A Plain Practical Plan, by Which Great Britain May Extricate Herself From Her Present Difficulties, Procure the Blessings of Perfect Peace, ... and Dispense Them to the Whole World

Excerpt from A Plain Practical Plan, by Which Great Britain May Extricate Herself From Her Present Difficulties, Procure the Blessings of Perfect Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness, and Dispense Them to the Whole World

All efforts to the contrary, the most extraordinary known in history, have proved a vain attempt have even terminated in giving France the means for the accomplishment of those purposes, surrounding her, by land, with kingdoms of external strength, Â by sea, with shores of maritime extent, that ought to determine all nations not to contend with her in arms, but in higher views, and the grandest schemes of policy and improvement. The vast accessions made to her territories, as well as the great changes that occasioned them, do not vindicate the continuance of war from motives of policy. On the contrary, if they were restored to their former state, they would be sure to renew those wars to which they were at all times invariably subject. Farther, the means will hereafter be pointed out, by Which, in consequence of those changes, the reduced number of the continental powers, and their establishment on contrary political foundations, the past frequency of our wars may be wholly avoided, in a manner most favourable to our immediate interests and by which all losses, whatever, we may have sustained, or may still apprehend, can be recompensed beyond our wishes themselves, or for ever prevented.