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1820 Sept. 26

I know not whether I have yet thank expressed to you or
Mr Blaquiere my acknowledgements for a copy of your translation
of my little squib against the projected Spanish House of Lords.
I understand from Mr Bowring that Lord had
written and got published in Spain a paper in favour of it.
If not too long to be sent by post, as it probably is, I should be glad to receive
a copy of it: at any rate by some less expensive means,
and in the meantime perhaps you could favour me with
such account of it as could be given in a dozen or a
score lines.

On On Monday the 2d of October the grand dinner for
the celebration of the triumph of Liberty, in Spain, Naples
and Portugal, is to have place. As to the private history,
of it, in a letter of mine of the 22d instant to Mr Blaquiere
I gave him two contradictory accounts of it, and unfortunately
the last not the true one. At first I said there was to be no coalition; and that the
Stewards were to be taken exclusively from the friends
of Sir Francis Burdett, to the exclusion of Mayor Cartwright
and the small number of his supporters. The
object of this was – to get as many titled men, and other leading Whigs, as possible,
few if any of which whom would, it was thought, have any thing
to do with a meeting in which the Mayor drew the resolutions
and made a prominent figure: for it there was full perfect assurance
that in that matte case there would be hostility against the
Whigs. At last, to avoid the appearance of , it
was settled that the Mayor, and an adhoc a few adherents of
his, should be admitted into the list of Stewards, but that
the Secretary should be of the other description; and that it
should be so managed, that there should be not, in any part of the business be any hostility against
the Whigs: in which, I take for granted, is included that the Resolution
Toasts &c should be
settled by the Whigs.
In this the advantage
of the Spanish cause
was manifestly
subtitled.

Identifier: | JB/013/250/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	250	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d10 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::i&m [fleur de lys] 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	draft of letter 2692, vol. 10	ID Number	4699
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