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1820 June 10 Emancipation Spanish
1820 June 10

Emancipation Spanish

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'.7. Rulers gainers

Of the vastness of the amount of the loss and suffering to the subject many, from this distant disastrous dominion some general conception has, it is hoped, been already given; vast the loss and suffering independently of all war, and even suffering as such war /no war from that cause/ ever to have place. Of the vastness of the profit that could not but be extracted, and in so great a variety of shapes out of that loss, and this in such sort that, to the obtainment of the profit, production of loss in a vast ratio to the profit, is necessary /indispensable/, it remains to convey such conceptions as can be conveyed, under the present head.

In this profit, /you/ the subject many will see the main cause of that propensity, to which as they value and understand and value their own interest, the subject many will have to combat and with all their power: the propensity to [...?] distant dependencies for their own sake and for the sake of war, for the sake of the profit immediately derivable fro them immediately, and for the sake of the profit derivable from them intermediately through the medium of wars and constant preparation for war: and conversely the propensity to engage in war for the purpose of perpetuating /securing/ and encreasing of giving security and encrease to their dominion over distant dependencies.

Immediately or unimmediately the source of their sinister profit that would be derived from this dominion, will be seen to come and is the denomination of power - encrease of power. From the dominion in question vast profit indeed would go to Spain - that the sole source of it being the addition made by it to the profit of the rulers - profit considered /taken/ in the largest [...?] and taken in all shapes - the whole of it would be received and enjoyed by the rulers, and that attendant every particle of it with much much more their equivalent loss to the subject many, and thence to the whole community taken together.
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    Abstractedly considered, the gain to the ruling portion of the community whether from the source in question or from any other, the gain /profit/ to the ruling portion, as to any other portion, of the community, is as far as it extends /by the whole amount /extent//, profit to the whole. If it /the effect/ be loss to the whole, it can only be in so far as loss to others, loss more than equivalent to the profit, is among the results of the operation by which the profit is produced.

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    The impossibility will /may/ be no argument with your rulers who will have their

    profit from the patronage: but it will be with you

    The impracticability may not apply at all: but let it apply to many or few, there is

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    Before the Revolutionary war which converted so many dependent English colonies into

    Independent States, England possessed the dominion over those distant countries as

    she does still over so many others.

    But from this dominion, what to them on whom the expence of it was charged, was the

    alleged benefit? Not alleviation of taxes by means of money drawn by taxes from these

    dependencies: no: nothing in this shape: nothing in any other shape than that of a

    supposed advantage in trade: an advantage in trade, drawn from sources from which it

    is now generally acknowledged that no advantage can be derived

    As to the applying of taxation there to the purpose of restricting money for /to/

    the ruling country for its own use, it has all along been a principle of the

    Constitution that nothing of this sort should be attempted. In the early part of the

    late reign the attempt was for the first time made: and it was by this attempt that

    the emancipation was brought about.

    In consequence of this or that peace this or that island passed from this or that

    country into /under/ the dominion of England. In the thus conquered island taxes were

    found established: taxes the produce of which had been brought to the country to

    which it was subject. Here then it may be said there was a profit to the ruling

    country.- No such thing.