I state them only that we may discern a little in the questions of war and peace, the most weighty of all questions, what is the wisdom of those men who are held out to us as the only hope of an expiring nation.

The present ministry is indeed of a strange character: at once indolent and distracted.

But if a ministerial system should be formed, actuated by such maxims as are avowed in this piece, the vices of the present ministry would become their virtues; their indolence would be the greatest of all public benefits, and a distraction that entirely defeated every one of their schemes would be our only security from destruction.
To have stated these reasonings is enough, I presume, to do their business.

But they are accompanied with facts and records, which may seem of a little more weight.

I trust, however, that the facts of this author will be as far from bearing the touchstone, as his arguments.