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            literatura they ever had — and the savage Indians the most rational Christian
            Civil & Moral institutions that ever were applied, since the conquest, for their
            benefit & happiness — And these motives I believe, were the real cause of their
            expulsion from that Country.
                    If you mean to make additions to your Military Memoirs, I recom-
            mend you to examine an interesting Pamphlet published by Egerton in 1802
            entitled Caractere Militaire des Armes Europêennses dans la Guerre actualle
            avec un Paraüde des Français et des Romains. —- and a valuable work called
            Introduction a Vetude de P Art do la Guerre par Rocheaymon — Weimar
            1802. 5 V. 8º & Atlas.
                    If you don’t find these to last Books I might lend them to you.
                    I most heartily join you in wishing for the delivery of Europe, and for
            the re-establishment of its former Independency; but it avails very little to the
            fate of mankind what your wishes or mine may be, — it is the wisdom and
            conduct of those that are at the Head and Government of Nations, that must
            produce those salutary effects — I am sorry to say that i do not see any change
            in their Plans, views or actions — the same selfish designs, illiberality, and
            duplicity, it appears to me, pervades most of them; for which reason instead of
            any beneficial results, I am afraid we shall have mischief and calamities exten-
            ded beyond the European Hemisphere and over the New World. — The exer-
            tions in some of the Spanish Provinces appear to me the work of fanaticism
            and disappoinstment, rather than patriotic views & designs of Independency
            of Freedom, therefore my hopes in this point are less sanguine than yours.
                    I have seen the greatest part of your Mss. upon Genl. Beresford’s con-
            duct & Justification at Buenos Aires &ca. I have seen also numerous docu-
            ments relative to the same subject communicated to me by a Gentleman of
            the Country that was chiefly concernel in all those high transactions; from
            which I conclude much as you do, giving some credit to B for his moderation
            while he commanded and much blame to the other for his sordid selfish and
            illiberal views which were the source of the incalculable mischief that followed
            afterwards, and that will be transcendant yet I am afraid, against the real inte-
            rest of England as well as South America. Whitlocke’s instructions appear to
            me to be the result of the erroneous information transmitted to this Country
            by the Chief of the Expedition and other Mercantile adventurers, that con-
            sulted more their private interests (as they commonly do) than the benefit of
            their Country or any other People upon Earth! I sincerely believe that anw



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