[clxvii. 290]

1820 Aug. 19

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

'.9. Mode of riddance.

While I am writing, accounts come in of the disposition manifested in this or that province to submitt to the dominion of the Cortes? A mixture of gladness and apprehension is the emotion on every occasion produced in my mind: of gladness, in respect of the assurance given of present peace: of apprehension, in respect of the effect it threatens to be productive of in disposing mens minds in favour of that union which to me presents itself as infallibly productive of that immense mass of permanent mischief which it has been my endeavour to bring to view.