09/18/1796
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"We may meet, under every assurance of success, our enemies from within and from without."
"I derive much happiness from being confirmed by your judgment in the necessity of decisive measures."
"Next to the consciousness of upright intentions, it is the highest pleasure to be approved by the enlightened representatives of a free nation."
"I retain full confidence in our minister resident at Madrid."