[clxvii. 93]

1821 March 26

Rid Yourselves

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'.7. Anti constitutional Evil 2

2. Corruptive influence

Persons of other descriptions there are who stand excluded with equal rigour. Per Article 95 Secretaries of State, Counsellors of State persons possessing offices in the Royal Household.

Good. But persons possessed of pensions held during the Royal pleasure - are they included in the list of exclusions? /in the exclusion list?/ Not they indeed: they were forgotten to be inserted shall we say? or they were remembered not to be inserted.

Spaniards if on this subject of corruptive influence it be your destiny to receive true and useful information and instruction it must be from some man who can have no hope of profit from the correspondent corrupt obsequiousness It must be from a foreigner: and a foreigner so situated[?] as to see all paths /behold the whole field/ of political ambition under his feet.

Fortunately for you it is without his being either a Member of the Cortes or a Citizen of your country that it is in your power to receive this service at his hands.