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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,

For thefe Reafons, faving the Trespass on Custom, 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 EX'PECT that Her Majefty thould diveft 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 Perfor mance of fuch Conditions from all the Prin ces concerned, as they have agreed to be juft 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 Subjeas, 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 juft 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 fee what thefe Things are which Britain ought to obtain from the Neighbouring Powers; and which Dunkirk is fo 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.

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After this He repeats the following Advertifement.

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To Morrow will be publifh'd aSecond Edition of
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 Mor
phew, near Stationer's-Hall. Price 3 d.

You have now my Letter to the Guardian, with what the Writers of the Pamphlet, and the Examiner, have been pleased to say upon it, at one View.

In Order to my Juftification, I shall show more accurately the Advantages the Nation might reap from the Demolition, which will appear by Confidering what Part of our Trade has and may be annoy'd by Dunkirk.

The Port of London is allowed to carry Two Parts in Three, or Six Parts in Nine, of the Foreign Trade of England. We may give one Ninth to the Ports on the South Coasts of this land, which South Coaft is oppofite to the, North Coaft of France; the Sea between which is what we call the Channel.

The East End of this, on our Side, is the North Foreland, which ftands oppofite to Newport in Flanders; the Weft End, on our Side,. is the Land's-End, overagainst Ubant, or Breft in France; they allow one Ninth of the Trade to the East Coast washed by the German Ocean; and the other Ninth to the West Coast which looks on the Irish Seas; in this Computation, it is prefumed, there is not any great Difproportion, except from Bristol's lying on the Weft Coast, the faid Weft Coaft ought to be allowed more than one Ninth.

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Dunkirk is from the South Foreland: about Thirteen Leagues, and the Course from Dunkirk to the Foreland Weft, North-Weft, to the Entrance of the River Thames, is North-Weft, about twenty Leagues; fo that any Easterly Wind, which carries our Ships down the Channel, at the fame time brings those of Dunkirk to meet and intercept them: The French have very frequently this laft War reaped the Advantage of this Situation, by furpriting many rich Ships, and taking others as they lay at Anchor in the Downs; when the French are dif* poffeffed of Dunkirk,the dread and danger of their Men of War, of any confiderable Force, will be removed as far as Breft, which is a hundred and twenty Leagues, or three hundred and fixty Miles; and that of their Privateers, of any Confideration, as far as St. Malo's, which is feventy eight Leagues, or two hundred and thirty four Miles.

Breft lies without the Channel, under this great incapacity to hurt us, that the fame Wind which carries our Trade down the Channel, prevents the Ships of Breft from coming into

it.

The East End of the Channel which is fo much exposed to Dunkirk is but seven Leagues broad, and gives an Enemy an Opportunity of feeing our Ships from Side to Side.

The West End of the Channel, for which the greatest Fears are from Breft, is twenty eight Leagues broad, and of courfe, there is at that End a greater Chance of escaping the Enemy.

If Ships from Breft are appointed to Way-lay our Ships in the Channel, they must take the Opportunity of Westerly Winds, to come in

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to it; and wait the coming of an Eafterly Wind to carry our Ships down it; by this means they must all that time be at Sea, expofed to all Dangers for want of a Port in which to Harbour their Men of War, or return to Brest, which they cannot do with the Wind that brought them out.

We must add to this, that if the French from Breft fhould be hovering to the Eastward of Plimouth, they are between two Fires, from those Ships in the Downs, and those from Plimouth; and our Ships from Por fmouth may chafe them either Way, while they are waylaid at each End of the Channel by the others, not having the Port of Dunkirk, or any other in the Channel, to afford them Shelter.. Thus, fhould they be chafed up the Channel by a too great Force, before they can return to Breft, they must either run into the German Ocean, and wait another Opportunity of coming down again, with the Hazard of meeting all our Men of War; or else fail North about Great Britain, which is at least 550 Leagues more than they need have failed, with the Port of Dunkirk to fly to.

This Want of Dunkirk will expose them to the fame Inconveniencies, to which the Fear of it often obliged our running Ships from the South Parts of the World, as well as our EastIndia Men, during the late War: To this Diftrefs you are to add Wages, Provifion, lofs of Time, and the dangerous Navigation of the North Seas.

From hence it plainly appears, that by the Demolition of Dunkirk, in cafe of a Rupture with France, Six Parts in Nine of our Trade, from

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