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?ffina body to join him{ I need not mention tha? the I're?e?der's health ?a$ drunk openly and unrefer- vediy in all places; and that a gentleman of Mertou ?tlege was put into the bl?ck book for drinking K. G?o?o?'shealth, and obliged to plead the benefit of the a? ?fgrace to get his degt?, after he had been [ep? out of it t?o year? fbr that heinous o?nce? that all fi'tmons, publick f?ches, and declamations ?cre fiuff'd with ?eproaches and infults u?n the King and his minidry ? that they ?relented a knomn Wromoter of the Pretender's ?ufe in Ireland with a do?or'? aezr?e. u?n the very day of the King's corona:ion; a?:d that, at lad, a regiment cf dra- goons m?ch'd into Oxvoa. fword in hand, to pre- v? their t;fing ?n op? rebel!ion.---Are not all thc'? v?y phm and undotable marks of the lied- fafi loyalt? =d age&ion which our teamed old mo. ?her p-?e?es to crown'd heads, and the anointed of the ?d ? I? was ?lly e?e?ed by the King's fri?ds ?v, whg fio? tge vko]ent ?ock of there com- motions, t?t as loon as things were fettle& rome ?eth? would ? t:ken by the gov?nment to e?a- bl:? the protefiant inter? in the univerfiries upon u la,ting foundation, by logping away the dififfe? und fofl?orn mem?rs of tMt corrupted bo?y. They ?hougnt that this wm? an op?rtunity which could not ? r?ed5 a provo?fion which could not ? put up; that the honour due to the King, to his fimity and admin?tion, which w?e all treated in -fuch a conmmel?ous manner, demanded at l?ff rome ?ub)ick r?ration; and that difcouragement, p?fe- ?tton, and ruin ?odd not for ev? continue to be the reynard of loyalty and zefl for the ?rot?aut fu?. But, I know not by what ill ?te, that pr?ok?g ?[ortuni? xva? flipp'd ? the Kin's friends remain g . ?11 ??'d, md the ?n?s hono? ?r?aed to this