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Show [ 70 ] forc'd to quit what we have ,been at fo greal an Ex pence of Blood. llnd\'trl!afdrf 'fo many Years contending for •;6a r~J'ave lllew you at large in my !aft ·f::etter'! . An'd that is not' the worft of it : If we1give s~dihran<l the /ndier to the King of France, he w t(l be fure to give us as good a thing for it, a Prince bred from his Cradle in Bigorry1 and Tyranny; Italian Bigotry, and Frcnc/1 Ty~ ranny, the two greateft Plagues under the Sun;· Plagues we deferve to fuffer if we thmk them none, or repent of the Pains we have been at co keep them out. This will infallibly be the Confequence of leaving Spain and the Indies to France, not perhaps prefent :y, uulefs it be contriv'd to make it an Article in the next'Treaty, which 'tis very eafy to bring about by an ill War;' but 'tis all one, if it be deferr'd a little, till the Frtnch have taken Breath, and are at leifu~e, after finirhing their own vafi: Defigns, to take care of us, for whom they have always had a particular Regard, and will take the fir !I: good Opportunity to ruin us: For ~he Pretender, no doubt, will remember Kmg 'James's dying Advice never to quit his Religion, and always to look on the King of France as his Father. And l hope we !hall always remember, his Father gave him t~at Advice, which is utterly incon!ifl:ent "Ytt? our Civil and Religious Rights; and tf at take place, can end in nothing but the Ruin of this NJtion. If not to come into fuch. a Peace, be to perpetuate the War, may it ftill be r erpetuated: If fuch Means and fuch an End, b~ meant by the proper Means lo _promole I I '~ [ 7 1 J . 0 pt"omo(e a fafe ancl honourable Peace • 1 don't W.gllder,, they can't..Iike the D· -- ~f M--· t p.ey tiJ,Uil:. fin,d .ano~ hef General, and anot!)er Plempotenuary, , hnce he will never be f thea~ turn. He )]lis gain'd too much Hono~~ by the War, . and efpous'd too far the true ll).terefi: of hts Cou nu y, to promote an iU Pea£e, or make way for it by an ill War. and a.f nothing elle can pleafe thefe Gen: tlemen, ll'i til never purchale t heir Favour and Applaufe, at t he Expence of his own Glory and the Nation's Safety ; to fay noth_ mg of th ~ co m::lon Caufe, which nothing wtll prevail wath him to betray. But l lho?ld never have done, if 1· were to 0 w.ht~her the Purfuit of .thefe RefleC:tio~s· Vl'o?l,d lead mt:. I rlull therefore, without fayang more, content my felf with having prov'd my. Point, which 1 hope 1 have done to t he Satisfaction of any one who k ' enough of Affairs to judge of 'tilem a~~~: honefi: enough to be impartial ; fuc'h a Man I know you to be, who will, I make no doubt, own your [elf convinc'd, that nothmg can be more groundlefs than the Calum mes that h,l\'e hee~ thrown upon the 'D-- of M-:-- and hts Friends; that the \Var has. been til manag'd, in order to perpetu~ te at. If what 1 have faid be tr ue nothtng can be more uniufi: and ab[urd th • ~e(e I.mputat!ons. And 1 lhaU conte~t ~n ~If with havmg !hewn this, without enqul nnft ,yvbac can be the meaning of all thofe ~~ ICI~Us Lyes, who they come from what urpo e they are de!ign'd to ferve dr w h t ff,~l Offence the D _ _ of M·~- h: s ~jveq |