On the record
The Regicide Republic and the still nominally subsisting monarchy of Spain are united,--and are united upon a principle of jealousy, if not of bitter enmity, to Great Britain.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke highlights the alliance between revolutionary France and Spain as a threat to Britain.
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