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The natural, simple, and obvious course was undoubtedly to let the ambassador present his letters to the Queen, to whom they were addressed, and although I attribute the difficulty only to a mistaken suspicion on the part of the spanish government, others will see in it the studied abasement of Royalty, or a determination to quarrel with France at all risks.
In offering it to the American student we have endeavored to meet an obvious want of a suitable book of exercises in translating from the French to produce a work adapted peculiarly to the wants of American society calculated to interest as well as instruct beginners of every age, and suited alike for the use of private students and promiscuous classes.
It was therefore obvious to Her Majesty's Government that M. de Pontois could not have been instructed or authorized by the French Government to hold at Constantinople a language directly the reverse of that which had been held by the French Government everywhere else, and the more especially as the language held by M. Pontois is directly at variance with all the public and official declarations made by the French Government of the principles upon which the policy of France, with regard to the affairs of the Ottoman Empire, is founded.
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