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since she "has raised the Muscovite to be a maritime Power there. … Had we performed the articles of our alliance made by King William with the crown of Sweden, that gallant nation would ever have been a bar strong enough against the Czar coming into the Baltic. … Time must confirm us, that the Muscovite's expulsion from the Baltic is now the principal end of our Ministry."
Butler & Tanner. The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.