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1820 Nov
J.B. to Mora

I see no chance for Spain unless the Ministry of 42
do call upon the people and the Army for support. If my
letter can not be published or even if, being published, they do not make a great
sensation there can be no use in my writing thinking of Spain any
more.

What you tell me about the necessity of an oath,
I had suspicion of from theory: but, as suspicion is not
certainty, my abortive experiment was made. In our dealings with men, irrationalities being too various and too fugitive to be foreseen, and at v
with certainty, and, at the same time, the degree of their prevalence, the supposition one is forced to make is that
of rationality: and thus it is that failures are so frequent
and so inevitable.

The order of the day with me is always — "Rid
yourselves of Ultramaria". In my letter to the Portuguese,
I should have inserted a list of the topics, about 17 in number,
had time permitted: perhaps I may in a second letter by
next post: perhaps also in this to you if there be room: the
rather, because it is but too probable that the work will not
be finished before the time when I might have the benefit
of your reflections on these topics.

While this is reading over to me comes an obliging
note from "Le Chevr de Colomb", offering to take
charge of "any letters of pamphlets" to you. I believe I
shall avail myself of it, notwithstanding the danger that
this may be out of the frying pan into the fire: I don't
mean here, but in France, and at Madrid in the office of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Identifier: | JB/013/041/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6
Penner	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2706, vol. 10	ID Number	4490
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