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Excerpt from A Dispassionate Inquiry Into the Best Means of National Safety
Such deep and universal gloom, as that which brought intelligence of the failure of the grand effort, which the Continent of Europe has lately been prevailed on to make for the recovery of its independence. The feelings displayed, on that occasion, by the British People, evinced the good sense with which they estimated the cala-s mity, that had thus befallen them in common with the whole civilized world. In bewailing, however, that calamity, they are entitled to rea ?eet with satisfaction on the part taken by this country in the struggle, the result of which has been so disastrous. Events too generally fura nish the rule, though a most fallacious one, by which mankind judge of the policy of mea sures. Success alone is wanting to crown rash'
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