"The steadiness of this country in the war will depend upon our making it clear that the Continent has voluntarily decided to seek its safety in arming."

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SuicidesMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomMembers of the Parliament of Great BritainPresbyteriansGovernment ministers of the United Kingdom
Original Language: English

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Letter to Sir Charles Stuart (19 April 1815), quoted in C. K. Webster, The Foreign Policy of Castlereagh 1812–1815: Britain and the Reconstruction of Europe (1931), p. 545