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the colitrary, persists in dragging on a con- 

 test, without the least hope of ultimate suc- 

 cess; refuses to acknowledge that indepen- 

 dence which seems to be now established, 

 or establishing, without the least chance of 

 its being overthrown ; and thus throws away 

 all the advantages which she might other- 

 wise obtain, from a commercial intercourse 

 with the Hispano-American States. 



A remarkable difference may likewise be 

 traced in the feelings of the people of the 

 two great divisions of America with regard 

 to their respective mother-countries. That 

 in English America a considerable attach- 

 ment to Great Britain existed, there is no 

 doubt : how far, by means of any different 

 measures pursued at home, that attachment 

 might have been rendered available to pre- 

 vent the separation of the colonies from the 

 parent state, is a question that is not now 

 worth considering; because it must be 



