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Show [ 66 J '" ~~ d Wifoom by his g1 cat 17utqan1ty and S,;veetn; ,-s of BebaJ10ur whith is p~~uli~.Jr to'R•m, by nts Zeal for the Honour of t~\ijq_ul!EN, whom he has ferv'd with more J\,!fe/:),19n than .moll Me'n ever did a Mifhcfs; f!nd by his true ~oncern for the Good of his Country, all ~e Liberty 0~ Europe, in which he has few ~qqa s. By thefe admirable Q!lahtJes' wljiCh fo eminently Thine in him, he has done fT\OI e towards a good Peace than. all thof~ that find f.,ult with him, ever did or will do, rut them all together : he has ftruck r~ch a Terror into the Enemy, and pre~erv d fo perfeCJ a Harmony among our Allies, that nothing, humanly [peaking, cou'd have de· ftroy'd our Hopes of a good Peace, but the Endeavours that have been m'~ to deftroy him. What Villany then. wa~ It to try ~y Calumnies and Lycs to run1 him, ':'ho cou d n'>t fink without drawing the ~mn of the Nation along with him? And 'm th:t Confide ration makes me exprefs my fel. With fo much warm•h. For as for the Duke himfelf, he defies the. feeb~e Efforts they make againft him ; tnCII· Mahce may a~d to his Glory, by giving frefh Matter for h~m to (hew the \Aiorld how great a .Man he IS under all Try ~ ls, but can la~rngl~ take nothing from it: for Tim.e Will dlffipate t.he thirkdt Mifl:s with wh1ch hts Glory may be overcafl:, and the malicious Attacks of Envy and Fattion may very foon .tur~ .upon themf'elves; and at worft Po~cnty will bd . fl: d his Name will pe Immortal .an l~'ve' (~~ ever in Efteem, while the Wr)fh~s of Scandal ·and their Mafters, are e1t ~dr ' · · bury • ,[ 67 J qury'p in Oblivion, or remembred with Infamy ·Jand betclbtion. 'Tis not therefore the '?erfon bf the buke of M-- ' I'm ~,oncern'<l fol' ;- bift for the Connexion which the Fate of (his pobr Nation, of our Allies? cf(' all Europe, has with his. 'Tis the Profpea ot an. it! Peace after fo glo; ioos and iiJccefsful a W;~r, and the difmal Train of Codfecjuences which fuch a Peace will bring wirh ir: 'cis this difturbs me; and 'tis indeed this, and only this, difturbs him : for were the Glory of the QuEE N fecur'd, and the Safety of his Country fix'd by a fafe and honourable Peace, what cou'd be fo defirable to him as to retire and leave the Theatre of Bufinefs to them, wl1o want to much to have it at! to themfelves and that he were gone ?ff of it? In which,' he wou'd ~;fore now have prevented their impatience, 1t the publick Service did not want him: but fuch is the hard · Fate of this Great Man, that they can neither bear his Company, nor be without him ; they know noc how to let him either leave his Command, or continue in it: If he had left it then with loud mouths they wou'd have ~brown the Odium upon him, which they dare not take upon themfelves, and all the Effeas of their own ill Management wou'd have been laid upon him, as if his quitting had been the fole Caufe of them; and we lhou'd have heard nothing hut Jnveaive and Complaint of his Ingratitude to his Queen and Country, after fuch ample Acknowledgments as they hne ma~e of his Services. But how ba'fe ~nd unjuft is this? fDr with what comfort ' K 2. cau |