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Warden refuted : being a defence of the British navy against the misrepresentations of a work recently published at Edinburgh, entitled, "A statistical, political, and historical account of the United States of North America, by D.B. Warden, late Consul for the United States at Paris, &c. &c." in a letter to the author of that work
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mssHM 46672