Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
Appendices B - The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- The Authors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Poetry, Pamphleteering and the Pillory
- 2 Defoe and the Dead King
- 3 The Author of the Review
- 4 Propagandist for the Union
- 5 ‘Maintaining a Counter Correspondence’
- 6 1710: The Fateful Step
- 7 Defoe and the Whig Split
- 8 The Return of the Prodigal
- Appendices A Three Recently-Discovered Letters from Defoe to Godolphin (1708)
- Appendices B The ‘Sir Andrew Politick’ Letter (25 October 1718)
- Appendices C Defoe's An Appeal to Honour and Justice (1715)
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Sir Andrew Politick's Letter, Mist's Journal, 25 October 1718
MIST, thou Party Oracle, answer the Doubts of the Nation, if thou art able, or tell us thy Oracle is silent in these Things, and that we are to expect no Illuminations of this kind from thee. We are running into a War, I suppose, that, I find No Body can deny, deny, &c. Prithee tell us, Mist, for I ask it now without any Reflection upon the King and Government, or any Offence to Scots George or the Whigs; I say, tell us what it is we are going to fight for? Who it is we are going to fight with? Whose Quarrel embarks us? And what have we to do with that Quarrel? What are the Pretences? How are these Pretences made good? What Condition are we in to carry it on, and that will be the Consequences of the War, whether we are conquer'd or may conquer.
1st. We are supposed to be running into a War; this I think I might make good by looking back on what is past, viz. first, we have attack'd the Spanish Fleet and defeated them. 2dly. They have rejected our Proposals of Peace, and have taken our Merchant Ships, seized our Effects, &c.
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- A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe , pp. 194 - 198Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014