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J.B. Q.S.P. to Mora Madrid Broullion as preached
Well, then, said this no less pre-eminently religious and voracious
as well as learned person make an entry on the
Register Book, stating the Judicatory to have adjourned at
12 p.m. By the persons to whom it belonged to execute this
order, the execution was most humbly declined. The consequence
was – that this part of the business was, I know not
exactly at what time, done over again. But, should the business
not be despatched o the fourth and last seal day
viz. next tuesday as above, it is to be continued de die in
diem until finished. The destination being thus made public
at the Bar, though I have not heard of its being as yet
made public in the newspapers, the question is what can
be the object of it? My friend will have it that it is mere
curiosity, and nothing else. For that the man, though a man
of considerable talents, is a man of narrow acquirements,
and in particular consummately ignorant of every thing
that regards foreign politics, his knowledge being confined
to that one branch of English law. How far this may be
correct, I can not take upon me to say: I never saw the
man: he has sprung up since my time. A Madrid letter
of the 26th July from you know who, inserted in the Traveller
of August the 9th, after mentioning the departure of the Russian
Consul for Petersburgh, and the expectation in Spain of support
from England, a mentions the publication of a pamphlet developing
those notions. After what you have seen, you can just
as well as I can judge whether it be likely that the Lawyer in
question is charged with any thing relative to that subject.
What seems very likely to form part of his occupation, it were
too much to say his errance – is the doing what may be
in his power towards lessening the opinion entertained by the
constituted authorities of Mr. B. You must, I think, have seen
what has been published in relation to him, and addressed to
him by the Portugueze Cortes and the late Regency.
In the Morning Chronicle, and in the Traveller, not to
speak of other papers, not only the letter of the Cortes to
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