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Excerpt from The Letters of Atticus as Printed in the London Journal in the Years 1729 and 1730, on Various Subjects: With an Introduction, Containing a Short Survey of Public Affairs From the Time of the Spaniards Besieging Gibraltar to the Year 1731, and an Enquiry Into the Reasons Why Some Modern Writers Assume to Themselves the Great Names of Passed Ages
Ifhall not here pretend to enter into the Motives of the Craftfman, and his Corre fpondents, for abufing the Government. All the juft and prudent Steps which have been purfued by the Minif'try have been fo many Themes of Calumny to them and every De gree of Succefs in the Adminifiration of pub lic Affairs has fo evidently encreafed their Rage, that we may reafonably fuppofe they had rather fee the Nation plunged in conti nual Difiicultys, than that they fhould want Subjeé'ts for cavilling and Complaint. A fbort Review of fome T ranfaé'tions paffed will, in fome Meafure, prove the Truth of this Oh fervation.
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Excerpt from The Letters of Atticus as Printed in the London Journal in the Years 1729 and 1730, on Various Subjects: With an Introduction, Containing a Short Survey of Public Affairs From the Time of the Spaniards Besieging Gibraltar to the Year 1731, and an Enquiry Into the Reasons Why Some Modern Writers Assume to Themselves the Great Names of Passed Ages
Gibraltar is our own; and Reparation is obtained, by Treaty, for the Lofes which the Englifh Merchants have fuf'tained. Commit: farys are appointed on both Sides to confider their Demands, and the Equity of them but the Craflfman would have all this but the Work of a Day, without any Allowance made for the Difiance of Places, for Time for the Merchants to make their Demands, to have Wimeflm examined, and without any Allow ance for many Other Circumfiances necefiltry to be obferved for the Execution of Jufrice. Since he has been laughed out of thefe, and many Other, idle Cavillings, the good him has been very tender for the Interefi of the Emperor, and, looking on himfeif as a Ger man more than anengliflzvnan, has loyally fet forth the Inconveniencys to which his the Emperor is fnbjefied by the Treaty of Se ville; but if any Propofal {horrid be made for the better Security of the King of Gra.
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