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Excerpt from The Interest of Great Britain: Considered, With Regard to Her Colonies, and the Acquisitions of Canada and Guadaloupe; To Which Are Added Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, &C
They cannot rely upon forts as a fecurity agninll; Infinity: The inhabitants of Hackney might as well rely\ upon the tower of London to fecure them againfc highwaymen and houfebreakers. As to the third kind of fecurity, that we [hall not in afew years, have all we have now done to do over again in America; and be oblig'd to employ the fame number of troops, and (hips, at the fame immenffe eitpence to defend our pofi'e?ions there, while we are in proportion weaken'd here: inch forts I think cannot prevent this. During a peace, it is not to be doltbted the Frmcb, who are adroit at fortifying, will licife eref't forts in the mo? advantageous places of the country we leave them, which will make it more difficult than ever to be reduc'd in cafe of another war. We know by the experience of this war, how.
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