any such when attempted:  This wou’d soon take away the Necessity of maintaining Standing Armies of Mercenaries in Time of Peace:  This wou’d render us a hundred times more formidable to our Neighbours than we are; and secure effectually our Liberties against any King that shou’d have a mind to invade them at home, which perhaps was the Reason some of our late Kings were so averse to it:  And whereas, as the Case now stands, Ten Thousand disciplin’d Soldiers (once landed) might march without considerable Opposition from one End of England to the other; were our Militia well regulated, and Fire-Arms substituted in the Place of Bills, Bows, and Arrows (the Weapons in Use when our training Laws were in their Vigor, and for which our Laws are yet in Force) we need not fear a Hundred Thousand Enemies, were it possible to land so many among us.  At every Mile’s End, at every River and Pass, the Enemy wou’d meet with fresh Armies, consisting of Men as well skill’d in military Discipline as themselves; and more resolv’d to fight, because they do it for Property:  And the farther such an Enemy advanced into the Country, the stronger and more resolved he wou’d find us; as Hanibal did the Romans, when he encamped under the Walls of Rome, even after such a Defeat as that at Cannae.  And why?  Because they were all train’d Soldiers, they were all Freemen that fought pro aris & focis:  and scorn’d to trust the Preservation of their Lives and Fortunes to Mercenaries or Slaves, tho never so able-body’d:  They thought Weapons became not the Hands of such as had nothing to lose, and upon that Account were unfit Defenders of their Masters Properties; so that they never tried the Experiment but in the utmost Extremity.

That this is not only practicable but easy, the modern Examples of the Swissers and Swedes is an undeniable Indication. Englishmen have as much Courage, as great Strength of Body, and Capacity of Mind, as any People in the Universe:  And if our late Monarchs had the enervating their free Subjects in View, that they might give a Reputation to Mercenaries, who depended only on the Prince for their Pay (as ’tis plain they had) I know no Reason why their Example shou’d be followed in the Days of Liberty, when there is no such Prospect.  The Preservation of the Game is but a very slender Pretence for omitting it.  I hope no wise Man will put a Hare or a Partridge in Balance with the Safety and Liberties of Englishmen; tho after all, ’tis well known to Sportsmen, that Dogs, Snares, Nets, and such silent Methods as are daily put in Practice, destroy the Game ten times more than shooting with Guns.