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clxii. 238] 1821 Jany 6 Rid
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1821 Jany 6

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' Preliminary Distinctions

If in virtue of the terms under the powers established /ordained/ by the Constitutional Code any appearance were produced of your being gainers by it otherwise than by saving on taxes, either it would be by an arrangement which without the appearance would possess the quality /produce the effect/ of a tax, or by one which whether it produced any thing or nothing in the way of saving in tax to you would to them be more burthensome and thence more provocative of resistence than a tax, or if it were productive of any advantage to you without greater disadvantage to them would have place as well without the remedy[?] as under and by virtue of it.
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    Until these distinctions are closely perused all perception will be indistinct and confused: and all opinion full of error.

    On the other hand to you not only would the endeavour if fruitless be prejudicial; but the actual possession of the dominion that is to say your rulers possession of it by your rulers would be prejudicial /mischievous/: prejudicial /mischievous/ in a high degree and in every imaginable point of view
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    '. Preliminary distinctions

    Such then being on every occasion the contrariety - the irreconcileableness - behold in the present occasion the appplication of the distinction and the consequences of it.

    To your interest /the interest of you the subject many/ it is not conducive but repugnant that any such course as that marked out by the Constitutional Code between you and Ultramarians should have place: it would on the contrary be in the highest degree and in every point of view repugnant to your interest that it should have place.

    But taken in the aggregate it is perhaps /would perhaps be/ conducive to the interest of the ruling few that such course should have place. For in proportion as according to the terms of the Constitutional Code any such course took place, the dominion over Ultramaria - dominion more or less effective would have place in their hands.

    Under those circmstances I will first state to you, and then prove to you in what respects you would be sufferers by this course, and thus /at the same time/ in what respects your rulers would be gainers

    Sufferers you would be in two essential points of view the one a pecuniary or financial, the other a constitutional point of view.

    If in the pecuniary point of view you were gainers, it would be by saving in taxes: a portion more or less considerable of what you would have to pay on that sum being laid upon and borne by Ultramaria. But all /every/ such expectation you would find compleatly illusory: instead of having less to pay you would have more: more beyond measure or calculation: more yes as much more as by any possibility could be wrung from you, and still the dominion would [...?] remain entire not so much as a year together in to the hands of your rulers of the men whom for their own sinister interest you are thus afflicted /oppressed/
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    '. Preliminary distinctions

    So much for the distinctions themselves: now as to the application I have to make of them: the importance of it you can not but in some degree have already anticipated.

    1. Distinction between the interest of Spain and the interest of Ultramaria. Of the two interests that of Spain alone is on the present occasion the direct and ultimate object of my regard. Yes People of Spain on the present occasion it is for your sake alone that I write. Not that in equal numbers, the people of the one hemisphere either have or ought a higher place than those of the other. But in place /in the first place/ is the interest that the Ultramarians have in the business that there is scarce any risk /danger/ of its being misconceived: in the next place it is not possible for me to bring to view /shew you/ your interest in the matter, without bringing to your view their interest in it at the same time. Why not possible? For this plain reason. The more strongly and manifestly repugnant to their interest the case in question would be, the stronger will be their aversion to it: and the stronger their aversion to it, the greater will be the difficulty you would find in any endeavour of yours to surmount it, and the greater the sufferings to which you would by all such endeavours be subjected /affected/.