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supposed jealous of a power with 120, on pain of seeing its
subjects’ throats cut for it at ten years’ distance, while the nation
that has the 120 ships is to be eternally jealous of the
one that has 30, and in consequence to raise up enemies
to attack her as often as an opportunity presents
itself.

This disposition to reduce the naval power of Great Britain,
this hostile disposition which is so coolly assumed, I should be
curious to know how it is to be proved? Is there any one instance where the means of keeping up that species of
force have been
permitted to other
nations, and refused
to Britain? Even since the extimation of
the Treaty of Commerce is there any one advantage in the
trade of Naval Stores, or in any other branch of trade, in
respect of which we have been put upon worse terms
than any other nation? A disposition on her part to reduce
our power? How? — By what acts evidenced?
Surely some errata must have crept into the official
documents with which this “exact state” has been supplied:
— That it was Sir R. Ainslie that was clapped up in the
Seven Towers and that Mr Bulgakoff was the adviser:
— That it was the English fleet that was attempted in time of
peace, to be burnt at Copenhagen, and that they were Russians
that seconded the patriotism of the Swedish Colonel in that
generous enterprise.

A circumstance too which this champion of equality seems to
forget — is, that it was not only the jealous Sovereign of Russia and
the angry Sovereign of RPrussia that engaged in this supposed conspiracy
against our power, but our great & good ally the
King of Sweden: All these joined in the same obnoxious
measure: One is to be crushed for it; the other encouraged and
supported. Such are the lessons of equity which this instructed
advocate is employed to teach us.

I will not inquire what other powers joined with
the foregoing. I would rather ask which did not? The documents
are not before me; but, I believe, not one. The world
we are

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	086	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c14
Penner		Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	bowring, x, 207ff	ID Number	3387
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