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If the gradual changes have had influence in the interests of Great Britain, which has never been much thought of; ch. Cambell thinks that all those who have wrote against our interfering with the affairs of the Continent are in the wrong; as Sir Robert Colton who wrote a treatise on that Subject to diswade P. Henry, James S. Son from the measures which had from his earliest Youth been inculcated into him.m The Instances, that this elegant author has given us can be of no use, as things are so entirely chang'd since that time. Our Ks. formerly used to make expeditions into France to maintain their consquests there, & what makes us immagin them to have been necessary for us at that tmie, is that the most popular of our Monarchs have been those, who were most renown'd for their conquests, & those who steer'd a contrary path, were seldom left in peace by their Subjects. Henry VII. who was always reckon'd a very wise P. is an exception to what has been laid down, for he had but little intercourse with the continent, but his well managing the share he took there, always prov'd to this advantage. He has been unjustly blam'd for allowing the French to annex the D-y of Bretagne, to that Crown; for he could not hinder it, the nation was very jealous of this, so that he got greatsupplies from Parl. & declar'd was against France, whicih he did not carry on very vigorously, but soon made an advantageous Peace, by which he got a Tribute from two French Ks. successively. The French then went on with a war with Italy, by which She was a great loser, Henry in the mean time made alliance with the H. of Austria, & an intermarriage; his Daughter soon after espous'd the K. of Scotland, which he foresaw would unite the whole Island into one K-m. Queen Elizabeth who rai'd this K-m. to its greatest pitch of Glory, had great attention tot he Affairs of the Continent. by her conduct she hinder'd Philip II. from getting universal Emp-e. She prevented France from being a Prov. of Spain, & supported the united Provs. She encourag'd trade & open'd a passage to the Indies, which has com since that been the foundation of the welath of the nation, contrary to the effects of the Plantations of other Nations, our number of poeple is not lessen'd, but increas'd since our Settlements abroad, & has enabl'd to carry on the long & bloody wars we have. this may seem odd, but it justly consider'd, will plainly be seen; for those who l'd in the Colonies