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1820 June 4 Emancipation Spanish
1820 June 4

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

Remains as said for the expenditure appertaining in that same year exclusively to Spain, to the exclusion of Spanish America and which consequently (setting apart as before the expenditure of the Royal family would in that year have remained to be defrayed by taxes on the Spanish people, had the dominion over Spanish America not been in the hands of the rulers in Spain.......................

Expenditure made in that same year on and by the Royal family alone, to the exclusion of all other families in Spain except those of the several functionaries on whom for and at the pleasure of the Royal family such and such portions of it were beloved (a)...

Note (a)

(a) The following is Reprinted from the original Vol. II. pp. 187, 188. Expenditure. 1778.
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    '. 5. People sufferers

    In the following conjectural account, extracted from it in the anatomy /anatomical proof/ /dissection/ performed upon the body of Spanish finance for the purpose of the present enquiry, I begin with deflecting off and putting aside that part of the aggregate expenditure which as far as I can judge from the indication given of the nature of the items would contain has not for its cause the possession of or the claim to the Spanish American provinces or any of them; and which would accordingly still have place, even supposing a /the her proposed separation/ to have had /taken/ place in every instance.

    The original as it stands, is reprinted at the bottom of this page.

    This done, I enter upon and display to view that part /these several items/ which as far as I can judge from these same indications appertains in common to both countries. /the two hemispheres/ In so far as true, /this is true, this part of the expenditure/ it will for the purpose here in question require to be in some proportion divided between the two countries. In some proportion? but in what? To this question, I am of course unable to find any answer that can lay a claim to any thing like correctness. In this case, /finding all grounds for the supposition of greater amount on one side and lesser on the other, equality is the only proportion that can be assumed. This proportion assumed the account stands thus

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    1. First then as to the article money.

    I will in the first place endeavour to put you into a /the/ way of obtaining a conception of your loss in this shape. This done, what will remain for consideration /enquiry/ under this head is whether /from the source in question/ there be any thing of profit from the source in question to set against this loss.

    I say, to put you into a way. For, stranger, foreigner, Englishman, as I am, this is the utmost which /that/ it is in my power so much as to attempt. At the same time I can not but be pretty well satisfied that /I see not any reason to doubt but that/ for the particular purpose here in question, this attempt will be found suffcient.

    That the details which I am about to submit /present/ to your view are the latest /of a later date/ that have ever appeared in print is more than I can take upon me to stand /be/ assured of. Later than these it has not happened to me to know of any: and for trustworthiness the publication from whence I have extracted, /they are here extracted/ knowing as I did the author and the means he had of information, I can not conceive them capable of being exceeded by any other, with the single exception of such, if any such there be, as have been furnished by the official persons themselves who at the time in question were at the head of the several departments to which they respectively relate.

    The work /publication/ in question has for its title Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 &c. by Joseph Townsend: 2 d Edition with additions. London 1792.

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    is little distant from the times at which, if the above supposition be correct, they

    are stated by him as yielding to the Mother Country Reals Vellon 38,899,918 viz on an

    average of 10 years ending 1778: and 60,000,000 reals vellon, viz on an average of 5

    years ending 1785. To reconcile the general assertion with the particular accounts,

    we must suppose that, on the occasion of the general assertion, he took into

    consideration the expenditure, which, being made in Spain on account of Spanish

    America, was drawn from Spain: namely, of the total expenditure of Spain in Spain,

    that part that was bestowed upon such part of the army, navy, financial department,

    and judicial establishment, the demand for which was produced by the dominion

    exercised in Spanish America by the Spanish rulers.

    2. Table II, headed American Revenue Table A

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    1786 or thereabouts, as per Count de Grepi or Greppi

    Imperial Consul at Cadiz, will sufficiently explain itself. It is from Townsend, II,

    181, 182, 412.

    3. Table III headed Spanish Revenue and Expenditure Table A

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    1820, or thereabouts, is copied from the Morning Chronicle

    of August 12th 1820: in which, the genuineness being supposed, it must have been a

    translation from some Spanish original: which, of course, rather than make a

    retranslation of this translation, and translator of this paper into Spanish will

    employ: applying to it at the same time all such corrections, explanations and

    observations, as it may be deemed to stand in need of.

    In conclusion, after some explanations, the total of the Expenditure is given, and the difference between the one and the other, i.e.

    the " Deficit" indicated.

    4. Table IV. Spanish Expenditure. Table A o. 1778: from Townsend

    II. 187, 188, 2d Edit.

    In the original, the articles are not as here distributed into classes; and the

    order in which they follow one another is a little different from that in which they

    will be seen here exhibited. In this reprint, for the purpose of the present

    argument, they will be seen distributed into four classes. Class 1 is composed of

    such, the demand for which, upon the face of them, can not (it is supposed) have

    been, in any proportion, created by the dominion over Spanish America, or any other

    of the distant dependencies of Spain, or by the Monarchical form of the Government;

    Class 2, of these the demand for which, upon the face of them, can not, (it is

    supposed) have been created by the dominion in question, but had been, the whole of

    it, created by the Monarchical form of the Government; Class 3, of these, upon the

    face of them, the demand for which must, in some proportion or other have been (it is

    supposed) created by the dominion in question; Class 4, of a single article, which,

    upon the face of it, can not but have been in its totality, created by the dominion

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