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He thought the terms fraught with degradation and national humiliation.

— William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville

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Speech in the House of Lords against the proposed peace treaty with France (3 November 1801), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803, Vol. XXXVI. Comprising the Period from the Twenty-Ninth Day of October, 1801, to the Twelfth Day of August, 1803 (1820), column 164

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