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National Library of Wales, MS 4812D . Not previously published.
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If I can get a place at Kendal in the night coach, I shall reach Liverpool by eight in
the on Tuesday morning; but as the coach passes thro Kendal, instead of starting from thence, I cannot
secure a place. However the chances are much in my favour. From Liverpool I shall take the first conveyance to
Chester, and may perhaps xxx xxxxx & xxxx get on to Oswestry by the first stage. In case
of being detained there <at Chester> till the next morning, I xxxxxxx <may> find something at
the booksellers wherewith to while away the time. But if the hours suit, I will make no delay. When you set off for
town I can accompany you as far as our road lies in the same line, – for I probably to Shrewsbury. I
have to make a visit at Ludlow.
The dirty trick by which Curwen has got in for the County, may possibly lose a vote to his party
by the issue of the next election at Carlisle;proper person may be appointed to act as High Sheriff in Westmorland during elections, in
consequence of Lord Thanets conduct.
I look with much anxiety, & no little fear, to the meeting of the Cortes.are is to be apprehended. Quoad Ferdinand nobody
would care. But a Jacobine Revolution in Spain would be a tremendous evil. The convulsion would not stop there.
Germany would feel it, – & God knows what might happen in France. – Spain is in a dreadful state. Ferdinand has
been over thrown less by his own faults, & the spread of popular opinions than by his distresses. If he could
have paid his troops & his ser civil servants there would have been no opposition to his caprices.
But the same distress must continue to felt. The Government used to depend mainly for revenues upon S America. Half
or more of those resources have been cut off, & the people at home have been ruined by war & pestilence. A
revolutionary Government may & probably will, plunder the Church & the nobles; but this plunder will not
support it long & will not even afford a supply of xxx money for immediate emergency the French
having taken care of all that was convertible into bullion.