1820 June 4

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

1. First then as to the article money.

I will in the first place endeavour to put you into a /the/ way of obtaining a conception of your loss in this shape. This done, what will remain for consideration /enquiry/ under this head is whether /from the source in question/ there be any thing of profit from the source in question to set against this loss.

I say, to put you into a way. For, stranger, foreigner, Englishman, as I am, this is the utmost which /that/ it is in my power so much as to attempt. At the same time I can not but be pretty well satisfied that /I see not any reason to doubt but that/ for the particular purpose here in question, this attempt will be found suffcient.

That the details which I am about to submit /present/ to your view are the latest /of a later date/ that have ever appeared in print is more than I can take upon me to stand /be/ assured of. Later than these it has not happened to me to know of any: and for trustworthiness the publication from whence I have extracted, /they are here extracted/ knowing as I did the author and the means he had of information, I can not conceive them capable of being exceeded by any other, with the single exception of such, if any such there be, as have been furnished by the official persons themselves who at the time in question were at the head of the several departments to which they respectively relate.

The work /publication/ in question has for its title Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 &c. by Joseph Townsend: 2 d Edition with additions. London 1792.

The article in question is an alleged account of the actual expenditure in the year 1778. as given in Vol. II. p. 187.