If her troops are cut to pieces, they will by her policy (and a wonderful policy it is) be improved, and will be supplied with much better men.

If the war is carried on in the colonies, he tells them[41] that the loss of her ultramarine dominions lessens her expenses, and insures her remittances:-- Per damna, per caedes, ab ipso Ducit opes animumque ferro.
If so, what is it we can do to hurt her ?--it will be all an _imposition_, all _fallacious_.

Why, the result must be,-- Occidit, occidit Spes omnis, et fortuna nostri Nominis.
The only way which the author's principles leave for our escape, is to reverse our condition into that of France, and to take her losing cards into our hands.

But though his principles drive him to it, his politics will not suffer him to walk on this ground.

Talking at our ease and of other countries, we may bear to be diverted with such speculations; but in England we shall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade, the ruin of our credit, the defeat of our armies, and the loss of our ultramarine dominions (whatever the author may think of them), to be the high road to prosperity and greatness.
The reader does not, I hope, imagine that I mean seriously to set about the refutation of these uningenious paradoxes and reveries without imagination.