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them to hope that the United States would, if properly supported, seize Louisiana and accept war with Bonaparte. "If you can obtain Louisiana,—well!" said Addington to Rufus King;^[1] "if not, we ought to prevent its going into the hands of France."

1. Rufus King to Madison, April 2, 1803; State Papers, ii. 551.