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2682. ENGLAND, Reduction of.—[continued].

While it is much our interest
to see this power reduced from its towering and borrowed height, to within the
limits of its natural resources, it is by no
means our interest that she should be brought
below that, or lose her competent place among
the nations of Europe.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. vii, 45.
(P.F.,,
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