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1820 May 31 Emancipation Spanish
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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