And to come home to the present Time, has not _France_ still the same regardless Dispositions towards the Pretender? Are they not ready to enter into any Engagement whatever to stand by the Articles of _Utrecht_ to the greatest nicety? I know it has been aprised about, that _France_ was in the Design against King _George_; but as the Regent reply'd very pertinently to the Earl of _Stairs_'s Memorial. There needs no more convincing Proof that _France_ has not been meddling, than to understand that both in _Scotland_ and _England_, the Rebels have been destitute both of Arms and Money? The Custom-house Officers of _Great-Britain_, have no Authority to search _French_ Ships as they go out of their own Ports, and had it not been an easy Matter to have sent what Arms they pleas'd into _Scotland_? What occasion was their for the Pretender to have sculk'd so long upon the Shoar, and stolen privately out of one of their Havens, if the Regent had encourag'd him. It was no Secret to me and several others above Twenty Eight Years ago, that _France_ was never sincere in this Affair; but as their Projects came nearer to a Conclusion, they took less care to conceal the Secret. Till they had a Prospect of settling the _Spanish_ Monarchy in the House of _Bourbon_, they were loud and high in their Demands concerning King _James_; but the Hopes they conceiv'd that way, made 'em clap up a Peace at _Reswick_, and lay King _James_'s Interest to Sleep. When the _Spanish_ Project was ripe, and the Wealth of the _Indies_ ready to drop into their Lap, and that they were actually to be put into Possession of it, the Allies were amused with two Partition Treaties, and the Pretender sacrific'd to the same Politicks at the Treaty of _Utrecht_. Yes he was neglected, despised, banish'd out of _France_, forc'd out of _Lorain_, a free State, threaten'd at _Avignon_, a Sanction never yet violated, and now he and his Adherents are preparing themselves to be thrust into the Jaws of the _Turk_, unless the Regent out of Pity deliver him up in hope of the 100000_l_. and finish the Character of succouring distress'd Monarchs, by being the Occasion of losing his Head on _Tower-Hill_, rather than being Impail'd at _Constantinople_.