70. 

 THE BEE, 



OR. 



LITER ARY WEEKLY INTELLIQENCER, 



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 Wednesday, April i8. 179s- 



ON THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN. 



LETTER V. 



Ignnta rostrjs verrimus 3?quora, 

 Ceates quietas sollicitavirnus 



Terroie belli, orbisque pacem 



MiscHimus misero tumultu. Buchanan. 



We have ranged jeis unknown to navigation. We have harrafsed inof- 

 /ensive nations with ^he terrors of war ; and by wretched quarrels have 

 confounded the peace of the world. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



The stanza which I have chosen as the motto for 

 this letter, is borrowed from an ode, written on the 

 ravages committed by the Portuguese in Brasil, and it 

 affords a concise, but comprehensive idea of the ge- 

 neral conduct of Europeans in the new world. An 

 impartial survey of some part of the transactions of 

 Britain in the West Indies, will vindicate my present 

 application of the verses of Buchanan. 



There are but two motives, those of commerce and 

 ^f conquest, for which one part of the globe maintains 



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