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 ¬exposure of the unhappy state to which she had been reduced by the desertion of Armata from her post: and how the rushing into battle with this delirious people was either to reform them or to secure ourselves, it is past my comprehension even to imagine." — " And of mine also,' 1 1 hastily replied : — " had you nobody then to say so in your great public councils?" ¬" We had many," said Morven : — " occasions consummate the human character. — A political star of the first magnitude was then in his zenith, amidst a constellation of the brightest statesmen, who solemnly and repeatedly protested against the leap we were about to take, whilst we yet stood upon the brink. — They condemned the principle of this war, and foretold the conse- quences, but the delusion was too dense to be dispelled; and, that you may judge of its den- sity, I will give you a specimen of the hap- piest and most approved manner in which this phalanx of great talents was opposed by those who supported their adversaries. To deny their ¬11 4 talents ¬