Remembrancer (Newspaper) - January 21, 1849, London, Middlesex THE REMEMBRANCER By GEORGE January 21, 1749. 59. wm rather too j much Time in the and Inanity of the Pretences by the to obviate the Objection the which he has been to take Notice I fo much the lefs on the Two laft The for fending back the Ruffians and the giving to for the of Cape &c. The of Two Objections he in Words has been as a Thing to put the Nation to the Expence of that Body of and after ting it to that and making Troops undertake fo long and difficult a to fend them back at that very by ing the Army of the they might have been rendered highly And in his to it he is to let us That the taking into and marching them into was equally carrying on the by affording a of doing to put us in a Way of obtaining a fafe and honourable and it had its fuU Effect one if it had none the 2dly, As to the of. marching them are his very beft Way of accounting is to what would have in Cafe it had not been In the it could not but have given Umbrage to the French they had the of their when Troops were not immediately at Hand to facilitate the ferences at Aix la would been either decent or It muft have the a French Army on the and have given Weight to that Party in the Council that were to all pacific It is not at all that it might have other People and thereby the or et the Nature of by which our Negotiation at that critical very much But the Convention for fending back not only all but relieved the Low Countries from the Weight of an equal Number of French a reciprocal Confidence in both and I will take upon me to went as far towards promoting the of the as the March of Troops did to the Signing the Thus at That our is really a Man of for who but a Man of could have taken upon him to what Effect the March of the Ruffians had upon a which had been carried on with fuch impenetrable I But having paid him this Compliment in it now to confute him as as we have quoted him fairly And if this can be done partly out of his own our will be fo much the and Triumph the more Be it that in Page 18 of his we find the following The March of the Ruffians the Fate of i for to have penetrated into the Heart of cc might have been attended with untoward and have the my on the Side of have determined the of the Germanic fi and muft have inevitably the of the Thus we have a rank That it was not fuch an Matter to penetrate into the Heart of in the Beginning of the laft we were taught to apprehend That the forming a French Army on the was not a of fo much Terror as he afterwards would have it fince it would have the Empire to take a Part in the Quarrel what is more extraordinary than all the That the March of the Ruffians might have been if there had been it had ever been to make any other Ufe of new range than merely to facilitate the Conferences at is Holland could yet have remained on the The and the King of wc all were not in hafte for an Accommodation as to it in the fame Page That the Superiority of our naval Force was even an Equivalent for the French Power in the Low But even as to the Work of our indirectly places the of the Preliminaries to the March of the faid tho' their with the Allies had not been by the of a French Army on the Whence it That if they operated with fo much Force at when not immediately at Hand to facilitate the Conferences they would have operated more if they had been permitted to continue their in Proportion as they drew nearer the Theatre of when the Preliminaries had been actually without any Stipulation with Regard to and their Importance and can it be that who made no to the Countries in of from the of the French would have voluntarily departed from the only coercive they could urge on the for the Sake of relieving the Countries from the Weight of an equal Number of French Troops Surely it cannot be that our Folly rofe to fuch a Pitch of Extravagance as That j And if on the we ought to what the has fo emphatically taken upon him to That the fending back Troops contributed as much to the of the as their Approach did to the of the we ought to allow it for a quite different That their Approach operated too powerfully That it tended to encourage fome of the Allies to on better in the own to render intractable j which it would have endangered the and might have made Way for a Revival of the War And how a Thing that was to at the the Author of the has moil This is all that need be added concerning the Ufe which has been made of the Ruffians and alfo to tkat the Objection founded upon is fo far from being that it is more firmly than as to the which muft j be our been very treated by fame as if it was a Thing and even derogatory to the Honour of Crown and He undertakes to That it is none of who it continues cannot be well quainted with the Law of in which the accepting and receiving ate Points largely and fully But this is fighting with his own Shadow who quoted the Opinion of the Civilians concerning and exemplified Opinions by drawn from the Roman and other admitted the Ufe of But they it had never been for England to give to That on the it had been for France to give to England And that had never been for any Nation to give to but when that Other was in a Condition to give the Law j and it is on this very that whole on 8. Cap. 6. is to the of our giving to He ' * It plainly appears from the ninth by which the fending of is that the and are to keep Pace with each and to be reciprocally given up in fuch a as. that each at the fame Time might give and in a due Proportion But with to the Crown and the of our being that there is an as to the Time in which they can be there was no other Method of fettling this Point in a agreeable to the and punctual Method with Regard to other than this of giving But what was England to to this What was to receive in return for what was to give I If had fi to and nothing to why was this upon And does it at all mend the That our farther For the plain of our giving in one Part of the we actually have made and are to have a capable of in other whereas the French have nothing in their Hands of and Equivalent to reft from this advantageous State of our we had a Right to on making the on bur on our own But how can it be faid that the jFrench have nothing of ours to Has any Account been received of their having or been forced to Madras f And if why waa it not that be given that fothe Nation might have had an Equivalent in the Point of which was fo much the more entitled of the laboured of haying an Equivalent in Point of v But our will needs have That we had made and the French had made the Point of Honour Was on our Side it being according to it was fo far from being derogatory to the Honour of the Crown or that it was to the Honour of the and and for the Glory of
