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 of his situation.—What is yet more unpardonable, every rank of Public Agency, from the Ambassador to the Consul, has been left without competent instructions—their representations have been unnoticed, their zeal unrecompenced, their exertions unsupported, their remissness unreproved.

This, it is true, forms a picture of melancholy prospect; but all who know the manner in which our foreign affairs have long been conducted will feel, though they may not choose to acknowledge, the correctness of the sketch.

Our Navy certainly stands confirmed in as high, respectable, and unrivalled a superiority as the most patriotic heart could wish, or the wisest Minister devise; but it is not altogether so with the Army; the