Fable. It is often the Case of lesser confederate States against a superior Power, which are hardly held together, though their Unanimity is necessary for their common Safety: and this is always the Case of the landed and trading Interest of
Great Britain
: the Trader is fed by the Product of the Land, and the landed Man cannot be clothed but by the Skill of the Trader; and yet those Interests are ever jarring.
We had last Winter an Instance of this at our Club, in Sir
Roger De Coverley
and Sir
Andrew Freeport
, between whom there is generally a constant, though friendly, Opposition of Opinions.
happened that one of the Company, in an Historical Discourse, was observing, that