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National Art Library, London, MS Forster 48 D.32 MS 18. Previously published: John Wood Warter (ed.), Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, 4 vols (London, 1856), II, pp. 202–204 [dated 27 September 1810].Dating note: Southey twice misdates this letter ‘1801’ at the start and ‘Aug. 26’ at the end. Internal evidence makes it clear that this letter is from late September 1810.
These letters were edited with the assistance of Carol Bolton, Tim Fulford and Ian Packer
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My Uncle has resigned Staunton
& removed to Streatham in Surry, – which the D of Bedford has given him.
I am at work upon the history of 1809 for the Edinburgh Annual Register.p it, places me
in comparative affluence. I have 400 £ a year – for it, & have vested 209 £ of the first years payment in a twelfth share of the
concern, which will bring me xx nearly 40 per cent. If you see the first volumeof <in> acquitting
oneself of any participation in national guilt or national folly, in writing of the existing powers as faithfully as if they
were not my contemporaries, above all in speaking of Buonaparte as befits xx a republican. The Spanish history I have given
as fully as all the documents within my reach enabled me. & Spain will prove Buonapartes ruin. He never can subdue the
Spaniards. Even tho he should make himself master of every city in the Peninsula the country & the people would still be unsubdued,
– the result, sooner or later will be a free government in Spain, & a military nation who will revenge the cause of Europe upon
France.
Your conception of Count Julian is very fine & original – my plan imputes no grandeur of mind to him, but a great
deal to his daughter, who bears him mortally wounded into Rodericks cell to be by him reconciled to the Church.have not has not sufficiently subdued Julian to
his say that he forgives him, – he only at least repeats forgive us our trespasses &c – unable to address Roderick –
or even to pronounce his name.xxxxxxx xxxx with in the last battle he bears a part, carrying in one hand the
crucifix in the other the sword, – in the heat of the battle he charges the Moorish leader – & hurried away by the
xxxxxxxx feeling of the moment, sets up his own war cry & decides the fate of the day, – & disappears in the
pursuit. His horse & arms are to be found at a distance from the field – as after the battle [MS missing] Guadalete,
Had it not been for that execrable affair of Copenhagen& Even as it is I do not think the Swedes will quietly submit to King Bernadotte,