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 in Power:—This were surely a clear Indication, that the Spirit of Faction were abroad.

But if, in the Course of political Revolutions, some of these Men's former Adherents should now be their Adversaries; and some former Adversaries should now be their Adherents; another characteristic Circumstance would arise: For Those whom they had once reviled, they would now applaud, as being the Friends of Liberty; and Those whom they had formerly applauded, they would now revile, as having become Jacobites or Tories.—Such a Conduct, and such Names thus arbitrarily imposed, however speciously coloured over by the Pretence and Cry of Liberty, might seem to stand, with all impartial Judges, as a clear Mark of Licentiousness and Faction.

The Views of such Men would be still more apparent, should they insinuate, that the Prince received Those very Men as his Ministers and Favourites, whose Principles