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Show kept plainty for the U_fe and Benefit of tl~e .Giver? Has not the G1ver Power to take 1t from him ? Is it not plain, that his Grandfon has not kept it thus long, but by the Support he receives from him ? And if it be thus . manifeftly unjuft, and the Ufurper has it in his Power to make Reftitution, is it ill Man-ners to de111and it ? Is the Spanijb Monarchy fuch a Trifle, as not to be worth infifting on ? Shall we Compliment the King of France, or his Grandfon, with giving up what fo many Pfinces and States have fpent fo much Blood and Treafure ro regain ? Can that now be thought confiftent with the Safety and Com' merce of Great Britain, with the Intereft and Welfare of our Allies, or with the Liberty of Europe, which we ventur'd to begin a War for, under the moft;. unprotnifing Appearances of ever' ft~eing a good End ol; it ? Bu~ it was Nonfe:nfe not to ri(que all, when aJ.I was at Stake ; the.re was no room left, but to appeal oo Hea"Ve.n, and take Arms; which gave us a Chance for efcaping the Ruin which was oth$rwife inevitable. This is the Truth ef the Matter , this the Point in Difpute. What then: -do People mean. by all their fenf:lefs Clamour, of the Hardthip a~d Barbanty :of the Allies, in oli,Jiging the King of Fran~e to recall his Grandfon? They, who think the Caufe~ of this War fuch indifferent_ Things, as not ro be worth il!fifting on any longer, tho' we have f• long ftruggl'd for .them, that we have at laft got fait hold ; thefe Men, I fear, will in a little time thittk the fame of the Owfes of the Revolution tC)O; nay, they already tell us fo ; they arll grow» [ 3j J grow~ fo infenfible t.o the Fears they were once tn, _chat they, begi~ to think PoperJ :a,n,d Arb mary Power, !11nocem harm ids thmgs ; they now plainly infinu:ite; that ~here was no Dange; of the Government in Church and Stil_te ,beu:g ovcrturil'd, and that ~here.fore the Re~olutiQn was not neceifary; and 111 vertue of thefe foolith Sentin1ems' w~en the R~yo,luti~n is upon rbe Point of bemg unaltt;rably fix d, they truly are grown weary ; and after Twenty Years Labour do~'t think ~t WOt\h a little, more Pains t~ timth the Work, and put art effeCtual Stop to the Return of thofe Evils they wete once as. well, as ~heir Neigl~bours, fo heartilt fnghten d wuh. And tis no wonder if Men who have contraCted fuch a ftupid 'In~ dolence,. ~nd ar: fo indifferent for the Civil and, Rehg10u,s R1ghts of th~ir. own Coumrr; can~ fee wh.at ~enfe there 1s 111 infifting up~ ?n the Reft~tutton ~~the Spanjl' Monarchy; ;tnd are fupmely w1lhng to think, ( if Nonfenfe can be call'd t)linking) that the De~ mand of ~he Allies is either unjuft, or at bell: yery_ru~e and ,uhmannerly. , But Xurt~er; Tips Demand of theirs is not only ngl):t m It felf, but riec;e!fary in order ~0 a good Peace ; and the heft way to fet thi~ 111 a c;lear iiglir, is to corifider what would hav:e be:n ~he.; ~opf((quente, fuppofing tile f.-lites h~d n?t ,mfifted .ori it. Now to lhew you ~hat ~hiS wo,ul~ have been, I'll fuppofe forftthe prefe_nt~}ha~ the Frmch were iil ear~ ' ~e ' and that, 1I ~hlS Article had been rece~ W~.from, they __ wo!fld,hav~ Sigd'd the reft. · lCh way now, I would ask · lhould we · F ' hate |