The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE:.

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It pleas t,, lively, bustling, two-act farce entitled
`,`:(.4ecl up,!', was, produced at this. theatre :list. evel
fling. The • hero, Sir Charles -Coldstream .(Mr. C.
Mathews)" is a gentleman of 12,000/. a 'year, who
• having tried e.iiely pbasure, is of opinion `with Solo-
r man "r that eery thing is unity:', lie is. dying' of
, ennui, and, to. use his _own.. expression, having begun
life_ at •ldy he. finds .that, at, 33, he is completely
" used up." • He determines to make an offer
to the first 'Woman he meets,' and accordingly
proposes , to, :Lady- Clutterinic, ci-decant Mrs.
Ironbrace, a lady in her second widowhood, and
is., accepted. The lady's first husband, Ironbrace,
whom she had thought dead, happens, at that mo,
ment; to be engaged in the capacity of a blacksmith,
in doing some, repairs to Sir Charles's ' hon Se. Hp
sees his , wik---accuses the Baronet Of attempting to
seduce her. Sir Charles threatens. to throw him out
•of the window, which Opens. upon• the Thames
--:•-they struggle,' and both roll out together.
In the `neXt act we find Sir Charles living
with Farmer `next;
(Mr. James 'Bland) as a
farm servant.. Believing himself to have murdered
Ironbrace, he has assumed this disguise; to escape the
pursuit of justice; the only person aware of his
real rank 'being his foSter sister Mary (Miss Julia
BOnett).the farmer'S niece. Ironbrace, who fancies
that. •he • has murdered Sir Charles, has also
sought refuge at the same farm. • The farmer
himself- being his confidant. A series of amusing
scenes ensue, until at length allis exclaimed, and Sir
Charles,
.'effectUally cured of ennui,
,marries Mary.
The acting Of Charles Mathews was excellent ; he
kept the house in a continual- roar, and at the con-
clusion announced the- piece for "repetiqon, amidst
loud applause. This is an excellent farce. The in-
cidents follew one another in rapid Succession, and
the dialogue is smartly written. • The house was
crowded.

-The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting
yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-place. The
Commissioneri present were the Archbishop of Canterbury,
ithe Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester; the Bishop
ollichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Salisbury,
the Chancellor of the _Exchequer; and -the Dean of -•
•
West-
minster.

Le. Cominandeur Marques Lisboa, Brazilian- Minister,
transacted buaineas yoterday at the Foreign-office.
• •

Our Dublin,. Correspondent,gives the following
outline of the prOceedings in the --Co3irt of Queen's
Bench:on l<onday :

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The knowledge of the fact•t•that Mr. O'CONNELL
• r • • .
was to' address the Court to-day, dreW a larger con-
oourse than usual. of all classes to the neighbourhood
of the Courts this morning: At an early hour the
Queen's BenclA:Vc7as tsronged in every, part, a great
portion of the' auditors consisting .of fashionably-
ckesit34.l4diP§ Ailaximbqrs, of 4w...m..4.4l§tinguisbcd
families inthis country. • ,

"At a few minutes—after:tett -61e/eek,- Mr. O'CoN-
NELL,_ ,who was.._ not habited..in—wig and gown
as on" the . - preceding days of the trial, com-
menced..., his ~ will:11;6s —tn the Court and jury,
by saying- that he 'felt some. diffidence in addressing
the JUry;j4 for his' own sake, but when he reflected
how important was the cause. he had: to plead, and
how numerous were' his 'clients.- He' had seven milk
, lions:.of. Clients=the'Whc;le Irish people---and he was
afraid that their case' might in any - respect be
injured_ 'by: the iilcdtppetenq:'.cif _ his 'advocacy.
He was, not there. to ,palliate or • mitigate anything
he- had ever said:. He would reiterate, in the pre-
sence sif tlie:COiiii anti, jury, every p'rOtefstittiO'n lie
had ever-made against•the union—for that union had
been ' carried,: be repeated, by the most-nefarious
1 agency, -and had been designed in fraud and a feeling
of-envy—as had often' loten'said by one who had long
...
. ornamented . that Bench (Chief JUstice BusuE)-7-a
feeling of envy of the -growing • prosperity of Ire-
lan4; _ . With - respect 'to this prosecution'. for
conspiracy, •it , - was the most preposterous
proceeding that had ever yet been- instituted. ' He
had looked into. the dictionary, and. he. fpund the
meaning of the -word conspiracy -was a 'private or
secret -.pgreeMent Among, various' parties, too—eomMit
crime. • He-asked, the jury, then, as consisting of men
of honesty and intelligence, what evidence had been
adduced to them of any such agreementin the pre-
sent case ? Had it - been proved • that there
was any secret egreernent between ' the parties
indicted in the present instance ; and, even if
had been proved, had it been shown that he was pre-
sent when that agreement had .been . entered into ?
No such thing. At least this might give him the
benefit of 'an alibi. '

The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then alluded to
the Anti-Corn-law League, and ridiculed the idea of its
being denominated a conspiracy. Yet the organisation
of the League differed in little from that of the Re-
peal Association. Could a jury be found in England
that would convict the League of a conspiracy, if it
were possible to suppose that such a charge would' be
preferred against that body ? Then there was the Anti-
Slavery Society—would that be termed a conspiracy ?
That body received- money both from home and
"abroad; its members held their private and their
public meetings, and yet it was,never thought of call•
ing 'the body a set of conspirators.
With respect to the constitution of the jury, he
stinted that in England no twelve men would be put
as a jury into a box to try men from whom,
according to the principles on which they were edu-
cated, they differed so widely in opinion. He then
alluded to the peaceable character of the meetings ;
and with respect
,to the charge
_of intimidation.which
had been brought against them, he said this Go-
vernment, who had all the gentry, the magis-
tracy, and the clergy of the Established
Church attached to them, could have ascertained
whether the charge was founded in truth or not. But
not one witness had been called to prove that -any-
thing like intimidation had been used at those meet-
ings ; and why ? Because no one could conscientiously
swear that intimidation had been used. He pointed
out• that eight years ago, when illegal combination
was attempted to be established among the trades
unions .of Dublin, he was the person who' put a
stop to it. , Would he have done so if he 'was 04e

who was justly liable to the charge of conspiracy ?
Allusion had been made by the Attorney-General to
the conduct of the men of 1798, and it was sought
to fix upon him the charge to which they were
ameriable—that of desiring French sympathy and
French aid. Had he acted as one who had desired
either ? Had he not rejected the proffered assist-
ance of the French party, at the head of which was
M. LEDRU ROLLIN. ' He flung back with indignation
and contempt the charge which the Attorney-General,
in his opening address, had sought to fasten upon him
of speaking disrespectfully of the QUEEN.--Iledenied
it. The-charge was false. he Hen..and 'Learned
Gentleman Then- proceeded at much length'to
monstrate that the English Government had, from
the commencement of its connexion with Ireland,
governed this country with the most narrow jealousy,
and he adverted,par parenthese, in proof of his position,
to the history of the 'woollen trade of Ireland—
that the transactions of 1782 were intended to be
a final adjustment of the condition of the Irish Par-
liament, which it was then agreed should be estab-
lished as an independent Xarliament• for ever— -that
the greatest prosperity of the country followed from
the establishment of an independent Parliament—that
the union was forced upon the • Irish people, against
their consent, and by the most corrupt and
fraudulent means—that the poverty under which
Ireland is now suffering is the result of the union, and
that the only remedy for Ireland's
`grievances, and
the only means of preventing, the ultimate separation
of the two countries, was the repeal of the union. In
the course of his observations he quoted,AUGUSTIN
THIERRY, Mr. PITT, Primate BOLTON, Chief Justice
BUSHE, and several other writers and speaker, in
support of his position. He also entered, at length
into , statistical details to ' show how prostrated
were the . energies . of the Irish people,
and how ruinous were the effects of the union upon
the
,manufacturing industry of this country. He
then read in full several of the documents issued by
the'Repeal Aoociation, and which had been read in
part and produced in evidence by the Attorney-Ge-
neral, and he contended that those very documents
constituted his kest defence. He cited LOcTiE, Lord
GREY, BUSHE, SAURIN, 'PLUNKETT, &C., in support of
the doctrines which he had propounded as a Repealer.
In . a nation like the British empire, where Parlia-
ment had so often changed the succession -to the
throne, was he to be told that he would not be alloWed
to discuss a question like the repeal of the union ?
There might be error, but there could not he
crime in discussing the question, ' He again re-
verted to the present state of Ireland, and' com-
pared, it" to that of the country in the middle
of the last century when ARTHUR YOUNG visited it
The people,; 'then',' according ,to that writer, had
each." a' belly full of potatoes " to eat when hungry ;
but now, iccording to the report of' Captain LAu-
,cost, 30 .i3er'cent. of the town and 'city population,
and 70 per cent. of .the agricultural population were
in a state of the,' most
,abject poverty. Were, then,
those who Sought to remedy that dreadful state
of things to be 'branded as conspirators, and those
Who 'sat, undisturbed in the enjoyment of the emolu-
ments and honours of place, to be lauded,- when they
'assailed those who endeavoured to remedy such evils?
The Hon. Gentleman concluded by glorying. in his
attempts-,' whether successful -or otherwise,' to benefit
his native country. ,
At the conclusion of Mr. O'CoNNELL's • speech
the CHIEF JUSTICE inquired if the travolsets were
going into evidence, and being. informed by Mr.
Mbonc and Mr. HATCHELL that the witnesses could
nO(be'eonveniently produced this eyening, the Court
adjourned until the usual hour to-morrow morning.

'' It- is now 'generally admitted, that the Govern-
ment has totally failed in establishing the.shidew of
a tease against Mr. O'CoNNELL• and the other tra-
verserp-; it is allowed, on all hands; that not a parti-
cle of evidence. has been adduced, from which a con-
spiracy can be inferred,' an illegal intent presumed, or
an overt act either a conspiracy or, unlawful in-
tendment—established : and yet, nobody presumes to
guesi, with anything like certainty, what the next
Government move is to be, either in the event of a
conviction; in the procurement of which evidence
has no concern ; of an acquittal, which the
evidence given ought clearly to cause; or of•no
verdict at all, to which the general opinion, at this
moment; seems to lean. ,

Suppose O'CONNELL convicted; what then ? What
earthly creature, save a Government creature, will
attach the smallest importande to such a eonsumtna-
tiOii. of fraild; of 'intolerance, of •011icial and judield
knavery-.?- Suppose him acquitted, -what then? - Does
any human being, save the Tory and renegade, GRA:-
kum,clique, thinkthat ,the.:acquittal. of O'CON NELL
is other-than the mere-deali,ng out of barren jitsti4
to, him ? And suppose, that the jury do not 'agree
upon a verdict, what then ? Is% •there a;'man wi;
' Will not believe tlpt, honest although The jury may
,be,. there are men among them who wish taa.save the
Government from that defeat 'which a direct acquittal
might be thought to inflict ? -' . -
Let what will happen, the Government of Sir
ROBERT is darnaged beyond ye-.
demptionPbYlheint..esiurle4
tiaonfthe trial. Cominenced in
anger, carried on' with hatred and malice; ridieu-
_ lausly imbecile in all its progress,--the , only remetn;
brance in after times of the Irish State, trials •of
1g44 will be of a Government. powerless :to prevent,
eager to punish, and-yet without, -the ability either of
inflicting-effectual- punishment or of 'procuring thb
means by_Whioh tliii.eXid might have _been attained.
Without a single individual, from the Attorney-Ge-
neral doiVnwardS nnnipetent toset`the legal machine
.in. motion, .to direct its movements, ..or to bring
any —lawful end, 'the enginb
of.
. rolling gbOut, totally misguided,
thoiseiii movements
without direction. Such a getting up of a case,
lawyers
,never yet saw:; such 4. conduct of 'a case,
heaven grant no -lawyer may again witness;-wand
Irish
law has
been.
to n
from -Crown Solicitors and :Attorney-Generals such
a; Ireland L 5 now blessfd with, there is not a man in
that country; who does'not heartily pray- to be deli-
.
ver,ed. . i
Melancholy, indeed, is it to witness the destiny- of
a great nation confided 'to inAtrumenta so -utterly
incompetent. Melancholy. is it, to. witness, the play-
ing witlrthe welfare -and well-being of a great enttn-
try, iorely.to• otify Ole vanity -and the self-Pride• of
it GRAHAM, a STANLEY, or any other renegade of such
a school as that to which they belong. Melancholy is it
to witness the speet4cle of two entire terms Consumed in
a•vain and hopeless- prosecution of the man who has
been to Ireland, and accomplished fin:lreland, more
than man could have hoped, and achieved more than
any other man for her liberties, her rights; and het
privileges. To witness• the whole• legal business of ft
nation suspended, that an illegal- attempt might he
made, to crush by the name, but not by the spirit, Of
the law, the right inherent in every man of England,
Sccitland, or Ireland, to discuss his grievances, and,
by peaceable. means, .to seek for their redress ! , t
Is Sir Ronawr PEEL prepared to• enact the part of
liacumin the Tatar,- in our times ? Is he prepared
having gained the Government by deception; by base
truckling to the prejudices of all parties, to the worst
passions of bigots and monopolists, in all the three
countries—to support the power -he has gained by .
force dams and of violence ? floes he adopt the
sentiment ? • -

"Thrones that are won by blood, by blood must ide
maintained." And is he prepared to carry this doc•
trine out in all his relations ? If so, he will find his
field of Bosworth sooner than he, may calculate.

The Paris papers are almost entirely filled with the
report of the debates in the British Parliament on the
QUEEN'S Speech. Most of theni comment on the speeches
made by Sir R. PEEL and Lord BROUGHAM, and in
general regard the opinions expressed' in both Houses as
of a friendly character towards France. The National
of course forms an exception.
The funeral • of General BERTRAND took place last
week at Chateauroux. The whole garrison was under
arms. The pall was borne by the Prefect of the Indre,
by Generals GuEHENEc and DE BRINY, commandant of
the department, and by the' Mayor of Chateattrottk.
The funds slightly improved on,Monday. The Three
per Cents.' closed at 81f. 90 c., and the Fives at
124 f. 90c.

.
owmg to press of matter we are compelled to post-
pone our remarks on Mr. O'Connell's excellent speech,
and, in the meantime, call the attention of our readers
to the arguments urged with such effect in his defence.
WILL OF THE'
LATE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met this
morning to hear
an appeal b
claiming as .a legatee under ytheßight Hp. J. Croker,
a codicil of the late Mar;
qnis of Hertford. The Solicitor-General. appeared on

the part of jhe light Hon. Gentleman. Lords
Brougham, Denman, Atinger, and Campbell, Chief
Justice Tindal, &c., were present.

OVERLAND MAIL

INDIA AND CHINA.

The accounts brought by this mail from India and
China are very satisfactory. The affairs of Gwalior
have been -settled. without shedding a drop of bloOd.
The Governor-General reached Agra on the 11th of De- •
eember, and was making arrangements for marching
the army of exercise, under Sir Hugh Gough, into the
country ; but its services were not required,. . The,
a)!thorities, on finding that they had no chance of re-
,
sisting such an overpowering force, held a council of
war, which was attended by the principal officers and
leading men of the country and after a short delibera-
tion resolved to give up the Minister Rhasgetwalla,
who was regarded as the prime mover in the late de-
monstrations against British authority in Oat quarter.
lie was immediately sent off prisoner under an escort of
fifty men to Agra. The young Baja, who was considered
the rightful heir to the throne, took refuge in the British
camp, and in due time was to be regularly installed
as Sovereign. Lord Ellenborough was to proceed to
Gwalior, accompanied by the young Prince, but no par-
ticulars had transpired as to his ultimate plans. That
district, however, is now entirely under British dominion.
Affairs remained nearly in the same state at Lahore,
but preparations were made for resistance in case an
attack should be made on the Sikhs by the British
troops on the other side of the Sutlej. Sinde was per-
fectly tranquil. Sickness still prevailed to a consider-
able extent. A number of medical officers had been
dispatched from Bombay to attend the sick, and hopes
were entertained that the malady was only temporary.
Sir Charles Napier was in good health. At Sukkur, the'
sickness was rapidly diminishing. From China the in-
telligence is favourable. The supplem•mtary treaty,
by Sir Henry Pottinger and the Chinese Commissioner,
would, be forthwith signed by the Emperor without
waiting for the signature of the Queen of England.
The sickness at Hong-King had abated, but we regret
to state that Major Pottinger, Colonel Knowles, and two
surgeons had. been carried off. by it. •
GWALIOR—THE ARMY OF EXERCISE. •
( From the Agra Ukbar of Dec. 23.)

Out accounts from the army of the Chumbul (we do not admire
the title of Exercise, and purpose to exclude it henceforth) are
somewhat meagre, though as yet we can hardly expect any one to
see beyond his nose. As stated in our overland issue, the surrender
of the Khasgeewalla is an important feature in the negotiations
with .Gwalior, as removing one great impediment to the settlement
of affairs ; the effect is the submission of the Bace and the Durpar,
who have agreed to the terms imposed, but confess their inability
to disband the troops, for which purpose, therefore, the army con.
tinues to advance. The Govcrnor.General and Commander.in.
Chief arrived at Dholpore on the 19th, and orders were issued for
the advance of the army in the following order

The vanguard, under the command of Major-General Valiant,
K. -1., consisting of three troops Horse Artillery,. No. 17. Light
Field Battery, the 3d Brigade of Cavalry, and 3d Brigade of In.
fantry, to cross on the morning of the -22 d. On the 23d the
Commander-in-Chief's camp, No 10 Light. Field Battery, and 4th
Brigade of Infantry. On the 24th the sth Brigade of Infantry,
with:a portion of the. Artillery, and Engineer park—on the 25th,
the 6th Brigade of Infantry, and remaining portions of Artillery,
and Engineer park.
The Governor-General would cross either on the 23d or 24th,
after sending off dispatches by express. The ford, over which the
army will pass, is only three feet three inches deep, with good firm
footing, so that there will be no trouble in crossing the army ;
the advance column would halt on the right bank until the whole
had crossed over, when the army would move on to a place called
Hinganna, where it is expected that the Baee and Durbar would
meet the Governor-General to tender their submission, when, no
doubt, a proclamation will be issued, calling on the soldiers of the
Gwalior Raj to submit, under pain of being treated as rebels.
The report current in camp as to the future arrangement of the
force at Gwalior is, that a 2d contingent will be brigaded under
Brigadier Stacey, and the Sipporee contingent increased, so as to
have two separate bodies of 6,000 men in each of all arms—but
this .is mere rumour.

The army was encamped at Dholpore, on a splendid plain, on
which 'an army of fifty thousand men could have manceuvered with
ease. The Rana of Dholpore, not to be outdone by so insignificant
a force as the army of the Chumbul, sent some of his tag-rag-and-
bobtail, with a couple of old guns, one iron and the other brass (to
show that he possessed both kinds of metal), to swell its numbers,
to do honour to the Governor-General, and to protect the English
Artillery during the night, in case some secret enemy should steal
on it unobserved and annihilate it.

They were talking in camp of the probable time they would be
back at Agra, and what was to be done after, whether to remove
to the Sutlej, or settle down again quietly. Whispers were current
,that the former was the more likely move; and words falling by
accident from the lips of authority, were greedily ricked up and
speculated on. This is all pleasant enough in .camp, where the
smallest hint serves for an exciting discourse at, the mess table.
Among other sayings which had been discussed, was one of a rather
peculiar nature, as connected with the Punjaub, but which may
be taken in a double sense " there is plenty of time to look after
the Punjaub." This may mean, let us first settle this affair, and
then we can mind the other ; or it may mean that the Punjaub
pear is not ripe enough yet, and therefore there is plenty of time to
think of it. Be it as it may, the opinions of many are decided that
some interference with the Punjaub is_contemplated in high quar-
ters—and there the matter may rest in the mean time.

The following is another account, and furnishes intel-
ligence fronißombay to the Ist of January: The army
of exercise has been successful without firing a shot

A very large demonstration has been made before a very small
foe, and the, latter; seeing resistance useless, has wisely given in.
The movement on Gwalior was made from three directions—the
main body of the army of exercise marching from Gwalior, and the
left wing f%om Kooneh in Bundelkund ; while a etrong force, con-
sisting of Madras troops, moved up from Ellichpore‘ The place of
rendezvous of the latter was fixed at Bdlapoor, and there the troops
accordingly assembled, on the 20th of November, under the cons.
mand Cif Brigadier Bagnold, of the Arunzabad division. No soberer,
fitwevtr, had they all collected, than an order arrived for their re.
turri,e and the regiments at once retrograded to the different stations,
EllichpOre, 'Neetnuoh, Jalnah, &c., from which they haettreen
drawn. The cause of the sudden dissolution of the force is under
todd toltare beetx ttinteceSpl'Or Intelligente of a'fatroutagte•nature
in regard to the state of affairs in• Gwalior.

The ism*" Wati favourable to the party-w-ho. had espoused the
British interest; and the-attempt made by that other aide to regaid
Possession of the•usurping, minister, Dada Khasgeewalla, signally
failed. • Soon after the struggle, BaponSeetooleah-,-the.leader of the
successful party, prevailed on the Baee to consent to the dismissal
of a number of Khasgee's creatures; whom 'she= -had kept about her
person ; and also to give up Dada himself to the British •authori-
• ties. He succeeded, likewise, in getting himself appointed to the
full.charge of the Government. •An attempt war now made to send
the-prisoner to Agra; but it failed, owing to the -opposition -of
some of the Sirdars and troops.- Efforts were used to procure the
• sanetion• --of • the -British - authorities •-to •-his.-confirnmerit -as a
state prisoner within -the Gwalier -Raj; 'but these were
'• equally unsuccessful. No plasPeCt -being apparent or a- pa'.
ocifie adjustment • -of differences, -the warlike party again ob.
lained ascendancy in the Councils-, of the State, and soh*
very vigorous preparations for hostilities. were -entered into. Our
-Government appears-all along to- - have- acted with becoming-firm.
• ness; and to-hate determined upon obtaining-entire acquiescence
in all- -its demands,• without the slightest limitationi•-2- The • Gwallor
durbar, unanimous in-nothing but dissimulation ;Old intrigue, et.
• hibited constant vacillation, and was valiant -or- submissive by Ma
and'starts, according as the warlike or pacific party happened to he
uppermost. • . About the Bth of Deeensber,however, it -was prettS,
generally determined that the Army- of Exercise'sbould be opposed,
arid Seetooleah,s intentional absence from the durbar seemed to be
a signalfor active measures of preparation. The arrangements Tor
defence were discutsed,and conclUded, and letters were sent to ttie
• chiefs --of- Boondela and ..the Prince of ItAiwarre, craving assist.
ance in repelling the British. Bapoo Seetooleah, desirous of sparing
• useless effusioniof blood; endeavoured-resecond time to send off the
Khasgeewalla, and a second time failed, owing, as it afterwards ap-
• peared, to his custodians having been bribed by the Brice. It thus
appeared evident that hostilities must-ensue.

Lord Ellenborough arrived at Agra from Calcutta .on the 1 lth
' December, and • the army being.- in readiness to move, the 'first
brigade, under Generil Valiant, of. her Majesty's 40th, marched the
next day towards. Dholpore. On the 13th, 14th, and 15th, the
rest followed. The• left wing. also ornarched, from Jhaussee ; ant
about the 16th, intelligence ..reached. Gwalior of its arrival it
Chaudpore Soonharee, while the .main body had appeared on the
bank of the Chumbul. The courage of the adverse party at
Gwalior now ocaed,out at their . fingers' ends ; the Baee, whole
worthy valour had shamed the .most accomplished of Scindi ah?s
warriors, became gentle and pcace.loving, and at length the great
" bone of contention.," if I may use so irreverent an expression,
Dada Khasgee, was marched ofEto Dholpore, under an escort of
fifty troopers. Here. General Valiant's brigade found him. on the
17th, and he was immediately sent to the Governor. General's_
(for his Lordship's inspection, .1. presume}, And thence.to Agri,
where he is now confined.: Lord Ellenborough is.to go on to
G.valior. The expense of this force will be.defrayed from the
revenues of territory to be ceded to us !or the purpose. • Mania,
Sahib is to be restored to the office of blinister,.and the cost of the
_ _

" Army of Exercise" is to be paid ,by the Gwalior Government.
No resistance is expected to the entry of our troops,'•
The whole of the army at present halt& at Dholpore, The siege
train returned to Agra..

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