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pursued by no other than pacific means. One of two things then
he has made out to demonstration: either this measure of the Empress
did us no harm, or it did us harm which we deserved, and
which according to his own principles she was bound to do to us.

Text — Par. 10.

“It is true, the late King of Prussia gave likewise into that
measure, but he had at least some cause of to complain of the
conduct of England towards him in the year 1762, while Russia
was plainly actuated only by a jealousy of the great power
of the British Navy, which she has ever since shown
a disposition to diminish.”

Observations on Par. 10.

Another cluster of absurdities, partly expressed, partly implied.
— That in order to know whether it be proper or no to engage
in a measure hostile to another nation the way is — not to
ask ourselves whether it would be consistent with justice,
humanity, or a regard for our own interests so to do — but
in what state the temper and affections of the Sovereign
of that nation were upon a certain occasion nine or
ten years back: — That it is possible to ascertain or worthwhile
to inquire from which out of half-a-dozen motives, any
one of them capable of producing the effect, an act not in
itself a hostile one took its rise: — That in point of fact,
the motive which produced the effect in question was, on the
part of the Empress of Russia, jealousy: on the part of
the King of Prussia, resentment: — That, in consideration
that 16 or 17 years before that period, and 26 or 27 years
before the present, the angry Sovereign might have conceived he
had a cause for his anger, it is fit and proper now to enter
into an alliance with that angry power, and against the jealous
one: — If considering considerations like these are to be sufficient grounds for
war; I wonder when and with whom we are to be at peace. A
nation with 30 ships is never to be supposed capable of being
supposed

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