48 ffiemoirs of Alhe Blanchet. March 14. 



claims upon the same court. George I. had exprefsed 

 a disposition of restoring the fortrefs to its prf-per 

 owners. The dispute was soon ended. In March 

 1729, our wise parliament addrefsed George 11. 

 with a request that he would take care to preserve 

 " his undoubted right" to Minorca, and Gibraltar. 

 This undouhtcd right was at best but that of an in- 

 cendiary, who after setting fire to his neighbour's 

 house, rufhes in to plunder it. This remark implies 

 no censure on the character of George 11. The un- 

 generous act of theft, for it does not even arise to the 

 dignity of robbery, was perpetrated upon a helplefs 

 nation, long before the accefsion of the House of 

 Brunswick. 



I fhall beg leave to conclude this iketch in a fu- 

 ture letter, and I am, l^c. 



Laurcnaihk, TiMOTHY TkUNDERPROOF. 



• tcb. 25. I'JS. 



MEMOIRS OF ABEE BLANCHET. 



Continued from p. 9. 

 If he did not lose his reason, we must allow that it 

 was often overfhadowed. The idea of death conti- 

 nually before his eyes, and the fear of the judge- 

 ment of God Almighty consequently, full of justice 

 and compafsion, made him sometimes bewildered ; 

 so thr\t what ought to have comforted him, only 

 served to intimidate him. I can easily believe that 

 a wicked and corrupt man, disgusted with his own 

 vices, may be afraid to live or die ; but I cannot 

 comprehend how a man, naturally good, who never 



