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[clxvii. 95] 1821 March 23
[clxvii. 95]

1821 March 23

Rid Yourselves

Anti Constitutional

Corruptive influence

For the particular purpose at present in hand, all that seems necessary here to be added, is - that if restoration of misrule and misery is worth avoiding, corruptive influence and corrupt obsequiousness are worth excluding; and therefore /with them/ and for that purpose every addition made to the quantity of that matter by the operation of which these effects are produced, is worth avoiding and excluding; and that the whole mass of patronage corresponding t the mass of pecuniary profit, power and factitious dignity that would be to be employed in the endeavour to maintain this claim constitute the mass of the matter of corruptive influence and corrupt obsequiousness by which you would be continually pressed down pressed back again towards that gulph of misery from which you have so lately emerged.

You have seen according to the best approximation that could be given to you by a foreigner (it belongs to your Rulers to give you a better) of the proportion which this so easily extirpable /extrudible/ part of the poisonous mass bears to the remainder. H

H Here restate the estimated amount from the Tables
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    In Article 129 next after the commencing clause Durante el tiempo de su diputacion, comes in the form of a parenthesis a reason to attach /attached/ to the mask - Contado para este efecto desde que el nombramiento conste en la permanente de Cortes And at the end of this same Article, that there may be no want of reason /lest there should be any deficiency in the article/ comes another, - como no sea de escala en su respective carrera.

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