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 Sir, 
 
 YO U will find me in the following 
 Lines fo much your humble Ser- 
 vant, that there will need little 
 Ceremony to Excufe, to one of 
 your great Candour the Liberty I take 
 of fuggefting Matter for your able Pen, 
 which has done fuch Wonders for the Ser- 
 vice of our Friends. Your firft fetting out 
 in the Glorious Caiife you are engagM in. 
 Was fo very promifing, that it foon drew 
 from an Author of the firft Rank a Let^ 
 ter to you, which will never be forgot, 
 encouraging the great Defign, and pointing 
 to you the proper Subjefts to difplay your 
 Force upon : The Dexterity and Condud, 
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 with which you have executed the jufl: and 
 wife Dircdions given you, have been fuch, 
 that I know not which is moft to be admir'd, 
 he who was fo able to advife, or you who 
 have fo fully anfwered all 'that could be 
 expeded. You write, Sir, with that Ge- 
 nius and Fire, as would make another 
 above Direftions, and yet govern your Pen 
 with as much Submiffion and Deference to 
 the Will of your Superiors^ as if you had 
 been bred a Jefult 5 and as you could not 
 work for more generous Maflers, fo it muft 
 be ow'fied even by your Enemies, that they 
 could no where have found a Man fitter 
 for their Service, and more worthy of them- 
 felve?* The Spirit and Vigour with whicK 
 yovt write, the prodigious Fund of Inven- 
 tion you are Mafter of, your vaft Com- 
 inand of Words of all Sizes and CompJexi- 
 ibus^ efpecially of hot and flaming ones, 
 Vour great Variety of Stiks, your equal 
 Skill in Fanegyrick and Inveftive, by which 
 you can in an Inftant turn Devils into An- 
 gels of Light, and make an Angel more 
 like Satan, than Satan himfelf, Your Art 
 in raifing the Paiflions of the People, in 
 keeping them up, or diverting them as you. 
 pleafe, Thefe Noble Talents, governed by 
 your Zeal for the Church, your Loyalty 
 to the Crown, and Devotion for the 
 
 M y, have made you fafucccfsful in 
 
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 the Service of our Friends, that I can't but 
 wonder to fee you fo far neglefted, as not 
 to have received before this, a fccond Let- 
 ter of Advice from the fame great Hand 
 that wrote the firft, which I take for 
 granted, is the only Reafon that you have 
 been forced of late to keep fo much in Ge- 
 nerals, and to repeat the fame Things 
 which have before been faid fo well, and 
 produced fo good EflFeds, though now 
 they feem to be a little out of Time ^ whe- 
 ther our Friends think they need your 
 Affiftance no longer, or have too much 
 Bufinefs on their Hands to find Time (or 
 new Direftions, f cannot tell ^ but I am 
 perfuaded they are very much wanted, and 
 therefore I prefume to fupply this De- 
 ficiency, and Ihall attempt to offer frefii 
 MitterF, for a Pen that is too valuable to 
 Ik idle : 'Tis my Misfortune to live in a 
 Neft of fF%j", who happen to be Men of 
 Bufinefs, and to underftand fomething of 
 the Interefts of Europe^ and by that means 
 I come to hear more of their Objections 
 againft the new Management, than have 
 fallen under your Knowledge, eife no doubt 
 their Cavils would hwe long fince beea 
 fully anfwered, and they duly chaftifed for 
 their Impertinence, You can't but know^ 
 Sir, that the greateft Part of the Countrey 
 Gentlemen, who are Well-Widiers to you, 
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 and the M y^ have had but little Op- 
 portunity of being acquainted with the 
 Publick Affairs, which makes the Male^ 
 contents more troublefome and teafing a 
 great deal than they would be , and when 
 the Light of your Papers is wanting to di- 
 reft us, we are reduced to the unhappy 
 iicceflity, of faying, That thofe Matters 
 are above us, that we ought to truft our 
 Superiors, and that we have a good Q^ — 5 
 that 'tis invading the Prerogative to med- 
 dle with Things we don't underftand, and 
 no doubt every thing is done for the beft 3 
 this is often all we have to fay, and tho' 
 our Parfon talks this excellently well, yet 
 'twill not do any longer 5, they tell us when 
 we have any thing to fay, our Tongues 
 run faft enough, and that we never re- 
 trench our felves within this refpedfal Si- 
 lence, but when our Caufe is too bad to be 
 defended or excufed, I intreat therefore, 
 that you would accommodate your felf to 
 our Neceflities, and take notice of the Par- 
 ticulars I here fend you, that the Whigs. 
 may fee, that our defending our felves no, 
 better, is not the fault of our Caufe, but our 
 own, for want of knowing more of the true 
 Merits of it. x\il good Subjeds, no doubt, 
 are fully fatisfied with all that has been done, 
 that the Peace we are blefs'd with, is in all 
 refpects, Safe Honourable, and Advanta- 
 
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 giow: Thcit the greateft Regard has been 
 had to the Interefts of every one of our 
 Allies, as far as was confiftent with our 
 own 5 that our Treaties and Promifes have 
 bcenobferved aspundually aspoflible, that 
 the Ballance of Power in Europe is Co well 
 fettled, that there can be no further Danger 
 from trance^ that Commerce is on a right 
 Foot, that Credit is reftored, and the Debts 
 of the Nation paid ^ that the Adminiftra- 
 tion fince the Change has been wife and 
 frugal, and that the Protefia?it SucceJJion is 
 in all refpeds, as fafe as is needful ^ but the 
 Whigs pretend to be greatly diffatisfied in 
 all thefe Points, they objed: loudly to the 
 Peace it felf, and to the Methods by which 
 it was procured, and are fo Infolent, as to 
 cenfure ahnoft every Part of it, as well as 
 every thing that has been done at Home, 
 and would have it thought, that not only 
 the Liberty of Europe, but that the Pro- 
 teftant SucceJJion alfo is in the utmoft 
 Danger. I am not Mafter enough of Wri- 
 ting, to put ray Thoughts together in much 
 Order, but the Particulars,in which I would 
 defire your Inftrudions, are chiefly thefe 
 th'it follow. / 
 
 I. Set in a true Light the Methods 
 yfed in negotiating the Peace, (hew that 
 nothing was done Clandeftinely, that France 
 
 was 
 
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 was not tamper 'd with, without the Know- 
 kdge or Confent of the Allies, that Matt. 
 did not go to France and treat of Peace 
 long before we had confulted our Allies, in 
 dired Violation of the ^th Article of the 
 Grand Alliance '^ That no Articles of a 
 Treaty were figned with France^ before it 
 was known that any Treaty was in Agita- 
 tion ^ T'hat the Advice and Defire of the 
 Lords, thit our Plenipotentiaries might 
 ad in perfed Concert with the Allies was 
 punSually obferved ^ That the Treaty in 
 the whole Progrefs was carried on fairly 
 and above-board , That the Conferences 
 with the Allies were managed in a Friendly 
 manner, and with mutual Confidence ^ that 
 on the other hand, all jufl: Cautions and 
 due Referves were ufed in treating with the 
 Enemy • and that wh;3t paflTed in Secret 
 with our Allies was not conftantly betrayM 
 to the Enemy, That our Friends were not 
 treated as Enemies, and our Enemies as 
 Friends ; That we did not inftead of Parties, 
 ad as Mediators, and that the great Inte- 
 refts and Rights of the Emperor and the AU 
 li^s^ with refpe<3: to Spam and the Indies^ 
 the Barriers of Holland and the Empire, 
 were nbt adually given up, at the very 
 time we pretended to be earneft, in ad- 
 hering to the juft Demands of the Allies 
 fqr them 5 iliew with a feerping Indignation 
 
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 all thefc Suggeftions to be falfe, or that 
 they were confident with good Faith, with 
 folemn Treaties, with the Reafon and 
 Nature of Alliances, or that the unhappy, 
 though great Succefles of the War, made 
 them abfolutely neceflary, 
 
 II. Shew, That the Part the D. of 0— ^ 
 aftcd in the Field, while the Peace was 
 tranfafling, was the molt efftdiial Way to 
 fecond what was doing at Utrecht 3 upon 
 this Head (hew, that no Alfurances had 
 been given at London and the Hague ^ to 
 the States and to Prince Eugene^ that our 
 Forces ftiould aft vigoroufly in Conjunclioa 
 with the Allies 5 but if fuch AlTurances 
 were given, and the Allies did, as the Whigs 
 pretend, fo far confide in them as to defer 
 taking the Field, though they had their 
 Magazines, and every thing elfe in Rea- 
 dinefs, which they might have done at leaft 
 a Month before the Enemy : Shew that 
 there is no Contradiftion between fuch Af- 
 furances, and the Order fent to the Duke 
 of — 4 to do nothing 5 or that fome- 
 thing interfered that made fuch an Order 
 neceffary, though it was very near a twelve 
 Month before any Treaty of Peace was 
 Sign'd : Shew, Tha^he Confternation that 
 Order put the AlftPinto was not Real but 
 Counterfeit, and that it was no more thau 
 
 what 
 
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 U'hat frora the State of Things they had 
 reafon to expefl, and the great Misfortunes 
 that followed, are not fairly to be charged 
 to that Account : Shew, with all the Force 
 you can (and nothing is too hard for you) 
 that to do nothing with a Gallant Army, 
 muft, in the natural Courfe of Things, needs 
 procuf e a better Peace than could have been 
 had, by taking a Countrey, or routing the 
 French Army, one of which in that State 
 of Things, could not have been avoided ; 
 Here I mud tell you, the Whigs are fo in- 
 genious, as to allow your Diftindion be- 
 tween the Good and the Great General • 
 they confefs *tis their Opinion, That the 
 Duke of M — ^, inftead of obeying fuch 
 Orders, would have put them in his Pocket, 
 and have taken the Opportunity that offered 
 of ruining the French Army, which muft 
 they fay, have fecured a Glorious Peace 
 to us and our Allies, whatever Perfonal 
 Confequences fuch a Negleft of Duty might 
 have brought upon himfelf. Shew, That 
 the prefent M — ^y have religioufly per- 
 formed their great Promifes made to the 
 States and the Emperor^ (upon the Um- 
 brage taken at the Removal of the old 
 M — f) that they meant thefe Promifes 
 "When they made them, and have done all 
 they could towards th^|^ Shew, That we 
 have obferved our Treaties, or at leaft that 
 
 we 
 
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 we were under a neceffity of breaking them, 
 or that the Treaties do not really mean, 
 what in the Letter of them they teem to 
 do : Or that it is better they fliould b^ 
 broke than kept. 
 
 III. Shew, That the Scheme of a gene- 
 ral Peace, agreed between us and France^ 
 is better than that defigned by the Prelimi- 
 naries of 1709. or that Fr^zw<;<? was not fin- 
 cere in thofe Preliminaries, or that the 
 Continuance of a Succefsful War, could 
 not have forced a Submiflion to them, or 
 that any thing altered the hopeful Foot 
 Things were on at the Change of the M—y 
 except the Cjjiange it felf. 
 
 IV. Shew, That the Peace was General, 
 at the Time we Sign d (though the Princi- 
 pal Allie continued his War with France^ 
 and none had made their Peace with Spain) 
 that it was pure Humour in the Emperor 
 to ftand out, and to declare that he would 
 rifque all rather than fubmit to fuch Igno- 
 minious Terms : And that the Compliance 
 of the Butch vt^as free and voluntary, not 
 the Effed of Compulfion and Menaces, of 
 being deferred and oppofed, if they would 
 not Sign : 'Twill be eaile for one of your 
 Abilities to (hew, that a Part is fomctimes 
 equal to the Whole : That the Peace was 
 
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 General in Intention, though not in Fad 5 
 that Spain is concluded by France^ that all 
 Parties were as fure of their Peace, as if it 
 had been then made, That no body can be 
 ftriclly compell'd to do what they don't 
 like, and that the Menaces of Friends are 
 fometimes the greateft Kindnefles. 
 
 Fourthly^ Make it plain to a Demonftra- 
 tion, that Peace may be Safe and Honou- 
 rable, though it does not anfwer the Defigp 
 for which the War was begun, though the 
 Principal Allies are violently againfl the 
 Terms of it, and that for no other Rea- 
 fon, but becaufe they are vaftly fliort of 
 what the Enemy would, but a little beforCj 
 gladly have fubmitted to, ' 
 
 V. Shew, That the fettling of tht Spa- 
 mpj Monarchy in t'he Houfe of hourbon^ 
 is no Addition of Strength and Power to 
 Irafjce^ that it is not the Favourite Project 
 that Fraiice has all along fet her Heart up- 
 on, that Spain is not under the Influence of 
 Trench Councils, nor bound by any fecret 
 Engagements, or is able to extricate it fclf 
 from them. That France has miflaken its 
 true Intereft in fupporting King Philip, 
 that the Renunciations can't be eluded by 
 any private Inftruments at the Time ihey 
 
 were 
 
were made. That the Renunciations were 
 not made Conditional, with a Defign to 
 make them void 5 and although in the late 
 Treaty betwixt France and the Empire^ the 
 Emperor is not obliged to renounce Spain^ 
 which was a Condition of the former Re- 
 nunciation, that France will never take the 
 Advantage of this OmiiTion. Upon the 
 whole (hew. That whether Spain be, or 
 be not united to France^ no Acceflion can 
 be made thereby to the Power of the lat- 
 ter, or that without fuch an Acceffion of 
 Strength, France would not be a Ballance 
 for the Houfe of y47//?rf ^, or that a Ballance 
 of Power on the Continent, is not necef- 
 fary to fecure Englmd from being involved 
 in confuming Land-Wars, or that 'tis the 
 Intcreft of this Nation, that France Ihould 
 over-run the reft of Europe, 
 
 •VI. Shew, That it can be no Prejudice 
 to us, that France is permitted to Trade to 
 the We?i-Indtes^ which they never were be- 
 fore, that it is not exprefly againft the 8rZ> 
 Article of the Gra7iJ Alliance^ when clear'd 
 of the Forgery 'tis difguifed with in the 
 Conducl of the Allies, or that it wouM 
 not have been hindered, though the Spa- 
 nip. Monarchy had been fettled in theHoufe 
 PI Anuria. 
 
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 VII. She\^, That it would have been 
 the fame Thing to our Trade, whomever 
 Spain and the Indies had been given to. 5 
 that it is abfurd to think. King Philip will 
 favour France more than England^ or that 
 the French can underfell us in their Markets ; 
 Shew, That no Treaty of Commerce was 
 fettled by Mr, Stanhope with K. Charles^ or 
 that 'twas not agreed on, or would not have 
 been kept : That K. Charles would have 
 been under no Neceffity of carrying on the 
 Trade to the Indies with our Ships, and 
 the Dutch^ or that that would not have 
 been of any confiderable Advantage to 
 us. 
 
 VIII. Shew, The Wifdom and Juftice of 
 giving, accordnig to our Scheme of Peace, 
 the Kingdoms of Sardinia and Sicily to 
 the Eleftpr of Bavaria, and Duke of Savoy, 
 
 Firft^ As to the Juftice of this, fliew'tis 
 no Breach of the Bth Article, if the Grand 
 Alliance, which exprefly ftipulates. That 
 no Peace (hall be made, unlefs thefc Iflands 
 be given to the Emperor^ or that thofe they 
 are given to had a previous Right to them, 
 The Whigs pretend that they muft of Right 
 belong to one of the Competitors, to King 
 Charts ^ or Philip --^ and therefore can 
 
 with 
 
with no Juftice be given to a Third. 
 Shew therefore, That it was done by Gon- 
 fent of Parties, or at the Defire of France^ 
 and that we were neceffitated to comply 
 with it. 
 
 Or if this was done of our own free 
 Choice, as the Author of the Publick Spi- 
 rit of the Whigs declares it was, who en- 
 vies France the Glory of it. Shew, The 
 Wifdom of thefe two Steps, that it was 
 Wife as well as Juft, to take Sardinia from 
 the Emperor, which is not only ftipulated 
 to him by the Grand Alliance, but which 
 he *is adually poffefs'd of, to give it to the 
 Man, who has done both the Emperor and 
 Us the greateft Mifchief, who betray'd all 
 Flanders to France in one Night, and 
 kindled fuch a War in the Heart of the 
 Eippire, as muft inevitably have involved 
 all the Allies in the fame common Ruin, 
 had not Providence, by the unexpefted Bat^ 
 tie of Blenheim^ interpofed in the very 
 Crifis of Affairs, and by extinguifhing 
 that Flame all at once, given a happy Turn 
 to them, when they were in every Thing 
 defperate. 
 
 Shew, That giving Sardinia to this 
 Prince, is what in any Senfe he can be faid 
 to deferve, or that it is of any real Service 
 to him, or any Body elfe, but France: 
 Tliat to make a Priqce, whofe Dominions 
 
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 are in tlic midft of Germany^ and who has 
 not fo much as a Cock-boat, King of an 
 Ifland in the Mediterranean^ can have any 
 other EfFeft, but to tye him faft down to 
 the Interefts of France^ who could with 
 the greateft Eafe, (trip his Bavarian Maje- 
 fty of his new Kingdom, the Moment he 
 fhould dare difobhge her, by Efpoufing the 
 Interefts of the Empire and the Maritime 
 Powers againft the Houfe of Bourhon \ not 
 that there is the leaft Caufe to fufpeil:, that 
 Trance can need any Force againft a Prince, 
 who h^s been fo long and fo entirely de- 
 voted to her Interefts 5 and the fame, the 
 Whigs pretend, is the Cafe with refpeit to 
 Sicily ^ To give that Ifland to the Duke of 
 Savoy ^ who h'5S no Nav^l Force to fupport 
 himfelf in the Poifeffion of it, is to fix 
 him for ever in the French Intereft 5 To that 
 theereflingthefe Two Ptinces into Ifland- 
 Kings, is nothing elfe but to ftrengthen 
 France^ with the Two moft ufeful Alliances 
 they can defire, one is the Key of Italy^ 
 and the other lets them into the Heart of 
 Germany^ as if the lateAcceflion of the 
 Spanifb Monarchy, were not enough for a 
 Power that is of it felft6o great for aliira 
 Neighbours 5 as therV: is nothing in all 
 the Peace feeminglyfq inconfiftent \^ith 
 Juflire, and all good Politicks, I defire^'ou 
 would oblige your Friends^ with being ve- 
 
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 ry particular on thefe two Heads 5 as to Sar^ 
 Jinia^ 'tis plain, that Article was not im- 
 pofed by France^ becaufe 'tis given up in 
 their Treaty, juft concluded with the Empe- 
 ror, which convinces me, that the M- — y 
 infifted on its being given to the Eleftor of 
 Bavaria^ for fome very wife and weighty 
 Reafons, which ought not to be deny'd 
 mecrly becaufe they do not yet appear. 
 
 And for Sicily^ I am fure there muft be 
 fomething profoundly Wife in that Difpo- 
 fition, fince 'tis not only our own Aft j but 
 we rifque our felves in fupporting fo diftant 
 an Allie in his new Kingdom, at a great Ex- 
 pence, at a Time when we have fo much 
 need to be good Hufbands. Pray therefore, 
 get leave to open a little of this Myftexy, 
 (hew fomeunfeen Connexion it has with our 
 Trade, or that it preferves the Balance of 
 Europe, by the Acceffion of fo ufeful an 
 AlJie to France 'j or is it the Concern of a 
 
 Loyal M y, to do Honour to one of 
 
 the next Succeffors to Her Majefty in the 
 right Line ? But one thing further, fhould 
 not be forgot on this Head, and that is, to 
 (hew, That increafing the Number of 
 Kings, is no Diminution of that Sacred and 
 Auguft Name, by making it fo Common ; 
 That it is no Prejudice to the Jure Bivino 
 Title, to let the common People fee with 
 their own Eyes, That Kings are fometime§ 
 
 made 
 
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 made vifibly, by human Means : That it is 
 very confiftent with indefeazible Right, to 
 Strip Jure Divino Kings, and give their 
 Kingdoms to thofe who were not born with 
 an Hereditary Title* 
 
 That a Kingdom may have a Right to 
 difpofe Arbitrarily of other Crowns, and 
 yet not have Power in any Cafe, to limit 
 the SucceiSon of its own. 
 
 IX. Shew, That the King of Vortugat^ 
 who was the iirft of the Allies, whofe 
 Weaknefs oblig'd him to fubmit to the 
 new Meafurcs, will not fufFer by it 5 that 
 he has his Peace with Spain^ tho* all Let- 
 ters from Holland fay, he has not ^ That 
 Portugal is in no Danger of becoming a 
 Proviiice to Spain, or that their being fo is 
 not contrary to Juftice and Honour, con* 
 fidering the Advantage that would accrue to 
 Engla?id by fuch a Change, 
 
 X. Shew, With all your Eloquence, that 
 the Catalans are not an unparailel'dlnftance 
 of a brave and unfortunate People, that 
 they have not been unfpeakably Sufferers by 
 the War, that they were not courted to de- 
 clare for King Charles by the Maritime 
 Powers, upon the AfTurancesof being vi- 
 gorouily (apported, that liich AiFurances 
 have not been from time to time (ince re- 
 peated ; 
 
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 peated ^ that they do not deferve to have the 
 Privileges confirmed to them they have paid 
 fo dearly for, or that they could not at the 
 proper time have been had for asking for,and 
 that their choofing to fufFer fo much as they 
 do^ rather than fubmit , is no real t^roof of the 
 hardnefs of their Cafe. This deferves your 
 Care the more, becaufe there is fomething 
 very compaffionate and moving in the Cafe 
 ©f thefe poor People, and Englijh Tempers 
 can't well bear to fee fo brave a Nation 
 treated on the Foot of 'Rebels. 
 
 Xi. Shew, That the Emperor has not 
 •made a better Peace with France than we 
 had carved out for him ; or if he has. Ac- 
 count for it, how it could thus happen, 
 that one fingle Allie, deferted by all the 
 reft, and no way a Match for France^ could 
 attain better Terms than we thought fit 
 to ask or could procure for him, when the 
 Alliance was feemingly inrire , fure it 
 could not be the Effcft of the ill State of 
 the Affairs of France^ for then we fhould 
 not have given up fo many Points to them, 
 nor can it be fuppos'd, that France was cJe- 
 firous to get clear of this War, that he 
 inight be at full Liberty to Efpoufe fhe 
 Caufe of the Vretender^ there muft be fome 
 Secret in this, which without your Affi- 
 ftance 'tis not eafy for every one to penetrate, 
 D XIL Shew, 
 
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 XII. Shew, that the new Barrier-Trea- 
 ty differs from the old One in any thing Ma- 
 terial, befides breaking into the Barrier 
 fettled for the Dutch ^ to give the beft Parts 
 of it back to Trance^ and limiting the Se- 
 curity provided for the Vrotejlant SucceJJi- 
 en Jn the Houfe of Hannover. 
 
 y XIII. Shew, That the Caftle of Gaunt, 
 IS not by that Treaty agreed to be Part of 
 the 'Dutch Barrier, or that 'tis not contrary 
 to that Treaty to keep them out of it : 
 Shew, That this gives no Uneafinefs to the 
 Diitch^ or that it ferves fome Purpofe equal 
 to the Expence we are at to keep a Gar- 
 rifon there, befides the having it in our 
 Power to let the French in, than which I 
 am perfuaded, nothing can be further from 
 
 the Intention of the M -7, the Safety 
 
 'of the Dutch and us being evidently mu- 
 . tual ^ for HerMajefty hasgracioufly decla- 
 red their Intereft Infeparable from Her 
 own. Laft Year this was faid to be done 
 'to oblige the Emperor^ to agree to what 
 "irad been fettled with the Dutch^ in rela- 
 tion to our Flanders Trade ^ now 'tispre- 
 ' fended to be neceffary, to awe the Duuh 
 ^ilito■I know not what Compliances 5 a lit- 
 "tie Light would do well, to clear up thefe 
 'fteming Contradidions. 
 ^'^^^''^ - ^ XIV. Shew, 
 
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 XIV. Shew, The Danger of Ofiend's 
 being in the Dutch's Hands, till the Empe* 
 tor is put into PofTeflion of the Netherlands^ 
 that the putting it into Flemifh hands, who 
 are fo profefledly in the French and JS^ 
 varian Intereft, would not endanger its be- 
 ing betrayed to them 3 or that 'tis all one 
 to England^ what Hands fo Important ,4 
 Place is in. 
 
 XV. Shew, That the Method taken in 
 the Demolition oi Dunkirk^ agrees with the 
 Letter of the Treaty, that firft means laft, 
 and Months Years : Or if it differs, that 
 the Method fettled by the Treaty was 
 right at that Time, but that a contrary 
 Method is become fo firice, that to demq- 
 lift the Fortifications to the Land firft, 
 does not expofe our Garrifon to Frame^ 
 and put it out of oar Power without ^heic 
 leave to deftroy the Harbour 5 we were 
 told indeed by a late Writer, That the De^ 
 molition wa§ fo long deferr'd, in order to 
 remove thofc Difficulties the Barrier-Treatj 
 
 has put us under This is very furprifing^ 
 
 I thought the new Barrier-Treaty h^^ been 
 managed with fo muchWifdom as tore* 
 move all Difliculties 5 but if it has not, I 
 don't fee how the delaying of the* Demoli* 
 tion could do it, or that if it was to be 
 (Jeiay'djit was therefore neceflary to begin at 
 
 D 2 the 
 
^mS wrbng ct\S': Pray be fo kind, as to let us 
 imofome of thefe Difficulties, which 'tis 
 to be fuppofedj' 'did not appear, when the 
 'Time and Method of the Demolition was 
 "fettled, in a manner fo contrary to what has 
 h^n' fince takeh ; and (hew how this De^ 
 lay (!:an awe the Dutch any other Way, but 
 by- leaving that Door open to the Preten- 
 der / Shew 'tis more the fntereft of Holland 
 than of England ^ that this Port Ihould be 
 ^t^ffroyed, arid* 'tfhfit keeping them in awe 
 Is 'tile Reafofiofi-Vhis Delay, which feems 
 itt^nSed with fo much Hazard to our felves 3 
 or^if the great Sluices are not t'o be demo- 
 lifh'd tin a new 'Harbour is made equally 
 KgTfe'^^trd Commodious for France -^ fhew, 
 'That this isdefigtfd for the Benefit of Eng- 
 i^?t^,;'and th^t 'tii5 better for us at laft, that 
 iD^*f)'/^(hotlRi^ifot be demoli/h'd at all.-- 
 
 ^^•»;^^W^She*f^'^^^^ great- Care talcen cf 
 t?!^ ^fVote^^iV^^etl^ion'm France and the 
 ^^y ^: a^te^f ^ -&«/>?4-fl]^. That the 
 "^E^pei'ormwh^^^^ up the 
 
 *^^;W^?(!le''-W;^tHfe "Treaxf -of Ryfwuk"^ 
 ^nt- t^Ktxi^o(ii^^\-i^ if w'^^'h^d not m (b 
 Violent" a . nftnii^r %roken ■ffdniM:fim, that 
 ibo^igli^ ia a -Ttfeaty ■ folely betwee4i two P^'- 
 tlMlckfimde^i^ Ho Favour^ lean 'be expefle^ 
 for 'Proteftahts'^' nor does ahf '^hing of thii 
 Kind appear in the TrQ^i^ntUKy whieh 
 
 IS 
 
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 ^is now Publick^ yet perhaps 'tis privately 
 agreed, or they may be prevailed with to 
 do it in the Congrefs. But if this be a 
 barren Field, yet as to France^ where a 
 hundred Thoufand Families have fufFered 
 for the ProteHant Religion^ you have an 
 ample Scope to difplay the Power of youc 
 Oratory. 
 
 Shew with all the force of Words, what 
 a mighty Influence our Applications have 
 had there, fet forth the Inflexibility of the 
 Grand Monarchy and confequently the 
 pufhing and important Inftances made ro 
 him, which had that Succefs as to procure 
 no lefs than 250 Gaily Slaves to be fet at li- 
 berty. Thefe were hopeful Beginnings from 
 which Ifliould have been tempted to expect 
 much greater Things, if we had not fince 
 feen an Inflance that I am a little flagger'd 
 at ^ that the French King is no fooner fure 
 of his Peace, but he refufes a fingle Ser- 
 vant of the Queen's, the liberty of return- 
 ing to his native Air for his Health 5 this 
 damps ftill my hopes of further Favours 
 to the Prote/iant Religion^ but fhews at the 
 fame time how much we fhould value what 
 has been obtained, which ought to be pro- 
 portioned to the Difficulty 5 don't forget to 
 fet forth in its full Luflre, the great Cha- 
 rity exprefs'd in this generous Concern for 
 our Prote/iant 'Brethren, at a Time when 
 
 fuch 
 
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 fuch Notiofis are advanced among us, as 
 will not allow thefepoor People to be Chri- 
 fiians, much lefs Confeflbrs for their firm 
 adherence to the Truth. 
 
 XVII. Shew, That wc have not difobli- 
 ged our Allies to the laft Degree 5 that 
 what has been done will not prejudice fu- 
 ture Cohfcderacies, either in making or ob- 
 ferving them, or that we can have no want 
 of them ^ that Guarrantees are fenfelefs, 
 infignificant Things, that the Frotejlant 
 Succeffton in particular, in Judgment even 
 of the Eleftor of Hannover^ is as well fe- 
 cured, as if all the Allies had obliged 
 therafelves in the moft dffcftual Manner to 
 fnpport. it. , :':)d ^//r.i ',' jocfi I iH^^ - 
 
 XVni. 'Having dcfee^i'ith the ^Allies, I 
 ftould juft mention the NorthernWar, which 
 the late M-—y have been much re|)roach'd 
 for: Shew therefore the great Things the 
 prefent M — -y have done to put an end to 
 
 it. I remember Ahel R r a Year or two 
 
 ago^ told us. That the French, AinbafTador, 
 and the Minifter of another Potentate, had 
 madepreffing Inftances with the Forte, to 
 break the Peace but.juft before ooncluded 
 with the C^ar, and 'tbas broke according- 
 ly, which I fuppofe thefe/^?* won't forget, 
 but what has been done op our Parts, to- 
 wards 
 
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 wards putting an end to thofe Troubles, 
 has been managed with that Secrecy, that 
 we who are Friends, know as httle as the 
 Whigs of it. 
 
 XIX. To tire you no longer with Fo- 
 reign Affairs, and to come to our Home 
 Concerns, I would firft mention the Trea- 
 ty of Commerce which was expected to have 
 been the Jewel of the Peace, the Reward 
 of all that has been given to France^ at the 
 Expence of the Allies, but that is already 
 in fuch able hands, that I will not add to 
 the Trouble of this, by defiring you to en- 
 ter into that Subjed 5 further than to (hew, 
 the meaning of Merces magn^ Brhannix^ 
 whether it is not confined to the Manu- 
 faftures of Great-Britain^ and purpofely 
 exprefs'd as it is, that it might be fo con- 
 trived. 
 
 Shew, That the Nation was under an 
 abfoluteNecefTity of making Peace, as be- 
 ing no longer able to carry on the War, that 
 though Sixtee?) Millions have been expend- 
 ed in the laft Three Year?, in procuring the 
 Pedce, the War was become impracticable - 
 and though 'tis objefted, that the Expence 
 of thefe Pacifick Years has exceeded, by a 
 Medium of the Expence of the Eight pre- 
 ceding Years, the Charge of carrying on the 
 Confuming Land-War, you may prove to 
 
 the 
 
the Satisfaflion of our Friends, the fame 
 Money duly applied to a vigorous Profecu- 
 tion of the War would have had no Effeft, 
 or might poflibly have reduc'd F.rance to fo 
 Jow a Condition, as might have made the 
 Allies unreafonable in their Demands. 
 
 XX. Sheu'^ That the Money given by 
 Parliament thefe lait Three Years, has been 
 expended to the beft Advantage, not em- 
 ploy^ to Corrupt either at Home or Abroad, 
 nor diverted to any other Ufe, but what it 
 was given for, that there have been no ex- 
 ceedings of the Parliamentary Provifions, 
 nor a new Debt of about Tw§ MiUioiis 
 contracted in Three Years -^ that no Sums 
 of Money have been given with Profufion 
 in Penfions and Grants, but that every 
 Thing has been done Frugally and Wifely. 
 
 XXI. Shew, That the South-Sea Stock 
 really paid the Debts of the Nation 5 that a- 
 bove Vive Hundred Thoi^fand Pounds Annual 
 Intereft, is either nothing, oris m.iraculoufly 
 raifed, without putting the Nation to a 
 Farthing Charge, and the Principal effedu- 
 ally provided for — In ihort, that the South- 
 Sea Trade is more than a Name, and, that 
 thofe who had rather have their Intereft 
 alone, than Intereft and Trade together, 
 
 doiVl 
 
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 doD^jt unclerftand the hidden Treafufes th^y^ 
 refufe.— Shew, That the Cre^/t is now as^ 
 high^ as in the moft flourifhing ,T^imes, ffp 
 at Jeafl: as in the midft of the: War^or that 
 'itis better it ftiould be low, or thafeany thiq^^ 
 elfcis the Caufe.of ijts finking, tefidestlfe 
 Fears people are in for the Proj:eftant $i^q-^ 
 ceflion. ^ . . . 
 
 S^hew, That the Infblencepf the^^i^^^fdj^". 
 ^niPapiJis is no Sign, t^iit ^]?^tender*s 
 Intereft is underhand favoured, tii at the' 
 barefac'd and frequent Efpoufii^^hi^.Caufe 
 ^ Print, is not the Effeft of Connivaii^ 
 or much lefs of Indulgence^ pr En^Wage^^^ 
 mcnt 5 Tha,t the M—rJ jOn;$,n Occ^fip^ 
 are ready to ihew, a true Refpe^ far fns^ 
 Illuftrious Hoqfe of Hanov^r^ aud a great 
 Concern for their Si^cceflicm t^/^e, Grqwii,: 
 whenever we (hall te fo untuppy as to Ipqlj? 
 jHerprefent M— r-y. .ir . 
 
 . Shew, That tBc Umbrages' t^k^tfi in r^Ja^ 
 tion to the fretepd^r are aHf^oupdl^is, 5 
 that he is remov'^ as far sjs , peed 'be, ^n^ 
 that France is under the f^fQi:;^|t Engager- 
 ments, not to affift him in difturbing me 
 Succeflion ^ that thore is no ground for any 
 Jealoufie from any' thing at , Home 5 that 
 Sir^^--: — L—^-p particularly da not Sir 
 ^'tt^p ^^ that l)c is never adinitted into 
 the filoyal Prefence, or is no !ri(h Man, oi' 
 
 E lievet 
 
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 ridVer We Arms again ft Her MajeflE^; \\izf 
 Ik was not the Pretericler's, Minifter at jii?-^ 
 dridy and can't poflibly be employM for his 
 Service here^ that he was not the Perfon 
 who feiz'd the Duke^<? Meaina Cceli^ the 
 greateft Man in Spain, or that that Duke^ 
 dfd not die very unaccountably in his Cu*^ 
 ftody, and that the Qrrr'^ Life can't be 
 ip any Danger from fuch f etfons being fuf- 
 fer^d to cbmc near Her.^'^^' ^^ '" 
 
 ^''jSheAxr,"ftiat^our Fleet and Forces are in 
 good Condition , antl :the : Nation in aif 
 Evdiits vipt^ '^bl'e to defend itfelf, tho* our' 
 Sftips are n^ftit)f tfiem laid up, and others 
 fint ittto tll^ Meeikerrafjeariy and our Lan^- 
 Porces very ft#, atid thofe difpers'd, the 
 i^lf-Pay Officers Starving, and ixiany Wild 
 Mc% gone thro* the Expence, Fatigue,; and 
 Danger of, the War, and Jerved vveJl, . dtP' 
 
 fdr- hot feetmog fo 
 
 '<^^She^ir at'iargeV The Care the iW— ^'haVe 
 taSdn of tht\ Church, that the Servite of 
 IfBc.Churdlrxvas at the bottom of all^theif 
 StHemes, ndtwithftanding the earelfesjiTad^ 
 "it firft 'to" the Whigs, tftar alf Prdmmicms 
 
in the Church made in their Time, have 
 proceeded from no other Motive, but their 
 great Zeal for Learning and Religion ia ge- 
 neral, and the Welfare of the Church of 
 England in particular : Shew, That no un- 
 derhand Correfpondence is carried o^ with, 
 the Di/Tenters, that their Caufe is intirely 
 forfaken, that no private Interefl influenc'd 
 the making a certain Witnefs, a Dean, and^ 
 that another was advanced to the fame Dig- 
 nity, purely for the Service he had done to 
 Chriftianity. 
 
 Shew, The Ability, hitegrityand Impar- 
 tiality of the Sevfn^ that they do not ufe 
 enfnaring Queftionsto iead Evidences, that 
 they do not Ered themfeJves into an Inqui- 
 fition, that they reprefent the good and bad 
 Sides of Things equally, that they do not 
 Connive at in one, what they make highly 
 Criminal in another, that they are a^ Blind 
 .as Juftice as to Pcrfons, and Ql^ick-fighted 
 only as to Things, that they are not under 
 the Influence of the M — -7, and look jts 
 fevereJy into the Tranfaclions of the laft 
 Xhree Years, as of any that went befor-c, 
 and then give us fome Inftances, of the 
 great Sums they^have fav'd. tb tlic Nation 
 towards anfwering the Charge of looop,/. 
 per Am. which they coil the Nation. 
 
 ^'' ~ E 2 XXXL Vm 
 
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 XXXI. Fm fenfible m^ Zeal for the 
 prefent Adminiftration, has cut you out 
 a great deal Worlc, but perhaps a great Part 
 of it iTiay be faved, if you can prevail with 
 that %iodeft Man and good Chriftiau 
 DxS- — ^ to publifli the Work you lately 
 ddvfertiftd^ 'tis very extraordinary, that fo 
 able a Pen, fliould not only be employ'd 
 and inftrufted to undertake a great Work, 
 but go through and finifti it to his own 
 and to his Friends Satisfaftion 5 and yet 
 want Provacatlon to pubJifli it, after the 
 rtide Treatment he has often met with, 
 ti'niefs 'tis intetided that it (hall be foon 
 pabliflied by Authority and Order of P — -t, 
 bu?: by the way, I hope in that Treatifc he 
 will prove, he did not write the Tale of 
 the Tub y or that *tis no Libel on Chri- 
 ttianity, ot that he is fince become fo fin- 
 cerfe a Convert to the Church, as will 
 naake amteds for the Lofs pf his Reli-r 
 gion. 
 
 ^ * Tfie Strokes he now and then obliges 
 the World with to fliew he is not chang'd 5 
 X 'wifti heartily he "would write fomething 
 to prove he is, or enable you, who are 
 fo much his Friend, to do it for him, 
 
' I'm confident, I have not in any. of my 
 Requcftsa defircd any Thing but what you 
 are very able to perform, and therefore as 
 you love the Caufe you are engag'd in, and 
 the gteat Supporters of it ^; I conjure you 
 to take thefe Heads of Advice into your 
 moft fcrious Thoughts, that both may be 
 defended from the importunate Murmurs 
 of the Whigs^ who have talked of thefc 
 Matters in their Way fo long and fo ill, 
 that they begin to talk fome of our beft 
 Friends into their Sentiments 5 no body 
 can tell where Things will flop, if fuch 
 Objeftions as thefe are fuflPered to fpread 
 and pafs in all Converfations unanfwered. 
 I (hall be glad to contribute all I can to 
 fo good a Work, and if it be acceptable. 
 You may be always fure of the Friendly 
 Afliftance of, 
 
 Tout humble Servant. 
 
 POST- 
 
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 :X;^;;S T S C R I P T;- 
 
 I Remember the Medley took a Fancy, to 
 pubjiifli by Way of Advertifemcnt. for 
 a loDg tiin,e mgqther, a Claufe in an Aft of 
 Indemnity, to fliew. That the late M-r-y 
 bad taken efgfcial Care hot 'to skreen them- 
 felves frqip rMifapplicat;i(?n of the Publick 
 Monies 5 1 wonder you ^on't take your Re- 
 venge, ^nd vindicate the prqfent M — — ^r, 
 by publifhing in the fame Manner, the 
 Bth Article of the Gran^ 41liance, which I 
 have been at the Paii\s to. trapfcribe for 
 You, and is as fbllows'V ''"'' "^^^ \'!"."V" 
 
 ^liat none of t]&e i^^xtit^ COaE mafie 
 ^cace ttttijout tl^e Confent of tije 
 cti^er.no? before tlje^ ]^atoe obtaineo 
 a conbenient Satisfaction for tl^e 
 (fmpero?, ann a Security fo? ti^e ©o^ 
 miniong; anQCraUeof tije Eii^i (h anO 
 Dutch, anD p?ocurcn t^at Vc^z Crotons; 
 of Frances anO Spain be neber reunt^^ 
 te& wnJjer t^e fame |&?(nce ; anD in 
 
 partt. 
 
pSttiCttUt, tt^St t^ French U ntUt 
 
 ia^aUt^ of t]^e iiidies fulimttteo to 
 Spain, oj t^at ti^tt te jjermitteD to 
 cvaDe into ti^at Coanttp, utt ecti^ 
 0? innitectlt. 0o? Mo;e tl^et ^alje 
 
 OWameO fO? tl^e En^Iifn and Dutch 
 
 t^ofe JBig^tj}, #?ii)ileges{, anD f tan» 
 c]^tfe?f, tot t^tiv CraDe in Spain ana 
 
 tl^e Mediterranean, lOJi^iC]^ tOete enjO^eD 
 
 unJitv Charles II. ij^ Uvtuz t)f ^rca« 
 tiejf, Cttftom, 0? anp oti^tv Citlc tjji^at* 
 foeter. 
 
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