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Observations on Par. 7.

What is curious in this business is, to see
the ease and unconcern with which the minister
undertakes, not only the King of Prussia,
but for the Dutch, whose task it is to make a
perpetual sacrifice of their country's welfare
to the capricious and mischievous politicks of
a British Ministry. Such is the degraded State
to which a people, over once so high-spirited a fee,
have seen themselves reduced by a confederacy
of tyrants.

As to political balances, how clear
and how just the notions entertained, or pretended
to be entertained, of such matters by this negotiator
and his Employers are, has been already
seen

Text. Par. 8.

"I doubt not your Excellency perceives how little
the most favorable interpretation of your Treaty could
assist the Empress, if it is occasioned a vigorous cooperation,
by land and by sea, of the three powers
in defence of Sweden: nor that the Council of Copenhagen
is too wise and too moderate to expose either
Russia or Denmark, to an increase of hostilities,
from Courts which, in other respects, wish
but for peace, and who desire to Establish it on
the most solid foundation, and on conditions
the most advantageous to every party concerned."

Observations on Par. 8.

If the form of this paragraph is hypothetical,
the spirit of it is as categorical as any one could
desire. We now see, then, what we, for our
part, have to expect. If the Danes are true to

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