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"foots, were among the mod familiar
objects, and the enterprise and indudry
'of individuals were palsied. In the
midit of this ''embartdiTment and per
'plexity, no infurredion was excited,
though the flames of civil war burst
forth in Massachusetts, and Teemed to
threaten a wide deftfuaion. Cdnnec
tictf& thus circumdanced, at once unit
ed in calling a convention to frame a
new system of government. The con-
Ilitution which this convention formed,
wls ratified in this Rate as Icon, and
frith as great unanimity, as its friends
c^gld have anticipated, and the people
looked to it as their refuge from the e
vils which they had so lately and so se
verely experienced.
Thirdly. What war her condition at
the cbfe r fthe adminftration ^Washing
ton and Adams ?
You have teen that in 1788 Connec
ticut exhibited the higheß proof of de
preflion in her financial concerns, and
you have seen her consequent wretch
edness.—ln 1800 the debt Against the
Rate is cancelled.—ln 1800 there is in
Yier treasury more than 4.00,000 dollars
in the funded debt of the United States.
Thereisa permanent fund of 1,200,000
dollars ellablifhed for the support of
Schools—there is an entire restoration
ofconfidence among individuals—com-
Inerce is prosperous beyond the mod
fauguine calculation—induftfy, labor,
and exertion are amply rewarded. The
farmer meets a full compenration for
nis produce -the people are relieved
from the pressure of debt—lands, fences
and buildings every where exhibit marks
of wealth—ichool houses, churches and
other public edifices have assumed a
new appearance —inftrudors in litera
ture, morals and religion can now be
employed and paid—public and private
Credit is eftablilhed on sure foundations,
and as many advantages presented for
increasing in riches and importance, in
jjrofperit, and happiness as have fallen
to the lot of any people.
Whence this mighty change ? Did
not the hew government in the hands
of its friends principally contribute to
produce it ? Whence the entire redo
ration of public credit ? Whence the
Encouragement to commerce and its
protection againd foreign foes ? is it
not owing to the funding fydem ; a
ineafure adopted under the eye of Wash
ington, and which has been the subject
of much unmerited abuse, that this Hate
obtained payment of her debt against
the United States, and thus discharged
her own debt ? Are not many schools,
academies and ecclesiastical societies in
debted to this measure for their funds ?
Hoes not Y ale College, which has long
been an ornament to this state, look to
this system for much of her support ?
This College, and her highly and jußly
refpecled FreGdent, may, for party pur
poses, be the objects of the calumny of
certain men ; but I feel an entire con
fidence, that the great body of my fel
low-citizens, regard them, with delight
and affection. They look to that Col
lege as a nursery of virtue, and they
feel an honest pride that while their fobs
may there be educated, it now contains
youths from twelve of the sixteen Rates,
as will appear by an infection of the
annual catalogue. There is no town,
village or neighborhood in this state,
where witnesses cannot be found to tes
tify for this College, and manyparents
Who read these remarks, can speak in
language not to be midaken, of the en
suring good which their children have
thence derived,
This brief view of the condition of
Conne&icut during the administration
$f Washington and Adams, entirely
itiftifies the affection that in that period
the attained to a Hate of prosperity al
most unexampled. An administration
thus beneficial to one state, rauff of
course have been eminently advantage
ous to the other dates.—ls it not then
foore than treason against the majesty
of heaven, that revilings, bitterness and
calumny against Washington and Ad
ams fhouldhave Rifled a generous love
to the instruments, and an affectionate
gratitude to the author of such diftm
guilhed blessings ?
Fourthly. Why did an oppoftion exif
against their adininifration ?
It trill be recollected by those who
recur to the adoptionofihe constitution,
that it met with a violent opposition in
the Rare conventions. This was par
ticularly the case in the larger states—
It was long doubtful how the queßidn
would be decided in Massachusetts, N.
York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.'ln
N. Carolina, N. Harripfhireand Rhode
}fland it was, at firft, rejected. Ver
mont was not then a member of the
anion, and Kentucky and Tennessee
have since been erected into Rates. In
Connecticut, New-Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, •South-Carolina, and Geor
gia it was speedily adopted. Connec
ticut, as was before remarked, cleaily
saw her future welfare in that conßitu
rion. She had fuffered enough from
her powerful neighbor-(lie wished such
security against bppreffive and partial
imposts, as She has since experienced.
Virginia, Pennsylvania and New,York,
on the contrary, felt this as a deadly
blow to their Rate pti<le—to their gi
gantic llrides at national zjgrandize
The war in Europe, which originated
in the French revolution, tended to aug
ment the opposition of Which I am speak
ing. France at ttiis period, broached a
let of new doftrines, on aimoft every fub
jeft. All the maxims in politics, morals
and religion which had been Sanctioned
by the wisdom of ages, were openly ex
ploded. The fafcinating theory that all
teftfaints upon the passions, and that gov
ernment itfelf, were curses, Wai advocat
ed. ft was proclaimed that a new era
bad begun, and the people of the United
States were kindly invited to assist french
men to effablilh a millenium, and partici
pate with them in its joy£ Sell govern
ment alone was enjoined, and weak and
wicked men were allured that they were
soon to be perfect and Godlike. It wasa
part of the fame fyffem to consider Great-
Britain as in hostility wUh the rest ot the
world, and that it was the duty of all na
tions to espouse the cause ofErauce against
this common enemy. Genet, aided by
many of our countrymen, was Spreading
this net of dettrudtion for us, by calling
to his ' aid the confederation that during
our revolution, his nation alJifled us.'—* —
Every engine was employed to excite rhe
passions of Americans to enter into tlis
dreadful coutroverfy. Aboyt this period
the famous resolutions of MG Madison,
which were always considered as the pro
duction in reality of Mr. Jefferfon, were
submitted to Congress. The obvious ten
dency of these was to draw defer the
bands between us and France, and to in
directly attack Great Britain.
Washington and his councils, saw, in
this enchanting fyllem—this fafcinating
French theory, nothing b, ririSchief. Ae
saw that, under the Specious garb of at.
tempting to ameliorate the condition of
• It will he noticed that this equal reprefentatiori
in the Senate cannot be altered though other amend
ments may he made. The writer is told that the
fmalt States are indebted for this proifon to the
late Mr. Sherman.
f Itftould be mentioned that this was before bis
father was made Collc&r oft be port of Neu Haven.
meat It was humiliating to the ancient
dominion to learn that Delaware was to
have an equal vote with her in one inipor
tant branch of the national Legislature.*
It is aifo obvious that the edablilhment
of the general government, mult of necef
tity, diminish the greatness and grandeur
of date officers. Abortion saw no charters
in this. Hence Mr. Jetferfon who bad
been governor of Virginia—Gov. Clinton
and Mr. Samuel Adams, were among its
oppofers. Tins was the fa& refpeCting
many other leading men in the Several
dates, and it is a truth which mult have
weight in this place that thole men, with
few exceptions, who opposed that consti
tution, have since been found in the ranks
of democracy.
When this government went into ope
ration, many great offices were to be be
llowed. Ambition here was on fire. The
venerable man who then presided filled
the offices, with lingular wisdom, but all
could not be gratified. Six Judges of the
Supreme Court were appointed—-How
many M'Keans thought themselves wor
thy candidates for these places ? Secreta
ries were appointed—How many Chan
cellor Livingstons aspired to that dignity ?
Mow many fought with anxiety to be At
tornies, Mar&lls, Collectors, &c. &c.
and how many were sorely disappointed ?
Perhaps fifty where one was gratified—
Here was an ample field opened for the.
operation of ambition ; not that am
bition which Drives to excel in doing
good—but an ambition fierce and cruel—
impatient of opposition. An ambition
Which is now labouring to deltroy the
reputation of Federalists in Connecticut—
which, since the apoftacy, has been un
ceasingly in'fliftiug misery on man—which
has gibbeted the fair fanie of Walling
ton ; and which has lately turned Europe
into one great Daughter house of human
victims.
The provisions of the national govern
ment were calculated to fofter commerce,
and particularly to augment American
Shipping; The extra duties wifely laid
on foreign bottoms, arid on goods impor
ted in them, among other measures, con
tributed greatly to this end. It was fore
seen that, without such duties, the Ships
ol other nations, would come to our ports
& transport our produce tc foreign mar
kets. These duties operated to prevent
this measure and to increase Ship building
—sthis to the norhern Rates was an object
of great importance. The fonthern Rates
saw, in th^, and other regulations, the en
creafing wealth bf New-England. Th^
was no consolation to them. Hence the
present Congress is attempting to repeal
those duties; The undeniable cbnfequence
of a repeal, will be, that other nations
will immediately commence carriers for
us—this will diminish essentially the
wealth of New-England, and this being
well underßood by our merchants, there
is but one opinion among them on the
fobje&.
It is forprifing that a Connecticut man
should have any doubts on this question ;
yet we find Abraham Bishop, who fur
nifhes many creeds for his party, though
not one of them has any confidence in his
integrity, published a treatife,f strongly
urging that all our ffiips ffiould be deftroy
ed,and other nations become our Carriers.
Such a treatise, one would apprehend,
would be as little reßfhed among the
New-England merchants and ship build
ers, as a rreatife in favor ot repealing the
tax on distilleries —.both are tfell adapted
to the climate of Virginia, where they
build no ships, but manufacture much
whi/ky. In New-England it is yet deem
ed more advantageous to morals and
health, and more conducive to prosperi
ty, to be celebrated for the number of
bift /hips, than the number of our difti!-
leries.
The funding system was a measure vio
lently opposed to the feelings of the mem
bers of Congress from the fouth. Though
the debt against the U. States, was incur
red for the general defence, arid therefore
a fair debt against the union, yet it was
principally owed in Pennsylvania, and the
Dates to the northward of her. It was
not pleating to those who did not own it
to contribute for its payment. PATRI
OTISM yielded to feltfhnefcin this instance
as it has Sometimes done in others.
Paris, Feb. 23.
THE Municipality or Orleans, the 17th
Jan. refolv'd to ereft a Ratue of Joan of
Arc, as a p rpetual monument of her de
fence of France against Englilh invafibn.
Bonaparte has thus lignified his approba
tion of the design, in his own hand, on the
margin of the refolutioq: “ Write to
Citizen Giignon Deformeaux, that that
resolution s highly agreeable to me. The
illuflrious Joan of Are evinced by her per
sonal coud ft, that there is nothing too
extraordinary to be atchteyed by the ge
nius of Frince, often its Rational Inde
pendence is in danger; The united en
ergies of the French nation never have
been conquered. But our neighbors, more
fhf ew'd in calculation, and with those of
the address of conn ng, abufiny the noble
franknefs of our character, have With con
tant rod ußry; town among us tholedif
fentions which have proved the sources of
every calamity recorded in our hißory."
0 •
LONDON, FEB, 2%.
Yesterday Col. Defpard and his as
sociates, were executed for High Trea
fa. lie horse-guards, and four regi
ments of troops, were assembled on the
occasion, to preserve order. 20,000
persons, at lead, were assembled. At
7 o'clock, in the morning, the prisoners
received the facramen^ excepting Def
pard, who refufed all the attentions of
the clerg. Soon after they were con
veyed on the hurdle to the place of ex
ecution, two and two, excepting Def
pard, who was carried alone. The
hurdle wa, the body of a small cart, on
which two trusses of clean draw were
laid. After they had arrived at the
fcaffold, their coffins were brought on,
and a bag of saw dull,to catch the blood,
when the heads were fevered from the
bodies, was placed beside them. The
block was near the fcaffold. Francis
Wood, and Brouhgton appeared very
composed ; the others much agitated,
excepting Col. Defpard who was dress
ed in boots, a dark brown coat, red
waistcoat—His hair was without pow
der. He looked at the assembled mul
titude with perfed calmness, and after
the halter was fixed on his neck, he ad
vanced as near as he could to the edge
of the fcaffold, and made the following
speech :—
"Fellow Citizens—! come here as you fee, after
having ferfed my country faithfully, honorably,
and ufefully in the field, for thirty years and
upwards, to Stiffer death upon the fcaffold for
crimes of which f protest I am not guilty. I
Solemnly declare that I am no more guilty ofit
than any of you who may he now hearing me.
But though his Majesty's Ministers know as
well as I do that I am not guilty, vet they avail
themfelvcs of a legal pretext to destroy a man
because he has been a friend to truth, to liberty,
and to justice. (There was a considerable clap
ping of hands, and huzza from part of the pop
ulace the nearest to him, but who, from the
height of the fcaffold from the ground, could
hot, we think, diflindly hear what was said.)
The Colonel proceeded :—“ Because he has
been a friend to the poor, and the oppressed
But, Citizens, I hope and trust, notwithstanding
my fate, and the fate of those who no doubt
will soon follow me, that the principles of free
dom, of humanity, and of justice, will finally
triumph over falfehdod, tyranny and dclufibh,
and every principle hostile to the interests of
tbe human face. And now having said this, I
have little more to add. (The Colonel's voice
seemed to faulted a little here.) He paused a
moment as if he meant to fay Something more,
but had forgotten if. He then concluded in
ths following manner: “ I have no more to
add, except to with you health, Bappinef, and
freedom, which I have endeavored, as far as was
in my power, to procure for you, and for man
kind in general."
1 he Colonel spoke firmly and audi
bly ; and no public expression of appro
bation or disapprobation, was given.
The executioners pulled the caps over
the faces of the unhappy persons, and
defeended the fcaffold. Mod of them
Exclaimed, "Lord 'Jefes receive oUrJcu/s."
At (even minutes before nine o'clock,
the Signal was given, the platform drop
ped, and they were all launched into
eternity. After hanging about half an
hour until they were quite dead, they
were cut down, and beheaded. The
executioner held each head by the hair,
arid exclaimed, " This is the bead of a
traitor." The execution was over at
ten o'clock ; and no disturbance what
ever took place. The whole formed
an interfiling and impressive Spectacle
to a British multitude. It was the
Criminal Taw of England taking its
most awful course in defence of the
mildest Constitution that the universe
can boast ! Some of the most Sanguina
ry forms on this dreadful otcafion were
dispensed with 'to abate the parade of
national vengeance ! Indeed, from the
apprehension to the exit of tnefe States
Malefactors, the whole was one digni
fied process of deliberative justice, tem
pered with the most indulgent humani
ty. The Surrounding people, in com
miferatk# of their Sufferings, did riot
seem to forget, that there was an ex
man, a wild and intemperate attache was
tirade, on the peace, order and happiness
of the world. Instead therefore ofliften
ing to the voice which endeavored to al
lure the United States into that terrible
vortex of French politics, he relifted eve
ry attempt to produce a partiality, for
either of the contending parties, anil es
tablished with thejirirted good faith, an
upright and dignified neutrality. Here
he incurred the keen refentinent of French
philosophers arid their dutiful disciples.
Hence we find that during the firtt tour
years of his Presidency, war was pro
claimed againtt him and his measures, in
a newfpapef printed by one Freneau,who
was then Secretary to Mr. Jefferfon.
(To th CONTINUED.)
FOREIGN ARTICLES:
By the late arrivals.
.On Wednesday last, he was seen pas
sing through this town, leading Miss
M'Dowel's horse, and enquired the
road to Tuikalora-Valley, in Mifflin
County. —o—
NEW-YORK, APRIL 1.
ABOUT NEW-ORLEANS
Nothing is more contagious than ex,
ample,—The " meek aid lo<wlj ftirit"
which influences the Executive in its
condua towards Spain, has infe&ed e
ven the armed force on the frontier;
and the pioheersot their country,whofe
swords Ought to leap from their scab
bards to resent its injuries, are now seen
to catch at every appearance, however
evanescent, to promote the reign of hu
mility. Even Gen. Wilkinson—whom
one would suppose would be trembling
ly alive to his country's honor; and
proud of an opportunity to Simulate
it to spirited meafures—a/Tumes the
dulcet note ; and with avidity dispat
ches an express to inform Governor
Claiborne, not that the SpaniPn govern
ment had restored the United States to
their rightby treaty ; but truly, " that
that government, has given premiffion
for the deposit of all kinds of provisions
in New-Orleans,on ,d,% 6 per cent du
ty ! ! !" And this information, fays the
able and indefatigable Editor of the
Evening Pvft " is introduced by the
words “ The port of Neac-Orleans' open,"
in large capitals, byway of eipreffing
exultations at this joyous event. With
Miss M'D twel's parents who about
three years agri removed from Montreal,
in Canada, to the State of Kentucky,
left her with, and under the care of her
aunt, who promised Ihe Ihould inherit
her estate. Some Chore time ago her
aunt died, and the young lady having
a wi(h to return to her parents,difoofed
of the property ffie became possessed of,
which amounted to the firm ofone\hou
fand one hundredand fifty-three guin -
eas. She then wrote to her father to
fend some person to escort her to his
place of residence, who readily compli
ed, by fending a young man whom
he had raised from a child and had his
confidence. Having commenced her
journey she travelled unmolcfed until
the evening abovementioned, about
one hour after dark ; her escort flop
ped her, where the road passed through
a thick woods, pulled her from the sad
dle, and putting a pistol to her bread,
declared he would take her life, and
then he would have her money—upon
her piteous appeal to spare her life; the
pistol fell from his hand—but he pick
ed up a rough Rick and forced it in
her mouth for a gag, and tied it behind
her head with his hat band, he then
dragged her some distance in the thick
et and dripped her quite naked, tied
her hands behind her back with her
garter, and with a cord tied around the
waist to a fappling, and then rode off.
In this painful tituation she remain
ed a great, part of the night, and mud
have periled had not her exertions and
wreathing to keep herfelf from freezing
broke the cord—before the morning o
pened, she found her way to a house
which was inclofed with a fence that
ffie could not climb over, nor open by
season that her hands were tied behind
her back, and could not call on account
of the gag. She remained by thefence
until the family arose and gave their
assistance.
The clergyman of the prison had Sev
eral times made overtures to the Colo
nel to commune with him ; but he al
ways politely declined. - He said he had
been in all parts of the world, and was
not particularly attached to any form
df religion, and that his mind was en
tirely made up upon religi us matters.
Col. D. Slept from 3 to half pad 4 on
the morning of his execution ; and the
residue of the time he spent in walking
up and down his cell.
March 5. The Hercules, of 74 grins,
has failed from Portsmouth, with seal
ed orders, supposed for the A r eft- Indies.
BY MAII„
PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 4.
IN the American Daily Advertiser of
Thursday lad, we republished, from
the Gazette of the United States, an
intdreding account of a most attrocious
robbery. In the Huntington Gazette
of the 28th ult we find the following
additional information 1
emplaf, atonement due to the most sa
cred Laws of their Country, which had
been so desperately violated by these
unhappy men I
On the afternoon previous to the et
ecution, Mrs. Defpard had a parting
interview with her husband. The feene
that ensued was tender and affecting ;
but even at that trying moment the
Colonel betrayed nothing like unbe
coming weakness. A lady who was
present was overcome by the afflicting
feene, and wept bitterly. He gently
reproached her for thus fuffering her
feelings to overcome her fortitude, and
endeavored to calm her emotion. Af
ter his wife had withdrawn the Colonel
took a thort Sleep ; when he awoke he
addressed one of the officers of the pris
on in these words :—“ Me—they Shall
receive no information from me— no —
not for all the gifts, the gold, and jew
els, in the possession of the crown." —
He then composed himfelf and remain
ed fileht.
• By dispatches from government this day,
three chips.out of the prefect squadron are •<•
dered to repair without delay to the United
States; iu order,t we suppose, to be held in
readiness to tuftrin a war with the republic of
France—who, it is said, have announced a dis
position to that effect The enipcror of Mo
rocco ftili seems to be duT.itisGed, and by hi,
conduct evinces a difyoOtiop to be engaged in
a war with us, anti I am perfumed when the
term of 6 months peace, concluded by a tempo
rary treaty with him, expires, that he will put
his design in execution : particularly when he
finds our nival force here is so much impaired
as it is, by being deprived of three of the bed
^hips, to wit, the Conftellajion, the Chesapeake,
and the Adams; leaving the New-fork, this
the lebooncr Experiment, to encounter all dif
ficulties. The fubjed of conversation at Gbi«
raker ;is, a renewal 01 hottihres between
France and England about the l£[and ,f Malta."
fettacQ—Crt
It is of importance to tie known, tkl
rclcif may be expected to navigators
(hip wrecked on a defeat coast, by means
of eqeloting an at count of their case in
a beetle well corked, and commuted to
the :waves. A letter put in a bottle,
and thrown overboard at the entrance
ofthe Bay ofßifcay,was,in nine months
taken upon the coast of Normandy.
Another, abandoned to the waves at
42 degrees of lat. east of the Meridian
of Teneriffe, travelled 120 leagues in
three weeks, and was taken upon the
flrand at Cape Prior., It was addreffr
ed to M. Bernardin De St. Pierre, and
w^s immediately forwarded to him by
the French Vice Consul at Ferrol, A
third tfaverfed upwards of 900 l ea g'?
in a direct line, and landed at the Cape
of Good Hope, contained an oiled let,
ter, which was font to the Governor of
the lib of France.
0
Accounts from Albany Rate, that:
the aft to prevent Duelling, was agreed
to on Thursday, after considerable de
bate. It was referred to a committee
to correct verbal errors, and report it;
complete, The bill &,$, That an,
citizen of this fate, who shall hereafter
give or accept a challenge to fight a
duel or shall a&ually fight a duel al
though no death ensue, and the second
or seconds of every perlon offending in
the premises ihall be deemed and ta
ken to be guilty of a high misdemeanor
agaml the people of this state ; and on
conviction thereof before the Supreme
Court, of any court of over and termin*
er, (hall, for the space of io years there
after, be disqualified from holding any
office of honour, profit or confidence
or from voting at any election within
th'isftate. —
BOSTON APRL, 12.
From the returns already made our leaders
can judge of the general course and termination
of our elections. They offer the best commen
tary upon the principles of the paQfaJminiftr?,
tiono ; they oifcourfe powerfully upon the mea
sures of the present. . In New-Hampffiire the
cteaions wear a similar afpc&, and Conne&i
cut, we doubt not, will come put again like
gold tried in the furnace. For two years has
New England been plied with all the arts of
democracy, with all the reductions of a corrupt?
system of executive influence ; but as yet ths
great mass of talents and virtue remains incor
rupt. During thtoperiod great changes h#vg
been made in the officers of government, for the
purpose of gratifying its partisans, quickening
their zeal, and increafrg their number. The
meafurp of the administration havebeen levell
ed at those passions, which.democracy firft in
flames to use as the inftrumeng of tyranny af
terwards. But the people of New-England ar;
not so easily duped or so fhorrfighted as the
Virginia politicians expeded. In the repeal of
the judiciaey, in with-holding the commissions
of Ray, Green and William Marbury, they es
timate the value of profeffions of regard to th,
constitution. In the Jaft cafe,it has been solemn,
ly decided, in the Supreme Ceurt, that Mr,
Jefferfon, the idol of democracy, the friend of
the people,, has trampled Upon the charter of
their liberties. These are plain cases, upon
which men of common sense can judge, and
that judgment they can express by their voter.
They cannot fee how a government can be
strong without force, or fife without protection.
It is hard for them to comprehend how a sense
of national honor, which is both wealth and f<-
curity,can bepreferved by tameness under insults
and injuries ; or in what manner, without it, an
infiduous and ambitious enemy can be refiftel
To purchase the forbearance of foes is the old
road tc ruin. It is the economy which foroe men
pradife to avoid a small evil by running into 1
greater. It is feeding a monfler whose appr
what propriety we can rejoice at it, V1
confefs ourselves at a loss to difeoven
The treaty between us and Spain dm-
Elates that “ His Catholic Majesty
will permit the citizens of the Uniced
States to deposit their merchandizes
and efeds in the port of New-Orleans,
and to export them from thence ^iti
eat paying any otto duty tear a fair price
for the hire of tie seres." —His Majesty
however,,by his proper agent, has feet
fit to violate this treaty, and deprive Vs
of the priveledge of deposit altogether
for about five months, to the loss of
some millions of property. But, now
having answered his purpose, having
made a few dollars at our expenceQ
and having cuffed and kicked us for a
little temporary amusement, His Mu
jelly's Minister has at lad, forfooth,
condefeending to open the port to us not
indeed so tar as to permit us to land
and to export, nor, according to the
terms of the treaty on our merely pay.
ing “ a fair price for the hire of the
Dores," but he permits us to carry pro
vision to his own market for his own
conveneience, on our paying a duty of
fix per cent and this is a great and
mighty cause of triumph throughout
the U. S." —o
NEW YORK, APRIL ~
Extract of a letter from on board tie United Stete,
J^P J°°" Adams, at Malaga, dated tie lit,
Dumber, 1802.
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