He knows that our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest: theirs acquired nothing but defeat and bankruptcy.
Thus the author has laid down his ideas on the subject of war.

Next follow those he entertains on that of peace.

The treaty of Paris upon the whole has his approbation.

Indeed, if his account of the war be just, he might have spared himself all further trouble.

The rest is drawn on as an inevitable conclusion.[49] If the House of Bourbon had the advantage, she must give the law; and the peace, though it were much worse than it is, had still been a good one.