Possible Clues:

• Like Britain's past glory without a hazard
• Risk of small state being captured by force
• Commanding, ignoring a risk
• Threaten, jeopardise
• Sovereign's article left out, put at risk
• Put on the line
• Put into danger
• Put in danger in drive round Rhode Island
• Hazard
• Smile fatuously, not at first having one pound to put at hazard