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should be sent to the coast of Venezuela, to be 

 distributed among the poorest inhabitants. So 

 generous a supply was received with the warmest 

 gratitude ; and this solemn act of a free people, 

 this mark of a national interest, of which the 

 increasing civilization of our old Europe displays 

 but few recent examples, seemed to be a valuable 

 pledge of the mutual benevolence^ that ought 

 for ever to unite the nations of both Americas. 



