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1821 June 12

Among the Portuguese resident here, I hope there will be some one
who will be able to give him (your future Envoy I mean) a tolerably clear, and complete
conception of the characters of the people he will have to deal with. O
yes, I make no doubt Rocha will answer this purpose extremely well:
but it is seems too much to expect, that any one but a native, who has made particular
application of his mind to the subject, shall be able to question
any very clear conception of the mechanisms of the Laws and Government here. For the
mere purpose of ordinary conversation – in a word for anything
which it is thought may as well be done by anybody else, I cannot offer
(you will have the goodness to understand) to see any Minister of
your's, any more than I can anybody else. Out of curiosity, the Duc de
St Frias thro' different channels, made several attempts to see me: I resisted them all but
he got in by a trick. I pay no visits to anybody. Except on particular
business I receive no visits from anybody, at any other time
than my dinner time which is at 6, or after that till a quarter before
eleven; at which time I go to bed: that interval is the time I have for
confidential conversation. For any such purpose I never see more
than one person at a time, except in so far as it may be necessary
to the purpose of introducing one person to another. Men A man, who
lived in the world, and in a high style, and have their has his rooms
crowded with company, it – can for any purpose of business, call men aside,
one after another, in any number; but that is not the case
with me. I have quitted the world these six or seven and twenty
years; but though upon occasion some of the best parts of it come to me.
Being neither rich nor poor, live in a sort of hermitage, in a hermit's style, and whoever
comes to me must be content with a hermit's dinner, and leave
me at the hour abovementioned, or my health, wich is otherwise
good, would be broken. I hope I have made myself sufficiently
understood. I am very desirous of seeing the sort
of person in question, if I can be of very specific use: and
very desirous of not seeing him, if, by so doing I can not be of any
specific use. B.1 and B.2 may prove to convey to you some
sort of conception of the terms I am upon with Colomb and Rush.
Rush is ardent towards me in a manner very extraordinary in a
U.S. man: for they are a very cold people, as I made Quincy Adams
confess to me, after I had thawed, as I told him I should, some of his ice.

Identifier: | JB/013/195/001 "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	195	Info in main headings field	to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d6 / e2
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2775, vol. 10	ID Number	4644
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