the duty of entry to the King of Spain, and confequently ought not to be liable to any new duty, when they carry the fame goods, and all others, from their dominions by a free pafs or tranfport to the faid new conquefts: and we are under apprehenfion, that if the faid new conquefts be fettled, or given entirely into the poffeffion of the States-General for their barrier, (as we are made believe by a treaty lately made by her Majefty's ambaffador, the Lord Viscount Townshend, at the Hague), that the States-General may alfo foon declare all goods and merchandifes, which are contraband in their provinces, to be alfo contraband and prohibited in these new conquefts, or new barrier; by which her Majefty's fubjects will be deprived of the fale and confumption of the following products of her Majesty's dominions, which are and have long been declared contraband in the United Provinces, fuch as English and Scots falt, malt fpirits, or corn brandy, and all other forts of diftilled English fpirits, whale and rape oil, &c.

It is therefore humbly conceived, that her Majefty, out of her great care and gracious concern for the benefit of her fubjects and dominions, may be pleafed to direct, by a treaty of commerce, or fome other way, that their trade may be put on an equal foot in all the Spanith Netherlands, and the new conquefts of barrier with the fubjects of Holland, by paying no other duty than that of importation to the King of Spain; and by a provifion, that no product of her Majefty's dominions fhall ever be declared contraband in thefe new conquefts, except fuch goods as were esteemed contraband before the death of Charles II. King of Spain. And it is alfo humbly prayed, that the product and manufacture of the new conquefts may be also exported without paying any new duty, befides that of exportation at Oftend, which was always paid to the King of Spain; it being impoffible for any nation

in Europe to affert an entire cargo for the Spanish Weft Indies without a confiderable quantity of feveral of the manufactures of Lifle; fuch as caradoras, cajant, picofes, boratten, and many other goods.

The chief things to be demanded of France are, to be exempted from tonage, to have a liberty of importing herrings and all other fish to France on the fame terms as the Dutch do, and as was agreed by them at the treaty of commerce immediately after the treaty of peace at Ryfwick. The enlarging her Majefty's plantations in America, &c. is naturally recommended.

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EXAMINER*.

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N° 43. Thursday, November 2, 1710.

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Ambagas; fed fumma fequar faftigia rerum.

T is a practice I have generally followed, to converfe in equal freedom with the deferving men of both parties; and it was never without fome contempt, that I have obferved perfons wholly out of employment affect to do otherwife. I doubted, whether any man could owe fo much to the fide he

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In August 1710, a weekly paper, called, The EXAMINER, began to be published. It was efteemed to be the work of feveral eminent hands; among which were reckoned Lord Bolingbroke, Dr. Atterbury Bishop of Rochester, Mr. Prior, and fome others. However it came about, the general opinion is, that thofe perfons proceeded no further than to the first twelve papers: after which it feems to be agreed, that the undertaking was carried on by Dr. Swift, who began with number 13, and ended at number 50. For although the paper continued many months after to be published, under the title of The EXAMINER; yet, by the inequality of the performance, it was manifeft to all judicious perfons, that Dr. Swift had not the leaft share in them. Dublin edition.

As No 13. was the first of thefe papers written by Dr. Swift, No 44. was the laft. Six more have been printed in the Irish edition : which is a proof, among many others, that he was not the editor. In a letter of his to Stella, dated June 7. 1711, the day on which VOL. II.

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was of, although he were retained by it; but withont fome great point of intereft, either in poffeffion or profpect, I thought it was the mark of a low and narrow fpirit.

It is hard, that for fome weeks paft I have been forced in my own defence to follow a proceeding that I have fo much condemned in others. But feveral of my acquaintance among the declining party are grown fo infufferably peevish and fplenetic, profefs fuch violent apprehenfions for the public, and reprefent the ftate of things in fuch formidable ideas, that I find myself difpofed to fhare in their afflictions; although I know them to be groundless

the Examiner, No 44. was published, there is the following paragraph. "As for the Examiner, I have heard a whisper, that after

that of this day, which tells what this parliament has done, you "will hardly find them fo good: I prophefy they will be trash for the "future; and methinks, in this day's Examiner, the author talks doubtfully, as if he would write no more; fo that if they go on, they may probably be by fome other hand: which, in my opinion, is a thousand pities; but who can help it? Obferve whether the "change be difcovered in Dublin; only for your own curiofity, that's "all." In a fubfequent letter, dated August 24. he fays, "The "Examiner has been down this month, and was very filly the five 06 or fix laft papers."

The Examiner was a weekly paper in defence of the Tory minifry. This paper, as it was carried on by fome very eminent hands, having obtained a vogue, Swift took up the character of the Examiner, and commenced a regular feries of politics with No 13. Nov. 2. 1710; and having completed the main design which first engaged him in the undertaking, with No 44. June 7, 1711, and taken his leave of the town, as appears from the two last paragraphs of that number, he dropt the character of the Examiner, and never more writ another paper. There was a paper indeed ftill fupported under the title of the Examiner; but it funk immediately into rudeness and ill manners: and, what is still more, I can take upon me to affert from undeniable authority, even from the authority of Dr. Swift himself, that in fact the fcurrility in those papers was encouraged by the miniftry.. In short, the fubfequent Examiners were written by fome under fpur-leathers in the city, aud were defigned merely as proper returns to thofe Grubftreet invectives which were thrown out against the adminiftration by the authors of the Medley, the Englithman, and fome other abusive detracting papers of the like ftamp. Swift.

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and imaginary, or, which is worse, purely affected. To offer them comfort one by one, would be not only an endless, but a difobliging task. Some of them, I am convinced, would be lefs melancholy if there were more occafion.. I fhall therefore, inftead of hearkening to farther complaints, employ fome part of this paper for the future in letting fuch men fee, that their natural or acquired fears are ill grounded, and their artificial ones as ill intended; that all our prefent inconveniencies are the confequence of the very counfels they fo much admire, which would ftill have increafed if thofe, had continued; and that neither our conftitution in church or state could probably have been long preferved without fuch methods, as have been already taken..

THE late revolutions at court have given room to fome fpecious objections, which I have heard repeated by well-meaning men, just as they had taken them up on the credit of others, who have worfe defigns. They wonder the Queen would chufe to change her miniftry at this juncture, and thereby give uneafinefs to a general, who hath been fo long fuccefsful abroad, and might think himself injured, if the entire miniftry were not of his own nomination; that there were few complaints of any confequence against the late men in power, and none at all in parliament, which on the contrary paffed votes in favour of the chief minister; that, if her Majefty had a mind to introduce the other party, it would have been more feafonable after a peace, which now we have made defperate by fpiriting the French, who rejoice at thefe changes, and by the fall of our credit, which unqualifies us for carrying on the war; that the parliament, fo untimely diffolved, had been diligent in their fupplies, and dutiful in their behaviour; that one confequence of thefe changes appears already in the

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