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Show [ 40 J lo that degree, chat nothing but .the moll: reffing Inftances of the Duke could pre~ ail with them, to make one J;:.fforc more, in a Point of fo much Importance co the Common Caufe. What now can be m?re fenfelefs and ridiculous, what more un1u~ and villanous, than to accufe fu~h ,a Man of prolongina the War unneceffanly. What have the p<for People of England done, to be fo grofly impos'd upon ? Or ~~hac Treatment does fuch a deteftable Wnter deferve fr:om them, chat ufes ~uch bafe and vile 1}-r.,. tifices to corrupt che1r Judgments, and mcenfe them againft thofe who have d?ne their Country che trueft, the _moft faithful and moft important Serv1ces ? Farewei Gratitude, and J uftice and Ho_?~fty" and all Cpmmon Senfe; if fucli Opmwns can be en.terrain'd of a General, who., inftead of Prolonging the War, ~as precipitated it in a manner that . wlll hereafter feem incredible, . an~ by a itrange Rapidity of Succefs and V1Cl:my, has outdone our moft forward Hopes, and by all his AC!:ions given the World the. moll con'vincing Proofs, that .he 1aever thmks he can put an end to it too foon. · ·. · ' · lf any thing in the World be certam, I ;hink chis is,. That the D. of M------ has not prolong'd the War in.che Quality ?f. G_enera!! Whether ·Wl]at ·they unp_ute t? hun 111 h1s other Capacity, .as Plempotent:a~y, has anY. petter Grounds fqr it, !hall be the B_ufinels of another Letter. : In the mean nme, I am.p erfuaded, YOl\ .w.ill not qe in.hafte tO hear what I have to .(ay up<l~ th?t Sub: e• · linc·e nothing can be more 1m probable, , 1-• ' .•• · · chan [ 41 ] than that a Man fhou'd endeavour to undo in one Quality; all he has ~een doing with fo much Glory and Succefs m another. · Such is the wretched Stuff which is impos'd on the· Credulity of this poor Nation, by thefe Infamous Libellers ; who takt: Advantage of the Ferment we are in to make us· ~el_ieve Contraditl:ions. But wh~t a mean Opmwn muil: thefe Men have cif our Eng;' lijl> U~d~ril:andings, to think we may be thus us cl • Sure, by Degrees we {hall recover our felves, an~ let them fee, we are not the ·Fools they take us for : Which we might loon do, if we would but reftcCl: a little and ask our(elves a very few Queil:ions ; fu~h as the_fe : ·.wh~t can be greater Folly, than to beheve m chmgs we don't underftand Men w~o; we find, lye fo grofly in diofe ~e do? \\I hat .can Men, who; we know, don't wam ~unnmg, mean by impaling on the Nation m fuch a manner, as if all were Fools be fides ~hemfe!ves ? Can ~here be any other Reafou ror the~r. nor keepmg within · the Bounds of P1:obabi!ny at'leait, ·buc that they have nothmg to fay, which has fci much as the Appeara~ ce of Truth in it? What a fad Caufe muft It be, that Jl:ands in need of fuch infa~ lOUS Methods to'Support it? What can be a Jurer Proof of the Abilities and Goodnefs of the Perfons they Defame, than to be forc'd to have ~ecourfe to fuch vile Artifices? 'Yhat can mduce Men to aCl: fo bafe a Part, l:iur fome End they dare not own? ·And what can chat be, bui: either to give us up .diretl:ly t? Franc_e .and the Pretender, or at Ieaft 'to grattY. their own Ambition, at the Hazard of t 1e1r Country: And ought we not to be up- ·: I· on |