JB/044/156/002

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If by means of this feature in this
best of all as yet established Governments, a degree of
inaptitude, not to be matched perhaps in the worst
European Government in existence can be produced,
some practiced proof may perhaps be regarded as
exhibited of the inutility, to say no worse, of this part
of the structure of the Government. In the year
1802, the United States had a "public Minister" at
Paris— at the Court of Bonaparte— French is not only
the language of that Country, but the diplomatic
language of Europe. This public Minister by whom,
not to speak of the expected intrigues, conferences
were to be carried on necessarily with the appropriate
functionaries in that Country, but incidentally
with those of every other— who was he? A man who
could neither speak nor understand a word of
French, and to whom conversation, even in his
own language, was rendered difficult by deafness.

If at this or that Court, the Union
has public Ministers of the same or different
ranks more than one, what might be expect is
that at least some one of them should be able
to converse in French. This expectation would
not in every instance be fulfilled.

Identifier: | JB/044/156/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7 f39 / c8 f40
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	13941
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