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1821. July 6.
J.B. to Carvalho

Curious enough would be a proposition such as
this, if expressed described in the sort of language, in which an adversary would,
without much violence to his conscience, be naturally led to
describe it. "Here is a man who, in an address to a public
"functionary of the highest order, with whom, except through the
"medium of the press, he has no sort of acquaintance, proposes
"to this stranger to join with him in pulling a deceit upon this same
"the stranger's colleagues in office – upon his most constant companions
"– upon his most intimate friends and connections:" a
deceit the object of which is – to cause
them these placemen to forego that
"and by <add>in the greatest
"largest proportion possible
"that those good
"things, to which,
"notwithstanding every
"thing that decorum
"may exact from them
"to the contrary, their
"respective situations
"are indebted for
"whatever value
"they possess. Was
"there ever luck a
"simpleton?"
A deceit, yes: it is impossible for me to deny it. But of what sort?
and to what end? and for whose sake? and to whom proposed? Of the answer to these
questions, you will judge whether this whimsical correspondent
of yours has any much need to be afraid.

I will go further in my audacity, and any whimsicality.
I will make a further experiment upon your faculty
of endurance. See what it is you have brought upon yourself.
It, through your means, (and, in the first instance, it can not be
otherwise) this offer of mine is accepted – accepted, either by the
Cortes, or by the that Regency of which you are a member, and, as I have
such good reason to believe, the most active member, (for, th not
to expose myself to the charge of flattery, it is only of you activity
that I speak) it is well: though it is from the Cortes, as being
the body the most competent to this purpose, that the acceptance wd.
be the most encouraging. But, in the opposite event, I have not done
with you. I make my appeal from you – I make my appeal
to the magnanimous nation to which you belong, and of which
you are at the head. In making this appeal, I publish to them
this very letter: I produce to them the this test, under which your public
virtue – your patriotism – has, by the supposition, shrunk.
For, what is it that can have recommended me to your notice
and confidence? Not personal acquaintance, for there is none
between us: not personal acquaintance, but a conception formed by you of my disposition towards that species of which your
nation forms so distinguished a part. What is it that has produced,
on my part, a confidence so extraordinary as that which,
in this address, I am, in the first instance at least, thus reposing
in you? Not personal acquaintance, but the conception which,
by your public conduct in relation to me, you have led me – you have enabled me – you have
forced me to entertain of your disposition towards that same nation.
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Date_1	1821-07-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	203	Info in main headings field	jb to carvalho
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 2776, vol. 10	ID Number	4652
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