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 O N T FI E 
 
 PEACE: 
 
 BEING 
 
 A Difcufwn, by thefe Celebrated 
 Statues, at Rome, of the General Con- 
 didl of England, but particularly pending 
 the late War, and in Negociating the 
 prefent Fence, 
 
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 the Earl of C--/-^, by the TranGator, who, 
 
 in his Dedication, examines the M - \ 
 
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 der the Title of Conji derations on the Defnitm 
 Treaty, &c. "^ 
 
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 CO My Lor D, 
 
 -approve of wuhout dero^a •„:&? """''^ "°^ 
 Pian you laid down for the S?£h ? r^ S*^""""' 
 Condia. Your Lo dftb's S^l .°^ >'u°" ''"" 
 refted to the Amei,dme« ^f vf'"^/ ""'^ ""''^ ''i- 
 Happinefs of your Country ^°"^^^°"«^y™en and 
 wWch thefe Foreigner. ^^I^,, hlv! o"^ f„1?" ' 
 than your Lorddiip. Nor is ,> ,, n r , '^'^ 
 may have taken vour ] nrHn ■ <■ '''''>' ''« ''"'•T 
 - wriLg to a Pe"opTfun^k° n '^'P ::^ t^r^-^"'^ - 
 £for we find them varying theH-HI ?7'^""'" 
 ■«jea, and attempting, in^Imif' ,; * 7"'' ""= ^'ib- 
 
 ;hip, to mng an^d tPclcfeinSm" B it^h" H™''" 
 they have iucceeded T mnii- c \ ■ ^'^'^^"- -How 
 
 Aip. with this fingie ritT r7";!;^°^^- 
 
 that they wear a Drefs wWr h f the.r Favour, 
 
 falhioning. and for li^t^Cu^rt^' "7 
 2 IS anfwerabJe. ^^^/{//O 1 aylor only 
 
 Authors 
 
 .106SC>2
 
 ( ii ) 
 Authors but my Bookfellcr, who was not to be 
 perluaded to fill up a Chafm which your Lordlhip 
 will find in Page 2 i, with a Latin Ode CharaCle- 
 nzing two Perfons, as indifferent as unknown to 
 either him or I. But, whether the Man was fright- 
 ed at a late Example in W -r-H—ll, zr\d. 
 
 was afraid of v/earing the F I's C — p, or ima- 
 gined that all was T n which he did not under- 
 Hand, he was as ftifF in his Refufal, as Pdfquin hys 
 we Engii/b are in Error. But here, and indeed m 
 aJl that is charged on the Nation throughout the four 
 Dialogues, your Lordfhip is always excepted •, and 
 herein°no lefs appears the JulVice than Difcernmcnt 
 of my old Ron:ans. Could they have found other 
 Charafters, among us, as unblemifii'd and amiable 
 as your Lordfhip's, we are to fuppofe that you 
 v^^ould not have ftood alone in their Works. But 
 tho' they cou'd find you no Equal, it Wiis no lefs 
 pohiic than juft to produce you for a Pattern of 
 Imitation. Happy, that we have one Loi in our 
 Sodom to avert the Wrath of Heaven! Happy, 
 that we have one noble Patriot, whofe Eloq^uence 
 can perfuade to a Scrutiny of our paft Condud, 
 •and whofe Prance Ihou'd induce us to alter 
 It I 
 
 Thus far I journey'd, intending here to take leave 
 of your Lordfhip, when m.y wary Bookfeller fent 
 
 me the * M 1 Defence of the Peace, wifhing 
 
 . 1 wou'd examine if it clalh'd with Pcjfquin and Mar- 
 fcrio in their DifcuiTion of the Definitive Treaty. 
 To this End I bcitow'd a ferious Reading on this 
 fpecious Performance, and find it, as all the Pro- 
 ductions from the fame Quarter, eluding the prin- 
 cipal Points of the Argument and enforcing thole 
 ^ that 
 
 * ConfJerationi on the Definitive Treaty, &c. hy J. Roberts,
 
 ( iii ) 
 
 ^hat are foreign to ir, conilandy begging the Qiie- 
 ftion, and taking tor granted what is generally de- 
 ny'd, afrcding a I'endernefs for the Community, 
 
 to be found in the M 1 Lucubrations only, 
 
 and be-fpeaking the public Approbation of the 
 Treaty in much luch a fpecious and fmooth Expref- 
 fion as Shake/pear puts into Mark yfnibony's Mouth 
 to win the iVIob of Rome to his infidious Purpofes. 
 
 This Writer fets out with wondering, fbaf, in a 
 Land of Liberty, fuch as ours, fo many Jhou'd incline 
 to believe the Govermnent to be alivays in the Wrong. 
 If I mifliake not, the Animadverfions of my chiz- 
 zePd Authors, on our public Condu6l, prove the 
 Rectitude of the Imputation ; but fure I am that 
 the Harangues, dill frefli in our Memories, of fome 
 of the prefent Gentlemen in Power before they 
 taRed the Sweets of Employments might incline many 
 
 to believe the G 1 jeldom in the Right. But 
 
 however wrong or right public Condud: may have 
 been for the Time paft, I cannot agree with this 
 Writer, that the Definitive Treaty is any Exception. 
 to the general Charge, which -he fays fo many are 
 inclined to bring againft the G ■ 1, of being al- 
 ways in the Wrong. 
 
 This Advocate for the Treaty, pkirn.es himfelf 
 exceedingly on the fitnefs of the Time when our 
 
 wife M rs lijlen^d to the pacific Overtures of the 
 
 Enemy. But why was not the Year before as fit a 
 Seafon, when your Lordfhip urged the Acceptance 
 of the Propofals of France, which grants no more 
 now than was olfet'd then ? Pafquin Accounts for 
 tiiis Condu6t very naturally, when he fays that the 
 Peace is the Offspring of Fear, engender'd betweca 
 
 A 2 "^ a
 
 ( iv ) 
 
 a Dutch Sutierkin and E h Beetle. But with 
 
 this Writer's leave, that Part oF the M 1 Mea- 
 
 fure which he n^oft applauds, is, in the Opinion 
 of moft Men, that which is moft liable toObjedlion, 
 becaufe, as we had not embraced the Overtures of 
 J^rance^ while (lie was in Condition to carry on the 
 War, we ought to have ftood out when Famine, 
 Bankruptcy, a total Deprelfion of Commerce, and 
 every other Evil ftared her full in' the Face, or ra- 
 ther had overtaken her. 
 
 But what will not a Writer endeavour palming 
 on his Readers, who aliens that theHoufe tf/ Bourbon 
 comes out of the IVar with no Addition of Power, 
 ivhereas that of the Houfc «?/" Auftria was never fo 
 greats and fo confptcnoiis. One mull entertain a ve- 
 ry mean Opinion of his Readers, or miift hmifelf 
 be weaker than hefuppofcs them to be, who cou'd 
 hope to perfuade them, that one Man is not the 
 more powerful for being richer, nor another the lefs 
 Potent for being poorer. We find however our 
 Author inclining to Compunftion, at leaft ro Mo- 
 defiy, where he owns in the lame Breath, that the 
 Countries reflored to the Emprefs Queen, have been 
 very much harraffed, and fome of the Fortreffes in 
 them, much injured, if not dcn:olifhed. Yet tor all 
 this, the Lois of Silefm, the richtlt of the Aujirian 
 Provinces, and the Ceflion of Parma, Plancentia, 
 Guaflalla, and bell Part of the Milanefe, the Power 
 ot the Houfe of Aujiria was never fo great and con- 
 fpicuous. 
 
 If this Advocate for our Negociators may be cre- 
 dited, the Balance of Power in general, is no lefs 
 firmly eilabiilli'd by the Treaty, tliar :he Power of 
 
 the
 
 (V) 
 
 the Houfe of Aujlria Is greater and more confpicmus 
 than ever. But It happens unluckily that his Proofs 
 tor the former are as vague and inconclufive as thofe 
 he offers in Favour of the Jatter. If the Emprefs 
 Queen be lefs powerful than before the War, and 
 the Houfe of Bourbon more powerful by new Ac- 
 quifitions ; if Powers in the Empire, Allies of 
 France by Intereft, have fprung up lately to be for- 
 midable at theExpence of the Houfe of Jujlria, I 
 cannot conceive how the Balance of Power comes to 
 be as firmly eftablifli'd as is pretended it is by this 
 Defence of the Peace. 
 
 But that we may be fure our Peace-makers were 
 
 not lefs mindful oiHome then o^ Aujlria ^nd H r, 
 
 we are told that the immediate Concerns of 
 Englijhmen are taken as much Care of in the Treaty 
 as could be reafinably expeded or defired. I have 
 known fuch various Ufes made of the Word reafon- 
 hle by Advocates for Power, that I am not fure but 
 I Ihould miftake thisAuthor's Meaning, If I ihould 
 go about putting the natural Conftrudlion on this 
 Part of his Defence. For Inftance, fhould I fay, 
 that Englijhmen might have reafonably expeded Se- 
 curity for their Navigation in yfiW^nV^, and Com- 
 penfation for Depredations committed upon them 
 before the War, I might be filenced by being told, 
 that as there is a new Negotiation on Foot with 
 Spain, 'tis reafonable to exped: we fliall fare better 
 at Madrid than at Aix. 
 
 Another of our Concerns, which is the Demohti- 
 on of the Port of Dunkirk, is, according to this 
 Writer, fettled quite to our- Satisjamon. Your 
 Lordfhip will readily perceive by the XVII Article 
 
 of
 
 ( vi ) 
 
 of the Treaty, that the Satisfa£iion here intended is 
 folely MiniJieriaL 
 
 But the Guaranty of the Succejfion of the Crown 
 is confirm'' d in the clearefl Tenns^ as much as to fay 
 that the Peace is excellent which fecures us fo firm a 
 Guaranty^ tho' every other national Concern had 
 been omitted in the Treaty. If Conveniency be the 
 firft Article in the regal Creed, we may be fure 
 that this creneral Guaranty will be oblerved juft as 
 h-ng and as well as the lall was. 
 
 In Anfwer to a general Complaint, that the 
 
 Advice of P 1 had not been required either 
 
 before or after the 'Preliminaries v/ere iign'd, we 
 are told, that the Senfe of Parliament might be very 
 well known^ and very fafely colk^led by the Minillers, 
 from whatpafs'd in Parliament. I readily own that 
 Moderns may have made confiderable Improvements 
 in minifterial Knowledge, and fount;! new Lights 
 
 and Paths to the Underftanding of P 1 
 
 yi — n ', but in the Cafe before us, I don't remem- 
 ber any Thing that pafs'd in P — t laft SelTion, 
 
 leading to the Minifterial Knowledge here afierted, 
 
 except that the M rs themfelves, in their 
 
 Harrangues were known to urge the Neceflity of 
 ending the War. This is fomewhat fimilar to the 
 
 M rs echoing back, in an A — — fs, their own 
 
 Senfe of a S ^h of their own making. 
 
 There is no Part of this Defence fo fhining, be- 
 caufe the trueft, as the Portraiture of the Inabili- 
 ties of the Houfe of Bourbon before the Peace, and 
 her arduous Care fmce, to reftore her Trade and re- 
 drefs the heavy Grievances of her Subjeds. Bur, 
 
 wa;-
 
 ( vii) 
 
 was not the owning this Truth a tacit Avowal of the 
 Charge brought againft the M y for precipita- 
 ting the Peace ? 
 
 The Ignominy of ftooping to a vain, arrogant 
 Neighbour, in tlie Article of Hojiages^ is flur'd over 
 by this pafTive Scribe, in the fame calm Manner in 
 which he anfwers all other important Objedions to 
 the Treaty. Hojlages, he fays, were necejjary and 
 ufuai. If our i?onne foi had not been doubted, by 
 a People who judged of us by themfelves, Pledges 
 had not been required. And herein the foul Stain 
 of double dealing is endeavour*d to be fixt upon us. 
 Hoftages indeed were iifual \ but it was always from 
 fuch as were inferior in Rank and Power ; which 
 I hope this Defender does not think to be the Cafe 
 of Britain at prefent. Pafquin has cut this Difpute 
 fhort, by wifhing, as ail Englifhmen ought, that the 
 Hojiages had been H 7is. 
 
 The Apologift takes leave of the courtuous Rea- 
 der, by alluring, that all an Englifhman can wifh 
 for, or Wants may be attained, if the People 
 be but content to encourage Men to mean well^ by 
 putting a right ConJiru£iion on their Meaning. By 
 this we may fee howeafily tht Definitive "Treaty^ by 
 a little Court — Legerdemain, may be juggled into 
 a Reftorative or any good Thing one can imagine. 
 
 'Tis but encouraging and fuppofing our M rs 
 
 to mean well, and they are fafe, and the Nation is 
 happy. 
 
 But leaving the further Correction of this Defen- 
 der to Pafquin and Marforio^ who have pre-expofed 
 all his Sopiftry, I beg Leave to congratulate your 
 
 Lord-
 
 ( viii ) 
 
 Lordfhip on your Reftgnation before the Negoclation 
 for a Peace was fet on Foot. We all wiflied you 
 
 in the M y, before we faw how ill you were 
 
 ufed there ; and as ardently wifh*d you back again 
 
 for fear you fhou'd be fmu tied by the M 1 
 
 Coalmen. I have the Honour to be, 
 
 My Lord, 
 
 Tour Lordship's 
 
 Moji humble andmoji obedient Servant: 
 
 The Translator. 
 
 V . Pasqjjin 
 
 I
 
 Pasquin and Marforio 
 
 ON THE 
 
 PEACE, &c. 
 
 DIALOGUE I. 
 
 ?af<i^ 
 
 Pafquin and Marforio, , 
 
 R O M thy Air of Importance, oJd 
 Chum, yon Oiou'd be big vvithfome 
 
 dark, confitoriaJ Secret Shall 
 
 lea J I up Lucina to deliver thee ; or 
 
 acquaint the Cardinal In^mfuor, that thou art n a 
 
 Plot againfl the f loly-Office ? 
 
 ■ Marf, 'Tis a Wonder how fo medlinp; and frank 
 
 a bpeaiicr as thou art, cou'd have elcapM for fo 
 
 ■" many 
 
 F
 
 ( lo ) 
 
 many Ages, the Juflice of that necefiary Judica • 
 
 ture» 
 
 Pafq. Neceffary Judicature ! What, becaufe, 
 forfooth, 'tis neceflfary that the Laity fhou'd be 
 fpiu'd and whipt in the narrow Way that leads to 
 Blifs? Ah, Marfil Talk not thou, who have fo 
 long experienc'd the Equity of Churchmen, of 
 
 the Juflice of the Holy-Office 1 cou'd love 
 
 Rone but for that Judicature. 
 
 Marf. Is Rome t\-\Q only Place where there is an 
 Inquifnion ? Is there a Land in Europe, I may fay 
 in the World, where Churchmen bear not the chief 
 Sway ? 
 
 Pafq. What, Marforio! Among the free Sons 
 of the Reformation ? 
 
 Marf. Yes ; and of thofe, the very freed of 
 them are the greateft Slaves to their Churchmen. 
 
 Pafq. Dsar Marf ! Truce with Contradiflion-^ 
 The Freef of the Free are the greateft Slaves — 3,» — 
 ha, ha ! Prithee, old Stubborn, deal not thus 
 freely in the Profund. 
 
 Marf. Like a pert Critic that determines and 
 exults before he has examined, you plume yourfelf 
 on the having caught me tripping ; but diou fhaic 
 be thy own Confounder, as oft* thy peftulant Bre- 
 thren are Of all Governmients the Democratic 
 
 is the Freeft ; and of all the Democracies in Eu- 
 rope that of Geneva breathes Freedom moft -, 
 yet — I 
 
 Pafq. The Laity there are but Hewers of Wood, 
 
 and Drawers of Water to their lordly Faftors 1 
 
 undcrftand ihee^ Marforio \ and take Shame to 
 myfelf for my Petubncy You forgive me- 
 
 Marf. To relapfe t!ie firft Time any thmg 
 
 ^fcapes the Ken of thy fiiallow Comprehenfion 
 
 But comej as this is the firft I'ime J have known ^ 
 
 rheci
 
 Cir ) 
 
 thee Japfing into Modefly or Remorfe, I pardon 
 thee, on Condition however, that you own rhe 
 Sons of the Reformation to be as Priefi-ndddn as 
 thofe of the Old Eftabhfliment. 
 
 Faj\. As much as to fay, that every Country 
 has its Inquifition. 
 
 Marf Undoubtedly Does not the annual 
 
 Payment of Tythcs and parochial Dues prove it 
 beyond a Contradidion, not to mention a thoufand 
 Inftances befides, of the Subjedion of the Laity 
 and Defpofiticifm of the Clergy as well among 
 the Reformed as Catholics. Ask a hardy Scot if 
 every Parifh in his Country be not ridden by its 
 Pope, and he will anfwer in the Affirmative, per- 
 Jiaps with this aggravating Reflexion, that it 
 wou'd be foitie Alleviation of his Thraldom if his 
 fpiritual Tyrant had been arm'd with the awful 
 Buckler of Infallibility. 
 
 Pc-jq^. A rare two-edg'd Sword, that hews all 
 before it. 
 
 Marf. The only Weapon that can colour any 
 Power or Preheminence arrogated by Churchmen. 
 What aContradicflion wou'd it be for me, that am 
 no more gifted than thee ; that pretend to no fu- 
 pernatLiral Gift, to no Power delegated by the 
 Jiighell Difpenfer of all Power; that own you have 
 an equal Right with myfelf to judge and determine 
 on Points of Doftrine ; for me, J fay, that am no 
 better, no more enlighten'd than thylelf to pretend 
 to direft or controul your Confcience 
 
 Pa[(i. Wou'd be as abfurd and impertinent as 
 for a blind Man to read me a Lecture on Colours. 
 
 Marf. Yet abf.ird as it may feem, ungifted as 
 
 they are, without forming any Pretentions to In- 
 
 hllibility either, you fee how they curb and beilridc 
 
 lie Flock. If crafty Men expedt to rife by excitins; 
 
 B 2 Kehdhun
 
 ( 12 ) 
 
 Rebellion againft a lawful Prince, 'tis but luring the 
 Clergy on their Side, and prefently Rebellion 
 ceafes to be any more than a neceffary Oppofition 
 which the Subjeds are taught to join in under Pain 
 01 Damnation 
 
 Paf^. But if on the other Hand, it fhou'd be 
 neceffary to preach back the People to their Duty 
 to the Prince fo rebdl'd againft ; if Opportunity 
 offered for righting Miftakes and doing Juftice, 
 wou'd not theie Bellows-blowers in black, think 
 you, Thump the Cufhion in Favour of the In- 
 jured ? 
 
 Marf. Not unlcfs they cou'd be fure to find 
 their private Accounts in the Change of their Lan- 
 guage. You might have obferved a recent Inftance 
 in _a diftant Wejiern Region, of the Refiituticndl 
 Spirit of Churchmen, and the Influence of their 
 fabbatical Vociferations. 
 
 P^/^. If I don't forget, the Pens o^ Church - 
 men, on that extraordinary Occafion, were no Jefs 
 employ'd than their Lungs. 
 
 MaKf. And more ufeful than the Sword 
 
 Pafq. I can tell you what was then of more Ef- 
 ficacy than either. Gold, which wrefted Secrets from 
 the Secretary, mifted Generals in their Way to furc 
 Victory by Night, and rais'd the Spirit of Oppo- 
 fition in Councils of War Gold, my dear 
 
 Marfi, all powerful Gold which charms the brave 
 Lion ot Liberty into Shackles and Chains ; which 
 fo covers the Drum of the Ears of Senators that 
 they are deaf to the fweet Voice of Truth, and 
 which fo ftiifens their Hearts as to be unable i?b 
 
 bend to the Allurements of real Patriotifm — - 
 
 Ah! powerful, ftiining PZarth, that ruleft this Ball k 
 we (land on, that forccft Scepters out of righteous '^ 
 Piands, and- — 
 
 Marf,
 
 ( 13 ) 
 
 Marf. Swords out of the Hands of fuccefsful 
 Generals— 
 
 ? 
 
 ^lidvakt externi Strepitus^ torment a, fur or que 
 Nil', nifi Confilium iemperet Arma Domi. 
 
 Pafq. As much as to fay, that the Blunders of 
 the Cabinet of Verfailles have rendered the Vido- 
 nes ot Saxe and Lowendhal oi JittleUfe to France 
 
 Marf. Not fo much the Blunders as the Envy 
 and Corruption of die reigning Junfto in the 
 French Miniflry. The Objcas of the firft are the 
 two foreign Generals you named- 
 
 Pafa. And of the latter, Gold, Englifh Gold, 
 which faved the Cheefemongers from feeding on 
 
 ^ench Sillabubs Gad, old Stiff! This fame 
 
 Peace which is come to us piping-hot from the po- 
 litical Oven of Atx, feems to be a ftrange Hotch- 
 potch ; an Oho, an incomprehenfible Medley built 
 not fo much on the Balis of Equity and Reafon as 
 on Whim, Caprice, Ignorance, and Partiality. 
 
 Marf. You might have added Neceffity. 
 
 Fafci. What Necejfity cou'd the Victors bedrivert 
 to ? 
 
 Marf. You confine the Word Neceffity to France 
 fingly, when it is applicable more to the other 
 Powers at War. 
 
 Pafq. Nay, name not Powers; for I know but 
 one in each Confederacy that cou'd command 
 1 eace, or bid the War to glow ; France on one 
 ^ide, and England on the other. To their Fiddles 
 the Allies on both Sides were oblig'd to dance. 
 Therefore, my little Marfi, if thou wouldft ur^e 
 Neceffity Jet it be applicable to France or Enzland 
 only. ^ 
 
 Marf
 
 ( 14) 
 
 Marf. I agree with thee, Pafqui7i ; the Preli- 
 minaries to the Peace we are examining, prove the 
 Reftitude of your Conclufion. AH the Powers 
 concern'd, except France on one Side, and England 
 on the other, knew nothing of them when firft 
 iign*d, and were dragg'd to agree to them after* 
 wards' 
 
 Pafq. As they are into the Peace 
 
 Marf. Necejfity hath no Law- 
 
 Pafq. You are right as to [the Confederates on 
 both Sides who were obhgcd to fubfcribe •, but the 
 'Principals France and Englayid^ the firfl command- 
 ing the Land, the other the Ocean, how cou*d 
 fuch conquering Powers be prefs'd by Neceffity ? 
 
 Marf. Thus. Tho' England had no Equal at 
 Sea, fhe may be faid to have been inferior to all on 
 Land, even to thofe Powers that cou'd fcarce move 
 without her. 
 
 Fafg. Blunder, Marf, the deep Mire of Blun- 
 der in which the Unrighteous and Ungifted flown- 
 der incelTantly ! The EngUfh had firfl wantonly 
 flownder'd into the War and conduced it after- 
 wards without Caution or Forefighr. 
 
 Mdf. The Englifh! Fafquin., I thought you 
 had Known better than to criminate that brave^ 
 wife^ jufi People for Errors imputable only to their 
 Miniftry • 
 
 Fafq. To their own Gold^ you might better fay. 
 Gold^ old Boy, is the Idol the Engliflo bow to. 
 After they had driven their Mofes from his Office, 
 they made unto them a Golden Calf., to which they 
 
 have paid conftant Adoration ever lince Brave^ 
 
 wife, cLud Juji! High Epithets, Marfi\ but, pri- 
 thee, in what Senfe applicable to the Engliflo ? 
 
 Marf. There is no refufing the Englifj Courage -, 
 
 they will fight 
 
 Pafa.
 
 ( 15) 
 
 Paf^. So will their Dogs and Cocks, without 
 
 Meaning or Defign They will fight ; fo will 
 
 other Nations : And they can run away too as well 
 
 as fight, as Saxe can teftify. Tell me not that 
 
 a People will fight, and thence beftow the Epithet 
 Brave on them. As well may the Highway- 
 man who afTauIts refolutely to gain a Purfe, be 
 deem'd Brave as a Nation that fight in an ««- 
 righteous Caiife. Ever fince the Eredlion of the 
 Golden Idol mentioned before, the Plan on which 
 
 the E h fought has been defective. There was 
 
 a Time, Marforio^ when our Anceftors, here 
 ^vithin this once awful Seat of Empire, were Brave 
 in the fulled Extent of the Word. They fought 
 h-a^ely Abroad for Conqueft and at Home lor 
 Freedom. 
 
 Marf. The ancient Romans were truly Brave-^ 
 
 Pafq. So were the ancient Britons. But, ye 
 Gods, how alter'd and degenerated ! Do they not 
 too nearly refemble thofe Romans that had out-lived 
 the Confiitution of their Country and bow*d to the 
 Minifierial Yoke in the Days of the Ccefars} 
 
 Marf. Servile Wretches- . 
 
 Pafq. Famifh'd Slaves! Hungry for the Gold 
 which themfelves had given. 
 
 Marf. Hov/, Pafq^uin ? 
 
 Pafq. As abfurd as it may feem, the Charge is 
 ncverthelefs founded on the firm Bafis of unerring 
 Truth. What have Princes or their Delegates 
 (Minifiers) but what they receive of the People ? 
 Even that Power which is often turn'd againfl the 
 Herd is derived from themfelves : Nor is it lefs 
 certain that the Means of Corruption comes medi- 
 ately from the Corrupted. Had the People of all 
 Countries reach'd out a fparing Hand to Courts, 
 Corruption wou'd have been a Stranger here on 
 
 £artii
 
 ( i6) 
 
 Earth as well as Defpoticifm, but for Wantof thac 
 Parcimony, which even Nature feems to di6tate, 
 behold what Wafte Corruption has committed on 
 this Tennis ball of ours ? Various are the Origins 
 afllgn'd to tyranny by Sceptics ; but I fay, that Gold 
 is its Parent. And I prove it thus : Take Notice, 
 that by Gold I fuggeft every Means of Corruption, 
 whether by private or public Penfions or Employ- 
 ments, or by Titles and Honour undefervedly con- 
 ferred. 
 
 Marf. To your Proof. A Syllogifni from a 
 Rattle will be a Curiofity Ha, ha ! 
 
 Pafii. As hollow as you may deem this Pericra- 
 nium of mine, Mr. Simperer, my Hands are clean, 
 and my Heart is honeft. 
 
 Marf. So are mine, Mr. Pert -, and what then ? 
 
 Pafq. That for the Want of their being fo the 
 reverend Senate that once graced this Capital and 
 govern*d the World, became Slaves themfclves, 
 and tranfmitted Slavery to their wretched Defcend- 
 ants. 
 
 M^r/.'Curfed Avarice and Ambition ! See what 
 Havock they make even now in the Wejlern He- 
 mifphere. 
 
 Pafq. Rather impute the big Ruin to Luxury 
 more than even to Avarice. The latter is infati- ' 
 able, and for that Reafon oft' proves too craving 
 and ftubborn to be bent by the Wiles or Power of 
 the Ambitious. But Luxury^ liable to be fed a 
 thoufand Ways, yields as foon as addrefs'd, having 
 before hand cafhier'd Patriotifm^ the only Guard 
 that cou*d fecure her. 
 
 Marf. The Luxurious indeed are eafier let down 
 to bate Proflitution than others 
 
 Pafq. And therefore have been at all Times the 
 readier Inftruments of Power. What elfe but Luxu- 
 ry
 
 ( i; ) 
 
 xwy warps Senators from the Duty owlno- to Pofte- 
 rityand themfelves ? They give but lo rTcche, and 
 receive the IVages of the Infamy but to fupport' their 
 Extravaganfe, a Term indeed more harih then 
 Luxury but which exprefles it truly. 
 
 Marf. Well may we have feen an unmeanino- 
 
 War, and as unmeaning a Peace, when- . ° 
 
 Pafq. Senators and Counfcllors frifk and caper 
 
 to the Pipe of Corruption, not unlike the Squa- 
 
 - drons of the voluptuous Sybarite^ of Old, who 
 
 were taught to prance and beat Time to the Mufic 
 
 of the Flute. 
 
 Marf. And by that very Means were made 
 Slaves by the Crotonit^, who turn'd their own 
 Wanronnefs upon them in the Day of Battle. 
 
 Pafq.Oh, thoughtlefs Moderns! Oh, feiifelefs 
 Generation ! What elfe but Chains ca.a be the Con- 
 fequence of that Venality (o eminently confpicuous 
 
 among the Guardians of national Liberty ? Thefe 
 
 Marforio, are they whom you hadjufl: now em- 
 broider'd with the fplendid Epithets of Brave, 
 Wife, ^ndjiiji. Recant old Stiff, or I fliall think 
 you have tinfcli'd out your Heroes but to expofe 
 them the more, as hard-favoar'd Women become 
 the uglier for being deck'd out with Jewels. 
 
 Mrrf And like the Beautiful of that bewitchino- 
 Sex, you expcd that all fhould bow before you in 
 Senfe and Argument. I fuppofe you will challeno-e 
 
 the mfdom of the E h as you have thdr 
 
 Bravery. 
 
 Pafq. By no Means. What Arrorrancc wouM 
 it b- for me to doubt the PFfdom of a^People that 
 ■dd:io wifely, and without Doubt, think themfeiJes 
 the mff of all Nations? Far be it, from me to 
 mipeach the fVifdom of Iflanders, that have been 
 for more than Ha]f a Century, running their Nofes 
 
 ^ into
 
 ( i8 ) 
 into all the Qiiarrels on the Continent and clogging 
 their Trade and Indujlry^ beyond almoft a Poffibi- 
 lity of Relief, in Support of nhofe Qiiarrels. Are 
 not the late IVar^ the Condu5i of it on the Side of 
 
 ]? ^^ and the Peace which puts an End to it, 
 
 fo many recent Proofs of E- hWifdom? O, 
 
 fie ! Tiie E h not ivife^ that feek Heaven 
 
 thro' the Gates of Poverty and Suhje5iion ! 
 
 Marf. Poverty and Siibjetlicn, Pafqiiin ! What 
 would you be now at ? 
 
 Pafq. Muft not a People that give more than 
 rhtir All become Poor F 
 
 Aldrf. Giving msre than All, Pafquin, Savours 
 of that Profund you often charge on others. 
 
 Pa[q^. May not a Man be faid to give more than 
 his AlU who runs in Debt far beyond his Ability 
 to pay ? How e!fe but by giving annually more than 
 
 they were able, have the E h accumulated a 
 
 Debt of near Four hundred Millions of Crowns^ 
 which will ever be fuch a L.oad on their Trade as 
 mull bring on Poverty^ and fuch an Engine in the 
 Hands o\ Minijlers^ as nw.^ hnri'g on Subjection? 
 Shew me the Man that dare rejift, tho' his Freedom 
 be invaded,, while his Fortune lie at the Mercy of 
 the Powerful. Thou knowefl: that where a Man's 
 Treafure is there is his Fleart alfo. Befides, what 
 better Pledge can there be for a Peophs Obedience 
 than fuch a Mortgage on their Properties } A Mort- 
 gage pregnant with thofe courtly Plagues, Poverty 
 and Slavery, which are Gates by which thefe wife 
 Inf ilarians intend to pafs to the Elyfian Shades. A no 
 
 Jefs poignant Proof of £ h I-Fj flora, is that 
 
 implicit Confidence they repofe in their haranguing 
 Patriots. Let them change Sides' never fo often, 
 turn their Coats never fo frequently, bellow for the 
 People or fell and treat them ever fo contemptu- 
 
 oully j
 
 ( 19 ; 
 
 ouHy ; in /hort, let their Oralors fay and do what 
 tht7 wiJJ, fo that they are difgufred at their Betters 
 and ^pretend to Patriotifin, prefentJy they are re- 
 ceiv'd and carrefs'd by the wife Herd, whom they 
 had deceiv'd a thoufand Times. What an Idol was 
 he, who prun'd the Olive Tree lately bearing Fruit 
 
 ^^ ^; ^^ after he had made that memorable 
 
 Oration in 1742 againft taking H « Troops 
 
 into E h Pay, wherein he treated with un- 
 common Poliienefs One that had fmce honoui'd 
 him with peculiar Confidence ? 
 
 Marf. He was then a Patriot. 
 
 Paf^. Yes; a loud, railing Patriot, as all mud 
 be that wou'd lure thtwife Populace to help puih- 
 ing them up to Power and Preferment. But (hou'd 
 the prefent minifterial Syftem grow fo perplext as to 
 oblige the Prince to a Change of Hands, we fliall 
 fee this pliant Courtier returning to tiie ofc-try'd 
 Patriotic Vomit and as well received as if he had 
 never warp'd from his ProfelTions to the wife 
 Rounds on whom he rofe to the Sphere he onw 
 Ihines in Alas! Thefe are but [qw of a Mul- 
 titude of Inftances I cou'd bring of the diliin- 
 guilh'd IVifdom of thefe wife Men o'^ Gotha, who 
 had expended an Ocean of Blood and Treafure, 
 in the Memory of Man, in Support of Religion 
 which they ridicule, and of Uberty whofe Sub- 
 fiance they are f^iid to have dropt for the Shadow; 
 as that filly Beafi in the Fable, who to wreak Ven- 
 geance on ^the Stag, lofi: his Freedom to him whom 
 he had cali'd in to maintain it. 
 
 Cervus equum pugna melior, Communihus herhis 
 Pellebat -, donee minor in cert amine longo 
 Imploravit opes, hominis fr^enumciue recepit ; 
 
 C 2 Ssd
 
 C 20 ; 
 
 Sed pojlqtiam I'lEior violens difcejjit ah hojte, 
 Ncn equitem dorfo, Jionfrenum depidit ore. 
 
 Marf, Well, well; as to the Wifdom of that 
 
 Jiubbcrn People, I confefs the Argument yields to 
 
 your Side of the Queftion i but"" I think it mull 
 
 bend to me Vs^hen their Jnftice comes to be confi- 
 
 der'd. 
 
 Paf(i. We fiiall examine E h JuftJce pre- 
 
 fently ; bur let me not pafs by a new Epithet you 
 beftow upon them. That Jiiibhorn People! Stub- 
 horn where it means a Tenaciouihefs in the right, 
 in the Parh to Virtue, is praife-worthy ; bat what 
 fhall we fay if it be direded to a quite contrary 
 Objed? Conftant in ill, iliff in the Wrong, wil- 
 ful and determin'd in Error, even when Expe- 
 rience points it out; \{ Jiubborn, in this Light, be 
 an eligible Epithet, you are welcome to deck your 
 Favourites with it. 
 
 Marf. The E h of all Nations were my 
 
 Favourites, I contefs. But 
 
 Fafq^. Since they ceas'd to be that brave, wife, 
 juji People you painted them, they are no longer 
 your Darlings. I thought I (hould be able to take 
 you down as diftatorial as you afFeft to be. But, 
 prithee, Marf, by what Means have that People 
 forfeited your good Opinion ? How long have they 
 
 been declining in your Eflieem ? 1 fee thou art 
 
 no Adept at Numbers. Shall I calculate for thee .? 
 -—Let me fee; In 16 . , they embrac'd z Novelty 
 unknown to their Fathers or Laws ; a Cloud which 
 ajaundic'd Fiend had prefented too them for Juno. 
 h\ 17.. they bargained for Poflerity againft Ccn- 
 nji5iicn and the fiated Maxims of their Country; 
 they offended againft Innocence then in no Capa- 
 city of giving Offeace. In 17.. an Opportunity 
 
 offered
 
 ( 21 ) 
 
 offer'd for recovering the vifual Ray^ but they 
 fpurnM the day-giving Hand from them vvitii 
 Contumely. And in 17.. a fecond Attempt was 
 made towards their Cure; but, ah, Marforiol 
 Urge me not to paint them truly on this latter Oc- 
 cafion. The Scene is too gloomy to bear the 
 
 Light ; and the i -ty too big for Words. — ^ 
 
 I.et it fuffice, that filietced Jnfike held not the 
 Balance even while the bold Conteft lafted, tho' 
 Fortune play'd her ulual Pranks to fliew her Power 
 and make Mortals Itare at the Madnefs of her 
 Diftribmigns, 
 
 Marf. Yet, Pafqmn, the different Ohje5fs which 
 Fortune had then fmiled and frowned upon, bore 
 little Similitude to each other. 
 
 Pafq. None. Light and Darknels differ not 
 more than they. One was a Cherub in human 
 Shape, the other a ****, embodied in an ample 
 Entrenchment of Flefh and Blood. Take the Por- 
 trait of both, in this Impromptu in the Mother 
 Tongue of our glorious Anceftors.
 
 ( 22 ) 
 
 ■^■■■— iiTii 
 
 Yet that Cheruh became the Sport of undifcerning 
 Fortune^ and was well nigh becoming the Vidim 
 of an undifcerning People. — Oh! Scene of Horror ! 
 Let us turn Thought from ir, ^^zx Marforio^ that 
 a Scene yet more tragic, of an older Date, may 
 not fo fill up the Chafms of the Mind as to ren- 
 der .us unapt for treadng the important Subjed we 
 are met to difcufs. 
 
 Marf. The Subjects indeed of War znd Peace 
 are of Importance i but are not big national Sins of 
 Importance alfo ? Would not the attempting to 
 
 remove
 
 ( 23 ) 
 
 remove them, and by that Means evert the JVralh 
 and Juftice of Heaven, be of pubh'c Utility ? The' 
 we Hiould not be able to mend an obdurate Race, 
 let us, like our great Countryman of old, do our 
 Part in cautioning them that the unexpiated Mur- 
 der of Majefty draws after it the heavieft Curfesin 
 the Stores of Heaven. 
 
 ; acerbo fata Romanos agunt, 
 
 Scelufque fraterna necis ; 
 Ut immerentis fluxit in terrain Remt 
 
 Sacer nepotibus cruor. 
 
 Pafq. You forget the dated annual Commemora. 
 tion of that Scene of Horror 
 
 Marf. No, Pafquin ; I forget not that the Con- 
 am ot thofe wao commemorate Anfwer in no Re- 
 ipcdt the Defign of the Commemoration. Has it 
 not too much the Air of mocking the Deity, to 
 implore the Forgivenefs of a Sin which is hourly 
 repeated, or as often as Occafion offers— But this is 
 not the only Inftance of their Inconfiftency. 
 
 Pafy. Nor of their InjP^Uce neither. Yet thefe 
 are they whom you would befpangle with the alir- 
 termg Epithet of >/. In what Page of thel^/. 
 Annals of their Conntry have you found Matter to 
 urnifh out the Panegyric on their y^/,V,? Js not 
 mat very Lommemoration you nention'd an irrefra- 
 gable Proof of their having no Claim to the Eni- 
 tnet ? Had they any Acquaintance with Juftice, any 
 peeling for the Sufferings of Imiocency, would they 
 t^ius amiually offer to appafe without attempting 
 h- mT' •'——But fee, he moves majeaLlly 
 this vVay who forrowfully can vouch for the Rec 
 titude of my Charge againft his Countrymen. 
 
 Marf. His I rain bends to the Vatican, to con- 
 
 f er
 
 ( 24 ) 
 
 for, I fuppofe, with the Pontiff concerning the 
 future Condiicl of his Houfe on the Prefent big 
 Event of a Peace. 
 
 Pafq. Alas! What matters how the Condud of 
 that haplefs Houfc is fhaped ? Peace and War to 
 them are the fame : They are watch'd alike in both, 
 and pending both alfo are in no lefs Danger from 
 the deadly Doze or Dagger. Wretched Situation ! 
 To be in conftant Dread of deep Defigtt, and 
 
 friendkfs ! 
 
 Marf. And yet was Friendfhip to be attradled 
 by fpoilefs Virtue and by Worth of every Caft, 
 where better could fhe have attach'd herfelf ? 
 
 Pafq. Friendfliip, Marforio^ has long fince taken 
 her Flight from Earth along with Juftice. If the 
 
 latter be not to be found in E d, nor the 
 
 fornier in the Breafts of Ktngs^ why fliall we look 
 for cither below the Moon ? I wilh I cou'd foar fo 
 high to fee if Monarchs there deal out th6r facred 
 Prowifes, as they do here, to inveigle wrong'd In- 
 nocence for private Purpofes ; or if there be a Na- 
 tion fo wilful as to perfevere in Injiifike to the Ruin 
 of their Trade, at the Expence of their Freedom, 
 and Lofs of Character. 
 
 Marf. Saw you not, Pafqu'm, as the high-born 
 Perfonage palsM along, how deeply imprelb'd was 
 SorrGiz\ on his awful Brow P 
 
 Pafq. Well may Grief have fhot deep its Root, 
 where Joy had never chear'd the Heart. The Vic- 
 tim of Ambition while yet in the Cradle, and the 
 Sport of Fortune ever fmce, what Acquaintance 
 could he have with Joy ? 
 
 Marf. There was a Time, not long fince, when 
 Joy feemed to dawn upon his Houie. 
 
 'Pafq. Yes, Marforio ; and that dawn refle6ls no 
 lels on a ddiukd People than on a perjur'd Court 
 
 whence
 
 ( 25) 
 
 whence Innocence is never to expeft Relief, France^ 
 perfidious Gaul^ plays off an injured Houfe as 
 beft anfwers her own bafe Purpofes widiout a View 
 to Juftice or to Friendlhip. Dots not her Con- 
 dud during that late Bawn you fpoke of, prove 
 the Policy of France to be ever to keep the Exiled 
 hovering o*er the JJle but never permit their Nett- 
 ling upon it ? Ill fated Ifle I Whence Jealoitfy and 
 mirtaken Zeal^ have driven ail Regard to jnjike 
 
 and even to its own true and genuine Intereji ! 
 
 But kt us wave tlie unrelifliing Subjed to treat that 
 which ingrofles the prefent Attention of all Eu- 
 rope. 
 
 ^ Marf. Peace is the reigning Topic of Converfli- 
 tion 5 but who knows not that the Exiled Family 
 you wifh to fay no more of, have been the chief 
 
 Jnftruments in the Conclufion of that Peace 
 
 Pafq. And no iefs fo in the Succefs of the War 
 on tht Side of France. But thefe are Subjeds we 
 will difcufs at our next Meeting. Farewell, Mar. 
 forio^ the bufy Crowd thicken about us to glean up 
 the Harveft of our Speculations. I love to difap- 
 point fuch intruding Lift'ners. Adieu, till To- 
 morrow's Sun retire to unbend himfelf in Thetis'i 
 Lap. 
 
 D DIALOGUE
 
 (26 ) 
 
 DIALOGUE n. 
 
 Pafq. 'T1|7Eicome, thou only Partner of my 
 VV Cares, thou only, who, be'fide my- 
 frlf, have outlived the Freedo7n of this ancient Seat 
 ot Liuerty. 
 
 Morf. Of the whole World, you might have 
 faid. In what Part of it does the fair Nymph re- 
 fide? 
 
 Pa[(i. Is fhe not revered among thy Favourites ? 
 Can a brave, wift\ and Juji People, as thou woukiil 
 paint the E k> to be, fubfifb without Liberty ? 
 
 Marf. Prithee, name them not. 
 
 Pafj Ha, ha! I thought it would come to this 
 •when you examin'd them with Impartiality. 
 
 Marf. Every Step of their Condufl fmk them 
 
 but the lower in my Efteem See, jn this 
 
 Peace, how they abandon their beft Ally 
 
 P^y^. After fquandering Millions in her Sup- 
 port — —Bi.it let us trace their Condud from the 
 Source to this pacific Ocean into which they have 
 forced that heroic Fair to plunge along with them. 
 
 Mar. As they manag'd the War, 'twas Time to 
 put an End to it. 
 
 Pafq. They managed the War as they do every 
 Thing &]k, with an Eye to finking upon the Pub- 
 lic, raifing private Fortunes and continuing the 
 minifterial Power. The Public is a Bubble, which 
 the different Parties blow thro' the Tube of frivale 
 Self interef as Occafion offers. 
 
 Marf. And the thoughtlefs Populace, the' al- 
 ways play'd off by their different Chiefs, grow not 
 
 wifer.
 
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 ^^■ifer. They were lured into the War with SprJn 
 
 oy Sycophants who wanted to o'erthrow the then 
 
 grand Corrupter. 
 
 Pafq. And is not there a conftant SuccefTion of 
 
 luch Sycophants in that haplefs Land; Agents deaf 
 to ^ruth, blind to Jitpcc, partial to the Viciousi 
 and prejudiced to the Virtuous ? Is not the whole 
 modern Syfiem fupported by Corruption ; and muft 
 It not reft on the ruinous Bafis while it fubfifts ? 
 
 ^^ ^ oppofed npt a Rupture with St>ain as it 
 
 was repugnant to the Intercft of his Country, but 
 as the Expence of the War might occafion a Dimi- 
 nution of the Means of Corruption in his own 
 Hands. 
 
 Marf. And his immediate Succeffor ure'd on the 
 
 War that thefe Means mi^ht be increas'd ^ 
 
 ' Paf^. In his M—-r's^ Hands, whofe Btafs he 
 was^ determm'd to footh at all Events. To this 
 End was the War with Spain negledled, and one 
 with France nurs'd up fo as to oblige her to an 
 open Breach. 
 
 Marf A wife Nation wou'd and miaht have 
 avoided the Spanijh War; but when once declared 
 It hou d have been profecuted with Vigour, as the 
 only Means for bringing it to a fpcedy End 
 
 Pajq. You forget that the Welfare of the Com^ 
 
 rnun.ty IS no Article in the C 1 Symbol of that 
 
 Country. Had the Happinefs of the People been 
 confuted wou d a waiting War on the Continent 
 been urg d when it might have been avoided ; or 
 wou d It not have been purfued with Ardour when 
 commenc d ? 
 
 Marf, That perverfe People do nothing like 
 others. ^They fcorn to rake Example or follow Ad- 
 vice. 1 hey feem deftin'd to purfue noxious Mea- 
 lures and avoid the Salutary 
 
 E) 2 o„ 
 
 l'.(f
 
 (28; 
 
 (^iia nocuere Sequar : Fugiam qu£ profore credam : 
 
 Pafq. Such will ever be the Fate of a Nation 
 afting partially. Is it not>/ that the Unjufl ftiou'd 
 be rmfted in the Conduct of their Affairs? Had 
 not this been decreed for their Punifhment, wou'd 
 they have draiaM their wafted Country of fo many 
 MilHons in Support of a Balance of Power which 
 they more than ail others have contributed to de- 
 
 ftroy? Before the R n, England may be 
 
 truly faid to have held the Balance of Power, as fhe 
 was independent and had no extraneous Interefi 
 to clafs with or warp her from the Purfuit of her 
 
 Natural. 
 
 Marf. Yes, Pafquin-, the Succeffes of Queen 
 Anne's Reign are fo many Proofs of the Reftitude 
 ofyour Affertion. Siie, good, but miftaken Prin- 
 cefs, had no feparate Intereft to purfue. Her , 
 Heart was E?igUjb, and as fuch the Profperity of 
 England alone was its Objed. 
 
 pajq. The Succefles of that Qiieen's Reign fhew 
 indeed what England is capable of when her Force 
 is fkilfully direfted and her Intereft only purfued ; 
 but I can't help feeing Specks in that Britijh Sun : 
 The Charader of that fair Arbitrefs of the Fate of 
 Europe is not unblameable. 
 
 Marf. She had upright Intentions. — 
 
 Pafq. When 'twas too late— A Soul truly great, 
 truly juft, would not give Caufe for Remorfe, but 
 where it was necelTary, would not put it off to the 
 laft Ebb of Life. Nor was her earlier Condud un- 
 exceptionable ; but Jet me reft here not to enter on 
 the Examine of h^v filial Piety. 
 
 Marf Her Reign was one conftant Series of 
 
 Succefs 
 
 Paf(i,
 
 ( 29 ) 
 
 Pafq. And of what Benefit were her SuccefTe^ 
 to her Country ? She fought for the Balance of 
 Power, a Phantom the Englijh have been taught 
 to hunt after fince the Revolution, but left it aS 
 unfixt as file found it. And the very End 
 for which llie drew the Sword was forgot in the 
 putting it up, the Houfe of Bourbon being rather 
 more Powerful after than before that War. Ex- 
 cept a national Debt of Two hundred Millions of 
 Crowns^ I don't fee what the Englijh have got by 
 the Vi6lories of their Heroine. 
 
 Marf. You forget the important Acquifitions of 
 Gibraltar and Minorca, and the exclufive Trade of 
 the Affiento. Here, Pafquin, were Advantages 
 worth all the BJood and Treafure employ'd in that 
 expenfive War. 
 
 Pafq. So were that credulous People taught to 
 believe in thofe Days of Pageantry and Delufion* 
 If but public Rejoicings are made for Vidlory, no 
 Matter how much Blood itCoft, or whether or no 
 the Conqueft be of Ufe with the Community. The 
 Englijh are above the Drudgery of Examination : 
 And which is as little reconcileable to Prudence and 
 common Senfe, they fcorn to yield even to the Pre- 
 valency of Experience, that unerring Guide to Tub- 
 Junary Agents. Had that thoughtlefs Generation 
 walk'd by Reafon's Clue, and confulted the Real, 
 that is the Commercial Intereft by their Country, 
 they wou'd have chofen to regain the FriendHiip of 
 the SpaniJJj Nation, to be reconciled to that jealous 
 People, rather than to have extorted fuch Pledges 
 from them as cou'd not but increafe their jealowfy 
 and perpetuate their Animofity. Louis XIV. faw 
 Queen Anne's, greedy Minifters ready to fwallow 
 any colourable Bait, in order to forward a Peace 
 which they ftood fo much_ in need of, for {lem- 
 
 ming
 
 ( 30 ) 
 
 ining the domeftic Torrent againft them ; and a- 
 droitjy threw out thefe Hooks cover*d with thefpa- 
 cious, alluring Pretexts of Security and Commercial 
 Benefit. Gibraltar was the Key of the M^diterra- 
 Tiean ; Minorca commanded that whole Sea and 
 confequently the circumjacent States, and the Jffi- 
 ento open'd to England^ a Way to the Treafurcs of 
 the Indies. A gHttering Varnifh under which 
 Louis's deep Defigns were couch'd, but which Fa- 
 ther Time has wore off to the Convi^iion of all Eiircype^ 
 except thofe who fcorn to take Experince for their 
 Guide. 
 
 Marf. YtDu feem inclin'd to think that Louis 
 XIV. wifh'd that England might retain thofe Con- 
 quefts. 
 
 Paft^. Indubitably. As a wife Prince, he faw 
 there was no Way fo likely to reconcile the Spaniards 
 to his Family and Country as by creating their 
 Jealoufy of the Englijh^ who, next to the Flem- 
 ings^ were the Nation in Europe beft liked and 
 moft cherifli'd in Spain. 
 
 Marf, I confefs that on fo deep a Plan, there 
 could be no Means more effe6lual for working up 
 the Jealoufy and Rancour of the Spaniards than the 
 three Articles forced upon them by the Treaty of 
 Utretcht. A Nation fo particularly tenacious of 
 Honour as the Spaniards, can ill brook fuch a Se- 
 paration of their ancient Celtiberia, or fuch a Part- 
 nerfhip in their favourite Trade, 
 
 Pafq. What Nation lefs haughty than they wou'd 
 bear fuch a Fortrefs as Gibraltar to be torn from 
 them merely for the Sake of having a Bit in their 
 Jaws, and holding them in conflant Subjedion ? 
 In vain fhall the Englijh hope to recover the Friend- 
 Ihip and Trade of Spain^ while they with-hold 
 thofe Fkdges which have produced all the ill Blood 
 
 thai
 
 (31 ) 
 
 that has appearM between both Nations, in various 
 Shapes, fince the Jaft general War. 
 
 Marf. And could not the Englijh have forefeen 
 the ill Confequences of not avoiding the Snare laid 
 for them by France ? 
 
 P^-fq. The Englijfj forefee Confequences and avoid 
 Snares! Ha! Ha ! wou'd'fl thou that a People 
 v/ou'd ply up againft the ftrong Tide of Prejudicey 
 who hold all kinds of Rcfiftance lawful but that to 
 the Pajfwns? It wou'd be fwerving from Nature 
 for them to Forefee or Avoid. Don*t you fee that 
 even Experience., the common Parent of Wifdom, 
 does not make them Wifer. They might have 
 commanded a feparate Peace with Spain on the 
 Death of Philip V. and by detaching that Crown 
 hom France, have reduced her to the Neceflity of 
 ftooping to them for what Peace they pleafed ; 
 this they might have done, wou'd they yield up that 
 ufelefs Fortrefs which has flood them in fo many 
 Millions fmce t^e Peace of Utretcht to maintain the 
 PolTefiion of it, and fo many more loft to them, 
 by tiie Increafe of the French Trade with Spain^ 
 occafion'd by her jealoufy of England on Account 
 of that very Pofleilion. 
 
 Marf. Pafquin, Do you call that an ufelefi For- 
 trefs which is thought to be the Key of the AM- 
 ierranean ? 
 
 Pafq. A Nation fo powerful at Sea as the Eng- 
 liflj, that can force open Locks by their Cannon, 
 Itand in no need of Keys ; but did thty want one 
 for their Security, Spain fhou'd be thtt laft Crown 
 in Europe of which they ought to have exadfed 
 any. So far otherwife, that was it but to recover 
 the Confidence of Spain, and wreft the whole 
 Trade of that Kingdom from France, it -/. ou'd 
 have been the Intereft of England to reft ore that 
 
 Key,
 
 ( 32 ) 
 
 Key^ as it is injudicioiifly callM, tho' it had been of 
 more Ufe than it is, or ever can be to the prefenC 
 PofTefTors. 
 
 Marf. But in Cafe of a War with Spain 
 
 Tafq^. "War is a Trade by which the Englijh can 
 never hope to thrive, as their Bufincfs is to jive 
 well with Mankind. But a War with S'^ain is 
 what they fhou'd avoid as ftudioufly,. I had almofl 
 faid, as with Heaven. 
 
 Marf. With which they wage inceffant War, 
 if Sceptifm on one Hand, and Variety of Opinions 
 on the other, be committing Hoftilities againft the 
 unerring Legiflator. 
 
 Pafq. If Chrifi*s Kingdom had been of this ne- 
 ther World, they might be more cautious, but his 
 Artillery being invifibJethey are apt to overlook his 
 Power, as they do fometimes their Interefi^ .which 
 you'll fay is a Contradidion 
 
 Marf. As much as if a covetous Man overlook'd 
 Opportunities of filling his Coffers, 
 
 Fafq^. Or Nations of fecuring their Freedom and 
 improving their Trade ; yet won't you own that 
 the Englijh have flipt moft favourable Occafions 
 where both were eflentially concern'd } But to wave 
 the Confideration of Liberty, is it not clear to all 
 Europe that their Detention of Gibraltar and Mi- 
 mrca and their illicit Commerce under Colour of 
 the JJfiento^ have contributed to the Declenfion of 
 the Britijh and Increafe of the French Trade, 
 Hence, and^ot from the Ambition of the Dowager 
 o{ Spain, fprung all thofe Feuds and Quarrels be- 
 tween that and the Englifrj Crown, which have fo 
 deeply wounded the Trade of England. Hence 
 flows that Gall which embitters Spaniards againft 
 Englifhmen, fo evidently to the Detriment of the 
 Latter and Benefit of their French Rivals. 
 
 Marf
 
 . , ( 33 ) 
 
 Matf Surely, Paf^uin, the Englifh don't fee 
 
 i'ii"''^"""' '' ""'"^^ °" bad Terms with 
 
 F.r//.;;^/,, nimium, fua fi bona norint, Angloil 
 
 ' ,rf* .5^= <^°"'"equences! Lord help thee I 
 
 1 % again, how cou'd i: come into thv NodHlf^ 
 to ch,nk that the E.^^ could fee .nto kS ! 
 Happy ,f they cou'd fee thePrcfent, or eventhe 
 Pa ! Might not they have feer, al! Eurcpl^l 
 cxiWy France, running away with then- Trade 
 
 I VnT. ft'^ ^''' enfafcinated to lirten to he 
 I Vo ce of i>,^,-;,„„,, that led them to the €,17- 
 »« in Chalc of the £«W ./ P«.„ ? M t 
 hey not fee that their Poffefiion of Clraltar has 
 increafed che.r national Debts fome Mil/'^T 
 wuhout any Advantage, except enrich.^lCe 
 fcandaious /"A,;^,,.,,.,, whofe cruel Exa3wmh^l 
 contnbuted tojh. Growth of the Enmit; of he 
 Spa>;,arJs, and to render the E>,g/ijh Name mors 
 odious among Foreigners ? Might they not We 
 feen that ib,,r 40e,io Company" have been im- 
 
 tToTatr^H'" ^^, ''-^Cm/alf,\^A that the na- 
 tional Trade with old ^p«-« was declining while 
 the Company loft by their Trade to the nIw >Z 
 But there being no furer or fliorter Road to 'the 
 
 fuppofe they will do as they ought mt, I w,!I take 
 >t for granted that tl,ey will retain thole .'ledges 
 from !,pam till Frame, (hall have quite worn?'a 
 them out of the Spm,ijh Trade, and unnll they 
 plunge themfelves into more Debts and Ta>:eL 
 
 nv M°V° l'''',,^'' """^ "'tWn the Reach of 
 any Market m the World. 
 
 ^ Manf.
 
 
 (34) 
 
 Marf. I cannot think but the Englijh, as un- 
 difcerning as they feem to you, will lay hold of the 
 prefent Peace for recovering the Friendfliip and 
 Trade of Spain^ as neceffary for beating the 
 French out of fuch Branches of Commerce as 
 interfere with the Britijh. And in this View, 
 'tis the Bufinefs 6f the Court of London to Jay 
 hold of the new Biafs -of that of Madrid^ which 
 inclines to the old Spanijh Interefts and 
 Maxims. 
 
 Pafq. Yes, Marforio ; was the Court o^ Lon- 
 don truly in the Intereft of E d, the Court 
 
 of Madrid and the whole Spamjh Nation wou'd 
 be indulged with the Reftoration of a Frotrefsy 
 which is ufeJefs but chargeable to England^ and 
 without which the Recovery of the Trade of 
 Spain is impradicable. But have you not obfer- 
 ved, for more than the Third of a Century, that 
 JVeftern Cabinet to have had different Views and 
 to have purfued a different Intereft from that 
 of die Nation ? The Intereft of the Nation re- 
 quired that in a long interval of Peace, t\\Q pub- 
 lic Debts fhou*d be paid off -, but the Intereft of 
 the C — t was to keep them up and increafe them 
 for the Purpofe of SubjeElion^ The Aggrandize- 
 ment of a Foreign Territory has been all along 
 
 arduoufly purfued by the C 1 at an immenfe 
 
 Expence, tho' the Purfuit was manifcftly repug- 
 nant to the Intereft of the Nation. And, per- 
 haps the C — t may have its particular Views in 
 the Detention of Gibraltar, tho' it be vifibly for 
 the Intereft of England to yield it up to 
 Spain, 
 
 Marf.
 
 ( 35 ) 
 
 Marf. What View cou'd the Court have in the 
 Detention of that Frotrefs except that of bridling 
 Spain ? 
 
 Pafq. Thou haft hit it. The calming Spain 
 and allaying her Jealoufies isthelntereft of Eng^ 
 
 land^ while that of the C 1 may be to keep up 
 
 Dijjentions yfkh foreign Powers as the beft Colour 
 for continuing the public Expence and keeping up 
 a Standing Army. You can't conceive Marforio^ 
 
 how refined the C— t of L n is become 
 
 fmce G n Maxims have been introduced 
 
 there. Every Man in the Kingdom has his 
 Price and becomes a Patriot or Courtier as he is 
 foothed or negled:ed ; and every public Meafure 
 is weigh'd in the Scale of Self-interefi, that is, 
 
 *tis tried by the H r Touch-Stone. If it 
 
 fquare with that Standard, 'tis purfued ; but 
 
 rejeded if the cherifli'd E e have no Inte- 
 
 reft in its Confequences. Saw you not how re^ 
 
 lu^anly the C 1 went into the Spanijh War, 
 
 and how wantonly that on the Continent was pro- 
 
 vok'd ? There was a Chance that the E e 
 
 might have been inlarg*d by the Event of the 
 Latter, and inrich'd in the Courfe of it by the 
 Hire of a large Corps of its Troops j but a 
 War with Spain^ which muft be fimply naval, 
 cou'd in no Light coincide with the particular 
 Intereft of // — - — r. 
 
 Mc>rf. A ftrange Itch thofe IQanders have to 
 that for which they are (o ill fitted by Nacure ! 
 The Sea is their Province 
 
 Pafq. And was that only on which they ex- 
 erted their Skill and Strength for fome A^^es 
 before the Revoludon. But fmce that iEra the 
 People are turn'd ^lixots, mind every one's 
 
 E 2 Bufinefs
 
 ( 3^ ) 
 Bufinefs but their own, run in Debt for the Ho- 
 nour of having their Brains knock'dout in diflant; 
 Plains, and of being deem*d the Guardians of 
 public Liberty. A pompous but fleeveiefs Incen- 
 tive with a Trading Nation, fecluded by their 
 Situation from the ill Confequences of Jars and 
 Feuds on the Condnent ! 
 
 Alarf. Siill do you forget their Connexion with 
 the Continent iince the A n. 
 
 Pafq. No, Marforlo j that fatal Connexion has 
 created the Differtnce of Interejls which 1 ob- 
 ferved to have been purfued by the Cabinet of 
 L ' ' -n for a Series of Years. That Con- 
 nexion gave rife to the War and was Prodiitlive of 
 the Peace. 
 
 Marf. How, my little Pafquin! The fame 
 Connexion^ that is, in other Words, the Intereftof 
 
 dear H r, has produced both the War 
 
 and the Peace ? Take care, my Machiavel^ that 
 your Petuiancy don't run you on the Shelves of 
 Contradiiflion and Error. 
 
 Pafq. Take heed lelf thou Ihou'dft dogma- 
 tize to thy Confufion. AVas the Intereit of 
 Kngland Concern in the Tra?ifport of her Troops 
 to the Continrnt without being invited by thofe 
 mod concert :*d in the Confequences of the War ? 
 Was it confulced when that Meafiire was purfued 
 repug.iant to the Defire of the Dutch^ who were 
 n'"Xt the Danger if any had been apprehended ? 
 Had Lnjav.d anvconcernM in that lono- and ex- 
 penfive Ma ch to Germany which furnifhed France 
 v/irh a Pretrxt for withdrawing her Troops from 
 , Aujiria and Bohemia, where fli.j expended in vain 
 fierr/iiilions and burried her Leg'ons .'' The He- 
 roine of Hungary was efftfflualJy doing the Bwfi- 
 
 nefs
 
 ( 37 ) 
 neCs of France, when Jo, the March of a Royal ^- 
 my beyond Bettingen, gave Colour for the Re- 
 treat of an Enemy Ihe was otherwife furc to de- 
 ftroy. 
 
 The fame Motives that urged the Cabinet of 
 
 L n to provoke France to the War, flood 
 
 afterwards in the Way to Peace, when the Courts 
 of Vienna and Munich had nothing to exped of 
 each other but what was reciprocally granted. 
 After the Difappointment of Noailles at Dettin- 
 gen, France was fincerely for Peace in an Appre- 
 henfion of being fuccefsfuUy attack'd in ^Iface and 
 Lorrain; the Emperor Charles VII. had (till 
 Wronger Motives to bend him to a pacific Dif- 
 pofition. He faw himfelf abandon*d by France, 
 the only Ally he cou'd rely on ; or rather he faw 
 France, far from being able to fupport him in 
 Germany, fcarce in a Condition to defend him- 
 felf at Home. The Queen of Hungary was 
 willing to lay hold of fo favourable an Opportu- 
 nity for ending the War rn the Empire that fhe 
 might the better pufh that in Italy, when fhe was 
 lefs jealous that the King of Sardinia Ihou'd en- 
 large himfelf, than that Don Philip fhou*d get a 
 Footing. 
 
 Marf. An ill judged Jealoufy it was, confi- 
 dering that all might be loft to that Princefs in 
 this Country unlefs the King of Sardinia took up 
 the Gauntlet in her Behalf. 
 
 Pafq. And pray, what has Ihe faved here ex- 
 cept a Selvage of the Milanefe which fhe is fure 
 to hold no longer tiian till the Houfe of Bourbon 
 fhall have taken Breath .? But this is Mactter for 
 our fubfcquent Confideration.— Well, but as for 
 the Jealoufy of the Court of Vienna of that of 
 
 Turin^
 
 C 38 ) 
 
 Turin, It was as confpicuous as fatal to the com^ 
 mon Caufe. Genoa was faved by it on one Hand 
 and France on the other. , 
 
 Marf. You mean that the King of Sardinia, 
 became Jealous in his Turn and feconded not, 
 as he engag'd to do, the Efforts of Count Brown 
 in the invafion of Prcvince. 
 
 Pafq, Was not Jealoufy the (landing Sauce to 
 all the Operations of the War on the Side of the 
 Confederates ? The Qtieen o^ Hungary wzs jea- 
 lous that the Kirg of Sardinia might elbow him- 
 felf out of her Readi here in Italy, and he no 
 lels, that fhe might be in Circumftances to dic- 
 tate to him. The EngUJJo were jealous that the 
 Dutch enjoy 'd the Trade of 5/;/2m pending the 
 War, and therefore were conflantly egging the 
 wary Cheefe- Mongers to an open Breach with 
 
 the Houfe of Bourbon. And the C 1 of 
 
 L n was jedcus that the Houfe of Aufiria 
 
 might, as before the War, give the Law in Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Marf Hold, Pafqiiin. Doth not thy glib 
 Tongue out-run thy Underftanding ? 
 
 Pfifq. Becaufe 1 infinuate, that the Tnterefts of 
 
 England and of H r operated differently 
 
 during the War. While England was doling a- 
 way her Millions in Support of the Houfe o'i Au- 
 firia, as a neceffary Bulwark againfb the Ambition 
 of France, is it not notorious that the Englijh 
 
 C' 1, or rather the C^ 1 of // r in 
 
 England, thwarted t4ie glorious Defign in various 
 Indances ? And with v/hat View but that of cut- 
 ting the Wings of an Eagle whofe Pinnions might 
 
 o're-fnadow the dear E e! Ah, Marfi! 
 
 were
 
 ( 39 ) 
 were the EngUJJj as much in love with Jujike^ 
 and Louis XV. with the Touth he inhofpicably 
 forces from his Kingdom, as a certain Prince is 
 with H r, then 
 
 Marf. Might that friend lefs Touth be able to 
 turn the Tables on his ungenerous Hcji. 
 
 Pafq. As he dderves — ungenerous Hojl in- 
 deed ! There is fomething in the Condufl of 
 Loids^ in regard to that lleady7"(?///^, which levels 
 that Monarch with the Idweil Clafs of Men. 
 To lure him from a tender Parent, by bio- Pro- 
 mifes never intended to be kept ; to buoy him- 
 up with Hopes of Succours never meant to be 
 lent ; and after he had ferved all the Purpofesof 
 
 Francs to bccompeil'd to leave it -a King 
 
 great King, to ad: fuch a Part ! 
 
 a 
 
 Marf. If by Great you mean Powerful, I a- 
 gree with you ; but, Pafquin, to call Louis the 
 IVell beloved, as the fulfome trench Nation afFe6fe 
 to ftile their Prince, Great in any other Senfe, 
 wou'd be fatyrizing him. Need there be a ftron- 
 ger Proof of his having no Claim to the high 
 Epithet than his Treatment of that Touth v/iio 
 w^as the Delight of our Fcl'ow-Citizens while he 
 honour'd us with his Prefcnce ? 
 
 Paf<i. You may remember, my dear old Com- 
 panion, how you and I lamented that his wife 
 /^<:z/^frwou'd yield to the Wiles of France, after 
 he had fo ofi' experinced her Difingenuity in his 
 own Perfon. 
 
 Marf, lie yielded with Reludance to the ur- 
 gent Perluafions of the Son, whofe adive Sou! 
 thirfted for Glory. W2.^\th Touth \ Who expe- 
 riences in himfelf the felf-interefted Politics of a 
 Court which never intends that his F<zwi/>' fliall 
 
 be
 
 ( 40 ; 
 
 be in a Condition to Oppofe her Schemes or reca- 
 Jiate her Favours! 
 
 Pafq. Mufl: they not be ftupidly Blind that do 
 not fee into the Refinements of the French Cabi- 
 net with regard to \htS / Family ? 
 
 Marf. Rather muft not the French Statefmefi 
 be Beetles not to fee that they had provoked that 
 Family too often and grofsly, ever to hope to fe- 
 cure their Friendfhip ? 
 
 Pafq. Marry. I think the whole Globe is o'er 
 run with a Race of Beetles. What elfe do we 
 fee but two legged Animals that aft as if the 
 Eyes of their Underftanding were in their Pofte- 
 
 riors ? 
 
 Marf. You put me in Mind of that wife 
 Mad-man who refufed the Helps of Phyfick 
 unlefs a Phyfician with three Eyes was brought 
 him. 
 
 Pafq, Ha, ha ! I fuppofe he wou'd have the 
 third Eyefixt in the Tip of the fore Finger of the 
 
 right Hand a notable Wight, who belived 
 
 Phyficians to know as little what caufes Diforder 
 within the Body, as you and I believe that the 
 Englifh know not the Depths of the Politics of 
 their own Cabinet. They are Jealous of all the 
 World but leaft of thofe whom they fhou'd fuf- 
 peft moft. 
 
 Marf. I am glad you are return'd to the Sub- 
 jed: of Jealoufy which we were upon. England, 
 you fay, was bolflering up the tottering Bird of 
 
 Jove, while H r wifh'd his Mailers quills 
 
 CJipt for fear it fhou'd ever come into his Mind 
 to pick out one or both the Eyes of the beloved 
 White Palfry. Hal ha! 
 
 nfi.
 
 C 41 ) 
 /^fi- J^^ fiialJowas you may reckon thc^Dent?r 
 
 diofe Motives which flood in the Way to Peace 
 at Hannau when the Prince of Heffe neo-ocfated 
 on his Pru^^n Majcfty's Plan, liere,^^^ 
 rto ih<, Helmo^ Affairs appeai'd to be wholly 
 
 nnfted to f^aitiaf H- ;; Hands. The 
 
 Heirefs of A^Jlna as fuggefted before, had 
 nothing to expea from the Houfe of Bavaria^ 
 that^ was not yielded to by Charles VII (hi 
 wou d have avoided entering into a new Treaty 
 with the Court of Tmn, which fl,e forefaw, 
 irom the Partialluy of the C 1 of L // 
 
 wou'd increafe the Dominions of Sardinia ai he? 
 iixpence > 
 
 Ai^r/ And the fubfequent Treaty of /T^m. 
 proves the Rcaitude of her Apprehenfions. 
 
 Pfq. Ah ! that Cream of Contrafts, which 
 proclamis the Equity as well as Forefigbt o( a cer- 
 tain IVePrn Nation, who arrogate to them- 
 fe ves the Juft.ce ot Minos and Penetration of 
 UlyJJesl~lt muft be confefs'd, that the dif- 
 pofing of the Territory of a Neutral State was 
 luperlatively equitable ; and as furely ouc^ht we 
 nc Jefs to applaud that //^//^/.z/^, which by fo E~ 
 qmtahlc a Meafure, forced that neutral, pacific 
 ^tatei<, feek for Protcdtion under the Wino-s of 
 the Lnemy ?-_But the C— tof Z— ^fever 
 Confiftcnt with itlelf, aded herein but as it had 
 done jult before at Hannau. There, a Peace, a 
 durable Peace, was obdrdued becaufe the Court 
 Vtenna did not frem inclined to an Extention 
 
 « A J'w~rr ^7 -'^^ ^^^^^^^^ «^ certain 
 ^ A^r;.;(yo be feculanzed : And hereat /Fm;;c, 
 rhe Heirefs ot Avfirla was to be made fenfible of 
 
 ^" her
 
 ( 42 ) 
 her Obftinacy, by involving her with the Genoefe at 
 the Expence of her filial Piety and the Memory 
 of her Father, and by carving out her lla'.ian 
 Dominions to him flie was moft jealous of. 
 Marf. I expedV, in your Refinements, to find 
 
 you imputig to H n Politics the Inadion 
 
 of the latter Part of the Campaign of Dettin- 
 
 gen. 
 
 Pafq. Surely, it requires no great Subtilty to 
 fnew that JIface and Lorrain might have been 
 the Winter Quarters of the allitd Armies that 
 
 Year, if there had been no // r Remora 
 
 to impede their Operations. But it wou d not 
 
 anfwer the particular Interell of H ' r that 
 
 thofe Countries ^ou'd be torn from Fra77ce^ and 
 added to the PoffefTions of the Queen of Hun- 
 gary^ whofe Power in Germany^ was already but 
 too much the Objed: of the Dread of the Elefio- 
 rate. Take it for a Certainty, that the Increafe 
 of the Power of the Houfe of Aufiria was as 
 
 much the Obje6b of the Jealoufy of H r 
 
 as it was ihe Intereft and Defire of Englami. 
 And does not the Ina5iion of the fubfequent 
 'Campaign of 1744, prove the Reditude of this 
 Suggeftion ? To what elfe but the Jealoufy of 
 
 M ;-, can the fham^Lfs Inadion of Mar- 
 
 flial ^^^V be imputed ; when Marfhal Saxe lay at 
 his Mercy in Flanders, after the French had 
 been dra-ghted away to Alface to cover that 
 Country from the kvafion of Prince Charles of 
 ,Lcrra;n ? 
 
 M^iff, And is it pofTible that fuch obvious 
 
 '^n-,;j,ry to afoeign /'z/^ri?;'?, fhou*d not hava 
 
 he Eyes of a People that were draining 
 
 o of'lhcir Blood and Wealth in Support 
 
 of
 
 (43) 
 
 of a Caufe which their C 1 was intent to de- 
 feat ? 
 
 Paf^. Alas! Marforio ! That People fee but 
 thro' the Glafs of Corruption, which reflcdts Ob- 
 
 jeds but as the C-: 1 Direds. Was not this 
 
 the Cafe, wou'd they have embarkM in a War 
 on the Continent againft the powerfulieft Crown 
 in Europe^ without Allies, except Beggars, they 
 were obliged to fupport, without Generals to 
 
 command, or without Statefmen to dired: ?- - 
 
 But fee, my venerable Fellow-Labourer, the 
 bright Rays of Phoebus are already broke in upr 
 on us from the Eaft. Let us poftpone the fur- 
 ther Difcuffion of this knotty Subjed till the 
 Night draws her fable Curtains to hide us from 
 the prying Sons of Men. 
 
 ' -* 
 
 F 2 DIALOGUE
 
 (44 ; 
 
 DIALOGUE III. 
 
 Marf. 'T^ H O U art flower to Night thaa 
 JL ufual, Pafquin\ what has detain'd 
 thee from thy old Acquaintance ? 
 
 Pafq. Bufinefs, Advices of Importance, ojd 
 Stiff, which fees the Pontiff and all his plodding 
 Red-caps a mafliing the deep Tub of Politics 
 with all their Force. Bellona^ hufh'd to reft, 
 in the PVeJi^ with io great Art, feems only to have 
 withdrawn a while to appear in the North with 
 greater Terror. The Emifiaries of our Court 
 at all the frozen Regions, loudly Trumpet an 
 approaching War in that Quarter of the 
 Globe. 
 
 M.rrf. Which 'tis no Bufinefs of this Court 
 to obftrucSl. For let the Event be what it will, 
 the I'ifallihility may he extencled but can*t be 
 contradled by the Confequences of a War be- 
 tween the ftiff Adherents to the Greek Church 
 and the Pliant, reform 'd Prcfeffors of Pyrrho- 
 nijin. 
 
 Pafq. Doeft thou not miftake, Marforio^ tht 
 Bafis on which the Reformat ionrtOis ^ ' 
 
 Marf. Private Judgment, than which, can 
 any thing be m.orc Pliant or Fallible I Where each 
 Individual is 3. Pcpe to himfclf, mult he not be 
 eternally tofs'd too and fro by the Ihiftin^ Wind 
 of Fancy ? Therefore, Pafquin, that very cor- 
 ner Stone on which the reformed reft their Be- 
 lief, is that which ftrips them of all Certaioty.
 
 ■( 45 ) 
 Paj\.^ Certainty I ha, ha! the Word founds 
 not amifs, and the Confiderarion of it is pretty 
 ^enough in Speculation ; except in Death, I know 
 not where 'tis to be found. 
 
 Marf. Seek it in the Churcli of Chriji, and you 
 can't mifs it. 
 
 Pajq. There again you leave me to feek 
 
 The Church of Chriji! Who is he amono- the 
 ProfciTors of Lhriilianity that thinks not himfelf 
 of that Church ? No, Marforio, there is no 
 Icrambling o're die fpreading Mountains in the 
 Way but by the Ladder of Infallibility ; and for 
 thisRealon, I have often wonder'd that our fpi- 
 ritual Prize-fighters had not ftuck to the Proof 
 of this fingle Pofition. What Labour had been 
 laved 
 
 Marf. And what Rancour avoided— What a 
 Scandal is it to Religion that its ProfelTors fliou'd 
 hate one anotJier for not being able to think a- 
 iike r 
 
 ^-^/^- y,""'' ^^^ ^^"'"^^' "^y ^^'en^. theUfe 
 o\ Infallihiliiy, was it but as the fimpie Band of 
 
 Chanty and LJIiion.—But what is it to thee or me 
 diat the Sons of Men fiiou'd deal in Abfurdity 
 or that the Bears in the North Ihou'd worry one 
 another in tiiac growing Scuffle, which Frajue 
 leems to have had in View when ihe lately ac- 
 celerated the Hovv Work of Peace beyond allEx- 
 pedation ? 
 
 Marf France indeed miohthave wiHi'd to fee 
 the Pire of Confufion kindled in th^ North, and 
 
 probably has connibuted to layingthofeBrands that 
 are ready to blaze. But cou'd Ihe have Jit them 
 up fhe certainly had done fo before flie embraced 
 fhe I cace. Nor do 1 think flic wou'd fo hartily 
 
 have
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 have put an End to the War, had fhe forefeen 
 what is fo foon likely to come to pafs in the 
 Norih. 
 
 Pafq. What Weight cou* dFrajtce- have been 
 in the Northern Scale, if burthen'd with the 
 Cares and vaft Expence of a doubtful War ? Is 
 Ihe not now more at Leafure to beftow Circum- 
 fpeftion on that diftant Scene, and better able to 
 feed the Lamp with Suhftdiary Oil, without which 
 Sweden can never be in a Condition to move to 
 Advantage ? 'Tis a Queftion with me if even 
 Prujftay with all his boafted Strength, can bear 
 up with much Grace in the coming Confiid, un- 
 lefs France brace his Arm with the Balfam of her 
 Treafures. 
 
 Marf. No wonder then that that Machiavel of 
 the A^br/z^ (hou'd have been fo unweariedly ur-' 
 gent with France to put an End to the 
 War ' 
 
 Pajq^. No vvonder France Ihou'd be urgent to 
 put an. End to a War IJie was utterly unable to 
 continue with any View of Succefs. 
 
 Marf. Utterly unable ! how eafily, Fafquin^ 
 doeft thou flid-e into the abfurd Y-h n thy little 
 
 Clapper is in Motion France utterly unable 
 
 to continue a fuccefsful War ! 
 
 Pafq. She was fuccefsful in the Netherlands 
 becaufe her Enemies were infatuated. Had there 
 been Concord ox Skill among them fhe wou'd have 
 been as much at their Mercy there as on t\\t O- 
 cean. And even fupportcd as France was by the 
 Jealoufy, Difcord, and Errors of the Confede- 
 rates, what Hand wou'd Ihe have made of it, 
 had not that adventurous Toiith^ whom fhe now 
 drives from her Limits, held up her Back ? Un- 
 aided
 
 (47) . 
 
 aided as he was with either Men or Money, h? 
 found fuch Refources within himfejf as mWht 
 open his Way to compleat Succefs had he b?ent 
 obey'd and ferv'd with Fidehty. But haplefs as 
 his Expedition prov'd to himfeif, ftill was he art 
 ufeful Ally to France. 
 
 Marf. Whofe Interefl it wou'd feem to have 
 been to have fupported the Caufe he was em- 
 bark'd in. 
 
 Pafq. The prior Confideration, in this Exa- 
 mine, fliou'd be what is the Interejl of France 
 wich regard to the contending Families. 'Tis 
 evident^ from her Condudt to the Exiled, that 
 flie lees not her Intereft in their Eftablifhment 
 rhis^ Difficulty then being thus got over, why 
 fhou d we wonder that France has ftarv'd the 
 youthtui Adventurer's Caufe, which fhe mic^ht 
 be afraid wou'd fucceed, abandon'd as it was."" 
 
 AUrf. After two fignal Viftories obtain'd I 
 admire not if a Court dreaded his Succefs, whofe 
 hiterej}^ you fay, it was that he ihou'd not fuc- 
 ceed. 
 
 /'^/f Yet might Gr^/i/^/i^ have exafted a dif- 
 tcrent Conduct from that Crown. France puts 
 a fair End to this War, when fhe lay almolt 
 gafping at the Mercy of England, by Means of 
 the bold Adventurer, who drew off the Force 
 and Attention of ^r//^/;z from the Continent for 
 two vyhole Campaigns : Nor is it Icfs certain, 
 that the Houfeof Bourbon had never been able to 
 iKive dilated itfelf to Spain, Sicily, Naples and 
 Parma as we fee it To-day, if a 5/«^r/ had not 
 v^ore die Britipj Diadem when Z^/.^jXIV offer'd 
 to abandon Philip his Grandfon to the Mercy of 
 the Confederates. Queen ;^w's Biafs to her
 
 ( 4B ) 
 
 B r, ar>d her Treafurer Oxford's ready Con- 
 currence with her in i Scheme of his own Jiking, 
 preferved the Crown already tottering on the old 
 Monarch's Head. So that it may be truly faid, 
 that the Bourbons owe all their prefent Power and 
 Greatnefs to that wandering Family^ whom France 
 never intends fhall be fixt or fettled. 
 
 Marf. Belides Ingratitude and Infincerity^ fo 
 natural to Frenchmen^ might not other Reafons 
 be aflign'd for the cool Condu6l of France to- 
 wards the R 1 Wanderers ? 
 
 Pafq. Yes, that fhe might think they wou'd 
 become the Cement of Harmony and Concord. 
 Vain Apprehenfion ! Harmony and Concord in 
 
 E d! How little vers'd muft they be in 
 
 the Annals of that Country, how ignorant of the 
 Genius of the Natives that cou'dfuppofe that any 
 iinmijfwndhy Heaven, cou*d be able to graft 
 Concord and Union on the Crab Stocks of Fickle- 
 nefs. Murmur^ DiJJentionzndfalfe Freedom ! 
 
 Marf. UnmifTion'd by Heaven ! Ha, ha I 
 Doft think, Pafqiim^ that the Free-horn wou'd 
 bend to a Plenipo that did not hrihe luftily, not 
 with Promifes of Blifs to come, but Vv-ith the 
 good Things of this World .'' There is a Family, 
 were the Wanderers out of the Way, that might 
 bid fair to bribe not only the E — —fiD to its 
 Intereft, but all the Branches of the Houfe of 
 Bourbon. And I am not clear but France wifhes 
 
 the Extinction of the S ts that the Houfe of 
 
 Savoy's Claim may ftand foremoft: in the Lift of 
 Competitors for the Britifb Crown on the frail 
 Foot of H y Right. 
 
 Pafq. You think, then, that the Houfe of 
 Savoy^ by dealing out its prefent Dominions on 
 
 the
 
 (49) 
 the North of the J/ps to Fra>ice, and on the 
 South to the Sons of Spmn, the Power of the 
 whole Houfe o^ Bourbon wou'd be exerted in fa- 
 vour of the Claim of his Sardinian Majefty and 
 his Royal Defcendants ? 
 
 Marf. Is not dear Intereft the Bond of all 
 FriendHiip between Princes ; and who can fo 
 well fatiate the Avidity of the Bourbons 2iS he who 
 has fuch fair contiguous Territories to divide a- 
 mong them ? If ever we fhou'd fee the prefent 
 
 blooming Hopes of the 6" /; drop without 
 
 Jiiue, we may count that the Houfe of// r 
 
 will find a more dangerous P r than has 
 
 hitherto appeared on the Stage of Competition. 
 And for this Reafon, it was the Surprize of ma- 
 ny, that the Cabinet of London wou'd b^ fo at- 
 tach*d to the Court of Turin, I may fay fo fway'd 
 by that Court as has been obvious to all Europe 
 throughout the whole Courfe of the War, and 
 particularly in obftruding the Peace, which if 
 made when offer'd by France, and relifhM by 
 England, but oppofed by Sardinia, wou*d have 
 fav'd Britain above Seventy Millions of Crowns. 
 
 Pafq. Still art thou willing to believe the C t 
 
 ^^^ « capable of deviating into Reditudeof 
 
 Condud. Was it eligible to have fupported the 
 
 King oi Sardinia with all the Powerof £ d 
 
 we fhou'd fee him abandon'd as the Emprefs 
 Qiieen has been by the Treaty we are met to 
 
 diflfea. E-~ d deals no Jefs in Contrariety 
 
 than m IVoollen Manufactures ; and Contradimon 
 ■ IS as much its Growth as IVool France, after 
 every Advantage me gaiiVd in the Netherlands, 
 renew d her Offers of Peace, well knowing the 
 liiort Lxtent of her own Credit and Purfe, After
 
 ^ ( 50 ) 
 the Vi(5tory of Pontenoy fhe offer'd the fame 
 Peace which is now agree'd on ; the fame fhe 
 did after that of Rqcohx, and continued her Soli- 
 citations after the Battle of P'a!^ and Surrender 
 of the maiden Bulwark of the Dutch. All thefe 
 
 Offers were haughtily rejedted by the C 1 of 
 
 L ;?, while yet France was in plight to fup- 
 
 port the War. But, lo! as foon as her naval 
 Force was fliiver'd to Atoms, and her Colonies 
 on the Brink of yielding to the Lords of the O- 
 cean, rather than flarve ; as foon as it was 
 known that her Treafures were well nigh ex- 
 haufted, her Credit (Iretch'd to its utmofl Ex- 
 tent, her Trade ruin'd and her People ready to 
 famifh and rebel; as foon I fay as a Body of 
 Auxiliaries, that muft have poiz'd the Scale of 
 the War, was known to be at Hand, Holland 
 purg*d of her Phlegm by the Choice of a Shathol- 
 der warmly in the Intereft of England, and the 
 wholeFace of Things alter'd as much for the better 
 with the Confederates as for the worfe with 
 France, then were the oft' rejeded Offers of that 
 Crown not only embraced but asgredily fwallov/d, 
 as if England had been on the Verge of Deflrudti- 
 
 on and France in the Zenith of Profperity 
 
 What pity, my Friend, that Fortune fhou'd 
 have a Bandage o're her Eyes. Cou*d (he fee, 
 wou'd fhe not bellow herFavours on the JuJi?Lr\d 
 Wife ? England had it in her Power to lay France 
 at her Feet, yet (he lifts her up to puzzle and 
 perplex the World hereafter. Ah ! How un- 
 wife the Alternative, how unjttfi to withoid the 
 Helm from him who has Virtues and Abilities to 
 adorn and fleer the Bark of State ! 
 
 -^Servat
 
 ( 51 ) 
 
 •-^Servat muUos Fortuna nocentes^ 
 
 Et tantum Miferis irnfci Numina difcunt. 
 
 Marf. The Favourite of all the Mufes, the 
 Sage in Council and the Wit in Convcrfacion, 
 that Confunamate, Patriot Scatefman ! Ah ! had 
 he, had C — -f — d borne the Sway in the Cabinet 
 to which his Virtues and Talents intitJed him, 
 how had the Scene be changed ! 
 
 Pafj. Yes, Marforio -, had that Lord been ai- 
 !ow'ci to puifue the glorious Plan he had in View 
 when he cliofe to quit his peaceful Eafe in or- 
 der to extricate his Country from the fruitlefs 
 cxpenfive Burthen of an unequal War, England 
 wou'd have earlier embraced the pacific Over- 
 tures of the Enemy. But Envy and Jealoufy 
 flood in his Way, and left him but the Shadow 
 of that Power annex'd to the hight Poft affign'd 
 him. The great Man faw the growing Inability 
 of France^ but faw likewife the Inequality of the 
 Burden confign'd to his Country, and advifcd 
 the giving Eafe to the latter before Defpair might 
 urge the Enemy to offer a fecond domeftic Stab 
 to a Land not yet at full Peace within itfelf. He 
 might fuppofe that France^ as inattentive as fhe 
 may have been to the Interft of the S — ts^ wou'd 
 not fail to play them on England^ as the furell 
 Game fhe cou'd play if prelVd abroad. Nor 
 was he fure but the Blood recently flied, for 
 Example, might prove the Means of fecuring 
 Succefs to the young Adventurer in a fecond At- 
 tempt. Por, Examples of Juftice, if thought 
 to walk too near the Edge of Rigour^ feldom 
 eradicate the Seeds of Difcontent, and often prove 
 
 G 2 the
 
 (52 ) 
 
 the beft Nurture to the baleful Plant. But various 
 other Reafons might be affign'd for that pozverlefs 
 Minifter's Urgency for Peace. 
 
 Marf. His being powerkfs was no very bad 
 minifterial Reafon in a Country where Oppofttion 
 IS the readied Path to Power. I will fuppole 
 then he might have oppofed the Continuance of 
 the War in order to acquire that Power which 
 was wrefted from him by One far lefs capable of 
 turning either Power or Favour to the proper 
 Ufe. ^ ^ 
 
 Pafq. Ah, Marforio ! Name not the infuhing 
 Controller as a Favourite. Cou*d he have been 
 one after the compulfary Scene that had preceded 
 Lord C—f—d\ Acceptance of the Seals ? 
 
 Marf. What elfe but Favour can fupport that 
 Minifter in the Exercife of that more than mini- 
 fterial Power., which has put an End to the War 
 juftwhen it was moft Neceffary to purfue it with 
 Vio;our } 
 
 Pafq^. Love and Fear are the moft predominant 
 PafTions of the Soul ; and the latter in fome 
 Minds, is the keeneft of the two. Let us to 
 this then impute the Power, which was impoffi- 
 ble for Lord C~f—d to bend to without wound- 
 ing his Honour and debafmg the Poft he held. 
 Let us to this impute the fudden Change in the 
 Conduct of that All-mighty Minijier with re- 
 gard to Peace. 
 
 While the new Secretary urged the Conclufion 
 of a Peace, as neceffary, fince the Condud of 
 the War was to continue in un(kilful Hands, his 
 powerful Colleague bore him down but not by 
 Strength of Argument. Yet when public Cre- 
 dit aacken'd, tho' imputable folely to the mifta-
 
 (53) 
 ken Condufl of the Schemift who prejeded the 
 Method of raifing the SuppHes, that flumbhng 
 Advocate for War, trembling for the Event, al- 
 tered his harOi Tone to Peace. Such always 
 will be the Operation of Fear in weak Minds, 
 while the wifeStatefman bears up fteeadily againft 
 Accidents, and averts the fatal Confequence of 
 yielding too fuddenly to the daflard PafTion. 
 Fear operated no Icfs in the Breaft of the new 
 Stadtholder^ who dreaded being unhorfed if 
 France Ihou'd chance to pufh her Conquefts near- 
 er the Vitals of the Republic. 
 
 Marf. This Patch-work Peace then is the 
 Child of Fear ? 
 
 Paf^i, Yes, Marforio, the ricketty Brat wasen- 
 
 gender'd between an E h Beetle and a Dutch 
 
 Stitterkin. The Englifi M r fliudder'd at the 
 
 Apprehenfion of the Failure o^ -public Credit^ in a 
 Dread that if Credit fail'd, that wou'd alfo fail 
 which was not only his own immediate Support 
 but that likewife of the new Syftem of 
 G /. 
 
 Marf. Nay, if the Means of Corruption fail 
 
 an E ^Cabinet, farewell all the new fangled 
 
 Syftems of Time - ferving Statefmen. If 
 once the Debts of the Nation come to be dif- 
 charg'd, and the Taxes reduced, the prefent 
 mighty Influence of Miniflers wou'd neceflarily 
 ceafe, as the Means of Corruption in their 
 Hands wou*d be dwindled to a Dwarf from the 
 Giant it is at prefent. Then, Pafquin, fnou'd 
 we fee New Syftems make Way for Old. If 
 once Corruption be banifh'd Men will naturally 
 return to their Senfes. 
 
 Pafq.
 
 ( 54 
 Pafq. If the Sky fall, we fhall catch Larks — 
 Corruption banifb'd from England^ the national 
 
 Debts difchar'd, and the Taxes reduced ! Let 
 
 me feel, Marfi^ if thy chizzled Locks be not 
 dropping wet. Surely thou haft been bathing 
 thyfelf in the River of Forge tfulnefs. What 
 cou'd come into thy poor Noddle to think that 
 
 a C t will part with the only Staiffs it leans 
 
 On ? Doft thou not know that Bebts^ 'Taxes and 
 Corruption are the Barriers that fecure the New 
 Confiitution ? Wou'dft thou have Minifters part 
 with their beft Weapons ? 
 
 Marf. Surely they ought, if they wouM pre- 
 vent the burfting of their whole Machine of Go- 
 vernment. 
 
 Pafq. As well might a loaded, hungary Afs 
 be urg'd not to ftop to crop a frefli Thiftle in his 
 Way, as an Englijh Miniiter be moved to Pity, 
 or prevent public approaching Calamity, if the 
 Prevention fuit not with the Humour of his 
 
 p r. Remember I always except the late re- 
 
 figning Nobleman, who has a Heart truly Roman, 
 yi\\o took up the Burden of an Employment in 
 hopes to ferve his Country, and who laid it 
 down left he ftiou'd be deem'd an Acceflary to 
 her Fall, when he was thwarted in his Scheme for 
 her Delivery. 
 
 Marf. I have the higheft Opinion of that 
 great Man's Virtue and Talents, but without 
 laying Britannia of the oppreflive Monfter ftie 
 goes with, there is no preferving either her Beau- 
 ty or Strength. To (peak without Figure, if the 
 Pcbts of England be not foon paid off — r- 
 
 Paf^,
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 • ^f^\ '^^^y "^'^^ P^y °^ themfelves. That 
 IS, the Nation wiJI become Bankrupt. What a 
 Havock wou'd fuch a Failure make ail over the 
 Continent? 
 
 ^farf. Yet, Pafquin, the Failure can't be ve- 
 ry diftant the' it be unfeen by thofe moft con- 
 cern dm Its Confequence. Foreigners have at 
 lealt Eighty Millions of Crowns in the Endijb 
 Funds, yet rifque the big Porperty without fee- 
 ing their Danger. , 
 
 Pafq. Marry, I think the poor Natives rifque 
 much more that have their 6"^^^/ annually tax'd 
 to difcharge the Interefl: of the vaft Capi- 
 
 Marf. Their Condition indeed is hard 
 who— ' 
 
 Pafq, Spin themfelves, like the Silkworm, 
 to deck out Foreigners with tiic Produce of their 
 Induftry An annual Drain of Three Millions 
 and a Half{tnt out of the Kingdom in Difcharge 
 ot Interefl due to Foreigners, muft neceflarily 
 foon reduce the Englijh to the Condition of that 
 laborious Reptile when it has Spun itfelf to a 
 Fly. 
 
 Marf The Difcerning of that Nation cannot 
 but fee the Rum which muft attend the Out-zoinzs 
 of their Country, in Subftdies to foreign States, 
 Penjwns to private Perfons abroad, Pay to fc 
 reign Troops, and Lttereft Money for Funds be- 
 longing to Foreigners ; but 
 
 Pafq. Like a declining Trader, have not the 
 Keloliicion to look into the State of public Af- 
 fairs, nor the Virtue to ccmpel a Retrenchment oi 
 the national Exp^nce, till at laft a general Ban- 
 kruptcy
 
 (56) 
 
 kruptcy becomes the Confequence of the Cor- 
 ruption and Degeneracy of the Age. 
 
 Marf. The Credit of England\% Hke to be no 
 lefs her Deftrudlion than that which a young Mer- 
 chant ftretches in unwary Attempts to make a 
 quick Fortune at the Rifque of his Creditors. 
 Like the latter, fhe has undertaken more than 
 (he was able to bear becaufe flie was truft- 
 ed 
 
 Pafq. And like him may be able to pay Half a 
 Crown in the Pound. And let me tell you, that 
 this will be thought no fuch- defpicable Dividend 
 in the Day of general Defolation — But cry Mer- 
 cy ! May not the fweat Babe of Peace., juft ar- 
 rived to us inSwaddling-CloutSj avert the impend- 
 ing Mifery ? 
 
 Marf. The Peace, in its Nature, is fuch 
 that it cannot laft but juft till France takes Breath, 
 and puts her Marine in Plight to prevent Infults 
 and fecure her Trade. But was it, like the laft, 
 to be bolfter*d up for thirty Years by Guarantees, 
 Conventions, and other fuch Court Expedients, 
 of what avail wou'd it be, any more than the 
 laft, towards leflening the national Debt ? 
 
 Pafq. You'll never have done, I think, with 
 that odious Topic. Prithee, e'en let them en- 
 joy their Debts and all the alluring Concommi- 
 tants in their Train, fuch as Poverty^ Siihje5lion^ 
 &c. &c. to the End of the Revelations. Let 
 us to the fubjed Matter of our Confe- 
 rence 
 
 Marf. ThePtW^, you mean. What wou'd 
 you fay of it ? 
 
 Paf(i,
 
 ( SI ) 
 
 Vcfq. That, like moft hafty Contrafls, 'twas 
 
 i!nade in a Hurry to repent at Leifare A 
 
 Peace can it be caJl*d that leaves half the Work 
 undone ? See you not how already it fpawns out 
 two Congfefles, as Nice and Brujfeh ? Nor do 
 I defpair of feeing it as fruitful in Minifterial Ex^ 
 pedientSy as the Confort of that Gernan Prince, 
 who is faid to have brought three hundred W — ps 
 at a Birth. 
 
 Marf. There is one Confequence of great 
 Importance vifible on the general Face of the 
 Definitive Treaty, which is that 
 
 Pafq. The End of the War on the Side of 
 England and her Allies, is unanfwer*d in all Lights, 
 and that in the Main, France has fucceeded in 
 her moft fanguine Views. Was not the Mainte- 
 nance of the Indivifibility of the Aujtrian Succef- 
 fion, or in other Words, the Support of the 
 Heirefs of Charles VI, in all her Rights, the 
 End for which England embark'd in the Quarrel ? 
 
 England^ did I fay ? Lord help the 
 
 poor. Wilful, Obedient Thing, who had no End 
 or Purpofe in View but as fhewas directed I What 
 was the Continent to her ? — But I forgot that of 
 late Years Ihe has had a Connexion with Terra 
 firma — to herS w. 
 
 Marf. And I fee that you'll never forget 
 gallopping that Tongue of yours out of 
 the Sight of your few Brains — tVilful and Ohe- 
 dient ! Prithee, Pafquin^ reconcile your Epi- 
 thets. 
 
 Paf<^. Are there not Wives that bear the Cor- 
 reftion of the Strap from their Yokemates, with 
 great Refignation, who yet will continue fome 
 
 H favourite
 
 ( 58 ) 
 flivoLirite III- habit ipite of all Correftlon and 
 Convidion ? That England has been a moft ob- 
 fequious Handmaid fince her lall; Contract with 
 
 the HoLife of H r, No-body will deny 
 
 that confiders how worne down fhe is in Reputa- 
 tion fince the Bans were pubUQi'd. And to what 
 die but Obedience is this Dccreafe of Chara^er^ 
 as well as of Pozver and TVealth owing ? She 
 was call'd upon to quarrel with all £Kr<7/'^ in their 
 Turns» and fhe obey'd. And tho' no good- Wife 
 in the Neighbourhood loved Money better, fhe 
 doled away her Pence with Profufion, if her 
 Confort but flampt his Foot. Has Ihe not moil 
 obedte^uly given more than her All in mortgaging 
 herfelf for more than Aie is worth ? Yet for all 
 thef- Teftsofher Obedience fhe is as IVilful ^sxho. 
 D— -1 in fome Things. She is no more to be 
 peffuaded then a Mule if fhe once takes the Bit 
 of Contradi^ion in her Teeth. She took it into 
 her Head, in the laft Century, to be jealous of 
 her old Friends, and tho' fhe hashad woeful Expe- 
 rience, ever fmce, of die ^iackery of thofe fhe 
 had chofen in their Room, yet there is no per- 
 fuadin^ her that flie is in Error. We will there- 
 fore co^nfign her over to her Fate, which feems 
 inevitable, and journey on in our Dilcuflion of 
 this dark Abortion. 
 
 Mfirf. Ever ambiguous," or unmean- 
 
 ing. 
 
 ''pafq. For calling the Peace a dark Abortion. 
 And play, Mr. Critic, cou'd a French Taylor 
 Faihion a Birth-day Suit better to the Size and 
 Shaps of a Court-dangler ? That it is an Abor- 
 tion IS evident from its wanting the Nails ^ of Se- 
 
 curity
 
 (59) 
 f.urity and Hair of Equity^ as I fliall fliew pre* 
 /cntly 
 
 Marf. Nay, nay ; if you prove the Rec- 
 titude of your laft Epithet, I wilJ forgive your 
 lirft. 
 
 Pafq^. Was it not liuddled up by Night, No- 
 body knows v^Iiere, or why, uniefs it was to 
 
 prevent an Agent from the S ts to ferve the 
 
 Plenipos with a Copy of a Writ of Ejedt- 
 ment ? 
 
 Marf. Jf that was the Caufe why fuch unufual 
 Caution and Secrecy was obferved in perfecting 
 the Definitive 'Treaty., I cannot help wondering 
 at the Abjeftnefs of France and Undifcernment 
 of England. The latter, by the Caution, feems 
 to add Weight to th^ Pretention., and the former, 
 by the neediefs Ccndefcention, proclaims her 
 Servility to all Europe. 
 
 Pafq. What cares fhe what the World thinks 
 of her, if by throwing out fuch Sugar -pi urabs to 
 the ^leen of the Ocean, the latter be lured to 
 give up her Allies^ and forgoe the obvious Ad- 
 vantages of the Superiority of her naval Force ? 
 The Colonies of Erance., Eaft, Weft, and 
 North, lay at t\-\p, Mercy of England. And 
 France herfelf was fo coop'd up by the Britijh 
 Fleets, that fne niuil have loft her whole foreign 
 Trade, and lived for the fut ire, like the Hedge- 
 hog, on her ownGreafe. In fuch a Situation, when 
 all her mural Crowns were on the Point of being 
 torn from her by the additional Fo'ce of Forty- 
 thoufand Rvjfian Bears, v/hat cou'd the polifii'd 
 Dame do better than fliew a Complailance for 
 ihofe that deal in Moon-Jhine ? The E — -JIj Mi- 
 
 H 2 nifters
 
 ( 6o ) 
 
 nifters were willing to make their Court to their 
 Countrymen by fhewing an afcendant over 
 France. And wou'd not you have the French 
 Minifters bend, and exchange Bawbles for Jew- 
 els of Value ? The E b have a Mind to em- 
 broider the Treaty with the Spoils of the S ts^ 
 
 tho' it be true that every fuch public Mention of 
 that Family had better been dropt -, and is it bs- 
 caufe their Pafllon for fuch finery is unwarranta- 
 ble that France muft not indulge to it ? — Let us 
 not fall all together fo unmercifully on Frayice, 
 for running up the Treaty in the Dark^ in order 
 to prevent a Proteft from the Pretender, fince 
 her chufing Night for the Seafon of her Con- 
 duct:, (hews her confcious of her Fault, and a- 
 fhamed the Sun fhou'd fhine upon't. And fure- 
 ]y Mjdejiy is a Virtue, in the Fair efpecially ; and 
 more fo in Gallia than another, as being the firft 
 Time flie gave Indication of any. A mighty 
 Point gain'd by E — • — d, that France fell into her 
 Views of not receiving a Protejl from a Family 
 "who might have been forgot if fo much Fufs had 
 not been made about them — But on fecond 
 Thoughts, what a narrow Field wou'd an Englijh 
 
 Miniftry have to roam in, if the 6' ts had not 
 
 help'd to widen it ? What Pretence for zjianding 
 j^n;/7 in Time of Peace, of Debts, Taxes, penal 
 Laws, Subfidies, Armados, Pendons, Secret-fer- 
 vice Money, ar| Army of Drones in the Power 
 of the Treafury, and many more courtly Items^ 
 well known to the Wilful and Obedient them- 
 felves, whom the Confideration doth moft con- 
 cern ? And for this Reafon, I wonder the pre- 
 fent Sages at the Helm wou'd defire the Removal 
 
 of
 
 (6i ) 
 
 of the growing Oak of the S—is from the Fc 
 refts of France. The nearer the young cKr 
 IS to £^^./W the more fpecious^he Pretext for 
 continuing the Expence and Chains ofZlZ 
 
 ff and Creduhty. Nor fhall I be furpriz'd 
 .f on this^Pian of his being eflentialiy uli^l to 
 
 fhouM nnr V f ~~T^^ ^^^^ y°""S P^i"ce 
 
 Kbi'Sr"^^^^^'^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 M.r/ But fhou'd the C— t of L n in- 
 
 M on the fpecific Performance of the Treaty 
 n an Opin,on that the Vicinity of that remain-' 
 
 and IZl i -^"^ ^''""l^y "^'g^^ ^' dangerous, 
 and that his being two hundred Leagues farthe? 
 Eaft wou'd anfwer the Purpofe of puMc e7 
 fence as weli • fhnnM t-K^ r\ • "^ r , 
 
 t ,-T- ' " " ^"^ Operations of the 
 Peace be difcontinued tiJI this Article be exe! 
 cuted by the Part of France, what-H- 
 
 Pafq. Elfe has the hardy Touth to do, but 
 
 T Tu ^u r'^, •^'■^''^ M^«^r^«^ and thruft in his 
 
 1 eeth thofe big Promifes with which he inveio-. 
 kd^h.m away from his doubting, experienced 
 
 Marf Pafquin, fuch Infults fit not well 
 
 on the Stomach of Kings. Louis might mvc 
 
 ul'd ^'^^^^^^^ ^^"'d ^^3 Pati?nce be 
 
 P^? Which the Firmnefs of the youn.cr Wan- 
 derer s W\md feems to contemn. No, Marfo- 
 rio talJen as Louis is thought to be from the 
 radiant Height he once ifood in the Opinion of 
 ^uro^e, cringing as he has appeared of Jate, I 
 
 don'€
 
 (62) 
 
 don't think he will be prevail'd on to recur to 
 Force. Nor do I think the EngliJI/ Miniftry 
 will- urge that Monarch to an J^, which wou*d 
 not only fix an indelible Stain on his Honour, 
 but might raife the Charafter of the opprefs'd 
 among a People heretofore fained for Compani- 
 on. Befides, an EngUfrJ Miniftry might well 
 take the Matter in another Light. The 
 
 fuppofed Influence of trance over the S ts 
 
 from the Obligations they might be fuppofed 
 to lie under to that Crown, has not perhaps a 
 little contributed to the late ill Succefs of the 
 fteady Tonth who now puzzles the Cabinet of 
 Verfailles. But fhou'd a reftlefs People, from 
 a ferious Refleftion of the paft and prefent Con- 
 duct of Frame towards that friendlefs Family, 
 come to view Things in a different Light-, (hou'd 
 it be thought that the Perfidy and Indignity of 
 France can never be forgotten, nor forgiven, 
 and that it is likely a rooted Enmity will fucceed 
 to any Influence ihe might be fuppofed to have 
 had ; I fay, fhou'd Things take this natural 
 Turn, it might happen that the urging France 
 to come to Extremity with that determin'd 
 Touth, may be attended with Confequences 
 widely different from what feem to be conjec- 
 tured at prefent by the minifterial Sages that 
 
 grafp the £?z^/{/^ Tiller of State Bur, Mar- 
 
 forio, to judge with any Accuracy of thefe 
 Wejlern Statefmen, we muft read them back- 
 ward as Witches do Prayer. We may be fure 
 ' they will afl on this Occafion the very reverfe 
 of what they ought. E*en let us leave them to 
 their vain Conceits and retire to contemplate 
 
 this
 
 this boafted Peace again a our next Meetlno- 
 Already do the Mattin BeJIs of all the pious 
 Drones of our City ring us to a Separation. A- 
 dieu, my Friend, till next the dimmer Lamps 
 ot Heaven fucceed to that fingle, refulgent one 
 which gilds the Day. 
 
 DIALOGUE
 
 (^4) 
 
 DIALOGUE IV. 
 
 Pafq. ^TTElcome, my dear Marforio ; thou 
 y V ^^^ come opportunely to preferve 
 thefepoor Brains of mine, which are almoft quite 
 fritter'd away in examining the Definitive Treaty^ 
 that motley Work, doubly encircled within the 
 awful Entrenchment of the bleffed 'Trinity 
 fee'ft thou not how pioufly 'tis twice invok'd 
 before the Purport of the Contrad: is touch*d 
 upon ? 
 
 Marf. It had need, Pafqitin. A Treaty, 
 which lays Foundation for fetting all Europe to- 
 gether by the Ears, had need of fome fuch high 
 Sandlion to pafs it upon the Vulgar—— 
 
 Pafq. The great Vulgar, you mean ; for I 
 don*t lee that the lelTer are thought to have any 
 Concern in thefe fort of Compacts 
 
 Marf. Or in any other, as the World is ma- 
 naged, except indulging to the unwarrantable 
 Paffions of thofe that are lefs ufefal and merito- 
 rious. Is it not a melancholy Reflexion, my 
 Friend, that human Nature fhou*d moft be de- 
 bafed by thofe moil intitled and obliged to fup- 
 port its Dignity ? In your Search for Merit, fee 
 how few of the rich and exalted have any Title 
 to it. And the higher we foar to feek Virtue, the 
 fewer of her bright Traces fhall we find. It was 
 not thus among our famed Ancellors, who rofe 
 
 in
 
 C ^5) 
 
 in Efteem with the People and in Power, but in 
 Proportion to their Progrefs in Virtue. 
 
 Pafq. That was in the Satumian Age of the 
 Republic ; but by what Means did thty nfe, who, 
 in the fucceeding Ages, enflaved this Coun- 
 try ? 
 
 Marf. By Corruption 
 
 Pafq. Rather by Luxury, the Parent of Cor- 
 ruption. Yet in this venal Age, when both are 
 grown to gigantic Size, there are, I hope, fome 
 Exceptions. There is my amiable C—f~d, who 
 fpurns Corruption from his generous Soul, tho* 
 he wears the Appearance of Luxury to avoid tiie 
 Imputations of Avarice and Singularity. 
 
 M^rf. Yet you faw how that favourite Noble 
 fell . 
 
 Pafq. Fell, Marforio ! Was not his fall, as 
 you wrongfully call his Refignation, glorious ? 
 But he, C—f — d, can never fall in tho Opinion 
 of the Virtuous ; and it adds to the Luftre of his 
 Charader to fink in that; of the Vicious. Wou'd 
 Brutus comply with the Corruptions of Juliuses 
 Court, he might have been the firft there. And 
 has he not acquired immortal Honours by re- 
 fufing to draw with Jntony in the enllaving 
 Scheme then on Foot ? 
 
 Marf. I don't fee that any other, but enjlaving 
 Schemes, employ the Attention of the Great. 
 See we not, while the Olive-branch is hung out 
 by mod of the Powers o^ Europe ; that a certain 
 Prince is arming as if a declared Enemy had 
 been at his Gates ? And what elfe but to enjlave 
 is fo great Treafure expended and fo great Num- 
 bers lecluded from the ufeful Mafs of the Indu- 
 ftrious ? 
 
 I Paf^.
 
 (66) 
 Pafq. That Prince, who may be liken'd to 
 fome Ipiritiial Orators that aft not up to their 
 Exhortations irom the Pulpit. You read that 
 Work which wears his Name. 
 
 M:!rf. Ihdvc rc^d Jnii- Mm biave I — 
 
 Pafq. Which I venerate more for the royal 
 
 Stamp than its Maxims A royal Scribe is a 
 
 Prodigy. David iet the Example, but has had 
 
 but few Followers 
 
 Mirf. In Book- writing you mean 
 
 Pafq. I do j for in his Defe£is he has many, 
 tho' in his Perfe^ions but few. See how he has 
 been copied in his youthful Pieafures ; and in 
 
 his A~ ry more then in his Repentance A 
 
 'K'w^^n Author in this Age of Luxury ! Who 
 wou'd have thought it .^ He is the only, that I 
 can Remember, fince the Reformation, about 
 which Time, that confjftent, royal Scribbler, 
 .Henry VIII. of England., wrote a pompous Book 
 in Defence of that Church which he afterwards 
 mod pioufly weaken'd by fetting his own weighty 
 Carcafs on the Steeple. 
 
 M.irf. Pafquin^ I am forry to find thy Memo- 
 ry fo impar'd. I fear thou haft o're ftretch'd its 
 Nerves by a two clofe Application totheDiflec- 
 tion of the Definitive Treaty — Coud'ft thou not 
 recolleft that fome of Harry^^ Succeffors had 
 Vv'rote and printed too. There is yet extant a 
 Volume in Folio wrote by James I. and the Icon 
 Bafdiiono{ his Son, is in moft curious Hands. 
 
 Pafq. Ah, Alar for 10 I thou has awaken'd a 
 Sorrow which I fain wou'd have laid. What 
 Heart fo fleel'd as not to relent when the Horror 
 of that good King's Treatment makes Way into 
 
 the
 
 ( ^7 ) 
 
 the Mind ? He wrote, and was aWarrior too 
 
 and which is more, was a Chriflian and a flanch 
 one. 
 
 Marf. Which is more than can be faid • 
 
 Pafq. Not of his Son James II, who loft his 
 Crown by being too ftriaiy one. And he, this 
 haplefs Prince, was an Author too. His Me- 
 moirs of the Campaigns of his able Mafter in the 
 Art of War, the gv^-AiTurenne, fhew him to ba 
 as much a Mafter of his Subjed as of the Deh- 
 cacy of Writing. And in this latter he is thought 
 to be copied, or rather out done by his^'o;;, who is 
 aJiow'd to fhine and excdl on Paper. As for the 
 •So;? of this latter, we know not if he can weild 
 
 the Pe}^ as well, but are fare he can the S h' 
 
 broad Sword. 
 
 Marf, Alas ! what Beams can fhoot thro' 
 fuch impervious Clouds as invelope that haplefs 
 Family, whom you injudicioufly fuggeft to 
 have been banifh'a for a two ftrid Adherence 
 to old mufty Principles.'* Know, Pafquin, that 
 James II, fell for being thought to be too clofely 
 connefted with Louis XIV, and not not for ha- 
 ving newly taken up an old Religion. Had 
 James wifely fell in with the 'iVejudice of his 
 People againft France^ he needed not have been 
 obliged to the grand Monarque for Bread. 
 
 Pafq. And fee, at this Day, what a giateful 
 Senfe the SucceJTor of Louis le Grand has of the 
 repeated Obligations his Kingdom owes to the 
 S ts. How conlpicuoufly does Gallick Gra- 
 titude ftiine in the Nmcteenth Article of this moft 
 Chriftian Treaty, and in the Fifth of the Sluadru- 
 ■pk Alliance, conhrm'd by it ? Here, \\\.([t MarJiy 
 is luch an Afcendant, fuch an Advantage gain'd 
 
 I 2 by
 
 ( 68 ) 
 
 by England as is worth all the Millions of Guineas 
 expended in the War. What Matters how the 
 Beam of Enropean Power he poiz'd, whether 
 the Emprefs Queen be fo emaciated as to be of 
 little Weight in the Scale, or whether France be 
 left in Plight to kick it up when fhe pleafes, if 
 the Pretender nor his Offspring find no Afylum 
 in France ? What fignifies if the Commerce of 
 England and the Claims of her depredated Mer- 
 chants "be over look*d by her M -rs, fo that 
 
 tht Highland Leader be driven to a warmer Cli- 
 mate againft the Faith of a K' — ? What is it to 
 
 the E e that the Kingdom fink, fince H — — r 
 
 is guaraittied by the Twentieth of this fine-fpun 
 Cobweb ? And pray what matters what Millions 
 England doles away, fince the pecuniary Claim 
 
 of H r on Spain, is, by the Eighteenth Arti- . 
 
 cle, to be adjulled by Commijfaries for that Pur- 
 fofe nominated and appointed ? Such is the ele- 
 gant, fignificant Phrafe in modern Ufe for com- 
 pofing the Differences between claiming Powers 
 
 Well might it be faid that the Workmen at 
 
 Aix left half the Work undone, fince Commijfaries 
 are the dernier Refer t of Complainants. *Tis not 
 as yet full twenty Years fince we had much fuch 
 another Inftance of Engiifh Addrefs in twinging 
 the hardeft of the Work on thofe leafl able to go 
 thro' it. You Remember the memorable Treaty 
 of Sevile in 1729, by which Commijfaries were 
 to determine what was never intended fhou'd be 
 adjutfed. The fame Adroitnefs was attempted 
 ten Years after, when, by the never-to-be-for- 
 gotten Conventioti, the Plenipos had ftipulated 
 to transfigure themfelves to Commijfaries in order 
 to be after doing what ought to have been the firll 
 
 of
 
 ( % ) 
 
 of their Work — You fimper, Marforio^ at the 
 CJownifhnefs of my Phrafe. You may remember 
 it in Ufa in the Marches of Ancona \ and thou 
 knoweft that Poets and Orators have the Privilcc^e 
 of Adoption. ° 
 
 Marf. And Statefmen too. See what Maxims 
 -are adopted by thofe of the prcfent Age. They 
 met to adjuft the Differences o^ Europe, but open 
 the Gate to many more than they have compo- 
 fed. They guaranty his late Acquifitions to his 
 Sardinan Majefty, but give him a Neighbour, 
 who, hke Oil on a Piece of fpungy Stuff, 
 will foon fpread himfelf all around him. Shall, 
 or can the King of Sardinia, or the tmprefs 
 Queen, hope to be able to oppofe the future In- 
 croachments of the Sons of Spain and Son-in-law 
 of Prance ? Or fhall the Emperor himfelf be a- 
 ble to fecure the Equivalent for his paternal Pa- 
 trimony from the repacious Hands of the neigh- 
 bouring Bi anches of a Houfe notorious for ob- 
 ferving no Law but that of Conveniency .? No, 
 Pafauin, Italy will foon be ingrofs'd by the 
 Houfe of Bourbon; nor was there any other 
 Means for preventing the approaching Monopo- 
 ly, but fhutting out that ambitious Family from 
 having any Footing South of the Alps. My 
 Heart bleeds for the Emprefs Queen. A mag- 
 nanimous Princefs, who deferved a better Fate, 
 and more faithful Allies ! See the Difference. 
 France takes Care that her Confederates come 
 whole out of the War. The Republic of Genoa 
 remains with her PofTeffions, and the Duke of 
 Modena loofes not an Inch of his Terri- 
 tory- , 
 
 Eaf(i,
 
 ( 70 
 
 Paf<i. Thanks to his Affinity with the Houfe of 
 H r. 
 
 Miirf. No, Pafquin", he owes his Safety to 
 that of Bourbon, which di6tated in the Treaty, 
 tho'on the Eve of a Fall, fcarce to be avoided, 
 if England\\^.d confulted her own Strength and 
 Intereil and that of her natural AlHes. Ge^toa 
 and Modena have not been preferved, becaufe 
 France is faithful and gratefid^ Virtues flie has 
 no Acquaintance with j but becaufe fhe may 
 hereafter employ thofe Powers to promote her 
 Scheme of giving the Law' in Italy. The Ge- 
 voefCy as they abound in Seamen, are no lefs ne- 
 celTary in the projc;6led Improvement of the na- 
 val Force of France, than in the opening her 
 Way to Lombardy^ when fhe fhall fee the Time 
 for adding the Mdanefe to the Domains of her 
 Son-in-Law. And the Inhabitants of the Mode- 
 »^y^ willbe of fomeUfe towards the Completion 
 of the Tyrannic Scheme — Haplefs People ! who 
 fee not tiieir Danger, or if they do, are in no 
 Capacity to avoid it! The Hour is no farther off, 
 than till France recruits, that they become the 
 Vidims of Gallick Ambition, and fliare in the 
 general Bondage of our beloved Latimn. 
 
 See again, the Influence and Addrefs of France, 
 in defeating the main Purpofe of England in her 
 War with Spain. We find no Article in the 
 Definive Treaty, that indemnifies the Englifh 
 Merchants for tht Depredations committed in A- 
 merica by the Spaniards, anterior to the War ; 
 Depredations that had been liquidated by the 
 memorable Convention. We find no Security a- 
 gainft the future Search of the trading Ships of 
 
 England in the American Seas. And yet thefe 
 
 were
 
 ( 70 
 were the Things which inflamed the Fjiglijh Na- 
 tion, which lured them to a vokintary Support of 
 the S^panijh War. Thefe, J^afquin, were the 
 Corner Stones on which that expenfive, ruinous 
 War had been raifed. 
 
 Fafq. Do not all their Meafures *tend to Ruin ; 
 and woud'ft [thou have the Spanijh. War an Ex- 
 ception ? You feem to forget the Genius of the 
 People. On what d^t but Error have the E—b 
 buik for above half an Age ? wou'd it not have 
 
 been an Inverfion of Nature for an E ~h Mi- 
 
 niftry to have adied on Principles of true Patrio- 
 tifm ? If Beggary be the beaten Road to Slavery^ 
 why may we not fuppofe that the Inattention 
 
 Ihewn for the Trading Intereft of E d in the 
 
 Treaty, was wilful and premeditated ? I can 
 herein, Marforio^ perceive that thou art a mere 
 Milkfop in Politics. And I wonder too, that fo 
 Jong as thou haft rcfided in this Emporium of 
 dark and deep Defign, thou fhoud'ft be a No- 
 vice in the Wiles of Courts and Minifters. 
 
 Art thou ftill uninfpired ? 
 
 Murf. I fee the Clue you wou'd have me 
 walk by to fathom the Ncgka of fo important a 
 Confideration as Trade is to a tradino- Nation • 
 but cannot fee the V/ifdom of hipoverijhing a 
 People for the Sake of Enjlaving them. 
 
 Pajii. Again art thou wide of the Mark." 
 The E h are a flubborn Generation, as un- 
 governable in Afflue-ice as tarns and Lamb-like 
 in Want and Indigence. And thou know'll that 
 that cunning Whight of Florence, who advifed 
 flieering the Flock clofe for the better preventing 
 their being troublefom to the Shepherd-^, is the 
 Compafs by which modern Minifters fliape their 
 
 Courfe.
 
 C 72 ) 
 Courfc. You never knew a Man fubmit to Ser- 
 vitude with his Pockets full. And as for thy 
 Crotches about IVifdom, they are but mere whipt 
 Sillibub. Didft thou ever know JVifdom and 
 Ambition coupled together, unlefs it was for the 
 Jatter like a Termagent married to an honefl: 
 wife Man, to flop its Ears for fear of hearing 
 the fweet Voice of Truth. If the Ambitious 
 had confulted the Oracle of true IVifdom, they 
 "wou'd chufe rather to be loved than fec.fd. And 
 if Minifters had confulted the true Intereft of 
 the Prince, leaving that of the Community out 
 of the Queftion as is generally the Cafe, they 
 wou*d advife no Meafures that tended to deprive 
 him of the Hearts of his People. 
 
 Marf, Alas! Pafquin ; where fhall we find 
 the Minifter that confults not more the Pafjicns 
 ihan Interefts of his Mailer ? Have we not feen 
 the War carried on when it fhou'd have been put 
 an End to, and ended when it (hou'd have been 
 continued ? And why fuch a Contraft in the mi- 
 niflerial Condudl of thofe Machiavels, that have 
 forgot, in the Treaty for putting an End to the 
 War, the very principal Purpofes for which it had 
 been begun. 
 
 Pafq. There is no difputing that the Search of 
 Britijh Trading-fhips by the Guarda Cojla^s of 
 ^pain^ and the Depredations committed on the 
 Britijh Merchants, were the fole Objefts of the 
 War with Spain : And fo well they have been 
 kept in View by the late Treaty-makers, who 
 have outdone their PredecefTors, in Modefiy, a 
 long Bow's-fhot. At Seville in 1729, and Ma- 
 drid'm 1739 Care was taken to prefcrve Appear- 
 ances at leail, which was an Indication, it not 
 
 of
 
 ( 73 ) 
 
 ot Fean In thofe Days, even while the ffal/o^ 
 Tonean\,zn- fteer'd, Comm^ffanes were appointed 
 
 ntended by ti.em, than to ferve a? Sugar-fops 
 to feed a credulous People, and to widen the 
 iiortom of Employments in the Gift of the Mi- 
 mfler. But as if all Modejly and Decency to- 
 wards the Public had been buried mihPFalpole, 
 who, by the bye, was not deem'd an over-cour- 
 teous Mmilter, here is a Treaty made, a Defi- 
 mttve one too without fo much as a Compliment 
 
 !?tt '"^ '-^^ ^^""^f' ^•'^'^" '^^ g^^'"g ^^^y their 
 ^i'/.. Tho' the Right of not being fear ch^L 
 might have been intended to be given up by the 
 Lonvention in 1739, yet there was fome Modefly, 
 lome Shew of Deference for the Public, in the 
 Appointment of Commiffaries for a future Ad- 
 jullment. But at prefent. 
 
 Marf. The E h are treated, by their Pie- 
 
 nipos likePrincelTes who are often trucked away 
 for Peace, to fome r 1 Fool or Madman with- 
 out their Confent or Privity. 
 
 Pafq. Rather like Drawers of Water and 
 Hewers of Wood, whom their Tafk-mafters 
 think below all Notice and Condefcention. Caa 
 we confider, in any other Light, a Nation that 
 are, by this very Definitive Treaty, oblic^ed to 
 pals under the Toke of Servitude to thole,°who, 
 in a few Months longer Continuance of the War^ 
 might expedl to wear the infamous Badge them- 
 fdves ? Had the Current of the War by Land, 
 turn'd againft France as it naturally wou'd, if" 
 continued, then indeed might the Toke be impo- 
 fed on her Sons, with fome Propriety, as beincr 
 known for Adepts in the Science oi Chicanryt 
 
 K But:
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 But for the triumphant Lords of the Ocean, the 
 
 boarting Props of Faith and Probity -, for the 
 
 . Englijh to be obliged to give Hojiages to France as 
 
 a Pledge for their j^fii/z^^/i?/, How fallen, how 
 
 degenerated are that once vain People grown ! 
 Ah, Marforio I whence comes it that a generous 
 People thus loofe the very Ideas of Glory and 
 Honour ? 
 
 Marf. See'ft thou not that Children are fa- 
 fhion'd by their Parents and Pupils by their Tu- 
 tors 
 
 Pafq. Yes, Mr. IVifeman \ I fee too that Par- 
 rots are taugl 1 1.) fpeak, and Dogs to dance, and 
 what then ? 
 
 Marf. That, like thefe. Nations are moulded 
 to the Standard of thofe that dired their public 
 Affairs. 
 
 Paf(i. As much as to fay, that if M ^ — rs 
 
 be weak, wilful, venal, cringing and fawning, 
 their Countrymen will become Affes, burthen- 
 bearing Affes, and will be treated as fuch by their 
 whole Neighbourhood — Zook's 1 I wou'd any 
 Caperer in France durft hare propofed Hojiages 
 to old Noll ! 
 
 Marf. Ah ! Name not the vile Ufurper, who, 
 to feed his Ambition, has- brought the big Sin 
 of National Murder on a whole People land their 
 Defcendants for ever. 
 
 - Pafq. For ever, Marf ! a dreadful De- 
 cree I 
 
 Marf. And irreverfible, without real Com- 
 pun^ion and folid Rejlituticn. 
 
 Pafq. Nay, if fuch Condidons be annex'd to 
 the Reverfion, I defpair- 
 
 Marf.
 
 ( IS ) 
 
 Marf. If fuch Conditions ! Is it a Doubt 
 
 then that Jujiice is one of the bright Attributes 
 of the Deity ? 'Tis none ; it can be no doubt 
 that pubUc as well as private Crimes are only to 
 be purged o'Rhy ,S or rotv znd Atonement. 
 
 Paf(i, Prithee, my Cafuifl ; what Species of- 
 Purgation^ think you, may be adequate to the 
 Sin of Evil-Treaty-making ? And when your 
 Hand is in, pray inform me v/ho are mofc cul- 
 pable, the Plenipas or their miniilerial Directors : 
 And what Share of the Guilt may be divided to 
 the two Hofiages if any two Ignobles fliou'd be 
 i^ound fo weak as not only to hazard their own 
 Liberty and even Life^ but to fully for ever the 
 Fame and Honour of their Country ? J fhall 
 meafure the Punifliment to be inflifled by thy 
 Anfwer. 
 
 Marf. As in Murder., by the Laws of E ^, 
 
 fo in Minifterial Affairs, by that of Reafon, there 
 ought to be no Accejjaries- — • 
 
 Pafq. 'Sfleih, Marf! Thou do'ft not think 
 that the Hofiages are equally criminal ? 
 
 Marf. Have they not the Staff of Fr(?^-'!x^.7/ to 
 hold up againft all illegal Commands ? Is not the 
 Path to Security, in a limitted Monarchy, fhort 
 and fure ? Reftgnation is in every Man's Power 
 where no Law Warrants Coertion. 
 
 Vafci. But Diftntereftedmfs is not in every Man's 
 Nature 
 
 Marf. 'Tis true, Pafquin, or we had feen ma- 
 ny more Reftgnations when C — f — d quitted a 
 Company he began to be afhamed of. Happy, 
 that he forefaw the approaching Infamy of his 
 Country and avoided fharing in it, fince he was 
 not able to prevent it I 
 
 K 2 Paf^,
 
 ( 76 ) 
 
 Pafq^. He wou'd have died in the laft Dike of" 
 his Country's Honour, if he had been in the 
 
 M y, before he vvou'd have a Hand in 
 
 ditching the inglorious Badge of Suhjeoiion on 
 fair Britar/ni&s Arm. 'Sdeath ! if Hcftages muft 
 be given to France^ why were they not to be of 
 
 the Subjedls of the cherifh'd E e that had 
 
 benefited by the War and Benefits by Peace, 
 while poor England looks by both ? Gad, Marfi^ 
 the Blood in my marbly Veins boils fo at thefe Be- 
 trayers of^a/m/ G/^ry, that I don't think any 
 Punifhment adequate to their Guilt, but Banilh- 
 mcnt, to 
 
 Marj. Siberia^ among the Ruffian^ minifterial 
 Bears. 
 
 Pajq. No, no; to the Caftle of H r\ 
 
 there to be obliged, like Coal-meeters in England^ 
 
 to fnovel up daily the mouldy Heaps of B h 
 
 Crowns and Guineas that have been annually un- 
 loaded there. 
 
 Marf. And, like Midas^ flarve amidft the 
 rich Heaps that had been rais*d by their own De- 
 generacy. 
 
 Pajq. Rather let them hoe turnips in the ad- 
 jacent Plains, feed on them and never die, that, 
 like him who ftole the celeftial Fire, their La- 
 bour may never ceafe and their Punifnment may 
 be eternal. — Hofiages and all 
 
 Paf(i. Ay, even to the lowefl: minifterial Rag. 
 I wou*d make a general Sweep, turn the Current 
 G^ Jufiice into the Augean Stable, and clear away 
 all the Filth that had been gathering there for half 
 an Age. 
 
 Marf.
 
 Marf. It wou'd require more than Herculean 
 Virtue to cleanfe a People almoft qu.te eat ud 
 With th^ Leprofy of Corruption. ^ "^ 
 
 P^/?. There is one ihorr, dired Road to the 
 Lure, and but one 
 
 Marf. Which you may be fure th E -h 
 
 won't journey in becaule it is moft eh'sible • 
 
 twou d be ading out of Character for them to' 
 
 walk by the Clues of m/dom and Juftice.— See 
 
 we not E h Incorrigibility in every Article of 
 
 the Treaty under our Confideration f—By the 
 ^^^ '\^fP^-J^reton fliail be reftored with all the 
 
 Artillery and Ammunition which was found 
 " therein on the Day that it was furrendeerd »— 
 i^ut Fort Saint George is to be reftored in fuch 
 Condition as It may happen to have been on the 
 ^qi of O^^^^r laft. Why were not the Stipula- 
 tions reciprocal ? Why was not the latter to be 
 reftored in the Condition it had been taken in as 
 well as the former ? 
 
 Pafq, Becaufe then E h Suhjemon and 
 
 French Infiuence wou'd not have appeared fo con 
 
 fpicuoufly to the World. The E — ^ h M " 
 
 have a peculiar knack in Sinki7ig the Charader of 
 their Country in all their Negociations with Fo 
 reigners. If an EeVi^ to be held, they are furl 
 
 to Jay hold of the Tail 
 
 Marf. And dole away their Millions to cover 
 their Nation with Shame. Behold how th^ 
 Bourbons lord it in this Treaty. Nothing hi 
 been \tk undone that can fecure their Allies or 
 aggrandize themfelves. A Son of Spain is ^ed^ 
 ed m between the Allies of England in Lonl 
 lardy fo as to fever them from each other, and 
 iox ever from being able to bear up againft ^ 
 
 United
 
 ( 78 ) 
 united Power of the Hoiife of France. A rcfpec- 
 
 table Silence is impofed on E- d with Regard 
 
 to her Motives for a Rupture with the Bons ; the 
 Infecurity of her American Trade left as open as 
 before the War, and her Claim for Depredations 
 anterior to it, buried in eternal Oblivion. And 
 what is the pompous Equivalent for fo big a Sa- 
 crifice ? 
 
 Pafq. The Friendfi)ip o^ Spain 
 
 Marf. Which England can never hope to re- 
 cover, any more than the Spanijh Trade, while 
 fhe with-holds Gibraltar 2.Vl(\ Minorca from them. 
 No, Pafquin, the Equivalent is only the Enjoy 
 ment of the JJfiento for Four inftead of Fourteen 
 Years, which the Exercife of that Contrail had 
 bfeen fufpended occafionally by Spain herielf. 
 Thefe are the People that plume them/elves on 
 having had a fteady Eye to the "trade of their 
 Country in the Treaty ^ before us. 
 
 Pafq. Did ever Fiih- woman cry (linking Firti? 
 
 Or was ever fo grovelling a Zany on the M 1 
 
 Stacre, as wou'd not trumpet his own Fame when 
 he was fure none dare gainfay him ? — For all you 
 fay, Mr. Inquifitor, I fay the Treaty is a fpecial 
 Treaty, anfwering every minifterial Purpofe that 
 cou'd be devifed by thofe .¥Ou'd preferve their 
 own minillerial Power and Credit at the Expence 
 of their Country. It might have been, in Days 
 of Yore, a Maxim with Minifters not to loofe 
 Sight of the Interefis of their Country in their fo- 
 reign Negociations ; but in this moreenlighten'd 
 Age, the minifterial Gonfideration is more cir- 
 cumscribed. It centers folely in Self. For In- 
 ftance, if a Peace be neceffary for the Minifter 
 he will be fare to cook it up to the Gouft of 
 
 Some-
 
 (79) 
 
 Some-body, (whom it may not be proper for a 
 Tranflator to Name; but, Marforio, you are al- 
 ways to underftand that that namcJefs Some-body, is 
 'No-body unlefs he has Paffions, and particukr 
 Attachments, and Views. Nam viiiis nemo fine naf- 
 
 citur K gs in Purple arc no Jefs Men than 
 
 thofe in Bufkins ; and Julius may have had his 
 Prejudices as well as Rofcius. 
 
 Marf. And may have lels Strength to conquer 
 them. 
 
 Pafy. Pfhaw ! What Modern wou*d be at the 
 Pains of a Conqueft that did not fuit with his In- 
 tereft ? If the general Scheme be to fecure the 
 
 Obedience of the E h by impoverijlnng them, 
 
 and to aggrandize H r, at the Expence of 
 
 ^' d, was ever a JVar, in this copious View, 
 
 better managed then the laft, or a Peace more 
 favorily cook'd up than the prefent ? Was not 
 the War by Sea generally negleded, except by 
 particular Adventurers, or towards the latter End 
 by the Miniftry's being dragged into fome fmall 
 Degree of Exertion of the formidable Naval 
 Power of England ; and was it not conduced fo 
 by Land^s to render it fuccefslefs, yet to incrcafe 
 its Burden ? If, in the fame Light, we fcruti- 
 nize the Peace, fhan't we find it anfwering all 
 the Ends of the deep Schemes of fycophanc 
 M- -rs ? Is there a Shred of the wide paci- 
 fic Parchment fecuringthe Commerce oi E d ? 
 
 Are not thofe Conquefts given from her, which 
 alone cou*d make her any Amends for her une- 
 qual Expence during the War ? Cape-Briton 
 made her Miftrefs of the lucrative Trade of Fifi 
 and Fur ; yet it is tamely yielded up, while Gtb- 
 raliar, not worth the Expence of keeping, is 
 
 tenacioudv
 
 ( 80 ) 
 
 tenacioufly kept to the Ruin of the Spanijh Trade. 
 Yet confpicuoufly as it appears that the trading 
 
 Intereft of E d has been overJook*d in the 
 
 Treaty, 'ds no lefs certain that her Safety and. 
 
 Honour were equally abandoned by the E h 
 
 Compounders of the pacific Dofe. To inftance no 
 other, the Ardcle of the Hojiages is an indelible 
 Wound to the Honour of Britain ; and if the 
 Force put on the Emprefs Queen to acquiefce 
 with the hard Conditions of the Peace, be taken 
 into the Account of National Honour, it will be 
 found to increafe the Stain no lefs than it will 
 contribute to render the Safety of the Ifland more 
 precarious and uncertain. 
 
 The XXI. Article of the Treaty llipulatesa 
 frefh Guaranty of the Pragmatic Sanation, which 
 is a tacit Avowal of the Neceffiry of preferving 
 the Indivifibility of the Aufirian bucceflion as ne- 
 ceflary for y^'cmw^ the Liberties, not only of the 
 £mpire but of all Europe. Yet this Security is 
 barter*d away for Moon-fhine. Silefia and Glatx 
 
 are given away to the fecret E y of the 
 
 Houfe of Jujiria, and guarantied to a Prince, 
 no lefs intent to ftay the Curvets of the ivhiie 
 Steed in his Neighbourhood, than the Flight of 
 the black Spread- Eagle. 
 
 Marf. Alas, Pafquin ! It has been long ob- 
 ferved, that the Steed you mention, is not more 
 jealous of the imperial Bird, than of the King of 
 Beafts. 
 
 Pafq. Poor E h Lion I how Toothlefs 
 
 is he become, tho* he affedrs to growl and roar 
 as formerly ! — generous Creature ! How alter'd 
 from what he was in the Days of Anne, the laft 
 of the Stuart; race who fill*d the Throne of her 
 
 An-
 
 ( Si ) 
 
 Aiiceftors! *twas comphin'd fhe had abandon'd 
 her Ailies in 171 2 ; but Jet them be dumb for 
 ever who compare the Treaty of Jtx with tliac 
 of Utretcht There, we fliall find Charles 
 VI poflefs d or all the hereditary Dominions 
 I c n^' ^^nch.'<^ by the ample Addition of 
 the Spanijb PofTeflions in Italy and the Nelher- 
 lands. But how is the pleafing Scene of S^kty 
 and of Power chang'd by the prefent Treaty ? 
 1 he Houfe of Auflria is Jitde more than the Sha- 
 dow of what it was before the War. ■'Tis true 
 the SheJ] Hands but the richell of itsFurniture are 
 moved away. Silefia, the fairefl of her Provinces 
 Js torn from the Emprefs (^leen, fhe fcarce has a 
 J^ooting m lialy, and in the Netherlands ihe bears 
 an empty Name without Power or Safety The 
 Provinces are to be reftored to her, but fo im- 
 poverifli'd as not to be able to defray the Expence 
 of their keeping, and fo difmantled as fcarce to 
 be in Condition to flay a royal Huntfman in 
 \^naie or his Game. 
 
 Marf Yet this is that natural Ally whom 
 England had boafted fhe wou'd bear irn againfl 
 the Ambition o^ France. ^ ^ 
 
 Pafq. Tht Epithet natural, better fits the 
 errand Turk, becaufe he has fome naval Power 
 which alone can give any Colour for the Ex- 
 preffion But in Truth, if England knew and 
 purfued her ;;^/.,r^/ Interefl, fhe wou'd have all 
 
 NT y^'^l^.K^' ^^"'"^'' ^"^ ^°"'d Hand in no 
 Need of Allies. The Houfe of Jujlria, widiouc 
 Sea-ports, a Ship of War, or fcarce a Cock-boat 
 to be the natural Ally of an infular Nation a thou- 
 fand Miles from it ! What Incongruity; what 
 irenzy ! But this is one of thole unmeaning 
 
 ^ Phrafes
 
 ( 82 ) 
 
 Phrafes coin'd in the R -n Mint, to lure 
 
 t]^e£- — h Beetles into a Lik ing for Land Wars.— 
 Marf. Of which they are Jike never to have 
 a Dearth while they have fo intimate a Con- 
 nexicn with the Continent as atprefent. 
 
 Pafq. Ay, ay i dear lurnip Land ! There, 
 Marforio ! there indeed the Word Natural niay 
 be apphcable. Jujlria may be deem'd the natu- 
 ral Ally of H r, but never can of England 
 
 with any Propriety. 
 
 Marf. Nor of H r neither, while *tis the 
 
 Bunncls of the White Nag to extend his Pafture 
 Ground, and of the Eagle to obftruft any En- 
 largement of it. Befides, the Houfe o^Aufiriac^n 
 
 bear no Equal in the Empire, and H -r, 
 
 being bolfter'd up by E d, has alTum'd Airs 
 
 which the Court of Viomm may have Thought 
 little fuitable to the Degree of Vaflallage. 
 
 Pafq. Take back, Marforio, thy Diminutive. 
 The Epithet might fuit with the Condition of 
 moil of the other States of the Empire. But for 
 
 // r^ more rich in Bullion than all Germany^ 
 
 abounding in Treafure beyond any State in Eu- 
 rope, not to be above the Degree of Vaffailage ! 
 
 ^Recant, Marf, or— r i tt 
 
 Marf 1 ihall be put under the Banoi the \^m- 
 pire, as httle regarded at prefent as the Bulls of 
 the Vatican, which heretofore bellow'd fo 
 loudly as to ftrike Terror to the utmoft Limits ot 
 the Globe. But now the hornlefs Animals may 
 bellow out their Lungs before they are heard or 
 heeded. So it fares as to the Ban of the Empire. 
 While the Perfon filling the Imperial Throne 
 had the Power to inforce the Execution ot the 
 Ordinances of the Diet which he infAienc'd, thea 
 indeed the being put under the Ban ot the Em- 
 
 * pire
 
 ( 83 ) 
 
 pire bore a fignificant Meaning. But at pre- 
 I'ent. 
 
 Pafq. Care is taken that the Head flial! have no 
 coercive Power over the Members. I underlland 
 thee, my Friend j and can perceive how the late 
 War and prefent Peace may have anfwer'd the 
 double Purpofe of certain modern Statehnen. The 
 unequal Burden of the fVar urged on apace the 
 hnpoverijhing Scheme, as the readieft to tame a 
 Jiubborn People -, and the hard Conditions of the 
 Peace, reduce the Imperial Diadem to the little 
 Importance of an Lidia?j Crown of Featheis. 
 
 Marf. To fuch, the Princes of the Empire 
 think it their Intereft to reduce the Imperial 
 Crown. 
 
 Pafq. And to fuch indeed it is reduced by the 
 prefent Peace. But how wifely confiftent was Eng- 
 land in expending her Millions, in dcprefllng her 
 Trade, and draining her Vitals in Support 5' the 
 Houfe of Aufiria, while it feem'd to iiave been 
 
 the View and Intereft of H r to humble that 
 
 haughty Race ? Lucklefs Land, doom'd to 
 
 be a Province to the pitifulleft State in the Em- 
 pire ! 
 
 Marf. More lucklefs, in giving Birth to unna. 
 tural Sons that treat her as fwaggering, UAvdl'm^ 
 Spend-thrifts do an Hoftefs to whom they never 
 intend to return, 
 
 Pafq. Tho' fi.ich a Procedure, in the Traveller, 
 wou'd be unjuftand diflionourable, yet wou'd it 
 fall far fhort of an unnatural Engliflman that fliou'd 
 aid towards the Indigence and Difloonoiir of his 
 Country and Ruin of Pofterity, for Lucre, Smiles, 
 or Titles. Ah, how gloomy the Scene which 
 prefents itfelf to thofe few Engliflmen that can 
 
 L 2 difcerUf
 
 ( 84 ) 
 difcern, and have any Bowels for their bleeding 
 Country ! 
 
 Marf. This Peace opens fuch a wide Gap to 
 Coniufions; lays fuch a Foundation for War, 
 as muft inevitably involve England in all its Ca- 
 lamities, 
 
 Pafq. So perhaps it might have been intended 
 by the Vylnders up of the pacific Bottom. A du- 
 rable Peace, might produce fuch another Oppo- 
 fiHon as had turn'd Walpde'^ Chariot. People 
 too might grumble that no Reduciion of the'pub- 
 lic Debt was grafted on a long Peace. Can it be 
 wonder'd then that the Peace is as ricketty and 
 fiimfy as we find it ? What matters it to a Mini- 
 ftry whether a Peace be found and likely to fubr 
 lift, fo it anfwer 7ninijierial Purpofes ? Need I 
 tell thee, Marforio^ that Miniflers diflinguifli 
 with great Subtilty between Purpofes Minifierial 
 and Purpofes National. The latter may look to. 
 
 thcmfelvcs, or go to the D 1 for any thing an 
 
 E h y\ r cares a Button, fo the former 
 
 thrive. If he can keep his Pi?/, have the Ear of 
 Some-hod)\ and be permitted to fheer the Flock, 
 the Nation and Poflerity., he thinks as little of as 
 of Religion and the Gofpel. 
 
 Mzrf. Ah ! how delicately adapted is the 
 prefent Peace to thofe Purpofes which you call 
 Minifterial ! 
 
 Pafq. Are not all the Purpofes of the Cabinet 
 purely Minifterial that tend not to the Good of 
 the Community ? And I defy the moft flattering 
 Q — __t Sycophant to point out any one Purpofe 
 of the Community anfwer'd by the Definitive Trea- 
 ry. The Objefts of the Spanyh War have been 
 qi:ite out of the View pf the Negociatprs. 7 he 
 
 Brittfh
 
 ( 85) 
 
 Briti/h Navigation In the American Seas is as in* 
 fecure, and the depredated Merchants as difcon- 
 tented as before the War. The only ufeful Con- 
 qiiefl made by the Englijh (Cape-Breton) is to be 
 reftored. Another Bourbon is introduced into 
 Italy, to render the Houfe of Savoy tributary, 
 and drive that o{ Aufiria quite out of it. The 
 richeft of her Hereditary Provinces is guaranty'd 
 to the Emprefs Queen's moil dangerous Neigh- 
 bour, without obtaining any folemn Renunciations 
 from the other Claimants to the Auftrian Succef- 
 fion. The Auftrian Provinces in the Low-Coun- 
 tries are to be reftored in fo ruinous a Condition, 
 that Lewis XV may pay the Butch a Vifit in his 
 Night-cap and Slippers, whenever he is in hu- 
 mour to munch Cheefe and quaff Geneva. 
 
 Marf. And that, we may be fure, will be as 
 early as the Eftablifhment of a Marine to protedt 
 the Trade of his Subjefts, and the Difcharge of 
 his Debts. 
 
 Pafq. How different is the prefent Syftem of 
 Politics in England f Here, Deks are contraded 
 with a View, al? origine, never to be difcharg'd 
 as they are thought to be Pledges for Duty °nd 
 Fidelity. And this Maxim, as unwife and un- 
 natural as it is, feems to be woven into the Con- 
 ftitution. But in France, and all other Countries 
 in Europe, except England, the NeceHity of con- 
 tracting Debts is yielded to with Reluarance, and 
 the Caufe no fooner ceafes, than all Means are 
 ufed for removing the Effed. But, as if it had 
 beenpremeditately defignM that the £72^/^ Milch- 
 Cow, ftiou'd be milk'd dry, ftie is entangled in 
 fuch a Net of different and jarring Guaranties by 
 thisTreaty, that it is impradlicable for her ever to 
 
 difr
 
 ( 86) 
 
 defingage herfelf with any Safety and without an 
 immenfe Expence. If the Courts of Vienna and 
 Berlin fall out, as 'tis ten to one but they qo be- 
 fore the Clofe of the next Year, whom Hiall the 
 Court of L — «abet? Again, fhou*d i??//^^ and 
 Prujfia fall out, as who believes not that they will, 
 
 whom fhall E ' — d alTift ? She is engag*d ta 
 
 both ; but thou know'ft there is no ferving two 
 Mafters. 
 
 Marf. I don't fee that fhe can do better than 
 jog on in the old Track—— 
 
 Pafq. Feed one, underhand, with Moneys and 
 help the other openly with Troops or Ships. You 
 may remember the Conduct of the E b Ca- 
 binet with Regard to Augufius and Stanijlaus in 
 the laft Polijh Eleftion 
 
 Marf. Or that of the late Emperor, Charles of 
 Bavaria^ to whom a certain Vote was given while 
 England was almoft bled to death in order to fliuc 
 him out from the imperial Throne. 
 
 Pafq. Or, the permitting a Spanifh Army to 
 be wafted to Italy, by one Treaty, while another 
 fubfilled for oppofmg fuch a Tranfportation 
 with all the naval Power of Britain. — But there 
 
 the cherifh'd E e ftood in the Way. 
 
 Mallebois might have been a troublefome Gueft — 
 Ah ! poor England ! how art thou made to play 
 at Leap-frog juft as H r pleafes ! 
 
 Marf. Yet what fair Opportunity was England 
 Furnifh'd with; by this Treaty, to wind herfelf 
 into a fafe and durable Peace ? 
 
 Pafq. A much better fhe had, if Ihe wou*d 
 have continued the War but for another Campaign 
 or two. In that Ihort Compafs, fhe might have 
 ftript France of all her Colonies in America^ South 
 
 and
 
 (8?) 
 
 and North ; and with the Force already fent to 
 the EaJl'Indies^ every French Settlement there 
 niuft have fallen to England. Every Branch of 
 the French foreign Commerce might be fo ob- 
 ftrufted, by the naval Force of Britain, that the 
 Natives of all the South of France muft inevitably 
 be famifh'd unlefs Corn fhou'd be carried from 
 the Northern Provinces for their Rehef ; and in 
 that Cafe, the French Armies in the Netherlands 
 muft be ill fupply'd. With the fcanty Stock of 
 Corn then in France, either the Army or People 
 muft want ; and as the Weight wou'd naturally 
 fall on the latter, there muft neceflarily have been 
 an Infurredion in the Bowels of the Kingdom, 
 which wou*d anfwer every National Purpfe an 
 EngUJh Miniftry cou'd propofe. 
 
 Marf. But the Purpofe Minijierial may have 
 been better anfwerM by the charitable Relief of 
 Corn allow'd to be exported for France juft when 
 her Sons were on the Verge of Defpair. Yet e- 
 ven then, when the Cock lay panting under the 
 
 Lions Paw, were the E h M y fuing for 
 
 Peace as humble Suppliants. In fuch a Hurry 
 were they to put an End to aWar which promifed 
 the moft glorious and alluring Profpefls, that 
 they over-look*d all the Purpofes for which i( 
 had been enter'd upon. Had they proceeded de- 
 liberately and taken a larger Compafs in the Ne- 
 gociation, all the peccant Humours in Europe 
 might have fweeten'd and corre<5led. The grow- 
 ing Tumour in the North might have been re- 
 moved by gentle Fomentation, the Claimants to 
 the AuJtrianSucQt^ion might have been foften'd 
 into healing Renunciations, the Caufes for fu- 
 ture Contefts with Spain^ which are untouch'd by 
 
 this
 
 ( 88 ) 
 
 this Treaty, might have been lelTenM, if not 
 
 quite removed 
 
 Pafq. AH wou'd have been better if Minijiers 
 were better ; that is, if the Purpofes Minijierial 
 had not comhaltd the Purpofes National, which 
 muft ever go to the Wall while Englijhmen a6t 
 corruptly and unjufily, and fervilely bend to a fatal 
 Connexion with the Continent-— -^ut e'en \tt the 
 Blind and Wilful trudge on in the Mirry Path 
 they are fo fond of, fmce nor Jufiice nor hiroick 
 Virtue, can wear off the millaken Rancour of their 
 Hearts. Hereafter we fhall fee dire Necejfity, ia 
 all its various, hideous Shapes, wearing ^off the 
 Edge of Prejudice, unfealing the Eye of Reafon^ 
 and working that Cure, which they are fo averfe 
 to, yet fo much ftand in Need of. Yes, Mar- 
 forio, Necejfity, ever the Confequence of Corrup- 
 tion as Famine is of the Plague, will one Day 
 
 drive the E h to Blifs and Duty, as yon' ri- 
 
 fing Sun drives us to a Separation— FarewelL ■ 
 
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