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THERE is little Doubt, but that the World will inftantljr underftand for whom this Addrcfs is intended j. or if any Perfon in the World can he- fitate about it, perhaps it may be B , the M (4) the very P erf on addrefsd : for tho' it is certain that fuperior Geniuffes muft know, muft feel, their own Superiority ; yet is it equally cer- tain, that fcrupulous Modejiy never fails to make one in the PerfeEl Cir" cte of the Virtues^ Tq fhun thercr fore the leaft Ambiguity, it may not be improper to declare, that the Perfon to whom this Addrefs is pre- fented is the Great Man the jirfi Public AElion of whofe generous Youth (whereby he refignd himfelf to the Service of the State and the difinterefted Oppofition of its Ad- verfaries) was probably, like that of Scipio Africanus, the ^ faving of his : " ' " Country; * " Hunc faltem Everfo Juvenem fuccur-^ (C " rere feclo Ne prohibete.' ■ v^jI vr' ■■-#. ( 5 ) Country : the Great Man, whofe unrefifled Eloquence beftows Credi- bility on the moft exaggerated Ac- counts of the Grecian and Roman Oratory; and whole pervicacious Integrity aftoniflied a felf-interefted Age by rejeding of tempting and allowed Perquifites : the Great Man, whom his fuper-eminent Merit a* lone introduced to his Sovereign j on whofe Promotion ahne the People have in thefe Times congratulated themfelves ; and at whofe Removal alone they have teftifitd their Af- fliaion : the Great Man, on whom, now happily reftored to Plenitude of Power by the general Concur- rence of Parties, the BritiJJo Nation (acknowledging his patriot Begin- B 2 nincis b"5 (6) nings and confiding in his further Intentions) defends for its Delwer^ ance from deep Diftrefs, and only not infuperable Difficulties j and to whom, on its Behalf, an Ehglifh- man prefumcs to hint, with due Diffidence, fome few of the many great Things that it wants and hopes, that * from him it e5cpet9:s and claims. As Great -Britain, from an fla- bit of mutual Ill-will and utliver* fally oppofed Interefts, will never be long difengaged from War with its potent and warlike Neighbours, whoni * " Nee Spem modo ac Votnm Securitas " puhlica^ fed ipfius Voti Fiduciam ac RobiU" " afllimpferit." ( 7 ) whom it is much more its Bufinefs to repfcfs than depreciate ; the re- ftoring, or rather eftablifljing, of military Virtue among us, may pro-^ bably be of the firft Undertaking of a Statefman, who is himfelf J mt uninitiated in the Art of Waf, though, fortunately for England, deftined to nobler Purpofes, Is it not glaringly evident, that otheri^ than the inexperienced, uninftruft- ed. Minions of Intereft are to be op- pofed to the felefl: Heroes of war- like nations. Men whofe natural Propenfity to Arms has been im- proved by a relative Education, and per- % — <' Refidefque movebit " TuUus in Arma Viros, tx.jam Befuetit *' Triumphis (8) perfefted by long Service? But how few in the EngUfli Army have, in the Memory of Man, been made Field'Officers by Merits or what Pof ts worth Acceptance have been beftowed on mere military Preten^ fions? All martial Emulation is therefore entirely ceafed among us, as fupererogatory and ufelefs j be- caufe thofe Officers who have the proper Recommendation are certain of being prefer'd as faft as poffible, let them do or omit what they will ; and thofe who are fo unfortunate as to be without it, are foon convinced that no Application or Exertion can compenfate for the fatal De- ficiency. It is frequent confequent- ly to have Officers of acknowledg- ed (9) ed Merit continued Subalterns un« til that itfelfh made an Objedlion to them ; and after having been kidnapp'd into a Service, to fpend in it the beft Part of their Lives and Fortunes, (for it is impradlicable in a manner for an Englifh Subaltern to live on his Pay,) to have them compeird to acquiefce at lad, as greatly favour'd, in a Leave to fell their Commiffions for what they originally paid for them ; and fo to retire to that Obfcurity and Po- verty, from which the fame Time and Abilities employed in any other ^ Service could not have failed to refcue them. Or if any Shadow of Marti- 1 r • 1 1 netifmthe martial Worth can be laid to have leaftmiii- been encouraged, it is only that of rit. fl C- the o I I 9: " --. •! ( lO ) the lowed and leaft ufeful Sort, that of an Adjutant or a Serjeant; which has merely ferved to introduce into our Troops a Set of military Pe- dants, (equally immeritorious and contemptible with the Martinets of the Sciences,) whofe microfcopic Minds comprehend m more than the infigfiificant Minutiag of the Service. Whereas the heft Ufe to be made of the known, hacknied Difcipline of an Army is perhaps occafionally to difufe it; as any Operation which is unufual and unexpeded will occafion more Ter- ror and Diforder in hoftile Troops, even though it fhould be lefs per- feft, than the regular Attempts of which they have been continually fore- 1 forewarn'd. This Truth has been evinced by fome o£ the ablefl: Generals, both antient and rtio- dern : Julius Caefar points out, in his Commentaries, as the Caufe of his being almoft defeated by Pom- pey's iSons in Spain, that the Lqgions with them, having by their long Continuance in that Country dif- iifed the Roman Difcipline (which was undoubtedly the beft then in the World) had furprifed and dif- ordered' his Forces, by charging them unexpe<5edly in the irregu- lar Spaniflb Manner: and Mar- (hal Turenne deceived Don Johil of Auftria, and his own Officers too, but carried the Spaniih Camp in Flanders, by attacking it in the C .. ftrong- V^'>. -r •* »»>»rf " ii 'm^ M' '-''\^ ■,Mj ,;* (12) ftrongeft Part ; an Error of which they thought fo expert a Gene- ral incapable. Martinetifm then (hould, doubtlefs, be held infi- nitely inferior to Genius, not be confounded with, much lefs pre- ferred to, it: for that a Man of the true military Turn, though unacquainted with the formal Difclpline of an Army, will make a much better Figure in the "tented Field," than the beft Difciplinarian without a military Genius, is proved by the Exam^ pie of a Croniwel, a Blake, and (why not of) a Clive. Nor have Senfe and Spirit fucceeded better at Sea than afhore ; where their higheft Promotion is ufually to be 8 V, ap- gu. iicfi ne- heh nfi. tbe [pre- n of ugh :mal lake the beft tary im-r and ave tter leir be ip. ( t3 ) appointed a Nurfing Lieutenant to fome beardlefsFavourite who is fent to cruife for a Fortune, with the Conunand of a prime Ship, and on a felefted Station : for Cruifing is the Paflion of the Navy-Officers ; Cruifing which, by the lavifh Ge- nerofity of a Statute, brings in fudden and immoderate Wealth without Hazard ; how preferable then to the Laurels and Blows that are to be got from adverfe Lines and ftony Forts ! What can the nationally - difFufed Englifli Spirit (which wants only to be properly engagedy by Sea or Land, in order to break out with pri- ftine Luftre) avail under Com- manders who know fo little of C 2 the ■[ ■'■iA. m i ' (14) the Rudiments of their Bufinefi as to expe<9: to war without Dan- ger ; and who, while thofe that: are unworthily fubjefted to them burn for Adion, amufe themfelves pufiHanimoufly in peering after tnajk^d Batteriesy or in nice Calcu-^ lations of Guns and Nofes f And how impartial and fatisfadory are the Determinations of thofe C likely to be, the Majority of whofe Members confider the Juftice demanded of them as a perfonal Perfecution, and the Pri- foners brought before them as Ac- complices, or Affeflbrs ? Yet King William, when firft, as Stadt- holder, he took the Command of the Dutch Forces, where Martial *■■-.■ ■*-■ ' Spirit i '- ^m^^ Spmt was^ at a Spring.tide Ebb, Z '' ^^'^ "^ "°^' -ttempteci to revive ,t, and was fo happy as ■ ;° Wd by one well-tLd ^efirftGeneraUOfficerwhonuf- beWed, and who had been ac- q"^«ed by a Court-Martial, to be tned again by another Court- ^nd pubhckJy executed. The Englijh General who foft pafled '"f America was, tho' no Cow- M as ill-qualified for his Em. Ployment as any in the Service • brought up on the powdered Pa- «de of St. Jan^es, and ufed to Wmdfor-Marches and Palace- Guards, he was Jittle inftruded how ■« 11 ^ { i6 ) !,„„ to deal with the viewl*^" t^VthehowKngV^a^^ ::r Wtoth! the Vr^f^ 1*, «f our Colonels. Itus Co»»dl of War. deter- & itfelf too «eak «. defend ™e Place •. fo^thUCoo^-. though in a "»""" '" ^cw F^ Wrf- *e Ob3ea of h. \1 ulb. did not. M, "^ "^t He W neither or- ^aeld. not ptoieaed. any P^; i* tic le- ice? ids. >u(h in a ster- fend ider, htof )f his "eems, Ene- .ttack- ler or- Difpo- fition fitioti to receive them In cafe erf ^ti Onfet, as fatally happened. The liarge Appointments inftan- taneoufly conferred on this Ge- neral, and his Succeflbrs, feem in tome fort prematurely to antici- pate the Reward of Merit ; and 'may ^ tbemfehes content avari- ^cious Minds, and abate that Ar- dor of Enterprife whofe Succefs willfcarqely fail to put ah End to them : the not beftowing Rank on th? Forces of the Provinces has beeha corifiderable Check to Itheir military Zeal • and the al- lowing Preferment to circulate among the Body of Englifti Troops on the American Continent might mve delerved Encouragement and im- Li . •' . '■> • (i8) impart due Spirit to Off^cxrs en- gaged in the hardeft of Services, and too far removed to be able timely to folicit their Pretenfions. *^ * » ^ MeiSiod There may be two good Me- of profe- thods of profecutins the War cuting * ^ w . theAmc-againft the French in North- ^^' America : the one by a vigorous, tho* expenfive. Exertion - of our Strength will endeavour to bring it to a fpeedy Conclufion ; the other, by inienfible frugal Ad- vances, aims at a no lefs hapfy Termination : it will probably be neceflary to explain the latter. The Englifh are in poffeffibn (be* fides their Iflands) of the whole Coaft of the immenfe Continent ' of (i9) of North - America , excepting only the Town of Auguftine and its Environs : the French have fettled to the North and South of iisj and are extending, by- degrees, all along the Back of our Colonies. The Communication between the French Northern Settlements and their Mother- country is maintained by means of the River of Saint-Lawrence ; and between it and their South- ern Colonies by the River Mifli- fippi. If it were feafible to pre-- verity for a Series of Years, the American French from exporting their Produce to France^ they would be neceflitated to trade with (with whom alone they then D could) I if C20 ) could) their Englifli Neighbours : and they would! thence- fortvard ceafc' to be our Enemies, foon commence profitable Allies, would eftablifli an ufeful Barrier be- tween us and the Indian?^, and in length of time poflibly become our Subjeds. And will not the having 2?£?^ proper Squadroni of Ships oi War fo ftationed', as by their numerous and conftant Cruifers to % intercept all Shipping paffing and repaffing betwem the ^outb$ of the Risers of Saint- Law- rence and that of the MiJJtJippi and Old^ France^ promife fairly for producing fo defirable an Event ? •NoW' i,!' EtM7r^quodyar^r tion of Gommon Rivers : general of the whole Country ; perhaps ^' but of whatever majr^ be beneficial to the Hantatibns, •^ ' neither « • ■; I ( 25 ) ttcither we nor our Golonifts fhall defpaic, as that Nobhfnanha& re-' fiirned the Prefidency pf die Board of Trade, vihoio^Gemus 2sA Ap- pUcation. ar^ equal to the Extent apd Fatigue of his: Department, andinwhofe J;^/^^n/y Diffidence can fecurely repofe. i - The Difperfion of the French Difper- Accadians is an extraordinary the Ac- Tranfadion produced by the A-^^'^^* merican War : thefe People inha- bited about the Ifthmus that joins Nova-Scotia to the Continent ; and^ their Country having been yielded to England by the Treaty oi Utrecht, they were fuffered by the then Englifh Commander in ^liil thofe (26) thofe Parts to take a fort of Oath of Neutrality, inftead of that of Allegiance; whence they were commonly called the Neutrals. Thefe Accadians proved bad Al- lies, or worfe Subjeds ; as they miffed few Opportunities of pro* moting the French Intereft, even at the Expence of ours ; a Fault which all who confider them- felves as Frenchmen, in whatever Circumftances,are notorioufly fub- jed to: and it were devoutly to be wi(hed that it was one of thofe in which we clofely copy them. When the French Fort in their Country furrendered to the Eng- lifh Troops, fome of thefe Acca- dians were found in it in Arms ; i but ( 27 ) but Were* exempted from Punifli-- ment by an Article of the Capi- tulation, becaufe, as the French Gommandant declared , they had been conftrained to take them up bn pain of Death. Soon after the Heads of all the Accadian Fami- lies were ordered to appear in the Forty to rfeceive from the Vidors fiich new Regulations as might be^ thought expedient ; for their own Governnient was purely pa- triarchal, there being no'Magi- ftrates among them : they came Accordingly ; and were never per- mitted to g:o out of the Fort any more, but to embark in thofe Veflels that were deftined to difperfe them all over North- ^hV . E America but I t (28j America and the Weft -Indies. The Power of a Governor of a fingle Province, fupported by the Opinion of a Council of War of Land and Sea-Officers, dealt them out in Parcels of four or five Hundred to every other Englifh Government in America j where they moftly periihed, throuigh the Fatigue of long Voyages, the Change of Climates, the bad Re- ception they as Catholics met with, 1 and their own fullen Obftinacy : and may this Bufinefs never ap- , pear to difinterefted Nations in the Light of an unneceflary, im- politic, and perhaps cruel Ejfti^- pation! : . :;:(vij i- "- iJ ruption. ( 29) Th e long Succeffion of mili- Our mi- tary Di%raccs we h^ve experi^ offgraces enced, whether we have attacked tim^tdy or defended j the inglorious Lofs to natTo- of Minorca and of the French Pri- "'^^°'" foners on that Ifland ; the Capital Punifhment of an Admiral for Cowardice, who { died at leafl: like a Hero ; the loading others with unweildy Honours who have fcarcely dene their Duty j the invefting with Command that Diffidmce which dares not adl without the Advice and Support of a Council of War, and that J^- norance which can hefitate about the Execution of Pofitive Orders; . E 2 the i" *' Conftantia Mortis hand indignus Scmpronio Nomine, Vita dcgencrave- prefent Condition. ^ corrupt Maj- — y being once aC- fuqied asthe firft Principle of his Admki^ration, every other C!on- i^fideratioh was foon abforbed in this, or made fubfervicnt to iti: Plates,', Pcnfions^ Honours, wefe J all thrown into ihi* Channel ^ and -eVeky. Man in^hei Kingdom, from the higheft: to I the: Joweft^ W^s viewed in this pernicious Light alonq ; as every Qne could indeed, •■til '.hf 'j(VJ-' . .... .:., .. :. _ -It ""■ ^ " 'Exlllo fluere ac retro fublapfa referri Tn i" Spes Danaum." . » 8 ('34) if tut Proftitute enough, be al^- fiftant in this Scheme, from him who could bring in M^ — h- — s, or get himfelf R-^t— d, to him who could procure V-— t— ^s, or gi?e a Vote. In every Countiy where ibis fort of Merit comes to be eftabliflied, it neceffarily fuper- fedes and annihilates all other ; Genius there becomes ufclefs and fufpicious, Integrity obnoxious, Public-Spirit odious-; and Places are fuppofed to make Ofjiiers ; an erroneous Pofition which will fi- nally prove fatal to any Goverh- ment that adopts it, for Abilities are required in many Pofts, even in the fmootheft Current of Af- fiairs, and are neceffary in all du- . . " ^- nng an (35)' ring the Seafbn of Tlifbulence arid Danger. Yet ah oppbfite Con- eems, alas, 'to have long fillied our civil ahij* military Em- ployments : how (lender is tlie^ Number of thofe who have been promoted to Pofts, merely becaufe they vfti^Fitfor 'em f When did It nkppen that Merit has been fought after iii its modeft Obfcu- rity ? And was not, on the con- trary, every other Place, like that of a City Coal-meter^ fold, as^a Bonus, to the tieft Bidder: and perhaps quartered upon after- wards? This is the Management which has brought on us all our Misfortunes and Mifcarriages, both civil and military, both foreign - " " , F and An Ade- quateRe- prefenta- tive a ra- dical Re- medy for National Corrup- tion. (36) and domeftic : 'This appointedByng to a critical Command to which he was known to be unequal ; it is T^is that blafted the bloom- ing Hopes of the well-concerted Secret-Expedition : it is This that fubjeded the whole military Force in America, for two Campaigns, to him " who ne'er led a Squa- " dron in the Field, nor the Di- " vifion of a Battle knows more " than a Spinfter." It is hardly credible, that the Delegates of a People fhould concur in Meafures deftruftive of their Profperity ; nor could it ever happen, where an Adequate Reprefentative was freely elefted : but furely there can be no doubt of that People's being ( 37 ) being inadequately reprefented as to Property, among whom a non* exiftent Borough (hall return half as many Deputies as the Capital, and an inconfiderable Province more than five Times as many as the principal County. It is plain then, that however properly and juftly the Englifli C — mm — ns might be originally reprefented, fuch have been the Effedls of the Mutations of Time and of the Fluftuation of Property, that it is long fince they have ceafed fo to be : and yet as an Equal Repre- fentative would infallibly prove the Cure, and poflibly the only radical Cure^ of the National Cor- ruption which is produdive of F 2 poft f\ (3?) moft pf the Ills we groan under* it is too falutary, too momentous, a Regulation hot to be fervently defired, not to juftify fome IJ^- zard in ^tteinpting it. N6r, thp' confeflcdly an arduous, 4oes it appear an impraaiqable Under- taking: but is a neceflary Tafk referved for, ^n Herculean Labour adapteji to, an Adminijlration of uncommon porlitudey qf enterpri-' f^^gWifdom^ ^nd. obflinate Patrio- tifm J and therefore not to b? dq-. fpairpd of at the prefent Juhaure, • I t* t» . »". r :' J.-i, r^to're-' Military Virtue alone how- Jk-sphiti^^^f' all-impprti^nf as it is, feems .employ Sufficient t9 e^end, or even wardGe-^^'"^^^"? Dominion : .together (39) with it Public-Spirit muft alfo h neceflarily revived y Public- Spirit, without whofe Prevalence Martial ■ * * dents; and an honell' Man of Senfe is the fixed ObjeA of their Dread and Hatred. Thi$ is To to' be depended on, that if ai Mltti- ftry univerfally thruftk into Places^ andPofts a Set of Ignorant, Tatri^, and Proftitiite, Wretches; andfup- pofes (or affeds to fuppbfe, all Alii- lity unneeeflary and fuperfluotis ;' it may, from this fingle Symp- tom, without Temerity, be pro- nounced ithe- Em- eof, pt as ition ipen- h df their fotB^ laces aiil^,' [ fup- it i Otis; rmp- pro- need ( 43 ) nbunced a weak Adminiftration t as on the contrary it will always be confidered as an able one, when civil and military Preferments are induftrioufly conferred on Men of great Parts, ufeful Acquirements, known Fortitude, or inflexible Honefty. It is furely felf-evident that no great Aftions or Defigns can be formed, fuggefted, direft- ed, or executed, at home ; no great Schemes oppofed, and fruftrated, from abroad; to the Exclufion, or even without the Concurrence, of Men of Genius: and if it be poflible for a mighty People to re* main any Time in a torpid State of Quiet, without progreflive or retrograde Motions, yet will they G in- ( 44 ) infallibly, or fooner or later, be roufed from the impolitic Lethar- gy, however loth, by the rufliing Arms of fome enterprifing Ad- verfary^ The military Merit of Agrippa having rendered him fb formidable to his Mafter, that it was abfolutely rieceitary for him cither to fecure him entirely to his Intereft, or to get rid of him j the Wifdom of Augiiftus judgedpro- per to give him his own Daugh- ter in Mj»rriage, notwithftanding Agrippa's low Birth : but the % in- ferior Capacity of Tiberius artful- ly made away with Germanicus, who had appeafed a Sedition of the '} A J " Anxium Judicium, heque enim emi- ** nentes Virtutes fcdtabatur." Tac. * (45) the Legions that would have coft him the Empire ; becaufe he re- flefted, that as Germanicus had Intereft fufEcient with the Army, to reduce them to their Obedience when they were about to depart from it, he might alfo have Power enough to make them revolt from their Duty^ whenever he fliould be fo minded. As at this Time the Neceflity of Affairs exads and excufes bold Truths, it may be al- lowed to doubt, whether Perfons of the greateft Property are always the fitteft for public Employments, as feems generally to be imagln'd ; certainly they have good Reafons for being lefs enterprifing in * ha- G 2 zardous •« Ibk Eo qui Zonam perdidit,"-— ^ ( 46 ) zardous Operations than Men who have their Fortunes to make ; pro- bably they may be lefs induftrious in promoting Negotiations about whofe Succefs they are not bound to be fo anxious j poflibly they do not often cultivate equal natu- ral Parts with the fame Afliduity as their Inferiors : and Hiftory and Experience, if attended to, will fcarcely fail to demonftratc, that thofe who have moft fuccefsfuUy conduced, or feconded, glorious Exploits, have been Men of great Parts and great Spirit, and of fmall Subftance. And can there be a properer ^ra for the Revival of Genius and Public Spirit than that pf the Ad n of the Great illy ( 47 ) Man who has been recommended by the One to his diftrefled and aged K—gy (fo familiarly ventures to Ipeak the Patheticifm of LoyaltyJ and endeared to his exulting Fellow^ SubjeEls by the Other ; and to whom, fhould we be unhappily and unexpeftedly difappointed , we have a Right to complain, in the Words of Tacitus, that " Sue- *' cefleremagis alii Homines (juam «^ alii Mores r ' * ' The Balance of European Pow- Balance ery and its Caufe the Danger of noun- the Eredion of an aftually or po- vertibie tentially Univerfal Monarchy, are °^"^ not perhaps fuch uncontrovertible Points as moft imagine : fo un- bpunded ? ' ( 48 ) bounded an Extcnfion of Power has never yet been AifFered but by Barbarians^ nor is likely to hap* pen among civilized Nations j and the States of Europe are at prefent much too vigilant and jealous about their Interefts, to endure any Approximation to it ; their moft bloody and expenfive Wars terniinating ufually in fuch petty Acquifitions, that they " recall *' to mind Homer's Battles be- " tween the Frogs and the Mice;" as Curtius tells us Alexander faid of the fimilar Commotions among the Grecians. If however the Expediency of preferving this Ba- lance occafionally occurs, yet, by the ncceffary Fluduation of hu- I > 1 V**-, J* ^^>- man ircr by ap- md fent ous .ure heir Vars etty :call be- 99 faid long the sBa~ t,by hu- man V 49 ) man AfFairs, muft it be a variable and defuhoryy not (as feems fup- pofed) a permanent and immove^ abhy ObjeSi : for we are to recoi- led, that in Queen Elifabeth's and in CromwelFs Time we con- federated with the Houfe of Bour- bon againft that of Auftria, as well as we have fince leagued with the Houfe of Auftria againft that of Bourbon: though King William's perfonaj p.efentmcnt to Louis the Fourteenth fixed this volatile Ba- lance to a Point, where the Want of Genius in a Succeflion of Eng- liflbt M n — . s has fuffered it to ruji. This is no time to excite Crufades, Common- fenfe is hap- pily too prevalent throughout Eu- rope If 4 (so) rope for that; nor, if it were, could any fufficiently cogent Reafon be given to Mankind for refufcitating the greateft of all Calamities, the deep Horrors of Religious Wars : nor can Civil Prudence and Mar- tial Prowefs infure the untntermt-- ied Series of Succefs requifite to fubdue the Pruffian Hero's migh- ty Antagonifts, for not to conquer is to be defeated to the Monarch who has but one Army to ff W; nor will even Britifl> Millions avail, unlefs along with them we could fend fome Tons of the Man^ creating Teeth of Cadmus's Dra- gon. Whenever Great - Britain wantons happily in fujperfluous Treafures, let it hazard fome part - ' 2 - of r, could ifon be itating es, the Wars : I Mai- termit-- ifite to migh- tquer is h who i?j nor avail, could Man- s Dra- Britain rfluous le part of (51) of them on dubious Syftems and bold Experiments ; but let us not, in the name of Wifdom, ruin our- felves Nowy becaufe we may pof- fibly be ruin'd Hereafter \ diftref- fed as we are at Home and de- fpifed Abroad, and opprefled by a Tf^ar of our (mn^ which we can only fupply, by breaking into the SacrofanEi Fund thzt ftiould dimi- nifli the Taxes which muft other- wife be perpetuated, though they can with Difficulty be borne, with Difficulty be invented ; and by ^ri* annual Accumulation of Millions to a Debt, whofe unnatural, ^Ty- H phean, J " ^erra omniparentis alumnum. " Partu Terra nefando,''^ )> ' 1^ I- IV- is: (52) phean, Growth fearce dubioully threatens the G ■ « ■> v 1 it was inftituted to fupport, a Debt which begins wildly to look about for the Sponge that muft be dipped m Civil Blood. TiBERitJs, an ill-judging tho* a cunning Prince, firft of the Ro-^ man Emperors feparated the Good of the Sovereign from that of the Subjeft, to the Misfortune of both ; and transformed the Simplicity of Juft Politics into a myftcrious Ca- binet Science, that comprehended an Intereft of the Monarch di- ftinft from the Advantage of the State, and generally oppofed to it. This Syftem was iftjudicioufly adopted bully -t it Debt ibout ipped rtho^ 3ood f the 30th; ity of s Ca- ndcd di- f the id to oufly )pted (S3) adopted bymoft of his Succeffors j and has communicated its fpe- cious Contagion, at various times^ to many erring Princes, and ill- defigning Minifters ; though ob- vioufly pernicious to the Govern- edj whofe Profperity is the Duty and Intereft of Rulers, and in reality ill-calculated for their own Happinefs* Should it be poflible that any thing fimilar may have been among the late Vifitations of thefe haplefs Kingdoms, it will be infallibly the earlieft Care of the perfpicacious and public -fptrited Policy of the Great Man, who is the boafted Panegyric of a Stran- ger Briton, folicitoufly to teunite what has been fo unfortunately 3 divided; ;.'•,. . *. ■•••••••••.•: :•;!:.•;■•. ^i' r ,*■■ fc • ■♦■■••■■ .- - Bi64i^:^(^^^ lb cocguoQioii: vitb; ilie r]£i|f^ Tidi dElthc MniSitx ti t^e. 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