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refpeSs as if we were Aliens ; and fbmetimes 

 confiicate Ships, by reckoning ^r^^i Mariners as 

 fuch : ib that the Erjgiijh have not only dcpriv'd 

 us of our Government and the warm Influen- 

 ces of our Court, the want of which is a confi- 

 derable addition to the natural coldnefs of our 

 Climate, but they likewife opprefs us on all 

 occafions, and do manifeflly endeavour to pre- 

 vent our Application to Trade. We know 

 there's a Party in that Nation, who think we 

 fulfain'd no great lofs by the removal of our 

 Princes; but we would wifh them toconfider 

 what a murmuring they themfelves make when 

 the King goes annually to the Netherlands (tho 

 the fafety of Europe requires it) becaufe of the 

 damp it puts upon Trade, and the Mony it 

 carries out of the Kingdom. Let them confi- 

 der then what our Nation has fuffer'd in that 

 refpeft now for almoft ico years, befides the 

 lerfening our efleem in the Eyes of the World, 

 lb that our Honour and Subftance are both fwal- 

 low'd up by the Kingdom oi England) and yet 

 they will neither admit us to the privileges of 

 Fellow-Subjefts with themfelves, nor fuffer us 

 to take fuch meafures as may inable us to ftand 

 on our own bottom. Certainly this is not the 

 way to eftablifh the Peace, nor to increafe the 

 Wealth of the Ifland. 



We know that it w^as a Maxim in fbme of 

 the late Reigns, That it would never be well 

 till all that part of Scotland ot\ this fide Forth^ 

 were red uc'd to a hunting Field ; but we were in 



hopes 



