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NOTE.

On the 'Convention of Cintra' see Preface in the present volume. G.

CONCERNING

THE RELATIONS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN,

SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL,

TO EACH OTHER, AND TO THE COMMON ENEMY,

AT THIS CRISIS;

AND SPECIFICALLY AS AFFECTED BY

THE

CONVENTION OF CINTRA:

The whole brought to the test of those Principles, by which alone the Independence and Freedom of Nations can be Preserved or Recovered.

Qui didicit patriae quid debeat;————

Quod sit conscripti, quod judicis officium; quae

Partes in bellum missi ducis.