I S A Defence of the Scots 



The Djitcb are known to be a People thac 

 leldoQi or never miftake their Intereft : They 

 ^TQ fenfihle how ufeful the Alliance of Scotland 

 inay be to them, both in regard of their Liber- 

 ty to Hfh in our Seas without conrroul, and of 

 being a Curb upon England, in cafe the old 

 fioman Maxim of delenda eft Carthago, fhould 

 eome any more to be applied by the En^hjh ro 

 that Republick, asin the Reign oiK, Charles U. 

 They are likewife fenfible of the advantage it 

 V. ould be to their Trade to be Partners with the 

 Scots ar Parkn ; and how effectual it may be 

 to difable th^ French to puifue their Claim to 

 Spain, and by confequence to revive the old 

 Title of that Crown upon their own (even, as 

 well as to fwallow up the other ten Provinces, 

 Thefe things, together with a long continu'd 

 Amity and Trade betwixt Scotland dnd Holland, 

 and their Union in Religion and Ecclefiaftical 

 Difcipline^ are fufficient to evince that the 

 Pitch would become our Partners in America 

 with little Courtfbip. That they are able 

 toaflift us in that cafe with a Naval Force fuf- 

 ficSent, is beyond contradiftion ; and that they 

 Would foon be convinc'd it is their Intereft to 

 do it, to prevent that monflrous Increafe of the 

 Fn-z/f^ Monarchy, is obvious enough from th^ 

 part they aQed in the late War* 



Butadmiiting that none of thofe Confidera- 

 tlons fliould prevail with the Dutch, and that 

 they ftouUlikewile abandon us ; it is not im^ 

 pcffiblefcrus to obtain an Alliance and Naval 



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