152 THE BEE, OR Jan. 26. 



armaments. Thus much, however, feems to be tolerably 

 clear already — that when the goods, whatever they may be, 

 which the Spaniards at any time may chufe to take from us, 

 are become good for nothing — the arms, for inftance, honey- 

 combed — the powder wetted — the bifcuit mouldy — 'and the 

 beef putrid — they have but to give it us back again, and 

 the account is fettled. 



What, then, is the fecurity provided for fo much of our 

 trade, as we might be defirous of transferring to thefe immenfe 

 regions? Po^juer fecured to the Spaniards of ruining our fettlers 

 and traders, as often as their profperity may attraft notice ; and 

 liberty to fuccceding fettlers and traders, to run foties quoties 

 into the fame fnare. 



So much for the remedial ^^rt. — A word or two of the 

 geographical. 



In a treaty for adjufting territorial difierences, you may 

 take one or other of three courfes. — One is, to draw 

 boundary lints in the treaty itfelf: — Another is, to leave 

 them to bi^ di awn in a lubfequent treaty by commiifaries : — 

 The third is to fay nothing about boundary-lines, but to 

 make it as if they were drawn already. — The firft of 

 thefe courfes, was tiiat purfued by the authors of the peace 

 ofi74S; and the war of 1755 was the refult : — The fecond 

 was that obferved by the then Earl of Shelburne, in the 

 peace of 1783: — The third is that preferred by the now 

 imatured judgment of Mr Pitt. 



We are to " retain" (fays the fixth article) the liberty 

 of " landing on the coafts and ijlands fituated" fo and fo, 

 with regard to <« the coafts and ijlands already occupied by 

 Spain." — ^What are the coafts and iflands thus already occu- 

 pied ? How far along the coafts in cjueftion (hall the virtue 

 of the occupying foot, l>e in fuch cafe admitted to extend? 

 By what fpecification of natural limits, fhall this otherwife 

 undeterminable propofition be determined ? — This is the 

 very thing which ought to have been done — which, in 

 1 748, was »j^a«f to be done — which, in 1783, waj done — 

 and which now, in 1790, has neither been done, nor at- 

 tempted to be done. We are to have — what ? — what we 

 had before. — What is it we had before ? — That is the very 

 foitit that zvas in di/pute ; and that is the very point that 

 remains t® be difputed. 



