The Conduct of the Allies

During the summer of 1711, Queen Anne's Secretary of State for the Northern Department, Lord Bolingbroke, began secret peace negotiations with the French foreign minister, Torcy.

Thirdly, 48 paragraphs contain the substance of Swift's argument, including the government's case for a unilateral peace with France.

Fourthly, 10 paragraph attack the previous Whig government and justify the appointment of Tory's ministry in 1710.

Fifthly, the Whig war aim of preventing the French king's grandson from inheriting the Spanish throne is discussed.

[3] Swift attacked the Duke of Marlborough: "whether this War were prudently begun or not, it is plain, that the true Spring or Motive of it, was the aggrandising of a particular Family [the Churchills], and in short, a War of the General [Marlborough] and the Ministry [the Whigs,] and not of the Prince or People".