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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35922	A dialogue betwixt Whig and Tory, aliàs Williamite and Jacobite Wherein the principles and practices of each party are fairly and impartially stated; that thereby mistakes and prejudices may be removed from amongst us, and all those who prefer English liberty, and Protestant religion, to French slavery and popery, may be inform'd how to choose fit and proper instruments for our preservation in these times of danger.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, attributed name.; Overton, Benjamin, attributed name.	1693 (1693)	Wing D1361; ESTC R229679	34,923	48

Condition as ours was at the time of the Revolution Were we not the Hopes of all our Allies and the Terror of our Enemies And is not the case alter'd with us I fear it is To be plain a Ministry from Wapping could not have made worse work on 't than yours have done Ministers who know not so much as what Money their Affairs will require but ask the Parliament too little and manage it so as to make it less That want Intelligence so much that Matters of the greatest Consequence have been publick in every Coffee-house three days before it comes to the Secretary's Office particularly the loss of our Merchants Fleet and beating our Army in Flanders As if as one said Secretaries like Cuckolds were to know their Dishonour and Misfortunes last Then the Return of our Fleets for want of Provisions laying out Money in false Expeditions and wanting it thereby in true Necessities imperfect Orders from whence proceeds imperfect Execution and besides they prove an Excuse to Officers even in the most fatal Miscarriages with a thousand more Mismanagements and Treacheries from the top to the bottom of the Ministry too tedious to relate here Tory. And do you think the Government would be better serv'd at this time by Novices and Strangers to Business Whig I have answer'd you that before I think it would be much better serv'd by ignorant Friends than understanding Enemies Tho I am far at the same time from granting you that Point for I am sure there are more Men of Sense and Capacity found amongst the Whigs than amongst the Tories and that Experience is not of such mighty Consequence as you would infer will appear if you will please to call to mind the Men employ'd in Publick Affairs by Cromwel Was ever Government better serv'd than his and yet he chose Men of the most private Condition and one would have thought most unqualified for Publick Business Taylors Draymen broken Shop-keepers raw Scholars and some few of the midling Gentry But being careful to choose Men principled against the Government of King Charles and zealous for the Interest of the Government then on foot they did Wonders supported their Friends and were aweful to their Enemies and this with all the Nobility Gentry and Clergy both Church of England and Presbyterian in perpetual Combinations and Conspiracies against them at home and a War in Ireland Scotland Holland and Spain too upon their Hands And you have an Instance of it in this Government in the Person of one of the Secretaries of Scotland who tho bred in a very private way hath shewed himself a most successful Statesman and of great Consequence to the Welfare of the King's Affairs in that Country and this meerly from his incorruptible Honesty Zeal and Integrity to the present Government without Experience or great Insight into Business Tory. I must grant there is something in what you say Union and Integrity will do great Matters But you Whigs cannot pretend to this for you are not two of you in the same Mind you have no Government no Discipline in your Party no Firmness to one another or to any Point Your great P. F turns Cadet and carries Arms under the General of the West-Saxons the two H s are Engineers under the late Lieutenant of the Ordnance and bomb any Bill which he hath once resolv'd to reduce to Ashes though it were for Recognition or any thing else that is most necessary to our Security Your Iack S. and Iack G. whenever they touch Penny will touch Pot too and drink all in the Bowl be it never so deep And besides this you are always laughing despising or railing at one another some of you are too wise some of you too witty and some of you too honest for the rest jealous and envious of one anothers Favour and Preferment every Man thinking himself fittest to be at the Head of Affairs and hating and reflecting upon those who are so and despising to be govern'd or directed by them And at the same time those who are at the Top disdaining to look down upon those below them tho they were the Steps by which they did ascend they grow stately to their Friends and unmindful of their Fortunes impatient of Addresses hard of Access huddling into little Cabals where they are wise and witty among themselves whilst we Tories on the contrary have but one Heart one Voice one Purse and one Interest excuse and justify one anothers Faults prefer the meanest Fool or Knave of our Party and in return the Underlings are every Man in a perfect Obedience to this Superior to vote rail write or talk according to Direction and not otherwise Whig I owe there is too much Truth in what you say and you speak Truth so seldom that we ought to allow it you when you do But I hope we have seen the Error of our Disunion and shall amend it for the future And however we may have had Personal Differences and likewise may have been too much divided and too obstinate in some Opinions yet still in all Times and under all Discouragements we have all agreed to the same end viz. The Publick Good of our Country and the Support of its Laws and Liberties and in this present Reign have been and are unanimous against King Iames and his Interest and have at all times with one Consent own'd his present Majesty Rightful and Lawful which I take to be the Shibboleth to distinguish those who are alone fit to serve this Government And till there be an Act of Recognition in Force I will be bold to say all the other Steps of our ablest and honestest Statesmen will be upon Boggy Ground nor can any Man be reasonably employ'd in any Office who hath not taken this Test for whoever thinks King William not Rightful must think King Iames is so and the same Conscience which leads them to believe him Rightful will incline them to assist that Right when they have opportunity but to return to the Point of your Charge we must confess likewise that we have not been so much under the Government of our Superiours as you are nor so industrious in supporting each others private and particular Interests But to the first I might answer That Fools and Beggars are more easily led by the Nose than Men of Sense and Estates And as to the latter I must put you in mind that the Societies of Ignatius and of Newgate are both of them as much united as you in universal Mischief for Roguery makes a stronger Glew and Cement than Vertue because there are more Men capable of the former than of the latter And tho it were to be wish'd that the Whigs were more friendly and had more Concern for the Support of one another in all their honest Pretences yet God forbid there should ever be such a Friendship and Partiality amongst them as to condemn and disgrace those who gain Victories because they are not of their Party and to support and defend those who have lost the Ships Trade and Honour of the Nation because they are their Creatures But on the other side where it is without offence to Justice and the Publick Interest all Unanimity and Friendship is to be admir'd prais'd and pray'd for and I hope you will find it amongst us for the future till it becomes the Subject of your Envy instead of being an Occasion of Reproach To put an end to this Argument 'T is plain with all your Friendships and Union and other Politicks you have brought the Nation and all its Allies to the lowest Condition both in Power and Reputation You have almost put it out of the Skill of any Conduct to recover us and whoever now takes the Administration of Affairs upon them will be apply'd to the Government like Pigeons to the Feet of dying Men. But however to those who are true Lovers of their Country no Time seems too late to attempt its Relief no Difficulty so great as to discourage them from endeavouring it and tho as the Case stands it is more than probable we may miscarry under the best Conduct yet it is undeniable we must miscarry under yours And so I take my Leave FINIS * Otherwise K. I. would have a fairer Pretence than I hope we shall ever allow him * The first Instance I have met of their Modesty * A College of Jesuits in that place * A fine Character for an English King * A new Distinction our Statesmen have lately found out