The Virginia Gazette

March 25. A political Writer observes, that 'an inveterate Hatred, or perpetual Opposition to France, is a Maxim that was never laid down by wise English Ministers, nor ought ever to be received or countenanced.' But whether the Justice of this Position should be admitted in so extensive a Latitude as to countenance the forming Strict and intimate Alliances with a Nation, which, from Genius, Mode of Government, Policy, Religion, and Situation, is in a Manner at natural Enmity with Great Britain, may be questioned with the greatest Propriety. Most certain it is, that, since the Time of Elizabeth, England never entered into a single Alliance with France which did not, in the End, prove, in a greater or less Degree, destructive to her Interests.