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will defeat all their ambitious and Antichrifti- 

 an Defigns; and thereby we fhall al(b be in a 

 condition to aflift the Engli(h Plantations in the 

 Wefl Indies, who as we find by the proceedings 

 of the Earl of Bellomont and the AfTemblies of 

 New England and New Tork, are fufficiently 

 fenfible of their danger, from the incroaching 

 temper of the French^ which increafes every 

 day ; and it is evident that their new de- 

 (Ign'd Colony in Miffiffipi River looks with 

 a dangerous Afpefl: upon all the Englifh Planta* 

 tions in America,2inA may be more j^iiily efteem- 

 ed an Incroachment upon Spain^ as being in 

 the Bay of Mexico^ than our Plantation in Da," 

 rien : which argues the treacherous Humour of 

 that Nation, to make fuch an Outcry againfl: the 

 Scots who have invaded no Mans Property, 

 when they themfelves are fo notorioufly guilty 

 of it ; and therefore it would feem to be the 

 Intereft of England rather to ftrengthen them- 

 felves by our Friendfhip, and to look after the 

 French^ than to provoke us to look out for other 

 Allies by their oppofition and negleft. • 



We (liall conclude this matter with one or 

 two more Arguments to prove, That it is the 

 Intereft of England to join with us in this Af- 

 fair ; by which alfo it will appear that there is 

 nothing advanced in thefe Sheets out of any ill 

 Defign againft the Englijb Nation, or to per- 

 fwade to a difunitingof the Crowns ; but on 

 the contrary, that a ItriQer Union is ablblutely 

 neceffary, that both Nations may have but one 



H 2 Intereft, 



