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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Ripperda's escape to England," grand Diplomatic bulldog that was, who took refuge in Colonel Stanhope's at Madrid to no purpose, and kindled the sputtering at Gibraltar, is now got across to England, and will go to Morocco and farther, to no purpose, "will very much embroil affairs; which did not seem to want another obstacle to hinder them from coming to an accommodation.
The queen, who, with all her ambition, had a good share of sagacity, soon saw the mistake she had made, and in four months after Ripperda's return to Madrid, he was dismissed in disgrace. A general storm of contempt and indignation pursued the discarded minister. His rage was now inflamed as much as his vanity had been.
This was, in substance, Ripperda's Treaty; the Third great European travail-throe, or change of color in the long-suffering lobster. Whereby, of course, the Congress of Cambrai did straightway disappear, the floor miraculously vanishing under it; and sinks far below human eye-reach by this time towards the Bottomless Pool, ever since.
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