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 .. . HEN his Prujftan Ma-jefty thought fit, in aTime of full Peace, toinvade the Dominions ofthe Queen of Hungary and Bohemia^and thereby rekindle the War inGermany^ which was other wife onthe point of being extinguiihed ; aPaper was publifhed here under theTitle of, An Expojition of his Mo-tives^ to which the firft Part of thefollowing Work was written in An-fwer, and had very probab


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 .. . HEN his Prujftan Ma-jefty thought fit, in aTime of full Peace, toinvade the Dominions ofthe Queen of Hungary and Bohemia^and thereby rekindle the War inGermany^ which was other wife onthe point of being extinguiihed ; aPaper was publifhed here under theTitle of, An Expojition of his Mo-tives^ to which the firft Part of thefollowing Work was written in An-fwer, and had very probably on theA 2 Turn 2>,oy^ Mg ( i^ )Turn of AfFairs that has followedfince, have been buried in ObiAvioa,had it not plainly appeared that (omeof the Notions inlifted upon in that-Foreign Performance, v/ere reallyconfidcred as Articles of their Politi-cal Faith, by fome of our greateftPoliticians at Home. It was thisthat induced the Author to finifh it,and con fen t that it flriould be madePublick, as a full Anfwer to thofenew Dcdrines, that to pleife thePatrons of them are now preachedup, as found Policy in a certainChapel. The Humour of abufino; fuch, asare intrufted with the Managementof Publick Affairs is,


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