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power of the Engli(h to reduce them fpeedily to 

 reafon : whereas if the Scots fhould mifcarry in 

 their Undertaking by theDircouragementsfroQi 

 ErjgUfjd before-mencioned, which expofes our 

 Ships to be taken and treated as Pirates by any 

 Nation that pleafes, the infallible confequence 

 of it will be, that the Ruin and utter Impove- 

 rifhment o^ScotUnd^ which mult neceffarily fol- 

 low fuch a Mifcarriage, will immediatly affeci 

 England both in her Trade and Strength : The 

 City of Londo?t and the Northern Road v/iU 

 foon feel the effcfls of it, when the Money 

 fpent by our Gentry and Merchants continually 

 for Cloaths, Provifions, and Goods, ceafes to 

 circulate there: England mull; unavoidably 

 become an eailer Prey to any foreign Ene- 

 my ; finceit will not be only theLofsof aTribe, 

 but of an entire Sifter-Nation. Or fuppofing 

 that Scotland fhould be able to bear up under 

 the Lofs, it will lay the foundation of an irre- 

 concilable Feud, ai]d perhaps illue in a War be- 

 twixt the two Nations ; which did never yet 

 terminate at long-run to the advantage of 

 E^ngUnd, and is as unlikely to do fo now as ^e- 

 ver : for in fuch a cafe they would find us una- 

 nimous as one Man againft them 5 whereas we 

 are fure that all thoTe who wifh well to the 

 Proteftant Interefr, and their prefent Conftitu- 

 tion, would never join in any fuch War againft 

 us ; and therefore thofe who are Enemies to 

 the Peace of the Nations, being aware of this, 

 labour to effe£l their Defign by another Method, 



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