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1822 March 30

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Part I.

Letter 5: Submission Impossible

The Appendix no one need read where satisfaction is compleat without it. need afflict his sensibility or bother his memory.

As service of profit illusory

As d o of irritation, oral.

Letter 5. Much more in proportion as they are averse, as under the Constitution they can not fail to be. Causes of such aversion numerando - Explanation and proof postponed. Ultramarian submission why impossible

Spaniards

Of the certainty of the repugnance and of the causes of it already some intimation has been given to you: and that intimation I can not but flatter myself [...?] not altogether without effect. For submission Causes of inducement absolutely none: for no submission causes abundantly adequate. At the expence of your Ultramarian kinsmen From the dominion even if maintained no pecuniary benefit in any shape: burthen in a pecuniary shape boundless.

That your conception of the repugnance that on their part can not fail to have place on their part towards the dominion may be the more clear and correct and approach the nearer to the being compleat, I will here beg your attention in this place submitt to your view here follows a list of some of the most prominent evils which they can not but see and feel resulting from it. In this Letter the bare list of them is all I mean to trouble you with: the development of these I defer laying before you till I have brought to view the /those/ evils which bear in a more immediate way upon yourselves. Causes of the repugnance that actually has place and never can cease to have place on the part of Ultramarian Spain such as you will see in conclusion /detect hereafter/ by themselves.

Causes of the repugnance that ought to have place on the part of Peninsula of Spain I will present /lay before/ you in my next Letter and in the immediately succeeding ones.
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    Letter 5. Continued Submission impossible

    When I have thus given you in the way of enumeration only, /without either proof or/ explanation or proof the last of the circumstances in which this aversion has its causes when I have thus given intimation only and no more of those evil effects in your comfort which have for their source the /that/ aversion, discontent, resistance and hostility, as /which/ to your rulers and in so far as you second their endeavours as to yourselves the claim in question to whatever extent maintenance can not fail to be productive - when I have done this, I shall then proceed to beg your /keep before your/ attention to these evils, which in a more immediate way, and independantly of all such aversion on the part of your kinsmen, apply in an individual way to yourselves.

    You have seen a set of supposable resources /sources//channels/ of profit, from which all expectation of pecuniary profit from Spanish Ultramaria to Spain appear to have been derived. You will see that which /although/ in the character of channels or sources of profit in this shape all these circumstances are illusory, /false and delusory/ yet in the character of sources of irritation on their part, and consequent /correspondent/ aversion to the dominion, they are every one of them, but too real and substantial and unavoidable /irremovable/.
  • Title: [[clxvii. 49] 1822 March 31]
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    1822 March 31

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    Letter 5: Submission Impossible

    The Causes of Ultramarian repugnance I see in the following evils following The evils /causes/ in question may be thus designated.-

    Cause 1. The new lights and the arrangements made in the Code itself The Spanish Constitutional Code suffices to preclude submission in the forms following. Lights exclude blind submission.

    Cause 2. The whole of the Ultramarian Revenue placed at the command of the constituted authorities in Spain Revenue, all to Spain.

    Cause 3. To the dominion. Appeals from Ultramaria to Spain would be necessary: to Ultramaria they would be a grievance unendurable. Appeals unendurable.

    Cause 4. By distance from the seat of European Government adequate redress of grievances from misconduct of subordinates is rendered physically impossible. Redress of grievance impossible.

    Cause 5. By the dominion every Ultramarian Province would be rendered a prey to /on the occasion of/ every Spanish war with any other Province or with any foreign State. Ultramaria a prey to Spanish wars.

    Cause 6. Under the Code Ultramarian stands precluded from all exercise of even subordinate legislation: thence from all improvement, as well as from all redress, except from /by/ resistance. Ultramarian legislation none.
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    Letter 5. Continued Submission impossible

    Spaniards! you will find it but too true - if you dare to look the subject in the face. You will find it but too true - on the part of the persons proposed to be kept in subjection to this dominion submission for any continuance is morally impossible Aversion unconquerable aversion is sure. The causes of it are numerous: causes, amongst which are several, any one of which would suffice for the production of the effect.

    In this letter I shall proceed to enumerate them to give you a list of them: and in any space that can reasonably be allotted to one Letter out of a number, this is all that can be done. For explanation and proof I must refer you to as many succeeding Letters as there are clauses in this list. And this deduction so unpleasant is it in its nature and in its whole length this long deduction I shall put off for the present, and postpone to a sort of Appendix with which no man whose satisfaction is compleat without it, will have need to burthen himself to afflict his sensibility or burthen his memory.

    It is your interest and your claim that is the direct subject object and subject of this address: that of your Ultramarian kinsmen no otherwise than in respect of the relation borne by theirs to your's: the injury /evil/ /detriment/ done by the dominion and the claim to their interest is no otherwise considered than in so far as it produces correspondent injury /evil/ to yours. Their aversion it is unconquerable and necessarily direct. But if such bring their aversion being thus unconquerable all endeavours on your part can not but be fruitless, and the whole of the blood and treasure expended in that endeavour, expended in waste.