1820 Oct. 19 liberticide 1 19 Public discussion 19 Preferable expedients

Against the danger in question many are the securities that might be proposed /I

could propose/ each of them if needful sufficeient, each of them less

mischievous than those of Mr Gorelli’s: no one of them such as I should expect

to find necessary. I will enumerate them in their order, beginning with most

apposite and least mischievous.

1. The first I should propose is the allotting to the Cortes a permanent and

adequate Military guard under the command of the President. 2. The next is a

prohibition of secresy as applied to any of the acts or meetings of free

political societies. Lord Castlereagh at the instance of his Ambassador at

Madrid could furnish Mr Goreli with apt and tried arrangements for this purpose.

3. A general and compleat disarming of the people: with the exception of such of

them as it pleases Mr Goreli to indulge with the use of arms. For this purpose

likewise he could much instruction as well as countenance might be obtained from

the English government: especially as applied to Ireland.

The first of these measures may, as it appears to me not only /merely/ innoxious

but even useful. And for protection /security/ in this shape the Cortes can not

be at any loss: around them stands the regiment of | | by which for this purpose

the service of that regiment has it seems been already offered.

True it is that by this instrument to no authority or body in the country but

the Cortes nor to any /and to no/ place but the capital in which it sits does

the protection in question apply itself. But to keep a guard in contact with

every body of men to which and to every house to which and to every individual

to whom it might happen to be the object of disaffection from this source or to

/with/ every individual breast to which it might happen to become the seat of

that unpleasant sensation would require more expence than can easily be

afforded.