The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . ne pitched battle would determine thefate of the Spanijh continent. Let us therefore exert the united ftrength of our whole Ifland, and by thatmeans put a new life and fpirit into the confederates, who have their eyesfixed upon us, and will abate or increafe their preparations according to theexample that is fet them. We fee the necefhty of an augmentation if we in-tend to bring the enemy to reafon, or refcue our country from the miferiesthat may befal it; and we find our felves in a condition of making fuch anaugmentation as, by the
The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . ne pitched battle would determine thefate of the Spanijh continent. Let us therefore exert the united ftrength of our whole Ifland, and by thatmeans put a new life and fpirit into the confederates, who have their eyesfixed upon us, and will abate or increafe their preparations according to theexample that is fet them. We fee the necefhty of an augmentation if we in-tend to bring the enemy to reafon, or refcue our country from the miferiesthat may befal it; and we find our felves in a condition of making fuch anaugmentation as, by the blefling of God, cannot but prove effectual. If wecarry it on vigoroufly, we (hall gain for our felves and our pofterity a long, aglorious and a lafting peace; but if we neglect fo fair an opportunity, we maybe willing to employ all our hands, and all our treafures, when it will be toolate; and fhall be tormented with one of the moft melancholy reflections ofan afflicted heart, That it was once in our power to have made our felves andour children happy. 1. THE THE LATE I TRYAL and CONVICTION > I ° F Count TA K / F T. [ 3°3l THE LATE Tryal and ConviBion of Count Tariff. TH E whole Nation is at prefent very inquifitive after the proceed-ings in the caufe of Goodman Fatty Plaintiff, and Count Tariff,Defendant; as it was tried on the 18th oijune, in the thirteenth yearof her Majeftys reign, and in the year of the Lord 1713. i (hall there-fore give my countrymen a fhort and faithful account of that whole in order to it, muft in the firft place premife fome particulars relatingto the perfon and character of the faid Plaintiff Goodman Facl. Goodman Fact is allowed by every body to be a plain-fpoken perfon, anda man of very few words. Tropes and figures are his averfion. He af-firms every thing roundly, without any art, rhetorick, or circumlocution. Heis a declared enemy to all kinds of ceremony and complaifance. He flat-ters no body. Yet fo great is his natural eloque
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