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 ¬ CHAPTER X. ¬In which Morten relates to the Author the condition of Armata on the conclusion of the War, and asks his opinion and adtice. ¬" We are now arrived at a most interesting and painful conjuncture, to the particulars of which I must ask your utmost attention. — You have been cast upon the shores of the island, which has received you in a moment of great difficulty, and my father, as I have repeatedly told you, having always held up to me the English people as the great masters of political wisdom, I cannot but. look to you for counsel r in this arduous posture of our affairs. ¬" Not many months have passed since the glorious conclusion of the war whose history I have related, and up to that period, notwith- standing the immense sums expended in the contest, no sinew of the state appeared to be relaxed ; no want was felt any where, and ad- ¬i 3 ditional ¬