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138 ſubject, but to the King himſelf, and in great meaſure rids him of care. But the ſame author, p. 88. tells us the ſucceſs of this attempt : theſe progenitors of the prince, who thus endeavoured, with might and main, to be rid of this ſtate-government, not only could not compaſs that larger power which they graſped at, but riſqued both themſelves and their kingdom. As we ourſelves have likewiſe ſeen in the late K. . Or, on the other fide, perhaps it is diſliked by ſome who have ſeen no other effects of it, but what have proceeded from the Scotch King-Craft, which is worſe than no government at all, and have imputed thoſe corruptions and diſorders to the Engliſh frame of government; or at leaſt, think that it has no remedy provided againſt them: and ſo have fallen into the waking dreams of I know not what, for want of underſtanding the true of the Engliſh government. But I can aſſure theſe perſons, that upon farther ſearch they will find it quite otherwiſe, and that the Engliſh frame of government cannot be mended; and the old land-marks better placed, than we could, have laid them with our own hands; and withal, that all new projects come a thoufand years