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��is not less free to defend itself against Che strata- gems of another, than that other is to practise them. I can only blame that power, which, knowing the arts that are used to injure it, remains passive, and instead of adopting a profound system of policy, by which the evils might be turned from itself upon the oifender, thinks by negotiation, by complaints, by a mean and wretched cunning, to overthrow the wise measures of the best organized systems of policy. *

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