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Ccmntei^Queries. 
 
 As the reftlefs Spirits o'^^f of Men among us are ever 
 the greateft Union imaginable is abfolutely necefTary, bith to 
 fupport the Alhance in a Time of a Tedious and Expenrive 
 ,. u .- « r '' ^"i^ ^° difcourage her Majefty's Enemies , who oppofe 
 both her Perfon and Government in behalf of the Pretender • So it is 
 •femarkable, that an unufual, and indeed an unheard of Invafion of her 
 Majefty's undoubted Prerogative, is made the Great and Leading. Argument 
 in the MoOths of thefe People, to propagate their Wicked Deflgns; as 
 if her Majefty had not the fame undoubted Right to choofe by what In- 
 ■ftruments the Adminiftration of the Government (hall be carry'd on, as fhe has 
 to the Government it felf: As if her Majefty's Servants were to be put 
 Hipon her by her Subjeds ; or that_they had an hereditary Title to the Offices 
 they poffefs'd. 
 
 Not content with this, They are now bufie in fuggefting to the People, 
 That the Nations Peace is endanger'd by the Queen's difplacing a few Men 
 about her, whoThaving fo long govern'dher Affairs, that they began to claim 
 an exclufive Right to it) would fain pcrfwade us, no Body could do it but 
 themfelves 5^ and plainly tell her Majefty, They are injur'd in being removM ; 
 .Tho' like the Servant, who having ftaid too long in a good Place begins to 
 play the Miftrefs; They began to treat the Qjieen with unfufFerable Info- 
 fenccfand thought it hard to let the Queen beftow a Regiment in the Army, 
 ■Where Merit, and her Majefty's Judgment, direfted. 
 ^-tv«Tbo? thefe thingsfpeak fpr themfelvcsTTindTieedTio Explication ; yet fince 
 the Age is very apt to be impos'd upon, and a certain Party are very bufie 
 to impofe upon them ; They who are not refolv'd to be felf-deluded, nor willing 
 to be deluded by dthers, may ask themfelves the following Queftions. 
 
 I. Whether, fiiice the Queen has always govertfa by Law^ and maintain'd 
 her Subjeasin their juft Liberties, it is not reafonable her Majefty fhould 
 a little enjoy fome Liberties of her own? 
 
 li. Whether^ if the Queen may not place and difplace her Servants, as Ihe 
 fees fit, without giving an Account of the Reafons Why ; her Majefty 
 has not fomething lefs Authority, than every Citizen's Wife claims irt 
 the Common Government of her Family ? ,. • r> r. wu ,u 
 
 IIL But fince Reafons areexpeded from her Ma,efty in this Cafe, Whether 
 the exorbitant Ambition of i Family, which the prefent Complainers 
 were within few Months as warm againft, and as diffatisfy d with, as 
 nowtheyfeemfondof, isnotafufficientReafon? ,. . ' . 
 
 IV »^*ri?ir the People of Engi)tnd2.xt not ftrangely alter'd, who are parti- 
 cuKremarkM ^^^ World, for their being Jealous of the tcy Great 
 Growthof Favorites; That they (hould now defire to promote what they 
 
 . havTa ways apprehended was dangerous to their Liberties ? 
 
 V ^«r^ to p°^^ down theaueen to the Adminiftration ofaSett of Men, 
 \»4.^1 WMfl^eftvfaw eood Grounds to be weary of, was not next Door 
 
 to bave ler Servants become her Governours . ^^ ^ 
 
VI. Whether, fuppofing all the Merit the Family pretends to, were tme.; 
 The Enjoying the greateft Places and Profits of the Nation for near Ten 
 Years, is not a fufficicnt Reward to them; and whether in thofe Ten 
 Years, it cannot be made appear, They have among them gain d Irom 
 the Nation, above Twenty hundred thouftnd Pounds ? 
 
 VII. Whether^ ifthey fit down with this Treafure, and are not call d to an 
 Account for the Exorbitances they have amafsM it by ; They do not en- 
 joy a different Fate from all the Favorites that have ever gone before 'em 3 
 and withal, fomething more than they Iwve Reafon to expeft ? 
 
 VIII. Whtt Reafon C2in be given, more than the already Exhaufted Wealth 
 of the Nation, Whj> the New Miniftry ihoulcl not manage the Nation's 
 Treafure as honeftly, as frugally, and as fuccefsfully as the Old ? 
 
 IX. Whether the Nation's Credit, of which fo much Noife is made, may 
 not as well be fupported by the prefent CommKTioners, as by the Old; 
 and Whetheriht^ivy and Viftualling-Bills running at ^o per Cent. Dif- 
 count, areany Proof of the National Credit ? 
 
 X. Whether the Refolution taken by fome People to run down the Publick 
 Credit, in order to oblige the Queen by force to come again into their 
 Hands, is not as much a Plot upon the Nation, as upon the Queen , and 
 Whether it is not an evident Proof, that thefe Men have lefs Concern for 
 the National Intereft, than for their Party ? 
 
 XI. Whether, after all the Boafts of the Party, it will be in their Power, to 
 ruin the National Credit, tho' they fhould keep as much Money out of ' 
 the Public, as they can ? 
 
 XII. Whether it is not as much the Advantage of that Party to fut in their 
 • Money, as it is the Governments to receive it ; and Whether the Intereft 
 
 : of the Funds has not been as neceflary to the People, as the Loan of 
 Money has been to the Government ? 
 
 XIII. Whether, fuppofe the Party fhould gain their Point, and caufe a gene- 
 ral Stagnation of Credit, ^(which they cannot do) who do they think to 
 injure by this Matter, the NEW MINISTRY, rvho dre accountable for 
 nothing in it, or THEMSELVES ? And if either an unfettled Peace, op 
 an unfuccefsful War, fhould be the neccffary Confequences of it, who 
 ought to be DE WITTED for it, The New Minifiry, or the Party ? 
 
 Xiy. Whether, in Cafe fuch a general Reftjfal of Lending Money as is fug- 
 
 'gefted, fhould be brought to pafs 5 the Parliament of Britain may not 
 
 find a way to carry on the War, without any New Loans ; and perhaps 
 
 '-•fr H,n particularly at the Expence of the Party that would hinder it ?- 
 
 XV; Whether,. i( the Parliament ihould be oblig'd to take fuch Meafures^he 
 
 .Trftrty would not juftly incurr the Indignation of the People of £»e/W for 
 
 bringing that necelTity upon 'em ? ' 
 
 XVI. m^herfhcDukcoiMarlhorough has any hereditary Title to theCom- 
 , owndof the -Army of Br/^4w ; and Whether, tk^ Succeifes are a Title to 
 vtVt™ ^^?^^r ^^^^ ^° ^J^' Command duringrthe War ? - ., " ' 
 
 XVII. Whether God's Blefl|ig upon her Majeffy's Arms, to .which all our 
 ..Succcffesare owing, ^a^eculiar to the aueen,, to the Proteftatit Intereft 
 
 .• of £«/e^*„ or. to the Perfoq :of the General^ ! * ^^" 
 
 Xyp^rArt^rofferingtheCommandtotheEleaor o( ffannaver is not a 
 convincing Evid5oce, that the New Miniftry-have receiv'^Briis fmm 
 f«ce, and ate in theln^reft of the Pretender > And Whether Ih^f u 
 fe!i[^^^,Thin., w|hout beingableTo "iv^t Kt te 
 jOalloff? equaUy with a Murdierer ? , ^^v mcnc ,ne