1821 Nov. 19 Codification Proposal Advertisement Testimonials why

In this state of things, no support by which any promise of assistance was

afforded could it is manifest be consistently neglected. By the sort /a set/ of

Testimonials /of the sort/ in question the only support was held out which the

nature of the case afforded was held out /offered itself to the authors hands/

sufficient or insufficient the support thus afforded can not in its nature be

presumed irrelevant, nor under such circumstances superfluous.

At the end of the list of Testimonials now for the first time given in that

[-----?] intimation has been given of those which are to be seen[?] /contained/

in the [------?] conjunction /company/ with the Proposal already published

Proposal as above. To English readers if any such there be there will be a

repetition. But, that work not being to the authors knowledge translated into

any other language - (for under the general order given in the Cortes it can

hardly as yet have been translated into Portugueze, the same considerations

which called for the publication of this second set of testimonials rendered

/made/ it a matter of necessity to give some intimation at least of the first.

While these lines are writing the Cortes of Portugal have perhaps already before

them a Letter sent by the author from him to that assembly by the Lisbon packet

of the | | instant, a Letter containing an offer addressed specially and

exclusively to that illustrious assembly by which so fair a promise of

everything that could be wished in such an Assembly has already been afforded.

If by experience, general or particular at the hands of any body of men clothed

with sovereign legislative power the author could be warranted in the hope of

witnessing any such self-sacrifice, these are unquestionably the hands. The

result is necessarily as yet necessarily unknown at the time of sending these

lines to the press.