Chap. ni. of the E N G L I S H A M E R 1 C A. aat 
through the Mift of prefent Events, and difcerning the Pounds in her Coffers. She fpent above two Millions irt 
Face of thincrs beyond them j though few Obftacles were the War. She lent States eight hundred thoufand 
hid, yet none feemed unfurmountable; the Toil was greats Pounds at different Times, and half that Sum to the 
the Journey long, the Road extremely roughs and it was French Kingj and yet hie did not raife quite three Mil- 
impoffible for her to know how far the fhould be able to lions upon her Subjects. She faw the Inhabitants of her 
proceed ; but however, the thought it neceffary to fet Capital City doubled in her Life-tirne^ as appears from 
forward, and though for a Time things grew iVorfe and the Computations, publilhed by Sir Witliam Petty. She 
worfe, yet Ihe knew that by perfifting they muff grow found the Cuftoms producing no more than thirty-fix 
better and better. This Refolutionj this Conftancy, this thoufand Pounds per Annum *, Ihe left them worth more 
Magnanimity, carried her through alk and fhe had the than double that Sum, without heightening of Dutiess 
great Comfort of feeing before fhe died all the great Ends At the Time of her Acceffion there were fcarce any Eng-^ 
accomplifhed, which, in the Dawning of her Govern- lijh Merchants in England ; but before her Death there 
ment, her admirable Underftanding had prefented to her were confiderable Traders in every Port of England. It 
View ; and, like the Sun, fhe fet when flie had accom- is very true, that at the Death of Queen Elizabeth our 
plifhed that Round propofed at her rifing* Commerce was very trifling, to what it is ; but it is no 
We are told of Auguftus, that he boafted of leaving lefs certain, that if fhe had not lived, our Commerce 
Rome built with Stone, whereas he found it of Wood would have fallen very far fhort of what we find it* 
only. Queen Elizabeth might have boafted of much The next Seftion will fully fhew that our great Im- 
greater things, and with much greater Truth; for fhe provements were made in the two fucceeding Reigns ; 
did not rife to Empire through Blood and Ufurpationj but, in this, we have made it evident, that no fuch Im- 
but came to it by Succeflion, and with the Acclama- provements could have been made if this Reign had not 
tions of all her People : Acclamations that were fure gone before them. It was in Queen Elizabeths. Time 
Omens of Succefs; for without doubt there never was a that the Foundation of Englijh Commerce was laid^ 
Kingdom in a lower, meaner^ and more dejedted State though the Superftrudlure was raifed in the Days of King 
than this ; when the Crown was placed upon her Brow, James and King Charles. It was under her that our Ships 
and her Subjedls could not have either Joy or Hopes, but vifited all Parts of the known World. It was She that 
what arofe from feeing it fixed there. She chofe for her protedted the Ruffia Company ; one of the moft ufeful 
Motto, Semper Eadem ; that is. Always the fame *, and I ever formed in this Nation, and beyond Comparifon the 
hope I have fhewn what fhe meant by it. Her Condudl beft conftituted. She founded the Company trading to 
istheeveneft that we meet with inHiftory ; fhe met with the Eaji Indies ; and, in a Word, fhe encouraged every 
many Difficulties, but fhe created none •, fire experienced Branch of Trade that had been opened before her Time, 
Misfortunes, but they were Trials and not Punifliments ; projedted many, ■ and made way for all. The Room 
file met with much Profperity, but all vifibly derived to I had Was much too little, to afford a juft Account of 
her by the Bleffmg of G(xi upon her wife Endeavours. all that we owe in this Refpedt to her Memory, but I 
We will fupport a few of thefe Particulars by Fadts. have made the beft Ufe of it I could, and am only forry 
She found fcarce any Navy ; fhe left a great one. She that 1 could not make a better. If what I have done ex- 
found the Government much in Debt, and though pof- preffes my Senfe of the Advantages derived to us, and 
fibly her Power might have born her out, if Ihe had ex- which will defeend to our Pofterity, from what fhe and 
punged it ; yet Ihe paid it, even to the Pcnfions granted her Minifters, who were truly fuch i 1 mean the Inftru- 
by her Father, to thofe who were excluded from their ments, and not the Diredtors of their Miftrefs, did, it will 
Monafteries. She found her People poor and herfelf ne- afford me great Satisfadlion ; for to praife Queen Eliza- 
ceflitous j yet fhe fpared them till they grew rich ; and beth.^ with Judgment, is a Charadter fufficient to gratify 
in the mean Time grew rich herfelf, by managing fru- the Ambition of the moft afpiring Author, and to have 
gaily a very fmall Revenue ; for at the Time fhe entered attempted it is the greateft Merit I fhall haVe to plead, 
into the War with Spain fhe had feven hundred thoufand 
SECTION XVIII* 
li^he Hijlory of the Difeoveriesy SettlemeHtSy and other TranfaBiont of the English Nd-^ 
tion in America, from the Acceffton of King James I. to the Rejlorationi 
£ . A fiiccindi V lew of the State of Affairs at the Acceffon of King James ; the Voyages of Captain Martin 
Fringe, and of Captain Gilbert, to Virginia, and the Confequences of their Difeoveries. 2. The Earl of 
Southampton, and Lord Arundel ^ Wardour, fend Captain Weymouth thither ', his profperous Voyage^ 
and the Patent granted by the King for ereliing two Virginia Companies. 3. The London Company fit 
out Captam Chriftopher Newport with a fmall Squadron, who fettles a Colony at James-Town in Virgi- 
nia, in 1607, and the various unlucky Accidents that befel this Colony. 4. They defert James-Town, 
embark for England, and are met at the Mouth of Chefepeak Bay by Thomas Weft, Lord de la War, 
who carries them back, refettles them, and effePlually fecures this valuable Country to the Crown of Great- 
Britain. 5. A fhort Defer iption of this Colony, fhewing its fever al Advantages, the Nature of its Trade, 
and its great Confequence to this Nation. 6. The firft Attempts of the fecond, or North Virginia Company, 
to fettle within the Bounds of their Grant, and the Difficulties and Difeouragements they met with in 
thofe Attempts, j. The Colony is at laft fettled, under the DireBion of the famous Captain Smith, and 
the Country named by Prince Charles (afterwards Charles I.) NewEngland» 8* A fuccinB Account of 
the^ TranfaBions in this Colony, from its Efiablijhment to the Refioration. 9. The Situation, Climate, 
Soil, Produce and Trade of New England, briefly reprefented, and the Importance of this Colony fet in a 
true Light. 10. The Difeovery and firfi Settlement of the Bermudas, or Summer Iflands, with fome Ac^ 
count of them before they came into our Poffefjion. ii. A fhort Defeription of thofe Iflands, with an Ac^ 
count of their Commodities, and their Irade /o England and to the Plantations. 12. The Difeovery of 
Hudfon s Bay, and the Countries in America, to which ihe Names of lA&w andN^w 
South- Wales, were given by the firfi Difeoverers. 13. The Recovery of Acadia, or Nova Scotia, and 
Vol.il Numb. 84. Lli tbi. 
