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Prince George's Letter to the King.
SIR,
WITH a Heart full of Grief am I forced to Write, what Prudence will not per∣mit me to say to your Face. And may I e'er find Credit with your Majesty, and protection from Heaven, as what I now do, is free from Passion, Vanity or Design, with which Actions of this Nature are too often accompanied. I am not ignorant of the frequent Mischiefs wrought in the World by factious pretences of Religion; but were not Religion the most justifiable Cause, it would not be made the most speci∣ous pretence. And your Majesty has always shewn too uninterested a Sense of Religion, to doubt the just Effects of it in one whose Practices, have, I hope, never given the World cause to censure his real conviction of it, or his backwardness to perform what his Honour and Conscience prompt him to: How then can I longer disguise my just Concern for that Religion in which I have been so happily Educated, which my Judg∣ment throughly convinces me to be best; and for the Support of which I am so highly interested in my Native Country? And is not England now by the most endearing Tie become so?
Whilst the restless Spirits of the Enemies of the REFORMED RELIGION, back'd by the cruel Zeal and prevailing Power of France, justly alarm and unite all the Protestant Princes of Christendom, and engage them in so vast an Expence for the sup∣port of it, can I act so degenerous and mean a part, as to deny my Concurrence to such worthy Endeavours for disabusing of your Majesty by the Reinforcement of those Laws, and Establishment of that Government, on which alone depends the well-being of your Majesty, and of the PROTESTANT RELIGION in Europe? This, Sir, is that irresistible and only Cause that cou'd come in Competition with my Duty and Ob∣ligations to your Majesty, and be able to tear me from You, whilst the same Affection∣ate Desire of serving You continues in me. Could I secure your Person by the Hazard of my Life, I should think it could not be better Employed: And wou'd to God these Your distracted Kingdoms might yet receive that satisfactory Compliance from your Majesty in all their justifiable pretensions, as might upon the only sure Foundation, that of the Love and Interest of your Subjects, establish your Government, and as strongly Unite the Hearts of all your Subjects to You, as is that of,
SIR,
Your Majesty's most Humble, and most Obedient Son and Servant.