If in the life of the kings they seek for examples in the past, they remember the Austrian Caesars, but it is complete oblivion of those first Bourbons who morally killed the Inquisition, expelled the Jesuits, and fostered the material progress of the country; they renounce the memory of those foreign ministers who came to civilise Spain.

Jesuits, friars and clerics order and direct as in the best times of Charles II.

To have had as minister a Count of Aranda, the friend of Voltaire, is a shame of the past and to be passed over in silence.

Yes, Don Luis, you say well, the monarchy is dead.

Between it and the country there is the same relation as between a corpse and a living man.