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J.B. to Mora

You will see I take for granted in the Times one newspaper,
a letter received here two or three days ago from an English Officer
in the Bolivar's army. It has been sent for insertion to the Times.
I expect every moment from the same person a private letter the sight not destined for publication:
as yet my only conception of the contents is from a trustworthy
friend who has seen it and told me of it, and is as
follows. Devereux has turned out to be compleatly unfit for every
thing: and has therefore of necessity been laid on the shelf. But
the man from whom the letter comes is a man whose acquaintances,
from what I saw in print of his good public
feelings and ability, I sought out and obtained. This was
before your revolution. He told Knowing more or less of Devereux, he went under his auspices: and had it not been
for a letter he brought from me for Bolivar would have been confounded
with the worthless Irishman – the offscourings of
the country, whom Devereux had collected. Luckily for
him I had mentioned him to Bolivar as a man who
bore a good general character and had respectable connections.
He found Bolivar – who used to hear of me from our
common intimate Miranda for whom I was to have
legislated codified, impregnated with my works. I shall
neglect no opportunity of endeavouring to mollify the asperity
of Bolivar against Spain, in case of peace on the footing
of independence: and if your Minister of the Colonies
can furnish me with any demonstrations arguments to prove to the Columbians
that it would be for their advantage benefit to be taxed
for money to be sent to the peninsula, or to have Spaniards
sent to fill offices of honour and profit there and
send to Spain the savings to be sent there, or to make prohibit
the importation of good and cheap commodities from other
quarters that Spain a few Spanish merchants may have the advantage
of supplying them with bad commodities at a higher price,
or

Identifier: | JB/013/114/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2719, vol. 10	ID Number	4563
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