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is forbidden by England and Prussia to furnish even its stipulated
maritime aid. There is no appearance of any other power's engaging
in the war. As far as I can discover, the King of England is somewhat
better in his head, but under such a complete depression of spirits,
that he does not care how the world goes, and leaves his ministers to do
as they please. It is impossible for you to conceive how difficult it is
to know the truth relative to him, he is environed in such an atmosphere
of lies. Men who would not speak a falsehood on any other subject, lie
on this, from a principle of duty; so that even eye-witnesses cannot be
believed without scanning their principles and connections; and few will
stand this, of the very few permitted to see him.
Committees of conciliation having failed in their endeavors to bring
together the three chambers of the States General, the King proposed a
specific mode of verifying their powers; for that having been the
first question which presented itself to them, was the one in which the
question of voting by persons or orders was first brought on.
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