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our part ; for it is a defenfive war, having been declared againft 

 us by the French ; and in another refped it is a defenfive war, as 

 much as any war can be, as by it we defend our liberty, our laws, 

 our king, and our conftitution: For the French have profcfled their 

 intention to overturn the regal government in every nation in 

 Europe; and, in place of it, to eltabliih what they call liberty 

 and equality, by which no man in a country is to be fupe- 

 rior to another. This notion of equality they have carried fo far, 

 that even in the Republic of Holland, they have aboliihed the office 

 of the chief magiftrate there; {l mean the Stadholder;) and have 

 obliged the man who pofleifed that office to leave the country. Thefe 

 innovations, which they profefs to make in the governments of Eu- 

 rope, have formed an alliance, fuch as, I believe^ never was formed 

 againft any one nation ; which alliance if we had not joined, our 

 CGndu£t would have been highly diihonourable,. and, at the fame 

 time, mofi: impolitic. 



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