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to a fremh Alliance. It*s in vain for them to 

 objeft that in fuch a cafe we fhould betray our 

 Religion ; for we fee the perfecuted Hungartans 

 were protefted in that by the Turksy tho fworn 

 Enemies to it : nor is it impoifible but there 

 may be a Change as to that matter in France ; 

 L. XIV. is not immortal : and even "Jultan the 

 Apoftate himlelf found it his Intereft for fome 

 time to proteQ: the Orthodox Chriftians, whom 

 he mortally hated. But fuppofing (as indeed 

 there':> no grdat likelihood of it) that no fuch 

 Alliance as this fnould ever happen ; yet how- 

 ever, if thefe two Nations be not more clofely 

 united, it may be of ill confequence to EngUnd, 

 if any ot their Kings at any time (hould be io 

 far difgufted with xheir Proceedings, as to 

 leave them, and betake themfelves to us. Whiit 

 a Field of Blood and Slaughter muft England 

 have become, had we carried off K. Charles L, 

 when he came to our Army, or if we had join'd 

 him apainft the Parliament of England ? What 

 great tfforts did a Party of our Nation make to 

 inthrone K. Charles II. when England was a- 

 gainlt him ? and how did our Concurrence 

 afterwards with General Morjk effeft it ? How 

 fbon did our efpoufingthe D.of iVi'Mncereft 

 turn the Tables upon tho(e that oppoled him in 

 E^oland? And if our Nation had likewife e- 

 fpou^'d his Caufe before the Revolution, the 

 Vifcount of Dundee gave a fuiH.ient poof 

 what we could have done for him. There's a 

 ftrong Party in England at prefent againit aU 



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