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He regretted the affair; but hoped that time, and a more correct estimate of interest, would produce justice in the Dey's mind; and he seemed to believe that the majesty of pure reason, more potent than the music of Orpheus, "Dictas ob hoc lenire tigres, rabidosque leones," would soften piratical Turks. Mr. Madison's despatch to O'Brien on the subject is written in this spirit.
[Footnote 166: The passage in the original, in the generality of editions, is read as follows: ut eam invidium lenire, qu
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