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approves of the late Constitution, while another proposes
a different form of limited Monarchy, only however to take
place after a provisional restitution of Despotism. The late
reestablishment of the old feudal forms of police in Alsace
Condé Valenciennes &c seem highly impolitic, as if no
act of common sense had passed any of the three Assemblys
& when every body allows that the first carried some
dignity along with it. In short there is in every public
Paper on this subject a degree of contradiction which is
unaccountable. In one sentence a right to internal interference
is solemnly renounced while at the same time
a following paragraph issues a Congé d'elire in favour
of Monarchy. — But whatever may have been the origin
or the object of the present atrocious hostilitys, the manner
of conducting the present war is out of the common way. The
libertys taken in respect to foreign Neutral nations
are great beyond example. Indeed Foreigners are not a
little surprised at the arbitrary conduct of some of the
Agents of a free Government at Foreign Courts, for independence
is but an empty title, as soon as any power
presumes to pass its opinions for the criterion of truth
in regard to the intercourse of one Country not another.
Of this there are many examples from the proposal of
erecting something like a Dutch tribunal to condemn

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Date_1	1794-01-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	541	Main Headings
Folio number	486	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
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Penner	David Gray	Watermarks
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