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[clxvii. 118] 1821 March 31
[clxvii. 118]

1821 March 31

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'.10. No improvement or redress for Ultramaria.

But on that same occasion for the purpose of bringing to your view this additional mass of evil that would there be thus imposed upon you by the dominion of your rulers over Ultramaria supposing the claim successful, it has already been necessary for me to prove to you from the Code, that under it no act of legislation, not even of subordinate legislation, could consistently with the arrangements made by it in relation to this head, be exercised in and for your Ultramaria or any part of it.

When on that occasion the comparatively lawless state in which these vast territories with their inhabitants are /were/ thus undertaken to be placed were brought to view, it was for the purpose of shewing in what way the vast load suffering there could not but be heaped in a direct way upon them could not but fuel in a less direct way be pregnant with suffering to yourselves.

The purpose for which your attention is now requested for for which that same state of things is that some conception may be formed by you of an ulterior and perfectly distinguishable mass of evil that could not fail to be brought down upon you by the operation of that same cause. I mean the evil that you would have to suffer from that resentment on their part, which the sense of so all comprehensive and intolerable an evil as would be the result of their being placed for evermore in a state at once so helpless and so degrading and so hopeless could not fail to be productive of.
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