1821 Sept. 26 + {B} {D} §. 4

To Toreno

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Letter VI

§ 4. Apology for prudence

Sympathy

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In my first Letter, Sir, I took the liberty of representing to you, how incompatible with the only justifiable end of our correspondence would be the keeping it unsubmitted to /in a state of concealment from/ the public eye. In the course of the succeeding Letters many I can not but think are the occasions on which you have seen reason to confirm this notice by your assent. Remarks thus free remarks thus /of a nature so surely/ unwelcome could you consistently with decorum could you consistently with prudence have given utterance to in the Cortes /Assembly/ or in every instance to the Gentlemen in question, even in private?

As it is, while you are eased of so unpleasant a responsibility, the remarks with the benefit if any there be which is derivable from them, will without any such unpleasant adjunct /incident/ be reaped by the illustrious nation which it is my ambition thus to serve.