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IN putting any Nation in a Posture of Defence, Men must consider the Power of its Neighbours, especially those who are most to be feared; and that, in∣stead of being Friends, they may become Enemies, not∣withstanding Treaties to provide for a Perpetual Peace; for so all Treaties of Peace are called, though of late they have been found but of a very short Continuance; and that they will be our Enemies when ever there is any Advantage to be got by it, is certain, according to the Maxims of the World. This is the Foundation of the following Queries, and is (I think) an unde∣niable Postulatum; some of them have not been urged so expresly, and so home to the Point, as they might have been, (which would give them a much plainer Force and Evidence) for fear of writing any thing which might give Offence either one way or t'other; but there is enough said to lead the Understanding and Impartial Reader into what may be wanting.