clxvii. 190]

1820 May 4. See Oct. 30

Part II.

Letter 11. Better Ultramaria rule Spain

"Throw aside your arms". you say to them, and you say well. Throw aside your arms permitt me to say for them to you. No arms have they ever taken /did they ever think of taking/ up against you. It is not in the way of offensive war that they have ever taken up arms against you, or any body: it is only in self-defence: and I grieve to say, if in your state of freedom /the days of your freedom/ you persevere in the conduct you were forced into in the days of servitude in self-defence against you. No attempt have they ever made, to exercise dominion over any part of Spain. No such attempt have they ever made: no such desire have they ever formed.