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1821 June 12

One more topic and I have done. You're name having being
held out to me as they have been are, can you wonder at my receiving running into them?

When this Court receives from you a diplomatist, I am Sure
he will not be an adversary to your cause as at present, and I hope
that to you in your individual character, he will be an instrument
of good in whom you can have entire confidence. If so, notwithstanding
my general, and determined, because necessary seclusion,
it seems not impossible, but that in respect of the public cause, and for the
sake of that cause, I might, in this or that way, be of use to him. After
the bribe you have given me, and what you cannot but have
heard of me, the state of my affections as towards that cause cannot
be matter of doubt to you. It would be a pity, if amongst
men that would in other respects suit your purpose, you would
find one that can not only read but speak, English: if he cannot at
least read English, & thence cannot read our newspapers, his knowledge
of the state of things in this country cannot but be very
imperfect and inadequate. If he cannot speak English, he will not
be in a condition to communicate with facility, to any purpose, to with
the United States Minister here, who is an honest and intelligent
man, and a sincere well-wisher to the cause of liberty. Upon occasion
I could put him upon more confidential terms with Rush
so long as he continues in that character, than perhaps any body
else could. So likewise with Secretary of legation Colomb, who from
his long residence in this country, is the acting man of the Spanish Mission, and, since the Duc de St Frias has been here, the
only acting man: the Duke, tho' as every body says, & I believe, a well disposed man, as every
body says being a Spanish Grandee, & accordingly a man of straw.
Colomb speaks English fluently. The new Minister, whoever he is, coming
with inferior appointments, and therefore being probably of inferior
rank may, not improbably be a man of business (which would be a
pity): and not likely to be in connection with Colomb as the Duke was:
but unless he understands English, he must unavoidably be in a
considerable degree dependent on Colomb for the carte du pays.

Identifier: | JB/013/194/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1821-06-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	194	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d5 / e1
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2775, vol. 10	ID Number	4643
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