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He acquiesced in the Removal of his Minister Sir R, Walpole He adopted the National Measures for the war, He preserv'd and rewarded all his old Servants, and their Friends, and- He proscribed no Party. Some however proscribed themselves and some unsuccessfully, and unably too had form'd, with- personal ambitious views, new Factious Connections, under a new Administration then, tho'upon the same Foundation and with a new Opposition without any Foundation at all, the war was engaged in and carried on, with these Particularities that the Party who had been always, and were still [[underline]] against [[/underline]] the war, supported it. That those who had drove the Nation into that War, censured and opposed it, and that the same persons opposed it, when most practicable, and most successful, and came in afterwards to support it, by the very measures, which they had most condemn'd, and at the very time when it was evidently and avowedly (even by- the Ministers Themselves) become insupportable. So that at the Expense of Thirty Millions at least encrease of Debt, besides the vast Sums rais'd upon the Nation within the- year during the war. This country has gaind little more than the having been entertain'd, with the Removal of two- great Ministers, overturn'd the one for his System, The other for his conduct, of the first with the preservation of his whole Political System, and of the Second with the exaggerated Imitation [[unclear]] of his Conduct in Those very Circumstances. which had been most urged against him, while the wise- Jacobites have been amused with two Attempts for their Cause (such as they had not seen for many years) The latter for Months a Civil Contest for the Crown. In all which time, and even with some prospect of Success, They never found courage to exert Themselves in a cause [[catchword]] For. [[/catchword]]