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on ? Had we but demurred upon forfeiting the 

 late K. Jamesy or made btit a Proffer of renew- 

 ing our antient League with France, and joining 

 with that Crown to keep that Prince upon 

 the Throne oi Great Britain \ they know we 

 might have made what Terms wepleas'd with 

 the late King and Louis XIV. on that conditi- 

 on, and might have been reftor'd to all the Ho- 

 nours and Privileges that our Anceftors enjoy'd 

 in Framey which were almoft equal to thole 

 of the Natives ; and yet that gah'ant Nation 

 thought it no difparagement to them, howe- 

 ver we be defpis'd and undervalued now by a 

 certain Party in England. 



Had we but feem'd to have made fuch Over= 

 tures, the Englijh muft needs have forefeen that 

 the natural Conlequences of (uch a Defign, if 

 it had taken efleft, muft have been thefe, viz, 

 the late King's Adherents in England would cer- 

 tainly have join'd us, and our Nation would 

 have afforded them a fafe retreat, in cafe of any 

 Difafter, till they could have concerted Matters 

 to the belt advantage ; the late King would not 

 have yielded himfelf fuch an eafy Conqueft, 

 nor disbanded his Army in fuch a manner as he 

 did ', Ireland had certainly never revolted, fince 

 every one knows that the Revolution was be- 

 gun, and in a great meafure perfefled there 

 by the Scots of the North ; fo that England 

 muft have become the Theatre of War, bin 

 liable to an Invafion from France on'all occa- 

 fions, would only have ftrengthened her Fec- 



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