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Morning Chronicle of 26 April, 1829, be correct. In regard to Australia, it is in his eyes preponderantly probable that, long before this century is at an end, the settlements in that vast and distant country will, all of them, have emancipated themselves, changing the Government from a dependency on the English Monarchy, into a Representative Democracy.

Dilemma, applying to a distant dependency, this. Admit no Appeal, (Judicial Appeal,) you thereby, unless your Government is purely military, establish independence: admit Appeal, you thereby subject the vast many of those who can not afford the expense of the Appeal, to slavery under the relatively few who can.

In most of the copies which, from time to time were distributed in the way of gift. Inserted in MS. at the bottom of the first page, in the form of a note to the title, was the memorandum following:—

"A° 1793, written just before the departure of M. Talleyrand, on the occasion of the rupture between France and England. Copy given to Talleyrand's Secretary, Gallois, who talked of translating it."