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THE

PUBLIC SPIRIT

OF THE

WHIG S,

Set forth in their generous Encouragement of the Author of The CRISIS.

WITH

Some Obfervations on the Seafonablenefs, Candour, Erudition, and Style of that Treatise.

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Upon the first publication of this pamphlet, all the Scotch Lords, then in London, went in a body, and complained to Queen ANNE of the affront put on them and their nation by the author of this Treatife. Whereupon a proclamation was published by her Majefty, offering a reward of three hundred pounds to difcover him. The reafon for offering fo fmall a fum was, that the Queen and Miniftry had no defire to have the author taken into cuftody.

THE

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