JB/012/131/001

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1823. June 3
J.B. to Bolivar for Bowring

Mr Zea is disposed of by death: his character and
conduct are sufficiently notorious.

As to Mr Mundes, so far as regards this country
he is out of the question: for he is in the Morning Chronicle
of the May I see he is appointed to do the
business of Columbia in the Netherlands. If, as I am inclined
to think there will be little or nothing for any body
Columbia to do there, it will have proportionably little to
suffer there by his means: not so in the opposite case. He
is neither a man of business, nor as the other was, a man of the world, nor a man of business
knowledge or learning in any shape:⊞ ⊞ in every one of these respects he is considerably below par. This such at least is
the sort of account, I have been in the habit of hearing
given of him from various quarters, by various persons
not in communication with each other, and none
of them bearing in any account any the least enmity
to him to him: indeed he was not as it should seem, the sort of man to have enemies. In one respect particular namely probity, his character
formed a remarkable contrast with that of Zea: if I may
believe a person whose account of him as to the other particulars
agreed with was in agreement with all the others.

He refused a huge bribe, which (says said my informant) he might
have accepted with perfect safety; safety as to character as well
as every thing else; and this at a time when he
was in great distress. Probity in this shape is assuredly
the the one element of aptitude as valuable as it is rare: but still it will not make
up for the absence of every other.

Identifier: | JB/012/131/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1823-06-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	131	Info in main headings field	jb to bolivar for bowring
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2 / c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1822
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	4192
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