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same time that it does them honour shews the brutality of
their intentions.
Sartine is the Ministre de la Marine.
The City is all in an uproar — stocks falling — no Insurance
at any price — all this occasioned by Keppel's
mysterious return.
Douglas (who you know spent a considerable time in
France and was in the first company) says that there are two
parties there in France — the most numerous against its setting
up for a maritime power — thinking it impracticable, and regretting,
that in point of Land force it comes third only
after America and Prussia. The Emperor an ambitious neighbour
— whose fingers itch to recover Alsace and Franche-
Comté — This party, he says, are for pushing out the
Brest Fleet prematurely that it may be demolished, and the Marine
plan produce at once all the mischiefs they say it
is big with —
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