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could not fail to claim, in a
clear
participation
and dignified manner, a in those great interests which recent events Prave coolved, and
But did this right render
in a clear and dignified and this at a
manner,
time when
ourselves deprived by
the
powerful nations
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eager rivalry
that
prestige which our ancestors knew
of
more
are
cvolving daily
more and more.
so well how to
the undertaking
tuore
casy?
but
now presented to
you
obtained
a
By the light of the Treaty
few days since by a Portuguese
will
Iminister without unfurling banner, without the display of force) consult the past history of our Establishment in chinn, and see that, despite it's glory, this is the first time that the rights and privileps of the Grown of Portugal have been defined
you
acquire
were unable to
with
courage,
preserve with
firmness. Analysing carefully glorious past, which we
пи
continually
invoke with just pride, but which
neverthelese was bestined to be the brincipal difficulty in negotiating
the Treaty, it can
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still be said that
now
only have
the two nations placed themselves
on
footing of reciprocal equality because although the chinese have