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I have been prepared to hear of the recoronation at Madrid – & the utter destruction of Zaragoza.xx four or perhaps five – The end will yet be well. It is before walld towns that the xxxx strength
of the French will be baffled. I have not much apprehension from Sir John Moorexxxx frontier of Portugal at hand. & he will
divide his men among the frontier towns, – many of them are very strong, – Elvas, or rather Fort Le Lippe – nearly
impregnable.
Landor is come back – to fight that fool Stewartil
est fou. il n’a pas l’argent.xx arrived, over he came, to put his threat in execution. If you have not seen this letter I will send it you, as a
noble specimen both of him & of our Diplomatists. They & are our Generals are the disgrace of their country & the jest
of all Europe. What he says is, ‘The Spaniards will be victorious in spite of their allies’ – but they feel as I feel & as he
feels about their black business in Portugal that is infamous in all th his parts, & that their xxx xxx <cause
has> been betrayed.
The Palace of the Elements is badly built & must I believe be pulled down, – The horse sacrifice (call it the
Aswamedha if you would look learned) not too long for its importance, the agony of
fire was full, he could not be hotter. The fiendish hand very well, – yet not more than very well. There is fine rhyme
about the horse, but the finest thing is Ladurlads appearance & the way in which he mars the sacrifice.meteor cannot be made into a trochee which the sound requires. The mythology is all true – the passage about love
extraneous, & must be struck out unless I can condescend to let it stand for a clap-trap. I am getting on, & after this
book the close of which about Camdeo does not please me,th will I make then!