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thousand of our fellow citizens,^ our historians 

 comfort us with an afsiirance, that oui" conquerors 

 had.no reason to rejoice in their victory. Bj the 

 destruction of several men oi war, and the lofs 

 of a few capital fhips, only, it has been boasted, . 

 that Spain suffered damage to the extent of twelve 

 millions, sterling. This, however, could be but a 

 small part of her total lofs, and, as to France, her 

 foreign commerce was almost absolutely extirpated. 

 We may, therefore, hope, that three hundred thou- 

 sand industrious French families were reduced to 

 beggary. At Fontenoy our allied army lost " about 

 " twelve thousand men *." But we have the satisfac- 

 tion of hearing that " the victory cost the French 

 " almost an equal number ofli'oes\C^^ circumstance of 



peJ th*n of their effects. What Anson could not carry off he \v3n:ed to 

 st!l, and the P>* vians would not or could not satistjf his demands} on 

 which, in a fit oi revenge, he set the plr.ce on fue, and his wor;hy chap- , 

 Iain exults in observing, that the fames spncd -zvnh tte utinoit rapldUy^ 

 A Tc.zn must have a heart of iron, whose Hood is not lej'y to ciwdle at 

 Euch sroiics. If Arson was right in burning Paita, could Jones have 

 been to blame fur burning Leicii or Whitehaven ? 



Anson, hiirself, was as brave and le^/pecuble an officer as ever trode 

 a deck; and, therefore, these remarks are levelled not at the character of 

 the hcii'vlJual, bnc of the profejnon. In everj- v/ar, a thous .n,! events oc- 

 cur moie ftockirg than evf;n what happened at Paita; but when the read- 

 er h.-s once acquiied the habit of beholoirg them in the proper point of 

 view, the application is easy, and he will be induced to conteiijpla'.e the 

 whole with regret and d tfscation. 



The public may be off. nded at the compaiisor. between .^n Fngli/h commo- 

 dore, snd a person whom we :re piea:e-! to call a reneg ".o. i^e: fnct-: spp-k 

 for them el. es. Captain Jor.ej was co;npellcd by hs c:e-.v to carry off 

 the silver plate from the house of ?. Sco:ch noblcn.an. Kc l v. .. fu'ure 

 ©rrortunity to restoie it. Did . ■ - Arson make any such .-csti;uti.n? 



* SmoJIct \ol. XI p. 204. -(■ Ibid. 



