It was her maxim to save for the publick not for herself, and to measure her riches by the riches of the nation; refused supplies offered, and remitted payment of supplies granted, when the publick service did not require it. The two great principles of her Œconomy were _1st._ Not suffering her Officers to enrich themselves by fraud or clandestine management. _2d._ Never attempting to do any thing with money that could be done with wisdom or courage. (_See p. 319._) For which cites several instances; and observes how greatly she promoted commerce, and increased the fleet of _England_, which before was inconsiderable. _Jan. 9._ Craftsman, No. 236. All his oratory here is pointed at the person of a _certain great man_ whom he represents as affecting all the qualities and requisites of the most consummate statesman, without any qualifications in him necessary for so high a post. He ridicules him for a ready habit of _lying_, because it is sometimes proper for a politician to conceal the truth: Charges him with a dark mysterious proceeding on all Occasions, because _secrecy_ is requir’d in a statesman, and adds, that ’tis a proof that his secret services are great by the large sums requir’d for carrying them on. Says, _good Intelligence_ is another excellent property in an able statesman, and therefore our _mock-minister_ apes him in this particular; gives a long detail of instances to illustrate what he advances. Confesses, indeed, that the fluctuation of affairs hath oblig’d the ministry to go from _court to court_; to make treaties, which (as obsrv’d by the author of the _London Journal_) _it is by no means proper to execute_----and adds, _They found us engag’d in a treaty with the Emperor; but they have very wisely vary’d from it----They made a Treaty with ~France~; and have hitherto very wisely observ’d it----they sent a large squadron of ships, with an hostile appearance, and without any declaration of war, into the ~West-Indies~; but they wisely gave the Admiral instructions not to make use of any other force than perswasion----They sent another squadron into the ~Baltick~; and a third into the ~Mediterranean~; but they very wisely gave the Commanders of them the same pacifick instructions; even tho’ ~Spain~ was actually at war with us, and attacking one of our most valuable possessions----They afterwards enter’d into a treaty with ~Spain~; but they have hitherto very wisely declin’d to put it in execution; and if they are now negotiating another treaty at ~Vienna~, as we have been told, I doubt not that the same wisdom will appear in it, whether it is design’d to be put in execution or not._