If it was defign'd to infpire an Horror of those Miferies, from which the Restoration delivered the Nation, it was a very fuperfluous Work at this • Time, when there is no real, or pretended Differ⚫ence of Opinion upon that Head amongst us. Those, who do not go to Church upon the 29th of May, nor on any other Day, will agree with Thofe, who do, in this Point, upon better Authority than That of Leti, and for better Reasons than Thofe, which 6 are contained in the foolish Declamation attributed • to Monk.

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• If it was defign'd to make us commemorate the Re• storation of the two Brothers, Charles and James, as a national Bleffing in itself, and independently of the other Confideration, the Project was equally ridiculous. The Flattery beftow'd upon thefe Princes, whilst they were in Exile, might pafs, and many Things concurred to make it pass. But to talk in the fame Stile to Mankind at this Time, when they have both fate on our Throne; when fo many of us remember both what they did, and what they would • have done, is contemptible to the last Degree.

If it was defign'd for more modern Application, and to raise a Spirit amongst us, in favour of the • Pretender, the Project was too foolish to have been hatch'd at home. It must have been imported from ⚫ abroad. What Jacobite can be fanguine enough to hope that his Cause should revive, when he beholds the heroical King and Queen, who fill our Throne, aufpicious Parents of a numerous Progeny of young • Heroes and Heroines, rifing up to emulate their Virtues, and to gladden, like them, the British Na• tion ?

This fingle Confideration might be fufficient to damp the Hopes of any Jacobite, who lives at home, and is a Witnefs of all this Glory. But however I ⚫ fhall mention another, which ought to have its Weight likewife, and which will have more perVOL. VII.

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haps amongst fome People. The Spirit of Jacobitifm is not only gone; but it will appear to be gone in fuch a Manner as to leave no Room to apprehend its Return; if we reflect that it hath died away, whilst all that could be done to keep it alive was doing by Thofe, who profeffed it, and by Thofe, who valued and recommended themselves on their Oppofition to all the Effects of it; if we confider the • Numbers of People, who have abandoned this In• tereft, notwithstanding the utmoft Provocations to • the contrary.

In fhort, I perfuade my felf that if the Pretender • had no Rival in the Throne, instead of having there one fo formidable as our most auguft Monarch; yet his Way to the Throne would not be more open to him. The whole Bulk of the People hath been brought by the Revolution, and by the prefent Settlement of the Crown, to entertain Principles, which very few of us defended in my younger Days. The Safety and Welfare of the Nation are now the first and principal Objects of Regard. The Regard to Perfons and to Families hath been reduced to the fecond Place; and it holds even That but under the Direction of the former. Can any Man believe that a People, brave enough to difpofe of their Crown for the greatest national Advantage, even when the Throne was full, will ever difpofe of it, as long as the Spirit of Liberty remains amongst them, for the greatest national Mischief, if the Throne fhould be * empty?

• There is but one Defign more, which I can conceive to have given Occafion to this filly Paper but one Quarter more, from which it could poffibly come; and these Gueffes, perhaps, will not appear the leaft probable. Might it not be defign'd to-inftil a Jealoufy of Jacobitifm, and to prejudice Mankind against all Writings, which Thofe, who are of fended at them, cannot answer ?- -Might it not

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⚫ be defigned to furnish the Spruce, pert, Orator, who ftrew'd fome of his Flowers in the Daily Courant of the 11th of June, with an Hint, which He hath moft happily and modeftly improved? Fog, fays He, avows Jacobitism; the Craftsman concurs in the fame Defign; nay, every Jacobite in England finks his Mafter's divine Right in the popular Topicks of Debts, Taxes and Corruption; fo that Jacobitism may now be imputed, upon this Authority, to ninety nine in an hundred of the whole Nation; for ninety nine in an hundred do complain of Delts, • Taxes and Corruption. I am fure there is Arrogance • and Impertinence both in fuch an Infinuation too grofs to be denied; whereas the Craftsman may destroy the whole Proof, brought against Him of Arrogance, by answering three filly Questions in the Negative.

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If This was the Defign, I will be bold, for bold it may juftly feem, to fay that this Expedient is, at leaft, as bungling and likely to prove as ineffectual, that have been produced by the fame, great Genius, who contrived it; for if we were inclined to believe that the Craftsman, Fog, or any other • Perfon, carries on the Meafures of Faction, under the • Mask of Liberty; fhould we believe it on the Credit of Thofe, who oppose them and who are notorioufly influenced to write (though under fpecious Pretences of promoting Loyalty to the King and an Acquiefcence in his Majesty's Meafures, yet in reality) for no other Service than That of a fmall Number of Men; nay, ftrictly speaking, of a fingle Man? With what Face can fuch Writers impute Faction to ⚫ any one living, or dead?

Let them be affured that we can examine and judge for our felves; and that neither the Craftsman nor Fog would be able, if they went about it, to impose upon us, any more than they themfelves ⚫ have been able to do.

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• The pretty Author, I just now mention'd, begins his Effay with Airs of Wit, and ends it with Airs • of Wisdom. What pity is it that he fhould fucceed ⚫ in neither? In his first Paragraph he represents the Craftsman, with curious Impropriety, as a Magician, who conjures up Spirits; as a Dog, who barks at a Distance; as a little Infect, who nibbles at a Character; and my Friend Caleb was all these Things, it feems, at the fame Inftant. After this Specimen of Writing, we may expect to fee him ⚫ compared, in fome other Production of the fame Author, to a Bird and made to fly different Ways and in different Places at once.

But let us leave the Wit and come to the Wif dom; which will bring us back to our Subject.

In the laft Paragraph of this elaborate Piece, the • Author fets the Example of my Lord Falkland andothers before our Eyes; who ftrengthen'd, as He fays, the republican Party fo long, that when They found out their Defigns and forfook them, it was too late to prevent them. After This, He calls most charitably on feveral, well-meaning Perfons to take Warning; for fome, whom He allows to be fuch, He thinks in Danger of being drawn in to favour the Purposes of Thofe, whom He calls Oppofers of our Government.

Behold this little Gamaliel in Cathedra! Ob⚫ ferve the Scholars He places at his Feet for Inftruction! Rifum teneatis Amici? Can the graveft of you forbear Laughter?

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When We come to apply the general Propofitions. laid down still more particularly to the English, than We have done to the Roman Hiftory, I shall fhew you perhaps that this Author, like most other fine Men, treasures up in his Memory the Observations He meets with in Hiftory, instead of making his own upon the Examination and Comparison of the Facts and Characters. He finds there; and that

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the Example He hath chofen will come out against • the very Purpofe He hath applyed it to. In the mean Time, let us obferve that the Alarm, which • hath been taken by fome of this Company, and I fuppofe by others, at the Publication of that stupid Paper in Fog's Journal, fhews how little Reafon there is to apprehend that Thofe, who are actuated by the Spirit of Liberty, and pursue the national • Intereft, fhould be impos'd upon by the Spirit of any Faction.

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The Spirit of Liberty is a jealous Spirit; and Faction is equally the Object of its Jealoufy, whe⚫ther the Views of Faction be directed in Favour of the Crown, or against it. I make this Distinction here, though I fhall have Occafion to fpeak more fully upon it hereafter, because I perceive that We are apt to confine our Idea of Faction to fuch Men • and fuch Measures as are in Oppofition to the Men in Power, and to the Meafures They take; whereas in Truth a Number of Men in Power, who ex⚫ercise it folely for their own private Advantage and Security, and who treat the Nation as their Farm, or rather as a Country under Contribution to them, (let Them fhelter Themfelves under what Authority They pleafe) are as much a Faction, as any Number of Men, who under popular Pretences endeavour to ruin, or at least to disturb the Government, that They may raise Themselves,

If the Spirit of Liberty were extinguish'd, as it is difcourag'd, the Spirit of fome Faction or other would, no doubt, prevail; but This would not • fucceed under the Mask of Liberty. There would be, in fuch a Cafe, no Need of wearing this Difguife. Men would avow Faction. They would chufe That, which fuited their Intereft beft; and indeed it would be of no great Moment which ⚫ They chose.