"The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English."
— George Canning

January 1, 1970

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Letter to Augustus Granville Stapleton (17 December 1824), quoted in The Later American Policy of George Canning, p. 19