XLV.

There was just then a kind of a discussion,

A sort of treaty or negotiation,

Between the British cabinet and Russian,

Maintained with all the due prevarication

With which great states such things are apt to push on;

Something about the Baltic's navigation,

Hides, train-oil, tallow, and the rights of Thetis,

Which Britons deem their uti possidetis.

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