He can prove not one of these points.

I will show him a fact more that is mortal to his assertions.

It is the state of our shipping in 1762.

The author had his reasons for stopping short at the preceding year.

It would have appeared, had he proceeded farther, that our tonnage was in a course of uniform augmentation, owing to the freight derived from our foreign conquests, and to the perfect security of our navigation from our clear and decided superiority at sea.