Accordingly that dangerous league, thus abetted and authorized by the English ministry without an attempt to invalidate it in any way, or in any of its parts, exists to this hour; and has grown stronger and stronger every hour of its existence.
As to the second component of a good peace, _compensation_, I have but little trouble; the author has said nothing upon that head.

He has nothing to say.

After a war of such expense, this ought to have been a capital consideration.

But on what he has been so prudently silent, I think it is right to speak plainly.

All our new acquisitions together, at this time, scarce afford matter of revenue, either at home or abroad, sufficient to defray the expense of their establishments; not one shilling towards the reduction of our debt.