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SUMMER CAMPAIGN,

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ERSEY--a coup de main.---The militia will certainly run away---the Governor not come, till the whole bufiness is over---This can't fail of fuccefs---What a fine Gazette it will make for our friends in American ferfey!

-Invasion of Ireland---people, moftly papifts; but unluckily for us, as well off now as the proteftants--- However our friends in the oppofition promife, fome how or other, to make them rebel---One of them has engaged to fet their priests to work, particularly Father--- The Irish fhould be taught to compare themselves to the Americans---a Congreis might be held in Dublin, Sir Edward Newnham Prefident---We must write to order two or three harrangues in the English

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lish Parliament, to fpirit up the Irish army to mutiny----I wish we could make our own people forget Thurot's name---The worst of all is, the Irish are a nation of blunderers ; and, though they fhould even invite us to join them, it is more than probable, they'd miftake us for enemies, as foon as we got there; and with the fame blundering folly, prefer the fafety and honour of England, to the unambitious difinterefted friendship of France.

-In the courfe of the fummer, a defcent on Southampton and Brighthelmstone, in the bathing featon, may give us fome eclat, and it will keep up the fpirits of our young officers, to form the ball rooms, or enter the bathing houfes, fword in hand.

As to a grand fleet, the merchants will murmur, if we don't make fome parade about their interests; though all the mitchief is done already for the English privateers have feized above twelve millions Sterling of their property---Befides, even if we can man a grand Fleet, D'Orvilliers difdains to stay in the English Channel. After his victory, as he called it, laft fummer, he thought even the Atlantic too narrow for his own glory, or his fovereign's ambition. Yet all the business is done in this English Channel, as thofe lflanders have the iniolence to call it.

We

----We must garrifon our coaft towns very carefully---for, as foon as Jerfey is taken, the English will try to retaliate---not that they are very fond of coming too near our coaft; but ftill we must take care, for nothing could make us fo ridiculous in the eyes of all Europe, as a fhip or two of theirs coming under our forts, to burn and feize our men of war and our merchant ships.

If D'Eftaign beats Byron, we'll fend for him home, to burn Portfmouth-for no one but D'Eftaign is worthy to finish what John the Painter began.

We are very much puzzled what forts to attack, Dover Castle is impregnable; Tufnell commands there !--- Scilly wou'd be a defperate bufinefs; Egerton is prepared for us !--Tilbury, indeed wou'd be eafy enough, if we cou'd once get there --- Many are for attacking The Cinque Ports, becaufe Lord North is governor !---They fay he has a trick of falling afleep on his poft---It's true enough he does fleep; but, I'm afraid, like the lion, to crush his enemies when he awakes.--Fort William we can eafily reduce---for our old enemy Mr. Rigby fays, Governor Burgoyne can only fight for the Congrefs now.---The Tower wou'd be best of all, if we cou'd fail up there by night.---Lord Cornwallis will be as tedious

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and circuitous in answeringGeneral Howe's enquiries, as the General was in getting to Phila aelphia, fo he'll have no time to think of us--and if we once take the Tower, it will be particularly pleasant to ranfack the armory, where this proud people have preserved fo many spoils of their former glory, and our unaccountable defeats. So much for Europe -as to America.

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(THIS fkétch of a South American alliance is one of Lauragai's libels-He does not know how feriously we have debated this fubject in the cabinet.

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ROJECT of a treaty of friendship and commerce, between his. Moft Chriftian Majesty and the United States of South America.To be ratified as foon as they rebel against Spain, which we have reafon to hope will take place in two or three years.

1. "In the name of the holy and undivided "trinity," his Moft Christian Majesty will receive an embaffy, compofed of a disbanded jefuit, and philofophical doctors, from Paraguay, Chili, and Peru: at the fame time, Le Sieur Conrade Alexander Gerard (who will by that time, have experience in this kind of bufinefs) fhall be "named, and conftituted Envoy "Plenipotentiary" to all thofe States of South America, in general, which adopt the example of protected rebellion; and, in particular, D'Eon Chargée des Affaires to the Country of Amazons.

* We follow the words of the North American treaty.