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to detail with minuteness, the 
commercial inconveniences which 
were the consequences of this im- 
pudent fraud; we have here given 
it insertion, solely as acriterion, by 
which the bent of the wishes and 
hopes of the people may be decided 
upon; how averse they were from 
war; and as a proof mto what 
complete security the nation had 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1805. 
been lulled by the assurances of 
ministers, that peace could be main- 
tained on the basis of the treaty 
of Amiens alone, when it fell so 
easily and completely into the shal- 
low snare of some interested adven- 
turer, whose contrivance had flat- 
tered them into a belief, that it wae 
yet attainable! 
CHAR, 
