Select LETTERS. T SATURDAY, May 16, 1730. HE Powers of Grub-ftreet have made no fmall Figure in the World for thefe three or four Years laft paft; for, if we may believe a certain Party amongst us, it is they who have held the Ballance of Europe in their Hands, and all the Mifcarriages and Difappointments which have attended the wife Projects of certain Perfons, have been charged to the wicked Intrigues of this Set of Men. If you will examine the Pamphlet, call'd Obfervations on the Treaty of Seville, fuppofed to be written by a moft profound Politician; if you will look into several other Papers which come from the fame Quarter, you will find it there pofitively afferted, that it was the moft ferene Powers of Grub-street, that hinder'd the King of S- from accepting the Provifional Treaty; and fome of them (as I am credibly inform'd) have been fo bold, to declare that they are forry they were not able to hinder him from accepting of the Treaty of Seville likewife. But let that pafs.- -It is they who drive the into another Alliance, and put quarrel about two or three Truffes B of |