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[Accounts from Russia lead me to conclude,] as you probably have done, that no reasonable hope of success is to be entertained in that quarter.

— Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey

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I am a great lover of morality, public and private, but the intercourse of nations cannot be strictly regulated by that rule.

To assist the Spaniards is morally and politically one of the highest duties a nation ever had to perform.

I have written with a very confused head from the affects of laudanum.

It is impossible not to admire his ability, resource, and fortitude, in presenting himself everywhere to repel the dangers which assail him.

Wellesley's success...appears to have been nothing more than an affair of a rear-guard, and is ridiculously magnified.

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