We can fully accept his disclaimer of _The Triennial Act Impartially Stated_. It is, however, singular enough that the style of the _Arguments about the Alteration of Triennial Elections of Parliament_, without attaching too much importance to that criterion, is not the style of Defoe; and the Bill of Commerce with France is denounced in it in such terms as "that destructive bill," "that fatal bill," as one can scarcely suppose, without entertaining a meaner opinion of him than I feel assured he deserves, he could or would, under any circumstances, have made use of. To carry this Bill of Commerce he exerted all his great powers as a writer, and supported it in the _Review_ and the _Mercator_, in the _Essay on the Treaty of Commerce with France_ (1713, 8vo.), and in two other tracts, both of which were unknown to Chalmers and Wilson, and have never been noticed or included in the list of his works, namely, _Some Thoughts upon the Subject of Commerce with France: by the Author of the Review_ (Baker, 1713, 8vo.), and _A general History of Trade, in which an Attempt is made to state and moderate the present Disputes about settling a Commerce between Great Britain and France for the Month of September_ (Baker, 1713); being the fourth Number of the _History of Trade_, which Wilson says "extended only to two Numbers" (vol. iii. p. 339.). In the _Appeal to Honour and Justice_, published only the year before (1715), he supports the same cause with all his strength. He vindicates the part he had taken, and says-- "This was my opinion, and is so still; and I would venture to maintain it against any man upon a public stage, before a jury of fifty merchants, and venture my life upon the cause, if I were assured of fair play in the dispute."--_Works_, edit. 1841, vol. xx. p. 43.