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1820. Nov 2d
J.B. to Mora

and introducing incompetent and despised agents made
the Spanish Liberty celebration Dinner so small a matter
in comparison of what it would otherwise have been.
When I make use of the channel thro' Colon I will
send you two or three of those proposals and the first
number in it, should it come out. W

When you have received this, pray tell me if the
letters on the liberticide measures are published, whether,
on the field of the liberty of the press, there remain any
and what points on on which you would wish me to touch
more particularly. I have had a long time almost
finished a paper on Hermosa's excuse for delay at Cadiz.
Possibly I may send it you by next post: it may occupy
the greatest part of a sheet of this size. The Pamphlet —
"rid yourselves of Ultramaria" — sticks all this while, but
there seems nothing in it near so pressing as those other
topics. The minority on the Society suppressing question
must, I think, some of them, be highly exasperated:
pray mention whether their concurrence with us in
these things promises to be obtainable and efficient.
Say likewise, whether by those means any promising
communication upon with Portugal can be effected. The individual
being invisible ands as such out of the
way of jealousy and envy, might not a name sucha as mine my name form
a sort of point de raliment or mot de ralliement to Portugal & the Army?
The use of a name
so circumstanced, is to
afford a manifest security
for the absence of
all sinister interest, and
to counteract the deplorable
illusion, by which the
quantity of virtue is
represented as being in
the direct ratio of
quantity of power, whereas
it is really in the
inverse: witness the twelve
Caesars.— Not that even
superhuman virtue,
labouring for a people
in a situation such
as mine, would suffice
to produce so
large a mass of apparent
and generally
admitted do, as would
be given reflected upon by the glitter
of a crown, u upon a ruler,
who shd. know no better
use for subjects, than
the affording him amusements by their tortures.
I forget whether I ever informed you of the advances
made by the Duc de St Frias towards an acquaintance.
My answer was, in substance, yes —if and whenever for
any specific use on either side; till then, no. Suffer not
in all this any idea of the effect on my personal feelings
to have any the smallest effect on you: for a
cause such as this I am alike content to be any
body or nobody which ever best suits it.

Identifier: | JB/013/039/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-02	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4
Penner	john flowerdew colls; richard doane	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2706, vol. 10	ID Number	4488
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