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to their engagements, our Ministry is to throw off
the mask, abet unprovoked aggression with a
high hand, and plunge the nation into a causeless
and useless war. Perceiving what he is here
desired to perceive, it is to be hoped that his Excellency
will also perceive, on the other hand,
how little the good-will of the British Ministry
could affect their virtuous ally, if Parliament,
when applied to, should hesitate to throw away
t'other fifty or hundred millions of the Nation's
money for their amusement, and to saddle it
with two or three millions a year more, in taxes,
for the pleasure of cutting the throats of
people, who never offered them the smallest injury.
Such hesitation is not altogether out
of the sphere of possibility. Fond as the people of
this Country are of war and insolence, prone
as they have shown themselves, of late years, to
make sudden starts from well-grounded and
deep-rooted jealousy, to implicit confidence
and foolish fondness, it is too much to suppose
them capable of being wrought up to such a pitch of infatuation.

I hope the Danish Minister is not the only
one who will consider, that neither threats nor
promises like these, are quite so soon performed
as made; and that, when the Trustee of a
free people takes upon him, thus smoothly, to
offer their lives and fortunes in support of a
war not less foolish than flagitious, he may
find, to his shame, that he has reckoned witout
his host. The

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	061	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c10
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	bowring, x, 201ff	ID Number	3362
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