JB_162_029.xml

Title: [[clxii. 29] 1820. July 30 Emancipation]

Description: [clxii. 29]

1820. July 30

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

' Conclusion

To set against the above mass of expence, make an estimate of the annual sum proposed to be extracted from each such dependency, and placed at the disposal of government in Spain; in such sort as to operate by the whole amount of it, in diminution of the taxes that would otherwise be imposed on and borne by the people of Spain:- under the head of each such dependency, stating the taxes, or other sources of revenue, from which the money is proposed to be extracted.

Spaniards! You shut your eyes, you stop your ears. But your eyes had you even put them out, your ear-drums had you even broken them, would the nature of things be changed by it? Are ends to be accomplished by pertinacity without means? Are all virtues reduced to one, and that one the blind and selfish appetite for power?

Spaniards! the name of Bentham is not altogether unknown to you. Soon you shall see what in the year 1793, and of course in vain, that patient and not altogether unknown labourer in the vineyard of legislation endeavoured to say on this same subject to the people of France. You could not on that occasion have been in his view. But whether among the arguments which on that occasion were applied by him to the case of France, there may not be some that would be found applicable to your's, or may be not unworthy of your consideration. Whatever interest I may have in misleading you, he at any rate had none.

Spaniards! Sober operations - operations of arithmetic such as those just suggested - think whether they are the suggestions of an enemy! Think - (not that it matters any thing to the argument) - Think whether you have an enemy in

Philo-Hispanus

JB_167_229.xml

Title: [[clxvii. 229] 1820 July 26]

Description: [clxvii. 229]

1820 July 26

Letter Last. Conclusion

Spaniards! the discussion on my part at least is closed. Well now - the discussion thus closed, what think you of your correspondent? what think you of his affections towards you? are they those of an adversary /or to enemy/ or those of a friend?

Your own feelings, on the subject of Ultramaria and those alledged and commonly so called losses of territory what are they? Liberation from so many burthens what are the feelings produced by it? regret or comfort has it the greatest share in them. For my /own/ part, as often as /in my own existence [?]/ expence without equal profit ceases, my own feelings are those of comfort. I can not without very particular and equal evidence, think otherwise of your's.

167_190.xml

Title: [clxvii. 190] 1820 May 4. See Oct.]

Description: clxvii. 190]

1820 May 4. See Oct. 30

Part II.

Letter 11. Better Ultramaria rule Spain

"Throw aside your arms". you say to them, and you say well. Throw aside your arms permitt me to say for them to you. No arms have they ever taken /did they ever think of taking/ up against you. It is not in the way of offensive war that they have ever taken up arms against you, or any body: it is only in self-defence: and I grieve to say, if in your state of freedom /the days of your freedom/ you persevere in the conduct you were forced into in the days of servitude in self-defence against you. No attempt have they ever made, to exercise dominion over any part of Spain. No such attempt have they ever made: no such desire have they ever formed.