fincere allies. This is the cafe, as that author reprefents it. I have heard a story, I think it was of the Duke of ***, who, playing at hazard at the Groom-porter's in much company, held in a great many hands together, and drew a huge heap of gold; but, in the heat of play, never observed, a sharper, who came once or twice under his arm, and fwept a great deal of it into his hat; the company thought it had been one of his fervants. When the Duke's hand was out, they were talking how much he had won. Yes, faid he, I held in very long; yet, methinks, I have won but very little. They told him, his fervant had got the reft in his hat; and then he found he was cheated. It hath been my good fortune, to see the most important facts that I have advanced, juftified by the public voice; which, let this author do what he can, will incline the world to believe, that I may be right in the reft. And I folemnly declare, that I have not, wilfully, committed the leaft miftake. I ftopt the fecond edition, and made all poffible enquiries, among those, who, I thought, could beft inform me, in order to correct any error I could hear of; I did the fame to the third and fourth editions, and then left the printer to his liberty. This I take for a more effectual answer to all cavils, than an hundred pages of controverfy. But, what difgufts me, from having any thing to do with this race of anfwer-jobbers, is, that they have no fort of confcience in their dealings. To give one instance in this gentleman's third part, which I have been lately looking into: When I talk of the most most petty princes, he fays, that I mean crowned heads: When I fay, the foldiers of thofe petty princes are ready to rob, or starve at home; he fays, I call' kings and crowned heads robbers and highwaymen. This is what the whigs call, anfwering a book. I cannot omit one particular, concerning this author, who is fo pofitive in afferting his own facts, and contradicting mine: he affirms, that the business of Thoulon was discovered by the clerk of a certain great man, who was then fecretary of state. It is neither wife, nor for the credit of his party, to put us in mind of that fecretary, or of that clerk; however, fo it happens, that nothing relating to the affair of Thoulon did ever pass through that fecretary's office: which I here affirm with great phlegm, leaving the epithets of falfe, fcandalous, villainous, and the reft, to the author and his fellows. But, to leave this author; let us confider the confequence of our triumphs, upon which fome fet fo great a value, as to think, that nothing lefs than the crown, can be a fufficient reward for the merit of the General. We have not enlarged our dominions by one foot of land: our trade, which made us confiderable in the world, is either given up by treaties, or clogged with duties, which interrupt, and daily leffen it. We fee the whole nation groaning under exceffive taxes of all forts, to raise three millions of money, for payment of the intereft of thofe debts we have contracted. Let us look upon the reverse of the medal; we fhall fee our neighbours, who, in their utmost diftrefs, Pp 2 ftrefs, called for our affiftance, become, by this treaty, even in time of peace, masters of a more confiderable country than their own; in a condition to ftrike terror into us, with fifty thousand veterans, ready to invade us, from that country which we have conquered for them; and to commit infolent hoftilities upon us, in all other parts, as they have lately done in the East-Indies. The BARRIER TREATY, between HER MAJESTY and the STATES-GENERAL. સુંદ HER ER Majefty the Queen of Great-Britain, Land the Lords the States-General of the "United Provinces, having confidered how much "it concerns the quiet and fecurity of their king"doms and ftates, and the public tranquillity, to "maintain and to fecure on one fide, the fuccef"fion to the crown of Great-Britain, in fuch man ner as it is now established by the laws of the "kingdom; and, on the other fide, that the Sate"General of the united provinces should have a "ftrong and fufficient barrier against France and "others, who would furprise or attack them: and her Majesty and the States-General, appre"hending, with just reason, the troubles and the "mifchiefs which may happen in relation to this "fucceffion, if, at any time, there should be any "perfon, or any power, who should call it in "queftion; and that the countries and ftates of "the faid Lords the States-General were not fur"nished with fuch a barrier: for thefe faid rea"fons, her faid Majesty the Queen of Great-Bri tain, although in the vigour of her age, and "enjoying perfect health (in which may God pre"ferve her many years) out of an effect of her ❝ usual prudence and piety, has thought fit to enter, with the Lords the States-General of the "united provinces, into a particular alliance and "confederacy, the principal end and only aim of "which shall be, the public quiet and tranquilli"ty; and to prevent, by meafures taken in time, "all the events which might one day excite new 66 war. It is with this view, that her British Ma"jefty has given her full power, to agree upon "fome articles of a treaty, in addition to the trea"ties and alliances that the hath already with the "Lords the States-General of the united provin "ces, to her ambaffador extraordinary and pleni"potentiary, Charles Viscount Townshend, Baron "of Lyne-Regis, Privy Counfellor to her British "Majefty, Captain of her faid Majefty's Yeomen "of the guard, and her Lieutenant in the county "of Norfolk; and the Lords the States-General "of the united provinces, the Sieurs John de Wel"deren, Lord of Valburgh, great Bailiff of the "Lower Betewe, of the body of the nobility of "the province of Guelder; Frederic, Baron of "Reede, Lord of Lier, St. Anthony, and T'er "Lee, of the order of the nobility of the pro"vince of Holland and Weft Friezeland; An"thony Heinfius, Counsellor-Penfionary of the "province of Holland and Weft-Friezeland,. "Keeper of the Great Seal, and Superintendant "of the fiefs of the fame province; Cornelius. "Van Gheet, Lord of Spranbrook, Bulkefteyn,&. "Gedeon Hoeuft, Canon of the Chapter of the "church of St. Peter at Utrecht, and elected "Counsellor in the States of the province of Ut"recht; Haffel Van Sminia, Secretary of the "chamber of the accounts of the province of "Friezeland; Erneft Itterfum, Lord of Ofterbof, "of the body of the nobility of the province of "Overyffel; and Wicher Wichers, Senator of the es city of Groningen; all deputies to the affembly "of the faid Lords the States-General, on the one part, respectively, of the provinces of Guelder, "Holland, Weft-Friezeland, Zeland, Utrecht, "Friezeland, Overyssel, and Groningen, and Om"melands, who, by virtue of their full powers, "have agreed upon the following articles." ART. I. TH liance, and confederacy, between her Britannic Majefty and the States-General of the united provinces, fhall be approved and confirmed by the present treaty, and shall remain in their former force and vigour, as if they were inferted word for word. ART. II. The fucceffion to the crown of England, having been settled by an act of parliament, paffed the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majefty King William III. the title of which is, An act for the further limitation of the crown, and better fecuring the rights and liberties of the subject; and, lately, in the fixth year of the reign of her prefent Majefty, this fucceffion having been again establish ed |