of a new War give above fourteen or fifteen per cent. for Premiums and Intereſt, then the Remainder will be 3000000 l. I believe I may venture to ſay, they will not be very fond of leſſening the Civil Liſt, and loſe their Salaries and Penſions. Then if we deduct 700000 Pound per Annum, upon that account there will be 2300000 pound per Annum, for the uſe of the War, if the People pay the utmoſt Penny they are able; ſo that the Queſtion will not be as in the laſt War, how we ſhall carry it on againſt France at large, but how 2300000 Pound ſhall be diſpoſed of to the greateſt advantage; which I preſume every one will believe ought to be in a good Fleet.
This leads me to conſider what will be the beſt, if not the only way of managing a new War in caſe the King of Spain's Death, and a new Rupture with France; and I will ſuppoſe the Nation to be as perfectly free from all incumbrances as before the War. Moſt Men at this time of Day, I believe, will agree with me that 'tis not our buſineſs to throw Squibs in Flanders, ſend out vaſt Sums of Money to have our Men play at bopeep with the French, and at beſt to have their Brains beat out againſt ſtone Walls: But if a War is neceſſary there, 'tis our Intereſt to let the Dutch and Germans manage it, which is proper for their Situation, and let our Province be to undertake the Sea; yet if we have not Wit and hoeſty enough to make ſuch a bargain with them, but that we bring ourſelves again to a neceſſity of maintaining Armies there, we may hir Men from Germany for half the price we can raiſe them here, and they will be ſooner ready than they can be tranſported from hence, that Country being full of Men, all Soldiers inured to Fatigue, and ſerving for much leſs pay than we give our own: Beſides, we ſhall carry on the War at the expence of others Blodd, and ſave our own People, which are the ſtrength and riches of all Governments; we ſhall ſave the charge of providing for the Officers when the War is done, and not meet with ſuch difficulties in diſhanding them.
There are ſome Gentlemen that have ſtarted a new method of making War with France, and tell us it will be neceſſary to ſend Forces to Spain to hinder the French from poſſeſſing that Country; and therefore we muſt
