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The afflicted with those tormenting diseases, Gout, Rheumatic Gout,
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No. 1567.

THE POLITICAL EXAMINER.

If I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolves to venture upon the dangerous precipice of telling unbiassed truth, let him proclaim war with mankind à la mode le pays Pole-neither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon him with the iron hands of the laws if he tell, But if he regards truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless; and this is the course I take myself.-DE FOE.

their virtues, when they have any, then the moh attacks him with slanders

The Ballot.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1838.

in him to wed himself to error, and Mr Hume, who,
representing an Irish borough, can hardly think it
consistent with his duties to propose to turn out
Lord Mulgrave in return for the trust confided in
him by the people of the sister country. No, no,
the number in this plot, beyond three or four who
foolishly talk of what they will not be foolish enough
to do, is, we believe, confined to the three Graces to
whom we have before alluded.

THE RATE-PAYING CLAUSES OF THE
REFORM BILL.

PRICE 6d.

Towards the close of the debate a smart alterca tion passed between Mr O'Connell and Sir E. Sugden. Mr O'Connell, in answer to an objurgatory observation from Sir Edward, remarked, that he was sorry to see him out of temper; and Sir Edward Sugden protested with perfect truth that he was not out of temper, for to be out of a habitually bad temper would be to be in a good temper, which is never the case of Sir E. Sugden, whose ill temper runs its course evenly and uniformly without ever going off the railway.

"Let them wait till they are a majority," says the London and Westminster Review of the British settlers in Lower Canada. "If they are, as they The extension of six months for the payment of represent, the active, enterprising, and industrious rates and taxes is all but tantamount in effect to the QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERS. part of the people, and the others are the ignorant abrogation of the obnoxious rate-paying clauses of We apprehend that Mr Warburton's Bill for the and indolent portion, they will not have to wait long." the Reform Bill; but yet Lord John Russell resisted Qualification of Members of Parliament will do more Has it never occurred to the Reviewer that the ad- Mr T. Duncombe's amendment for the distinct and harm than good, inasmuch as it will realize a bad vice he gives to the British Canadians is applicable to complete repeal of the fiscal restrictions on the qualification which is now a nullity. Mr Warburton's that extreme minority in Parliament, so difficult to franchise. His Lordship relaxes the application of ready surrender to Sir Robert Peel's hostility to define, except as coming within Lord Chesterfield's the principle in question so as to save the electoral a qualification by professional income, and his acquirule for a dinner party-exceeding the number of the rights of householders delaying the payment of escence in the limitation to real or personal proGraces, but short of the number of the Muses. their taxes; but he contends for maintaining the perty, surprise us much. A barrister without forWhen a plan is proposed for hosting this minority, principle as a security against the enfranchisement tune, but earning his one or two thousands a year, so meet for a Chesterfieldian dinner-party, to the of insolvents. But if a test of solvency be what is will thus be unqualified to serve in Parliament till he head of affairs, how suitable seems the advice so dif- required, it is obvious that a worse test for the pur- has saved about 20,000l. Men of science and of ferently applied by the propounder of the Bobadil pose than rate and tax-paying could not be selected. letters, though in possession of an independence scheme, "Let them wait till they are a majority," &c. In most cases rates and taxes make but a very from the exercise of their talents, must be altogether Let them wait till they are more than the Graces, and small proportion of a housekeeper's expenditure, excluded from the legislature, unless they can moneyat least as harmonious as the Muses. At present we and an insolvent who desired to preserve his fran- grub to the amount of 20,000l. or so. Thus, as a do not see our way very clearly beyond the three chise might pay his rates and taxes though he paid counterpart to the House of Heirs to titles, we Graces of Mr D. W. Harvey, Mr Grote, and Mr nothing else; and this would be done by a dis- shall have a House of Heirs to fortunes, the hereWakley, and supposing, as some do, that there is honest voter who made money of his suffrage. ditary principle holding in both, in the one connected an octave, there must be in it the above-named Thus the worst class of people, insolvents, who with honors, in the other with fortune. But there is minor third, with chromatic intervals, whose harmony were also corrupt electors, would escape Lord John this beauty in the matter, that in the one House a man we must leave to the proficients in thorough bass. Russell's test, and remain on the register. may be a law-maker by birth without a sous in his The plan of the London and Westminster Review, If tests of solvency are wise and requisite, why pocket, or insolvent to the amount of hundreds of upon which we commented in our last number, is to adopt so imperfect a test as this rate-paying? thousands; while, in the other, precaution after pregive ascendancy in the Government and the Legisla- Why not call upon housekeepers to produce the caution, qualification after qualification, elective and ture to a minority small indeed, but just large enough receipts for their butchers', bakers', tailors' bills, &c., representative, are heaped up to guard against the to turn the balance of power in the present nearly or why not require them to take the bail oath that dangers of the enfranchisement of insolvents, or the equipoised state of parties. Upon the impracticabi- they are worth a certain sum when all their debts election of men without fortunes. The suffrage of lity of this scheme we have already observed, but the are paid? If it be desirable to get at the fact of an embarrassed voter in the one House is provided sin against representative principles in the proposal solvency as a condition of the franchise, the wisdom against as a dire evil, while, in the other, Lords of must not pass unnoticed. It is supposed that a small is to get at the fact effectually. Either do that or broken fortunes-men of the least trustworthy kind, minority shifting from side to side, now with the do not attempt to get at the fact at all, for fallacious with great desires and small means, with the habits Tories against the Whigs, and anon with the Whigs tests are vexatious and mischievous. of the rich and the urgencies of the poor-exeragainst the Tories, in votes of want of confidence, If poverty were as infamous in this country as cise legislative powers. might render it impossible for any Government to the Rev. Sydney Smith alleges, the ac cident of a As for the Members' Qualification, it seems to us exist without their participation, and that they would distressed or ruined man's retention of the suffrage, the idlest precaution that ever was conceived. Is thus force themselves into a share of power, and of here and there, might be offensive, to the public this a country in which there is the slightest danger more than proportionate influence in the direction mind; but even in that supposed case of Mammon of the preference of beggars? Can it be imagined of the legislative measures of the majority made up worship, it would be enough to know that distressed that the people are disposed to disregard wealth, by their adhesion. As a minority of some twenty or ruined people could not lorg keep their footing in and to think as well of a candidate without a shilmen could, according to the notions of the London the class of ten-pound householders. We may be ling as of one with a competence or in affluence? Reviewer, effect this manoeuvre, a minority of twenty quite sure that the poor will sink in the world soon The influence of Mammon in this country stands in men also, according to his notions, should force their enough, and it is worse than a work of supereroga- no need of legislative protection. opinions upon three hundred; and it would be desir- tion to endeavour to detect and set marks of ex- The ancients raised no temple to riches, because able and right, in the view of the propounder of this clusion upon them so long as they can keep their riches were sure of a temple in every breast; and it wild plan, that the counsels of the country should be heads above water. While a man can keep a ten- is as superfluous to make laws against poverty, for carried on, not in accordance with the opinions of pound roof over his head he may be presumed the majority, but in accordance with the opinions of responsible, and it may be left to his landlord to find a minority of twenty, which had factiously pushed out his insolvency and to eject him from the condiitself into a share in the Government by destroying tion of ten pound housekeepers. The landlord in Government after Government in which it had no such case will effect the object of Lord John participation. Russell with little less expedition and much more certainty than the legislator.

That the scheme is impracticable we think we have already shown; but if it were practicable, what would be the morality of it, and how would it square with representative principles? It is exactly what the London Reviewer protests against in the very same article with reference to Canada, "a legerdemain contrivance" to give to a small minority "a power in the Legislature beyond what their numbers entitle them to."*

That twenty members, sufficiently short-sighted and factious for such an attempt could not be found we are quite certain; but half a dozen, though they could not do the thing, might do some mischief in making the experiment, and it would be well for constituencies which do not desire a Tory Government, and which have any reason to apprehend that their representatives may incline to the proposals of the London Review, to communicate their disapproval of any such insane proceeding.

laws against poverty are made in every bosom. If the fact be doubted, consult the writings of the Rev. Sydney Smith, and if that evidence be not enough, see how Bishops raise themselves in respect by climbing on the shoulders of Mammon. Are these signs of the undue favour of poverty?

We have very great pleasure in acknowledging the soundness of Lord John Russell's opinions on the subject of the Qualification of Members, and that he was not adverse to qualification by professional incomes. He declared

"That the qualification prescribed by the Act requiring Members for Boroughs to have a certain amount of landed property was a qualification adverse to all the ancient principles been intended originally, and he thought it was quite as little of representation. Such a qualification could never have suited, if not less suited, to the present state of circumstances than to that which existed when the right of repres sentation was first given."

POSTAGE.

There were two divisions on the Parliamentary Electors and Freemen Bill, which indicated the strength of parties. Mr Hinde's Tory amendment to divide the bill was supported only by a minority of 68. Mr T. Duncombe's Radical amendment, to the effect above stated, was supported by 107. The Whigs and Tories mustered only as 2 to 1 against the Radicals (206 to 107); the Whigs and Radicals mustered almost as 3 to 1 against the Tories (158 to 68), and some of the Radicals either left the House or voted with the Ministerial majority, being satisfied with the extent to which the fiscal restric tions on the franchise are virtually abrogated. We are thankful to Lord John Russell for what he has Mr Spring Rice's mode of spoiling Mr Hill's plan proposed, we do not undervalue the concession as of stamp covers for the Two-penny Post seems to us far as it goes, we know that the effect (if there were the oddest imaginable sport of the Exchequer fancy. no House of Lords to defeat the measure) would be The problem, indeed, of the red breeches of dustto avert a very considerable amount of disfranchise- men is not more difficult of solution than the Let it not be supposed that all who ran riot upon a ment, but we think that the Radicals were quite problem in what respect it is more convenient to recent occasion (the peculiar nature of which much right in voting for the further improvement of sweep the public to pay two-pence for a stamp cover thai: excuses all errors upon it) are to be accounted amongst ing away the fallacious and vexatious test of sol-two-pence for the postage of the same letter. The the partisans of the Bobadil plan. Quite incapable vency, which Ministers insist on retaining because it only parallel to the scheme is the contrivance of the of such rashness and folly are, in our belief, such was amongst the original sins of the Reform Bill, clever fellow who cut two holes in his hen-house, men as Mr Warburton (whose conduct, indeed, on introduced for a narrow fiscal purpose by Lord Al- a great one for the hens and a little one for the the Canada question does not come within the scope thorp. The bad principle, it is true, may only re- chickens, it never having occurred to the projector of our allusion to those who ran riot, for it was a main as a caput mortuum, but as the caput mortuum that the passage for the hens would be large enough temperate and ably reasoned opposition,) and Sir of a bad principle it was good to vote it away.* for the chickens. This two-penny stamp cover_is Wm. Molesworth, who has too much restless good He Mr Spring Rice's chicken-hole contrivance. *For remarks on the last debate on this question, sea cuts two holes in the post, and he says, through

London and Westminster Review, pp. 531, 532

page 89,

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messages.

FOR INVITATIONS!"

that

If it were the desire of Ministers to give a triumph

this shall pass letters for the covers of which two Mr Spring Rice states that Mr Hill's plan would | Everywhere we see evidences of the progress of pence have been paid, and through that shall pass not be fairly tried by allowing a letter to go under opinion in favour of the Ballot. At a dinner letters for or upon the delivery of which the a stamp cover for one penny, the charge for the un- given to Mr Bannerman by his friends at Aberdeen, postage is two-pence, and the difference between stamped being two-pence. But it must be allowed the Honourable Member's expression of a distrust. two-pence paid in the one way, for the cover, by all but Mr Spring Rice that for payment in ad- of the Ballot was visited with instant marks of and two-pence paid in the other, without the vance some drawback should be allowed, and if a disapprobation. Mr Bannerman is deservedly much. cover, is the benefit to the public. It is be- penny be too much, is the Chancellor of the Ex-respected and esteemed, but his friends could not lieved, in the Exchequer mind, that a person who chequer such an enemy to change that he will not sit silently by while he threw doubts on the efficacy proposes to write a two-penny post-paid letter will contemplate the change even of a penny, namely, of the Ballot; they could not suppress their dis perceive a great saving of trouble in first going to halfpence? Or is it that the mind ministerial cannot pleasure at an opinion they deemed so erroneous buy a stamp cover, and after having taken it home be brought down to the consideration of halfpence? and so counter to the wishes and interests of the and written his letter, then going to the post to If it be so, then to our sighs for a penny world we people. Mr Bannerman upon this strong sign of deposit it, instead of the present proceeding of must add the desires of our hearts for a halfpenny dissatisfaction proceeded to saywriting the letter and taking it to the post and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr Rice, as a two- "But, gentlemen, allow me to add that, if no other paying the two-pence for the delivery as paid. Just penny Minister, is four times too great-quaterque remedy can be found to protect the voter in the conscientious so Swift, in his College of Projectors, tells us of an too grand-for our notions of the things that should exercise of his elective franchise, I, for one, will support the ballot. (Immense cheering.) Mr Bannerman then referred admirable piece of machinery for cutting cabbages be current. to the speech of Lord John Russell on the ballot, which ke with little less waste of trouble and time than the But, not to digress into the value of Mr Rice in had already deprecated; but he defended that noble lord's mode by hand and knife. It would be saying too farthings, or any copper coin, if a penny drawback consistency, and placed in contrast the vacillation of the much of Mr Rice's plan, comparing it with the pre-on the stamp covers be too much, why not split the hon. and clever member for Finsbury, who, though he sent system, to pronounce it as broad as it is difference and sell the stamp covers at three half-subject of the ballot, had himself met six months before, at attacked Lord John Russell with great bitterness on the long, or as the same thing, with the pleasing varia- pence? How the odd halfpenny may bear on in- a meeting at the White Conduit House, and denounced the tion of the stamp cover. The covers must cost some-vitation covers it is not for us to consider; we ballot, turned its supporters into ridicule, calling them thing, and that amount, whatever it is, will, we sup- leave that province of economy to the presiding crotchetty legislators, and declaring that the ten-pound pose, be loss to the revenue; the procuring of them genius of the Exchequer Chancellor ; but, to trade electors should not be trusted with the ballot. But he will make the difference of so much trouble to the if such a thing can be glanced at by minds polite-ballot, he thought, would be unnecessary." wished to have universal suffrage, and when he got that, the public. But then for a convenience, a dainty thought we submit that the saving of a halfpenny on the occurs to the Exchequer mind. The covers will be postage of every letter paid in advance would be a delectable for invitations. People will send cards by very considerable saving. and would increase and to their bitter foes in the extreme section of Repost under stamp covers instead of by servants. multiply communications by post. But it is vain to formers, and to hurt and alienate their Radical supHere we have a finer application of the ma- reason upon public convenience and public advan-porters in and out of Parliament, they would very chinery for cutting cabbages little less successfully tage against the power of resisting improvement surely effect so unnatural an object by making a than by hand. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's which exists in the Post Office, which, translating party opposition to the Ballot question, and so is a stupendous project for saving footmen's the post into English, significs, the office behind refusing it a fair discussion and a fair division. legs and footmen's shoe-leather, and footmen's all others. Indeed, all the trite proverbial illustra- They will pursue the opposite course with the op cotton stockings from splashing in running of tions of defects-such as, deaf as a post, stupid as posite effects, if they feel, as we believe they The footmen ought to raise a monu-a post, blind as a post, &c.-are derived from the do, the respect due to the opinions of the large ment to Spring Rice, with an inscription on it-conduct of the Post Office. The office is called the proportion of the electoral body represented by "HE SAVED OUR LEGS, HE SAVED OUR SOLES, IIE Post Office because of the stationary habits of posts. the majority of their own supporters. It is known SAVED OUR STOCKINGS HE INVENTED STAMP COVERS In the case of the Glasgow writ, it appeared even many members of the Government are favourthat a Post Office express maintained the Post able to the Ballot, and the question will obviously But though the Chancellor of the Exchequer may Office character, by travelling slower than the mail, be unfairly dealt with if those gentlemen do not vote glory in the name of the Foot, uan's Friend, has he no which it was cleverly sent after. according to their sincere opinions. feeling for the fathers of familie? Is he a stranger Sometimes, however, the Post Office does In the timely concession of fair play, a fault will to the miseries, the privations, and sufferings of amazingly sprightly things, and, in addition to be avoided accounted by Bacon one of the causes the fathers of families upon occasions of invitations the instances of blunder or miscarriage quoted of disaster in the conduct of affairs," a want of to balls and routs, &c.; and has he c nsidered in by Member after Member in the debate of point and penetration in men's judgment, that they his chequered mind the tremendous addion be is Thursday night, we may quote an example within do not discern when things have a period, but about to impose on them in the spectacle of a mile of our own recent experience, of a letter (an important come in too late after the occasion." four or five hundred stamps at two-pence each? What letter we should say, if it could be conceived that a We extract some curious information respecting will be the feelings of a husband when he sees his lau letter addressed to humble folks, in an unaristocratic the date of the demand for the Ballot from asking guests at the rate of two-pence a head for stamp-employment, could be important) marked "imme- pamphlet by Mr R. Pierce, published by Ridgway:covers? Is it not enough for these unhappy men date, which, because it was addressed Strand, The question of voting by Ballot is not now dis to see their carpets up, their studies converted into was, by a sportive fancy of the Post Office, sent eussed for the first time in England. By Anthony tea-rooms, their halls and dining-rooms filled with from Warnet to Doncaster, and thus, by a handsome Wood's valuable work, Athena Oranienses," we forms, their chambers stripped of every comfort and sweep. came in process of time to London. Did find that the Ballot was introduced into England so the night every dressing being studied but the cause, with less trouble and precisely the same gentleman commoner of Trin, Coll. Oxon, he mentions every necessary, preparatory to dressing them for we compla to the Post Office? no, not we; be-early as the year A. D. 1659. In his life of James Harrington, Esq., of Upton, in Northamptonshire, a dressing of the miserable man's dinner, for which he effect, we might have whispered our grievance to the that at a club of Commonwealth's men, who assembled is thrown on the wide world, thrust from his own post at the corner of the street, with the gas lamps at the Turk's Head, New Palace yard, Westminster, for door, swept away like dust by the housemaid, instead of a fashionable Earl at the head of it. the discussion of political subjects, the system of voting. whirled away like a slop-drop by the centrifugal by Ballot was introduced, which," he says, not being force of a twirled mop on the door steps? These known in England before, upon this account, the room, are horrors, too, too familiar to most; but add to them every evening, was very full." Harrington, who was the inconceivable torture of seeing four or five hundistinguished among the men of that party for his talents dred stamps purchased with malice aforethought to Mr Grote's motion for taking votes by Ballot as a writer, and moderation and powers of persuasion as muster the forces against his castle, to raise the bat-comes on next Friday, when we trust every Radical Reformer will be at his post. teries, as it were, against his peace and quiet; and is it in humanity to bear the affliction? In vain would At a most respectably attended meeting, at Brighton In the country our friends have not been inactive. the unhappy man protest to his lady that he cared Mr Horace Smith, a high-minded, right-thinking not two-pence for each and every one of his friends. and acquaintance whom she proposed to invite at man, as well as a distinguished wit, made an excelthe rate of two-pence a head for the stamp covers. lent speech, from which we extract He would see the two-pences that he loved squanpassage:dered in missives for the bores that he hated, and he would lift up his voice and curse Spring Rice. This has been made a party question by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the worst of party questions. There is but one thing to be said for it, and that is, that if carried with Mr Rice's particular view as to invitations, it would put the stamp of two-pence on the company at crowded entertainments, which would certainly be giving them a new value, at least in the eyes of their entertainers; for people prize things as they pay for them. Guests would thus be all men of mark, or post-mark.

THE BALLOT.

a forcible

a speaker, was a member of that olub. He had, in the

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year 1642, fruitlessly attempted to obtain a seat in tion more particularly to the electoral system. The Parliament; a fact which might have directed his attentheory of Ballot, however, was not confined to the narrow limits of the club. Harrington advocated it as a mea sure necessary to secure the independence of the parlia mentary constituencies. I find that he published a smal tract, entitled the "Use and Manner of the Ballot," in "It was well known that the present stat e of parties was London, about the same period, which I much negret my might turn the beam. an equipoise, and that being in that state a very small weight inability to refer to. The early history of a question of would have that effect, and if it did, it was impossible for interest; and I would express a hope that those who' He thoroughly be lieved the ballot so much importance must be possessed of the highest them to overrate the importance of adopti ag it. The question came to this point, whether they should have a Tory have facilities will turn their attention towards its elucida domination or remain under the sway of Reformers, who, tion. Wood remarks that the design was hated by mem they differed with them, they believed though there might be some political questions upon which bers of Parliament, as being against their power, and were disposed to says, in allusion to election by Ballot, "than which carry out great measures of reform? If the Tory party re- choice nothing could be invented more fair and impar turned to power, he did not himself see any limit to the tial, as two then thought, though opposed by many, evils which might be created by that e vent. The Tories several reasons." It would further appear, that Harry were pledged to a system of bitter hostility towards Ireland Nevill, an ingenious and well-bred gentleman," about -towards that portion of our fellow-sul jects whom one of their leading men hesitated not to des ignate as aliens in the same time introduced a bill into Parliament for the A two-penny world is, however, too great a world blood, aliens in religion, and aliens in lar guage: the feelings adoption of the mode of voting by Ballot. Eight or for us-we sigh for a penny world. But this Mr of the Tories were embittered by the emembrance that it ten voted with Nevill, who was left in a minority, eviSpring Rice denies. In answer to the question of was the exertions of the Irish which kept them for so long dently a great deal owing to the fact, that with the Bal Mr Wallace, whose unwearied exertions for Post- their bosoms for the Tories were subject to passions as proposed that a third part of the House of Commons a time from power; and when with the se passions raging in lot was coupled a resolution in favour of rotation, which office reform deserve all praisewell as other men, and like all men of desperate tendency, should vote out (also by Ballot) every year; so that "Whether anything could be more perfectly absurd and lost power over themselves in proporti on to the power they every seventh year the senate would be wholly altered. untenable than that of pretending to carry out a suggestion had gained over others-when looked then to the return Thus we find that, previously to the glorious revolution of for permitting the use of a stamp cover, at a penny rate, by of these men to power, and thought if the tithe campaign 1688, the question which is now urged upon the counmeans of a two-penny stamp cover? He could not for a they would carry on, of the armies th: it might be sent over moment suppose that the right hon. gentleman would perse- to Ireland to maintain it, and of the calls that might be try, occupied the attention of the legislature of Engvere in adopting so strange a proposition. The idea of the made on the people of this country to support it, he did not land: that the project of Ballot is as old as the Bill of public being willing to take the additional trouble of purchas- know what mischief, what misery, and what destruction of Rights! ing a stamp, when they could send their letters at the same life and property might not be entaile I upon us and the inharate without a stamp, seemed to him so exceedingly preposter- bitants of the sister kingdom. (C heers.) If he looked ons that he would not argue the matter further. upon the return of the Tories to pow er under that aspect, he could not either put a limit to the advantages that would flow from the adoption of the ballot and the exclusion of the The Rev. Mr Close, the perpetual curate and per Tories from office. (Hear, hear.) He thought that by the petual meddler of Cheltenham, not satisfied with adoption of the ballot and by keeping the present ministers what he can busy himself about in his own parish, is in power-which the ballot would have a tendency to do writing letters in the Times against Lord Brougham's they would go a great way towards meliorating the national National Education Bill. institutions, towards preserving the security of property, and This gentleman has a towards extending for it had been truly said that England great horror of the voluntary principle, and seizes taught the world to live-(cheers) extending to other na- every opportunity of holding forth against it in whattions the benefit of our example, (Renewed cheering.)" ever shape it may appear; but remarkable it is that

The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied"The hon. gentleman was favourable to try the experis ment of a stamp-cover; but did he wish to try it fairly? It would not be trying it fairly if they said that a letter should go under a stamp cover for a penny, whereas a letter not going under a stamp cover should be twopence. It was supposed by some gentlemen that notes of invitation and messages would be frequently sent by the two-penny post instead of by servants, if a stamp cover were allowed; he therefore had consented to the experiment."

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