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 the measures necessary to prevent a military and political disaster more considerable than all we have before experienced.—Your very affectionate,

Maximilian still dreamt of appealing to the treaty of Miramar, which had been revoked three months before, when, too, the Emperor Napoleon had declared to Mr. Bigelow, that he would undertake no further expeditions to subdue the rebels.