ABSTRACT
England was a Nation of Probity. In England the King can do no Wrong. Ministers may alter the Nature of their Design in an Hour, and send a Fleet which was originally equipping for one Part of the World, to another; they may purposely give out different Tales to cover their Intentions, or the Powers engaged against them may be left to divine it’s Intent only; these Circumstances may alter or conceal the true Place of it’s Destination. But no Change of Sentiment or Disguise / can prevent a Fleet’s being discovered in sailing out of that Port in which it is armed, whether destined to the Baltic or Africa , America or Japan, however dubious the Place of it’s Destination may be; neither of these can alter any thing in it’s Manner of leaving the Harbour in which it is prepared for the Seas.
