Three Letters to the Whigs Occasion'd by the Letter to the Tories

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1748 edition. Excerpt: ... given td the secret Committees but the very next Year, I think, seconded a Motion for the Revival of it. Now either Way, it was a little immoral; to endeavour to bring, a Man to a second Trial, whom he had found innocent, or to delay acquitting him, (if he was innocent) for five Years after his Trial, and two after his Death. For both these Reasons any Man, who is partial to This Person's Character, will choose not to believe a Word of what he said; but will rather think it a necessary Compliment paid to you, Gentlemen, who still retain your Partiality for the Memory of that Minister. Indeed This Person's Friends have given another Solution of this Declaration: They say it was to reconcile a Vote which he was just going to give against secret Committees. It would have been inconsistent in him, say they, to vote against any Enquiry into any Abuse, if he had not declared that the only Man on whom he ever sat in Judgment, was innocent. But with their Favour, by this Rule a Chief Justice ought to throw up his Commission, nay endeavour to abolish all judicial Proceedings, if the first Man he tries does not happen to deserve to be hanged. Lastly, his Opposition could not be grounded on the Conduct of the noble Earl then supposed at the Head of the Administration, because tho' his Person is removed, his Measures, as far as weak Heads can execute a plan drawn by a Ge nius, are still pursued. He first sent Troops to Flanders; have they been recalled? He was for restoring the Balance of Power--indeed we have since lost it beyond a Possibility of Retrieval; but are we not trying to retrieve it? He made a Treaty for securing the Alliance of the King of Sardinia by giving him Final; have we annulled that Treaty? Will that Prince accept of any other...