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J.B. to Mora
or to impress men in Columbia to send them to Spain to
serve the there to be shot at in the land or the sea service,
these arguments will convey to me the instruction I have always been waiting for, and shall be faithfully transmitted to him
and recommended to his consideration, and when they are
as convincing to the Columbians as in Spain they are to
most placemen and most all mercantile men, there
can be no doubt of the submission of those and as with all other
Ultramarians.
The United States Minister had a like a
with me yesterday. He can With a face of great
he came out with a notion for which a laugh would
have been a rather better accompaniment. It is to me that
they were indebted for your ratification of the Florida treaty:
so he had heard it said and believed. Though they have
neither dignitas to give nor secret service money, and are
as poor from institution, as your rulers are from impotence.
I could not of course have any objection to their thinking
so, if it were without breach of sincerity on my part.
I assured them him that whatever I may they you may
have seen of mine against Colonies in general I had
never written to any body in Spain against Colonies in
particular. But if it was agreeable to him to Without
any thing said by such a man on the sense of impotence
at the bottom, with sense of justice at the surface, might
I should have thought have sufficed to do the business: but if it were more agreeable
to him to suppose it came from me, I was much
obliged to him, and saw nothing that obliged me to seek
to deprive him of any such pleasure.
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rid yourselves of ultramaria |
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jeremy bentham |
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letter 2719, vol. 10 |
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