Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Note
- Introduction
- The Conduct of the Allies
- Some Advice Humbly Offer’d to the Members of the October Club
- Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty
- The New Way of Selling Places at Court
- Some Reasons to Prove . . . In a Letter to a Whig-Lord
- It’s Out at Last: Or, French Correspondence Clear as the Sun
- A Dialogue Upon Dunkirk, Between a Whig and a Tory
- A Hue and Cry After Dismal
- A Letter From the Pretender, to a Whig-Lord
- A Defence of Erasmus Lewis, or The Examiner (2 February 1713)
- Vote of Thanks by the House of Lords (9 April 1713) and The Humble Address of the . . . Lords (11 April 1713)
- The Importance of the Guardian Considered
- The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
- A Discourse Concerning the Fears From the Pretender
- Some Free Thoughts Upon the Present State of Affairs
- Some Considerations Upon the Consequences Hoped and Feared from the Death of the Queen
- Contributions to the Post Boy and the Evening Post
- Textual Introduction and Accounts of Individual Works
- Textual Introduction Ian Gadd
- The Conduct of the Allies: Textual Account
- Appendix: Transcripts of the British Library Manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and The Humble Address of . . . the Lords
- Bibliography
- Index
The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Note
- Introduction
- The Conduct of the Allies
- Some Advice Humbly Offer’d to the Members of the October Club
- Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty
- The New Way of Selling Places at Court
- Some Reasons to Prove . . . In a Letter to a Whig-Lord
- It’s Out at Last: Or, French Correspondence Clear as the Sun
- A Dialogue Upon Dunkirk, Between a Whig and a Tory
- A Hue and Cry After Dismal
- A Letter From the Pretender, to a Whig-Lord
- A Defence of Erasmus Lewis, or The Examiner (2 February 1713)
- Vote of Thanks by the House of Lords (9 April 1713) and The Humble Address of the . . . Lords (11 April 1713)
- The Importance of the Guardian Considered
- The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
- A Discourse Concerning the Fears From the Pretender
- Some Free Thoughts Upon the Present State of Affairs
- Some Considerations Upon the Consequences Hoped and Feared from the Death of the Queen
- Contributions to the Post Boy and the Evening Post
- Textual Introduction and Accounts of Individual Works
- Textual Introduction Ian Gadd
- The Conduct of the Allies: Textual Account
- Appendix: Transcripts of the British Library Manuscripts of the Vote of Thanks and The Humble Address of . . . the Lords
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE PUBLICK SPIRIT OF THE WHIGS, &c.
I cannot without some Envy, and a just Resentment against the opposite Conduct of others, reflect upon that Generosity andTenderness, wherewith the Heads and Principal Members of a struggling Faction treat those who will undertake to hold a Pen in their Defence. And the Behaviour of these Patrons is yet the more laudable, because the Benefits they confer are almost gratis: If any of their Labourers can scratch out a Pamphlet, they desire no more; There is noQuestion offered about theWit, the Style, the Argument. Let a Pamphlet come out upon demand in a proper Juncture, you shall be well and certainly paid; you shall be paid before-hand, every one of the Party who is able to read and can spare a Shilling shall be a Subscriber: Several Thousands of each Production shall be sent among their Friends through the Kingdom: The Work shall be reported admirable, sublime, unanswerable, shall serve to raise the sinking Clamours, and confirm the Scandal of introducing Popery and the Pretender upon the QUEEN and Her Ministers.
Among the present Writers on that Side, I can recollect but Three of any great Distinction, which are the Flying-Post, Mr. Dunton, and the Author of the Crisis: The first of these seems to have been much sunk in Reputation since the sudden Retreat of the only true genuine Original Author Mr. Ridpath, who is celebrated by the Dutch Gazeteer, as One of the best Pens of England. Mr.Dunton hath been longer and more conversant in Books than any of the Three, as well as more voluminous in his Productions: However, having employ’d his Studies in so great aVariety of other Subjects, he hath I think but lately turned his Genius to Politicks. His famous Tract, Intituled, Neck or Nothing, must be allowed to be the shrewdest Piece, and written with the most Spirit of any which hath appeared from that Side since the Change of the Ministry: It is indeed a most cutting Satire upon the Lord Treasurer and Lord Bolingbroke, and I wonder none of our Friends ever undertook to Answer it. I confess I was at first of the same Opinion with several good Judges, who from the Style and Manner supposed it to have issued from the sharp Pen of the E. of N-t-ng--m; and I amstill apt to think it might receive his L--dsh-p's last Hand.
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- English Political Writings 1711–1714'The Conduct of the Allies' and Other Works, pp. 241 - 284Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008