/«.-4 he Independent Gazetteer. Mr. CsWALDk B ING one of ynur subscribers from ihe commencement of its publication, I •have regularly kept a fi'e of them for my amufitmtlit in a letfiire hour; and I find myfclf fuffkitudf reconipeliced ior my trouble, by the entertainment which they ejw afford in cor.tralting the political iil putes of the preftnt day, with those which took place a t .-w yeirs since. I was'muc.i | furpnfetf at the infection of an original £- p gTam, which by an accident 1 law in Mi . Fenno's paper of the Bth inft. —Being psiTeff-d of a pretty retentive memory, I j thought I had fceii it before, but did not j Jctlciw exactly where. Ho v ever, upon i looking ovr l'oine of your papers, 1 found i the identical Epigram, with the only al-! tcration of " Frtnch Jacobin," for " Jus- ' tic< Jefferies." Now Jttr, 1 wish, through the medium ; of your paper, to inform the witlings of Mr. Fenno, of the circumstance. If at any future period they may wish to exer cise tV.tir talents upon Jacobintfm, at lead to fuffer their wit to have the merit of ori ginality. AIIGUS. April Bth, 1795. April 18, 179 $. Mr. Fenno, I happened to-day, for the firft time, to fee the Independent Gazetteer of the nth inflant—an accident, which may not hap pen again in twelve months—in which a paragraphia under the fi£nature of Argus nfierts, that the Epigram on a French Ja cobin, puhlilhed in one of your late papers, -was no more than the copy of another on jttfiice yefferii-Jf with a change merely «f the two names. He begins with, " Mr. Oswald, being one of your subscribers from the commencement of its publica tion, I have regularly kept a file of them for my amuftment."—Here ftjtics a lit:le confufion of gender and number, which I mention only, en pas.ant, that Argns may reflify.it in the copy he lias filed—unlefs he agree with me, that the sentence will contribute mod to amusement as it now stands. But I thank him finccrelv for in forming the public, for it had never oc curred to me. that to describe the charac ters of a French Jacobin, and a bloody Jefieries requires so final! a change of words. Certain it is, that villains, tho' of different nations, have all a family lik'nefs. To use a common faying, the)' ar much alike as two potatoes. Jefit ries was a robber and a cut throat, and so was a Jacobin; —they were both the exe crable scourges of their age and country; and they both delerve, with another dar ing ifnpof.cr of lad century, " To bedamn'd with eves lading fame." Ntlr', Sir, I wish, through the medium ' of your paper, to inform Argus of ali this •—and at the fame time to whisper in his ear, that he has been rather unlucky in choosing a name ; for Argus of old was noted for an hundred eyes, and this writ er does not feern to have the perfect use of one. _ 1 For the Gaze.'te of the United Slatet. Mr. Fenno, THE following is the lad paragraph of a piece finned Franklin, fnppofed to "• be written for the Aurora, bm which originally appears in-the Gazetteer—l reqiiefl you to insert it, and the para -1 phrate annexed. Yours, C. . The Paragraph. \ Citizens of'Amcrica, you are on the brink of a precipfce—beware before your fate be irrevocable ! Let not a bli'id\ devotion to men plunge you into 1 an abyss of misery ! Your de iny, like the tyrant's sword, hangs suspended by a thread—avert it before the opportu nity escapes ! Remember that nations, once free like yourselves, have loft their liberty by fttpiner.efs, and let ;t not be said of you, that you had energy enough ♦o pnrchafc freedom, but that voti 1 wanted vigour to preserve it. FRANKLIN. April 15th, 1795 — *r The * Paraphrase. " Citi7cns of America I" Your country is deooune'd thij,day ; You're 011 a precipice's brink ; Before it is u>o late, O think ! ' Before from liberty v<S.i fever, Before your fate is iix'd forever, y Obe not hiimbujr'd by the notion, ~i < j l That Franklin wifbes f.lf- promotion, i- li; Nor place in men a blind devotion ; J w Men who have led you thro' a war, Wi*om you have tried—know -what " they are ; These men (poh !do not laugh & hiss) b< Will plunge you in a deep abyss si Of misery—nay take my word, You;'fate, like Dior.ylius'fwoid. Hangs tirw impended by a thread, And threatens each devoted bead ; — Avert it then—from danger fly, Now is your opportunity. Remember, nations once as free ai As von confefs yonrfelres ty be, r ' Have lott their freedom by fupinrnefs, '• Ard now lament in tears, it* finis. V O 1-t it not be said of you, l< Who've beat y«ifi foes both black «md P blue, V * * That yf.li ha;! energy to gain it, But wanted vigour to retun it. Ah 1 till you iv-.tlee we will not eeafe, To be your fauldul cackling geese. Mj j And novv dear Cits, a word or two, my Of what we reaily have in view— find We are S set of lazy fellows, m y Who volunteer to blow the bellows ; ht Y To make a revolution blaze, I [j:'L We've jointly wrote these bold eflays j1 1 n,.., \Vhere liesand impudence combine, /£. And Franklin fanftions every li«e. 7 in God and the world know we're down, 1 ;ing Our names are feouted thro' the town ; ] y> I But if we can but raise a dult, i "on w '^ :) ' rc 'hen be firfl, 1 1 he State, ye gOiis, will then revive, , a |_ And rogues will feel themselves alive ; ' Juf-' We'll mount and ride, now pray be civil, j We'll ride like beggars to the Devil. t iumj - t 1 ot **• , tat From the Columbian Ctntinel. , ( xer- ] east THE FOUNT. I ori- c Mr. Russel, c k 1, 1 HE wits of England ft ill continue f to denounce the war in its consequences i ;. notwithllanding the suspension of the t Huleat Corpus A&, and the prevalence of :!;e fvftem of spies and informers. v ap- " f t^'em tfllls icts off:: ai a t ri a ' afe for a day of Fading, ■gtu Humiliation and Praver :— Ja- — I ers, AN IMPROMPTU, on c ON THE INTENDED FAST. Js "PROCLAIM aFeaftpoor men to j iers feed, q ca- throughout a hunger'd Nation ; em They've fading days enough decreed 1j tie \A'i:hout a Proclamation \ : v The fame would have been said in -America, had the mad fydem of certain f demagogues in Congress, prevailed the aw la(l pp r - C in- 1 ■ Y 3c- From an Rnghjh Paper, 'j ac- , dy SONNETS / FROM SHAKESPEARE. ily ROMEO TO JULIET. AkISE fair Sun, arise, thy charms display, Unveil t'lofe eyes with Heaven's own lustre bright; Ce Then the pale moon shall envious fade - ■ away, lr And hide its beams beneath the shade l . „ of night. * i /-» >31 irn O were those eyes, resplendent, placed in Br lis Heaven, za ,; s The moon and stars would shine less 21 in bright than they ; as Then to the dufkv face of night were it- gjven, ' if e Beauties, ah I glorious than the day. In musing posture, fee, intent to stand, (1 ho' silent, yet her eyes would seem , , tofpeak) bel She leans her gentle cheek upon her hand, wa O that I were the glove to touch that P U ,' >h cheek ; to To grow to that fair hand, O lot divine, And touch that beauteous cheek, what 1 extacy were mine! an< ROMEO. q "' a- of Juliet to Romeo. 211 Ah me ! what fate my bosom shall betide ? s ec ' O Romeo, why is Montague thy name r f ai( Why, fortune, ihould'll thou thus our an( le namts divide, un j re Wl.om gtntle nature form'd in common U1 „ , frame ? . Thi ;o Thou art my enemy in name alone ! ;e And what's a name ? 'Tis breath, 'tis : ■ empty ai;; ma , ' The rose, whatever title it might own, Thi ! Yet ftiil would smell as sweet, would cho ®» blush as fair. tinj " And Romeo by any other naise ! ts f The lame dear, lov'd, ail perfeil youth ' s ;h would be; Hi Then change that name, and all thy Juliet J claim For that, which is no real part of thee : ar , j Or, if thou wilt not change that holtiie j, a 8 name, for Be thou but sworn my love—l'll instant tow mine disclaim. - trec JULIET. Eln A LIMNER from Europe. WHO has acquired a certain celebrity in ot, the art of taking faithful and agreeable Like- {}, c jielfes, in fevcral parts of tile world where 1 he has rclided, i> desirous of making a ten- ' ) der of the exereil'e of his abilities (in that " as line) to tne public of this flouriihing city, I where the cradle of the arts is set in motion' pnb by the enlightened part of its inhabitants, of v ;]i. whole protection and encouragement he hum ' bly claims a final! fharc. to ' ■j, a Specimens of his (kill in painting may | Par ) be lcen at his room, No. 93, south highth the fireet, betwe?n Walnut and spruce Iheets at circ Mr. Henry Andrew Heins's. | N. B. His prices are very moderate and he t he warrants Likencles. April 3 drtt " tO ! PiJl-OjfiCe, Apr 18, 1795. bee 1 *** The Meicliants, and others, 1 are particularly requested to take no- fnpi rice, t{iat after this day the Sou- moi tbern Mail will be closed every Friday, evid Mondr.v, and Wednesday, precisely at the' 10 o'clock jn the morning, and the I i Pittfburg Mail every Saturday, at 11 peo, o'clock. ever * United states. -> CONNECTICUT, April i- 3 . Arrived in Milford road ihip Eleven Sons, ' Samuely Hawley mailer of this place, in Sji thirty two days from Swinam, bound to New-York. Twenty-four days ago, one vi ; and a half league from Bafleterre, Guada i iuUpe, Captain liawley was boarded by k . s j I the lieut. of the Maraiida*, a Britiih (hip of 64 guns. The lieut. informed him they had been cruizing off there 7 weeks, in company with 5 Engliih ihips of the lVn » j line and three frigates, to block up the "> , I French privateers inthellland of Guada- , loupe. Fourteen days ago spoke a fchoo , " ner from Antigua , bound to Newbern, with 50 men, votnen and children on re . board. The Captain informed that it was v -j* expedled that there would soon be an in ' furred ion in the liland of Antigua among the Negroe:; and that the Engliih inhabi- 1 tanrs were quitting the Iflana as fad as poilible. Lat. 31, long. 64, spoke the ( • brig Two S.fters,from Wilmington N. C. bour.d to St. Dumingo, out 5 days all well. ' Lat. 38, long. jt r boarded by the lieut. of the Britiih (hip Hope, fa id to have been oivthiscoaft 7 weeks, bound to Halifax, j had a brig in company, but gave no in- t lUf formation refpedling her. Capt. Hawley ces informs that he was very politely treated ' lie by both the lieutenants who boarded him. ce Captain Hawley, failed' in company * rs with the fchoomr Friendihip, Baldwin, , _ mailer, belonging to Stonington, bour.d t ' " to Ne« -York. ■ v 'o> * A mifnomcr. r BOSTON, April 8. ARRIVALS. I Ships Aurora, Seward, Bristol; Sally f to Jew, Brest ; brigs Lark, Checfeman, C?pe Francois ; Nancies, Hooker, To- f bago ; Success, Stevenson, Turk's If- a land ; schooners Betsy, Freeman, Li- „ H verpool, N. S. Frieudfhip, Warner, | n Martinico ; S'lildrake.Stutrevant, Cape ln Francois ; Nalheigh, Gardner, Hali- 0 ' ie f*x ; Friendihip, Halkell, Martinico; J, Caroline, Plumcr, do. Bctfy, Killey, t | Yarmouth, N. S. Winthrop, Hall, ft TenerifFe ; Hannah, Swift, Mariaga lante; sloops Dolphin, Irvin, Gibral tar ; Jenny, Otis, Eflrquibo. NEWBURY-POR T, April 10. ol SHIP NEWS. P 1 ; n ' Tuesday arrived brig Elba, Capt. Elk- ins, 70 days from Brest—Captain E. very t fy politely furniihed the Editors with a file w of Paris papers, but his pa (Tape being long, , they contain nothing new. He informs that Brest harbour contains 1000 Prizes, taken by the French, ant! Forty Thou/and n Britiih seamen.— Feb. 3d, spoke brig Eli za, from New-York, bound to Hamburgh, ar Is 21 days out. ve ps ' e NEW-YORK, April 18. a n ExtraS of a letter received by a merchant ' r ' f this city, from' bis correspondent in ' Bermuda, dated the nth inf. " The schooner Polly, Capt. Griffin, bv belonging to Wm. Fitch, and MeiT. Coits, op I was sent in here a few days ago by one of an J our piratical, privateers, and has been li- Sy belled. I have offered ray friendihip to hii Capt. Griffin, and ihall do every thing in tir my power to serve him, both by advice, mi and advancing what money he may re- ta< quire; though I flatter myfelf, the fyltem of condemnation is at an end, owing to be an arrival from London, about a week a- »1] } go, by which the Judge of the Admiralty de ; received public difpitches, which it is m< •' said, censure his condudt very severely, ne r and it is to be hoped, will relieve many aft unfortunate Americans from their very fro 1 unpleasant situation in this country." ' Tl The following was handed in, last evening, wa after the paper was closed, fix s The Lombardy Poplar Tree has lately Ter made its appearance in the ftreetsof N. York, nol Those who have planted it have made a bad Pu 1 choice, If'fliade is the objedl of street plan- del ting, it affords none. It is a mere maypole; inti it« roots have no hold of the ground, and it An j is liable to be blown down by every gust of tvr wind. The caterpillar eats off its leaves in t ; ol July and Augnft, when (hade is moil want- t0 ] ep. The buttor.wood tree is deemed un- zei] healthy. Tbe elm has not a close and leafy top, the Wynch or Engliih Elm 1 n 0 , 1 ; has. If they can be got, they are the beil | , for the purpofc. All the nurseries about j°l ( town have the Catalpa, a beautiful flowering °* tree, with large leaves, n£xt to the Wynch Elm'thsy ihould be preferred. ' *be dro The bull of the ci-devant bon patri -1 ot, Maiat, has been taken from tbe ' theatre at Lyons, and <s treated every where with contempt. His deification Vir has laftdd one year. cad , The Convention are collecting and Cai pnblifliing the documents of Jacobin air villany. The communications relative 1 of n to the crimes of the old Commune of 1 fir jj Paris and tbe committees are printed in gas tbe Journals of Paris. The famous it b circular invitation to mafiacre all the alio Prisoners, after the manner of Paris on 1 t; >e the 2d-and 3d Sept. written and sign- Del ed by Marat and forwarded by Danton m J to all the communes of France, has ?' f been publiihed. The committee of Public Safety have C fnpprefTed the republication of the Me- of ; moirsofDumonrier in' Paris. Aftrbng ce'\ evidence that he has mitten truths that e they do not reliih ! a ®° It is a melancholy reflrftion that the " people whose views are pure (houldfor- a ever be the dupes of intrigues and falfe mil] patriots! PATRIOTISM f» ofren the pretext for the molt delegable views ot private ambitior. See Marat! See Danton f See Robespierre ! See the ns, end of their patnotifm. - in j"- Foreign Intelligence. by 51 P LONDON, January,3l. k Sj Nothing is known of tli.e operations he ! of the Britilh army ftibfequent to the he 20th ultimo Gen. Walmoden then a " continued at Deventer. It was not, howev.r probable that lie could remain there, the place being of little Itrength, , ai and without magazines : and further as it gave him the command of the Yflel, ng and the embankment towards the Zuy bi- der Sea, lie might at pleaiure inundate Holland. It was R place of too much ] cofifcquence for the French to allow him •1!* to retain the poflefiion of. I ur. At Benthcim, on the Frontiers of j en Holland, the Hanoverian hoipitals, ma -1X > gazines, &c, have long been eftabliftied. j in " to that place the British, Hanovertan, j and Heflian army has molt probably i m fallen back, and tbeie may beconfider 1 y ed in a place of security. n, The twofchuytsthatarrived on Mon- 1 r.d day last at Harwich, came over lad*n j with the baggage of the Prince de la Tonr and Taxis. 1 The Irish Government are about to C open a Loan of Two Millions. Mr. 11 Shaw and iwotither Gentlemen hare of- 1 'y fered to advance the money. n > The squirrel frigate is frozen up in , Margatt Bay. Margate Road, forms „ continued sheet of ice, a circumstance tl never before remembered. r > A survey of the great arch of Lon- & ,e don Bridge is to be marie, to determine j 01 on its fafety, after the violent ihock it ! » has experienced by the late paflage of ,}. ft theWell-Indiaman through it,by which '> Ihe loft all her nulls. February 3. The Earl of Bell imoi.t. we under stand, is removed from the diredtion of the Dublin Poft-office, intV in the plenitude of his refsntment has declared that whoever accepts his office, mnft of y 1 fight him. Mr. Ponfonby, it is said a e will be the champion.—Oracle. P r s FRANCE. P' f i TT has been lately fuppefed that the f e , , AAbbeSyeves, whose name appears t among the members prefert in the Con- b\ vention on the drcree of accufaiicns a- v gainst Carrier, is forming a party to frame ev a new constitution. This, it is said, ac ' tri counts for Audouin and Barrere, coming \- e ' on the 14th November to propose im- fa 7 mediate application for drawing tip the an organic laws of the conllitution accepted fci > by the people in T793, and the vehement , opposition they experienced from Pelet ag f and Fallien; for it is the character of ni - Syeyes hardly ever in public to a<ft for da > himfelf, but to make other men, fomt- »1 1 times without their knowing it, hisiriftni- 'in > ments. The following is part of the at- ne • tack upon Carnot, in Freron's jn'irnal: tin 1 " Never /.-ill the people be made to foi 1 believe that Robespierre alone committed ha ■ all the attrocities, all the horrors, nn- m, ' der which France groaned for lift en of months. The people will recoiled!, that , never were more vidlims immolated, than K. after Kobffpierre had withdrawn himfelf ani from the Committee of public fafety. They will recollect that the Guillotine wj was never more active than during the last fix weeks of the reign of Carnot and Bar- an rere. They have not forgottos that Car- th not was a member of the Committ e of Public Treason, which, on the 27th July, the delivered the Convention and all France into the hands of Fleuriot and Dumas.— < And it is, after having groaned under the pre tyranny of such a man, that the Conven- ' tor tion entrusts him with new powers ! It is obt to hands dyed in the blood of fellow-citi- J zens, that the reins of government are hai now committed 1 Caniot has the head of it t ; Billaud, the heart of Collot, and the wit | in : los Barrere. He has had the fame thiril j yot ;of French blood as they ; he has drunk | voi of the fame cup ; he has participated in lv 1 their crimes and their treasons. Not a 1 ' I drop of blood has be?n spilt for which not Carnot did not iign the order. He is the I Assassin of Philipeaux, Camille Defmou- I lins, and a hundred thousand other French- LOl men. No, No, let u* not doubt of it, ver Virtue will rcfufe to fit with guilt. The me cadaverous oiirur, the bloody sweat which ' wh Carnot exhales, will no more infedl the ; cau air which the members of the Committee not . of Public Safety are to breathe." 1 reai To this attack, it was that Carnot, in the j iiril report from the Committee of Public , wh: Safety, after being re-chosen a member of deli j it by a great majority of the Convention j wh: j alluded, when he said " Shame ihall be J thai t.le lot of the Pamphleteers, and glory the : hav Defenders of their Country. The ene- tho 'my of fadlions braves the dagger of the wh; airaiTin, and the fang of the Reptile :—he bou holds in equal abhoirence the fhedders of his blood, and the distillers of gall." fpoi Carnot is generally reputed the author pro of all the military plans so greatly con- dud ce>ved, so admirably combined, so fkilful I ly executed, and crowned with Ciccefs so beit aflonifhing. It is said, however, that much ow i of this honor is due to his brother, who, not with Rochambeau, Lafite, d'Arcon, &c. thir is a memtier of the Sub-Committee for ftre military operations. j j, the Of tSi* r«M, Army sot • f * See of fp, uking too favourably, f Jys '' the o„;'of i the r d;viri ; A body in the State, which obey. pulfc giving it from whatever q Uarter impulie may come. '1 he army w ,[' ii ways P^l ue its own cour r e , , vhethcr ' , 1 be tor a La Fayette a BrilTot, a Marat, a Taluen, or Lou,s XVII. It was thus the M gktCn tht ons of A, ; a > whi* Minus, and Svlla Wf r e the C °^^ ng Supreme Power at Rome. ien ~ t0 e Lora P <> fitiou of the Republican troops, and the spirit that an : lot, mates them, both are very different from *111 what tl.cy were under Cumour er and lh, Cuftine.' The old army of the line i s „ n _ | )er nihdated. The troops ar; i.ow F'et ch M, J" if*' Z S3 "' 2C , d and im P d;cd forward by the different ienfations that d.ftinguiO, the National character. Thefoldiers al ways nume.ous, well commanded, and ich protedled by an immense artillery, m.rcn im with confidence, and get killed with -he ■best grace in the world. Their number of dtmiiiiftes their sense of danger, whtcli, la . b y btl "? divided among so many, serves enly to inspire contempt. 7he General '■ officers are excellent, as are the officers of in. artillery and .ngineers. The other officers >Iy are middling, but make up in adiivjty, er what they wa-1 in * Tl, and f.-rve zealonf ly the cause to which they o«e everv in- th,n ?" *n , F f enlv i ha ' a? length eflab lifhed the most exadf discipline. Inßel lrf gium, no* the fmaliefl i, regularity hag been committed ; at Br»,ffe!s, not a Gn-ie to drinking party has been disturbed day or [r. night ; not a glass broken. Gne part of if- the garrilbn goes to the Oiurch, and the other to the tavern ; one part lings salve . Regina, and the other Carmagnole, with the utmcft good fellowfhlp. Ine fo-ldiers " s never talk of the politics of Raris, but re they obey all and every where.*' We believe the French armies to be per i- fe<£l!y indifferent-as to the men bv whose le orders they are to fight ; but we have, as it y et ' / ecn no reafonn to believe that they are indifferent as to the cause for which they are to fight. LA'V REOUT. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, „ - Feh.uary 7. e The King, -v. rhe F.arl of Abingdon. ~ MR. Erikifie moved for the judgment It of the Court on the nob e defendant, for d a libel on Mr. 1 homas Sei mon. Loid Chief Jrfli, e Ken) on a<ked if the prosecutor war inclined to receive any pro posal from tlu* defendant; or it jiie de fen Jant was disposed to talk with the pro e lecntor. . s No atifwerTieing given to that qneftion 1 I- bv either of the patties, Lord K. laid, it - would be unneceflary for him to report the e cvidcnce at length which was given at the trial. The offer,five' paragraph was deli g: Acred by the defendant to Mr. W. Wood- I- fall, to get it pubiilhed in the news-papers, e and a l'um of money was paid for titer m d fertion of it. t Lord-A. was here afced, if he had any t affidavits to produce !n init gat : on of pu s ni(hin-nt ; on whirh he produced the afii r davit of Samuel Ellwick, £fq. his truitee, - which was read. After stating the manner -in which Mr. Sermon became his Attor ney, this affidavit entered into a detail of the btifinc-fs which the prosecutor had done > for the defendant ; and charged that he I had a<fted under some influence, and in a . - manner that was inimical-.to the interefl* » of the noble Karl. t _ When the officer was reading it, Lord i K. obfi rved, tint it was very lcandalous I and ought not to have been mad#. Th-.s affidavit being read, the prosecutor - was alked if he hail any affidavit. I Mr. E. replied, that Mr. S. had made an affidavit, which was upon the files of - the Court. ™ Lord A. began to address the Court iu ■ these words : " Mj Lords, " Being hcre<alled upon to receive, I j prefiime, the judgment of the Court, in confequ-nee of the verdict which has been obtained against me for a libel." Lord K. " This is uot the firft time I . i h ave heard ol this business, and i submit it to your judgment and conlideration, that , in any thing yf.u may fay in your defence ; you will not O fcover any malice lurking in J your mind. I wish to imprefsthisearneft • iv on yonr judgment." I-K)rd A. " I hope your Lordship will not pre-fuppofe any thing." Lord K. " Certainly not." Lord A. " I (hall certainlv follow your Lordfiiip s advice. In consequence of the verdnfl which has been obtained ai a-nft me, I am to requelt, th.t the affidavit j which I made, when l was cited to ffiew ' cause why this criminal information ffiould I not be exhibited against me, may again be read to the Court." . | This affidavit was accordingly read, in , which he candidly admitted that he had delivered the i'peech in the House o Lords, , which the prosecutor complained of, and that he had afterwards given directions to : have it inserted in the'ue ws-papers. He thought hfm.felf not only juftlfied in dting what he had done, but that it was his jjounden duty to do so. He then flattd in his affidavit, a part of the literary corre spondence that palled betv een him and the prosecutor, and centred leverety his con duiff in the management of his business. Lord A. «' My Lord, Th fe affidavits being read, I have a w nrd © fay in my own defence, and by way of explanation, not being allowed at the t:me to fay any thing on a Cngle point, on which rnr h stress was laid at the trial by the Counfcl, j in his argument* and also by your Lord
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