threatened his royal Predecessor) with a general Resignation:—
If their Leaders should be taken at their Word, and unexpectedly stripped of all Power and Influence:—
If on This, the Clamours of their attendant Populace should arise;[1] and for the Sake of the public Tranquillity, Overtures should be made by the Prince to the Discontented:—If the same Principle should still predominate, and Demands in Favour of Men should be the leading Object of Accommodation:—
If these Demands should be not only irrational in their Kind, but exorbitant and oppressive in their Degree; requiring a general Restoration of All the Discontented, and a general Dismission of all who were in Power, tho' of known Fidelity to their King and Country:—
If such should be the Conduct of any Set of Men, they would stand evidently convicted of Licentiousness and Faction.
- ↑ See Sect. xix.
