cers are fill'd
with the true Sprit of Liberty (a most rare thing) which demonstrates
the Felicity of her Majesty's Reign, and her standing upon a true
Bottom, beyond any other Instance that can be given; insomuch, that
considering how great and happy we have been under the Government of
_Queens_, I have sometimes doubted, whether an _Anti-Salick Law_ wou'd
be to our Disadvantage.

Most of these _Officers_ do expect, nay (so true do I take them to be to
their Country's Interest) do wish, whenever it shall please God to send
us such a Peace as may be relied upon both at home and abroad, to return
to the State of _peaceable Citizens_ again; but 'tis fit they should do
so, with such ample Rewards for their Blood and Labours, as shall
entirely satisfy them. And when they, or the Survivors of them, shall
return full of Honour and Scars home to their Relations, after the
Fatigues of so glorious a Service to their Country are ended; 'tis their
Country's Duty to make them easy, without laying a Necessity upon them
of striving for the Continuance of an _Army_ to avoid _starving_. The
_Romans_ used to content them by a Distribution of their Enemies Lands;
and I think their Example so good in every thing, that we could hardly
propose a better. _Oliver Cromwell_ did the like in _Ireland_, to which
we owe that Kingdom's being a Protestant Kingdom at this Day, and its
continuing subject to the Crown of _England_; but if it be too late to
think of this Method now, some other must be found out by the Wisdom of
_Parliament_, which shall fully answer the End.

These Officers and Soldiers thus settled and reduced to a _Civil State_,
wou'd, in a great measure, compose that invincible _Militia_ I am now
forecasting; and by reason of their Skill in military Affairs, wou'd
deserve the principal Posts and Commands in their respective Counties:
With this advantageous Change of their Condition, that whereas formerly
they fought for their Country only as _Soldiers_ of _Fortune_, now they
shou'd defend it as wise and valiant _Citizens_, as _Proprietors_ of the
Estates they fight for; and this will gain them the entire Trust and
Confidence of all the good People of _England_, who, whenever they come
to know their own Minds, do heartily hate _Slavery_. The Manner and
Times of assembling, with several other necessary Regulations, are only
proper for the _Legislative_ to fix and determine.

A right _Whig_ lays no Stress upon the _Illegitimacy_ of th