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5 The privileges of foreign ministers are
another risk mine of useless [and pernicious]
complication. Lawless arrogance was their cause
mischeifs of various kinds without any admixture if
good is their effect. In their iss being issus luck in the character of
there is no can do no sort of harm: f for in a good government
there there can be nothing but what any
body may know, for secrecy in government
is the g child of guilt and folly. The mischief
lies in their being protectors of delinquents and occasionally hatchers of plots <add>or fornicators of conspiracies, and habitually</add>
disturbers of the course of justice. Whether these distructions were formerly attended with any beneficial effects, may is a question of perhaps but not of use.
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