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A proper answer to the by-stander : wherein is shewn, I. that there is no necessity for, but infallible ruin in the maintenance of a large regular (or mercenary) land force in this island : II. that by keeping up a standing army for preventing an invasion, we shall at last render it certain and successful : III. that publick credit is now upon a more stable foundation than ever it was before the year 1734, and can be ruined by nothing but bad oeconomy, temporary expedients, and loss of trade : IV. that endeavouring to revive parties or factions long since extinguised, in order to divert the attention of the people from the present mischiefs or dangers, is a most wicked attemp. : and V. that the weight of political power is now taken almost entirely from the popular and thrown into the regal scale
Bath, William Pulteney Earl of (1684-1764)
1742
A letter from a by-stander [1741-1742] was generally supposed to have been written by Walpole or by his direction.--NUC pre-1956; attributed to Corbyn Morris (OCLC, etc.). Attributed to William Pult...