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1820. Nov. 6. Wednesday 1. Nov.
I am so disheartened, my dear Sir, by the Spanish news of the day, that my facilities seem to have left me. They certainly have, in a great measure, for this day: next day, a part of them will return, but not the whole. This is what I have learnt from those reflex observations which I am constantly making on my own mind. The news I allude to is the (?) put upon the law against public discussion: coupled with the rejection of the law for the suppression of Monasteries.
The 27 of last month was a day of hope and alacrity to me: it bought me from Mr. Bowring an extract of a letter from Mr. Puigblance on the subject of Codification. The alacrity was in no small degree increased by the receipt of your's, the first I have had the pleasure of receiving; but I hope not the last. It was not long, as you may well imagine, before it was produced to my little knot - M. C. and H. Great was the satisfaction, not small the admiration, it lighted up in their minds. I mention these as so many facts, the knowledge of which, being matter of necessity, the communication of them has a claim to precedency over all reflections.
In the humour I am in, an invitation from the Cortes, in the most solemn form, would scarcely give me alacrity enough to undertake the work: perhaps when I am recovered from the present shock, the state of things may not seem so perfectly deplorable. What hope, what pleasure, in framing laws for a government which, should it be inconsistent enough to adopt them, (a thing hardly to be expected) would not give the people the benefit of them? The better the arrangement in question seemed to me to be, the legs would be my hope of seeing it carried into effect.
Supposed a code ready by the time when Cortes should awake. Will it really be suffered to awake? Not unless satisfactory assurance were attained that it would be the same wretched thing - weak-minded or corrupt or both that it has now shown itself. By sanctioning these liberticide laws, it seems to me that the Cortes has been cutting the ground from under itself. The news that would now be most gratifying to me, is that the government has fallen to pieces: that the La Isla army were in full march for Madrid would be gratifying indeed.
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[[notes_public::copy of letter 2706, vol. 10; "copied this day from the brouillon sent novr 3d or 4th / 4 decr 1820 per jc this appears to have been part of the matter first sent through colomb: if so sent safe and need not be copied for resending" [bentham's notes]]] |
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