^4 ^ Defence of the Scots 



of bringing England, to our own terms, yet we 

 frankly and generoufly concurrM with them 

 to fettle our Government on the fame Per- 

 fons, and in the fame manner as they did 

 theirs, and all the Reward we had from them 

 is, that an Union of the Nations, tho twice 

 proposed by his Majefty in Parliament, hath 

 been contemptoufly rejected, our King quefti- 

 oned by a Parliament of England for an Ad: of 

 his Parliament in Scotland, which is a mani- 

 feft Impeachment of our Soveraingty ; a Com- 

 pliance with which excluded Baliel and his 

 Heirs for ever from our Crown ; and to this 

 they have added an oppofition to our receiving 

 foreign Subfcriptions at Hamburgh and elfe- 

 where, refused us a Supply of Corn for our 

 Mony, to relieve us in our Diftrefs ; and dit 

 couragM cur Settlement at Darien, by forbid- 

 ding their Subjects to trade with us there. If 

 thele continued Slights and Injuries be not 

 enough to make us weary of the Union of the 

 Crowns, let any Man judg. 



To difcover a little of the unreafonablenefs 

 of this fort of Treatment, we dare appeal to 

 the calm thoughts of fuch of our Neighbours in 

 England^ as prefer the Intereft of the Publick 

 to private Animofities, and foolifh ill-ground- 

 ed Piques, either as to Church or State ; whe- 

 ther at the time of the Revolution, and before 

 we declarM our fel ves, they would not have been 

 willing tohavealTur'd themfelvesof our Friend- 

 fl^ip, at the rateof uniting with us as one Nati- 

 on? 



