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nificance when compared

with the moral attitude which the people have taken on this occasion

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national character--that boundless generosity, which can only be compared

to the inanimity,

which makes the hand ever ready to succour a fallen foe; and that subliration roused by a

tempest, at every insult or menace of an enemy The compassionate

interest taken by the populace in the future condition of the queen is

worthy of this extraordinary people Therethenity alone would

dare to ascribe the bravery of their co

than that which has placed the kingdom so proudly in the van of all

modern nations There h

has said, in the popular sentiments with respect to the queen Upon

that, as upon her case, I offer no opinion It is enough for me to have

seen, with the admiration of a worshipper, the manner in which the

multitude have espoused her cause