him to a Throne.  But ’tis neither to be imagined, that a Prince of his Spirit, after the gaining of a Crown, would be managed by those who helped him to it, let his ingagements and promises be never so strong before, neither that he would be confin’d in the narrow compass of a Curtail’d Mungril Monarchy, half Common-wealth.  Conquerors are not easily to be curbed.  And it is yet harder to conceive, that his pretended Friends, even design him so much as that.  At present, ’tis true, their mutual necessities keep them fast together; and all the several Fanatick Books fall in, to enlarge the common stream:  But suppose the business compassed, as they design’d it, how many, and how contradicting Interests are there to be satisfied!  Every Sect of High Shooes would then be uppermost; and not one of them endure the toleration of another.  And amongst them all, what will become of those fine Speculative Wits, who drew the Plan of this new Government, and who overthrew the old?  For their comfort, the Saints will then account them Atheists, and discard them.  Or they will plead each of them their particular Merits, till they quarrel about the Dividend.  And, the Protestant Successor himself, if he be not wholly governed by the prevailing party, will first be declared no Protestant; and next, no Successor.  This is dealing sincerely with him, which Plato Redivivus does not:  for all the bustle he makes concerning the Duke of M. proceeds from a Commonwealth Principle:  he is afraid at the bottom to have him at the Head of the party, lest he should turn the absolute Republick, now designing, into an arbitrary Monarchy.

The next thing he exposes, is the project communicated at Oxford, by a worthy Gentleman since deceased.  But since he avowed himself, that it was but a rough draught, our Author might have paid more respect to his memory, than to endeavour to render it ridiculous.  But let us see how he mends the matter in his own which follows.

If the Duke were only banished, during life, and the Administration put into the hands of Protestants, that would establish an unnatural War of Expediency, against an avowed Right and Title.  But on the other hand exclude the Duke, and all other Popish Successors, and put down all those Guards are now so illegally kept up, and banish the Papists, where can be the danger of a War, in a Nation unanimous?

I will not be unreasonable with him; I will expect English no where from the barrenness of his Country:  but if he can make sense of his Unnatural War of Expediency, I will forgive him two false Grammars, and three Barbarisms, in every Period of his Pamphlet; and yet leave him enow of each to expose his ignorance, whensoever I design it.  But his Expedient it self is very solid, if you mark it. Exclude the Duke, take away the Guards, and consequently, all manner of defence from the Kings Person; Banish every Mothers Son of the Papists, whether guilty or