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Show [ 71 1 [ 73 l they give all poflible Freedom and Encouragement to indul‘trious Artificers, and lay heavy tempted to invade fuch a Kingdom, they would Difcouragements on ldlenelh and Vice, by Means of judicious Taxes; and laftly, {hould abounding with People and with Riches, having they root out all Notions of beggarly Pride, and of the Glory of making maroding Incurfions; ---what a mighty, what a happy Change would foon appear in the Face of [hole Countries! And what could then be {aid to be wanting in order to render fuch Nations truly rich and . great 5" PERHAPS fome neighbouring State (entertaining a foolilh Jealouly) would take the Alarm, find to their Coll, that an indul‘trious State, its Magazines well [tored, its frontier Towns'" well fortified, the Garrifons duly paid, and the whole Country full of Villages and Enclol‘ures; I fay, they would feel to their Colt, that fuch a State is the firongel't of all others, and the molt "l" As a Confirmation of the above, it may be obferved, that this very Country of Great-Britain is become much more capable of Defence againfl; a foreign Invafion, than it ufed to be; and that the numberlefs Enclofitres, new Canals, and artificial Navigations, which are now forming that their r male was in Danger. But if they at; almolt every Day, render it a Kind of Fortrels from one End to the other. For while a few Regiments were polled in Villages, or behind Hedges, or to line the B mks of Ri- vers and Canals; and while a few Light Horfe were employed in harafling both the Front and Rear of the Enemy, in falling on his Convoys, dellroying his Magazines, and a , ,-‘.',V<‘ . ‘ 1'" 3W been for the Madnel's of fome, and the Wickednefs of keeping him in a perpetual Alarm ;---his Progrefs would be others) were you but to compare what he actually did, with what has been done either before or fince, in this, or any other Country, not {orgetting the So LLYS, the COLBER'I‘S, and the FLr o RYS of France, you would find that he {bone as much above all other Minillers, as England hath ex- ceeded the rell of‘the World in her late enormous Expences. The Author is in no Pain for what he has advanced on this Head. '1"ruth---unbought, unpenfioned, and impartial Truth, is his only Motive : Indeed, what other Motive can any Man have for {peaking well of a dead Minilter? Nayy he will further add, That tho' the Miniller was neither complimented by Corporations, nor hnzza'd by Mobs; yet as long as the 8th of Geo. I. Cap. 15 (fee the Statute Book) {hall remain among the Laws of this Realm, {a long will theft: Commercial Regulation: be regarded by the thinking and confiderate Part of Mankind, as doing more If!" Honour, than all the Gold Boxes, or honorary Freedoms that could have been bellowed. tempted {0 retarded, and his Forces {0 weakened, :t the fame Time, that our own would be encreafing in Sti't'flg/l) and Number:, as would oblige him to retire without Danger to us, but with great Shame and Lois to himfelf. Had HA ROLD ufed the fame Precaution againtl the Duke of Newman's), inllead of coming to a decifive Engagement with him on his land- ing, the latter mufl have returned inglorioully, perhaps with not a fourth Part of his Troops ;---if intleetl he could have returned at all, after he had penetrated a great W'ay into the Country, farfrom the Refourees of his bhipping, ,Provifions, and Supplies. An Invafion of this Country is certainly a ,bqfléle Thing, notwithltanding all our Fleets, and all the Vigilance of their Commanders. But the In~ vader would not have the leafl Chance of conquering the Country, unlefs the headf‘trong Impatience of the Eng/if}; to come to Blows, {hould give him an Opportunity of bringing the Affair to one Jeri/17w Bali/r. K difficult |