What have we to do with _America_, but to conquer, enslave, and make it tend to the Advantage of our Commerce? shall the noblest Rivers in the World roll for Savages? shall Mines teem with Gold for the Natives of the Soil? and shall the World produce any Thing but for _England_, _France_, and _Spain_? It is enough that the Overflowings of Riches in those three Countries are every Ten Years wasted in _Germany_. Still, my political Friend, I am not for occupying _Patagonia_, as we did _Virginia_, _Carolina_, &c. such might be the Politics of Queen _Elizabeth_’s Days. But modern Improvements are wiser. If the Giants in question are Masters of a rich and flourishing Empire, I think they ought to be put under their Majesties, a _West-Indian_ Company; the Directors of which may retail out a small Portion of their Imperial Revenues to the Proprietors, under the Name of a Dividend. This is an excellent Scheme of Government totally unknown to the Ancients. I can but think how poor _Livy_ or _Tacitus_ would have been hampered in giving an Account of such an _imperium in imperio_. _Cassimirus Alius Caunus_, (for they latinized every proper Name, instead of delivering it, as uncouthly pronounced by their Soldiers and Sailors) would have sounded well enough: But Dividends, Discounts, _India_ Bonds, _&c._ were not made for the Majesty of History. But I am wandering from my Subject; though, while I am talking of the Stocks and Funds, I could chalk out a very pretty New South-Sea Scheme, _à propos_ to the _Patagonians_. It would not ruin above Half the Nation, and would make the Fortunes of such industrious Gentlemen, as during the Want of a War in _Germany_ cannot turn Commissaries. Command is the Object of every Man’s Ambition; but by the impolitic Assent of Ages and Nations to Hereditary Monarchy, you must be begotten on a Queen, or are for ever excluded from wearing a Diadem; except in a very few Instances; as in _Poland_, where the Throne is elective; in _Corsica_, where they will not acknowledge Hereditary Right in the Republic of _Genoa_; in _Russia_, where a Soldier’s Trull succeeded her Husband the _Czar_, and where there are other Ways of succeeding a Husband; in _Peru_ where they are tired of exchanging their Gold for Tyrants; and in _Paraguay_, where the Outcasts of the Earth, and the Inventors of the Oath of Obedience, have thrown off all Submission to their Prince, and having mounted the Throne, will probably renounce the Oath of Chastity too. But it is to _England_ that Persons of the lowest Birth are indebted for the Invention and Facility of weilding at least Part of a Scepter. Buy but an _India_ Bond and you have a Property in the Kingdom of _Bengal_. Rise to be a Director, and the _Mogul_ has not more Power appointing and displacing Nabobs. _Indian_ Sovereigns may now be born in _Threadneedle-Street_.