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the public feeling of the moment subside, and 

 then we do not find every people — indeed, 

 1 may say very few, or scarcely any, suited to 

 a republic ; and I decidedly think, the day 

 will come, when Colombia will find herself 

 happier under a limited monarchy than she 

 will ever be as a republic, where jealousy and 

 personal envy must be kept alive by the high- 

 est offices of the state being open nominally to 

 all, but which will get into the hands of the 

 first and richest families. 



At this period the attention of the Colom- 

 bians is fixed on the state of Europe ; and the 

 more I contemplate the part which my coun- 

 try has taken in the question between France 

 and Spain, the more I consider it a matter 

 of congratulation to all Englishmen. England 

 would have been false to all her former prin- 

 ciples had she acted otherwise. The unsought 

 intervention of France in the internal organiza- 

 tion and affairs of Spain, is, in principle, a 

 downright attack upon the liberties of all man- 

 kind, and should be repelled as such. It is an 

 extraordinary fact, that in the most enlight- 

 ened age of the world, there is scarcely a 

 country in Europe which these despots of the 



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