It does not redound to the shame of those who made the treaty of _Seville_, that the parties have allow’d the Emperor a reasonable time to come into their measures; which if they had not, they would have been charg’d with rashness, precipitation, and every enormity. Concludes with mentioning several injuries and insults that this nation has suffer’d from the Imperial quarter. Free Briton, _Jan. 21._ He applies _Job_’s saying to his friends, _Will you lye for God?_ to the Craftsman, _Will you lye for liberty and country?_ and asks, if he demands impunity for defamatory falsehood? Breach of faith, which the _Craftsman_ had laid to the charge of the ministry, is the most virulent aspersion that a libeller can utter against any government, is therefore punishable, and declares his opinion, that spreading false news is no part of the freedom of the press. He thinks no honest cause wants the assistance of falshood, so no man should lay claim to liberty who adheres not to truth; therefore the _Craftsman_ ought not to complain of severity from the government, unless he will evince the truth of his assertion. Men think that prosecutions and confinement are very hard, not considering the provocations that urg’d them; and that the worst imputations are charg’d on the councils of the crown, without the least colour of truth. The punishment inflicted on a libelling printer, bears no proportion with the wrongs thus offer’d to a great people. Distinguishes between _opinions_ offr’d upon national affairs, and _misrepresentations_ of those affairs. The first is not criminal, the other may. Says, these men may be punished on the Statute, as spreaders of false news. The _Craftsman_ can defend himself no other way then by refuting the charge of falshood. The _Craftsman_ had suggested that the _Government_ abetted the very practices for which he is under prosecution; and instanced in the pamphlet _Sedition and Defamation display’d_, which represents the conduct and characters of two persons who have laboured these five years to make this ministry odious, for which reasons the opposite writers spare no invectives to point out these gentlemen _Weekly_, as _Traitors_ and _Villains_. The _Free Briton_ here justifies the characters complain’d of. Free Briton, _Jan. 28._ No. 61. He takes notice that the _Craftsman_ in his reply to the pamphlet called _Sedition and Defamation display’d_, has not once attempted to show that the characters of two gentlemen there given are in the least unlike or injurious, and maintains that whatever is said of them in that pamphlet is indisputably true; yet observes, that the author admitted, that he who had _wronged_ his friendship, and _betrayed_ his confidence, came into the world with _all the advantages_ that recommend men to the _esteem, favour, and approbation of mankind_.