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1821 Aug. Lett. Mode The principle
1821 Aug.

Lett. Mode

The principle mode of relinquishment which I would beg leave to

recommend to your consideration is shortly this -

1. So far as without prejudice to the interest of the inhabitants you

can get any profit /obtain any advantage/ from a foreign State in a pecuniary shape

for the cession of the claim together with any such other good offices /services/ it

may be in your power to perform /render/, obtain it.

2. Where the nature of the case does not admitt of any such

advantage, offer to the province emancipation upon terms such as shall be agreed upon

under the mediation of the Government of the Anglo-American United States and in

terms analogous to those emancipations of which several examples are to be found in

the practice of that government.

3. Seek not any advantages in the way of pecuniary sacrifice at the

expence of any of these your distant kinsmen: only at the expence of a foreign nation

from which it will not be afforded to you but for that which in its eyes will be an

adequate equivalent.

4. Seek not at the expence either of these your kinsmen so proposed to be

emancipated or at the expence of any foreign nation any advantage in trade in the

shape of preference over every or any foreign nation. By no such invidious

distinction will you encrease the number of your well-wishers, or the value /amount/

of their services to you: by every such distinction you will encrease the number of

your ill-wishers.
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