This Account of the occasion of the present War, vary'd very much from the Idea we in _Scotland_ had of Affairs. We were made to believe, That the King of _France_ being a zealous Roman Catholick Monarch, had engag'd himself in a War against the Allies, meerly upon a Religious Motive, to re-establish King _James_, who was dethron'd upon no other Account but because he was a Roman Catholick. But I have since found by comparing Matters, that the Revolution in _England_ was not the Occasion, but the Consequence of the War between the _French_ and the Allies; for the Emperor, _&c._ understanding that King _James_ II. was drawn into a Scrape by the _French_ King, and that he made a Property of him to carry on his Ambitious Designs; 'tis not to be wonder'd at, if they prefer'd the general Good of _Europe_, and immediate Safety of their own People to the private Good of King _James_ II, who had been so indiscreet as to expose himself to Ruin by giving into a _French_ Project. However this unpolitick Management proved very lucky to _France_ upon a double Account; for tho' they had begun a War upon the disedifying bottom of Ambition, it was afterwards consecrated in mny Peoples Thoughts, under a Colour of justifying a dethron'd Roman Catholick Prince, besides the Advantage of causing a considerable Diversion by fomenting a War in the Three Kingdoms of _Great-Britain_; for as for re-establishing that unfortunate Prince in his Throne, though I was a long Time of Opinion _France_ really design'd it; yet since I have been convinc'd by undeniable Arguments, that it neither was his Interest to bring it about, nor that he ever seriously attempted it. I must own it was never very Intelligible to me, not even in my very darkest State of Bigottry for the _French_ Interest, that the Emperor, the King of _Spain_, and Duke of _Savoy_, with many other Roman Catholick Princes, nay, the Pope himself should all fail in their Duty and Zeal for Religion, and the King of _France_ (who was remarkable upon other Occasions for sacrificing it to Politick ends) should be the only one in _Europe_ that wou'd stand up for it. It was not so in the Infancy of the _Dutch_ Republic, when _France_ concurr'd with the Seven Provinces to have them torn from the _Spanish_ Monarchy, and by the same Assistance, enabled 'em to make head against the Church. It was not so when a Frown of _Oliver Cromwell_ cou'd oblige _France_ to lay aside the charitable Maxim of Royal Protection, and send _Charles_ II. and his Brother the Duke of _York_, out of their Territories by an Infamous Condescension. But _James_ II. had forgotten the Affronts offer'd to the Duke of _York_, and I suppose had a Mind to make a second Tryal of _French_ Hospitality, and whether they would be more obliging to him in his old Age, than they had been in his Youth. Neither is this plausible Pretence of defending a Prince injur'd upon the Score of Religion, very consistent with their Conduct, in regard of the _Turk_.