hen to quarrel
with his friends; among whom, by the same arts, they excite a similar
diffidence of him; so that in this mutual fear and distrust, he may
suffer himself to be employed as the instrument in the change which is
brought about. Afterwards they are sure to destroy him in his turn; by
setting up in his place some person in whom he had himself reposed the
greatest confidence, and who serves to carry on a considerable part of
his adherents.

When such a person has broke in this manner with his connections, he is
soon compelled to commit some flagrant act of iniquitous personal
hostility against some of them (such as an attempt to strip a particular
friend of his family estate), by which the Cabal hope to render the
parties utterly irreconcilable. In truth, they have so contrived
matters, that people have a greater hatred to the subordinate instruments
than to the principal movers.

As in destroying their enemies they make use of instruments not
immediately belonging to their corps, so in advancing their own friends
they pursue exactly the same method. To promote any of them to
considerable rank or emolument, they commonly take care that the
recommendation shall pass through the hands of the ostensible Ministry:
such a recommendation might, however, appear to the world as some proof
of the credit of Ministers, and some means of increasing their strength.
To prevent this, the persons so advanced are directed in all companies,
industriously to declare, that they are under no obligations whatsoever
to Administration; that they have received their office from another
quarter; that they are totally free and independent.

When the Faction has any job of lucre to obtain, or of vengeance to
perpetrate, their way is, to select, for the execution, those very
persons to whose habits, friendships, principles, and declarations, such
proceedings are publicly known to be the most adverse; at once to render
the instruments the more odious, and therefore the more dependent, and to
prevent the people from ever reposing a confidence in any appearance of
private friendship, or public principle.

If the Administration seem now and then, from remissness, or from fear of
making themselves disagreeable, to suffer any popular excesses to go
unpunished, the Cabal immediately sets up some creature of theirs to
raise a clamour against the Ministers, as having shamefully betrayed the
dignity of Government. Then they compel the Ministr