_Blunt_. With _Honesty_, you should say rather. What Caution is necessary in answering the Hopes of the People? They desire but what is absolutely for their Safety. They expect no more than has been often solemnly promised them. And sure a Man that intends to be as good as his Word need not pick out every Step of his Way. _Over_. The Ground about C——t, they say, is d——d slippery. _Blunt_. And for that Reason I would not have had our Friends get upon it before they had secured their Footing there. See what is become of the late infamous _Deserters_ for want of such Precaution. Sir _John_. Let us draw no invidious Inferences from the Examples of a Crew that are now as despicable as they are odious to the whole Nation. A Crew that can’t claim even the Merit of being intentionally upright. They did not so much as attempt keeping Faith with the People. _Over_. But they kept it religiously with the _Barn_ Keeper. _Blunt_. I can’t say who was to be _indulged_ by the War, but sure I am the Weight of it is grievously felt all over the Body politic.——Mr. _Broadbottom_, you have been lately at Court, pray what do they think there of the War? Are we like to get out of it with Honour? in short, are we like to get out of it at all? _Over_. Out of it at all!——The D——l, you would not have us serve an Apprenticeship to the War, as we do to our P——ts? Sir _John_. If it be no better manag’d than it has been hitherto, I don’t see why this War might not last much longer than seven Years. _Over_. I’ll tell you why it can’t, because we shan’t be able to maintain it so long. By mortgaging the _Sinking Fund_ we may hold out three or four Years pretty tolerably; but after that, souse we go to _Mint_ or _State-bills_ at 50 _per Cent_. Discount, as in France in old _Lewis_ XIV. his Days. _Rose_. Gentlemen, however, will consider, that we can’t get out of the War as easily as out of an Assembly Room in the Times of our Horse Races. Sir _John_. I am sure it would be towering Madness to continue it on the same Footing it has been carried on hitherto. The _Dutch_ should come in for a full equal Proportion of the Expence, or I would not have a Red-coat left in _Flanders_. _Blunt_. Let the Cheesemongers look to their Barrier and be d——n’d, if they don’t come down Guinea for Guinea, and Shilling for Shilling with us towards preserving it. _Over_. _Blunt_, if you would curse the _Dutch_ effectually, you must wish them undamm’d. _Blunt_. Damn’d or undamm’d let ’em be, before Old _England_ wades out of her Depths to hold them up by the Chin. _Broad_. Let us hope for the best. They may hear Reason, they may see their Interest when painted by so masterly a Hand as is now intrusted with the Pencil.