World may believe Him or Me, as they pleafe. But, I think, the great Point of Controverfie between us, is, whether the Effects and Confequences of Things follow better from His Premises or mine: And there I will not be fatisfied, unless he will allow the whole Advantage to be on my fide. Here is a flourishing Kingdom brought to the Brink of Ruin, by a moft Successful and Glorious War of Ten Years, under an Able, Diligent, Loyal Ministry; a moft Faithful, Juft, and Generous Commander; and in Conjunction with the moft Hearty, Reafonable, and Sincere Allies: This is the Cafe, as that Author represents it. I have heard a Story, I think it was of the Duke of

who playing at Hazard at the Groom-Porters 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 Servants: 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 SERVANT had got the reft in his Hat; and then he found he was cheated.

It hath been my good Fortune to fee the most important Facts that I have advanced, justify'd by the Publick 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 C 2

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folemnly declare, that I have not wilfully committed the leaft Miftake. I ftopt the Second 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 Anfwer 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 Inftance in this Gentleman's Third Part, which I have been lately looking into. When I talk of the most Petty Princes, he fays, I mean Crowned Heads: When I fay, the Soldiers of thofe Petty Princes are ready to rob or ftarve 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 Bufinefs of Thoulon was difcovered by the Clerk of a certain Great Man, who was then Secretary of State. It is neither wife, nor for the Credit of his Party, to put us in mind either of that Secretary, or of that Clerk ; however, fo it happens, that nothing relating to the Affair of Thoulon did ever pass through that Secretary's Office: Which I here affirm, with

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with great Phlegm, leaving the Epithets of Falfe, Scandalous, 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 fer fo great a Value, as to think that nothing less than the Crown can be a fufficient Reward for the Merit of the G-1: 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 those Debts we have contracted. Let us look upon the reverse of the Medal, we fhall fee our Neighbours, who in their utmost Distress, called for our Affiftance, become, by this Treaty, even in time of Peace, Mafters 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 Eaft-Indies,

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The Barrier-Treaty between Her Majesty and the States-General.

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ER Majefty, the Queen of Great Britain, and the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, having confidered how much it concerns the Quiet and the Security of their Kingdams and States, and the publick Tranquility, to maintain and to fecure on one fide the Succeffion to the Crown of Great Britain, in such manner as it is now established by the Laws of the Kingdom; and on the other fide, That the faid States-General of the United Provinces fhould have a strong and fufficient Barrier against France, and others, who would furprife or attack them: And Her Majefty and the faid States-General apprehending, with just reafon, the Troubles and the Mifchiefs which may happen, in relation to this Succeffion, if at any time there should be any Perfon or any Power who should call it in Question; and, That the Countries and States of the faid Lords the States-General, were not furnished with fuch a Barrier. For thefe faid Reafons, Her faid Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, tho' in the vigour of Her Age, and enjoying perfect Health, (which may God preferve Her in many Years) out of an effect of Her ufual 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 publick Quiet and Tranquility; and to prevent, by Measures taken in time, all the Events which might

one day excite new Wars. It is with this View that Her British Majefty has given Her full Power to agree upon fome Articles of a Treaty, in addition to the Treaties and Alliances that She has already with the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, to Her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Charles Viscount Townshend, Baron of Lyn-Regis, Privy-Councellor of Her British Majefty, Captain of Her faid Majesty's Teomen of the Guard, and Her Lieutenant in the County of Norfolk; And the Lords the States-General of the United Provinces, to the Sieur's John de Welderen, Lord of Valburgh, Great Bayliff of the Lower Betuwe, of the Body of the NobiLity of the Province of Guelder; Frederick Baron of Reede, Lord of Lier, St. Anthony and T'er Lee, of the Order of the Nobility of the Province of Holland and Weft Frizeland; Anthony Heinfius, Counsellor Penfionary of the Province of Holland and Weft-Frizeland, Keeper of the Great Seal, and Super-Intendant of the Fiefs of the fame Province; Cornelius Van Gheel, Lord of Spanbroek Bulkefteyn, &c. Gedeon Hoeuft, Canon of the Chapter of the Church of St. Peter at Utrecht, and elected Counsellor in the States of the Province of Utrecht; Heffel van Sminia, Secretary of the Chamber of Accounts of the Province of Frizeland; Erneft Itterfum, Lord of Ofterhof, of the Body of the Nobility of the Province of Overyffel; and Wicher Wichers, Senator of the City of Groningen; all Deputies to the Affembly of the faid Lords the States-General on the part, respectively, of the Provinces of Guelder,