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5268. MINISTERS (Imperial), Politic.—

Ministers and merchants love nobody. The
merchants here [France] are endeavoring to
exclude us from their [West India] islands.
The ministers will be governed in it by political
motives, and will do it, or not do it, as these
shall appear to dictate, without love or hatred
to anybody.—
To John Langdon. Washington ed. i, 429.
(P. 1785)