their reputed brethren can arrive to the lowest in ours. I observe this with all possible submission to the wisdom of their policy; which however will not, I believe, dispute the praise of vigilance with ours.
WHIG account. | |
| To persons promoted to bishopricks or removed | 10050 0 0 |
| to more beneficial ones, computed per ann. | |
| To civil employments | 9030 0 0 |
| To military commands | 8436 0 0 |
| 27516 0 0 | |
TORY account. | |
| To tories | 111 0 0 |
| Balance | 27405 0 0 |
I shall conclude with this observation, that as I think the tories have sufficient reason to be fully satisfied with the share of trust, power, and employments, which they possess under the lenity of the present government; so, I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high church, highflyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tiptopgallonmen, jacobites, tantivies, antihanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, publick incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE
