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do not . knysr .'frith what tensphiPAM
(4,,,dry at large at RI -receive the' intelligence of:
wither Adjuurnment, 60 how long it nil! patiently'
„route an usurpation, as ttietwecefultu the character
Of the nation, as it ia mimeses *ea jet iverest,,.—e, is
ihificult to calculate uo these*, of forbearance,'
shoe the spirit of resistasimioemps to have been
ion out, and totally aityaed lty a series of opines.
aeons shich habit has rendered familiar a miser. ,
ewe selfishness, the joint production of avarice andl
of penury, have rendered. men insensible to the
hi.ther duties of the citizen, and the mind has been
totes, debased by au Inordieette thirst of gain, than
the pressure 'Ur taxes, width have filched from
it,,,..!5t industry .the means of
,subsistence. It is
„iir,:ely possible' that the spirit of patriotism can i
eti,t whero public virtu is scouted, as it were by
scslataation, . and the terriers or the law are em.
?toyed to hunt and' worry it wherever it appears.
tiafeili Sir, it is sufficiently distressing tQ ho
el with subjitgatiae by a [beefy Despot, with very
inadequate Means of resistance, without being in
raised by a pitiful domestic tyranny in advance, u
g it were the object uttltlolettieefengled Oligarchy
to prepare us for The yoke, and. deliver us. bound
tad sad foot, to the Sisteitigt,. Pied for the uses to
'white would put beats rip....making us first riser.
tient to that of their own.:—Sir, I beg you to take
&fact as it is—l hope thd'peuple, awakened to a
pm of else ewes, and Waits they have long en.
isree, Kill look at it as it is, and act as their
forefathers would have done nutter similar cireum.
owes. ThOliing is declared to be incapable of
ijoilis to Parliament, or attending to any public
4404ratiuts was made kuown to the
country on the Ist of last month j it was repeated
41 the lids; (a- itµ again di:e1:44..04 the 2iith
ult.—lt is foreienAu the purpose to eplquire bow
long his Majesty bud lees in this deplorable copal.
lieu PREVIOUS to its public avowal on the Ist Of
Ameba ; and aar-little to the purpOsell it to
asuac ourselves mitts.*l4olealde duration of the
iiiicate which inespatillient the ilovestagn for the
dutirs of kis. isiols *gas:. .
The iiplaion of Meitital Men, independent of its
hing liable to error, as opinion ever must be, is
liable to be iiidueoosd but upon whatever
round thew Gentlemen spay have formed them
tweicctures, it is nos boconjectures that the peas
plc of these kiegiloms, and their representative", are
to be 'everted, on an occasion of such importance!
ta the vital interests of the tomtit?. Mr. Peace:
vAL iodirer.tly admits the Ari‘l4/ 4f this doctrine,
gratcli 1".114.21 ._14.41ta *eV feet
looana to take Yarliamentary eippurei to supply
the deftLiency in the Executive Government!, IF,
ft the termination of the adjournment be propelled,
to reasonable hope should appear of his MAJESTY
bag LIKELY to recover! The mut offensive
part of this affected cundisoension, is the cant sisal
the quibble with which Wendt. The Evangelists
may probably have fernished Mr. PERCILTAL with
the one, and his knowledge of the statutes with
the other; 'but this Gentleman, versed as be may
lst :bw,o legal'cahl literature, ought e,
agro h grounded
notnded tar obi s i ee
tmayad
be
iat
this period of his life, and in the situation into
which he has wriggled himself, that the preserve.
lion of the Constitution must not be a coutingen'cy
01 th.: suspicious opinion of Medical Men, or on
the full and change of the mop. It is, however,
worthy of remark, that with all the validity he
larc to the Physician's report before the packed
Jury ()this own chusing, he peremptorily objected
to their being °strained at the bar of the !louse of
Cumnonss as Mr. Turamzir and Xstssr,te
Tchrom proposed. AU this may him. him .pol'w
fixity excusable in Mr. PCICIVIAL, but what'ssio
veto think of the integrity of those who supported
hits in resisting so equitable a proposition? In the
neat of a general election, it is to be hoped that
lie people, taught by experience, will be more cir,-
(utui,tect in their choice of representitives. Bet
%MIMI to the questkm. To the well-ascertained
fill, stripped of Ministerial trick avid duplicity,
of the Throne being vacant, it Mioisters had re.:
teeteJ the Constitution as. sincerely 'as they pre.
tend to understand it,. they woukl have felt it to be
sir duty, in the first instance, to communicant
disastrous state of his bls/Isrit's health td thlt
Pria:c of Wascs,the immediate heir to the CfOlani
"(I have implored his Royal Highness, lindec,4te
to:nuances so delicate, dieting, and important,
"eve supplied, under Parliameatary authe.
'ly, the vacancy, until the declared commies.
'lx of his Royal Father should happily en.
able hint to resume the reins of Goverunieut
431 this line of condeet was the more Juana
butt in the present seneants of the Crows
t° bate observed, as the lOW, its • which
they hail come into office, and their Stogies moat
teriinaciously kept the King, ever silica he latfao°
!moldy called them to hiseuuseilatodeldo Shines*
kilt circle, bad excited eespicions tekleh 16,11- of
tumour and of !Luling *odd bate buesimpatient Its
'date. Neither the itstezests of thtl Crolms n"
the rights of the people *mild have hems issistridi
graded by the PRIM( Z assuming the Regamejleakalw
the illness of the King ; sod the MAW of the
uutry demanded such an assaimplies 111 Ili Or/

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rifl7lll7yrrichis7ll;7o74.74 nftat-iht7 _._
the Monarch; bye or tlse empire. '' But this way
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Onions, course wai,evoided by those epprentlc;i`
l!latesasens, retuned tunas their isnlontures tig the
death of their muter, and now setting utter than.
'Miens It was avoided, nor because it -Mae .the
couftellkyought to hive taken, but that it'Wouldi
have led, to their instant dlsniiisiqn ha* Aces'
which.they obtained by trick, sod would *willioglyl
hold by fraud ; because it would hate revealed to as I
insulted and ill.governed country greater proofs of
ineepacithor rather of delinquency, and roused per.
haps the dormant treogbike of au oppressed pee.
plc to punish the authors of so mesh public cala.
miry and dishonour. What man of common din.
emir:tent, who is acquainted with the history of the
times, and with the character of the present Ad.
ministration, but must feel convinced that the Bri.
tish diadem would, on the first appearance of insa.
fifty at Windsor, have been laid at the feet of the
Paisce, and his Royal Highness most humbly
implored to fill the vacancy,. ik
~#lThrone dnring,
his Father's illness, if tbewatstienten who dare.
to exercise the rights of sovereignty in the absence.
a.the Monarch, could. have been assured of having
their lease of office renewed ? They are pleased*.
1 011 the immediate Heir to the Crown, not in a
manly direct way, but through their Parliament:lvy
I brangues that if his MAJESTY 41101114 not 'hew!
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inny signs of inemedialeameadamet 'et the esPits-'1
lion of another fortnight; !bey will graciously al. 1
low his eldest son to beconsetonditionally Ail ,re.
presentative ! Mr. ,Pester tar., by an estMor
lanai), effort at humility, assures us, that he
Mould submit such a season: to the consider.
alien of Parliament (if a Parliament it can le.
'pally he railed) ; and he even condescends to ad.
mit the necessity of such submission ; but if he
ecknow ledges that such a step may be necessary wt.
the 13th inst. can he deny, nay, will he have the
'effrontery to deny that the same necessity'
tor supplying. the chasm in the Constitution did
not exist oil the Ist of November ; and as it did
exist, what excuse has he to offer for converting
the Monarchy into a Republic, and endangering
not only the legitimate rights of inheritance, but the
Islet), of the Empire ? It is perfectly understood
;that rho Plumes can only be ftegoat during the in:
capacity of his Royal Father to discharge the
functions of the Crown ; and could not this condi.
tion have been' annexed to the nomination of his
Royal Highness in November, as well ai in Decem-
ber ; or,, ii it meant to establish, by precedent, a
right toe little interregnum of their own, a kind of
MinissariaiNhilee.for tweet three months, fur the
benefit of future Administration*, who may find
HIORISRITIS rehoused by a visitor visitation, ftbrif 101
iontroul sod superintendence of the Regal Autb*;
rity ? If so, these Gentlemen Should be. Mid that
the farce of High Life 134010 Stairs, which they
are actually performing, may ultimately end in e
tragedy, lu which the sacrifice of their lives may
afford no 'compensation—no atonement for the wide
ruin they.will have occasioned.
I do aver, that the Constitution admits of no sus:
pension of the Vonarchy ; on. the contrary, it ab-
solutely denies the possibility of any such suspen-
sion, by declaring that the' King never dies. In
the ease of demise, the neat in succession instantly
*mends the Throne, as a matter of course, and
he must, iiideed, be a most* consummate and
incorrigible casuist who will maintain that,
with respect to offitial capacity, a difference
exists between a 'King defunct and a Kim in.
sane. What, in point of practical ellect;'.ll the
absence of his MAJ EST r,. labouring let.Hili" 41)
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went under mental derangennonti skim a . ,41.
leave to Sir VICKERY GIIIKKAKII to iIiIIIMIKVO Ste
trofession, the quibbling-vpob words be Win to
extinguish or Confotind trellis' 'I prefer illkilleelest
natural logic—the plain and Wee dtduclHillie of
Common sense, from plain intelligible date, se *ell.)
'established facts to reason from, to+ellphlstry
and refinements, the objeetilliehicle is ?to violate
and undermine the principles of law and justice,
with an appearanCe of the most profound respect
fur both. It is on this ground of fair and legiti. '
mate argument I take upon me to Wert, that (141
capacity for carrying on the besieges of Goveco-1
went is as completely null at preseet in Gitottin
111. according to the confeesions of his Tres.
surer and Chancellor, iti it is in that of his grand.
father, Gxusou 11. who has been dead thug
30 year'. The Sovereign, it the fernier instance,
siiiy recover his faculties, :but is the country to be
kit without an efficient Cxecutive,Girfernment on
the mere chance of the king being 'enteral he his
sasses? The man who would haie maintained such
Trine at the commencement of the pretent reign,
weinhl hese been laughed at as a fool or a knave ;
sad if a Minister, and he had attempted to act
pen it, he would have been sent to the Tower.--
But (heti:nes are changed without being mended,
and we here not only to deplore an imp:genet of pewee
hitherto unknown in this conntry, but a meanness,
II poor and timid servility, thatquelilles us for any
submission which men grown wantoo with,authoriti
exact"from us.

If my conception of the Constitution if correct ;
Pity reading has not misled me, and I have not
misooticeiwed our historians, as well as BLACK•
szoNt; and other exposition of Eagtish Law and

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cement-I)MM Aliefteekel, *ewe*, the'fierdreigOlabi
bb hi full Posstesit*trot only of kii dideriiindllClAt`
of all his senses mid faculties. If thesti, rorai hit- prete6..9!
sionsonid establish hie right (Ryery . the feectroise
of hlajesty—.take sway these facuttielf and,his rights
Of ileetelvsiOns•fall to the ground:. This I *Wei,*
tetaLtfie hi* of the'laiti likisteit. kiss be strictly+
gesnOtitstienall err iiilsei6tiii"torVe founded' Ili
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compottioase & and date OpPats 01ficers of the
Crows to deny it. What, Sir, shall we be, told,
that when a calamity se 'deplorable befalls this
country, as that ithitlit'itittinppily afflicts the King 1
at this moment thafilmrOrblienee ot-
the Sovereigh•
may be dispeniekwith, and All the Exccuti7l.o44
ties of Goverment be as ably and .legallyombil as,
safely performed, as if be were actually oar the
Throne ? What else, than the maintaining of this
damnable doctrine, do the three adjoiipfiniebts in.
succession ainonitt,to ? What else aro„tlicse ad.h.
journments, but oastisain and impudent mockery.'
of hereditary right!, personally levelled at the Heir
Apparent, in definite of the Constitution, of coins
mon sense, and at' the . absolute risk of hivoltipt,
the country hi oll,the horrors ,of civil witfilii47—;,
1 The Kok*. fee these adjoarnoteats, founded...el
Icalculations,in which science can have no share, is,
that his Ml/WITT may possibly recover, and be p
for business some time hence ; bit tile real motive
for thus, trifling with the honour and. :safety of the
Empire, as well as with the rights of .tbe Crown, is
to keep the PIIINCC at a distance from these Coun.
OS, of which his Royal Highness ought long since
to have had theguidance. Sir, we shall have a v .
imperfect conception of this flagrant set,. of a .ti
Inisterlal atrocity, an atrocity which appears brand
ml with the strongest possible feature of a conspi.
racy against the rights of his Royal Highness and
or the people, unless we travel back to the admi.
isitkatien of, the present Lord SIDMOLITIty when,. In
Oiller to supply the defect in the King's vi.ion, $
was placed about the person of his Majesty',
1.1•1"' ci.el7d, 611 public documents and dispatches tends.
So that, in point of fact, the country has nbt'ilica
sassed, constitutionally speaking, an efficient Mid
Magistrate.for several years; and thichinterPreferi as .1
he may be calledoind .who was recommended by
the Duke of Yong to the confidential poste 6114
is 'neither a Prier' Councillor, nor linotifinr.i H
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Constitutioa.., Q,OlOindlact.en may 44:11. . trili)
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noarable man :. Oa presumption is Cettele,,vema
,strongly in. his hoar, for ho is a peufeot Gentle-
, man, of very Mild 'and amiable mariners, but no,
other responsibility is attached tiithire than that
'seutiment of !wooer. which every Genthimau Isl
supposed to feel, awl which I hare no hatitalkoap
serA 1

_.- -wares -Iris dosimeter .as "follrilltilin7"
men in England ; but the Constitution rikairenga
?lc different Seettitt thin *het' sPosiid 'rrh' devised
miiiiiiept in ihe itaniaCtions of pr stt liiii. 'The
istatts•lik• our turopikeiates, shpt t, trust. .It
la not to whit men will dos.bai istat they caordo,
that we are to look : and Itsseolol it be asked, what
Occurity has the country I . ' ti, il‘; what security,
has the Monarch, that the ' lifhich be alOis are;
bona fide the papers that read _.O bilfli
The King, is perfect health and perfect *WI haid
the dispatches, as they stetted frowhis Ministina at
Foreign Courts, transmitted' to Mm without delay,
and in the state h whit li theYetriied ; Wit as his
41ajesty Ala 11. funtorirsiely bereft or bie'..oo4,
.will the :IlliatiP Pretind that IS* as"
-Is observilibibilihmk t, -and that Oolond '
'EAR his nibi 111PdaitiL tif every' dispateitri
WA. - - 1-Wf -dale ilit Ai 2:Minister ,hill' inisti
•i'.4o•-ratifty? lkiiiitver la the dints..
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1104 diti-spea alb, would simile their conscience,
union KeliFion is at much a dead letter in their esti. 1
ination as fhiCairstitution. The State Papers to 1
• which 'the etfuntetaign of the Minister Is necessary
"to give it,eurrency offers some kind of security, or
:pledge, tothe dbutstry of correctness, because the
lifinfitht who taunter- signs the document to which
"illialliiyal signature is given,charges hi!nself with the
t.ospensibility;, but there are many pipers of lin.
portance—and even inStructioas under the Sign
Manual of the King which are not counter-signed
by the Minister el the department ; and as his MR.
} KATY .15 jars of 'reading what he Signs, bow
. . , s 1. %
ors lie M "toile jtives'bis iignatu re
to krovo-Aspityeally, fully, and distinctly road to
im ? Thilinatenuostirins of a magnitude to have
*farmed"
indfr ' 6ttamators, had a similar occurrence
have ha ~, tie any period of our hittory, even
... the (Jaya , I the TUDORS.; and it reflects little
• credit, either en the wisdom or fidelity of l'rlisinent,
that this important, not to say alarinieg fact shoald
be first noticed in a public journal ! In happier
times, sabers the principles of a free Government
were halter appreciated, and the Prerogatiros of
the Crown bettar.respected, the sinfisrttinate dersqt.
in his latAjovey'S.,ibion would have suggested Sluts
confidential servants, if they deserve his sonfidam ,
inl
the necessity of a Rejency ; nor would the conntt '
in better times, have patiently submitted to the le.:
.miry awl hazard of beholding a gracious sad' N.l
loved SOIELMIGN encircled by a Junta, stately fitti.-,
bidding all approach to his Royal person without tlil.
Sanction of their permission i Wire ersn say that nb
advantagehas been takers of his M it .1 ESTI( t's in fi nuityi,'
and that information deeply ennnevirs: with hi% ow
-gonal interest', anti:the. rstervita qi Witifs it*
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l'iWhat. samtkrAllYllol4lll;sii.rmies as Mr.
•ilWattraaahat •wild : ~,
(.• " Alti'S lakes
l ithe •Crah Ail' ' . dull& tittis4 adva it.
r -1 I awl r
,Rill fit,_
_,,t4 :All /OK! ieffet'if
tbservi2)
•rialest itkftettlik 9f: belibitlltsbtemilerraiberstl
lie lilselentea ? • Men, -leaks firtpliiitall bijitierp
and-sensible at once ortheit ditiljAtbitilditilrMlP
abd Ilki;:rottoi; *weld,' Pe tecititeftith 1o(
VOiseiy lthig)tis'liii.Jiiich
tendon towacds the ileir-stPPartllietiattli ispkareat
'to be:enlightened by, hiivouncils ;-•thriptnitablkheardi
subnikted to hirtreyaf-fligl;non the itlidelktflit at
their iittiatiotte watt Ai' -kit t r lilt
$ , -n it: up, .
dum must beitipOsetl,,,V ,
rottli;
Thrfne!PsalkaCitated, bi b 444 aniopeogouoir
raagesitevit, and Atotill advancedl age 6f oesolne,o
three; to discharge tkilinetinal SOF' bli'ininersibit
not 117 trick anti intrfiaelfaiti%itafetnittt,iiipriii
tts4l,i.l4,FE a Of 'Cl!' the qiiiitirtilik:‘lll 4101
..w to .
govern. .1 can pereelei,latv, asontialt
difference between • 'salinity, while olatts,.-sie
demise. The functirtivi of- Majratriliddlillkit - bit
sospeaded. The voJnetitut4 Antiiiihuyettrena,
...t a 4,16 .• h.
there iball beliii4.ausiiielitdit4.4 Pug
. . ,Ace, ln, no
.dght, in the former instance, •10
itlie regalia
..of. the. Crowni. 'yet, as ita presses/pa
!the and. inivediate, beir, ,bsi gis ietibhtiamilef
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'the'tnest prop*? 'tb 111 th4ran; to tir:rt
• =i% • father, —• • 4.4144 4
tctipy, -the' priikti,t,4 . ts , at!
,eoto
*Wes him to ‘retnoik.. , autborityk.,' Lei Itid -moo
,that the Law QOM °tithe Crown, od= titipsbadb
constitutional.queslibeiletoald have adanniPbriiiill
and given their 'opinion. °girt with the exception of
Sir T. Ty RTO k." tad gif th..,t?bi'lkeit:lik• Bar,
41;lels aught by its lega4lnpwl4gw,te, jaw. Out
ilightesied Parliament, were iilent. ibikaot- liondir..
'sill•Sit, that iu a moment • so -avail, and on a'
'steeithrn of such national luiportince, id whiCh not'
only the rights of the Croivn, of ilie RoAltildly*4
and of the people, are iniotv ed I. 1$ to' the rex ur..
istence of the nation, as an independent state, that,
the ATTOKSZT.6SWERAL should have preserved his
taciturnity.; or is it that feeling a stronger attach.:
swent to the Minister mho made him, •then 'td 'the'
Crown that oar him, •he padscd like
the 1,61.. m tw two pan wiAlsr;sof hay, nut .knousto *Jack
to glio,themraferettee. • When I recollect llee slrs,a
:questa wirier this Gentlemen treePlayie nildleP,llle
wages Merciless wer-against'Pelnters 1 It&PISLit,
!era, I regret tlit'it has nut. Veen, ilris*.l
of Ole Co3st)totinn, 0014aikikad 4fdlighom.igigsge
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beet,' .and: threatened as it seein!altiviii.s4lllbibilit
speedily maibilated. .. , A usi *Kr. ~-4,,,,
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I'IVO Kb 4 LABS 'of fte ST4IT.• 4
tt.lialfts been .taitiuspirasody, asked, those who
0111111410ted the ► adjoin:tient—Where is there :4-is
chance Olt his .11IAJ perseni'll jeterpoiqioit
a r'telli necelsarY IW4th it "
vet a e spa e d I man 4.
ad ),.We will as boldly- retort the queatian,,and ask
**Where is the chance that It trill 'not? Nay moot
LaWhere is thliroof that it fitawbf been ? %Ye ha4o
access to the olitces.9f GoviVaintant' but a ,14+
knowledge of 'dui na:itire ,Of public bus!.
tiest,,egiabictus twpook with confideace antliis sub.
ject. We defy contradiction, and courtallhaoilaiihs
upon the pOnt, rbenolltritsse!t positivelysi that in
every 'depaitlifept or....tha *State, either tin want
raft

Iffial IlailloritY is actually felt, to the great
liltritlillso Public Service, er Its place is sup.
oat la' hienner unknown to the Constitution,
.-it• •or ~:. i • -
mid or Nartil effect Ana example.—the Navy,. the
Army, thertivil Offices of GUvertwornt, the All,
rbaUgIfiTRATION OF Jus.rics, and the Cute.
mettle! Interests of the :Natio*, are sufferinA, and
Matt Continue to sitfkr, by lb* fetal stuspetsseett isf
niArtitliinrity and discietionaty tpoivir ie. the State.
During the last nix weeks, 14, ho.Sttissixi's ple4.
sure ever been signified to Mit CW1%114044111 by sea or
by land; or to his Ministers resident abroad? if,
%tt has 'been signified, has it been taken ? ' bitilt
.las not been signified, has not serious in 'es.
teesivo injury to too public service been incurred'?
lbe questions which might be raised on the present
orate of things. . ace innumerable ; . we believe
arose that have bees raised 'tie not few.
Vitt the• most.notorlosts eriminals Ist some peculiar
AirCpinstanacs, bu taecutcd ? Can those enti/led lo
Amoy, ho trepited or pardoned ? Cana General
kfloart3lartial (on which the subordination of our
Army at home depends) be bell without a *Nor.
rent ? . And can such Vt,°arrant be übtainettkAtro
Igor Merchants in ne want of relief;and if sijiiite.
ad °ought to be. granted them, can money, cap Ex-
liehesquer bills, .canloess be homed for that purpose
Can all or illicit liven thibit be done, or can they
be negtected,rbiotevii4obtfuncil, luithoet: endlrsa
embartsetbent,"ahti !Aorta* danger to the country ?
If 'the ciffreer*denvendorwhyahis promotion is suspend.
oJ, if the Vomnsander inquires whylsk hterectitros
irerAlihbekl 9 114* fTieltiumt aski why his CZex,.
~• pethlipa billstdibised, relief is denied, the
er mutt We-41w ield-lionses of Pirliament,
i'Sstatei bf thb litealbh, *ore -adjourned; they
hie ncil time ittOistigatied- Air...mm*lo'e/ s thesis in.
16ntredieheet, ifoiliken oiitrithp-lowards the rt.
IstoOtt of tittle: If this. NW' 4/eliciiey,.• delicacy
al tint etitislif itr effectlete to the terabit. of the
1 a o,''tir atleittiOn 10 the interests: of .tite'Peoilbt.
• ppearslods to be; ititerd Osienvictoa -terci.
lit, atireiseti it, " tnoiiing: oUe'ii 64elt upon- both
rCt.*
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