^3. 

 THE BEE, 



OR 



LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 



roR 

 Wednesday, February 29. 1792. 



ON THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF BRITAIN. 

 Continued from />. 271. 



-Felicior efsern 



Angustis opibus : mallem tolerare Sabinos, 



Et Vejos : brevior duxi securius jevum, 



Ipsa nocet moles. Claudiv.v. 



Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 



1 BEG leave to continue my niiscellaneoiis remarks 

 -on the political progrefs of Britain. 



It is now eightj-seven years since * we surprised 

 Gibraltar. We have retained this barren, uselefs 

 jock, under the idea of protecting our trade in thi 

 Mediterranean ; but that trade was at least as flou- 

 rifliing in the last century as it is now ; and this un- 

 questionable fact proves the futility of such reasoning. 

 Besides, the memorable progrefs of admiral Blake, 

 on the coast of Barbary, evinces, that while we pof- 

 •scfs a superior navVi manned as it is by a race of ve- 

 terans, beyond all praise, we can always command a 

 .free navigation in every harbour of the globe. Tlie 



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• In 1704. 



