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The time, we trust, has long passed away since any of the more enlightened European nations have regarded with dissatisfaction the gain of one of them as though it entailed the disadvantage of the others. Within the recollection of men now living, there prevailed a sentiment that England and France were natural enemies." That sentiment, we re- joice to believe, is in the present day as obsolete as many other of the senseless idols which have been most appro- priately consigned to the moles and the bats. Experience and reflection have at length convinced all men of intelligence

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