286 A VINDICATION Of His Excellency John, Lord Carteret, FROM The CHARGE of favouring none but Tories, High-Church-men, and Jacobites. Written in the Year 1730.

IN order to treat this important Subject, with the greatest Fairness and Impartiality; perhaps it may be convenient to give some Account of his Excellency; in whose Life and Character, there are certain Particulars, which might give a very just Suspicion of some Truth in the Accusation he lies under.

He is descended from two noble, antient, and most loyal Families, the Carterets and the Gran- villes;