Mr. Ironfide thereupon Prints my Letter Word for Word, and on Auguft the 7th Publifhes it with a fhort Preface, as follows:

Tis ufually thought, with great Juftice, a very impertinent thing in a private Man to intermeddle in Matters which regard the State. But the Memorial which is mentioned in the following Letter is fo daring, and fo apparently defigned for the moft Traiterous Purpofe imaginable, that I do not care what Mifinterpretation I fuffer, when I expofe it to the Refentment of all Men who value their Country, or have any Regard to the Honour, Safety, or Glory of their Queen. It is certain there is not much Danger in delaying the Demolition of Dunkirk during the Life of his prefent moft Chriftian Majefty, who is renowned for the moft inviolable Regard to Treaties; but that Pious Prince is aged, and in cafe of his Deceafe, now the Power of France and Spain is in the fame Family, it is poffible an Ambitious. Succeffor, (or his Miniftry in a King's Minority) might difpute his being bound by the A of his Predeceffor in fo weighty a Particular..

Mr. IRONSIDE,

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OU employ your in portart Moments, methinks, a little too frivolously, when, you confider fo often little Circumftances of Drefs and Behaviour, and never make mention of Matters wherein you and all yourFellow-Subjects in general are concerned. I give you now an Opportunity; not only of manifefting your Loyalty to your Queen, but your Affection to your Country, if you treat

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· an Infolence done to them both with the Dif dain it deferves. The enclosed Printed Pa

per in French and English has been handed a'bout the Town, and given gratis to Paffengers in the Streets at Noon-Day. You fee the Title of it is, A most humble Addrefs or Me'morial, prefented to her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, by the Deputy of the Magiftrates of Dunkirk. The naufeous Memorialift, with the most fulfome Flattery, tells the "Queen of her Thunder, and of Wisdom and Clemency adored by all the Earth, at the fame ' time that he attempts to undermine her Power, ⚫ and escape her Wisdom, by befeeching her to do an Act which would give a well-grounded Jealoufie to her People. What the Sycophant defires is, that the Mole and Dikes of Dunkirk may be fpared; and, it feems, the Seur Tuggke, for fo the Petitioner is called, was Thunder truck by the Denunciation (which he fays) the Lord Viscount Bolinbroke made to him, That her Majefty did not think to 'make any Alteration in the dreadful Sentence the had pronounced against the Town. Mr. IRONSIDE, I think you would do an A& worthy your general Humanity, if you would put the Sieur Tugghe right in this Matter, and let him know, That her Majefty has pronounced no Sentence against the Town, but his moft Chriftian Majefty has agreed that the. "Town and Harbour fhall be Demolished.

That the British Nation expe&t the imme-> 'diate Demolition of it.

That the very Common People know, that within two Months after the figning of the Peace, the Works towards the Sea were to

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be demolished, and within three Months after it the Works towards the Land.

That the faid Peace was figned the last of March, O. S.

That the Parliament has been told from the Queen, that the Equivalent for it is in the Hands of the French King.

That the Sieur Tugghe has the Impudence to ask the Queen to remit the most material Part of the Articles of Peace between Her Majefty and his Master.

That the British Nation received more Da'mage in their Trade from the Port of Dunkirk, than from almost all the Ports of France, ' either in the Ocean or in the Mediterranean.

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That Fleets of above thirty Sail have come together out of Dunkirk during the late War, and taken Ships of War, as well as Merchant ' Men.

That the Pretender failed from thence to Scotland; and that it is the only Port the • French have till you come to Breft, for the 'whole Length of St. George's Channel, where any confiderable Naval Armament can be 'made.

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That deftroying the Fortifications of Dun• kirk is an inconfiderable Advantage to Eng. land, in Comparison to the Advantage of deftroying the Mole, Dikes and Harbour, it being the Naval Force from thence which on"ly can hurt the British Nation.

That the British Nation expect the imme diate Demolition of Dunkirk.

That the Dutch, who fuffered equally with us from thofe of Dunkirk, were proba

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bly induced to Sign the Treaty with France 'from this Confideration, That the Town and 'Harbour of Dunkirk fhould be deftroyed.

That the Situation of Dunkirk is fuch, as that it may always keep Runners to obferve 'all Ships failing on the Thames and Medway. That all the Suggeftions, which the Sieur Tuggbe brings concerning the Dutch, are false and fcandalous.

• That whether it may be advantagious to the Trade of Holland or not, that Dunkirk 'fhould be demolish'd, it is neceffary for the Safety, Honour and Liberty of England that it fhould be fo.

That when Dunkirk is demolished, the 'Power of France, on that fide, fhould it ever be turned against us, will be removed. feveral hundred Miles further off of Great Britain than it is at prefent.

That after the Demolition there can be no 'confiderable Preparation made at Sea by the French in all the Channel but at Breft; and that Great Britain being an Ifland, which cannot be attacked but by a Naval Power, we may esteem France effectually removed by the Demolition from Great Britain as far as the Distance from Dunkirk to Breft.

Pray, Mr. IRONSIDE, repeat this last Particular, and put it in a different Letter, That the Demolition of Dunkirk will remove • France many hundred Miles further off from ( us; and then repeat again, That the British Nation expects the Demolition of Dunkirk.

I demand of you, as you Love and Ho'nour your Queen and Country, that you infert this Letter, or fpeak, to this Purpose,

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'your own way; for in this all Parties muft agree, that however bound in Friendship one Nation is with another, it is but prudent, that, in cafe of a Rupture, they should be, if poffible, upon equal Terms.

Be Honest, old NESTOR, and fay all this; for what ever half-witted hot Whigs may think, we all value our Eftates and Liberties, and every true Man of each Party muft think himself concerned that Dunkirk 'fhould be Demolished..

It lies upon all who have the Honour to be in the Miniftry to haften this Matter, and not let the Credulity of an honeft brave People be thus infamously abufed in our open Streets.

I cannot go on for Indignation; but pray. God that our Mercy to France may not expofe us to the Mercy of France.

Your Humble Servant,

English Tory.

This Letter happened to difoblige fome People, and the Day before I went out of Town. came out the Pamphlet, Entituled,

The Honour and Prerogative of the Queen's Majefty Vindicated and Defended against the unexampled Infolence of the Author of the Guardian: In a Letter from a Country Whig to Mr... Steele. You may read the whole at your Leifare; but the Ninth and Tenth Pages are enough for Me, and I think there is nothing elfe in the whole Pamphlet but Repetition of the fame thing.

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