65- 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



LIIERJRY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, March 14.1792 



To toe Editor of the Bee. 

 ON TliE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN. 



FjcU'.s est descensus a-vi'rr.i. ViKC. 



'Tis easy into he!l to fall ; 

 Buc to get out . I iin if all. 



Sir, 

 ** The ground of the first war," sajs Dr Swift, " af- 

 " ter the revolution, as to the part we had in it, 

 " was to make France acknowledge the late king, 

 *' and to recover Hudson'' s bay ! But during thac 

 " whole war the sea was almost entirely neglected, 

 " and the greatest part of six millions, annually, em- 

 " ployed to enlarge the frontier of the Butch. For 

 " the king was a general, but not an admiral ; and 

 " although king of England, was a native of Hol- 

 " land. 



" After ten years of fighting, to little purpose, 

 " after the lofs of above an hundred thousand men, 

 " and a debt reinaining of twenty millions, we at 

 " lengtli liearkcued to the terms of peace, which 



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