A letter to a certain foreign minister; in which the grounds of the present war are truly stated: the conduct of the last administration in regard to foreign affairs ..and the terms of a safe and honourable peace .. . de-part from thefe, would be to confeisan Unfteadinefs or Pufilanimity, un-worthy of a brave and free People. III. That all Pretences of profe-cuting the War on a new Defign,and for better Purpofes, are verydangerous and ought to be fufpedled,inafmuch as fuch Pretences are evi-dently calculated to deceive the Peo-ple to betray the common Caufe,and to introduce a new Syftem notfit
A letter to a certain foreign minister; in which the grounds of the present war are truly stated: the conduct of the last administration in regard to foreign affairs ..and the terms of a safe and honourable peace .. . de-part from thefe, would be to confeisan Unfteadinefs or Pufilanimity, un-worthy of a brave and free People. III. That all Pretences of profe-cuting the War on a new Defign,and for better Purpofes, are verydangerous and ought to be fufpedled,inafmuch as fuch Pretences are evi-dently calculated to deceive the Peo-ple to betray the common Caufe,and to introduce a new Syftem notfit to be openly avowed, becaufe itnever can upon Juft and NationalPrinciples be defended. It is for this ( viii.) this Reafon, for I defy any Manliving to affign another, that ourprefent, upright, wife and able Mi-nifters, have in the moft folemnManner, and in the moft exprefsTerms, declared by Memorials pre-fented at feveral Courts, that noAlteration of Men v^ill be attendedhere with a Change of Meafures ;which is fo clear, fo full, and founanfwerable an Approbation of thePrinciples laid down and fupportedin the following Sheets, that therefeems to be no Reafon to apprehendtheir being ill received by A LETTER T O A CERTAIN MINISTER, SIR, I Cannot think that you will be difpleafedwith the Liberty I take of addrelTmg to youthis Difcourfe on the prefent State of theAffairs of Europe, when I refled: on themany Liberties that have been taken, not withthe Miniftry only, but with the Crown of Great-Britain, by Papers and Pamphlets publiiliedabroad and at home too of late ; as if fome im-perceptible Change had happened in our Confti-tution, and foreign Princes and States had ac-quired a Right to appeal from the Judgment ofa King of Great-Britain, to that of the BritijhNation. It is highly requifite. Sir, that a Pointof this Importance fhould be fet in a clear Zeal exprefsd in a late Refcript, and in the . B Paper ( 2 ) ?aper annexed thereto, with regard to the Ger-
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