It is interesting to know that a hundred years before the well-known attempt of Great Britain to stop corn on its way to the French, on the ground ridiculed by Woolsey, that the republic had incorporated its whole laboring class in its army, a similar attempt was made under Queen Anne, though not on the same ground, but rather as an appeal ad misericordiam. Henry Boyle, Secretary of State, wrote on April 12,1709, to Daniel Pulteney, then British Minister in Denmark (see Record Office, Foreign Entry Book, 4) as follows.