contribute only to disperse and enfeeble that force; but the growth
of colonies supplies her with zealous citizens, and the increase of
real wealth; and increase of effective numbers is the certain
consequence."

"What could Germany, Italy, Spain, and France, combining their
strength, do against England? They might assemble in millions on
the shores of the Channel, but THERE would be the limits of their
enmity. Without ships to carry them over, and without experienced
mariners to navigate these ships, Britain would only deride the
pompous preparation. The moment we leave the shore her fleets are
ready to pounce upon us, to disperse and to destroy our ineffectual
armaments. There lies her security; in her insular situation and
her navy consists her impregnable defence. Her navy is in every
respect the offspring of her trade. To rob her of that, therefore,
is to BEAT DOWN her LAST WALL, AND TO FILL UP HER LAST
MOAT. To gain it to ourselves is to enable us to take advantage of
her deserted and defenceless borders, and to complete the
humiliation of our only remaining competitor."

These are correct opinions, and merit the constant and most serious
attention of every British statesman. The increased cultivation and
prosperity of foreign Tropical possessions is become so great, and is
advancing so rapidly the power and the resources of other nations, that
these are embarrassing this country in all her commercial relations, in
her pecuniary resources, and in all her political relations and
negotiations.

During the fearful struggle of a quarter of a century, for her existence
as a nation, against the power and resources of Europe, directed by the
most intelligent but remorseless military ambition against her, the
command of the productions of the torrid zone, and the advantageous
commerce which that afforded, gave to Great Britain the power and the
resources which enabled her to meet, to combat, and to overcome, her
numerous and reckless enemies in every battle-field, whether by sea or
by land, throughout the world. In her the world saw realized the fabled
giant of antiquity. With her hundred hands she grasped her foes in every
region under heaven, and crushed them with resistless energy.

Who, it may be asked, manned those fleets which bore the flag, and the
fame, and the power, of England over every sea and into every land--who
swept