No. IV.
EXTRACTS FROM KING JOSEPH’S CORRESPONDENCE.
SECTION 1.
The duke of Santa Fé to the King, Paris, June 20, 1810.
(Translation from the Spanish.)
“Will your majesty believe that some politicians of Paris have arrived at saying that in Spain there is preparing a new revolution, very dangerous for the French; and they assert that the Spaniards attached to your majesty will rise against them. Let your majesty consider if ever was heard a more absurd chimera, and how prejudicial it might be to us if it succeeded in gaining any credit. I hope that such an idea will not be believed by any person of judgement, and that it will soon subside, being void of probability.”
SECTION 2.
Ministerial letter from the King to the marquis of Almenara.
(Translation from the Spanish.)