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Show [ 64] prefeo~ from a 11 further Qtfets of Peace, by· !l!hich we are as much plung'd into th,c; War as we were feven Years ago, and there. fee:ms 110 remedy for it bur, wll~t is worfe than the Difeafe, an ill Peace, For the Trutl\> of which I !hall refer you to ~our own R~., tletl:ions upo.n all the News we have had for there four Months pall: from Par~, apd to what is as good a Proof as all the rell:, to a Letter of the EleC!or of Bavaria's Min11ter to his Malter, a Piece of which you have in the Medley of the firll: of this Month; which fome People won'd be glad to prove~ is nott fo genuine, as they know it is. Some People indeed wou'd !till pretend to put a good face upon the Matter, and do not quejlion from the 'D- of M-- pafl Sucuffis that be wiU yet frighten our Enemies into an /;QnouraUe Peace. But I mull: beg their don, if I can't be of their Opinion. 1 am afraid he is not likely to do fo much at this time, when the Enemy are encourag'd to take heart afrelh, the ~llies are full of Jealoufies and Fears, and htrnfdf extremeljl mortify'd; Things are not the fame, any ~ore than tbe Ufage he meets wtth: .'Yh~n be is uneafy in his Thou.ghts, unde~mm d !n the Favour of his Soveretgn, and vtlely mtf· Jeprefented to the Pe9ple ; w ben his want of Jnrerell: at home makes it impoffible for the Allies ·to depend on the Hop~s h~ giv~s them; when he is without Authonty m hts Army, where 'tis made criminal to efpoufe his lnterell:, and to fly in his face is, ~he fu~ell; means to Advancement; when .tt.s mer~to· :Pious in bis Officers to cabal agamll: htm, · and [ 65 J and the moft fatlious will be thought the moll: deferving. With what heart c-an a Man in tbefe Circumfl:ances ferve? Or what ~uccefs can be expetled from him, when he Js to depend upou profefs'd Enemies for his fupport? 'Tis li~tle, I think, we can hope for even from htm hereafter, .tho that little be more than any body elfe cou'd do. But 'tis time to draw to a Conclufion of this Argument, iu which I have faid fo much, that I flatter my felf I may be allow'd, not as a F.avour but common Jufl:ice, to conclude from tt, That nothing can be more falfe and groundlefs than the malicious A fperfions of the[e Men, who without the leal!: regard to Truth, Honour or good Confcience, tell the World tbat the D- of M-- in conjuntlio_ n with the late Minill:ry, was for perpetuatmg the War. If they lhou'd defcribethe D- of M-to be a lhort black fattilh red.fac'd, ill-lhap'd Man, that' loves to drink hard,neverfpeaks to be underll:ood,is extremely revengeful and illhred ; if they lbou'd reprefeut his Mind to be a Complication of all ill Qualities, and his Body to be the Image of Deformity, 'twou'd be as like him as the Pitlure thofe Gentlemen draw of him. Nothing can be more ridiculou> and abford than to accufe of a Defign to perpetuate th~ War, a Man who has in every refpeCl: outgone our Wilbes, and has done more towards a good Peace, by his own Condutl Addre[s and Abil!ty, bot.h in War and Peac~, by his Condua: m the Field, by his lntereft with the Allies, by ~is happy Temper to prevent or II!ake up Otffereoces, by his Dexterity and K Wifdom |