[627] For details see Schepeler, iii. p. 691. The goods must also be carried in Spanish vessels, so the grant was not a very liberal one!
[628] Liberal clergy of the type of the journalist Blanco-White (Leucadio Doblado) were rare exceptions.
[629] Doblado’s Letters, p. 392.
[630] Motion by one Francisco Maria Riesco, deputy, and formerly Inquisitor, at Llerena in Estremadura. Argüelles’s Las Cortes de Cadiz, p. 209.
[632] He was of the same branch as the Countess of Chinchon, Godoy’s wife, being son of Luis, youngest child of Philip V, by a quasi-morganatic marriage with a lady of the name of Vallabriga.
[633] ‘Que la nación era soberana con el rey, desde luego prestaría el juramento pedido. Pero si se entendía que la nación era soberana sin el rey, y soberana de su mismo soberano, nunca se sometería á tal doctrina.’ See more of his argument in Toreno, ii. 225.
[634] Compare Toreno’s insinuation against the Regent Lardizabal (ii. 213), to whom he ascribes a definite plot, with Arteche’s defence and eulogy of the late Regency, ix. 109-11.
[635] Toreno, ii. pp. 222-3.
[636] See Wellington to Henry Wellesley, Nov. 4, 1810:—‘If the Princess of the Brazils be the person appointed regent, the Court will be inundated with intriguers of all nations, and attended by other evils.’