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Show [ 4 j rier,anothcr is to gain t he Whigs,or dividethei_ll at Jeaft, others pretend mightily to Mcidc:ratlon; to catch the Men that have Honefty and Temper, and have not engag'd far in either P11rty ; others feem chiefly deugn'd to ·impofe on Fot cigncrs, and make them believe, all we h3ve been doing thefc fix Months, is only a perfonal Bulinefs, chat can have no Influence on the Puhlick ; that therefore the Allies, particularly the Dutch, and the Houfe of Hannarver, lhou!d not be alarm'd to fee thofe Men difgrac'd, who, whatever ilther Faults they m1y ha,·c, never Jay under the Suf picion of t~,·oud ng Popery and France; but have been e,·er true to the R~volution ; have always gone into Meafut cs for a vigorous Profecution of the War, and h :ve. ~onll:antly been ftruggling to gatn new Secnnues for the Defence of the Pt oreftant Succcffion. The various Shapes of this Pofiure-Mall:er in _Potiricks, m ak~ t his Bundle of Papers, me. thtnk~ , t! you. wtll pardon the <:;omplrifon, poe mnch unlike a Pedlcr's Raree·Show in whiLh there is <l great Number of very diffe. r~nt Ftgurcs, all in Motion at once ; which t he gap10g Spefurors think there is fame ftra~ge. N!agick in, and that the Spring of Athon t~ In themfelves ; when in Truth they ~re nothtng hut the Pedler's Engines mov'd all by one and the fame · fecret Hand and ali contriv'd for the fame End to deiude and f=heat the Mqltitnde. And what is (tit! more furpriz,ing, this great Malter himfelf has in his _Pwn Perfon acted, and ·that at the fame tinie, :JIJ the dtfferent Parts which his Tools in their 'U'fritings have bu.c ~op(d from him. But ~ w..~ ~, whatever various Figures thefe Engines of hiJ Affe& to move ~n, and wha~ver different ways they take, they all make to _6he f~mc End, and agljee in "thofe 'l.l~r_ts, ·Of wluch you defire m~ Qpinion, I me~n in cenfuring the Manage· ment of the War ,and endeavouring to ruin the Reputatipn Qf ·thofe, who have been hitherto the chief Direetors of it. Upqn which Head all they f4y, [ntay be reduc'd to ·thefe four Peiuts. 1 tift. Thet a!gopd Pea~ might hwe been had at,the end of the RameUies Campaign • . 2d!Y• That the War in Spain has1becn lhamefully negleCl:ed, tho' ·the Re,overy of that Kingdom was \he chief thing we propos'd by ~ntring into the War. . 3d!;'. Th11.t pulhing the War in Flanders was pulhing 'i~ ·in :.the wrpng Place, France being cover'd on that !ide with fo fl:rong a Frontier. • 41hly. \fhat it. isrmany ways apparent, that the Dukt:ofuMilrlborough has.unneceffarily prolong'd the War for his own Interefl:. Now if it j;aO· be fhewn, that thefe terrible Accufations are not only falfe in themfelves, but certainly ·known to be fo by the Authors of them, !Ieaiie ~E to you, to coo!id.er, what Regard. oug)lt. t~ be bad to fuc}l Men, or what ffreatment they .deferve, who ha~o~e fo grolly impofed upen-t!l!l Nation, to the apparent Hazard · of its Safety, 11nd of }oling all the Fruits we might hepe for. ·fren;u War, that has been • hitherto .conduCl:ed witb fo much Glory and Suc.a:fs._ , . To dear thcfe great Points, we)!~ defir'd, it fcems,, to,go no :farther back than the four taft Years at mqft;rin truth 'tis not much a, .. · bovc: |