For the Public Advertiser. Rules by which a GREAT Empire may be reduced to a SMALL ONE. An ancient Sage boasted, that tho’ he could not fiddle, he knew how to make a great City of a little one. The Science that I, a modern Simpleton, am about to communicate, is the very reverse. I address myself to all Ministers who have the Management of extensive Dominions, which from their very Greatness are become troublesome to govern, because the Multiplicity of their Affairs leaves no Time for fiddling. I. In the first Place, Gentlemen, you are to consider, that a great Empire, like a great Cake, is most easily diminish’d at the Edges. Turn your Attention, therefore, first to your remotest Provinces; that as you get rid of them, the next may follow in Order. II. That the Possibility of this Separation may always exist, take special Care the Provinces are never incorporated with the Mother Country; that they do not enjoy the same common Rights, the same Privileges in Commerce; and that they are governed by severer Laws, all of your enacting, without allowing them any share in the Choice of the Legislators. By carefully making and preserving such Distinctions, you will (to keep to my simile of the Cake) act like a wise Gingerbread-baker, who, to facilitate a Division, cuts his Dough half through in those Places where, when baked, he would have it broken to Pieces. III. These remote Provinces have perhaps been acquir’d, purchas’d, or conquer’d, at the sole Expence of the Settlers, or their Ancestors, without the Aid of the Mother Country. If this should happen to increase her Strength, by their growing Numbers, ready to join in her Wars; her Commerce, by their growing Demand for her Manufactures; or her naval Power, by greater