[clxvii. 222]

1821 Jan y 31.

Rid Yourselves

'.3 Creoles unwilling

We have an old jest-book story of a Frenchman's account of the English beverage called punch. There was the brandy, to make it strong: there was the water to make it weak: there was the lemon juice to make it sower; there was the sugar to make it sweet: in a word, it was the liquor of contradiction. Spaniards In this liquor, you may behold the architype of your Constitutional Code so much of it as applies itself to the dominion over Ultramaria.