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134     An Anglo-American Reunion.

          justly incurs the reproach of misdirected effort.
          It  is a fair deduction from analogy, that two
          contending armies might as well agree to re-
          spect each   other's  communications,  as  two
          belligerent  states  to guarantee immunity   to
          hostile commerce.
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