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7412. RESPECTABILITY, National.—[continued].

An alliance [422] with the
Emperor of Austria will give us respectability
in Europe, which we have occasion for.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. i, 557.
(P. 1786)
See Joseph II.

 
[422]

By alliance Jefferson meant a commercial treaty.—Editor.