King James was certainly mistaken when he estimated the queen's annual supplies at one hundred and thirty-seven thousand pounds.

Franklyn, p.44.It is curious to observe that the minister, in the war begun in 1754, was in some periods allowed to lavish in two months as great a sum as was granted by parliament to Queen Elizabeth in forty-five years.

The extreme frivolous object of the late war, and the great importance of hers, set this matter in still a stronger light.

Money too, we may observe, was in most particulars of the same value in both periods: she paid eight pence a day to every foot soldier.

But our late delusions have much exceeded any thing known in history, not even excepting those of the crusades.