by ancient right. We ſhall throw braſs and iron out of our houſes, and nothing but ſilver will be ſeen among us.
All this is very deſirable, but it is not certain that it can be eaſily attained. Large tracts of America were added by the laſt War to the Britiſh dominions; but, if the faction credit their own Apollo, they were conquered in Germany. They at bed are only the barren parts of the continent, the refuſe of the earlier adventurers, which the French, who came laſt, had taken only as better than nothing.
Againſt the Spaniſh dominions we have never hitherto been able to do much. A few privateers have grown rich at their expence, but no ſcheme of conqueſt has yet been ſucceſsful. They are defended not by walls mounted with cannons which by cannons may be battered, but by the ſtorms of the deep and the vapours of the land, by the flames of calenture and blaſts of peſtilence.
