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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 bea valuable 

 pledge of the mutual benevolence, that ought 

 for ever to unite the nations of both Americas. 



