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as to wish ill success to its arms; Rigby 27 Aug. in Wiffen, II. 473. but with the multitude, the thirst for conquest was the madness of the times. Men applauded a war which was continued for no definite purpose whatever. But on the fifteenth of August, the very day on which Pitt despatched his abrupt declaration, Choiseul concluded that Family Compact Martens: Receuil, VI. 69. which was designed to unite all the branches of the House of Bourbon as a counterpoise to the maritime ascenof the world, it placed the fleets of the European sovereign whose power was the most absolute, whose colonies were the most extended, on the side of a confederacy of republican insurgents in their struggle for independence. On the same fifteenth of August, and not without the knowledge of Pitt, France and Spain concluded a special convention, Of this special convention Pitt was correctly informed. He knew, also, that the court of Spain wanted to gain time, till the fleet should arrive a
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