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1822 March 12
J.B. to Nunez

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Letter II

If I do not receive an answer to this by return
of post, I shall conclude, that by some inscrutable cause or other my
all endeavours on my part to hold communication with
you have been are rendered useless. My former letter I was
assured by Don Diego Colon Secretary of Legation
to your mission here went from hence the 14th of last
month: in the Postscript are these words You would oblige me
much by a short line apprising me of your receipt of
this by the next succeeding post

According to the intelligence that arrived here yesterday, you you are at
the eve of the great crisis: the option to be made between the best
of all governments and the worst. This crisis is in
my view of the matter a blessing. That The government which your predecessors
have been preparing for you is no better than a mixture
of Aristocratical with Monarchical tyranny. Aristocracy
for its own security finds itself under the necessity of
alleviating in some degree the atrociousness of yoke imposed by Monarchy:
but while it this yoke is thus rendered in some degree less galling,
the hopelessness of any thing like a compleat liberation from
it is immeasurably encreased. In the confederacy
of the several branches of the Aristrocracy Aristocratical interest [+]
[+] of which in my Codification Proposal
a list will soon
be placed before you
be under your eye,
all clustering
around the Monarchy, and united to it and to one another
by one common bond of sinister interest, the great body of
the people have a confederacy of enemies: enemies as
irresistible, as they are by the nature of men they are implacable, and these same enemies
their rulers. To tyranny in government no bar but impatience
does the nature of men admitt of: and that bar nothing
but the principle above mentioned — the principle by which
all rules are rendered displaceable, and at short periods by those over whom they rule: a
state of things which
in the expression
the face of a — hue of impossibility,
but of which the
is in the Anglo-American
United States so happily
and compleatly demonstrated
by experience.

Identifier: | JB/013/297/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1822-03-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	jb to nunez
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8
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		ID Number	4746
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