Were I asked characteristics of the best government, and the purpose of political society, I would reply: the increase, preservation, and prosperity of its members; in no area of the globe are those marks so certainly to be found, as in Great Britain and her colonies. What does this sentence reveal about James Chalmers's opinion about England?

It reveals his admiration for Great Britain, wich was led by England.

Admiration for England's ideals of freedom and the justice of it's laws were common throughout the Modern Era, this admiration was reinforced by the great prosperity and power England enjoyed during that time. Even the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain was ideologically based on this admiration, british colonists in america during the revolution believed England had lost it's way due to corruption and had no right to impose taxes without the presence of americans in the Parliament, and thus it was up to them to preserve the english way, becoming independent.