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deplorable state of the Royalists in Britanny, the increase in value
of the French Assignats, & the energy with which the Convention
has now assumed, by making as they have well said terror
the order of the day, I think every body must be convinced
that in regard to another Campaign the resources of the
French are increased, while those of the Coallied Powers are
diminished. It is the peculiar misfortune of this War
that if it is difficult to go on, it is no less so to go back, &
the present hostilities must terminate if not in the extinction
at least in extreme humiliation to either of the parties
concerned. It is at this awful moment much to be regretted
that the possibility of misfortune has hardly been supposed
which might have been some check to the too few indulgence
of the passions & the reciprocal abuse which has resulted therefrom
— God forbid that I should ever attempt to extenuate
the criminality of the numberless terrors daily committed in
France, that I should hesitate to say that murder is murder
or that robbery is robbery, to defend confiscation when to be rich
is to be criminal, or to panegerize the activity of the Guillotine
But I know there are some people who are somewhat uncertain
whether these horrors are to be attributed to an original malignity
in the French character, or to be considered as an effect
of some cause not yet ascertained - The principle, of the right
of one nation to interfere in the internal affairs of another
is of a most dangerous nature. It was formally announced

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Date_1	1794-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	485	Info in main headings field
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Penner	David Gray	Watermarks
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