((A FULL VINDICATION OF HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS DOWAGER OF MARLBOROUGH. MY LORD,)) WHETHER THE PIECE I SHALL EN-+ DEAVOUR / TO ANSWER WAS YOUR OWN PERFORMANCE, OR WHETHER IT WAS WRIT-+ TEN / ON YOUR COMMAND, BY ONE OF THAT SCRIBBLING GANG, WHICH THE DIS-+ BANDING / MR((.)) P-TON'S LATE REGIMENT OF GA-+ ZETTEERS / HATH CAST DESTITUTE ON THE PUBLIC, I NEED NOT DETERMINE? IN EITHER CASE, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MY ANSWER; WHICH, HOWEVER, YOU HAVE NOT SO MUCH REASON TO BE STARTLED AT, AS YOU MAY JUSTLY APPREHEND: FOR I DO NOT INTEND TO IMITATE YOU IN INVECTIVE, AND SHALL ABSTAIN FROM ANY OTHER REFLECTIONS THAN THOSE I SHALL MAKE ON YOUR REMARKS, AND WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO REFUTE THE GROUNDLESS SLANDERS YOU ENDEAVOUR TO THROW ON AN INNOCENT AND INJURED CHARACTER.

THE OBSERVATION WITH WHICH YOU SET OUT IS STRICTLY TRUE; NAY YOUR WHOLE LETTER IS ONE CON-+ TINUED / FLAGRANT EXAMPLE OF IT. YOU SAY, (("IT HAS BEEN OFTEN OBSERV'D, THAT IT IS EXTREMELY HARD TO FORM A JUST NOTION OF THE CHARACTERS OF MANKIND, FROM THOSE WHO ARE PERSONALLY INTERESTED IN EITHER JUSTIFYING OR BLACKENING THEM. IN THIS COUNTRY, WHERE PARTY IS SO PREVALENT, THAT NO PERSON CAN BE SUPPOSED TO BE INDIFFERENT WITH REGARD TO PUB-+ LIC / CHARACTERS AND TRANSACTIONS, THIS OBSERVA-+ TION / HOLDS PERHAPS MORE STRICTLY JUST THAN ANY OTHER; AND TIME ALONE MUST DISCOVER THE MO-+ TIVES / OF MANY ACTIONS, AND THE TRUE COLOURS OF MANY CHARACTERS, WHICH ARE NOW SEEN THRO' THE FALSE GLARE THAT PASSION OR PREJUDICE THROWS UPON THEM.")) IT WAS FROM THIS PARTY-PREJUDICE YOU MENTION, AND THE FALSHOODS IT DAILY PROPAGATES, THAT THE DUTCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH WAS INDUCED TO PUBLISH AN APOLOGY FOR A CONDUCT, WHICH APPEARS SO TRULY GREAT AND WORTHY THE HIGHEST APPLAUSE; AND IT IS THIS PREJUDICE ALONE WHICH COULD INSTIGATE ANY ONE TO ATTEMPT TO SULLY AND BLACKEN A CHA-+ RACTER, / WHICH THAT APOLOGY HATH PLACED IN SO A-+ MIABLE / A LIGHT, THAT A VERY IMPARTIAL READER DECLARED TO ME ON PERUSING IT; "WHY, IF THIS BE TRUE, THE DUTCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH IS ONE OF THE BEST AS WELL AS GREATEST WOMEN EVER BORN." IF THE COURSE OF HER OWN JUSTIFICATION HATH UNAVOIDABLY LED HER GRACE TO EXPOSE SOME OTHERS IN DISADVANTAGIOUS COLOURS, I AM CONVINCED SHE WAS SORRY FOR IT; BUT SURE IT IS A NEW DOCTRINE, AND SOMETHING UNREASONABLE, THAT THE INNOCENT MUST SUFFER, RATHER THAN THE GUILTY SHOULD BE

BLAMED. I AM CERTAIN SHE HATH NO WHERE DEPARTED FROM DELICACY, AS YOU ACCUSE HER; AND I AM AS WELL CONVINCED, SHE HATH NOT DEVIATED FROM TRUTH. HER FACTS APPEAR MOST OF THEM IN LET-+ TERS / FROM THE PARTIES THEMSELVES; WHICH HATH BEEN ALWAYS ACCOUNTED THE BEST AND MOST CERTAIN KIND OF HISTORY; AND WHICH, WHILE THE ORIGINALS REMAIN, MUST BE ALWAYS ALLOWED TO BE UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE. BUT INDEED YOUR OPINION OF HISTORY IS PRETTY SINGULAR; FOR YOU SAY, (("EVEN THE HIGH STATION AND CHARACTER OF THE AUTHORESS OUGHT TO GIVE AN ALARM TO YOUR LORDSHIP'S CAUTION; FOR THE GREATER OPPORTUNITIES HER GRACE HAD OF KNOWING, THE MORE DEEPLY MUST WE SUPPOSE HER TO BE IN-+ TERESTED / IN ACTING, AND THEREFORE THE MORE SOLI-+ CITIOUS / IN VINDICATING OR BLAMING, ACCORDING AS IT MAY SET HER OWN CONDUCT IN THE FAIREST, AND THAT OF HER ENEMIES IN THE MOST DISADVANTA-+ GEOUS / LIGHT,")) SO THAT IT SEEMS THE HIGHER ANY PERSON'S STA-+ TION / AND CHARACTER IS, THE LOWER IS THEIR CREDIT, AND THE MORE THEY KNOW OF ANY TRANSACTION, THE LESS CAPABLE ARE THEY OF RECORDING IT. YOUR LORDSHIP IS PLEASED TO PROCEED THUS: AS TO THE FIRST REASON OF HER GRACE'S ASCEN-+ DANCY / OVER THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK, (((VIZ.)) THEIR PLAYING TOGETHER WHEN AT SCHOOL) ((" IT ENTIRELY RESTS UPON HER GRACE'S OWN WORD, THAT THE DAUGHTER OF MRS((.)) J-GS, WHO, IF WE BE-+ LIEVE / THE COMMON REPORT ((" " ")) ((" " ")) HAD BUT A ((" ")) ((" " " " " " ")) ((" " " " " " ")) VERY NARROW FORTUNE, WAS ADMITTED TO SO MUCH FAMILIARITY WITH A PRINCESS OF SO STRICT AND DE-+ LICATE /

AN EDUCATION, AS THAT WHICH PRINCESS ANNE RECEIV'D."))

WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE THE READER SUPPLY IN THE PLACE OF THESE ASTERISKS, I CANNOT GUESS. YOU ARE PLEASED TO CALL HER GRACE'S VERACITY IN QUESTION; AND, IF I MISTAKE NOT, WOULD INSINUATE THAT MISS JENNINGS HAD SOME LEVITY IN HER CHA-+ RACTER, / WHICH RENDERED HER UNFIT FOR THE COMPANY OF SO STRICT AND DELICATE A PRINCESS; INDEED THE SAME REASON IS GIVEN A LITTLE AFTERWARDS, FOR LADY CLARENDON'S DISLIKE TO HER. BLACK AND DETESTABLE MALICE! WHY DID YOU NOT ASSERT, THAT HER GRACE WAS NEVER HER LADY OF THE BEDCHAMBER? A FACT NOT LESS NOTORIOUS, AND WHICH THE SAME FALSE INSINUATIONS WOULD HAVE BETTER SUPPORTED, UNLESS THE PRINCESS HAD VERY EARLY QUITTED THAT STRICTNESS AND DELICACY OF HER EDUCATION FOR SURELY THE SAME BLEMISHES WHICH WOULD HAVE REN-+ DERED / MISS JENNINGS, WHEN A GIRL, AN IMPROPER COMPANION FOR THE PRINCESS, WOULD HAVE MADE HER, WHEN A WOMAN, VERY UNFIT TO FILL THE POST OF A LADY OF THE BEDCHAMBER; NOR WOULD THE PRUDENT COUNTESS OF CLARENDON, THEN FIRST LADY OF THE BEDCHAMBER, HAVE CONSENTED TO HER ADMIS-+ SION. / BUT THIS IS INDEED THE FIRST TIME, THAT ANY ENEMY OF HER GRACE HATH HAD THE IMPUDENCE TO INSINUATE THE LEAST HINT OF SUCH A NATURE. AS TO THE CHARACTERS OF LADY CLARENDON, AND THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK, I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY. HER GRACE SEEMS TO DRAW A LIVELY PICTURE OF THE FORMER; AND THE LATTER HATH, IN HER LET-+ TERS, / DRAWN HER OWN. BUT YOUR LORDSHIP SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOTTEN SOME PASSAGES IN THE BOOK YOU ARE CRITICISING ON, WHEN YOU AFFIRM, THAT (("AS HER GRACE HAS BEEN PLEASED TO GIVE US NO MANNER OF INSIGHT INTO

THAT PART OF THE CHARACTER OF HER ROYAL MI-+ STRESS, / WHICH WROUGHT THIS PRODIGIOUS ALTERA-+ TION / IN HER CONFIDENCE, AND NO OTHER ACCOUNT OF THE FACT, BUT THAT SHE WAS WORMED OUT BY AN UPSTART FAVOURITE, WHO WAS IN EVERY RESPECT INFINITELY BELOW HER GRACE; THE WORLD IS AT LIBERTY TO MAKE ITS OWN CONJECTURES."))

SURE, MY LORD, THIS IS NOT THE ONLY ACCOUNT WE HAVE FROM THE DUTCHESS, WHO HATH SHEWN US HER DISGRACE (IF AN HONEST, UPRIGHT AND FAITHFUL SERVANT DISMISSED, MAY BE SAID TO BE DISGRACED) WAS OWING TO THE ARTS OF A DESIGNING POLITICIAN, A GREAT MASTER OF HIS PROFESSION, ASSISTED (IF YOU PLEASE) BY AN UPSTART FAVOURITE, THE MORE DAN-+ GEROUS / AS THE LEAST SUSPECTED; TO HER MISTRESS'S VIOLENT INCLINATION TO THE TORIES, PERHAPS JACO-+ BITES, / AND IN FAVOUR OF SOME SCHEMES NOT NE-+ CESSARY / HERE TO MENTION, AS SOME OF THEIR EFFECTS HAVE BEEN TOO FATALLY FELT, AND THE INTENTION OF OTHERS PLAINLY AND UNDENIABLY KNOWN. I SHALL TAKE NO OTHER NOTICE OF THAT ON WHICH YOUR LORDSHIP HATH BEEN PLEASED TO THROW AWAY SO MUCH OF YOUR TIME AND PAPER, I MEAN THE DUTCHESS'S ASSERTION CONCERNING MY LORD CLAREN-+ DON, / THAN THAT, WHAT THE BISHOP SAYS ON HIS PROPOSING TO HAVE KING JAMES SENT TO BREDA, AGREES BETTER WITH HER GRACE'S ACCOUNT OF HIS HAVING ADVISED THE SENDING HIM TO THE TOWER, THAN WITH THE REA-+ SONS / FOR WHICH YOU WOULD HAVE IT BELIEVED IM-+ POSSIBLE / FOR ANY MAN IN HIS SENSES TO HAVE GIVEN SUCH ADVICE. YOUR WORDS ARE, ((" IT IS SUFFICIENT TO OBSERVE, THAT THE CONSULTATION WHICH HER GRACE MENTIONS TO HAVE BEEN HELD AT WINDSOR, WAS HELD AT SO CRITICAL A TIME THAT NO MAN IN HIS SENSES COULD BE SUPPOSED TO HAVE GIVEN SUCH AN ADVICE: FOR KING JAMES BY THAT TIME HAD

RETURN'D TO LONDON FROM FEVERSHAM, AND REMAIN-+ ED / AT WHITEHALL. AND TO USE BISHOP BURNET'S OWN WORDS, ALL THE INDIGNATION WHICH THE PEOPLE OF LONDON HAD FORMERLY CONCEIVED A-+ GAINST / HIM WAS TURNED INTO PITY AND COMPAS-+ SION. / EVEN THE PRIVY-COUNCIL, IN WHOSE HANDS THE EXECUTIVE PART OF THE GOVERNMENT APPEARS AT THAT TIME TO HAVE BEEN LOOK'D UP-+ ON / BY HIM TO BE AS MUCH THEIR KING AS EVER; AND, CONTINUES THE BISHOP, AS HE CAME BACK THROUGH THE CITY HE WAS WELCOMED WITH SIGNS OF JOY BY GREAT NUMBERS. THE EARL OF CLARENDON THEN MUST BE SUPPOS'D TO HAVE BEEN VOID OF COMMON SENSE, IF WHILE THIS DISPOSITION OF THE PEOPLE CONTINUED, HE ADVIS'D OF SENDING THE KING TO THE TOWER OF LONDON."))

NOW, SURELY, THAT WAS AS GOOD A REASON, WHY NO MAN OF COMMON SENSE SHOULD PROPOSE SENDING THE KING TO BREDA, AS WHY HE SHOULD NOT PRO-+ POSE / SENDING HIM TO THE TOWER. BUT WHAT SAYS THE BISHOP; (("BECAUSE IT MIGHT RAISE TOO MUCH COMPASSION, AND PERHAPS SOME DISORDER, THAT THE KING SHOULD BE KEPT IN RESTRAINT WITHIN THE KINGDOMS; THEREFORE THE SENDING HIM TO BRE-+ DA / WAS PROPOSED. THE EARL OF CLARENDON PRESS'D THIS VEHEMENTLY, ON ACCOUNT OF THE IRISH PROTESTANTS, AS THE KING HIMSELF TOLD ME; FOR THOSE THAT GAVE THEIR OPINION IN THIS MAT-+ TER / DID IT SECRETLY, AND IN CONFIDENCE TO THE PRINCE: THE PRINCE SAID HE COULD NOT DENY BUT THAT THIS MIGHT BE GOOD AND WISE ADVICE.")) CAN ANY THING BE MORE CONGRUOUS, AT LEAST, LESS REPUGNANT THAN THESE TWO ACCOUNTS? THE PRINCE, WHOM HIS ENEMIES CAN SEND TO ONE

PLACE, MAY BE BY THEM SENT TO ANY OTHER; AND INDEED, BOTH THESE PROPOSALS MIGHT VERY REA-+ SONABLY, / IN THE SAME DEBATE, BE SUPPOSED TO HAVE COME FROM THE SAME PERSON, WHO FINDING THE PROPOSAL OF SENDING THE KING TO THE TOWER REJECTED FOR THE REASONS THE BISHOP GIVES, MIGHT ADVANCE OR SECOND THAT OF SENDING HIM TO BRE-+ DA; / SO THAT HERE IS NO SUCH FLAT CONTRADICTION, AS YOUR LORDSHIP HATH BEEN PLEASED TO OBSERVE. I AM COME NOW TO A MOST NOTABLE PARAGRAPH INDEED, WHEREIN I MAY HOPE TO SHEW YOUR LORD-+ SHIP / AS FLAT A CONTRADICTION AS IS TO BE FOUND IN ANY WRITER WHATEVER. IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO TRANSCRIBE A GOOD PART OF THE PASSAGE. YOUR LORDSHIP AFTER GIVING US BISHOP BURNET'S OPI-+ NION / OF KING WILLIAM'S DESIGNS, AND SOME ANEC-+ DOTES / OUT OF THAT RIGHT REVEREND AUTHOR, OF THE KING'S BEHAVIOUR BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CROWN, PROCEEDS THUS: (("ADMITTING THIS TO BE A TRUE AND GENUINE AC-+ COUNT / OF WHAT PASSED UPON THIS IMPORTANT OC-+ CASION, / IT AMOUNTS TO NO MORE THAN THAT THE PRINCE OF ORANGE ACTED A VERY FAIR AND OPEN PART, BY TELLING THEM HE EXPECTED TO BE KING, WHICH HE DID NOT AT ALL WISH FOR, OR THAT HE WOULD DO A THING THAT EVERY WISE MAN OUGHT TO DO IF HE WAS DISAPPOINTED; WHICH WAS TO RE-+ TIRE, / AND DO ALL THE SERVICE HE COULD IN HIS OWN STATION TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY. BUT IF ONE TAKE HER GRACE'S ACCOUNT OF THIS TRANSACTION, THE PRINCE HAD NO OTHER MOTIVE FOR COMING OVER TO ENGLAND, BUT MEER AMBITION OF WEARING A CROWN. HAVING NEVER READ, CONTINUES HER GRACE, NOR EMPLOY'D MY TIME IN ANY THING, BUT

PLAYING AT CARDS, AND HAVING NO AMBITION MY-+ SELF, / I IMAGIN'D THAT THE PRINCE OF ORANGE'S SOLE DESIGN, WAS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, BY OBLIGING KING JAMES TO KEEP THE LAWS OF OURS. AND THAT HE WOULD GET BACK AS SOON AS HE HAD MADE US ALL HAPPY; AND THAT THERE WAS NO SORT OF DIFFICULTY IN THE EXECUTION OF THIS DESIGN, AND THAT TO DO SO MUCH GOOD WOULD BE A GREATER PLEASURE TO HIM THAN TO BE KING OF ANY COUNTRY UPON EARTH. I WAS SOON TAUGHT TO KNOW THE WORLD BETTER. I SAY, ONE WHO READS THESE WORDS, WILL BE APT TO CONCLUDE THAT KING WILLIAM, EVEN UPON THE FIRST CONCERT OF HIS EXPEDITION TO ENGLAND, WAS DETERMIN'D AT ALL EVENTS TO DETHRONE HIS FATHER-IN-LAW, THOUGH I AM UNWILLING TO BELIEVE THAT THIS WAS THE CASE; I WILL ONLY OBSERVE, THAT IF IT WAS, IT IS EXTREAMLY IMPROBABLE THAT HER GRACE, NOTWITH-+ STANDING / ALL HER PROFESSIONS OF SINCERITY, WAS IGNORANT OF THE DESIGN UPON THIS OCCASION. I CANNOT HELP LAYING BEFORE YOUR LORDSHIP A FACT, WHICH I HAD FROM THE LATE E((.)) OF N-M, OF A NEAR RELATION OF YOUR LORDSHIP, WHO WAS VERY DEEP IN THE CONCERT, AND TOO WORTHY A MAN TO IMPOSE EITHER UPON ME OR THE WORLD. HE TOLD ME, THAT IMMEDIATELY UPON THE PRINCE OF ORANGE'S LANDING, THERE WAS A VISIBLE COLD-+ NESS / AND BACKWARDNESS IN THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, TO DECLARE IN HIS FAVOUR; UPON WHICH, THE PRINCE CALLED A MEETING OF THOSE HE COULD MOST DEPEND UPON, AND TOLD THEM IN PLAIN TERMS, THAT AS HE HAD VENTUR'D SO FAR, TO SUP-+ PORT / THEM, IT WAS NOT TO BE EXPECTED, HE WAS TO DO IT FOR NOTHING, AND THAT HE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MAD TO HAVE EXPOSED HIMSELF AND HIS COUNTRY TO UNAVOIDABLE RUIN, HAD HE NOT

HAD VERY STRONG ASSURANCES FROM ENGLAND BE-+ FORE / HE SET OUT, THAT HE SHOULD BE SUPPORTED EVEN TO THE UTMOST. THAT UPON THIS HE PRO-+ DUCED / AN INSTRUMENT SIGNED BY THE MOST EMI-+ NENT / PERSONS, WHO AFTERWARDS DECLARED MOST EMINENTLY FOR THE REVOLUTION; IN WHICH THEY ENGAGE THEMSELVES TO SUPPORT HIS HIGHNESS IN FORMING THAT VERY PLAN OF GOVERNMENT, BY WHICH THE CROWN WAS SETTLED UPON THE ABDI-+ CATION / OF KING JAMES. THAT THE NAMES NOT ONLY OF THE SUBSCRIBERS THEMSELVES WERE SIGNED TO THIS INSTRUMENT, BUT OF THOSE WHOM THEY EN-+ GAG'D / TO BRING OVER TO THE PRINCE; AND THAT AMONGST OTHERS HE SAW THAT OF THE LORD CHUR-+ CHILL, / WHO BY MEANS OF HIS LADY ENGAG'D TO BRING OVER THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF DEN-+ MARK. / IF THIS IS FACT, IT IS HIGHLY IMPROBABLE, NAY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT THAT HER GRACE, CON-+ SIDERING / THE ASCENDANCY SHE ALWAYS HAD OVER HER HUSBAND, SHOULD BE SO VASTLY SURPRIZ'D AS SHE NOW AFFECTS TO BE AT THE NEWS OF THE PRINCE OF ORANGE ACCEPTING OF THE CROWN."))

IN THE FIRST PLACE, I DO NOT SEE, THAT WHOEVER READS THE WORDS, I WAS SOON TAUGHT TO KNOW THE WORLD BETTER, (("WILL BE APT TO CONCLUDE, THAT KING WILLIAM, EVEN UPON THE FIRST CONCERT OF HIS EXPEDITION TO ENGLAND, WAS DETERMINED AT ALL EVENTS TO DETHRONE HIS FATHER-IN-LAW.")) THIS IS SUCH A CONCLUSION, AS DR((.)) SOUTH SAYS, WHICH MAY WELL BE SAID TO BE DRAWN FROM THE WORDS, SINCE I AM SURE IT NEVER WOULD FOLLOW. - BUT TO THE FACT ITSELF, WHICH IS TO IMPEACH HER GRACE'S VERACITY. THE LATE E((.)) OF N- TOLD SOMEBODY THAT TOLD YOUR LORDSHIP, THAT SOMEBODY HAD TOLD THE EARL (FOR

HE WAS NOT THEN PRESENT) THAT KING WILLIAM IM-+ MEDIATELY / UPON HIS LANDING CALLED A MEETING OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY, ETC. FIRST, 'TILL LONG AFTER HIS LANDING, HE HAD NO NOBILITY NOR GENTRY WITH HIM. ((2NDLY,)) IT IS VERY IMPROBABLE, INDEED ALMOST IM-+ POSSIBLE / TO CONCEIVE, THAT A MAN OF KING WILLIAM'S PHLEGMATICK AND COOL TEMPER SHOULD EXPOSE AN IN-+ STRUMENT / OF THIS NATURE, WHICH, IF HE HAD BEEN SUCCESSLESS IN HIS EXPEDITION, AS HE HAD THEN SOME REASON TO DOUBT, WOULD HAVE HANGED EVERY ONE OF THOSE FRIENDS WHO HAD SET THEIR HANDS TO IT: FOR ANGER ITSELF COULD NOT MOVE THE HOTTEST MIND TO SUCH A STEP; (AND KING WILLIAM IS BY THIS WRITER TRULY REPRESENTED AS SLOW IN TAKING REVENGE) SINCE IT WAS NOT THE GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNTRY OF WHOSE BACKWARDNESS ALONE HE COULD COM-+ PLAIN, / WHOM HE WAS TO EXPOSE TO THE VENGEANCE OF KING JAMES, BUT OF HIS FRIENDS ABOVE, WHO COULD NOT POSSIBLY HAVE JOINED HIM SO SOON; AND FROM MOST OF WHOM, HE WAS TOO GOOD A POLITI-+ CIAN / TO EXPECT SO OPEN AND HASTY A DECLARATION IN HIS FAVOUR, THOUGH HE WAS ASSURED OF THEIR PRI-+ VATE / SERVICES. ((3DLY,)) IF THE PRINCE OF ORANGE WAS SO DESIROUS TO CONCEAL HIS ORIGINAL INTENTIONS OF AIMING AT THE CROWN (ADMITTING HE HAD SUCH) HE CANNOT BE SUP-+ POSED, / WITHOUT AN ENTIRE SUBVERSION OF HIS CHA-+ RACTER, / TO EXPOSE AN INSTRUMENT SO OPENLY AND RASHLY, IN WHICH IT WAS ENGAGED TO SUPPORT HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS IN FORMING THAT VERY PLAN OF GO-+ VERNMENT, / BY WHICH THE CROWN WAS SETTLED ON THE ABDICATION OF KING JAMES.

((4THLY,)) IF HE HAD TAKEN SO RASH AND ILL-ADVIS'D A STEP, HE WOULD NEVER AFTERWARDS HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF SO PREPOSTEROUS A CONDUCT, AS WITH THE MOST MANIFEST CHICANERY TO DENY A DESIGN HE HAD PUBLICKLY AND OPENLY AVOWED, AND WHICH, (IF WHAT THIS SOME-BODY RELATES HAD BEEN TRUE) HIS ENE-+ MIES / COULD HAVE SO INCONTESTABLY PROVED AGAINST HIM; ((5THLY,)) BISHOP BURNET, WHO WAS PRESENT, WOULD HARDLY HAVE OMITTED SUCH A NOTABLE FACT; OR IF IT SHOULD BE SAID, HE OMITTED IT FROM HIS FRIEND-+ SHIP / TO KING WILLIAM, A MOTIVE WHICH WILL, I BE-+ LIEVE, / HARDLY GAIN CREDIT AGAINST SO IMPARTIAL AN HISTORIAN; SURELY THOSE WHO HAVE WRITTEN AGAINST KING WILLIAM, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD, WOULD HAVE MENTIONED A FACT, WHICH, IF TRUE, MUST HAVE BEEN SO GENERALLY KNOWN; BUT LASTLY, IF YOU REALLY BELIEVE THIS TO BE FACT, HOW CAN YOU ASSERT, AS YOU DO IN THE PRE-+ CEDING / PAGE, THAT YOU BELIEVE HE HAD NO DESIGN OF PROCURING THE CROWN AT THE FIRST CONCERT OF HIS EXPEDITION? HOW CAN YOUR LORDSHIP ASSERT IN ONE PAGE (I SAY) THAT YOU BELIEVE HE HAD CON-+ CERTED / NO SUCH DESIGN, AND IN THE NEXT, THAT HE CAME OVER ON THESE EXPRESS TERMS. THIS SURE, MY LORD, IS VERY NEAR A ROUND, IF NOT A FLAT CONTRA-+ DICTION. / I SHALL NOT ENTER ON THE CHARACTER OF KING WILLIAM; HER GRACE KNEW HIM BETTER THAN I, NOR IS THERE ANY REASON TO SUSPECT HER PARTIALITY: BUT HERE YOUR LORDSHIP IS SINGULAR IN AN OPINION THAT HARSH TREATMENT OBLIGES US TO CONCEAL THE

FAULTS OF AN ENEMY. THIS IS INDEED AN EXTRAOR-+ DINARY / FLIGHT OF CHRISTIANITY. THE NEXT REMARK I SHALL TROUBLE YOUR LORD-+ SHIP / WITH, IS ON YOUR CONCLUSION IN PAGE((19)) , WHICH IS LIKEWISE SO LAME, THAT YOUR WHOLE STRENGTH IS REQUIRED TO DRAW IT. YOUR QUOTA-+ TION / IS AS FOLLOWS: (("I CONFESS, SAYS HER GRACE, HAD I BEEN IN HER PLACE, THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK, I SHOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT MORE FOR MY HONOUR TO BE EASY IN THIS MATTER THAN TO SHEW AN IMPATIENCE TO GET POSSESSION OF A CROWN THAT HAD BEEN WRESTED FROM MY FATHER, I BELIEVE NO BODY EVER EITHER SPOKE OR WROTE IN THIS MANNER, BUT WITH A DESIGN OF ACCUSING THE PERSON IN WHOSE STEAD THEY WISH THEMSELVES TO BE. AND AS IT OUGHT, CONTINUES HER GRACE, TO HAVE BEEN A GREAT TROUBLE TO THE CHILDREN OF KING JAMES TO BE FORCED TO ACT THE PART THEY DID AGAINST HIM, SO IT SEEM'D TO ME THAT SHE WHO DISCO-+ VER'D / THE LESS AMBITION WOULD HAVE THE MORE AMIABLE CHARACTER. THERE IT IS VERY PLAIN THAT BY THE EXPRESSION, AND AS IT OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN, ETC. HER GRACE IMPLIES, THAT THE THING WAS NOT; THEREFORE HER GRACE SPEAKING IN THE PLURAL, MUST MEAN THAT BOTH THE CHILDREN OF KING JAMES, VIZ((.)) QUEEN MARY AND THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK, DID SHEW AN IMPATIENCE TO GET POSSESSION OF A CROWN THAT WAS WRESTED FROM THEIR FATHER.")) I OWN, INDEED, WE ARE TAUGHT TO CONFESS THAT WE HAVE DONE THOSE THINGS WE OUGHT NOT TO HAVE DONE, AND LEFT UNDONE THOSE THINGS WE OUGHT TO HAVE DONE; BUT TO SAY,THAT THIS IS AN ETERNAL OBLIGATION

ON OUR NATURE, TO AFFIRM THAT THE BARE SUPPOSING A THING OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN DONE, IS CONSEQUEN-+ TIALLY / AFFIRMING THAT IT WAS NOT; THIS IS TO BE A VERY STRONG ADVOCATE FOR THE NECESSITY OF HU-+ MAN / ACTIONS. I SHALL MAKE NO REFLECTION ON THE CHARACTER OF QUEEN MARY; BUT WHY THE SILENCE OF THE JACOBITES OR THE REVERENCE OF THE WHIGS, SHOULD DETER THE DUTCHESS FROM ATTACKING HER, I CAN NO MORE SEE, THAN I CAN THINK THE OBLIGA-+ TIONS / WHICH SHE HAD TO QUEEN ANNE (WHICH HER OWN FAITHFUL CONDUCT, AND THE IMMORTAL AND BARBAROUSLY AND UNGRATEFULLY RETURNED SERVICES OF HER GLORIOUS HUSBAND SO WELL AND NOBLY DESERVED) INCAPABLE OF BEING OBLITERATED BY ANY FUTURE ILL TREATMENT: OR WHY ANY ATTACHMENT TO THE CHARACTERS OF THESE PRINCESSES SHOULD RESTRAIN HER FROM A JUST VINDICATION OF HER OWN. YOUR AR-+ GUMENTS / ARE INDEED VERY CURIOUS, IF NOT STRONG. I WILL THEREFORE QUOTE THE WHOLE PASSAGE, AS WELL AS THAT OF THE INSCRIPTION, WITH YOUR OBSERVA-+ TIONS / ON IT. YOU SAY, IT WOULD BE DECENT IN THE DUTCHESS TO CONCEAL ANY THING WHICH MIGHT CAST A REFLECTION ON QUEEN MARY, BECAUSE HER CHA-+ RACTER / (("HAS NEVER YET BEEN ATTACKED BY THE MOST BIGOTTED JACOBITE, AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN HAD IN GREAT VENERATION BY THE GREATEST WHIGS. AS TO THAT OF QUEEN ANNE, HER GRACE LIES UNDER SO MANY OBLIGATIONS TO SUPPORT AND DEFEND IT, AGAINST ALL ATTEMPTS TO BLACKEN IT, THAT IT IS THE HEIGHT OF IMPRUDENCE, TO CALL IT BY NO WORSE A NAME, TO ATTACK IT IN THE MANNER HER GRACE DOES IN THE ABOVE PASSAGES. BUT THE MATTER DOES NOT REST HERE; FOR WE FIND THAT WHAT HER GRACE INSINUATES, OR RATHER ASSERTS HERE, IS DI-+ RECTLY / IN CONTRADICTION TO THAT SOLEMN INSCRIPTION WHICH HER GRACE CONSIGN'D TO MARBLE, SIGN'D

BY HERSELF, AS THE CHARACTER OF QUEEN ANNE, UPON THE PEDESTAL OF THE STATUE ERECTED TO HER MEMORY AT BLENBEIM. WE THEREFORE SEE IN-+ STEAD / OF SHEWING HER IMPATIENCE TO GET POSSES-+ SION / OF HER FATHER'S CROWN, SHE LOOK'D WITH THE GREATEST INDIFFERENCE UPON THAT OF HER BROTHER-+ IN-LAW, / THO' HE WORE IT IN PREJUDICE OF HER OWN RIGHT. WHAT ARE HER WORDS? QUEEN ANNE - WAS RELIGIOUS WITH-+ OUT / AFFECTATION; SHE ALWAYS MEANT WELL; / SHE HAD NO FALSE AMBI-+ TION; / WHICH APPEARED BY HER NEVER COMPLAINING AT KING WILLIAM'S BE-+ ING / PREFERRED TO THE CROWN BEFORE HER, WHEN IT WAS TAKEN FROM THE KING HER FATHER, FOR FOLLOWING SUCH COUN-+ SELS / AND PURSUING SUCH MEASURES AS MADE THE REVOLUTION NECESSARY. IT WAS HER GREATEST AFFLICTION TO BE FORCED TO ACT AGAINST HIM, EVEN FOR SECURITY. IF ANY IMPARTIAL PERSON SHOULD COMPARE THESE LINES WITH THE ABOVE QUOTATIONS FROM THE AC-+ COUNT / OF HER CONDUCT, WOULD HE NOT DRAW ONE OF THESE TWO CONCLUSIONS; EITHER THAT THE CHA-+ RACTER / IS NOT DRAWN FOR THE SAME PERSON, OR THAT IT WAS NOT THE SAME PERSON WHO DREW IT?"))

THE CHARACTER HER GRACE HATH BEEN PLEASED TO INSCRIBE ON HER MONUMENT, ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF QUEEN ANNE, IS AN INSTANCE OF THE GOODNESS AND GRATITUDE OF HER TEMPER; AND THO' PERHAPS THESE HAVE INCLINED HER TO CARRY TRUTH AS FAR AS POSSIBLE, YET IS THERE NOTHING ON

THIS MARBLE INCONSISTENT WITH WHAT HER GRACE HATH SINCE COMMITTED TO PAPER: SHE HATH NOT TAXED HER WITH AMBITION, SHE HATH NOT DENIED THAT IT WAS HER GREATEST AFFLICTION TO BE FORCED TO ACT AGAINST HER FATHER; AND SO FAR FROM QUE-+ STIONING / HER RELIGION, SHE HATH IMPUTED MANY OF HER ACTIONS TO A FONDNESS FOR EVEN THE SHA-+ DOW / OF IT, THE CHURCH. YOUR LORDSHIP IS FACETIOUS ABOUR PARSONS AND OLD WOMEN; NOR CAN I THINK YOU MUCH IN EAR-+ NEST, / WHEN YOU REPRESENT THE REVOLUTION TO BE NO INSTANCE OF THE PEOPLE'S ELECTING A KING. IF MY LORDS OF CLARENDON AND ROCHESTER ADVISED THE PRINCESS TO GIVE UP HER RIGHT OF BLOOD IN ORDER TO DEFEND IT, THEY WERE, I THINK, NO GREAT LOGICIANS. I AM SURE THEY WERE NO GREAT LAW-+ YERS, / IF THEY IMAGINED PREFERRING KING WILLIAM TO A JOINT ESTATE IN THE CROWN, AND AFTERWARDS TO THE REVERSION OF THE WHOLE BEFORE QUEEN ANNE, WAS NOT AN INSTANCE OF THEIR USING THE RIGHT OF ELECTION. AS SUCH IT WAS UNDERSTOOD BY ALL WHO WROTE ON THE SUBJECT ON BOTH SIDES; AND IF A PRECEDENT COULD ESTABLISH A RIGHT, I THINK THAT RIGHT OF ELECTION COULD NEVER HEREAFTER BE CALLED IN QUESTION. WHETHER MY LORD MARLBOROUGH'S DISGRACE IN KING WILLIAM'S TIME WAS OWING TO HIS BEING HUSBAND TO LADY MARLBOROUGH, AS YOU SAY, I KNOW NOT: BUT CERTAIN I AM, THAT THE MERITS OF HER ILLUSTRIOUS HUSBAND SHOULD HAVE PROTECTED THE DUTCHESS FROM ANY DISGRACE IN QUEEN ANNE'S TIME, AND SHOULD HAVE ENDEARED HER TO THE WHOLE NATION. IF THE WIVES AND WIDOWS OF GREAT MEN HAVE BEEN ESTEEMED IN ALL COUNTRIES: IF I

HAVE SEEN IN A VERY PUBLIC ASSEMBLY A RESPECT PAID TO THE WIFE OF A MAN WHO LATELY TOOK AN UNDEFENDED TOWN IN THE WEST-INDIES; WHAT HO-+ NOURS / SHOULD BE PAID TO THE CONSORT OF THAT GLO-+ RIOUS / MAN, WHO CARRIED THE HONOUR OF OUR ARMS SO HIGH, AND BY SUCH A SERIES OF COURAGE, CON-+ DUCT / AND SUCCESS, PRESERVED THE LIBERTIES OF EU-+ ROPE? / AS YOUR LORDSHIP IS PLEASED TO BRING IN BISHOP BURNET, CONFIRMING ALMOST EVERY THING WHICH HER GRACE HATH SAID RELATING TO THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE TWO SISTERS, I WILL LIKEWISE REPEAT HIS WORDS ONCE MORE TO YOU: ((" THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK, SAYS THAT PRELATE, THOUGHT HERSELF TOO MUCH NEGLECTED BY THE KING, WHOSE COLD WAY TOWARDS HER WAS SOON OBSERVED. AFTER THE KING WAS ON THE THRONE NO PROPOSITIONS WERE MADE TO HER OF A SETTLE-+ MENT, / NOR ANY ADVANCES OF MONEY. SO SHE THINKING SHE WAS TO BE KEPT IN A NECESSITOUS DEPENDANCE ON THE COURT, GOT SOME TO MOVE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN THE YEAR 1698; WHEN THEY WERE IN THE DEBATE CONCERNING THE REVENUE, THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE ASSIGNMENTS SUITABLE TO HER DIGNITY. THIS BOTH KING AND QUEEN TOOK AMISS FROM HER. - THE ACT PASS'D, ALLOWING HER A SETTLEMENT OF FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS. BUT UPON THIS A COLDNESS FOLLOW'D BETWEEN NOT ONLY THE KING, BUT EVEN THE QUEEN AND PRINCESS. AND THE BLAME OF THIS MOTION WAS CAST UPON THE COUNTESS OF MALBOROUGH, AS MOST IN FAVOUR WITH THE PRINCESS: AND THIS HAD CONTRIBUTED

MUCH TO ALIENATE THE KING FROM HER HUSBAND, AND HAD DISPOSED HIM TO RECEIVE ILL IMPRESSIONS OF HIM."))

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO GIVE A STRONGER CONFIRMA-+ TION / OF THE TRUTH OF HER GRACE'S ACCOUNT. LET US SURVEY THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, WHICH HATH ANY THING MATERIAL IN IT. IN PAGE ((25)) IS THE FOL-+ LOWING: / (("AS TO THE DIFFERENT CHARACTER OF THE TWO SISTERS, I BELIEVE YOUR LORDSHIP, UPON REFLECT-+ ING / A LITTLE UPON THE NATURE OF THE FAIR SEX IN GENERAL, WILL AGREE WITH ME, THAT NO SUCH DISAGREEMENT COULD EVER HAVE HAPPEN'D FROM THE CAUSES ASSIGNED BY HER GRACE. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE, SAYS HER GRACE, THAT THEY SHOULD EVER BE VERY AGREEABLE COMPANIONS TOGETHER, BECAUSE QUEEN MARY GREW WEARY OF ANY BODY WHO WOULD NOT TALK A GREAT DEAL, AND THE PRINCESS WAS SO SILENT THAT SHE RARELY SPOKE MORE THAN WAS NE-+ CESSARY / TO ANSWER A QUESTION. I BELIEVE THE WORLD WILL ALLOW, THAT BISHOP BURNET WAS AT LEAST AS GOOD A JUDGE OF QUEEN MARY'S PRI-+ VATE / CHARACTER, AS EVER HER GRACE WAS, WHO, AS WOULD APPEAR, HAD SCARCELY ANY OPPORTUNITY OF KNOWING IT. BUT SHE GIVES HER A CHARACTER, THAT WITH REGARD TO HER QUALITY, IF I AM NOT QUITE OUT OF MY JUDGMENT AS TO WOMAN-KIND, IS QUITE THE REVERSE OF THAT GIVEN BY HER GRACE. FOR THE PRELATE SAYS, THAT QUEEN MARY LOV'D TO TALK A GREAT DEAL: NOW I MAY VENTURE TO AP-+ PEAL / TO ALL THE EXPERIENCE OF THAT SEX, IF THERE

WAS EVER FOUND A WOMAN WHO LOV'D TO TALK A GREAT DEAL HERSELF, AND YET AT THE SAME TIME GREW WEARY OF EVERY BODY WHO DID NOT TALK A GREAT DEAL TOO. ADMITTING BISHOP BURNET'S CHARACTER OF QUEEN MARY IN THIS RESPECT TO BE THE TRUE ONE, BECAUSE HE KNEW HER BEST; AND LIKEWISE THE CHARACTER WHICH HER GRACE GIVES OF THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK TO BE A TRUE ONE TOO, VIZ((.)) THAT THE PRINCESS WAS SO SILENT THAT SHE RARELY SPOKE MORE THAN WAS NECESSARY TO AN-+ SWER / A QUESTION: I SAY, ADMITTING THESE TWO CHARACTERS TO BE TRUE IN BOTH RESPECTS, WE HAVE THE VERY BEST REASON IN THE WORLD FOR WONDER-+ ING / WHY A PERPETUAL HARMONY DID NOT SUBSIST BETWIXT THE TWO SISTERS; SINCE NO PERSON IN THE WORLD CAN BE SO AGREEABLE TO A WOMAN WHO LOVES TO TALK A GREAT DEAL, AS ANOTHER WHO LOVES TO TALK VERY LITTLE."))

SURE YOUR LORDSHIP HATH TOO MUCH INSIGHT INTO THE FAIR SEX, AND INTO HUMAN NATURE IN GENERAL, TO BE IN EARNEST. INDEED, IT IS TRUE, THAT TALKA-+ TIVE / WOMEN, AND TALKATIVE MEN TOO, ARE SOME-+ TIMES / FOND OF ONE WHO WILL BE ((AUDITOR TANTUM)); BUT THIS LISTNING MUST BE WITH THE GREATEST ATTEN-+ TION, / MUST BE ACCOMPANIED WITH FREQUENT ASSENT-+ ING / NODS, SMILIES, AND WORDS TOO, AND IS WHAT NO ONE EVER FINDS BUT AMONGST INFERIORS AND DEPENDENTS, AND NOT IN AN EQUAL OF A SO-+ LEMN / AND SULLEN DISPOSITION, AND OF A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING; WHO WOULD BE VERY ABSENT IN ATTENTION, AND WOULD NOT FAIL OF BETRAYING IN LOOKS AND GESTURES SUFFICIENT MARKS OF DISLIKE, AND PERHAPS CONTEMPT; WHICH SILENT PEOPLE GE-+ NERALLY / HAVE FOR THOSE OF A LOQUACIOUS TEMPER.

BESIDES, DOTH NOT COMMON EXPERIENCE TEACH US, THAT GOSSIPS ALWAYS AFFECT ONE ANOTHER'S COMPANY? NOR IS THERE THE LEAST INCONVENIENCE, SINCE A DOZEN WOMEN CAN TALK ALL TOGETHER, WITHOUT THE LEAST INTERRUPTION OR DISTURBANCE ONE TO AN-+ OTHER. / AS TO QUEEN MARY'S BEHAVIOUR, AS THE DUTCHESS RELATES IT, ON HER FIRST COMING TO WHITE- HALL, I APPREHEND ANY SPECTATOR OF HUMANITY WOULD HAVE FORMED THE SAME CONCLUSIONS WITH HER GRACE FROM IT. IF IT PROCEEDED FROM THE PRINCE'S ORDERS, AS BISHOP BURNET TELLS US, IT DOTH INDEED IN SOME MEASURE JUSTIFY THE QUEEN; BUT LAYS NO IMPUTATION ON THE DUTCHESS, WHO KNEW NOT OF THOSE ORDERS. IN PAGE ((28)), YOU PROCEED AS FOLLOWS: (("HER GRACE NEXT RELATES UPON HEARSAY, AN ANGRY CONVERSATION THAT PASS'D BETWEEN THE TWO ROYAL SISTERS, UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE PRINCESS'S SETTLEMENT, WHICH WENT SO WELL IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, THAT THEIR FRIENDS BEING ENCOU-+ RAGED / TO PROPOSE A MUCH LARGER REVENUE, THE KING, IN ORDER TO PREVENT IT, PROROGU'D THE PAR-+ LIAMENT. / BUT HER GRACE, THO' SHE TAKES CARE TO LET US KNOW THAT THE WHOLE OF THIS AFFAIR LAY UPON HERSELF, LEAVES US ENTIRELY IN DOUBT BY WHAT MEANS IT HAPPEN'D, THAT THE INTENTION OF AUGMENTING THE SETTLEMENT WAS DEFEATED. ALL WE CAN LEARN IS, THAT THE KING THOUGHT PROPER TO COMPOUND THE MATTER WITH THE PRIN-+ CESS'S / FRIENDS; AT THE SAME TIME WE DON'T LEARN BY HER GRACE'S ACCOUNT THAT THE PRINCESS HAD ANY OTHER FRIEND BUT HERSELF; NAY, IT WOULD AP-+ PEAR /

FROM THE APPLICATIONS MADE TO HER BY MY LADY FITZHARDING, AND MY LORD SHREWSBURY, THE TWO PERSONS OF THE GREATEST CREDIT AT COURT, THAT SHE WAS CONSIDER'D AS THE MANAGER OF THE WHOLE ON THE SIDE OF THE PRINCESS. I SHALL THEREFORE OFFER AN INSINUATION WHICH I HAVE HEARD MADE TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF HER GRACE BY THE TORIES, WHO CERTAINLY WERE AT THAT TIME STRONG ENOUGH IN PARLIAMENT TO HAVE CARRIED A LARGE SETTLEMENT FOR THE PRINCESS, AND WERE HEARTILY INCLINED TO HAVE DONE IT, HAD THEY NOT BEEN DECEIV'D BY A SECRET COLLUSION BE-+ TWIXT / THE COURTS AND THOSE IN WHOM THE PRIN-+ CESS / PUT HER CHIEF CONFIDENCE."))

THIS, YOUR LORDSHIP JUSTLY INDEED CALLS AN IN-+ SINUATION, / YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDED A CRUEL ONE; FOR YOU FOUND IT ONLY ON THE COMMON REPORT OF THE TORIES, WHO, ON YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES, ARE NOT TO BE RECEIVED AS VERY CREDIBLE WITNESSES AGAINST HER GRACE; BUT AS THE AFFIRMATIVE IS NOT SUPPORT-+ ED / BY ANY PROOF OR PRETENCE OF PROOF WHATEVER, SO I WILL VENTURE TO SAY THE NEGATIVE MAY BE DE-+ MONSTRATED / BY ALL THE EVIDENCE OF REASON AND COMMON SENSE. FOR, CAN WE SUPPOSE, IF HER GRACE COULD BE PREVAILED ON TO BETRAY THE INTEREST OF THE PRINCESS TO THE KING AND QUEEN, THAT THEY WOULD HAVE DESIRED HER (AS THE BISHOP, THE WORLD, AND YOUR LORDSHIP AGREE THEY DID) TO PART WITH A SERVANT WHO WAS SO EFFECTUALLY THEIR SPY AND TOOL? OR IF SHE HAD AFTERWARDS DISOBLIG-+ ED / THEM, MIGHT NOT THIS HAVE BEEN USED AS THE CERTAIN MEANS OF DESTROYING HER WITH HER MISTRESS. I OMIT THE HANDSOME REFLECTION CAST ON A BROTHER AND SISTER, WHO WOULD BE BASE ENOUGH TO CORRUPT THE

SISTER'S SERVANT TO BETRAY HER INTEREST. BUT CAN ANY THING EQUAL YOUR LORDSHIP'S SAYING, THAT HER GRACE HATH LEFT US INTIRELY IN DOUBT BY WHAT MEANS THE DEFEAT HAPPENED, WHEN SHE PLAINLY AND EXPRESLY TELLS US, IT HAPPEN'D FROM THE KING'S PURPOSELY PROROGUING THE PARLIAMENT. THE REASON GIVEN BY THE DUTCHESS WHY THE PRINCE OF DENMARK PREFERRED THE SEA TO THE LAND- SERVICE, IS A GOOD AND SUBSTANTIAL ONE, AND NOT TO BE OVERTHROWN BY YOUR LORDSHIP'S ASSERTING, (("YOU CANNOT CONCEIVE WHY HIS HIGHNESS SHOULD HAVE A PASSION FOR GOING TO SEA, MERELY BE-+ CAUSE / THE KING COULD NOT SUFFER HIM TO GO IN A COACH WITH HIM IN IRELAND.")) A NEGLECT TO WHICH, I BELIEVE, FEW PRINCESS SO NEARLY AFFIANCED WOULD SUBMIT. YOU WILL PARDON ME, MY LORD, IF I CENSURE YOUR REMARK IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH, AS DEFICI-+ ENT / IN THAT CANDOUR WHICH BECOMES A GENEROUS ADVERSARY, ESPECIALLY A WRITER WHO PRETENDS TO NO MORE THAN ENQUIRY AFTER TRUTH, OR A REFUTATION OF FALSHOOD. YOU SAY, "YOU SHALL MAKE NO OTHER REMARK UPON THE LETTER WHICH HER GRACE HAS GIVEN US FROM QUEEN MARY TO HER SISTER, THAN THAT IT IS PLAIN, THAT THE QUEEN THOUGHT THAT MY LORD M- HAD GIVEN HIS MAJESTY MORE CAUSE OF DISPLEA-+ SURE / THAN WHAT APPEARS TO THE WORLD, AND THAT SHE HAD INFORMED THE PRINCESS OF IT BE-+ FORE. / THIS APPEARS FROM THE FOLLOWING PAS-+ SAGE: / I NEED NOT REPEAT, SAYS THE QUEEN, THE CAUSE HE HAS GIVEN THE KING TO DO WHAT HE HAS DONE, NOR HIS UNWILLINGNESS AT ALL TIMES TO COME TO SUCH EXTREMITIES, THO' PEOPLE DO DESERVE IT.

NOW MY LORD, THE SENSE YOU HERE PUT UP-+ ON / THE WORD REPEAT, IS WHAT IT WILL NOT IN COM-+ MON / USAGE BEAR; FOR I WILL APPEAL TO YOUR LORDSHIP'S REFLECTION, AND TO THE WHOLE WORLD, WHETHER THIS WORD IN ALL EPISTOLARY CORRESPON-+ DENCE / IS NOT USED TO MEAN THE INSERTING SOME-+ THING / IN A LETTER WHICH HATH HAPPENED, THO' NOT RELATED BY THE PERSON WHO WRITES TO THE CORRESPONDENT. FOR INSTANCE: I WILL NOT REPEAT TO YOU WHAT HAPPENED AT SUCH A PLACE, OR WHAT WAS SAID BY SUCH A PERSON, ETC. AND THIS IN WRITERS, OF MUCH GREATER ACCURACY THAN QUEENS CAN GENERALLY BE SUPPOSED. QUEEN MARY THERE-+ FORE / MEANS HERE BY THE WORD REPEAT, NO MORE THAN IF SHE HAD WRIT, I NEED NOT TELL YOU: FOR INDEED IF THE QUEEN HAD COMMUNICATED THIS BEFORE, I SEE NO REASON WHY SHE SHOULD EVEN MENTION IT AGAIN, UNLESS WITH A DESIRE OF INSULT-+ ING / HER SISTER; A CENSURE I AM UNWILLING TO CALL UPON HER. I COME NOW TO THE MOST NOTABLE PARAGRAPH OF ALL; TO INTRODUCE WHICH, INDEED ALL THE REST SEEMS CHIEFLY WRITTEN; AND YET POMPOUS AS THIS IS, IT IS NO MORE THAN THE REPETITION OF AN OLD THREAD-BARE FALSHOOD, INVENTED BY THE JACO-+ BITES, / AND LONG SINCE DISBELIEVED AND LAUGHED OUT OF THE WORLD. LET US SEE THE WHOLE PA-+ RAGRAPH: / "BUT, IN JUSTICE TO THE MEMORY OF THIS PRIN-+ CESS, / I CANNOT AVOID ACQUAINTING YOUR LORD-+ SHIP / WITH A FACT WHICH I HAD FROM A PERSON OF THE GREATEST CONSIDERATION IN THAT AND THE SUCCEEDING REIGN; WHO TOLD ME, UPON MY

SEEMING SURPRIZED AT THE MOTIVES THAT COULD INDUCE KING WILLIAM TO TREAT MY LORD M- WITH THE SEVERITY HE DID; THAT IT WAS WHOLLY OWING TO THE INDISCRETION OF A LADY, WHOM I AM UNWILLING TO NAME, BUT WHOM YOUR LORDSHIP AND THE WORLD WILL EASILY GUESS AT. HE SAID, THAT A FRENCH ENGINEER, WHO HAD RECEIVED SOME DISGUST FROM HIS OFFICERS, HAD COME OVER AT THAT TIME FROM FRANCE, AND HAD LAID BEFORE KING WILLIAM A PLAN BY WHICH DUNKIRK MIGHT BE SURPRIZ'D. THAT THE PLAN WAS EXAMIN'D AND APPROV'D OF BY KING WIL-+ LIAM, / WHO ADMITTED NOBODY INTO THE SECRET BUT BENTHINK, ZULESTEIN, AND LORD M-; BUT THAT BEFORE THE EXECUTION OF THE DESIGN SUCH ORDERS CAME FROM THE FRENCH COURT, AND SUCH A NUMBER OF FORCES WERE POUR'D INTO DUNKIRK, AS PLAINLY SHEW'D THAT THE DESIGN WAS DISCOVER'D. HE SAID, THAT KING WILLIAM IMMEDIATELY SUSPECTED MY LORD M-, BUT WAS UNWILLING TO DISCOVER HIS SUSPICIONS TILL HE COULD HAVE PROOFS, WHICH HE SOON HAD BY MEANS OF A SPY FROM THE COURT OF ST. GER-+ MAINS, / WHO WAS SEIZ'D HERE, AND CONFESS'D THAT HE WAS EMPLOY'D AS AN AGENT BETWIXT MY LADY TYRCONNEL AND KING JAMES'S QUEEN. AND THAT THIS PERSON, UPON HOPES NOT ONLY OF PARDON BUT REWARD, DIRECTED THE GOVERN-+ MENT / TO A PACKET FROM FRANCE, WHICH DISCO-+ VER'D / THAT MY LADY TYRCONNEL, BY MEANS OF A CERTAIN LADY WHO GAVE HER ALL HER CONFI-+ DENCE, / AND TO WHOM MY LORD M- WAS SO WEAK AS TO DISCOVER THE DESIGN. THAT THE KING UPON THIS SENT FOR LORD M-, AND REPROACH'D HIM WITH HIS EASINESS; UPON WHICH THE LATTER CONFESS'D THE WHOLE. THIS INCI-+ DENT /

ACCOUNTS PRETTY WELL FOR THE INSINUA-+ TION / WHICH IS DROPP'D BY QUEEN MARY IN THIS LETTER, AND IT WAS TO WONDER AFTERWARDS IF THE KING WAS A LITTLE TOO SUSCEPTIBLE OF A PRE-+ JUDICE / AGAINST THE EARL WHEN HE WAS COM-+ MITTED / TO THE TOWER."

HERE IS AN INSINUATION OF THE BLACKEST AND MOST HEINOUS KIND, AGAINST A PERSON OF THE HIGHEST DIGNITY, THROWN OUT WITHOUT AN AU-+ THOR, / OR ANY SORT OF PROOF WHATEVER. HER GRACE'S HIGH STATION AND CHARACTER SURELY RE-+ QUIRE, / THAT THE NAME OR TITLE OF THIS PERSON OF CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE MENTION'D AT LEAST, AND EVEN THEN WE MAY DOUBT WHETHER IT CAME FROM HIM, OR WHETHER HE SPOKE TRUTH IF IT DID: THO', BY THE WAY, ADMITTING ALL TRUE THAT IS HERE ASSERTED, THE DUTCHESS MAY NEVERTHELESS BE INNOCENT: HERE WERE THREE MORE PERSONS, TO WIT, BENTHINK, ZULESTEIN, AND THE ENGINEER HIM-+ SELF / IN THIS SECRET; AND WHY NONE OF THEM AS CAPABLE OF DISCOVERING IT AS THE EARL OF MARL-+ BOROUGH? / BUT CAN WE BELIEVE, THAT IF THIS HAD BEEN THE REASON OF THE KING'S PREJUDICE AGAINST THE EARL, AS IS ASSERTED, THAT HE WOULD HAVE CONCEALED THIS REASON? OR IF THE DISCOVERY COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT HOME TO THE DUTCHESS, THAT THE KING AND QUEEN, WHOM (AS IS CONFEST ON ALL HANDS, WERE HER ENEMIES, WOULD HAVE KEPT THIS TREACHERY IN HER A SECRET? OR THAT HER OTHER ENEMIES, (OF WHICH I BELIEVE THEN AS WELL AS SINCE, ENVY AND MALICE HAD CREATED HER MA-+ NY) / WOULD NOT HAVE PROMULGATED, WITH THE UT-+ MOST / DILIGENCE, A STORY WHICH WOULD NOT ONLY HAVE JUSTIFIED THEIR RESENTMENT, BUT WOULD HAVE RENDER'D IT INDECENT EVEN FOR THE PRINCESS

TO RETAIN HER LONGER IN HER SERVICE. THESE THINGS, I SAY, WOULD ALMOST INEVITABLY FOLLOW THE BELIEF OF THIS PRETENDED FACT; WHICH, HAD IT BEEN TRUE, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO CONCEIVE, SHOULD IN SO SHORT A TIME BE OBLIGED TO SUBSIST ONLY ON A REPORT WHICH A NAMELESS AUTHOR HAD FROM A NAMELESS PERSON; A KIND OF EVIDENCE WHICH WOULD NOT BE ADMITTED TO BLACKEN THE CHA-+ RACTER / OF THE LOWEST OF CREATURES, BUT WHICH IS ADMIRABLY CALCULATED TO SPREAD WHAT ((CICERO)) CALLS CONTUMELIA; IT IS A BOW TO SHOOT THOSE ARROWS OF DETRACTION FROM, WHICH (ACCORDING TO AN EXCELLENT WRITER OF OUR CHURCH) ARE ALWAYS FLYING ABOUT IN THE DARK, AND AGAINST WHICH NO POWER BUT OF THAT GOD WHO SEES AND KNOWS ALL THINGS, CAN DEFEND THE GREAT AND BEST CHARACTERS. YOU ARE PLEASED, MY LORD, TO SAY YOU WILL MAKE NO REMARKS ON THE DIFFERENCE "THAT HAPPEN'D BETWIXT THE QUEEN AND THE PRIN-+ CESS, / ON ACCOUNT OF THE LATTER BEING OBSTINATE IN KEEPING MY LADY C- ABOUT HER PERSON: HER GRACE ( YOU SAY) HAS PREVENTED ME IN THIS, BY VINDICATING HER CONDUCT, WITH REGARD TO THE IMPORTANT POINTS, THAT OF THE SUCCESSION, AND THAT OF THE PENSION, AND THAT OF THE PRINCE'S GOING TO SEA." YOU ARE RIGHT IN A-+ VOIDING / ANY SUCH REMARKS; THE ACCOUNT HER GRACE HATH GIVEN IS SATISFACTORY TO EVERY IMPAR-+ TIAL / READER, AND IS AND WILL BE UNIMPEACHED BY THE MALICE OF PARTY AND PREJUDICE. YOU LORDSHIP SAYS, "BUT WITH REGARD TO THE TWO LETTERS GIVEN US FROM THE PRINCESS

OF ORANGE TO HER GRACE, I THINK NOTHING MORE CAN BE SAID, BUT THAT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE PRINCESS OF ORANGE THOUGHT VERY WELL OF MY LADY C-, AND A TIME WHEN QUEEN MARY THOUGHT VERY ILL OF HER. A CASE THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY IN PRIVATE LIFE."

YES, MY LORD, SOMETHING MORE MAY BE SAID; AND IT IS, THAT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE PRIN-+ CESS / WAS PRINCESS OF ORANGE; AND A TIME WHEN SHE WAS QUEEN MARY: AND THEN WHAT FOLLOWS WILL BE TRULY A CASE THAT HAPPENS EVERY DAY. YOUR LORDSHIP'S NEXT FLING, AGREEABLE TO THE MALICE OF THE PARTY, IS AT THE DUKE. "HER GRACE, IN APOLOGIZING FOR HER OWN AND HER HUSBAND'S CONDUCT, SAYS, THAT, EVERY ONE KNOWS THAT MY LORD MARLBOROUGH HAD GREAT EMPLOYMENTS UNDER KING JAMES, AND MIGHT HAVE HOPED TO BE AS GREAT A FAVOURITE AS ANY BODY. - IT WAS HIGHLY IMPROBA-+ BLE / THEREFORE THAT HE WHO HAD DONE SUCH MUCH, AND SACRIFICED SO MUCH FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE RELIGION AND LIBERTY OF HIS COUNTRY, SHOU'D ON A SUDDEN ENGAGE IN A CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THEM. BUT THIS IS, ACCORDING TO WHAT HER GRACE HERSELF SEEMS TO OWN, BUT A POOR COMPLIMENT TO THE INTEGRITY AND DISINTEREST-+ EDNESS / OF THE EARL OF M-; FOR IT SEEMS TO BE NOT ONLY THE OPINION OF HER GRACE, BUT OF THE WORLD, THAT THE DESIGNS OF KING JAMES WERE SO WEAKLY LAID, AND SO FOOLISHLY CARRIED ON, THAT FOR A MAN TO HAVE EMBARK'D IN THEM, WAS TO INVOLVE HIMSELF IN-+ TO / UNAVOIDABLE RUIN."

THE COLOURS WHICH YOUR LORDSHIP THROWS ON MY LORD OF MARLBOROUGH'S CONDUCT, IN LEAVING KING JAMES, AND ADHERING TO THE PRINCE OF ORANGE, ARE WHAT MAY BE, AND GENERALLY ARE AP-+ PLIED / TO EVERY GREAT ACTION, WHICH THOSE WHO ARE STRANGERS TO THE MOTIVES OF TRUE GREATNESS AND VIRTUE, ALWAYS IMPUTE TO MEAN, PRIVATE, AND MERCENARY DESIGNS. IT IS EASY TO SEE INTO CONSEQUENCES, WHEN THEY HAVE HAPPENED; BUT I BELIEVE MANY THEN ALIVE APPREHENDED MORE DANGER IN THE SUCCESS OF THOSE WEAK MEASURES THAN YOUR LORDSHIP SEEMS TO THINK THEY THREAT-+ NED: / NAY, EVEN AT LAST, IT HATH BEEN MADE A DOUBT BY MANY, IF KING JAMES HAD NOT DE-+ SERTED / THE CROWN, WHETHER IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM HIM: AND IF HE HAD RETAINED IT, LET THE RESTRAINTS UNDER WHICH HE HAD BEEN LAID BEEN WHAT THEY WILL, THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH COU'D HAVE EXPECTED NO FORGIVENESS, NOR RE-+ STORATION / TO HIS FAVOUR. YOU ARE PLEASED TO SAY YOU WILL MAKE NO OTHER REMARK ON THOSE WARM FRIENDLY LETTERS FROM THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK TO HER GRACE, THAN WHAT YOUR LORDSHIP HATH MADE ON THOSE TO QUEEN MARY; TO WHICH THEREFORE I SHALL GIVE THE SAME ANSWER: YOU THEN ASK A QUE-+ STION; / "BUT IS THERE ANY THING WONDERFUL, ANY THING UNACCOUNTABLE, ANY THING CRIMINAL IN ONE'S ALTERING THEIR OPINION OF WOMAN-KIND! OR ARE PRINCES OBLIG'D TO GIVE THE WORLD AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOTIVES THAT INDUCE THEM TO DO IT?" PERHAPS, INDEED, THERE IS NOTHING WON-+ DERFUL / IN THE ALTERATION OF ONE'S OPINION OF ANOTHER; BUT SURELY THE DISMISSION OF AN OLD FAITHFUL SERVANT, AFTER A LONG CONTINUED EXE-+ CUTION /

OF THE GREATEST TRUST WITH INTEGRITY, CONCEIVING A SUDDEN DISLIKE AFTER THE HIGHEST FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILIARITY WITH AN INFERIOUR FOR MANY YEARS, REMOVING AND DISPLACING SUCH A SERVANT FROM HER OFFICE AND TRUST WITHOUT ANY VISIBLE REASON, OR CONDESCENDING, EVEN WHEN ARDENTLY DESIRED, TO ASSIGN ANY; SURE SUCH CON-+ DUCT / IS NOT SO PERFECTLY ACCOUNTABLE, IF CLEAR FROM BEING CRIMINAL, AS YOU WOULD IMAGINE. AND IF PRINCES ARE NOT OBLIGED TO GIVE THE WORLD AN ACCOUNT OF THE MOTIVES THAT INDUCE THEM TO SUCH EXTRAORDINARY ACTIONS, SURELY THE LOWEST SUBJECTS, MUCH MORE THE HIGHEST, ARE AT LIBERTY TO JUSTIFY THEMSELVES IF THE MALICIOUS PART OF THE WORLD LAYS THE BLAME ON THEIR MISCONDUCT. I AM DESIROUS WITH THE UTMOST CAUTION TO AVOID REFLECTIONS ON ANY PERSON'S CHARACTER. I SHALL THEREFORE TAKE NO MORE NOTICE OF WHAT YOU SAY CONCERNING MY LORD ROCHESTER, THAN TO OBSERVE, THAT IF HE HAD THE QUEEN WHOL-+ LY / IN HIS HANDS AT THE TIME OF THE ORDER BEING SENT BY LORD NOTT-M TO THE SIMPLE MAYOR OF BATH, THE DUTCHESS IN IMPUTING IT TO LORD ROCHESTER, DEALS NO HARDER WITH HIS LORD-+ SHIP, / THAN HATH BEEN EVER DONE WITH ALL FA-+ VOURITES / AND MINISTERS, WHO MUST BE CONTENT-+ ED / TO BEAR THE BLAME AND BURTHEN OF WHAT-+ EVER / IS DONE, NOT ONLY BY THEIR SOVEREIGNS THEMSELVES, BUT BY ALL THEIR INFERIOURS IN OF-+ FICE. / NOR IS IT LIKELY THAT ANY ONE WITHOUT ORDERS FROM THE QUEEN, OR FROM HIM WHO GOVERN'D THE QUEEN, WOULD HAVE DARED TO AT-+ TEMPT / SUCH A MEASURE WITH SUCH A PERSON; NOR INDEED DOTH IT APPEAR THAT LORD NOTTINGHAM HIMSELF HAD ANY MOTIVE FOR SO DOING: TO

WHICH I SHALL BEG LEAVE TO ADD THE DUTCHESS'S OWN WORDS: "THE KING BEING ABROAD WHEN THIS LETTER WAS WRIT, AND THE QUEEN BEING AT THAT TIME WHOLLY IN MY LORD ROCHESTER'S HANDS, EVERY BODY CONCLUDED, THAT IT WAS DONE BY HIS AD-+ VICE: / AND I AM MYSELF THE MORE FULLY PERSUAD-+ ED / OF IT, FOR THE FONDNESS HE DISCOVERED FOR SUCH SORT OF PAGEANTRY, WHEN (IN THE BEGIN-+ NING / OF QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN) HE MADE HIS PRO-+ GRESS / IN THOSE PARTS, AND TOOK PAINS IN BEG-+ GING / TREATS, AND SPEECHES FROM SUCH SORT OF PEOPLE. BUT IT MUST BE OWN'D, THAT HIS LORDSHIP HAD A SINGULAR TASTE FOR TRIFLING CEREMONIES." THE CHARACTER WHICH HER GRACE GIVES THE EARL OF GODOLPHIN, YOUR LORDSHIP SAYS REQUIRES NOTICE, AND I READILY AGREE WITH YOU IT DOES: FOR IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY AND A TRUE ONE. THE PASSAGE YOU QUOTE IS AS FOLLOWS: " THE PRINCESS, AFTER THIS, CONTINUED AT BERK-+ LEY-HOUSE, / IN A VERY QUIET WAY; FOR THERE WAS NOTHING MORE TO BE DONE, UNLESS THEY WOULD STOP HER REVENUE, WHICH DOUBTLESS THEY WOULD HAVE ATTEMPTED, HAD THEY THOUGHT IT PRACTICABLE; BUT MY LORD GODOLPHIN WAS THEN FIRST COMMISSIONER OF THE TREASURY, A MAN ESTEEMED VERY USEFUL TO THE SERVICE, AND WHO THEY KNEW WOULD QUIT UPON ANY ORDERS; AND THEY COULD NOT EASILY HAVE FOUND A PERSON WITH QUALITIES FIT FOR THAT EMPLOYMENT." YOU ARE PLEASED TO SAY: " IT IS VERY SUR-+ PRIZING / THAT ONE WHO KNOWS THE WORLD SO

WELL AS HER GRACE DOES, SHOULD WRITE IN THIS MANNER. UPON THE TERMS IN WHICH SHE RE-+ PRESENTS / THE PRINCESS OF DENMARK TO HAVE STOOD WITH KING WILLIAM AND QUEEN MARY, CAN IT BE IMAGINED THAT HAD THESE TWO PRINCES INCLINED TO HAVE STOPT THE REVENUE OF THE PRINCESS, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN FRIGHTEN'D FROM THE ATTEMPT, MERELY BECAUSE THEY CON-+ CEIVED / THAT ONE OF THEIR OWN SERVANTS WOULD OPPOSE IT? IS THIS AGREEABLE TO THAT POSITIVE DETERMINED CONDUCT FOR WHICH KING WILLIAM WAS ALWAYS REMARKABLE."

TO BE APPREHENSIVE OF AN OPPOSITION FROM A GREAT, ABLE, AND HONEST MINISTER, MAY STAG-+ GER / A PRINCE OF KING WILLIAM'S UNDERSTANDING, AND MAY WELL DETER HIM FROM A STEP OF SO EX-+ TRAORDINARY / A NATURE. AS TO THE ACCOUNT OF THE QUEEN'S BEHA-+ VIOUR / RELATED BY BISHOP BURNET, AND THAT GI-+ VEN / US BY HER GRACE, I CANNOT OBSERVE ANY SUCH DISAGREEMENT OR CONTRADICTION, AS YOUR LORD-+ SHIP / MENTIONS. INDEED, THAT OF THE DUTCHESS IS FULLER AND MORE PARTICULAR, AS SHE HAD UN-+ DOUBTEDLY / MORE OPPORTUNITY OF KNOWING THE WHOLE. THE BISHOP SAYS, " THAT THE QUEEN WHEN SHE WAS DYING HAD RECEIVED A KIND LETTER FROM, AND HAD SENT A RECONCILING MES-+ SAGE / TO THE PRINCESS; AND SO THAT BREACH WAS MADE UP. IT IS TRUE, THE SISTERS DID NOT MEET; IT WAS THOUGHT, THAT MIGHT THROW THE QUEEN INTO TOO GREAT A COMMOTION; SO IT WAS PUT OFF TILL IT WAS TOO LATE."

HER GRACE GIVES US THE FOLLOWING RELATION: " AS I KNEW, SAYS SHE, THAT SEVERAL PEOPLE, AND EVEN ONE OF THE PRINCESS'S OWN FAMILY, WERE ALLOWED TO SEE THE QUEEN, I WAS FULLY PER-+ SUADED, / THAT THE DEFERRING THE PRINCESS'S COM-+ ING, / WAS ONLY TO LEAVE ROOM FOR CONTINUING THE QUARREL, IN CASE THE QUEEN SHOULD CHANCE TO RECOVER, OR FOR RECONCILIATION WITH THE KING, (IF THAT SHOULD BE THOUGHT CONVE-+ NIENT) / IN CASE OF THE QUEEN'S DEATH. DU-+ RING / ALL THE TIME OF THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS, TO HER DECEASE, THE PRINCESS SENT EVERY DAY TO ENQUIRE HOW SHE DID; AND ONCE I AM SURE HER MAJESTY HEARD OF IT, BECAUSE MY LADY FITZHARDING, WHO WAS CHARG'D WITH HER MES-+ SAGE, / AND WHO HAD MORE DESIRE THAN ORDI-+ NARY / TO SEE THE QUEEN, BROKE IN WHETHER THEY WOULD OR NOT, AND DELIVERED IT TO HER, EN-+ DEAVOURING / TO EXPRESS IN HOW MUCH CONCERN THE PRINCESS WAS; TO WHICH THE QUEEN RETURN-+ ED / NO OTHER ANSWER BUT A COLD THANKS: NOR, THOUGH SHE RECEIVED THE SACRAMENT IN HER ILLNESS, DID SHE EVER SEND THE LEAST MESSAGE TO THE PRINCESS, EXCEPT THAT IN MY LADY DER-+ BY'S / LETTER, WHICH PERHAPS HER MAJESTY KNEW NOTHING OF." WHAT INCONGRUITY? THE BISHOP IS A CON-+ FIRMATION / OF ALL THE DUTCHESS SAYS, AND BOTH AGREE IN THE MATERIAL POINTS, THAT THE QUEEN SENT BUT ONE MESSAGE, AND THAT SHE DIED WITHOUT SEEING HER SISTER. I COME NOW TO A MOST WONDERFUL DISCOVERY INDEED, NO LESS, THAN THAT LORD MARLBOROUGH

AND HIS LADY WERE THE TWO STAUNCHEST TORIES IN THE KINGDOM. THE PROOFS OF THIS ARE; ((1.)) THAT AT QUEEN ANNE'S COMING TO THE CROWN, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FAVOUR IN WHICH THE DUTCHESS THEN STOOD, SHE PUT HERSELF (AS THE DUTCHESS COMPLAINS) ENTIRELY INTO THE HANDS OF THE TORIES. THIS IS REPRESENTED AS A CON-+ TRADITION, / VIZ((.)) THAT A PRINCE SHOULD ACT CON-+ TRARY / TO THE OPINION OF HER FAVOURITE. ((2.)) THE DISFAVOUR THIS LORD AND LADY WERE IN AT COURT, DURING ALL THE TIME THAT KING WILLIAM EMPLOYED THE WHIGS. THO' THIS DIS-+ FAVOUR / HATH BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR, SO MANY OTHER WAYS ALREADY. ((3.)) THE EARLS OF MARLBOROUGH AND GODOLPHIN WERE CONTINUED IN THEIR POSTS, AND CARESS'D AND FOLLOWED BY THE TORIES. ((4.)) WERE BELIEVED TO BE SUCH BY THE QUEEN. ((5.)) WERE EDUCATED IN THOSE PRINCIPLES. IT MAY INDEED BE PROBABLE, THAT THE TORIES, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE QUEEN'S REIGN, PER-+ CEIVING / THAT HER LOVE FOR THE CHURCH HAD NOT YET WORMED MY LADY MARLBOROUGH OUT OF HER AFFECTIONS, AND THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT TO DIS-+ PLACE / THE TWO EARLS IN WHOM SHE PLACED SO DE-+ SERVED / A CONFIDENCE, MIGHT CONTENT THEMSELVES TO UNITE WITH PERSONS WHO HAD NO VIOLENCE OF PARTY, NOR WERE EXTREMELY ZEALOUS, UNLESS IN

WHAT THEY IMAGINED TO BE THE TRUE INTEREST OF THEIR COUNTRY. THIS I SAY, IS PROBABLE: FOR WE HAVE SEEN WHIGS AND TORIES OF LATER DAYS, UNITE AND AGREE IN PLACE VERY WELL TOGETHER. NAY FARTHER, IT IS PROBABLE THAT THE EARLS, TO ENGAGE THE FAVOUR OF THE QUEEN AND TO SERVE HER EFFECTUALLY, AS THEY AFTERWARDS DID, IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE, MIGHT, BY THEIR CON-+ VERSATION / AND INTIMACY WITH SOME MEN, GIVE THE TORIES, WHO ARE GOOD-NATURED POLITICIANS, REASONS TO IMAGINE THEY WERE BETTER TORIES IN THEIR HEARTS, THAN THEY AFTERWARDS FOUND THEM: BUT IF THEY WERE REALLY SO, WHENCE THE WHIG MINISTRY, UNDER WHICH THOSE GLORIOUS VICTORIES, THE DEFENCE AND PRESERVATION OF EUROPE'S LI-+ BERTIES, / WERE OBTAINED? WHENCE THE CRY OF THE CHURCH IN DANGER? WHENCE THAT OPPOSITION TO THOSE EARLS, WHICH ENDED IN THEIR BEING TURNED OUT, AFTER ALL THEIR FAITHFUL AND EMINENT SERVICES? A BLACK SPOT IN THE HISTORY OF THAT REIGN, WHICH YOUR LORDSHIP WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO WHITEN. YOUR LORDSHIP IS PLEASED TO SAY, THAT THE PAINS HER GRACE IS AT IN VINDICATING HER CONDUCT FROM THE IMPUTATION OF PRIVATE VIEW, IS VERY STUDIED: I DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD TO MEAN BY STUDIED; IF YOU WOULD SAY, HER GRACE HATH TAKEN THE TROUBLE TO WRITE SEVERAL SHEETS, CONTAINING, AN ACCOUNT OF MAT-+ TERS / OF FACT, ATTESTED BY THE STRONGEST AND MOST UNDENIABLE EVIDENCE, (LETTERS AND PUBLIC AC-+ COUNTS / OF THE NATURE OF RECORDS,) TO CONVINCE THE WORLD THAT SHE WAS A FAITHFUL, HONEST, UP-+ RIGHT / AND THRIFTY SERVANT TO HER MISTRESS, BOTH BE-+ FORE / AND AFTER SHE WAS QUEEN; I SHALL AGREE WITH YOU, AND SO WILL THE WORLD. BUT I CANNOT SO

READILY OWN, THAT TRUTH AND SINCERITY WILL AL-+ WAYS / SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES, AND REQUIRE NO OTHER ADVOCATES BUT THEIR OWN GOOD EFFECTS. DAILY EXPERIENCE MUST CONVINCE THE BLINDEST OF US OF THE BLOTS WHICH MALICE, ENVY AND INGRATITUDE CAN THROW ON THE WHITEST NAME. NAY, I WISH THAT THE VERY PAPER NOW UNDER MY CONSIDERATION, DID NOT AFFORD MARKS OF THIS KIND; YOUR LORD-+ SHIP / WILL PARDON ME IF THE SNEERS IN THE FOL-+ LOWING / PARAGRAPH SAVOUR TO ME OF ONE OF THOSE PRINCIPLES. I WILL QUOTE THE WHOLE. "IN ((P. 136.)) WE FIND A MOST EXALTED SKETCH OF HER GRACE'S CHARACTER, BOTH AS A CHRISTIAN AND A POLITICIAN. SHE COULD HAVE FORGIVEN EVEN THE EARL OF ROCHESTER, IF SHE HAD THOUGHT THAT HE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE QUEEN'S TRUE INTEREST; AND SHE WAS A WHIG, ONLY BECAUSE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE TORIES APPEARED GIBBERISH, AND THOSE OF THE WHIGS RATIONAL, AND NO WAYS TO THE PREJUDICE OF THE CHURCH AS BY LAW ESTABLISHED. HAVING THUS DISCUSSED HER RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL CHA-+ RACTER, / WE HAVE IN THE SAME PAGE A SPECIMEN OF HER NATURAL ONE; THAT SO NOT ONE OF ALL THE CIR-+ CLE / OF AMIABLE QUALITIES MAY BE WANTING IN HER COMPOSITION." "AS THIS, SAYS HER GRACE, WAS REALLY MY WAY OF THINKING CONCERNING THE TWO PARTIES, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CONTRARY TO THE FRANKNESS OF MY TEMPER, AND TO THE OB-+ LIGATION / OF THAT FRIENDSHIP WITH WHICH THE QUEEN HONOURED ME, NOT TO HAVE TOLD HER MY SENTIMENTS WITHOUT RESERVE." THESE SNEERS ARE NOT, I THINK, AGREEABLE EI-+ THER / TO THE SEX OR THE DIGNITY OF THE PERSON, WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THEM.

I AM AS UNWILLING AS YOUR LORDSHIP TO DETRACT FOR SIR GEORGE ROOK'S CHARACTER. HE WAS A BRAVE MAN, AND HIS VICTORY A SIGNAL ONE; BUT THAT THE TAKING GIBRALTAR DOTH AS MUCH CREDIT TO QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN, AS ANY ACTION THAT HAP-+ PENED / IN IT, I CAN NO MORE CONCEDE THAN I CAN THAT HIS PRESENT M- OF P- IS AS GREAT A SOLDIER AS CHARLES ((XII.)) OF SWEDEN. THAT WE HAVE INDEED LITTLE TO SHOW FOR ALL THOSE GLORIOUS VICTORIES, WHICH WILL RENDER THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S NAME EQUAL TO THAT OF THE GREATEST COMMANDERS OF ANTIQUITY, BESIDES THE TORN CO-+ LOURS / IN WESTMINSTER-HALL, I AM SORRY TO ALLOW; BUT I BELIEVE NO ONE WILL IMPUTE THIS TO HIS GRACE. WHAT YOUR LORDSHIP SAYS OF MR((.)) HARLEY SHALL NOT BE CONTROVERTED BY ME. I SHALL ONLY OBSERVE, THAT WHAT HER GRACE SAYS BOTH OF HIM AND OTHERS, WILL REQUIRE MORE INK, MORE ELOQUENCE, MORE ART AND MORE PROOFS TOO, TO SET ASIDE, THAN YOUR LORDSHIP HATH BEEN PLEASED TO EM-+ PLOY / AT PRESENT. I SHALL NOW PROCEED TO TAKE NOTICE OF THOSE GENERAL SLANDERS WHICH, THO' YOUR LORDSHIP HATH BEEN PLEASED TO DISPERSE THROUGH THE WHOLE LETTER, I SHALL ENDEAVOUR TO COLLECT TOGETHER. PAGE ((8.)) WAS NOT THE CHARACTER OF HER GRACE'S MILDNESS AND DISINTERESTEDNESS SO WELL ESTABLISHED, IT WOULD BE NATURAL TO THINK THAT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME SECRET MISMANAGEMENT; SOME INSTANCES OF FLAGRANT INSOLENCE AND RAPACIOUS-+ NESS, / THAT COULD EFFECT THIS WONDERFUL CHANGE. PAGE ((9.))THE LYE OBLIQUE IS GIVEN. PAGE ((12.))

SHE IS ACCUS'D OF DOWNRIGHT AFFECTATION. PAGE ((15.)) THE LYE OBLIQUE. PAGE ((19.)) SHE IS UPBRAIDED WITH THE LITTLE CAPACITY WHICH AGE AND INFIRMITIES HAVE LEFT HER FOR ENJOY-+ MENTS. / PAGE ((29,)) HER GRACE'S DOUBT AND BACK-+ WARDNESS / ABOUT RECEIVING A PENSION OF A THOU-+ SAND / A YEAR, IS SO VERY AGREEABLE TO HER KNOWN AVERSION TO MONEY, THAT YOUR LORDSHIP CAN MAKE NO DOUBT OF THE FACT. PAGE ((33.)) THE LYE SEMIDIRECT. PAGE ((34.)) A FRESH INSTANCE OF HER GRACE'S KNOWN DISINTERESTEDNESS AND GENE-+ ROSITY. / IBID ((.)) HER GRACE'S EXAGGERATED ACCOUNT OF HER OWN MERITS. PAGE ((37.)) HER FORGIVING TEMPER IRONICALLY. PAGE ((39.)) CHARGED WITH TREATING KING WILLIAM WITH INDECENCY. PAGE ((46.)) CHARGED WITH SPITE. PAGE ((48.)) WITH IN-+ GRATITUDE. / IBID ((.)) WITH CANT. IBID ((.)) WITH IN-+ SOLENCE. / PAGE ((49.)) SHE IS REPRESENTED AS A TY-+ RANT / PASSIM, CHARGED WITH ILL-NATURE AND GO-+ VERNING / HER HUSBAND. WILL ANY MAN SAY, MY LORD, THAT THIS IS A PROPER MANNER OF TREATING A WOMAN OF HER GRACE'S EXALTED STATION AND CHARACTER, ONE OF HER AGE, WHO HATH LIVED UPON SUCH AN INTIMATE FOOTING WITH HER SOVEREIGN, AND WHO IS THE WIDOW OF SO GREAT A MAN, ONE TO WHOM THIS NATION IN PARTICULAR, AND ALL EUROPE IN GENERAL, ARE SO MUCH OBLIGED? MANY, INDEED MOST OF THESE SLANDERS ARE SUCH AS DO NO INJURY, BUT TO THE PERSON WHO VENTS THEM. I SHALL ONLY REMARK ONE, IN PAGE ((8)), HER GRACE IS OBLIQUELY CHARGED WITH RAPACIOUS-+ NESS; / AS IN ANOTHER PLACE, WITH INORDINATE LOVE OF MONEY.

THAT HER GRACE IS RICH, IS MOST UNDOUBTEDLY CERTAIN. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE OTHERWISE; EX-+ TRAVAGANCE / ITSELF, WITHOUT OTHER VICES, COULD NOT HAVE PREVENTED IT. THE MANY GREAT AND LUCRATIVE EMPLOYMENTS, WITH WHICH BOTH HER GRACE AND THE LATE DUKE WERE SO LONG IN-+ VESTED, / AND THE VAST SETTLEMENT ON THE FAMILY BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, SUFFICIENTLY ACCOUNT FOR IT. BUT THAT HER GRACE DISCHARGED HER TRUST WITH FIDELITY, AND THAT SHE SAVED THE QUEEN VAST SUMS OF MONEY, WHICH SHE MIGHT HAVE VISIBLY SUNK INTO HER OWN POCKET; THAT SHE NEVER SUB-+ MITTED / TO ANY MEAN OR DISHONEST ARTS OF EN-+ RICHING / HERSELF, ARE FACTS NOT ASSERTED ONLY, BUT PROVED, IN THE ACCOUNT SHE HATH BEEN PLEASED TO GIVE OF HER OWN CONDUCT. NOR DO I REMEMBER TO HAVE EVER HEARD HER ACCUSED OF ANY PUBLIC RAPACIOUSNESS OR PRIVATE EXACTION. SHE IS INDEED RICH, AND IF HER ENEMIES ACCUSE HER OF THAT, I BELIEVE SHE MUST PLEAD GUILTY, AT LEAST I HAVE NOTHING TO SAY IN HER VINDICATION. BUT, PERHAPS IT MAY BE SOME ALLEVIATION EVEN OF THIS, THAT THIS WEALTH WAS GOT IN THE GREATEST AND MOST EMINENT SERVICE OF HER COUNTRY; AND IF THE TEARS OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS AT-+ TENDED / IT, THEY WERE THE WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF THOSE WHO WERE IN OPEN ARMS AGAINST THIS KINGDOM.

((2NDLY,)) THAT THE INFLUENCE AND POWER, WHICH HER GRACE FROM HER GREAT FORTUNE ENJOYS, HATH BEEN CONSTANTLY EXERTED IN DEFENCE OF THE LI-+ BERTIES / OF HER COUNTRY AGAINST THE HIGHEST, MOST POWERFUL, AND MOST INSOLENT INVADERS OF IT. HAD THE WEIGHT OF THE DUTCHESS OF MARLBO-+ ROUGH / BEEN LATELY THROWN INTO THE SCALE OF COR-+ RUPTION, / THE NATION MUST HAVE SUNK UNDER IT: BUT, ON THE CONTRARY, HER WHOLE POWER HATH BEEN EMPLOYED IN DEFENCE OF OUR LIBERTIES, AND TO THIS POWER WE IN A VERY GREAT MEASURE OWE THEIR PROTECTION; AND THIS, THE BARBAROUS AND INHUMAN EXULTATIONS OF THE CORRUPTOR AND HIS CHIEF FRIENDS LAST WINTER EXPREST ON HER GRACE'S DANGEROUS ILLNESS, AND THEIR EAGER EX-+ PECTATION / OF HER DEATH, WHICH THEY DECLARED WOULD DO THEIR BUSINESS, SUFFICIENTLY TESTIFY. SO THAT THIS NATION MAY BE TRUELY SAID TO HAVE BEEN TWICE SAVED WITHIN ((40)) YEARS BY THE GLO-+ RIOUS / CONDUCT OF THIS ILLUSTRIOUS PAIR; AND WHOEVER CONSIDERS THIS IN A JUST LIGHT, MUST ACKNOWLEDGE, THAT NO NAME OUGHT TO BE SO DEAR TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, AS THAT OF THE DUTCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH. LASTLY, TO THIS FORTUNE MANY PRIVATE PER-+ SONS / AND FAMILIES, WHO HAVE BEEN RELIEVED BY HER GRACE'S GENEROSITY, OWE THEIR PRESERVATION. NOR DO I BELIEVE ANY PERSON IN HER TIME HATH EQUALLED HER DONATIONS OF THIS KIND: SO YOUR LORDSHIP HATH, I THINK, CHOSEN A VERY IMPRO-+ PER / SUBJECT FOR SO MUCH CALUMNY, WHICH, UN-+ LESS / WE COULD SUPPOSE THIS NATION TO DESERVE A CHARACTER OF THE BLACKEST INGRATITUDE, MUST BE VERY DISTASTEFUL TO US ALL, WHEN THROWN ON ONE,

TO WHOM SO MANY IN PARTICULAR, AND THE WHOLE PEOPLE IN GENERAL, ARE SO GREATLY OBLIGED. BUT, BEFORE I QUIT THIS GLORIOUS WOMAN, WHOSE CHARACTER I HAVE NEVER CONTEMPLATED BUT WITH ADMIRATION, I SHALL JUST MENTION A REFLECTION INTERSPERSED THROUGH THIS MIGHTY PERFORMANCE, AND WHICH IS AGREEABLE TO WHAT HATH BEEN ALWAYS REPORTED BY THE LOWEST AND MOST IGNORANT OF HER GRACE'S ENEMIES; I MEAN, THE REPRESENTING HER AS A WOMAN OF GREAT PRIDE AND HAUGHTINESS. THAT HER GRACE IS SUPERIOUR TO ALL MEANNESS, THAT SHE KNOWS HER OWN GREAT CONSEQUENCE, THAT HER VAST ABILITIES ARE NO MORE HID FROM HERSELF, THAN FROM THOSE WHO HAVE THE HONOUR OF HER CONVERSATION, I AGREE READILY. THAT THESE HAVE PRODUCED AN ELEVATION OF MIND WHICH CAN WITH SCORN LOOK DOWN ON THE PITIFUL ARTS OF HER ADVERSARIES, IS AS TRUE. BUT, I SUPPOSE, YOUR LORDSHIP MEANT NOT THIS. DO YOU NOT RATHER MEAN, THAT GREATNESS OF MIND WITH WHICH THE DUTCHESS HATH ASSERTED HER DIGNITY TO THOSE WHO WOULD FALSELY FLATTER THEMSELVES WITH THE IMAGINATION OF BEING HER SUPERIOURS, OR AS VAINLY PRETEND TO BE HER EQUALS. I CAN TRULY AFFIRM NO SUCH PRIDE HATH BEEN EVER SHEWN TO THOSE WHO HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THEMSELVES TO BE HER INFERIOURS, TO WHOM NONE CAN EQUAL HER IN AFFABILITY AND CON-+ DESCENSION. / I SHALL NOW TAKE LEAVE OF YOUR LORDSHIP FOR THIS TIME, AND I HOPE FOR EVER; BUT IF YOU SHOULD THINK PROPER TO KEEP YOUR WORD (WHICH I HARDLY THINK YOU WILL) IN LAYING OPEN THOSE PARTICULARS IN THE LATTER PART OF

QUEEN ANNE'S REIGN, WHICH YOU SAY ARE OF A DIFFERENT NATURE FROM THE FACTS REPRESENTED BY HER GRACE, YOU MAY DEPEND ON A SECOND LET-+ TER, / THO' PERHAPS DIFFERING SOMEWHAT IN GENTLE-+ NESS / WITH THIS, FROM ((YOUR LORDSHIP'S MOST OBEDIENT HUMBLE SERVANT.)) """"