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 authorized by the King of Spain can trade there but by force or tealth. Whatever profit is obtained mut be gained by the violence of rapine, or dexterity of fraud.

will not perhaps oon arrive at uch purity and excellence, but that ome connivance at leat will be indulged to the triumphant robber and uccesful cheat. He that brings wealth home is eldom interrogated by what means it was obtained. This, however, is one of thoe modes of corruption with which mankind ought always to truggle, and which they may in time hope to overcome. There is reaon to expect, that as the world is more enlightened, policy and morality will at lat be reconciled, and that nations will learn not to do what they would not uffer.

the ilent toleration of upected guilt is a degree of depravity far below that which openly incites and manifetly