The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . n every fpecies of goods, exceptbutter, which is here particularly mentioned, becaufe we cannot be too mi-nute and circumftantial in accounts of this nature. This article however ismoderated, and is rated in proportion to what has been, and is ftill to be,paid by the Dutch. As our commerce with the Netherlands is thus fettled to the advantage ofour Britifi merchants, fo is it much to their fatisfaction: And if his Ma-jefty, in the feveral fucceeding parts of his reign (which we hope may bemany years prolonged) fhould advance our comm
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The works of the late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq . n every fpecies of goods, exceptbutter, which is here particularly mentioned, becaufe we cannot be too mi-nute and circumftantial in accounts of this nature. This article however ismoderated, and is rated in proportion to what has been, and is ftill to be, paid by the Dutch. As our commerce with the Netherlands is thus fettled to the advantage ofour Britifi merchants, fo is it much to their fatisfaction: And if his Ma-jefty, in the feveral fucceeding parts of his reign (which we hope may bemany years prolonged) fhould advance our commerce in the fame propor-tion as he has already done, we may expect: to fee it in a more flourishingcondition, than under any of his Royal anceftors. He feems to place hisgreatnefs in the riches and profperity of his people; and what may we nothope from him in a time of quiet and tranquility ? fince, during the late di-ffractions, he has done fo much for the advantage of our trade, when wecould not reafonably expect he fhould have been able to do any thing.. Friday, N043- 7*e FREE-HOLDER. 48? N° 43. Friday, May 18. Hoc font e derroata clades In patriam populumque fluxit. Hor. ONE would wonder how any perfon endowed with the ordinary prin-ciples of prudence and humanity, mould defire to be King of a coun-try, in which the eftablifhcd religion is directly oppofite to that whichhe himfelf profeues. Were it poffible for fuch a one to accomplish his de-figns, his own reafon muft tell him, there could not be a more uneafy Prince, nor a more unhappy people. But how it can enter into the wifhes of anyprivate perfons to be the fubjecls of a man, whofe faith obliges him to ufethe moft effectual means for extirpating their religion, is altogether incom-prehenfible, but upon the fuppofition that whatever principles they feem toadhere to, their intereft, ambition, or revenge, is much more active andpredominant in their minds, than the love of their country, or of its na-tional worfhip. I hav