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��€aimot procure from England on better terms, they generally lose by the trade. For the purpose ol" bringing money into the country for their banks, and for their commerce with India, fcn-mal compa- nies have been established in the City of Baltimore^ who are engaged in titting out jjirates under the in- surgent flag, which bring to the United States the proceeds of their robberies, committed not only against Spain and Portugal, but against the vessels of all other nations, which destroy the commerce of these nations, and which are bringing up a ge- neration of monsters and assassins, that it will be extremely diflRcult hereafter to exterminate from the seas.*

This is the system of polity, which the Unit- ed States pursue, in relation to the diflferent powers of the globe. From this we may deduce the mea- sures which ought to be adopted on our part with that Republick, and even with the nations of Eu- rope. 1 will not presume to point them out to the

��* This, to use the courtly language of a celebrated En- glish diplomatist, is an absolute falsehood. There are not, nor have there ever been, " formal companies in the city of Baltimore, engaged in fitting out pirates." If this had been true, the keen eyes of the Minister and his Attornies, would have found them out; and though the "judges and juries of Baltimore" might have saved them from the gallows, they would have been marked by the execration of their fellow- citizens. T,

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