Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover / With an Enquiry How Far the Abdication of King James, Supposing It to Be Legal, Ought to Affect the Person of the Pretender

A political pamphlet argues that sharp public disputes over the royal succession are tearing social bonds, damaging commerce, religion, and domestic peace, and spreading factionalism from households to workplaces. It warns that a divided nation cannot reliably bring over or defend a contested successor and that attempting to do so would invite disaster, citing foreign precedents of insecure thrones. The author urges suspending open contention in favor of national reconciliation before debating succession, and probes how a prior sovereign's abdication might affect the legal and moral status of a rival claimant.