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and become firmly attached to this country, by whose
assistance it has been raised from it's late insignificance,
and rescued from the power of Russia, which
has long meditated his (its) destruction. The great abilities
of the present King of Sweden and his brother,
seem to point out the present period of time as expressly
calculated for restoring the balance of power
in the North, destroyed by the preponderance of Russia.

Independent of these considerations,
would it become the spirit of the British Nation, to court
the alliance of the haughty and imperious Czarina,
who, when England was involved in a war with numbers
of enemies, assumed the aim of a Dictatrix on the
Seas, and promoted every measure which could tend
to the reduction of the power of Great Britain? The
armed neutrality was chiefly the work of the Court
of Petersburg, whereby England was deprived of the
great advantages which her numerous armed vessels
would have given her over her enemies, by intercepting
their supplies of warlike stores. It is true, the
late King of Prussia gave likewise into that measure,
but he has at least some cause to complain
of the conduct of England towards him in the
year 1762, whilst Russia was plainly activated only
by a jealousy of the great power of the British Navy,
which she has ever since shewn a disposition to
diminish. The commercial advantages which this
country might derive from a treaty with Russia,
the other powers in the Baltic, together with Poland, will

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public	bowring, x, 206-207	ID Number	3372
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