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<p>1821 Aug. 17<lb/> | |||
<!-- pencil --><head>J.B. to Portugueze Cortes</head><note>☞ Not employed</note></p> | |||
<p><del>Speak the word and you shall receive from me <add>of my making you</add> | |||
shall have from</del><lb/> | |||
In the first place, a <add>proposed</add> Penal Code, in the next place a<lb/> | |||
<add>proposed</add> Civil Code, in the third place a <add>proposed</add> Constitutional Code: all<lb/> | |||
of these adapted as far as may be to the circumstances<lb/> | |||
of Portugal <add>will be kept in view</add> in so far as the state of them <del><gap/></del> <add>may be to</add> can be learnt<lb/> | |||
from the text of your existing laws <add>Ordinances and Judicial customs</add> more particularly<lb/> | |||
such <del>as shall have</del> <add>Ordinances as</add> in the intervening intervals shall<lb/> | |||
have <gap/> from the regenerated legislature,<hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> <note><hi rend="superscript">⊞</hi> and with <add>from</add> such<lb/> | |||
appropriately intelligent<lb/> | |||
fellow citizens of yours<lb/> | |||
as I may be fortunate<lb/> | |||
enough to find within<lb/> | |||
my reach.</note></p> | |||
<p>Be they<lb/> | |||
ever so ill adapted <add>these draughts of mine</add> no mischief to Portugal <del>would</del> <add>will</add> be<lb/> | |||
done by them <add>from them will be to be found</add>: none could <add>can</add> be done, without your <add>that</add> sanction<lb/> | |||
which you would <add>will</add> not give. <add>Oh</add> Yes indeed; if the principles<lb/> | |||
were bad: <add>But</add> but the principles <del><gap/></del> are no other than those<lb/> | |||
you have already sanctioned <add>on which the seal of your approbation is already stamped</add>.</p> | |||
<p>Force, intimidation, corruption and delusion –<lb/> | |||
under these names may be placed all the instruments<lb/> | |||
of misrule misconduct in government. <del>In <gap/> have</del><lb/> | |||
Never was body of law so clear of poison from all<lb/> | |||
those several sources as that will be <add>is</add> which <add>through your hands</add> by the<lb/> | |||
means <add>now</add> thus offered to you it will depend upon you to<lb/> | |||
give to your Constituents.</p> | |||
<p>Never was choice so free as that which I am<lb/> | |||
thus putting into your hands. Force, intimidation, corruption<lb/> | |||
and delusion – by all these instruments of misrule<lb/> | |||
is freedom of choice <del>in the <gap/></del> <add>taking the expression being</add> taken in that most extensive<lb/> | |||
sense which belongs to <add>it on</add> the present occasion, violated.</p> | |||
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1821 Aug. 17
J.B. to Portugueze Cortes☞ Not employed
Speak the word and you shall receive from me of my making you
shall have from
In the first place, a proposed Penal Code, in the next place a
proposed Civil Code, in the third place a proposed Constitutional Code: all
of these adapted as far as may be to the circumstances
of Portugal will be kept in view in so far as the state of them may be to can be learnt
from the text of your existing laws Ordinances and Judicial customs more particularly
such as shall have Ordinances as in the intervening intervals shall
have from the regenerated legislature,⊞ ⊞ and with from such
appropriately intelligent
fellow citizens of yours
as I may be fortunate
enough to find within
my reach.
Be they
ever so ill adapted these draughts of mine no mischief to Portugal would will be
done by them from them will be to be found: none could can be done, without your that sanction
which you would will not give. Oh Yes indeed; if the principles
were bad: But but the principles are no other than those
you have already sanctioned on which the seal of your approbation is already stamped.
Force, intimidation, corruption and delusion –
under these names may be placed all the instruments
of misrule misconduct in government. In have
Never was body of law so clear of poison from all
those several sources as that will be is which through your hands by the
means now thus offered to you it will depend upon you to
give to your Constituents.
Never was choice so free as that which I am
thus putting into your hands. Force, intimidation, corruption
and delusion – by all these instruments of misrule
is freedom of choice in the taking the expression being taken in that most extensive
sense which belongs to it on the present occasion, violated.
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