1820. Octr 18 Spanish liberticide measures 11 Letter 2. Public Discussion 11

Mr Gorelli makes no distinction. He will neither have excitation nor

instruction: wherever he sees free discussion there he sees an enemy.

Had the provision /his means of safety/ been temporary, some excuse might have

made of it: but so far as words go it is everlasting. In one single town A

danger whatever may have been amount of it had place for a few days: no actual

mischief, as far I can understand, was the result of it. If so The mischief was

after all but ideal. For remedy against a danger thus blown over – for this it

is that Mr Goreli organizes a danger designed to last as long as the

Constitution lasts, and designed for I can not see what less is designed to

destroy it.

A guard – a military guard – under the command of the President of the Cortes

for the time being – had this been his means of safety – necessary or not

necessary – I should have seen no danger in it. On the particular occasion in

question, one regiment, the regiment of | | offered (I see it said) its

services. Let these services be accepted and as above perpetual. I have no fear

from them. Neither the Nation /people/, nor the King with all the remaining

/other/ regiments, regulars and militia likewise, could have much to fear from

this one regiment under such command, nor from many such regiments put together.

Here then would be certain and everlasting force, provided against imagined and

apprehended force, and that but contingent and should it have place, but

momentary. Would not be sufficient.