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Dear Sir,

The inclosed in English will speak for itself. It is not for your
reading that I send it in Spanish likewise. The uncertainty of communications considered
duplicates already have been endeavoured to be conveyed to you through
another channel, Duplicates I mean of the printed papers in question: not of this
letter.

Pen being on paper, I can not let slip the occasion of giving some short expression
to the gratification afforded me, by such scattered information, as our
Newspapers afford have conveyed to my ears (for it is by my ears only that I am
able to read) on the subject of your administration. What more particularly struck
me is — the magnanimity & true sense of national as well as universal interest
displayed by the putting as far as depends upon laws & treaties, all nations upon
the same footing in respects of commerce. It forms a striking contrast with the
course which I have the mortification to see taken by two infant States your, juniors
viz. Peru under the self styled Protector, & Mexico, under we know not as yet
whom or what. Of Colombia (tho' on this head we know not as yet of any thing that
has been, if any thing has been determined -) of Colombia on this head as on every
other, we have better hopes: & on this head there can be no better hope than that of
seeing it follow your example.

In one way or other, I am in correspondence with all these States, tho' with
Peru the correspondence is as yet only on one side nor do I see any near prospect
of its having place on both sides. What I am thus saying to you of the principles
of your administration, as above I have already said to the Liberator of Colombia,
I mean in a Letter which his Agent M. Echeverria has taken charge of for me, as well

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Identifier: | JB/012/387/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	387a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 387.	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / c2
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	g & r.turner
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward wakefield
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	copy of letter 2898, vol. 11	ID Number	4448
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