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4263. KINGS, Bourbon.—

France has now
a family of fools at its head, from whom,
whenever it can shake off its foreign riders,
it will extort a free constitution, or dismount
them, and establish some other on the solid
basis of national right.—
To Benjamin Austin. Washington ed. vi, 554. Ford ed., x, ii.
(M. Feb. 1816)