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6774. PORTUGAL, Government of.—[continued].

During six and thirty
years that I have been in situations to attend
to the conduct and characters of foreign nations,
I have found the government of Portugal
the most just, inoffensive, and unambitious of
any one with which we had concern, without a
single exception. I am sure that this is the
character of ours also. Two such nations can
never wish to quarrel with each other.—
To J. Correa. Washington ed. vii, 184. Ford ed., x, 164.
(M. 1820)