Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Political Mirror, or a Summary Review of the Present Reign: With Notes, Explanatory and Historical, and an Authentic List of the Ships and Vessels of War, Taken and Destroyed, Since the Commencement of Hostilities
IT would be difficult to decide, a century hence, how a nation, great in arms and in reputation, could have fallen, in the courfe of a very few years, from the zenith of human grandeur to a ?are of poverty, contempt, and imbecility, if the inven tion of letters had not enabled mankind to tranfmit to future generations the meafures of princes and of minifiers, and to examine, Without referve, into the motives of their conduct.
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