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Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
co-ordinated intelligence pierce through and
they are the more formidable for being unexpected.
There is perhaps a certain analogy
here with the Spanish government.'
Gayongos digested this, and then said, 'Let
us turn to the administration. The new Viceroy
is not intelligent, but he wished to distinguish
himself by being active and zealous: he is
wholly committed to the King – quite unapproachable
by any means – and so are the
people he brought with him, his immediate
staff. But fortunately most of the secretariat
remains unaltered, and I have some reports
that will interest you. As for the chief officeholders,
there is little change, except at the
head of Indian affairs, which is now occupied
by a highly-respected man, a friend of Humboldt's
and like him an abolitionist; while in
the department dealing with trade and customs
the deputy-controller has taken over