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good opportunity of conveying reasons to them against
an enterprise, which, how rashly & foolishly soever
conducted on the part of that Country, could not
fail to be pregnant with incalculable miseries to this.
He accordingly delivers, to Mr Stone in London, a
paper giving a picture of this country, in colours and
happy & as honourable for their country, as they are
just representing it as impregnable & all attacks
upon it hopeless, & this is the traitorous intercourse
of Mr Vaughan with France.

If Mr Vaughan in his own mind attributed to
his advice a degree of possible influence on the
minds of men in France, it was not without
reason. He was known in France as a Member
of the British Legislature: he had once as a British subject filled a
public character in France. He had maintained
connections, at a time where it was a matter of
ornament to any man to maintain connections
in France & that without regard to party & consequently
with men of all parties. If he looked upon
himself as being fairly well known in France, it was
not without reason: & in Mr Vaughan's instance
to be known is to be esteemed. In proportion as he
was known in France, he must have been known,
as I observed before, as a well wisher to France; &
if English sagacity is so ill able to distinguish good
wishes towards one of two contending countries from ill
wishes towards the other, I leave it to be imagined whether

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Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	246	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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