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Show perfuaded us, there was then a great dea! too much and that it was unreafonable to mfift on fu;h high Demands ; efpecially to oblige a Great King, - whom they have alway~ admir'd, to Dethrone his Grandfon; tho all fuch invidious Expreffions were purpofely avoided in the Articles; and no bod I', as I have obferv'd before, doubted, but the King, if he were in Earneft difpos'd to fatisfy the Allies could do it without Difficulty. Such is th: Dexterity of thefe Men: in finding F:ml~, while to their great Difcontem they are SpcCl:arors only : We !hall fee, whether they are as dextrous in avoiding them, when they tread the Stage themfelves. They are fure to have fomething ro oppofe, let aM. or General they don't like, take which Part he wilf of a Contraditl:ion, and that upon any Subjetl: whatfoever, whether Peace or War · if he advifes a.c1ing offenfively in any Parr,' he is told, That is wrong: Well, let the fame M. upon Alteration of Circumltances, or further EJ(perience, advife a Defenfive War in the fame Place, That is wrong roo. If he is againft fighting, 'tis becaufe it wou'd be a Step ro Peace; if he ~s for it, he intended a Cormterjlep. In the fame Manner they reafon in what concerns Peace: If a M. advifes Peace, be fure 11e is well-paid for it; if he advifes againf1: it, 'tisro perpetuate the War; if to faci!ita'te a TreatY, he is willing to give up fome part of the SptmijlJ Monarchy, he fhall be accus'd of betraying us to France: If according to hisinftruCl:ions he infifts upon the-whole; 'ris 'plain he aims at nothing by fuch hign Terms -; but 'to' ren~ der der all Treaties impoffible. If he atl:s neither one or other of thefe Parts by himfelf but in Conjuntl:ion with the reft of the Al~ lies, and is rather willing to hear th:eir Opinions, than forward ro give his own· and is fo far from afi:uming to himfelf a Pa;t that may particularly diftinguifh him, that he does not fo much lead the reft, as he is led by them; yet a Fault muft be found where there is none, and that mull be all laid on him; which were it a Fault, he has perhaps the leaft Share in. One while we are told That the War is continu'd to pleafe the Dutch~ another, That we are to be ruin'd to com~ plement the Emperor, and that England is rhe Dupe of the War; and at other times That no Side can find their Acc~um in th~ War which yet all have agreed fr> CQJJ.tinue, bu~ the General and Five or Six of his Fatl:ion : All thefe Inconfiftencies can go down with the Parry almoft at the fame time; nay, in the fame Breath: but not a Word to be heard of the Infincerity, or Perfidioufi1efs of Fran,e. Thus the D. of M. is with them a Dutch-Man an Imperialijl, a French Man, or any thing ~lfe ~ut what he .ever was, and ·ever will be m Spite of all then· Provocations a True Enu-gijhman; which I am afraid is on~ main Caufe they . are fo a~gry with him ; he had too great a H~nd. m the Revolution to be forgiven i and If lm Succeffes be not ftopt, he will put 1t out of fame Men's Power to defeat the Protefi:aht Succeffion. · ' But tQ fet this Matter in a fun LiP:ht, and let you \ee how very ridiculous and abrurd aU ~hefe Clamours are, with Refpetl: either to the D. |