Excerpt from A Just and Modest Vindication of the Proceedings of the Two Last Parliaments Paper lhew the Writer to have been of another Nation, or at l'eali to have had his thoughts fo much taken up for the inter eli's of F rnnce, ( whillt he was laboring this way to heighten and, perpetuate the differences between the King and his People, that he could not exprefs himfelfjn any other idiom then theirs, he would not otherwife have introduced the King fay ing, That it me: a matter extrenml] [enfihle to Us; a form of fpeech peculiar to the French, and unknown to any other nation.the Reader(who underliands that Language)will ob ft'rve fo many more of this Kind as will give him juft caufe to doubt, whether the whole Paper was not a Tranflation, and whether the Englifh onc, or that which was publiflied in French was the Original. Let us then no longer wonder that the time of Dilfolving our Parliaments is known at Paris fooner then at London, fince 'tis probable the Reafons now Given for it were formed'there too. The Peers at Oxford were fo totally ignorant of the Council, that they neveronce thought ofa Dillblurion, till they heard it pronounced; but the Dutchefs of Murine had better Intelli gence, and publifhed the News at St. Farmer's many hours be fore it was done. This Declaration was not Communicated to the Privy Council till Friday the 8.0pril, when His Ma jelty (according to the late method)did Gratioully declare to them his pleafure to fet it forth, without defiring from them any Advice in the matter, but Monfieur Bnrit'lon, the French Am bail'ador did not only Read it to a Gentleman the fifth of A pril, but advifed with him about it and demanded his Opinion of it, which his Excellency will the better remember becaufe of the great liberty which the Perfon took in Ridiculing it to his F ace. Goodgod, to what or Condition is this Kingdom reducedmfhen the Minifler: and Agents of the on!) Prince in the World, who can have De/fgnr agnin/i us, or ofwhomwie anght to he afraid, are not only made acquainted with the moft ferret Pnflnger of State, bnf are made our Cherf Miniflerr too, and have the Principal C ondne? Of onr Afl'nirr. And let the World judge if the Commons had not Reafon for their Vote, w hen they Declared thofe Eminent: Perfont who manage things at this rate, to he Enemies to the King and K ingdom, and 'promoterr of the French Interejt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.