gun, and the vexation differed by its various miſcarriages, and then thought nothing could be of greater benefit to the nation than that which might promote the ſucceſs of ſuch another enterpriſe.
Had the heroes of that hiſtory even performed and attained all that when they firſt ſpread their ſails they ventured to hope, the conſequence would yet have produced very little hurt to the Spaniards, and very little benefit to the Engliſh. They would have taken a few towns; Anſon and his companions would have ſhared the plunder or the ranſom; and the Spaniards, finding their ſouthern territories acceſſible, would for the future have guarded them better.
That ſuch a ſettlement may be of uſe in war, no man that confiders its ſituation will deny. But war is not the whole buſineſs of life; it happens but ſeldom, and every
