Commerce needs no other protection than the reciprocal interest which every nation feels in supporting it--it is common stock--it exists by a balance of advantages to all; and the only interruption it meets, is from the present uncivilised state of governments, and which it is its common interest to reform.*[26] Quitting this subject, I now proceed to other matters .-- As it is necessary to include England in the prospect of a general reformation, it is proper to inquire into the defects of its government.

It is only by each nation reforming its own, that the whole can be improved, and the full benefit of reformation enjoyed.

Only partial advantages can flow from partial reforms.
France and England are the only two countries in Europe where a reformation in government could have successfully begun.

The one secure by the ocean, and the other by the immensity of its internal strength, could defy the malignancy of foreign despotism.

But it is with revolutions as with commerce, the advantages increase by their becoming general, and double to either what each would receive alone.
As a new system is now opening to the view of the world, the European courts are plotting to counteract it.