It would be impossible, he said, to get other nations to concur in the measure; and, even if they were to concur, it could not be effected.

We might restrain the subjects of the parent-state from following the trade; but we could not those in our colonies.

A hundred frauds would be committed by those, which we could not detect.

He did not mean by this, that the evil was to go on for ever.

Had a wise plan been proposed at first, it might have been half-cured by this time.