s over ends her claim, make large demands upon her navy.

    From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, ed a false notion respecting talked as if o encounter at once, and for t reason, supposed, t   being instantly practicable,  of disguised tories to discourage our beginning trutiet of tain, sc, o one tage of to sail over, before ttack us, and tance to return in order to refit and recruit.  And altain, by , rade to Europe, o t Indies, , is entirely at its mercy.

    Some met be fallen on to keep up a naval force in time of peace, if  necessary to support a constant navy.

    If premiums o be given to mercs, to build and employ in ted y, ty, forty or fifty guns, (to be in proportion to to ts) fifty or sixty of tant duty,  navy, and t  burdening ourselves , in time of peace to lie rotting in to unite trengto eacernal enemy.

    In almost every article of defense

    cordage.  Our iron is superior to t of otries.  Our small arms equal to any in the world.

    Cannon  at pleasure.  Saltpetre and gunpo t ?   t e?  From Britain  not ruin.  If sted to t of America again, tinent  be h living in.

    Jealousies ions antly o quell ture o reduce rymen to a foreign obedience?  ticut, respecting some unlocated lands, sis, and fully proves, t not Continental auty can regulate Continental matters.

    Anot time is preferable to all ot t unoccupied,  only to t debt, but to tant support of government.  No nation under age at this.

    t state of t is called, so f