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, ' The better informed classes could

however not lend an ear to the ru­

mours , and; would not admit the

possibility,,of real hostilities to be

undertaken against a nation, whose

government had steadily adhered to

the strictest neutrality, and had not

deviated since the eruption of the

revolution from the honest efforts

to preserve peace, against all temp­

tation and intimidation offered; it

was expected, that when ihe articles

of the treaty of Tilsit would be

known and Russia would have in­

vited