gerous and powerful Man than ever England yet has feen, coft the moft Able Ministry that ever any Prince was honoured with, its Being. The Judgment of the House of Lords was by this means infulted and evaded, and the Anarchical Fury ran fo high, that Harry Sacheverel fwelling, and Jack Huggins laughing, marched through England in a Triumph more than Military. Many extraordinary Things which have happened fince, have been brought about upon a Maxim no deeper than Pax Bello potior, Peace is better than War. A great many Lyes grafted upon this unquestionable Truth, could not but produce Wonders among all who pay Taxes. But Arithmetick is fo common an Art, that the very common People, now their Paffions are fallen, see their Cafe in one Sheet of Paper call'd A View of the Taxes, Funds and publick Revenues of England; Printed for Tim. Child at the White Hart at the Weft End of St. Pauls.

As for my felf, what I have here fuggefted is from a very honeft Heart, and I have an Armour in my Integrity against all Gainfayers. My Comfort is, that the Laws of England are ftill in Force, and tho' what I have laid may be Unacceptable, I am fure it is not Illegal. While the Laws are in Being I am safe, and no Man can be fafe who out-lives them; may I, whenever they expire, die with them.

I wish you the long Poffeffion of the Honour in which your generous Behaviour has placed you in the Minds of all true Englishmen; and am, with great Respect,

Your most Obedient Servant,

Fleetftreet, March 5, 1713.

Francis Hicks.

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GUARDIAN

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Auguft the 7th, 1713.

Delenda eft Carthage.

T is ufually thought, with great Juftice, a very impertinent thing in a private Man to intermeddle in Matters which regard the State. But the Memorial which is mentioned in the following Letter is fo daring, and so ap. parently defigned for the moft Traiterous Purpofe imaginable, that I do not care what Mifinterpretation I fuffer, when I expofe it to the Refentment of all Men who value their Country, or have any Regard to the Honour, Safety, or Glory of their Queen. It is certain there is not much Danger in delaying the Demolition of Dunkirk during the Life of his present moft Christian Majefty, who is renowned for the moft inviolable Regard to Treaties; but that Pious Prince is aged, and in cafe of his Deceafe, now the Power of France and Spain is in the fame Family, it is poffible an Ambitious Succeffor, (or his Miniftry in a King's Minerity)

rity) might difpute his being bound by the A& of his Predeceffor in fo weighty a Particular.

Mr. IRONSIDE,

YOU OU employ your important Moments, methinks, a little too frivolously, when " you confider fo often little Circumftances of • Drefs and Behaviour, and never make mention of Matters wherein you and all your Fellow-Subjects in general are concerned. I give you now an Opportunity; not only of manifefting your Loyalty to your Queen, but your Affection to your Country, if you treat an Infolence done to them both with the Dif dain it deferves. The enclosed Printed Paper in French and English has been handed a'bout the Town, and given gratis to Baffengers in the Streets at Noon-Day. You fee the Title of it is, A moft bumble Addrefs or Memorial, prefented to her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, by the Deputy of the Magi'ftrates of Dunkirk. The naufeous Memorialift, with the moft fulfome Flattery, tells the Queen of her Thunder, and of Wisdom and Clemency adored by all the Earth, at the fame • time that he attempts to undermine her Power, and escape her Wisdom, by befeeching her to ⚫ do an Act which would give a well-grounded Jealoufie to her People. What the Sycophant defires is, that the Mole and Dikes of Dunkirk may be fpared; and, it feems, the Sieur Tugghe, for fo the Petitioner is called, was Thunder-ftruck by the Denunciation (which he fays) the Lord Viscount Bolinbroke made to him, That her Majefty did not think to make any Alteration in the dreadful Sentence

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fhe had pronounced against the Town. Mr. IRONSIDE, I think you would do an A& worthy your general Humanity, if you would ⚫ put the Sieur Tugghe right in this Matter, and let him know, That her Majefty has pronounced no Sentence against the Town, but • his moft Chriftian,Majefty has agreed that the Town and Harbour fhall be Demolifhed.

That the British Nation expect the immediate Demolition of it.

That the very Common People know, that " within two Months after the figning of the Peace, the Works towards the Sea were to ⚫ be demolished, and within three Months after it the Works towards the Land.

That the faid Peace was figned the last of March, O. S.

"That the Parliament has been told from the Queen, that the Equivalent for it is in the Hands of the French King.

That the Sieur Tuggbe has the Impudence to ask the Queen to remit the most material Part of the Articles of Peace between Her Majefty and his Master.

That the British Nation received more Damage in their Trade from the Port of Dunkirk, than from almost all the Ports of France, either in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean.

• That Fleets of above thirty Sail have come together out of Dunkirk during the late War, ' and taken Ships of War, as well as Merchant 'Men.

'That the Pretender failed from thence to Scotland; and that it is the only Port the Freneb have till you come to Breft, for the

whole

⚫ whole Length of St. George's Channel,where any confiderable Naval Armament can be made.

That deftroying the Fortifications of Dun kirk is an inconfiderable Advantage to England, in Comparison to the Advantage of de ⚫ftroying the Mole, Dykes and Harbour, it be, ing the Naval Force from thence which on ly can hurt the British Nation.

That the British Nation expect the imme diate Demolition of Dunkirk.

That the Dutch, who fuffered equally with us from those of Dankirk, were proba bly induced to Sign the Treaty with France from this Confideration, That the Town and Harbour of Dunkirk fhould be deftroyed..

That the Situation of Dunkirk is fuch, as that it may always keep Runners to obferve all Ships failing on the Thames and Medway That all the Suggeftions, which the Sieur Tugghe brings concerning the Dutch, are falfe and fcandalous.

That whether it may be advantagious to the Trade of Holland or not, that Dunkirk 'fhould be demolish'd, it is neceffary for the • Safety, Honour and Liberty of England that it fhould be fo..

That when Dunkirk is demolished, the 'Power of France, on that fide, fhould it ever be turned against us, will be removed 'feveral hundred Miles further off of Great Britain than it is at prefent.

'That after the Demolition there can be no confiderable Preparation made at Sea by the French in all the Channel but at Breft; and that Great Britain being an Ifland, which ⚫ cannot