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that is to say, at all times whatsoever, some one
nation is to be laid waste, and as many of her
subjects as can be come at be put to the sword
by a part of other nations who, at the expense of
the same miseries, are to confederate for that purpose:
— that a nation, consisting like Sweden of scarce
three millions of the poorest subjects in Europe,
is to rise in importance by being driven, without
the smallest provocation received, and against
the avowed inclination of it’s own armies
into a war with an Empire, containing from
25 to 30 millions; that the having thus pushed such a nation into the jaws of destruction,
under favor of the
venal baseness of
it’s rulers, is such a
benefit conferred on
it, as to create on its
part “a firm attachment”
to this Country; — that an assistance which
consists in nothing more than the keeping off
of other enemies, is to “raise” a nation so assisted
“from insignificance,” and rescue it from the
power of the Enemy, into whose jaws it is thus
plunged: — that Russia, with the compleat power
of destroying Sweden, but without any motive,
has been long meditating it’s destruction, though
without taking any one step (for I defy him to produce
any,) for that purpose is a “judicious
compination”: — that Denmark, to whose shipping
and capital city and shipping, an officer of the
King of Sweden has been convicted of setting fire,
in revenge for the assistance she was found to
render to Russia, in obedience to the strict letter
of a defensive treaty, is “perhaps” about entering
into this combination against Russia:
that

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	bowring, x, 207ff	ID Number	3380
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