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to publish it unofficially from

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in our

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the

possession; thus responding

wishes

eager population who

an entire

to remain satisfied with an

contemplation of

iole

them, but always

to to honom to them by exercising

斥

her

yesterday, full of joy

and enthusiasm, celebrated with the most patriotic demonstration

the grosions acknowledgment of the

ancient rights of in China.

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arathy

in the

the Portuguese

activity within the limits which the circumstances of age

the

I have

imposed upon her._ A nation which,

Ther acquisitions

having been celebratedo looks with apathy upon

of

a

that

The Inistory of a nation

can ever

find excuse,

excuse the traditions of a glosions

past can certainly

The recollections

a

never

furnich.

of great deeds oblige

nation, expecially if she wishes to

invoke them

Consideration

us a

title to the

of other nations, not

brilliant

past,

for

the conquests

surs

not only

the risk of being herself jorgotten, but sanctions the opinion of

Then degenerney,

Europe

Since then all the Powers of

are

20

cager

to make

acquisitions in these regions of hastern Asin, Portugal who, above all others possesses a prior right arising from her illustrious antecedents,