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 by ancient right. We hall throw bras and iron out of our houes, and nothing but ilver will be een among us.

this is very deirable, but it is not certain that it can be eaily attained. Large tracts of America were added by the lat War to the Britih dominions; but, if the faction credit their own Apollo, they were conquered in Germany. They at bed are only the barren parts of the continent, the refue of the earlier adventurers, which the French, who came lat, had taken only as better than nothing.

the Spanih dominions we have never hitherto been able to do much. A few privateers have grown rich at their expence, but no cheme of conquet has yet been uccesful. They are defended not by walls mounted with cannons which by cannons may be battered, but by the torms of the deep and the vapours of the land, by the flames of calenture and blats of petilence.