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Fix this textCOLONIAL MAGAZINE.
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Fix this textIt is a subject of regret, that public time should be expended, the
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Fix this textin a manner wholly innocuous; but, it is a still deeper source of sorrow,
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Fix this textmen, the document of which we here submit a copy, is, we contend for
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Fix this textThe Select Committee appointed to inquire into the Shipwreck of British Ves-
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Fix this textsons, and to whom the Reports of 1836 and 1839, and the several Petitions on
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Fix this textL Their inquiry has embraced two points: first, the loss of British vessels,
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Fix this textHaving obtained returns of the British ships lost during the years 1841-2-3, as
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