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             Vida y obra de Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán
            Officer or Chief sent to that Country with the same ridiculous and impolitical
            instructions, will come ultimately to the same result, form which position I
            conclude that your fried and Secretary of State W-m, is not less blameable in
            the whole transaction than the Chiefs of the Army.
                    Adieu.
                    (Borrador de Miranda)
                    Al Dr. William Thompson.

                       Archivo del General Miranda, AM, T. XXI, La Habana, 1950, pp. 313-315.




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                            CARTA DEL DR. W. THOMPSON A MIRANDA (1808)


                    Nº 8 Gravel-pits Kensington 19 July 1808.
                    Dear General, I send the Trunk for the Books. I will take good care
            of them all — They will be quite sufficient for my purpose. It is a lucky as
            wonderful that you should have such a number of Books so directly to my
            purpose — As to the Military Memoirs, I have not a little from Character Mi-
            litaire des Armes &c in the Editions published — of the other two books & a
            little Conversation wt. you on the most proper Extracts, I will, by and by, avail
            myself — Mean while what I am closely engaged in, is a 3d Edition of phil. Ill
            and preparing a sketch of the History of Europe 1807. for the Annual Registry;
            w , you may recollect, I was wont to do formerly, and to which I have returned
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            — I had done just a decad = from 1791, inclusive, to 1801 inclusive (w  the
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            Exception of 1793 published before my services were colled—) A majority of
            a Company of Brooksellers, Tradesmen wd. the usual principles & passions of
            Tradesmen, after I had brought the publication wd. had fallen years behind,
            up to a proper time or overtakers time, as it were, sell off from the Terms on
            w . I had engaged — I peremptorily refused to go on unless they would abi-
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            de by their Engagement — In these circunstances they listened to overtures
            from a person in the Confidence of Lord Grenville. And the Historial part
            of Dodsdley Annual Register for 2 or 3 years, was actualyy both composed
            & printed at Storve! It afterwards fell another political Influence & into the
            hands of another Writer — But it did not rise in reputation. The party, among
            the Booksellers who protested against breaking Faith w . me has become a de-
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