nault, Artois, and Picardy, which is already anfwer'd, because other Ports can fupply them as well as Dunkirk. Now if we fhould turn the other fide of the Matter, I wonder what Danger the Memorialift would reprefent us from another War with France.

As to the Sieur's Eighth, This Article is false, as is already proved; nor do we want him to teach us our Trade to Germany, who would perfwade us it is our Intereft to Trade thither through Dunkirk by Land-Carriage, whofe Waters have not any Correfpondence with the Rivers of Germany, and to ere& Staples and StoreHoufes, which would be a good Booty for the French in cafe of a Rupture; nor can we ever carry it on fo fafely or cheaply through Countries poffeffed by France, as we do through Hamburg, and other Places, by Water Carriage.

As to his Ninth, He has here the Infolence to call it a fevere Refolution in the Queen to infift on the Demolition. This is objected to in Anfwer 2. But his Affertion, that it is abfolutely Neceffary to the Trade of Great Britain, is the Reverse of our Cafe.

As to the Memorialift's Tenth, It is neceffary for all Ships to have a Lee-Port to flie to if they cannot get to Windward, or weather a Storm; but All fuch as have any tolerable Skill in Navigation, know, that our Ships keep their own Shoar abroad, as the French do theirs; and therefore the Port of Dunkirk is useless to us. I would fain know, what ufe our Ships had of that Port for above twenty Years laft paft. Mr. Tugghe, Iam fure, can tell us what English Ships ever refitted there, and how many ever

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repair'd Loffes; all the World know there have been many Hundreds refitted there to annoy our own Country, and fome Thoufands fuffer'd Loffes there that were never repair'd. It is a moft defirable Port for the Ships of France, but all English Ships have dreaded it for above twenty Years. The Publick Joy the News of its being to be Demolish'd created this Nation, is a convincing Argument, how much they will in vain Regret, as well as all other Nations trading to the Northward, that Harbour of Safety. It raifes fomething more than Indignation to fee a Magiftrate of Dunkirk, fent to talk to the Queen of Great Britain, and dictate Rules of Huma nity.

it will be a great A&t of Humanity to infift upon the Demolition of that Town, which has destroyed fo many Thousand of her Majesty's Subjects and their Ships.

This is all I have to fay to my Foreign Enemy the Sieur Tugghe, and humbly recommending to his Moft Chriftian Majefty the Care of the eighteen thoufand Families, I take the liberty to repeat to him, that the British Nation expect the Demolition of Dunkirk. I am now to face about to my Domestick Foes, by whom I am accus'd of the Ingratitude of infulting my Prince, while I am eating her Bread.

Mr. Bailiff, It is fo far otherwife, that to a void the least Appearance of it, I did not attempt doing what proceeded from a true Grateful and Loyal Heart, (viz.) the laying before her Majesty's Miniftry, that the Nation had a ftrict Eye upon their Behaviour, with relation to Dunkirk; before I had refigned all, which teir Interpofition with her moft Gracious Majesty

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jefty could take from me. I am fo far from eating her Bread, with a Difinclination to her Service, that I had refigned a plentiful Income I had from her Favour, in a confiderable Office and Penfion, which incapacitate a Man of fitting in Parliament, to render my self more useful to Her and my Country, in the Station with which your Borough has fince honoured

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If he is an Enemy to the Prerogative, that is fatisfied with what he has already received from his Prince, and gives up all Expectations of ever receiving more, with no other View, than ferving his Prince and Country in a more eminent manner than when he enjoyed_Employments; if fuch a Man, I fay, is an Enemy, I am an Enemy: But the Author of the Letter from the Country Whig perfonates that Character fo ankardly; and the Examiner, without entring into the Point, treats me fo outrageoufly; that I know not how to offer, against fuch Adverfaries, Reafon and Argument, without appearing void of both. However, fince it has for fome time been the Fashion to run down Men of much greater Confequence than 1 am, with general Terms, that fall in with the Prejudices and Corruptions of the People, I fhall not bear in filence the Accufation of be ing in the least Degree undutiful to my most Gracious Miftrefs, much lefs of affaulting Her Prerogative. Thefe Writers fhall treat me as they think fit, as I am their Brother-Scribler; but I fhall not be fo unconcern'd when they attack me as an honest Man: I fhall therefore inform them, that it is not in the Power of a private and an indifferent Man to hurt the Ho

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nour and Prerogative of the Crown, without being punish'd, if the Miniftry think fit, as he deferves, by the Laws of our Country; but true and real Danger to the Queen's Honour may arife, if Perfons in Authority tolerate Men (who have no Compun&tion of Conscience) in abufing fuch Inftruments of Glory and Honour to our Country as the Illuftrious Duke of Marlborough, fuch wife and faithful Managers as the late Earl of Godolphin, fuch pious, difinterested, generous and felf-denying Patriots as the Bishops.

There is no Man will deny, but that it is in the Power of the Miniftry to call the Examiner to an Account, as well as the Flying-Poft. It is not for me to enter into the Reafons why they do not do themselves that Juftice; but where is Honour, where is Government, where is Prerogative, while neither Age nor Sex, Virtue nor Innocence, can have any Redress from the Affaults made upon their Reputation, which is dearer than Life? but fuch Injuries the Examiner repeats every Week with Impunity. But after I have fully answered the fpecious Pretenfion of Monfieur Tugghe, concerning the Trade, and vindicated my Sovereign from his treacherous Infinuation, That it would be want of Mercy in Her to infift on the Demolition of Dunkirk; it is incumbent on me to come more closely to the Point with the Pamphleteer, and the Examiner. The former fays, in his 17th Page, Why must the Queen be attacked with fuch Infolence, and be told, in terrorem, that the People of Great Britain expect Dunkirk ball be demolished?

The Examiner, as above, puts the stress of his Argument on the fame words in the Guar dian, of whom he fays,

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 feditious 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 should divest Her felf of the Power which is in her Hands, by the Poffeffion of Dunkirk, to do Herfelf Right, and to fecurè to Herself the Perfor6 mance of fuch Conditions from all the Princes concerned, as they have agreed to be just, and ought to be performed; but which we 6 do not find them fo free to execute, as the Obligations Britain has laid on them has given us reason to expect.

Both thefe great Authors lay the weight of the Accufation, upon faying, the British Nation. expects; you fee the difference of a Man's Condition who acts under the Laws of his Country. in general, from his, who acts only under the Prerogative.

Here is a Treaty concluded; I am reckoned difrefpectful. becaufe I fay, the Nation EXPECTS the Conditions to be complied with; he is. a. very loyal Man, who fays, the Nation does not EXPECT it; but this wary. Politician, the Examiner, fays. There are Dangers to be expected from other Powers in the World, as well as France; he obferves the Whigs forward to give up our trading Intereft to the Dutch, in order to

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