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 ¬which, from the rapid progress of population throughout that immense region, was in itself an inexhaustible source of wealth, setting per- fectly at nought the entire intercourse of our whole world besides. ¬" Shall I be then believed when I tell you that with all this Armata was not satisfied, but in- sisted that an useful, affectionate, and distant people should pay for the support of wars she had been foolishly involved in at the other ex- tremity of our planet? — Can the human imagi- nation extend farther to the belief, that even this monstrous claim was acceded to? — the chil- dren of a misguided parent desired only to know what she demanded, that they might have the grace of rendering it as a spontaneous grant, to be bestowed under the same forms of govern- ment and under the sanction of the very ma- gistrates which she herself had created for the purpose. — Must I lastly trespass upon, or rather insult, your credulity, by telling you that even this offer was refused ? Though revenue was the ¬object, ¬