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��Jbeputies of the Nation, who know better than I do the interests of the monarchy, and the resources which may be counted upon to carry them into ef- fect. 1 will barely observe, with regard to the Americas, that every plan for the pacification, or union of the inhabitants of the two worlds, must conciliate the interests of the former, those of the mother country, and those of the powers interested in supporting independence; and that any system which does not unite these three objects, will pro- duce no other effect than to disappoint the expecta- tions of the nation: and lastly, that a fixed plan or system of policy, and of revenue, is indispensa- ble to every constituted power; and that from the combination of these two systems, founded upon a solid and permanent basis, and resting upon the in- terest of the State, the result must necessarily be, the splendour of the nation, and the happiness of all the individuals who compose it.*

I am very far from wishing to find fault with the system of the United States, however it may be founded in extravagant pride, and frequently in violation of the laws of nations: the only thing

��* All the author's notions of this fixed system of polity, and of revenue, are evidently derived from the United States; for they are the only power, by his own confession, who do not change their systems with every change of Mi- nister or Soverei2;n. T.

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