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1820. Decr. 15.

Dec. 15. Just learnt that he can not, but will on Tuesday.
Just learnt likewise that Mr. Murdock, for the want of a
passport, can not go till tuesday.

Just learnt likewise – and though not by direct but only
by circumstantial, yet by but, too conclusive evidence, that
my letters, both those to Spain and those to my Brother,
have been intercepted by the espionage system, and
mostly suppressed. Suppressed are certainly three letters,
at least, all of them written in November to my Brother, in all of which
mention is made of a project of mine for a visit
of his to Spain. This I learn from a letter of his of the
6th instant (Decr.) in which he speaks of one of mine
of the 18th. of Novr. as being but at that instant received.
A letter which should have been received on the 8th or
9th (day, not received till the 18th. Being an enormous
long, and scrawled in the blindest of all blind hands, it
required all that time for them to decypher. More or
less mention of Spain can not, I think, but have been
made in it. Much, however, there could not have been,
and the quantity of family matter being so great, and so
important, my notion is that, through compassion,
they forbore to suppress this letter as they did the others. The
Prefet is an acquaintance, and has been a visitor of my Brother;
his; and it seems not unlikely that the seat of the espionage
and the compassion may have been in the
same breast. The non-receipt by me of any letter from
Mora of a date posterior to that of his of Octr. 30th, which
passed through your hands, is a mystery explained by
the same cause: so likewise my never having yet heard
of any one of my four letters against the liberticide
laws: letters, the first of which ought, in course, to have
arrived 5 or six or seven days before Novr. 9th, the day of the
closing of the Cortes. November 3d. or 4th. went from
hence to him a letter from me through the Spanish
mission which is so friendly to myself and Mora-Mora being an old intimate of the person in question: and now, on the 15th. Decr., I have no tidings
even of that.

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Date_1	1820-12-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	064	Info in main headings field	to blaquiere
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e8
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2728, vol. 10	ID Number	3500
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