The Remarker, though he slips aside from the main consideration, seems
aware that this arrangement, standing as it does, in the West Indies,
leaves us at the mercy of the new coalition, or rather at the mercy of
the sole guiding part of it. He does not, indeed, adopt a supposition
such as I make, who am confident that anything which can give them a
single good port and opportune piratical station there would lead to our
ruin: the author proceeds upon an idea that the Regicides may be an
existing and considerable territorial power in the West Indies, and, of
course, her piratical system more dangerous and as real. However, for
that desperate case he has an easy remedy; but, surely, in his whole
shop there is nothing so extraordinary. It is, that we three, France,
Spain, and England, (there are no other of any moment,) should adopt
some "_analogy_ in the interior systems of government in the several
islands which we may respectively retain after the closing of the war."
This plainly can be done only by a convention between the parties; and I
believe it would be the first war ever made to terminate in an analogy
of the interior government of any country, or any parts of such
countries.
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