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1820 Sept. 7
Emancipation Spanish.
1 April 1822 Transferred from Mode of relinquishment
§ Mode of riddance relinquishment
Sect Conjunct Mediation Relinquishmt honourable
9 or 1.
What wisdom, what glory
comparable to yours! Glory
the truest and purest. By
abdicating, you reign, in
the hearts of millions, to the
end of time. As in Naples,
so in Creolia. Age but 8
years: 6, in lethargy, disturbed
by frightful dreams,
already you have given
laws, as national never gave
laws. Of hearts freed a loss the objects taken suppose
Prussian more means.
10 or 2.
Though many must
have shared, your Constitution
must, originally,
have been the work of one.
11. or 3.
Spaniards to Creolians.
We have thought better.
Not masters now, but helpmates.
Influence, not
of will, not of force and
corruption, but understanding.
We will deal by you,
not as our former tyrants
did, but as we by Naples.
Our Constitution your's: our
laws, as far as you approve
them.
12 or 4.
Trade we will on terms
perfectly equal. No factitious
preference, against one
another, or even foreigners.
Suffice the natural: community
of language, religion,
laws, customs:"
from these no wrong to
anyone: these natural,
substantial, sure: all others
illusory, mutually
mischievous.
13 or 5.
Not laws only, but men
you may have for your
guidance.
14 or 6.
May the two Sicilies have
the same Cortes. Cortes,
music to all ears. Associated
with it, are ideas of
sincerity, public spirit, good
government, equality, and
security combined: with
Parliament, aristocratical
tyranny, imposture,
English bayonets & sabres.
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§ Mode of riddance relinquishment
Sect Conjunct Mediation Relinquishmt honourable
15 or 6.
From you Naples has taken
– and Oh! let Sicily take,
a Constitution: not from England,
from which it so lately
received the wretched patch
work, teeming with all the political
filth with which England
is oppressed and disgraced.
16 or 8.
What a lesson to England!
By the establishment of a
real not an imaginary Constitution,
one lesson you have
given to her already: this will
be a second.
Sect. Relinquishment Hard
☞ From Relinquishmt honorable
Proposal. Let the Commissioners,
instead of summoning
them to servitude, declare
their independence.
17.
Can imaginative
from to itself any
thing more dishonourable
any thing
by which a inter
will be more made
covered with dishonour
than by a
mixture of improbity sullenness
and importune
impotence as manifest
as it is
unembraceable
manifest as the
layer of the whole
civilized world?
18.
Was much better
had all the past relinquishments
been voluntary!
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john flowerdew colls |
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