DR.

SACHEVERELL, AND THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT.
Some of Defoe's biographers have claimed for him that he anticipated the doctrines of Free Trade.

This is an error.

It is true that Defoe was never tired of insisting, in pamphlets, books, and number after number of the _Review_, on the all-importance of trade to the nation.

Trade was the foundation of England's greatness; success in trade was the most honourable patent of nobility; next to the maintenance of the Protestant religion, the encouragement of trade should be the chief care of English statesmen.