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is underline willing /underline and underline capable /underline of doing his duty: I understand our army is the finest in all ways that ever was seen: I will however allow the situation of Portugal is critical but not desperate: in a very short time the season will prevent the French from acting and I cannot think any minister in this country can be weak enough not to have our force in Portugal and the Kingdom itself in that state of defence before next spring that it would be madness in the French to attack us in that quarter: besides Bonaparte from his endless ambition by making Bernadotte Carmen Prince of Sweden will involve himself in fresh war with Russia: it is not clear but that my cousin on the Throne of Denmark is also coming to his right senses: I wish the four princes left in Europe all thought as I do: there would then soon be an end of this infamous monster: the North of Europe