hopes of its success; for, I will venture to assert, that from the confederacy of Ahab and Jehoshaphat, when they went up to battle to Ramoth Gilead, to the treaty of Philnitz, there never was a combination of princes or nations, who, by an actual union of their forces, attained the object of their coalition. If the political finger is pointed to the war of the allies of Queen Anne, and the conquests of the Duke of Marlborough, as an exception, I likewise point to the distracting period, when that conqueror was superceded by the Duke of Ormond, and the treaty of Utrecht will confirm the opinion I have advanced.The detail of the history of the Alge|rines evinces, that the arms of individual states can be attended with no decisive success. Indeed, the expense of an effi|cacious armament would defray the price of the Dey's friendship for years; and the powers of Europe submit to his in|sults and injuries from a principle of e|conomy. 0