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Show Pamplill:ts 1nake fo much Noife ab<?ut, that,· 1 hope, ·you _will pa~don t~e Dtgreffio~, while 1 take a Imle Not~ce of It;_ and that 1S7 the famous 0Ef of Sectmty =. Wh1~h was the orher favourite Topick, Wit!~ whtch t~e_Fa: tion pleas'd themfelves; tho the prodtgwus , Succc!fes of that Year might eafily have'convinc'd them fuch Clamours would be as un-. popular, as ;hey were u~jult. Fo~ that th~y , were unjuft any imparnal Man will be fattffy 'd that does but exan:tine the Fatl:; how that 'mu came tO be pafs'd. You remember, · 1 am fure, \Vhat a very melanc~1oly Profpetl: we had here in England, of AfEurs m that Interval. At that time the Scotch Parliam~m was Sitting, were very uneafy, ':"ould gtve r;o Monev,nor difpatch any pubhck Bufinefs,nll · that All was gra~ted them. , \~hat Part !ha~l the Q. take in tim Matter? Tt~ :he uhammous Opinion of Her Scotch Mmtfters, that it mufl: be comply'd with; they can't anf~~r for the Quiet of the Kingdom an Hour, tf It be refus'd: ·shall an Engl,ijh Minifier take_upon him fingly to aclvile the c?mrar:y,. m a S cotcb AfEtir, and again fi thetr OpmwnsJ w)1o may be prcfum' d to be the beft ) udges of the Difpo!ition anc! Temper of their own People? Let us fuppofe he had done fo, and that the Refufal had produc'd any Tumults or InliJp·eel:ions in that Kingdom, wl:ere every Body knew there ~1ad for a long t;me heen a great deal ~f Ill 1~lood. W1th- . out entring further tntO tbts Matter, _I would only a;k this Q uelli_on; Wh~t woul~ . theE: Gcutlemcn have fate! 111 thts <;afe · \\ ould itn ot hav£ he<;n loudly affi~m.4 t~ .. J hti Y~ have· been a ooncertedrthing to- r~ in us; and that our ArmV"'Was Jent out ·of tfle way on purpofe, tl1at' w<nnig!1t be the 11,iore effe~ tl:ually Undone; _and out of the rea,ch _?f any Succour or Relteff Could the Succefs. of ·Blenheim be forefecn ? ·Could any Body be fure the Refuf:'ll. of the Bill would have ended in nothing worfe, tha·n the lofirig the Supc ply r Which does not ufe to . be .thought a uifling Matter.. ' Was it not of the utmoft Confequence; "in that umoward ·P9ftnre of Affai rs, that Peace -Thot1f? b~ preferv'd a ·m6rig- our fclve-s? ·Tu be a,ngry \here fore ~W.ith ' a Minifier; for r advifing •, · or·.not oppo· 'fing the Royal" Aff~m to th_is ··IIiH . ~n fuch Circumftances, is both urijti:ft ' imd~ ·abfurd'. -And I' think; ·orrd may be ·prerty furc, wl)ar, as,l 'have put the Cafe, ' the:fattion would fiave •faid ; had r11e Ilill been refus'd, who now fay the p"affing of it was fo great a Fault, and make fuch heavy Complaints ah6ut .j~; . tho' the fame Minifter has taken the Advantage of better times, ro 'urido what had ones had forc'd bin1 'to comply with :"· And has 'to the Surprize. :ilid Confu!ion of his Enelnies, ex tin gui/h'd the unhappy Diffe~ences that threat.: ned the Conftitution and S1.1cc~;:IIi_on; by ~ pe11petual Union ;i which he will always bte aUow'd to have been the chief Advifcfand Prj:>moter of. And if the Truth were known~ 'tis tbi~, which is at·bottom the ' Imj:mdon~.! b)e Cnme. Such is the hard Fate of Britij!J Min_ifiers, whom no Wild om or Abilities',' no Jufti<;e, or" lntegrity; ·no Fidelity· and· Zea( {Qr their Prince antl Oourttry, 'nor' the rrlo'ft b?.FPY>iltld fuccefsfu!Adminitl:ration,can pro: •r.·t · tetl: |