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relations are said to be strained. The speech may have been merely an ebullition of personal spleen against Great Britain, or it may have been a carefully calculated move designed to provide, in the shape of
"publid opinion", an excuse for retreating from any
rapprochement achieved.
etc.
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I have the honour to be
Sir,
Your most obedto
Fent,humble servant,
T
Cements
C CLEMENTI,
Governor, &c.