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their desire to preserve the general 

 tranquillity. 



" The prospect of an abundant 

 haivest tiuoughout a considorable 

 part (if the continent is in tiie 

 highest degree satisfactory. This 

 happy dispensation of Providence 

 cannot fail to mitigate, if not 

 wholly to remo\e, tliat piessure 

 under which so many of the na- 

 tions of Europe have been sufler- 

 ing in the course of the last year j 

 and I trust that we may look for- 

 ward in consequence to an im- 

 prnveinent in the conmiercial re- 

 lations of this and of all other 

 countries. 



" J cannot allow you to sepa- 

 rate without recommending to 

 you, tlial upon your return to your 

 several counties, you should use 

 your utmost endeavours to defeat 

 all attempts to corrupt and mis- 

 lead the lower classes of the com- 

 nninity ; and that you should lose 

 no oppoitunity of imiilcating a- 

 mongst them that sj/nit of con- 

 C(n(l and obedience to the laws, 

 which is not less essential to their 

 happiness as individuals, than it 

 is indispensable to the gene al 

 welfare and prosperity of tl>e 

 kingdom." 



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