JB/013/187/001

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1821. June 5.

To Carvalho

At my first interview I believe it was with
Dr. Rocha, something dropped from him about a proposed correspondence
on my part, with some public man or other at
Lisbon, mentioning, I believe, though without designation of
names, some Member or other of the Cortes. The tendency of my
answer was, I believe, rather declinatory: not but that, supposing
myself sufficiently at liberty, it would be perhaps the most interesting
correspondence I could have, but that, the Corresponence
between Lisbon and London being already in his
hands, it did not appear to me how, on this side of the water,
it could be in any better. By the further acquaintance made
with his habits, as above, this notion has undergone a correspondent
alteration. I write this therefore to say, Sir, that, not liking
the thought of depriving your country, even supposing it in my
power, of any portion of a time such as yours, if it be agreeable
to you to pitch upon some person near you whose sentimients
I might look upon as yours, and to say so to me accordingly,
it would be a real pleasure to me to receive your commands
through him, and pay obedience to them in every thing in
my power: always on the supposition that the correspondence
had for its object some practical measure, on the occasion of
which I might entertain a hope of rendering my services useful
to Portugal, in this or that determinate shape.

Identifier: | JB/013/187/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	187	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2772, vol. 10	ID Number	4636
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