alfo my Penfion as Servant to his late Royal Highness, which her Majefty hath been gracioufly pleased to continue to the whole Family of that Excellent Prince: I divested my felf of all that I was fo happy to enjoy by Her Majefty's Goodness and Favour, before I would prefume to write any thing, which was fo apparently an Advertisement to thofe employ'd in her Service.

I have thrown away all Expectations of Preferment for the Happiness of serving in Parli ament, and for the hopes of having a Vote in the Legislature, in the prefent Great Crifis of Affairs: As long as I enjoy this Station (from which the Examiner takes the Liberty to fug. geft I fhall be expell'd) I fhall follow no Leader or Leaders, but A&t, that is to fay, Vote, according to the Dictates of my Confcience, in the publick Service. But I have faid, TheBritish Nation Expect: What is there in that s of Infolence and Ingratitude to a Queen and a Benefactress? Nay, What is there in it more : or lefs, the Premiffes in my Letter being confider'd, than the Duty of a Faithful and a Grateful Subject? Some of the Queen's immediate Servants are told by their Fellow Subject, that it lies upon all that have the Honour to be in the Miniftry to haften the Demolition, for the fake of the Queen, and all her faithful Subjects... What, are Majefty and Miniftry confolidated, and muft the People of Great Britain make no Diftinction between the one and the other? We very well know the Difference, Sir, and humbly conceive, that if a whole Miniftry were impeach'd and condemn'd by the People of Great Britain în Parliament,

liament, for any notorious Neglect of Duty, or Breach of Truft, the Prince could not fuf fer by it. But fuch is the Hardiness of these fort of Writers, that the Honour, the Intereft, nay, the Perfon and Prerogative of the Sove. reign, is communicated to, and confounded with the Miniftry; and thofe that by Law are accountable for all Wrongs done to the Publick, must be fcreen'd and protected under the Sacred and Incommunicable Character and Attributes of one, that by Law can do no Wrong. But for Argument fake, I will fuppose those Words, The British Nation Expect the immediate Demolition of Dunkirk, were addrefs'd immediately to the Queen: With what Propriety or Honefty of fpeaking, can a Man who utters them be call'd Infolent or Ingrate? He fees and apprehends with his own Eyes and Understanding, the imminent Danger that attends the Delay of the Demolition of Dunkirk; which perhaps others, whofe greater Concern it is, do not: and the thing not being done, by the Care of thofe under whofe immediate Direction it is, but overlooked, (for fuffering, without Animadverfion upon it, Tugghe's Memorial publish'd in Print, is that or worse) after all the Obftacles that could have prevented it on the part of France, as Her Majesty has been pleased to tell her People, have been remov'd; an honeft, tho' a mean Man, gives Her Majefty to understand, in the best Method he can take, and from the Sincerity of a grateful Heart, That the British Nation Expects the immediate Demolition of Dukirk; and the Reafons he gives for fuch Expectations are no less cogent, than the Prefervation of Her Sacred Perfon,

Perfon, Her Crown and Dignity, and the Safety and Welfare of the People committed to her Charge. He confiders the Queen, in this Cafe, as the Head of the Conftitution of his Country: He confiders himself, as a Member of the Community reprefented in Parliament, whether one of the Reprefentative Body, or no: He knows Britons, by their Birth-right, are a Part of the Legiflature, and knows too, that the Executive Power is a Prerogative or Peculiar vested in the Head of the Conftitution, for the Good of the whole; that it attends the Crown, Honour and Dignity, and not the Will and Pleasure, or, it may be, Paffion of the Prince; and as an Evidence of it, is Immortal, and ceases not, when the Persons of our Princes are gathered to their Fathers: He knows too that all Treaties are made, and War and Peace entred into, for the common Good : and in an Inftance, refpecting the prefent Exigence, which he apprehends to be abfolutely neceffary for that End, with a zealous and honeft Mind, and the warmest Concern for the fatal Confequences that may enfue the Defe& of it. tells the Mother of his Country, That the British Nation expects the immediate Demolition of Dunkirk: Expects it, from the Duty they owe their Queen! from their Care of the Prefervation of Her Sacred Life, Her Crown and Dignity! from the Honour and Justice of Her Administration! from the Integrity of Her Councils! from the glorious Advantages of Her Arms! from the Faith and Sincerity of her Treaties! from the Veneration and Regard due to Her from his moft Christian Majefty, and from the Duty they owe themselves

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and their Pofterity! And is this Infolence and Ingratitude?

My Adverfaries are fo unjuft, as they will not take the leaft Notice of what led me into the neceffity of writing my Letter to the Guar dian. They know if they ftated it honeftly, they must acknowledge, that instead of what they call me, I was a faithful Servant to the Queen, and an honeft Fellow-Subject to the Miniftry. My Lord Bolingbroke tells the Sieur Tugghe, as a Secretary of State from the Queen, That his Requeft cannot be complied with: the Sieur prints a Memorial, which is no other than an Appeal to all the weak People in England, againft Her Severity. Nay, if the Tranf lator has done him Juftice, he has used the very Word Severe. This I take for the utmost Infult against the Queen, and her Ministry; and instead of allowing my Zeal, I am publickly bereft of the Protection the Ministry should afford me, and all honest Men, in the Performance of their Duty; and Partizans, who pretend to write for them, ufe ine accordingly. I am not to be born with, even when I am for them: But I deferve well of them in this Question about Tugghe, or else they are not fo angry, as I am, at what Tugghe has done against their Queen.

Good God! does this Creature, this Tuggbe, come out of his Country, who writ that pious Letter to the Bishop of Paris, wherein Leavings of Fear made his moft Chriftian Majefty forget his Politicks, and (as if he had feen an Hand of Providence was in it, to his Favour, and our Misfortune) acknowledge he owed his very Kingdom to the Sufpenfion of

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the English Arms? Does this very Potentate leave to the Burghers of Dunkirk to fend fome Body to treat about abating an Article of a Treaty, with the Glorious and Puiffant Queen of Great Britain!

Tell it not in Gath,nor publish it in the Streets of Ashkelon!

We know not what is the Equivalent for Dunkirk, but according to the Circumstances of France, before the Sufpenfion of the English Arms, under the gallant Duke of Ormond (who would certainly have done his Duty) the French King has owned that the Equivalent might have been Paris.

When fuch was our Cafe, and fuch is our Cafe, fome Men lately preferred, and grown too Delicate, would have Men of liberal Education, that know the World as well as themfelves, afraid, for fear of offending them in their new Clothes, to fpeak when they think. their Queen and Country is ill treated

While I am upon this Subject, I am glad to obferve, that there are others who take up the fame Argument; and my Servant has just now brought me a printed half Sheet, Entitled, A Letter to the Guardian, about Dunkirk. With a great deal of very apt Raillery, upon the Madnefs of the Times, he pleafantly imagines our Language is altered of late Years; particularly in the Words Good, Safe, Honourable, Ad vantageou England, France, Trade,Commerce. He makes the Examiner the Mint-Mafter for the New Tongue, and then proceeds in a more ferious and clofe manner, to argue on the fide of the English Tory's Letter. He fpeaks of the Examiner in these Words:

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