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| | Charles Pinckney's speech on the question of a treaty with Spain, Congress, August 16, 1786. |
 | | Jay, secretary for foreign affairs, on the question of a treaty with Spain, delivered in Congress, August 16, 1786. |
 | | She is laboring to repair the expences of the late war, to arrange her finances, and by every possible exertion to augment her marine. |
 | | She is generally esteemed, what politicians stile, "the ruling power," at present in Europe; and it is more to her interest, and more gratifying to her ambition, to maintain this situation, than by improperly interfering in matters comparitively unimportant, to risque a premature contest with the rival power. |
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