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over the Sea. In fact he came with Secret ordres to negotiate a large sum of money, & e deletion n /deletion ven in order to obtain it, with a foreign: French underline plein pouvoir /underline /foreign of Selling here, as it appears in Secret, the largest, & finest house in town. ^ addition & carrying its price away /addition You know that there are a good number of debts here, that some are imedietly ^ addition entailed /addition upon the house, & You may easily guess the consternation, 7 the imediate loss of all credit which this rash Step must occasion, the more so if the buildings, & the costly things ^ addition in /addition it shoud be given away infinitely under their value as must probably be the case. We forsee here the most disagreable consequences if this plan should be executed, the total overthrow of public faith, the loss of all credit, & good opinion, & a number of disagreable, & disgrafull law Suits, at the tribunals of the Empire. Besides the bad effets which such proceedings must have in the Dominions, contigous to these here.

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