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THE SECOND ARMADA.

trated in a few days in sufficient numbers to deal with any enemy which might break through the barrier of our Fleets. Independently of all political reasons, we have in the danger of the enterprise and the facility of the defence a guarantee which ought to be sufficient to all reasonable minds.