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Show 80 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL bery ; fhoultl they give all polli'ole Freedom and Encouragement to indul'trious Artificers, and lay SUBJECTS. Sr tempted to invade fuch aKingdom, they would find to their Colt, that an induftrious State, heavy Dilbouragements on ldlenefs and Vice, by Means of judicious Taxes; and laltly, fhould abounding with People and with Riches, having they root out all Notions of beggarly Pride, and well fortified, the Garrifons duly paid, and the of the Glory of making maroding In‘curfions; whole Country full of Villages and Enclofures; what a mighty, what a happy Change would foon appear in the Face of thole Countries! And what could then be laid to be waiting in order to render fuch Nations truly rich and great? Pennars tome neighbouring State (entertaining a foolilh Jealouly) would take the Alarm, Ifay, they would feel to their Coll, that fueh a that their Trade was in Danger. But it they at- its Magazines well ltored, its frontier 'l‘owns"e State is the firongeft of all others, and the mof't * As 3. Confirmation of the above, it may be obfervcd, that this very Country of Great-Britain is become much more capable of Defence ag..inlt a foreign Invafion, than it is ufed to be; and that the numberlefs Enclol‘ures, new Canals, and artificial Navigations, which are now forming almolt every Day, render it a Kind of li‘ortrel‘s from one End to the other. For while a few Regiments were polled in Villages, or behind Hedges, or to line the Banks ot'Ri-~ the Madnefs of tome, and the wickednel's of others) were you but to compare what he,at1ually did, with what has been done either before or fince, in this, or any other Country, not forgetting the Sony's, the COLBERTS, and the Frau n ‘15 of Frame, you would find that he lhonc as much ahere ' 4 ; l‘xlinillers, as Eng/'mzd hath exceeded the relt ofthe World in her late enormous Expenees. The Author is in no Pain for what he has ndvaueedon this Head. Truth--unbought, unpenfiencd, and impair- tial Truth, i.» his only h'lotive: Indeed, what other Motive can any Man have {or {peaking well of a dead Miniller? Nil)': M will further adj That'tho' the Miniller was neither conthliniented by Corporations, nor huzm'd by Mobs; yet as ion vers and Canals; and while a few Light Horfe were em- ployed in harralling both the Front and Rear ofthe Enemy, in falling on his Convoys, dellroying his Magazines, and keeping him in a perpetual Alarm; ~ his Progrels would be loretarded, and his Forces {0 weakened, at the lame l'ime that our own would be encreafing in Strength and Numbers, as would oblige him to retire without Danger to us, but. with great Shame and Lois to himfelf. Had HAROLD ufed the fame Precaution againlt the Duke of Normandy, inilcad of coming to a decifive Engagement with him on his landing, the latter mull have returned ingloriouily, perhaps with not a fourth Part of his Troops ;-if indeed he could have returned at all, after he had penetrated a great \Yay into the Country far from the Relources of his Shipping, as the 8th of Unouce I. Cap. 15. (lee the Sta- Proviflons, and Supplies. An lnvaiion of this Country is tute Book) (hall remain among the Laws of this Realm, {0 long w-ll tiiefe Cammrrn‘al Rmulmimzr be recorded by the thinking; "ml Contiderate Part 3f Mankind, as doing more true mem', than all the Gold Boxes. or honorary Freedom? certainly apoflié/e "T/Jing, notwithing all our Fleets, and all that could have been bellowed. Blows, lhould give him an Opportunity of bringing the Al- ' tempted the Vigilance of their Commanders. But the invader would not have the lealt Chance of conquering the Country, unlefs the headitrong Impatience of the Englzj/J to come to ldlr to or: a'cri/iz's Battle. 1.‘ dilheult |
