treasure, for which you have nothing in exchange. Our expenses,
though great, are circulated within ourselves. Yours is a direct
sinking of money, and that from both ends at once; first, in hiring
troops out of the nation, and in paying them afterwards, because the
money in neither case can return to Britain. We are already in
possession of the prize, you only in pursuit of it. To us it is a
real treasure, to you it would be only an empty triumph. Our expenses
will repay themselves with tenfold interest, while yours entail upon
you everlasting poverty.

Take a review, sir, of the ground which you have gone over, and let
it teach you policy, if it cannot honesty. You stand but on a very
tottering foundation. A change of the ministry in England may
probably bring your measures into question, and your head to the
block. Clive, with all his successes, had some difficulty in
escaping, and yours being all a war of losses, will afford you less
pretensions, and your enemies more grounds for impeachment.

Go home, sir, and endeavor to save the remains of your ruined
country, by a just representation of the madness of her measures. A
few moments, well applied, may yet preserve her from political
destruction. I am not one of those who wish to see Europe in a flame,
because I am persuaded that such an event will not shorten the war.
The rupture, at present, is confined between the two powers of
America and England. England finds that she cannot conquer America,
and America has no wish to conquer England. You are fighting for what
you can never obtain, and we defending what we never mean to part
with. A few words, therefore, settle the bargain. Let England mind
her own business and we will mind ours. Govern yourselves, and we
will govern ourselves. You may then trade where you please unmolested