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1823 Jan. 6
J. B to Bolivar for Miranda.

by nature, present to the view of his parents, a statesman
much better qualified for the conducting of the affairs of a
Commonwealth, than the least unapt of such cabinet Ministers
as our matchless Constitution has secured to us and an
uninterrupted succession of, until being dissolved in its
own corruption, until it it and has given way, either to an a compleatly unbridled
despotism, or to a Representative Democracy, such
as the Anglo American United States is, and your's either is
already, or at least, as I hope and trust, is in a way to be.
Under this persuasion in regard to the school in question
the Ambassador, of Tripoli at this Court, has, at my suggestion
written, under assurance not without good prospect of success, to an excellent and
enlightened father, who is Secretary of State there, and in
close alliance with the family of the Sovereign, to send over
to this school a dozen boys, besides a younger brother son of his
son the ambassador's own, whom he his son the Ambassador makes sure of. Moreover
at our joint suggestion an honest and enlightened Algerine
who is in the confidence of the sovereign of that country, and
has made large purchases for important maritime works
there, has written for a dozen boys from that country. And
Just now at the suggestion of my young Tripolitan friend,
An Ambassador from Russia at this Court has evinced a similar disposition, which, I hope on his
return from Paris, whither he has just gone for a month's
amusement, will ripen into act. He is one of five young
men belonging to some of the first families of that country
who, have about five years ago, having come into this country
for education, and been taken charge of, by the functionaries
here belonging to the Foreign Department, received an Aristocratical
education and after passing about four years here
returned to their own country with that sort and degree of
culture that may be imagined. His Excellency was one of them.
and but his good genius having now very lately brought him in
contact with my Tripolitan friend, and his disposition appearing

Identifier: | JB/012/089/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	089	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar for miranda
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2940, vol. 11	ID Number	4150
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