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1820. Novr 23.

J.B. to Mora

the light I find is in the sum of 25,000 reals — stated
as being (I suppose that sum paid yearly) — as the allowance
made, as supposed, by the French government
to a Morning-paper- the Universal I thing they call it.
But the Constitutional? — What is the additional sum
deemed requisite for that paper at the onset — and how long would that sum
would last? In my last, I stated one to a hundred as the
chance in favour of my being able to cause to drop
from the clouds the money necessary: I can still
venture to set down the chance as equally favourable.
Could I have known the sum necessary, I
might perhaps, have stated the odds as not quite so
great. But still the sum is known, more than this
I do not see how it is possible for any body to say. It
grieves me to think that a month at least must elapse
before a satisfactory answer to this indispensable
question can be received. Although this will
have to go by post, Mr de Colomb was obliging enough
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to consent very readily to take charge of it: and this, I
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believe, before I had inforemd him of the exigency of the
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case— I mean the danger of the stoppage of any letter
sent to you through the ordinary channel. Mr Blaquiere,
in his letter, mentioned as a fact that all the members
of the Cortes were to continue at Madrid till the resumption
of the sittings: when with M. de Colomb,
I took the opportunity of a mentioning this as a report,
and asking him whether it was true: he answered very
readily —Yes— that it was true in the main; for
that two thirds or three fourths of the deputies, I
do not for certain remember the number, but I
think it was three fouths, were to remain; and
that those three fourths were to be elected by the
president, and that Mr Callatrava was that president.
All this comforted me not a little.

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Date_1	1820-11-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public	letter 2715, vol. 10	ID Number	4553
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