4^ A Defence of the Scots 



Arms againft the EnglifrJ Army, where he was 

 in Perfon. We told him we knew howtodi- 

 flinguifh betwixt the Commands'of a King and 

 thofe of a Captive: and that moft of the Kings 

 oi Scots have been fuch in relation to us (ipcethe 

 Union, we could heartily wifh were not too 

 demonflrable. 



To return to the point of what may probably 

 be the Confequences if the Englifb fhould pro- 

 ceed to any further degree of oppofition ; or if 

 the Scots fliould mifcarry in the Defign. It*s 

 reafonable to believe that the E^gllfl? wili be fo 

 wile as to forbear Hoftiliries, the we are very 

 well fatisfied there is a Party in that Nation 

 who bear ours no good will ; but they being 

 fuch as are either difaffefted to the prefent Con- 

 ftitution, Grafted by a fordid Prmciple of pri- 

 vate Inrereft, it's to be hop'd they will never 

 he able fo far to leaven the found part of the 

 Engltjh Nation, as to occafion a Rupture be- 

 twixt them and us : yet we muft needs fay that 

 we look upon their way of treating us to be 

 a very unaccountable thing, and that it was no 

 fmall furprife to us, to find that an Englijh Par- 

 liament fhould look on our taking Subicriptions 

 in England in order to admit them Joint-Sharers 

 with our felvesjin the benefit of the Aft to encou- 

 rage our Trade, to be no lefs than a high Mif 

 demeanour. We have reafon likewife to com- 

 plain of their conftant praft ice of prefling our Sea- 

 men in time of War, as if they were their own 

 Subjefts, and that they fhould treat us in other 



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