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6773. PORTUGAL, Government of.—

The government of Portugal is so peaceable
and inoffensive that it has never any altercations
with its friends. If their minister abroad
writes them once a quarter that all is well, they
desire no more.—
To F. W. Gilmer. Washington ed. vii, 5. Ford ed., x, 33.
(M. 1816)