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Dresden Jany 15th. 1794.

Dear Sir,

I hope you will not impute my long
silence either to indolence or forgetfulness. Neither I assure
you is the case. The truth is that in this melancholy
War of opinion when the passions of Individuals enter so much
into all political reasonings thdt I thought it imprudent for
one even in my humble Diplomatique station to hazard any
observations which might appear unfavourable to the
conduct of Government in the measures adopted in the
present most arduous & interesting contest which the history
of Mankind can produce. It is somewhat singular that in
two Countries whose Politics are at present so very opposite
the same terms should be made use of, tho' in a sense
very different in regard to Aristocracy & Democracy. Moderantism
in England as well as in France has persons to
become suspect. If I were not most perfectly convinced
of your discretion in not making any improper use of
the few observations I may happen to make, I should
even now hesitate to write for the Idea of doing any
thing inconsistent with propriety with regard to my

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