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1045. CABINET, Intrigue in.—

It is impossible
for you to conceive what is passing
in our conclave; and it is evident that one or
two at least, under pretence of avoiding war
on the one side, have no great antipathy to
run foul of it on the other, and to make a
part in the confederacy of princes against
human liberty.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iii, 563. Ford ed., vi, 261.
(Pa., May. 1793)