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THE DUTfES OF A DIPLOMATIST.natives ofthe preselltday may boast that they are descended of thosewho have signalized themselves in the records of history, who have influencedand decided the affairs of the world.If the provincial concussions,so pregnant with illconsequences too often in the affairs ofnations" be owingtothis cause,-and such it may be notwithstandingthe remoteness betweeniit andtlfe effect,-it affords matter to belamented;fclr a deep-seated evil cannot be cured by ordinalY means..'fhe diplomatic characterinifluences that of the nation, which it represents,among Joreigners.Accol'dingly, as the people of a nation aretl'eated by its. representative, thosearonnd judge of men and things.'.fhey conc]Qde, dmtnonation,vill be so înfatuated as toretain andpaya man in: sacha situation, who perseveres in a sys'tematie courseof wrông; consequentlytlîey>mustsuppose hiril, in whate,'er he does,'l'ight. Séc9ndly, it is to this quarter that the subject is to recur forprotection, and a system ofrepulsedeprives every man, not totally di...vestedof feeling, from a recurrence to such a quarter, be his difficultieswhat they may. Again, it bars communications, sorne of which at leastmay he of importance, aIl of which ought to be listened t~,of which are usuallyworthy of adverten.ce.and mostBut the diplomatist, whoturns his'back on his fellow-subjects, tLirns it aiso on the most importantinterests of his country.This isilot the manner in whichtheFrench proceed. Every communication made is, wbether attendedtoornot, invariablyacknowledged. 'J'hese observations occurin consequenceofa striking instanpe of national manners, of urbanity, and thefacility of intercourse in two distillguished persons of that nation nowhere: Count Cooway returning from his command atthe Cape ofGoodHope, and Connt O'])unn the :French ambassador here at Lisbon.lmmediatclyonthe former arriving, and duly armouncing himself, he waspZ