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Faction Detected,

BY THE

EVIDENCE

OF

FACT S.

CONTAINING

An Impartial VIEW of PARTIES at Home,
and AFFAIRS Abroad.

Qua quò fcelefti ruitis? Aut cur dexteris
Aptantur enfes conditi?

Non ut fuperbas invida Carthaginis

Romanus arces ureret :

Sed ut, fecundum vota Parthorum, fuâ:
Urbs hæc periret dexterâ.

Neque hic lupis mos, nec fuit leonibus
Unquam nifi in difpar feris.
Furorne cæcus, an rapit vis acrior:
An culpa? Refponfum date.

Tacent, & ora pallor albus inficit,

Mentefque perculfa stupent.

Hor. Epod. Od. VII.

The SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed for J. ROBERTS, in Warwick-Lane. M.DCC.XLIIE

DA
503
1743

E32

PA

ERRATA.

Age 147. line 35. inftead of Influence upon the Legislature read Influence upon the other Members of the Legislature; p. 171. 1. 42. instead of by read thro'; p. 173. 1. 6. dele late; P. 174. 1. 43. inftead of fomented read inflamed.

Faction Detected,

BY THE

EVIDENCE of FACTS.

O

PPOSITION to the Measures of Government, whether good or bad, is no new thing in this or any other Country, where the People have any Share in the Legislature. For wherever that Circumftance is found, the Materials for the Advancement of private Views abundantly occur: And in proportion to the Importance of fuch a Country, Subjects ambitious of Preferment have more Incentives to urge them on to Pursuits of this Nature, more Inftruments to affift them in their Undertaking, and more Pretexts to delude and to impose upon the Multitude. The Employments in fuch a Country muft of Neceffity be numerous and lucrative, the Engagements of the Publick frequent and expenfive, the Dangers from its Neighbours greater, their Jealoufy and Ill-will more to be apprehended, and confequently with more Privacy and Caution counteracted. This enables artful Men to raise Murmurs against the most neceffary Charges of the State, and to quarrel with the best Means of Publick Security with a manifeft Advantage, because it is easy to difpute the Wisdom of Measures, which can never be intirely difclofed, till they are fully executed; and the Poison infufed into the People has performed its Operation before the Nature of the thing can poffibly admit a Detection of the Falfities and Mifreprefentations employed against them; while the Publick, already prejudiced, never give themselves the Trouble to examine what is paft; either taking more Delight in the Discovery of Error, than in the Pursuit of Truth; or not having the Means furnished with equal Industry, or being diverted by fome fresh Objection, ftarted to fome new Conduct.

In proportion to the Riches of any Country, Poverty becomes more preffing upon many by a natural Contraft. In all fuch Countries the Wretched are certainly more wretched than in others which flourish lefs; because the Neceffaries of Life are dear, and not to be had without that Induftry, which

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