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Towards the Union: Spy gains seat in cabinet ... and unexpected influence

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20061107
Author:Paul Riddell

IN HIS next letter to his spymaster, Robert Harley, Daniel Defoe raised the issue of how the Church of Scotland was dealing with the Treaty of Union:

In my last [letter] I hinted to you what the Church was doeing as to their address or protest against the Church of England constitution.

... as to the general opinion it gains here I must own it does some harm - but not what it was expected, for while it was in debate, like the English fleet while it lay at Torbay it kept all France in suspence, so the country expected the Kirk would have protested as the Burghs have done against the Union in ...

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