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[clxvii. 265] 1821 March 20
[clxvii. 265]

1821 March 20

Rid Yourselves

'. Representation no security

Such /This/ then is the state of things, in which alone any security that can be alledged /produced/ is an adequate security either /in favour/ for the Ultramarians against misrule under the Constitution would if it had place be to be found. An arrangement proposed in the character of a security to the Ultramarians against any measure that can be /liable to be/ devised by the Constituted authorities in Spain sitting in the Peninsular /Spain/ and really chosen by the inhabitants /population/ of Spain for the sacrifice of the interests of the /population of/ Ultramaria. And the men, at whose hands and by /from/ the exercise of whose power this security is expected /to be looked for/ who are they? Men chosen by those to whom the security is to be afforded? No: /on the contrary/ but men the only men against whom the security is looked for: men who are respectively indebted for this their situation are indebted - not to those whose Representatives and even whose Deputies they are stiled and profess to be, but [...?] it is not known who, of this or that one of your Rulers - of this or that one of the men in whose enterprizes whatever danger there is will have its source as if in a war the garrison were appointed by a beseinging enemy: or, if pardon the allusion /pardon the allusion/ - it is of situations that I speak not of personal characters with respect be it spoken, as if in a town the watchmen were to be appointed by the thieves.
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