I trust this is so obvious that it will not be necessary to put cases for its illustration.

In that war, as soon as Spain entered into the quarrel, the security of North America was no longer the sole nor the foremost object.

The _Family Compact_ had been I know not how long before in agitation.

But then it was that we saw produced into daylight and action the most odious and most formidable of all the conspiracies against the liberties of Europe that ever has been framed.

The war with Spain was the first fruits of that league; and a security against that league ought to have been the fundamental point of a pacification with the powers who compose it.