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[clxii. 29] 1820. July 30 Emancipation
[clxii. 29]

1820. July 30

Emancipation Spanish

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' Conclusion

To set against the above mass of expence, make an estimate of the annual sum proposed to be extracted from each such dependency, and placed at the disposal of government in Spain; in such sort as to operate by the whole amount of it, in diminution of the taxes that would otherwise be imposed on and borne by the people of Spain:- under the head of each such dependency, stating the taxes, or other sources of revenue, from which the money is proposed to be extracted.

Spaniards! You shut your eyes, you stop your ears. But your eyes had you even put them out, your ear-drums had you even broken them, would the nature of things be changed by it? Are ends to be accomplished by pertinacity without means? Are all virtues reduced to one, and that one the blind and selfish appetite for power?

Spaniards! the name of Bentham is not altogether unknown to you. Soon you shall see what in the year 1793, and of course in vain, that patient and not altogether unknown labourer in the vineyard of legislation endeavoured to say on this same subject to the people of France. You could not on that occasion have been in his view. But whether among the arguments which on that occasion were applied by him to the case of France, there may not be some that would be found applicable to your's, or may be not unworthy of your consideration. Whatever interest I may have in misleading you, he at any rate had none.

Spaniards! Sober operations - operations of arithmetic such as those just suggested - think whether they are the suggestions of an enemy! Think - (not that it matters any thing to the argument) - Think whether you have an enemy in

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