A defence of the Dutch, against the imputations of fraud, cruelty, and perfidiousness. Shewing how Dutch industry may become profitable to Great Britain in the herring fishery; and this Kingdom restored to a prosperous condition, by good oeconomy, and a more spirited policy particularly with regard to the encroachments of France, and the untractableness of Spain. To which is added, a supplement, relative to the settlement of Nova Scotia