcdthc D to attack the Enemy in their Lines. On what Principle, therefore, can we account for fuch extravagant and inconfiftcnt Conduft, but That which hath been already fo often inculcated ?CFor. tho* the Raifing the Siege of Toumay furnilhed th«5 Pretence, no fufficient Reafon could be affigncd to juftify that Pretence :) And yet fuch was the in- trepid Behaviour, both of our National and Elec* toral Troops,: that. noj:withftanding a)l Difad- vantage3, they had like to have made a capital Mifiake, and ruined the French Army, inftead of ruining the War. Our Soldiers were in carncft^ whatever our M—*— rs were : Fighting was their Bufinefs: Conqueft their Purpofe : And that they did not obtain it, was far from being any Fault of theirs. Thicy had driven the whole Force of the Enemy before them, and had only a fmall Refcrye, much inferior to the 8000 Hanoverians^ who had been difmifled, to mafter : But this Rcferve, fmall as it was, was more than fufficient to repel the feeble Attempts of Men wearied out with the Slaughter they had made, and oppreffed with the Burden of fo many Viftories. In fine, the Arts of the two B rsj not the Arms of France, pre- vailed i and the Iffue of the Day was altogether as fatal, as the Efforts of it were glorious. ;' From the Time of the Battle of Dettinghen^nW this fatal Period, France had proceeded in the molt cau* tiQiis Manner- as if more apprehenfive of being fub- ducd herfclf, than intent on fubduing the Allies : But, i I' " ableft ity was g Hero be tlie ic very mit thb erioF to : Allied ^ the r: ■ . ount for ut That ? YFor. (bed the gned to fhq in- id £lec« Difad- , capital inftead earneft^^ vas their lat they Fault of of the Refcrve, rho had re, fmal! ;pel the i^ith Che with the the Jris nce^ pre- ^ether as »,tiil this [loft cau* ;ing fub- AlHcs: But, I 4J ] Huf, having now obtained the Clue to our new Con- ^u^ (by what Means will, probably, at one Time or another, be brought to Lightj niadc fuch Dif* pofitions to improve the Opportunities which dail^ arole in hm Favour, that the War took a very dif- ferent Biafs from what it had hitherto done \ and a continued Scries of ill Succefs on our Side, not oiily feemed to confirm all the Foreboding of the Broad-Bottom Fa(5iion, but to authorifc, the long- exploded Schemes of Clifford, Rocbefler, Bolinghroke^ and IVaipolg, The Lofs of Tournay was the firft Confequence of this rafh Attack, and hard-earn*d Viftory i Ghent t Bruges^ Dendermonde, Oudenarde^ j^eth^ Nieuport^ and Ofiend^ followed in Train ; and with thefe cruel Aggravations, that no lefs than 6000 Men were cut off, by our ill -concerted Projedfc to fave the firft ot thofe Places (which cou'd not have been faved by lefs than a whole Army) and two Battalions of Guards in the laft. It is moreover obfervable, that one of thefe Bat- talions was tranlported from hence, tho* it was uni- vcrlally known, the Place was indefetifihle % tho' his M ***** * had fent Advice from H r, where he then was, that the young Pretender was embarked for Scotland-, tho* not aibove 4000 effec- tive Men were left in the whole Ifland ; and tho* it was in a Manner irapoffible for the D , pofted as he then was, behind the Canal of BruJplSf to fend a Man to our Affiftance. It would be held too inviduous, perhaps, to charge the B — rs with fomenting the Rebellion, is well as ruining the War : But every Man muft re- member , that they connived Sit the very Growth of it, to a Degree that amazed all Europe •, and that they were infinitely more atteative to thcsir own Eltabhlh- oncnt in Power, than to the Security of the Nation, or the Maintenaacc of that Succeffion, upon which, F z tnder I t 'I J ( 44 ) Under God, our Civil and Religious Liberties' de- pend : Tlic mort early, the moll zealous, and the mofl: difintereftcd Offers of the moll loyal and dif- interefled Men, to extinguifh the Fl ime as foOn as it broke our, or to hinder its fpreading afterwards, were reje(^f:d ; arid, in diametrical Oppofition to the late aftedcd Creed of their Broad Bottom- A\- Jics, they not only took Occafion to charge the JVhole of Scotland^ moft unfairly and unjuilly, with Jacobiiifm, becaufe a Partoi the Highlands had rofe in Arms for the Pretender, but ufed fuch fuf- picious Language, and took fuch diffident Mca- fureswith Regard to England^ as if the fame Spirit had the Piedominance her(j j though every pay i and almoft every Hour, furnifljed the moft illuftrious Proofs to the contrary. This alone is fufficient to prove. That they conniv'd at the Growth of the Rebellion : But if there was Occafion, fo many other Proofs might be collefled as would render Doubt impbfliblc: And to prove, that, while this Vulture was thus fuffcr'd to prey on our very Heart-Strings, they were attentive only to their own Eftablifhment i we need only open another Vein of their Con- duft, at that Time, whidi carries Demonftration along with it. They knew, for Inflance, the ♦*♦* could neifljer make any Alteration in his C — b—- 1, nor attempt to make any in the Comple(5lion of I> . The Young Pr tender was become Reiurniag-Officer ^or Scotland : And while they held their Places, they were fure of afling in the fame Capacity for England: Thus the Crifis, v/hich was fo alarming both to jp— — -- and People, was favourable to them, becaufe the Jntcrefl they had to fejvq was feperaie from that of fit her : And fuch was the defperate Ufc tHey made of it, that his ****** found himfclf tinder a J\>oc|Iity, cither to take the Law frorti fhem,'6r I ! lU liberties de- )us, and the •yal and dif- : as fbbn as afterwards, ^pofition to Bottom- A\' charge the juilly, with hlands had d fuch fuf- ident Mca- the fame )ugh every d [he moft That they 3n : But if oofs might mpoflibJc : was thus ings, they jlifhment j heir Con- lonftration , ihe **♦♦ C— b— t, le(51ion of s become /hile they acting in Thus the caiife the im that of Ufe they f under a them, or to r 45 ] to fee the Way rendered fmoother than ever from Scotland to St. James's, " i fes : Thofe, who, under the Pretence of a L-O'N^n, had before obliged His- to re- cave a whole FaUm into his Service, now jnfifted on h,s receiving _, the Orator and StcU, who had botli flood m the Front and brought up the IT'SJ^I ^'^T' ""?. •"' <='-'• '''°' h'^ was the moft difjgreeable to him of all his Subiefts bv confernng on him an Office, which render'd'his Attendance Here indifpenfible : And when his tusd lo^fubmit to fuch an Indignity, they not only declar'd their Refentment. by religning^hdr S"!P'7™"«' but difcovered the kl ^i.yff their ,K &° V ^ "''f ''*■«■ *"'" ^"""y o*«r » rfon, from theHighefttothe Loweft, to io the fame ; toTh" End, that Ihe ., finding himfcif univerfallv deierted. the S-pp-s in Sufpena, the money'd Men a^arm-d, pubhc Credit Ihock'd. and the whole Nation bew,lder'd might have no other Refor ! „^ w-l? '• ""Altc^tive, but to fubmittothei? good Will and Pleafure. Pofterity will fcarce think it poflible, that fuch a Mutiy amongft the Servants of a great -_ iServa.,s that flood obliged to his Favour and Proteaion, not only for the very Importance th»v madeufeof againft him, but alt^oft their very li- 'Mce) could be produaive of any Thin| but " ifevftl" f"f R^.-'o'l'emrelves; linTJc^tl hTV^ f'il!*""" "''5' '=«i^^. That, fuch was nobi? Lord . ir-V^-/, Artifices, that but one noble Lord, who had the Honour to hold an Em- ployment under him, had the Courage to pe^fiftTu holdmg It, till his R_l M-r requircd'^liir o ?y It down : and that for this meritoriou Refu- wL mrnT'"'"" ^? "'"^"^ =• Comhmion, he yyas turn d out in the moft- in^p^p^.,. n/r_. almolf . |i I'; [ 46 ] almoft as foon as they were rcinftatcd in their lormer Supremacy. But to refumc the Courfe of our Foreign Af- fairs, for the Sake of /hewing. Step by Step, the • Completion 01 the great m ] Defign to ruin the War. The Death of the Emperor, and the uilpofition which was Ibon manifefted, by the young EleiJor his Son, to emancipate himfelf out Of the Hands of France, and to embrace the true Jntcrelh of the Empire, were Circumftances ex- treme y favourable to the Common Caufe : But what Ufe focver was made of the Former, by the indefatigable Care and luperior Knowledge of his •^, the Latter was overlook'd ; tho' the Inte- reftof that Prince, in the Eleftoral College, the ^ituation of his Dominions, end the Troops he M to furnirh, made it evident that he was no inconfiderable Acquifition. Thefc Troops of his were in Number 12000: How much we flood in need of them, has already been made apparent • ^nd yec iho' offerM. they were refused, under" the iame Pretence of Oeconcmy, which had been urgd to defeat the Meafurts of the preceeding But the true Reafon was this : Pr— fj^ ^ ^^ ^^^ condefcended to aft the Jow Part of a T-^I to the Cabal 5 by affifting to fcreen them trom the Imputation, of having rcjcftcd the i iwt— y of //—«—«. and opehJy laying the blame of the whole Mifcarriage on the E— of C — ; This was a feafonable Service ; the Obliga- tion remained undifcharg'd j and it being impraai- cabJe, or faid to be fo, to retain both the Bava^ rtaf>s and Ufjfians^ wc chofe to take 6000 of the Latter into our Pay, tho* they had defcrtcd us the lear before, preferable to 12000 of the Forrner to^ctner with the whole Intercft of the Prince they belonged to. ' From •d in their orcign Af- y Step, the • Ign to ruin r, and the ?d, by the bimfelf out ? the true tances ex- aufe : fiuc »er, by the dge of his the Intc- »liege, the 'roops he le was no )ps of his ' ftood in apparent : 'd, under had been receeding -fr n f Part of en them (ftcd the ^ing the E— of Obliga- mpracti- e Bava- o of the \ us the Former, ice they From t nued to Dufli Thp A I, T '''?E"emy con- infomuch that ifl.f*"''8« 'hey ^'d obtain'*!, to thdrHand '" ^.T fO- T" ^^-^/^ itfclf fell in^ filled of .,^;* mI„ Lret .t'p 'r- "^'^ '°"- ,, I am aware. X TV^f 'J/ ofTe "r'T'^ lion, the Drauchts we wrr, rfe u? . j '^^'"■'- of our Inatimio^ ^'^ '" ^^ "'^'d in excufe AfFai„ of "rSem Tnd I ft^,!rl' '1*' as readv a« on., d j * ."^"^ ^ ^oM have been if " w^re po7ble^/^° t?'™'^^'' ?" P'"" ner the ReUon had C »^??,'" **"' '^""■ f^PPofc, that the fV,™i(V T ■* "P' "f not to w of theerelt Pumr^? \'t''-''''^ £««/. was up toanfwe? ^"P"*^^ "h^ ,^ was (omrs'd E- of C-, and K^—p^vc ' ">,P">We G— 'W, for the oX. ofP ^5' '"qualify >n Ew- was return'd to the C ^f-^^'f"'" "^ I^'l'^d. the Waf ; and thi^kwa^tl^Hnr'''' '?f not fa to create a lilf, rT I J ^•"°'"*• "^""'d is true, ti^<. BnadBt^^l^ff Abroad : It all the PuroofM of II 'rr ° i'''' "°* anfwer'd farther PrXc^' t^' tZS,^^"^' ^ ''^'' "" fcended to drop the iWlLk^,„ ^'°'^t' '^°"''«- augment them w.rh .^^' ^f^^^J^ ray, and even ta timing of if r ^! u ^f '''=''^'^'' ''y the ill- - I- j.<^ or iiic oooo ciansfcrrM i Ml. J Jil i { 48 ] transferi'd to the Q^o{ Hunj^ary ind the additiooal 2000J could come up : It was the middle of July, before the loooo Jufiriam under Count Palfy^ could do the fame : Both >i!«fe Efifcds of the fame Caufe : The Qiiecn of Hu — ry could never recruit her Forces Time enough to render them complete, againft the enfuing Campaign, unlefs favour*d with a very early Advantage of her Subfidies ; which was a Faft, that the Br rs were no Strangers to : And hence it Unavoidably follow'd, that till the Beginning of Augufiy the Allies could bring no Army into the 'J^'icld, that was fit for P — C — s of i— « to command, or to endure the Sight of the Eriefny. On the other Hand, the moft Chrijltan King had taken the Field on the 24rhof j^pril\ had in the Courfe of the Summer reduced Antwerp^ Mom, StGuitaiHt and Charleroy \ and, difcovering no iDanger of t3ir\y. material Oppofuion, had ventured to fit down isefi re iVtfwwr. ''''.,^' J^ ' * ' The Siege of that important Place, hacf'been carried on, as ufual, by one Army, under the Pro» tc<5lion of another •, and this was the only Cfifis, when P — C — had dny Chance of attacking them, with any Profpeft of Advantage : But, while he dill waited for the Reinforcements he cxpeded, and particularly the Bavariavs, who, by this Time, were received into the Number of our Dependants, if not of our Allies, his moft Chrif tian Majeft:y carried both the Town and Citadel ; and having rejoined his two Armies, fell upon the Confederates" at Racouxt and, by the Dint of fu- perior Numbers, defeated them. I am now come, in the natural Courfe of Things, to the Year 1747 : But, as our Condudl during that Year fccmed to have taken a difl^^rent Turn, and adually did wear a different Afpe«fl, it will be neceflary to account for that feeming Alteration, by : additloDal le of July, lunt Palfy; f the fame jver recruit I complete, /our'd with which was angers to : iat till the bring no — C—Jof ight of the \jiian King ril 1 had in lerp^ Mons^ 3vering no id ventured , haa'been ler the Pro» )nly Crifis, ■ attacking age : Bur, :ement8 he f, who, by ber of our n.oft Chrif id Citadel j 11 upon the Dint of fu- of Things, ud during ;rent Turn, , it will be Alteration* by (49) by the previous Mention of fuch Circumftanccs as gave Rife to it. In Che firft Place, then, the *•••, growing wciry of flnigghng any longer with a Power, which, in fo many notorious Inftances, he had found fuperior t* his own, came to a Refolution, to give the B-^rs fuch Afluranccs as might ferve to remove the Ap- prehenfions they had entertained of a Back-Stair Fsl- yovinte: And they, on the other Hand, who found itjiS€OHveHient to have him for their ^//y, whom they had refufed to follow as aMaJigr, by Way of Acknowledgment, not only agreed to take 4000 more of his E— 1 Troops into the Pay of G fr — ' ^t prevailed with their Broad-Bottom- Allies to do the fame : For thofe Gentlemen were luch thorough Politicians, that they could fail with every Wind : It was for the Sake of Places they had raifed the Cry of No Hanoverians I And it was tor thz fame Con/tderations, that they were now for entertaining the whole Force of the E -c. But the * * * « was not the only Perfon ion- Ijdered m the Turn we are now difcourfing of. The l^aurels which the D had gathered ac C-//-^-», were yet green ; his Popularity was at the full J and the additional Provifion made for him by theP^^ 1, had, infome Mcafure, fct him tree Jrom the Leading-Strings of the two B rs • As he was become of more Confequence, than they ever defignedhe fhould be, fo he was alfo become morerenfible of ir, and more rcfolure lodcrrive all poffibic Advantages from it : They had made him a boldicr ; he was fond of the Charader j and he Jongrd for nothing fo much, as to confirm the ^lory he had acquired in Scotland, by fome fignal Exploit in Flanders : In Compliment to Him, therefore, they not only were obliged to proceed with the War, but with more feeming Vigour than ever : For he had now acquired fome Experience j ^ the \ l! I ; W50) the People had »tot only Prepoflcffiolis in his FavoOfi but were now more exafpcratcd than ever againft #^wtf i and it TdrpafTed thik Art; ^ ftnd him 4^pon fuch another f^/Y^/y^ Errand; as he had been -fciTr upon in the Year 1745. i^'.M;* av , •(,j,fci, I' Thm he who Was at firlt rirtade 6fe of as an In- ftrument to drive on a Peace, became as con- -fideitable in Inftrunrient to-drive on the War ; and» what greatly increafed their Perplexity on this Ac- * couot.', mmy. of their Broad-Bottm-Atlies, partly to \paJJiate their Conduft with Relation to the Hanovet TTQo)^i^ and partly to make their Gourr. epe»ry renounced their late pacific Syftem, and dif- tmguilh themfelves ; in both H s, by Speeches andMotions in Favour of the War : Nay, the very Men who, in the Courfe of their Oppofition, had made thcmlelves To merry with the : Words take and holdy now 'axlopted the Sentiments they were intended to enforce, :and would bafatisfied with no- thing iefs than a War o^ Jcqutfition. Nor did even This contain the whole of the 5 r\ Uneafinefs at this Crifis : In theDivifioh of Power which had followed the Broad-Bottom Treaty, they had been forced to part with the Marine to their Allies ; but then tliey flattered themfelves, that in putting the Diredionof it in the Hands of a certain great D , who was fo far from having any Ex- perience in Naval Affairs, that he had no Experience m^^y Affair uut his awn ; and who was abundantly more eminent for the Largenefs of his Poffeffions, than the Brightncfs of his Parts, they fhould ftill maintain fuch an Afcendancy at that Boards as miglit enable them to give what Biafs to the Ma- chine, they plea fed : But in this they' were moft gncvoully difappointed : For his Ambition was to be thought a Man of Bufmefs ; and at once to convince the World of his Abilities, and them qf his independency, he took the whole Dircdion fo t .'! Favodri :r againft end him had been s an In- ; as con* »r ; and» this Ac- r, parti/ to the p Gourr, and dif- Spccches the very on, had rds Jake ey were with no- e5— r's F Power ty, they to their that in a certain my Ex- perience ndantly ieffions, lid ftill ard, as e Ma- e mod: 3n was It once d them iredion t50 i© abfoliilely upon himfelf, thatlie'would not fuf^t thetn to intcr/ert in "the fmallel^ Brianch of it j nor «yen to make tf Ueuc^nant, WithdUt a Permit (r^mi him : They mighftrecommWdji if they pleafftd ; bot lie was iVdc- aJwiys in a HUfnour to grant ? If they >vere iWp^tiinate, he ms fur6 to deny j and whit Wis ntore pj-divoking than all (becaufe it 4bemed to trench on the M i i ■■ j Prerogative, which they Jookudtipon to be tJieir ^^fw/?^/-^ tho' he.riiade no Ii)ifllOuky of givin^u Repulfe him(df^ he woulct brook ttone from any' Body clfe. kp« Befides, what ftrVed to render him. yet more tH»"Wieldy and untriia^ible, as many: of the Bmad- Hmt6^s M pr^dn^ed 'any Cdmieaion wirh tfat^ Olherj affeited '■ ro cdftfidcf, and f6W(^w, him.as a Sort of Chief j aiidc What completed both his Eftav bJilhmehti and his Authority; aU tiie' Succeircs of the War arofe in" hiis Province, 'fr.f .^ ,,aif Dependanceon ths SuccelTcs of a Sqa War : To be Mafters of the Sca»^ a« wfl now abfoiufiely were, and to be in a Con* ditiaa to make new Aequifitiioni, without a Pof,; Sbjjity of maintaining them, wWch .was what had; been fuggefted, was a Rcfleftion chat he could* i|ot bear : In ho|»e, Uherefore^ to fccure what we bad got, as alfo for the Sake of making new? Acquifitions, he becamej all at once, a moft vehe- ment Advocate for pufhing the War. with equal Vigour, both by Sea and" Land ; both in Euroco and America : Want of Money which coft hl'nw oothing, but jhe asking, or /athcr ordering, was the Icaft of his Confideration : And no ArgH-» ments, or the Imreaties of the B rj, could ei* ther convince him of the Irapraaicability of his Notions, or prevail with him to relinquifh them; It followed, that the Shock of two fueh oppo- fuc Principles had like to have been fatal to tlis Coalition: Objiinacy was the principal Ingredient in his G — p-t— --»s Compofition, as Cunning was in theirs : And They could not . be more afraid of Ruky than he was fond of being the foremoji Figure on the Stage. At length, however, the B-^-^rs luckily bethought thcmfelves thnt the mo/* , r; I J i ■ (54) mofl: cflfeAuil Way to obviate the Violence of a^ Torrent which they could not withftand, wotild be, t^ yield V for a while, to its Impetuofity ; and iQrfo doing, to have it in their Power to give, it foch a Direftion, as, inftead of bearing Thcmdow»^ ftiould ailftft them to bear down fuch other Obfta^ •Icj as encuoiberM their Way. 'Accordingly, after an infinite Number of Squab*^ Wes, they gave way to a Projed of his G--'j^^ to reduce ^ebec, and all the other Colonies held by the Frencbr'vCi Jmerica , by the Affiftance of c«r «e/», which werecaird upow to co-operate in it<, (and ftdtuaUy did make fuch Preparations for ity sshad like to! have provMalmoft ruinous to thenii*^ iiflves) I The mofe Money was exptfnded , and the^ more Troops were cmploy'din this Expedition, the Icfs of either ihey, knew wouJd remain for the Coni' tincht-Servicc.: Sd that, thus far his G — 's Proje^ eoincided penfedbiy with their own : And wheii' riiey had carry M on the Farce,: as far as they thought properi'they were fufficiently Mafters of the O/^ Tric^xo delay, to proeraftlnate, to fend Orders for Marches and Counter Marches, Em- barkations, and Debarkations, tili it was too late to make any other' Ufe of the vaft Expendiiui^ incurr'd upon this Occafion, but to render us the Dcnfion of Europe, firji by our Preparations for an Attempt that we did not make"-, and then for making fuch an Attempt, (that of Britany) as; we ought to be for ever alham'd of. I do not call this a DigrefHon •, becaufe it con- tains a new Proof, That the only Point the Two B- rs had at Heart, was the Ruin of the War. But, as I fuggefted above, whatever their Inclina- tions or Purpolts were, the breaking out of this New Spirit in the C— b — t ; the additional Im* portance which his R — H— ■ the D had acquired ; and the Expediency of putting on a fighting ice of a: , womld ty ; and jgiveic m downy • Obfta- Squai>>' nies held ztofour ate in it, for it, a them- and the tion,the he Con* s Proje^ d when,' as they aders of to fend es, Em- too late 3endicui^ :r u«.thc ions for then for (any) as it con- he Two rhe War. r Inclina- it of this mal Im- had ig on a fighting (ss) fighting Face, by Way of making their Court to his — , did prevail with them to en- tertain a much greater Army for the Service 6f the Year 1747, than they had ever cntertain'd before : And either becaufe it ftiitcd ketter with the former Charafter and Conduift of the E of S , than that of any other Man, to be the firft Inftrument in the Concert, by which a Land fTar was to be carried dn with greater Vigour than evtr, and ^\itniUgreateJl Number of Hanoverian Troops were to be taken into Britifl^ Pay, or be- caufe he Ihould Have an Opportunity to try his talent at Negotiation, the Convention with the Allies for the Year, was refer r'd td him. By this Convtmion Great Brrtain was to fur- nifh 40000 Men ; the. States Genera/ 40000, and the Emprefs^^een 6k>ooo, in all 140000: Thete Were to be exclufive of Garrifonsj H6r Imperial Majefty, moreover, oblig'd herfelf to keep no- lefs than ioooo Men in Luxemburg , and, over and above all this, it was not only ftipulated. That there fhould be a Junaion of 60000 /iujirians, and 30000 Piedmontefe, in Order to make a Diverfion in Province^ but that 1 5000 fhould be pofted near the Panaro, by way of Check on the King of Naples. Of the Expediency- of the laft of thefe Articles, I fhall not ftay to make any Remark j but of the Indifcretion ihewn in making it an avowed Part of the Convention, I cannot be wholly filcnt. His Catholick Majefty\ in Refentmcnt of the repeated Negleds which had been thrown upon Spain, by the French Minifters in the Courfc of the War, had not only manifcfteda Difpofition to repay thoTe Ntgledts in Kind, but had aduaJly made feveral Overtures to us, which had been Jiften'd to with an affcfted Cordiality, though never embrac*d: But this M eafure ftem'd 10 indicate, that ihoie Ovcrcufcs ' ( $6) Ovmurts i^M rtW Ipe embwc'd at all i and that they h^i b«en litlcncd to rather as Matter of Amufcm^iu, Ihan the Bafi* of an Accormodation. Princes have their Prejudices and Refcntmcmsas well as priyaw |4en : A0d if « Should aj>pear, that this »ndil«^ ^haviour txm^^ It^at ill Humour which has fincf tliwarled our anmmial Int«refts, and the Fre9r ^mof NamgnHonyy^hich^ both by natural /«- JjVa and Che X^^^ of former Tre.itics, we were imitled £ was Lord of the Afeendant there, concerning it, th«t thev could fcarce do otherwifc : For fuch as were zealous for the Profecution of the War, he amufed with an Account of the prodigious Preparations makingfor that End 5 and to fueh as were impatient for a Peace, he pledgM his own Honour, and the Reputation of his fi-l^r's Abilities, (who wasto be the C7W.r/^^^r.Gencral in that Province) as a fumeicnt Security, That thty would foon be grati- fied to the Heighth of their Expeaations. The P-^m-Diale^, it ought not to be forgo^liafl been fneercdatby certain P^r/.»J,as an equal Mix- ture of the Perplex'd and the U»meanwg ; and yet io perluafive did it prove to Some. Jo forcjWc to O- Jiicrs and Co convincing to Aril,:that on the 27th of January, the Supplies, exorbitant as they ^ere,were granted wthout any Difficulty ; and the 1 flues of \Var and Peace, were once mo'-e. fV"^"r !«ni" rcction ot the two Heads of that illullrious F»n«ly. ihatthey ;es h»vc has Tincc ic Pre9^ we were 3r it, but was cn- ^nd the ru(^ioos ? was Jaid ippeared, d CO pTt>> nfure any Lang^agp who was g ir, thflft h as were le amufitd sparationa r, and tlie ho was CO nee) as a 1 be grflti- "orgot^haa qua! Mix>- and yet fo fiWe to O- he 27th of were, were le 1 flues of Jer the DU U5 Family. And K 57) Arid nowit might be fuppofcd, that having un* dertaken fo boldly for the Service of the Year i having been furnilhed fo early with all they afked for the Accomplilhment of their own Meafures, and having provided a Force y«/)tfr/er to That of the Enemy, for the Operations of the Field, it would no longer be in their fjvn Power, to pio- fecute their grand Purpofe oi ruining the War : But to Men of Genius and Refolution, like them, no- thing is impoiTible : This the Difcomfiture of the ^ebec Expedition hath, already, in Part, demon- ftrated ; and what remains to be told, I flatter myfelf, will render that Demonftration complete. But firft, I muftjuftify what I have advanced above, That the Force they had provided by the Convention, wasfuperiorto tha'^of /'r<2«f(? ; which may feem a little difficult to thofe who recollect that it confided but of 140000 Men, whereas that of France was faid to conlift of 1 60000 : I am not, however, unfurniflied with fuffitient Authorities to remove this Difficulty i and of Thefe I ihall not fail to make the moft fair and honeft Ufe. Be pleafed then to know, ift. That the Army under Marfhal Saxe, was compofed of 75440 Foot, and 25300 Horfe, and no more; that is to fay, 126 Battalions of 'Regulars, and 12 of MilJLia, fwhich at 500 to a Battalion, amounted to 69000J 6440 GrqffittSt Companies Franches^ &c. and 253 Squadrons, at 100 to the Squadron : In all, 100740. And 2dly, That the feparate Army un- der the Ccmie de Clermont y was compofed of 1 9 Bat- talions, and 31 Squadrons ; in all, 12600: So that the whole Force of France on the Side of Fh^n- derSy confifted of no more than 11 3340 Men, which fell fhort of the Numbers, provided by the Convention, 26660 : And even to fwell it up to this Bulk, they (the French) were forced to draw all the Troops thev could fpare from the lihine and l.ii f 58 ) the three Blfhoprlcks ; and, In a Manner, to drain their Garrifons ; which they ventured to do, on a Prefumption, That their Army would be abk to cover them. I am aware it will be urged, That Abatements ought to be made on the Part of the Allies, as well as on the Part of France : But whsn thefe Abate- ments come to be handled, it will appear that they deferve to be ranked amongft the moft coniiderable of thofe Artifices, made ufeof by the two B — nto ruin the War, which I now proceed to particularife. That I repeat the Nomination of the D— -— , to the chief Command, is Matter of extreme Re- gret to me : But Truth compels me to infift on what I fliould otherwife have been glad to omit : Perhaps the Vidory he had obtained over the Re- bels, had rather enflamed his Ardour, than ma- tured his Judgment : And the Experience of the Ge- neral, who was the next in Subordination to him, was no Match for the Superiority, which he deriv- ed from his high Birth and Quality. In the fecond Place, as in the preceding Cam- paign, the Allies had fufFered fo prodigioufly, by their not being in a Condition to take the Field, till the Campaign was almoft over, and every Corner of the Kingdom had rung with the Cla- mours it occafioned, it was now refolved, under the plaufible Pretences of preventing the like Clamours, and of giving fuch Proofs of Zeal and Vigour, as {hould deferve the Admiration of Europe, to reverfe that Conduft, and to take the Field .before it was poflible for the Bufinefs of the Campaign to begin: Thus though the Means were different, the End was the fame : The Soldiers had now as much to apprehend from the Rigour of the Seafon, as before from the Enemy : And, as if the Name of an Army was all that was wanting to recover our Cre- dit) retrieve our LoiTes, And repei the Enemy, as litti© ;r, to drain :g do, on a i be ablu to Abatements ies, as well lefe Abate- ir that they :oniiderable NO B — rs to Darticularife. D , xtreme Re- to infifton d to omit : vcr the Re- ', than ma- e of the Ge- ion to him, :h he deriv- eding Cam- igioufly, by ; the Field, and every ith the Cla- d, under the ;e Clamours, . Vigour, as (f, to reverfe efore it was gn to begin : nt, the End as much to •n, as before *f ame of an verour Crc- Enemy, as iittb {S9) little Care was taken to fubfift, as to employ, them. In ihort, the eftabliftiing Magazines was one of the laft Things attended to, which ought to have been one of the firft : and when they werecftablifhed, they were fo ill ferved, that they rather ferved to mock the Neceffities of the Soklier, than to fupply them. The efFefts of this wild Conduft, 1 fhall dif- courfc of more at large in the Sequel •, and, as a far- ther Exemplification of the notable Skill and Ad- drefs of the two B— rj, lam, in tlie mean while, to difcourfe of thofe Abatements as to Number, on the Side of the Allies, which had fo manifcft a Tendency to the Ruin of the War. The M — rs of the Emprefs Queen, as I have already fuggefted, had, over and over again, in- formed our C— t. That if a good Part of the Sub- fidy was not paid in December^ it would be impof- fible for them to fulfil the Engagements they might be obliged to make : l he Reafon of this was ma- nifcft : They were under a NecelHtyj j recruit in the Imperial Towns ; the hereditary Cv,v*ntries being too remote from the Scene of A6lion : In the Win- ter thefe Towns fwarmed with Handicrafts-men, and Labourers, who were glad to follow the Drum, for Want of Employment : And unlefs they were enlifted then, it was impoflible they fhould be armed, cloathed, and difciplined, fo as to be fit for Service in March : Thefe Reafons had been always in Force : But now they were abundantly more forcible than ever : The LofTes of the laft Year had fallen fo heavy that they were fcarce fupportable : It was out of her I M 's Power to fupply thofe LofTes, except by the Subfidies (he was to be furnifhed with from hence : And, therefore, it was, that fhe had been uncommonly urgent to carry that Point now, which (he had never been able to carry before. But the Incom- petency of her Troops was the very Sheet- Anchor of the two B-^rs : It ferved to make the Court of /^ — a accountable for every Mifcarriagc, and every Misfortune ; and for that Reafon, they were not only refolved to leave that Door open againft her, as it had hitherto been, but even to derive to themfelves fome Degrees of Credit, amongft the Ignorant, at leaft, from an affedled Endeavour to (hut it. What I refer to is, i^. th&t fraudulent Article in the Convention, by which it is provid- ed that 100,000/. fhould be detained, to anfwer fuch Deficiencies, asihould be found in herMufters: And 2dly, the Method they took to render them deficient ; by withoMing the greateft Part of thofe sums, which were intended for Levy-Money, till j4prii ; whereas, according to the Obligation of the Treaty, her Forces fliould have been in the Field in March. ^ ■ Thus, after the Nation had been induced to grant fuch immenfe Sums, under a Perfuafion of meeting tl'A common- Enemy upon equal Terms, and after having been amufed with this lolemn Pro- vifo to render the Service efFeftual, it appears the very Foundation was purpofely undermined on which their Hopes were built ; and that when the Train was fired, nothing but Ruin could follow. Our wild Con^uft, before fpoken of, and the Effc(5ts of it in the Field, cojue next under Con- fideration ; and if I barely glance at the feveral Particulars, it will, I think, be fujfficient to prove all that hath beenalready aflerted : For fo early as Fdhruary^ our Troops were put in Motion : To- wards the latter End of AUrch, they took the Field \n three feveral Bodies ; and having fo done, they refled upon their Arms for fix Weeks together, without making any Attempt of any Kind, to ex« cufe this otherwife inexcufable Bravado, tho' they }iad no Enemy to oppofe them For all this while, Marfiifi] oaiii coiitiaucd his Force« in their Can- tonments^ tonmeni and Tei Con tern Courfe felf wit this Occ convince provide Butil make V doing fc the Enc fay to M. Z-ngft the idcavour audulent I provid- > anfwer Mufters : Icr them of thofe ney, till ;ation of ri in the luced to jafion of Terms, mn Pro- ^ears the 3n which e Train and the er Con- e feveral to prove • early as m : To- ook the fo done, ogether, 1, toex- ho* they is while, leir Cuii- )nmeiits« (6i ) tonments, and th«reby manifeftcd as much Regard and Tcndcrnefs for thofc under his Command, as Contempt for his Enemies: Through the whole Courfe of the War he had, indeed, conducted him- felf with the fame Air of Superiority -, and upon this Occafion he was known to fay. That ivhen the had fufficiently weakened his Army, he would convince him, that thsfirft Duty of a General was t9 provide for itsPrefervaiion. But if the Vanity of taking the Field, only to make War againft the Elements, or the Folly of domg fo, without any Projed of Enterprize againft the Enemy, appears thus inexcufable ; what fliall we fay to our remaining in a State of Inadlivity , while M. Lowendahly with twenty- three Battalions, and five Squadrons, and M. de Contade, with as many more of each, left their Cantonments, and, in the Space of a Month, made that furprifing Conqueft of Dutch Flanden ? What muft we think, when we recollea-, that the Commander in Chief was ported fo near the Theatre of Adlicn, that he heard almoft every Gun that was fired ; and, that the Aujlrians were no farther off than the Meufe ? And what Conclufion muft we make, when it ap- pears, upon the whole Matter, that, inftead of being thus early in Readinefs toad offenfively againft the Enemy, we buffered the Enpmy to art oifcnfively againft us, without endeavouring to create a Diver- fion, by advancing towards Saxe, enfeebled as his Army then was, by the Detachments he had made, or any otherwifc interpofing, except by tiie feeble and vain Alfiftance of nine Battalions fent to Hti'Jl ? 1 fay, what muft our Conclufion on the whole Mat- ter be, but that all we did, and all we left undone, was owing to the fame leading Principles, which had operated invariably, though imperceptibly, to the Ruin of the War ? At iU ( 62 ) ' At laft,'lioWever, Con the ift 0^ May, N.S.) tU Allies began to bcftir thcmfelves -, and talked of no- thing Icfs than the xtAuQ:\x\g Antwerp : But then this notable Projcft was not entertained till Lowendabi had not only finifhed his Bufirtefs in Dutch Flanders, but alfo had been allowed Time and Lcifure enough to ftrensthen the Outworks, which had lam all this while fo totally in Ruins, that they had even no Communication with the Body of the Place. ^ That, however, it was entertained fo late, is not fo much to be wondered at, as that it was entertain- ed at all • A Town they could not invcft, they could " arce hope to carry : But Antwerp was befidcs un- der the Cover of the whole French Army : And out of this very Circumftance arifes a Queftion or two, which I am of Opinion, cannot beeafily an- fwered, namely, If our Army was inferior to the French, as in England it was the Faftuon to aflert, how came we to think of attem^^trng Antwerp, fo fortified and protefted, as has been defcnbed ? It fuperior, as according to the Convention it ought to have been, how can we account for its lying idle fix Weeks before, and two Months afterwards ? And how, in either Cafe, can we help recurring to the old -Principle and its invariableTendency, to the Ruin of the War ? Foreigners, who can talk with more Freedom on certain Sublets, than it becomes us todo, have been verv fevere in their Cenfures on this Occafion ; and much feverer ftiU, in difcourfing of the unfortunate Aaion of Lafeldt, in which we both fuffered our- felves to be furprized, and expofed the Brttfi^d EleSioral Troops, to bear, fingly, the whole Brunt of that bloody Day. But if it does not become us to adopt, or even to repeat thofe Severities, we may, at ieaft, be al- \^.Ja tn ailc- Whv the Allied Army \v^9ataU ex- ^'fcd to the Hazard of an Adion, during this Lam- N.S.)th« kcd of no- It then this Lowendabl ; Flanders^ jrc enough un all this 1 even no ace. late, is not 5 entcrtain- , they could befidcs un- my : And [^ellion or e eafily an- rior to the n to aflert, Intwerp^ fo sfcribed ? If it ought to 3 lying idle afterwards ? recurring to lency, to the Freedom on o, have been cafion i and : unfortunate fuffered our- 5 Britijh and whole Brunt 3pt, or even ieaft, be al- was at all^ ex- ing this Cam- paign ? (6j ) jvu^n ? The T? evolution in TMattd had already I, 'i^un to t'kcE^''c6t: And certainly it fcemed a- gree.tbk t.o,Pnidsnce ; 'to put nothing to the Ha- zard till that \v.\s rendered complete, — The B s very well knew, that it was the earneji Entreaty and Advice of the 1' of O , communicat- ed by M. de Crovefiein^ his Mnfter of the Horfe, to his R H the D , to confine his Mcafures to the Tingle View of covering Maejlricht and Bergen- op- Zoom ^ till he liad eftablifheu his In- tereft in the Provinces, and to riiquc nothin?j, while an Kvent of fo much Importance to the Common Caufe was ftill depending. And as to tnt Hedfoqi why his Inrtances were rcjedcd, it is wholly necd'l lefs to explain it : Stultum eft mortale Lumen in So^ km infer re. Thus the great Work of countermimng the vigo- rous Meafures of this Year, which the B — rj, them- felves had been forced to countenance, and which could not have failed, but by the Methods, and under the Direction, already fpecified, was accompliihed : But not without fome Difficulty •, for the Emprcfs Queen, notwithftanding the ill-timed Payment of her Subfidics, was fo fenfible of the Neceffity of making an extraordinary Effort this Year, that fhe exerted herfelf in a Manner as extraordinary ; and not only brought her Contingent more early into the Field, but more complcat, then the B — n imagined it had been in her Power to have done. However, by the Lofs of this Battle, tkeir Efforts got the better of her's-y and the Reduclion of Bergen- op- Zoom^ which every Body remembers with what Impatience they expefted, finifhed the Ope- ration of the Campaign, in a Manner, perfe6\ly agreeable to their Plan, and the great Object of it» the Ruin of the War. But tho' I have brought the Campaign to an IfTue, 1 have not brouR.ht forward all the Evidence it \ ! I i t ; IV I ; It produced : For in order to be confilieni in the whole of their Proceedings, that is to fay, that no Means to exhauft the Nation might be left untried, and that all the Fruit of thofe Means might be blaft- ed, the 4000 additional Hancverians were not taken into our Pay till 7«(v, when they knew it was impofllble, that they fliould reach the Lo-J) Countries^ till the Bufinefs of tlie Campaign was over. But if They were equally blameable for taking thefc Troops into our Pay, when they could not be of Ufe ; r-id if thefe Troops were necefTary, for not tak'ifig them into Pay, the Winter before, when they • might have been had with as little Trouble, how much more fo will they appear through the whole Courfe of their Negotiations with the Court of Rujfia^ which it is now Time to explain ? The Objed of thefe Negotiations, as All know, was the Hire of fuch a Body of Troops, as, by transferring the Superiority to the Allies, {hould enable them, not only to repel the Power of France, but to overwhelm it. This was a Meafure which the E of G had fome Years before recom- mended, and which, for that Reafon, the B rs had then rejefted. When, however, it became expe- dient for themfelvcs to adopt it, or rather to make a Shew of adopting it (for it will be made evident enough, that they never intended to refle6l aiyLuftre upon him, by fufFering the Nation to derive^ any Benefit from it) they called upon the States Gene- ral, to take their Share both of the Engagement and theExpence: They {t.\\t States) demurred, as it was reafonabletothinkat that Time they would-, we had our Scruples as well as they •. and in Fropofals, Anfwers, Replies, and Rejoinders, the whole preced- ing Winter Cof 1746, thPt is to fay; was loft : In fliort, it was not till June, that the Affair was brought to any Dccifion j when a Treaty was con- '^ eluacd. I "tlient ill the fay, that no left untried, ght be blaft- s were not they knew ch the Lo'-j) .mpaign was e for taking :ould not be fTary, for not e, when they rouble, how rh the whole tie Court of n? IS All know, •oops, as, by Ulies, {hoLild er of France^ eafure whicli 3efore recooi- the B rs became expc- ther to make made evident e6l .nyLuftre o derive any States Gene- T-agement and murred, as it ey would -, we in Propofa!s, whole preced- was loft : In le Affair was saty was con- cluded. ( 6s ) eluded, by which it was provided, That for ffi^ Sum of 100,000/. the Czarina fhould hold 30000 "Men, and 40 or 50 Gallies, in readinefs to be employed in the Service of the Allies, upon the ^ firft Requifition : And to this Treaty the States ac- ceded on the nth oijuly following ; on th? Con- dition of paying one fourth Part of the faidSum, agreeable to a Refolution which they had taken the 9th of January before. Thus it appears, that every Meafure we took^ was taken at fuch a Time, and in fuch a Manner, as, on the one Hand, ferved to continue the Amufe- menty and, on the other, to defeat the ^^r-z^vV-^ : And, if there is any Perfon foolifh or hardy enough to affert or believe, That the B — n, who had the fupremc Dire(5lion, did make the bej. ufe of their Judgment in ail j That They vitTQ/mcere in their Profeffions to carry on the War with the utmoft Vigour, and that They fuffered this Negotiation to hang thus long in Sufpence, merely on a Principle of CEconomy^ and for the Sake of faving the Nation from the "juhok Burden of it, in Cafe the States fliould refufe to ratify their own Refolution ; may it not be aikcd, How it was polFible for Men, who had the common Intereft {o much at Heart as they pretended, to hefitate fo long, on a Matter i^a cflential to the Common Caufe, for the Sake of ^o inconfKierable a Sum as 25000/.** How is it to be accounted for, that all the Proofs which can be found of their Thrift-, fhould be found on fuch critical and important Occafions as th^fe r And that upon any other Otcafion, they ll\buld make no Difficulty to job away naif a Million among Brokers and Ufurers, in defiance nor only of repeated Notices and Warning, but adlual Undeavours to prevent it .? And, finally, how they came to >j,et the better of their ovvn Diffidence and FiuKaiity at lafi^ and to leave the mfelves at the Mercy of the States^ by figning the Treaty without their Farticipatior. ? I ♦ But I iff ( 66 ) But that this Meafure was indeed calculated to be a Meafure of Amufement, not of Service, becomes fclf-cvident from this farther Confide- ration> viz. That even after the Acceflion of the States^ no Requifition was made of thefc Troops, nor any Conditions fettled for their being adually employed, till the 19th of November^ 1747 5 which is fo murh the more extraordinary and remarkable, becaufe Count Beniinck -wz.s fcntbytheP- of O to prefs that Meafure, fo early as the firft "Week in September, Thus it was contrived, that this magnificent r^- tawifJgFttof 100,000/. (hould produce noons favourable Confequence, during that Year, to thofc who gave it : And it is eafy to prove, that all ima- ginable Care was taken, through the whole Courfc of the Proceeding, with Regard to the next, to render it as burdenfome as poffible on the one Hand* and as little ufeful as poffible on the other. Thus, for Inftance, inftead of making ufe of the Gallies, which had been kept in Readinefsat our Ex- pence, ever fince the July before, (and by the Means of which, the Troops might have been tranfported, before the Summer was over, to Luheck^ or fomc other Port in the Baitkk, from whence they would have had littk farther to march than the Troops of Hanover, and confequently might have reached the Allied Army by the latter End of the very Campaign we have been treating of) they gave over all Thoughts of tranfporting them by Sea, and preferred an almoft immeafurable March over Land, at the Expence of no lefs than 6 or 700,000/. iccording to their own Computation : A March that could not be undertaken till January or February^ 1 748 ; a March that no Body could be furc would be performed without Interruption ; and not be •^<»r^..M«A/1 «f oil \n l^fc ^^an invp Mnnfh$ '. Whence it was apparent, that, unlefs accompanied by the Wea- ther ilculated to jf Service, r Confide- fion of the efe Troops, ng adlually ^47 ; which remarkable, le P- of r as the firft ynificent re- uce l^Q one :ar, tothofe chat all ima- 'hole Courfc ic next, to e one Hand« er. ig ufe of the fsatourEx'*^ y the Means tranfported, ick^ or fomc i they would the Troops lave reache4 of the very ) they gave lem by Sea, : March over or 700,000/. \ March that or February^ Pure would be and not be \ : Whence it by the Wea- th«r (67) tlicroFthe Pole all the Way, and drawn by Rain- Deer, they could not join the Allies till the latter End o^June, or Beginning of July: And the B rs well knew, that as we were always weakeji, and the French fir ongejiy at the Opening of the Campaign, whatever was to bfe apprehended from their SuperiO' rity thatYear, would be efFe<5ted before they arrived, I might farther enforce all I have faid, by enter- ing into a Difcuffion of the Treaty itfclf, and the many lavilh Articles it contains ; fuch as the Sub- lidy, over and above the 300,000 /. to be annually paid i the Article for Provifions, Quarters, Hofpi- tals, Lois of Horfes upon the March, Ranfom of all Prifoners, and a Thoufand other Douceurs ; the ProvifoSf that they fiiould not be difmifs'd under four Months Notice, and that they fhould not be fentback, but on a convenient Sealon, with an ex- prefs Exception to the Months oWSiober^ November^ December^ Januar'j^ and February ; iho' the two laft Months were judged the niofl: proper for their marching to our Afliftance : I might, I fay, pro- ceed to aggravate my Charge, on every one of thefe Heads : But as the fubfequent Behaviour of the Court of RuJJia, has been truly generous and great, in performing more than they had engag'd for, and being contented with lefs than they might have claimed j and as the Meafure itfelf, if con- ducted as it ought to have been, would have more than balanc*d the Expence of ir, I (hall only ob- ferve in general. That the B rs, through the whole Courfe of the Negociation, manifelted as much Incapacity^ as Dijinclination to the Caulc they pretended to ferve. The Court of Ruffia was already under the Ob- ligation of very clofe Engagements, both to the Courts pf Z/l*vigation and Nasral Strength, the Diftrefs and Danger of her Colonies, the Wants and Miferies \yhidh began to rage in her own Bowels, ^c. ihc confcntcd to open Conferences at Breda ; and at any one period in that Time, would have lheath*d the Sword, on thcfe (hort Principles ; Nothing for hcricif •, and very Jittle for her Allies. That in the very Hour of Vidtory, his Moft Chri^ ftian Majefty himfclf, had difcover'd a paffionatc Iflclination for Peace to G 1 L r , when brought before him as a Prifoner, after the Battle of LaffeUt -, that ihc faid G 1 was very foon after difmifs'd on his Parole, to communicate cer- tain i'ormal Propofitions on that Head ; that thofe Propofitions were rejcded ; that Spain was at the lame Time fo impoverifh'd by the Captures we had made, the Expences of the War, and the detaining her Treafurcs in the Indies, that fhe alfo difcover'd the fame Inclination ; and that on the Death of che late King, which was followed by fome Alterationf ia her Councils, Ihc adually did make OfFers of ^MmllmB4m:y^ (in the Month of September, t|fe|6f tii Ae Mw^ci^i* de T0kemega, then in Por- "^ «*«E » l» fay) hm been lUreitiy ackaowlcdg- ;—»*•»«<, V ( 7' ) Or to make their Words and Anions correfpond with each other ? More particularly, when we far-^ ther recollea:, that till thefc Offers were made. They had difcours'd of an Accommodation witK Spain,2A the moft favourable Event which could be- fall us 5 as an Event which would have reconciled all Parties to a vigorous Profecution of the War with France \ and which would have induced them to part with the laft Shilling in Support of it. But, the Truth of the Matter is. That mutable and inconfiftent as they appeared, they adher'd in the Main, to the grand Principles of their Plan, and ilie Ends it was to anfwer : For the fofter our Fall had proved, after fo violent and ill-direfted a Car- rier, the lefs obnoxious would that M— — r have been held, who firft put us in Motion. It was, nevcrthelefs, neceffary, to find out fom« Colour to fet on this Inconfiftency and Mutabilicyi which was fo glaring, that the Public began not on^ ly to take Notice of it, but even to clamour againft it; and the Blind they chofe to fpread for this righteous Purpofe, was a pretended Difference of Opinion as to the great Purfuits of War and Peace i and a pretended parrel, which was faid to have grown out of this Difference of Opinion, and the Debates it had given Rife to. t - Few Expedients anfwer, in all Refpeds 5 but This was of the happieft Kind, and was managed in the happieft Manner: For while the Tw6 B- fs continued to adt thefe eppo/ite Parts^ the Farce not only fcrved to amufe the World in general, but every Individual, of what Principle foever, knew where to find a Ltader : Hence, it followed, that thofe of the moft /anguine and en- terprijing Turn, attached themfelves iot\\Q Elden the Timorous and Defponding to t\\^ lounger ; and each were, from Tim^ to Time, furnifhed with fuch Profeffions and Aliurances, as fervod to juuuy ihc \t (72) the Confidence they repofed in, and the Suhferviency they fhcwcd to, the joint A- -n of Both. Nor was this all : For as they were to make their Appearance in different Theatres, they chofe their Parts according! y : The Tounger was mod obnoxi- ous to Clamour and Oppofition, and therefore thought it mod advifable to ^^t&L Conftfiency and Popularity ; but the Elder was not afraid of being Inconfijient^ becaufe his Auditory was too folite to expose him ; and becaufe he hop*d to fucceed to the Favour^ which his Predeceflbr Jn the C b 1 had enjoyed, by ^ffeding to a-. dopt his Politics, tnr- va r^i ■ , ^ At the fame Time alfo, as it had been thought proper in the Year 1746, (when the Biafs of the Coalition was ftill underftood to be towards Peace) CO pafs the Younger w^Q^i the Public for the Chief M— — r, and as fuch to give him the Credit of fceftowing the Seals on the E— *• of C , Who had been ever number*d amongft the Advo- cates for the pacific Syftem ; fo now, in order to thicken and diverfify the Plot, and eftablifti a Be- lief. That our Meafures had taken a new Turn, and that a vigorous Profecution of the War was the only Objedl in View, the Elder was faid to be predominant ; and as a Proof of his Supremacy, the S — s which L C— ^ had refign'd^ were transferred his G yi , who had performed fu a mighty Exploits at the Head of the A B — —— d, and who was noW' in- tent on nothing but Viftory, Conqueft, Triumph, and Glory. But how well foever this Interlude was play*d, or what Succels foever they expedled from it, the great Scope of their Performance was to make fure of Seven Millions more, and then to lay afide • their Majky and drop the Curtain: Their Rivals >wefe, by this Time, no more corifidcred at C 1, than the Subfervisncy n of Both, to make their ley chofe their IS moft obnoxi- and therefore Ted Conftjlemy \^as not afraid Auditory was :aufe he hop'd lis Predeceffor affedling to a-. • d been thought le Biafs of the towards Peace) c for the Chief the Credit of of C , gft the Advo- w, in order to iftablifh a Be- 1 a new Turn, " the War was was faid to be is Supremacy, — had refign^df , who ;s at the Head was now' in- left, Triumph, le was play'd, i from it, the was to make en to lay a fide Their Rivals :red acC 1, than ( 73 ) than amongft the People : By a notable Exertion of their Power, They had, more cunningly, than fairly, diflblved that P 1, which had worn fo many various CompIe and the Abfurdity of ftipulating for a Forfeiture, which, tho* always made, had never been taken ; but alfo the re%\ Hardihi*^ im^ofed on her M— -f— v. by ex- tending; the fiud Provifo to her Forces in Italy, as * well in the Pay not to be id that, in the Force ; of 60,000 he latter to former by to 10,000 a, and the as foon as -—J would the Ruffians n their Af- — rs, who toiitions of iniquitous d who had ages which ither to be le Leaders, J contrary, t, they diif- ndicate the ftance.with L provided, 3ut of the in, by way oops, they a Provifo excufe the t: ', and the ire, which, 1 ; but alfo — -v, by e¥- in Jluiiy, as well Us) #eU as thofe in the L^w Countries, when the latter wcrerequlr'd to be in the Field by the ift oi March ^ and the former not till the ift of May, And in the fecond Place obferving, that the Pay- ments were alfo fettled in the fame manner as be- fore ; that is to fay, 150000/. before the Ratifica- tion, 1 00000/. upon the Exchange of the Rati- fications, and 50000/. /»fr Month afterwards; and that the Convention had not been fign'd at the Hague till the 26th oi January, they forefaw. That not above 250000/. could be paid, and they had Reafon to apprehend not a Shilling would be paid before this very ift of March, when the Army was to take the Field : Whence, and from the otlier Confiderations above fpecify*d, in relation to the *Time and M-fnner of Recruiting the Jujirian Forces, it was notorious. That the neceffary Levies c»uld not be made by the ftipulated Time, or in- deed for feme Months after ; and, confequently, that the Subfidy itfelf, would, in a manner, be thrown away. In fhort ; when all thefe Circumftances are com- par'd with what hath been already faid concerning the Ruffian Affair, it will become evident almoft to Demonftration, That the /wo B — rs had levied fo enormous a Sum upon the Nation, not only with aFore.Knt)wlc perhaps, take up the Pen again : And if I do, you may expe<5l a like Zerks of Evi- dence, toihew. That the Nation is not more oblio'd to the B rs for the Condua of tks War, than 'i^.tt Cmdu^ of /be Ptace. F I N I S. \