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See how the Villain treats the beft of Sovereigns, the best Miftrefs to him, whofe Bread he has eaten, and who has kept him from a Goal! Read it again, fay they: Put it into English, faid a Neighbour of mine to me, come make the best of it! then he reads the abominable Language as follows;

The British Nation EXPECT, &c. And again, The British Nation EXPECT the immediate Demolition of Dunkirk. And a • third time, with a Tone of threatning, The "British Nation EXPECT it. See the Guar dian, August 7, 1713.

I would fain have pleaded for you, that this was not to be understood to be spoken to or pointed at the Queen, but to the People of Dunkirk, and I fearch'd the whole Paper for something to, have brought you off with that way.

But it would not do, they laugh'd at me: How could it be spoken to him, fay they? his Memorial is to the Queen, and if it should be directed to Monfieur Tugghe it would be still worfe; for that would be to talk thus to him, viz. What do ye Petition the Queen for? We tell you, The British Nation will not fuffer it, the Queen dares not do it, for the British Nation, EXPECT it be immediately Demolish'd... This ftop'd my Mouth indeed, with respect to. that part of the Excufe, and then they went on with me: Come, fays my Neigbbour, if you cannot put it into Words, I'll do it for you.

The British Nation EXPECT the imme. diate Démolition of Dunkirk.

We all know Her Majefty has Poffeffion of Dunkirk, and tho' the Work is to be done by the French,

French, Her Majesty may appoint the Day. Now, fays he, read the Words.

What is it but thus?

Look you, Madam, Your Majesty had beft take Care that Dunkirk be Demolish'd, or elfe, &c.

And again;

Madam! WE EXPECT, and we would have you take Notice that we expect it, that Dunkirk be Demolish'd, and that immediately. Just thus an Imperious Planter at Barbadoes Speaks to a Negro Slave, Look you, Sirrab, I expect this Sugar to be ground, and look to it that it be done forthwith. 'Tis enough to tell you I EXPECT it, or elfe, &c. and then he holds up his Stick at him, Take what fol

lows.

The Examiner, in a Style quite as polite as that of this Pamphleteer, in his Paper of Auguft the 21ft has it thus,

I believe I may challenge all the Nations of the World, and all the Hiftories of this Nation for a thousand Years paft, to fhew us an Inftance fo flagrant as what we have now before us, (viz.) When ever a Subject, nay a Servant under a Salary, and favoured in Spight of ill Behaviour past, with a confiderable Employment in the Government, treated his Sovereign in fuch a manner as the GUARDIAN has done the Perfon of the 'Queen; and went Unpunished.

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If the Clemency of the Queen prevails to 'fave fuch a Man; if her Majesty thinks it below Her to refent an Injury from fo contemptible a Wretch, by fo much the rather fhould every Subject refent it; and fhew

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their Duty and Refpect to their Sovereign, by trampling under their Feet the very Name and Memory of the Man that can have Boldnefs enough to Infult his Prince in a Printed, and for that Reafon Scandalous, Libel, and can have INGRATITUDE enough to do it while he is eating Her Bread.

'How can any Man fhew himself a faithful Subject to Her Majefty, and not refent 'fuch a piece of Condu&! to fee a Subject 'hold up a Rod at his Prince! and openly threaten the Queen, if She does not caufe Dunkirk to be demolished! to threaten her Majefty with the Nation's Refentment if it be not forthwith entered upon, and Command Her to do it IMMEDIATELY; it ought to fill every faithful Subject with Abhorrence, ⚫ and cause them either fun the Man, or let him know they Deteft his Behaviour.

And yet this Man was never so dear to the Whigs as fince he let them know that he durft affault his Queen; this has made him their Favourite, and one of their Authors has • made his dull Panegyrick upon him already for it; while another Sett of them are endeavouring to get him chofen for the next Parliament, that he may carry on his Infult there, and obtain the Honour, as another of their haughty Leaders has already done, of being expelled the House.

I have not Room to enlarge in this Cafe, as fo unexampled a Piece of Ingratitude de'ferves; he has been hand fomely, only too favourably, expofed in this very Cafe, by a Book juft published, and which I recommend for that reafon in the following Advertife

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The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majefty Vindicated and Defended against the Unexampled Infolence of the Author of the GUARDIAN: In a Letter from a Country Whig to Mr. Steele. Printed for John Morphew near Stationer's Hall. Price 3d.

On the 24th following he Rallies me again thus,

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For thefe Reafons, faving the Trefpafs on Cuftom, the LYE might be given in the Teeth of the Guardian, when he Infolently " tells the Queen, in his late Seditious Libel, for fuch it must be accounted by every True Britain; That the British Nation EXPECTS the Immediate Demolition of Dunkirk: I fay it is not fo; the British Nation does not EXPECT that Her Majefty thould divest Her Self of the Power which is in Her Hands, by the Poffeffion of Dunkirk, to do Her Self Right, and to fecure to Her Self the PerforC mance of fuch Conditions from all the Prin. ces concerned, as they have agreed to be just ' and ought to be performed; but which we do " not find them fo free to execute, as the Obligations Britain has laid on them has given " us reafon to expect.

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It might, with much more Duty to Her Majefty, and Juftice to our Country, have been faid, That the British Nation HOPES Her Majefty will not part with Dunkirk, nor fuffer it to be demolished, till the Dan· ger of any Foreign Power, infulting Her Sub'jects, be removed; till the Commerce, and

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Privileges of Her Subjects of Great Britain, fhall be effectually fecured; and till there fhall be no danger of the Incroachments and Invafions of any Nation, not France only, but other Powers as well as France; for I must be allow'd, with thefe Gentlemens Pardon, to fuppofe that there are Dangers to be expected from other Powers in the World, as well as France, especially Dangers to our Trade; and thefe Dangers are the greater, by how much we find the Whigs forward to give up our Trading-Intereft to the Dutch, ' in order to make Friends with them in their other nameless Defigns against the Ministry. 'Those then who have a true Concern for the Good of Great Britain, would be very forry to fee Dunkirk put out of her Majefty's Power, till every just Thing, which the keeping it can be a Means to fecure to us, be • obtain'd.

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I might be more particular, in letting the • World see what thefe Things are which Britain ought to obtain from the Neighbouring Powers; and which Dunkirk is so far a Pledge for, that it ought to remain in Her Majefty's Hands 'till they are obtained: But as this is preparing by another Hand, and will be fet in a clearer Light, to the Confufion of the Guardian and all his Factious • Party, I fhall fay no more to it here.

After this He repeats the following Adver

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