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 George Canning Reveals a Plot for the Extermination of Democracy—Richard Rush Sends James Monroe a Literary Bomb-Shell—The Emperors of Europe Combine for Conquest of America—The Duke of Wellington Proves a Tartar—England Makes a Proposition—Thomas Jefferson Proposes to Marry the British Fleet—The Solid Front of the Anglo-Saxon—James Monroe Throws Down a Challenge to Royalty—Ambitions Sunk in the Waters of Trafalgar.  ARLY in August, 1823, George Canning, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Great Britain, sent for Richard Rush, a representative of the United States, and informed him that the Holy Alliance, in the greatest secrecy, had determined to subjugate the Central and South American communities that had recently revolted from Spain.