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-maria, that the claim is prosecuted by the ruling few in Spain in support of a
benefit in which only a small part even of themselves can have any share: & that to
the subject many in both countries the claim could produce nothing better than mutual
misery, even if universally acceded to, much, in so far as contested. Amidst various
interruptions, the work itself had occupied me more than three years, & had not yet
been quite finished. At the desire of Mora I got copies & sent to him such part of the
matter as, in the state at which the relation between the two countries had already
arrived, promised to be of most use. In the Portuguese Cortes, Manuel Fernandez
Thomaz, who by well informed & discerning Judges has been represented to me as
being upon the whole, the first man in that Assembly, was already known to have
gone so far in it upon that question as to say—"if it be agreable to the Brazilians
"to remain united with us, so much the better: but if not, it is not with my good will
"that any endeavour would be made to force them to it." On this ground, I sent
a duplicate of that finished part to Manuel, through his brother José
Secretary of Legation here of whom chemin-faisant, it made a convert. On an
occasion of such delicacy, I thought it best not to address myself to the Cortes itself
as on so many former occasions; Apl. 23d. the paper was sent from him by
the one Brother to the other who immediately as we heard about a fortnight ago
put it into the hands of a Translator, that those who think with him on that
subject might make the most of it. To you in your position, it could at the utmost
be nothing more than matter of curiosity: it could not be of any real use. The Table exhibiting
the Topics being however so short I should have added it, to the other testimonies
of my respect, but that the only remaining fair copy I have is in the hands
of a Translator for Estrada the Mexican Deputy to Cortes, who returns from here by way
of Gibraltar on the 19th.

The more effectually they are satisfied of the impossibility of keeping Brazil
or any part of it in a state of subjection, the less the danger of their being troublesome to

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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	003	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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