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. . .I allow it to be provoking, to see the appearance of the Piratical American Vessels represented thro'out Great Britain & Ireland as spreading Terror along the Coasts, web all the foreign Gazettes re-eccho with Satisfaction; when a moment's reflexion must prove, that the novelty alone Surprizes, that when proper measures can have had time to be taken, such attempts must diminish every day. . .