1808.
MY DEAR WRANGHAM, On the other side you have the prospectus of a weekly essay intended to be published by your friend Coleridge.
* * * * * Your Sermon did not reach me till the night before last; we have all read it, and are much pleased with it.

Upon the whole, I like it better than the last: it must have been heard with great interest.

I differ, however, from you in a few particulars.1st.The Spaniards 'devoting themselves for an imprisoned Bourbon, or the crumbling relics of the Inquisition.' This is very fair for pointing a sentence, but it is not the truth.

They have told us over and over again, that they are _fighting against a foreign tyrant_, who has dealt with them most perfidiously and inhumanly, who must hate them for their worth, and on account of the injuries they have received from him, and whom they must hate accordingly; _against_ a ruler over whom they could have no control, and _for_ one whom they have told us they will establish as a sovereign of a _free_ people, and therefore must he himself be a limited monarch.

You will permit me to make to you this representation for its truth's sake, and because it gives me an opportunity of letting out a secret, viz.