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1820 May 31.
Emancipation Spanish
'.4. Prelim y Considrat[?] continued
5. Retrenchment this the easiest
'.4. Preliminary Considerations continued Retrenchment necessary - In no other department is it so easy.
5. If retrenchment is made, it is in this part of the field of expense that retrenchment may be made with greatest facility be made
In stating /submitting/ this topic to your consideration, I anticipate that in the account of pecuniary profit and loss, the effect of the dominion in question will be no profit, all loss. On the proof given of this loss will therefore depend the relevancy and utility of every thing /observation/ which under this head you will see advanced /made/
When your rulers come to take into consideration the subject of finance, they will see the extreme difficulty of adding any thing to the taxes already in existence.
Instead of addition, they may perhaps see what even to them will appear an absolute necessity of subtraction.
They will find /see/ that whatsoever has been the amount of taxation, under the old system expenditure has constantly gone on and to the utmost bounds of possibility has continued outstretching it
They will accordingly see the absolute necessity of retrenchment somewhere.
Well then if /there in some part of the field of expenditure there/ must be retrenchment, what part can be more suitable than that in which so far from being necessary the expenditure is not productive of any advantage - is on the contrary productive of much evil /evil[?] and/ uncompensated.
Look all round the field of expenditure, no other part will you find in which the retrenchment can be made with less of inconvenience - with less of real, sensible, indisputable evil, coming home immediate to individuals - felt by assignable individuals.
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Title: [1820 May 31. Emancipation Spanish]Description: 1820 May 31. Emancipation Spanish '.4. Prelim y Considrat s. continued Retrenchment this the easiest This retrenchment (will it be said? by way of objection) the retrenchment will be to be made upon the official establishment - upon the army branch of it - upon the navy branch of it - at the expense of the functionaries at present belonging to these departments - and this in a form in which the sense of loss will come home to assignable individuals? My answer is this. To the maintainance of the dominion in question, the present establishment is in all its branches plainly inadequate for the purpose in question, an encrease and that a large one would be necessary. Forbear making the encrease. No man can say he is a loser - a sufferer - from a bare[?] forbearance to put money into his pocket - money which is not his due. Your army is at present very small - some parts of it if the public prints say true you have actually disbanded. In other parts, to the privates you have given permisson to quit the service. As to officers what you can do without giving cause of complaint to any one is - to forbear adding to the number This will go no small way towards prevention of encrease in the expenditure, this will go no small way. Hire of transports for conveyance of troops and stores - encrease of expenditure in these accounts you may forbear without giving cause of complaint or sense of suffering to any body. To the repair and building of ships of war - the same observation applies and with equal truth: so also to war and sea stores of all kinds On land you have now nothing to fear from France, you can never have had any thing to fear from Portugal, you can have nothing to fear from any body. Troops you have no need of any now to keep the people under subjection. Your government is not now like ours a military one. In National Guard in a [...?] people armed for their own defence and for no other purpose will be your chief dependence Troops of the line, a small body of them will be sufficient to form a school for the National guards, and a nucleus /standard/ to which, in case of war, they may be attached.
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Title: [1820 May 31 Emancipation Spanish]Description: 1820 May 31 Emancipation Spanish '.4. Prelimin y Considerat n continued 5. Retrenchment this the easiest For the chief of the state what is really necessary? Look to U.S. For retrenchment in one vast part of the present field of expenditure, preparation has been already made by one vast and radical and most comprehensive change. Before this Revolution, the people were made for the use of the King. Now in consequence of the Revolution, there is a talk of the Kings being made for no other use than that of the /in part at least for the/ people. Under different countries different prices are paid[?] have been or /and/ are paid for the use of this expensive implement, of the expensive implement called /wear and tear of the expensive covering by which he is distinguished/ a Crown: an implement, of which the mischievousness of which is seen and felt every where an implement the case of which were a man to look for it to the end of life /the most decerning eyes to be employed in looking/ they would never find. different prices: masses of money bearing different proportion to the true[?] total of the money levied by tax. In England the proportion is at present about in appearance / Search/ no more than about one to \ZS\ I say in appearance: for if to this were added the amount of the wars made to put by this indirect method /means/ into the pocket of the crown money which could not conveniently be put into it in a direct way, the proportion would /be/ in a prodigious degree be more considerable. In France the proportion is about 1/50 th : or about 40,000,000 to about 1,000,000,000. /Search/ In Spain, looking to the year 1778 I find it set down at about 3. [...?] (a) Population of Spain... A o 1778 A o 1803 Inhabit s to a per Liston, in Townsend II. 1 per Official Census + 10,351,075 Square League + Monthly Mag. 1 June 1820 Revenue of Spain Reals Vellon ,. s. d. Add Life-Guards...... China Manufactory.... 18,000,000 Goblen Tapestry and Persian carpet Painters, Architects and Pension 2,173,288 Academy, Cabinet and Library 128,173,288
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