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features which the Minister of the insulted Nation
was sure to find in it, as being inseparable
from the measure. The hypocritical grimace
and affectation of gratuitous falshood, with which
it is so unnecessarily adorned, is so much more
than he could have promised himself.
Test. Par. 2.
"Your Excellency will be pleased to remember,
that at the instant that the King of Denmark
yielded up a great part of his land and sea forces,
as auxiliaries to Russia, his Danish Majesty
applied for the intervention of his Britannick
Majesty, to reestablish tranquillity between Sweden
and Russia."
Observations on Par: 2.
The King of Denmark yielded up for that
purpose not a man nor a ship more than he
was bound to yield up, by an already subsisting
and strictly defensive treaty; our great and
good Ally having attached Russia, for the avowed
purpose of compelling her to make a present
of a few of her provinces to him, and a few
more to the Porte.* Denmark, after employing
entreaties and remonstrances without effect,
unwillingly and without any interest but that
of peace, granted the stipulated succours.
Those who had set him on, could, if they thought
proper, take him off. Decency required that
they should be applied to for that purpose, manifest
as it was that the application would have been
ineffectual. This application not having been
made
* See these demands, as exhibited in the official
note of the Swedish Minister at Petersburgh, in
the Gaz. de Leyde of Aug. 12. 1788.
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