[FERGUSON (C.)]
A Letter address'd to Every Honest Man in Britain;
The author argues strongly for a blow to be struck against the Spanish for their depredations on the West India trade. In particular he belabours the author of the pamphlet Common Sense - its Nature and Use… as applied to the Spanish Affair. - “this Spanish Mercenary”, the “Spanish prostitute” - for his inconsistencies and his reticence. “… the Author… tells us of our Fleet in the Tagus, under the Command of Sir John Norris. If then we had a Fleet to save the Potuguese, can we want one to save the British Nation? Were our effects in Portugal of greater Consequence and Value, than all our Colonies and Plantations in America, which I am afraid, will either all decay, or else, through dire Necessity, throw themselves under other Protection, if we don’t protect our Trade with them.”
