Excerpt from German Politicks, or the Modern System Examined and Refuted: Wherein, the Natural Strength of Germany and France Are Compared; The Nature of the Ballance of Power Explained; And Our Inability to Maintain, in Our Present Circumstances, a War on the Continent, Is Demonstrated
As a Man mull be arrived at a very hardened State, who does not tremble at the Apprehenfion of feeing his Country in fuch a Situation, fo I think we can never pay too great a Tribute of Praife to our prefent Governors, who have left it in the Power of every Man to fpeak his Senti merits freely in fuch a Jun/flute, and have chofen rather to bear indecent Reflections upon them felves, than in the mt of fo many, and fo great, Dangers to curb the Liberty of the Ptefs, by which alone we can hope to be quickened toa proper Senfe of our Condition. I know there are fome who give another Turn to this, but for my Part, as I am confcious of no other Motive, to the ufing this Liberty, than the Defire I have of acquitting myfelf to my Country, fol lhall always efieem it the higheft Act oflnjuftice to afcribe that to a wrong Principle, which feems to flow more na turally from a right one; and under ajuf't Senfe of this, I prefume our great Men ibew fo much Indulgence to the Prefs, and I fball ufe it in that way, and with all the Freedom, which can be ex pected, from one who knows no Party, owns no Patron but the Publick, who has been for many Years 3 f'tudious Obferver ofw'natpal't on the great Theatre of the World, and who was never in fo much Pain about any Tranfaftion he beheld there on, as he is at prefent.
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