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Tbere seen» te have been no connection bc,tween ihe intcrests thaI inspired Pitt te keep iii tonch with Francisco de Miranda in Ilie ]ast years of the eighteenth eentury and dic early enes of elle ninetoentli, titat impelled Sir 1-lome Ttiggs Popham to att.ack the Viecrovalt y of Buenos Ayres en the bread groiinds oí comnaercial advantage and injury lo Spain, nud diese later interests thai devekped a rnercanti!e ojipusdion in Eugland fo emharrass tbe iniiiistry as 1-lenry C]ay' pólitieni opposition ernbarrasscd dic Amerien ti adininistration of John Quincy Adams aud bis presiclent, •James Monree. Tu Englaud there is a distinet break hetween these periods. Frotn un at titwle of hostilitv tn Spain ¡u t.he eariieryears. Gnt T3ritain passed through a star of friendly protection tliat drove thc Freneli cmi of ihe peninsula, luto an(ither penad of semi-itostilir.y te dic restored Ferdinand. Duning this !ast penad, beginning roughly in 1815, the intercsts of Great Brhain were divided. Ori the nne liand uit enormous trade with Latín :nierica ;vas threatened with destruction. should Spain's colonial pobov come back with Spain's king.

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On tite ot.Iier, were Llie political intcrests oí Englaud in Europe, tite body of treacie.s cone]udcd during dic wars agaiit.st Napolcon, ilie iiewly-develoucd poliey of jaint action by tlic Powers. WithtbeLfflted Statesrecortiiiori vas a questiouofAinericau PQIiÍY; vitIi.Enlaud it was:nerelv ono of the Jications of lEuropeari polidc. Atno time vas tite Britisli ntinistrv ¡Ti a positioit to t reat it cm its monis; intead it.strtiggled for a dc'cade tú avert action, to cherih al once 1}ie commnerce with the colonies and the fricndlv rclations wit.hSpain. It was not mtiflflairTTriigsof dic umerclmamtts drowned tbe proc ct of theB6ifrbonsthat En-la recognized tke_South American republies. Once an ailv of Spain, che