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Rid Yourselves. Aug. 1821

Letter 5. Continued Ultramaria in submission impossible

[verso]

Rid Yourselves 31 March 1822

Part 4

Letter Cause Apprehension of the several branches correspondent to the several supposed sources of bencht looked for on the part of Spain.

1. loss of profit by expenditure of Official Emolument savings - See see [...?] Ultramaria [...?] required

2. loss by restriction on Ultramaria production and export prohibited for the sale of Spanish dealers.

3. Forced military service. Export or Ultramarians for military service in Spain or elsewhere.

4. Denial of justice by Appeal: Oppression by d o.

[clxvii. 240]

1821 Aug. 5

Rid Yourselves

Lett. 5,

Continued submission impossible

Letter 5. Continued Ultramarian Submission impossible

Spaniards!

You the subject many! You the great bulk of the Nation! never be it out of mind, it is to you I speak, on this occasion as on every other.

From the claim kept up by your rulers in the dominion from the dominion over the whole of Ultramaria itself, if already in their hands, in respect of money no net profit can you receive: no saving can you make no, nor under the Code so much as a single receipt, of the repetition of which you could at any time entertain any well-grounded expectation: This I have already shown you. This was on the supposition of temporary submission and mutual satisfaction in consequence.

At the time when any translation of this may chance to reach you - at that time, whatever it may be, you will see written what narrow limits in respect of extent of territory population and wealth the expectation of any such submission how short-lived so ever can have any tolerable ground.

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Rid Yourselves 1 o

Letter 13 or 27 Better Ultramaria rule Spain

[clxvii. 286]

1820 Aug. 19

Emancipation Spanish

Letter 22 or 27

Better Ultramaria rule Spain

Mode of riddance

In the dissolution of this union thus there would be no difficulty. But in the continuance of it on the other hand I see considerable difficulty: and I can not see how /consistently with the essentials of the Constitution/ the difficulty can be solved.

In every future Cortes in the very next that takes place which will be in less than two years, the numbers of members of the whole deputation, the numbers belonging to each of these two discordant parts and consequently the proportion between the two - members to depend upon the state /quantity/ of the population in the two countries: being to be in a certain proportion to that population: namely one for every 70,000 souls "of a certain description." In the European dominions the population is regarded as determined: the supposition being to be that it is the same as according to a census taken A o 1797 it was at that time: and thus far no difference that can have had place being likely to be attended with any practical inconvenience, /or considerable objection/ no difficulty presents itself. But in every one of the several American provinces, the Census remains to be taken: and in no one of them until the /a/ census have been taken any deputation can there be. The furnishing the Cortes with a deputy from that Cortes will therefore depend upon the local authorities on whom it will depend whether and where this same census shall be taken: an operation which especially in countries so circustanced is not quite so easily /and promptly/ performed as spoken of. In some the Constitution (Art. 30) supposes there exists perhaps at present a Census: but in so far as this happens to be true, /have place/ if he in whose custody or within his reach the census is - chooses that there should be no census, he has but to destroy the paper, and for a long time at least his will is done.

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Rid Yourselves

August 1821

Letter 25 Aversion Causes

Cause 9. Loss by fortunes made in Ultramaria by Spaniards out of Ultramarian Offices and on retreat from Office carried out of Ultramaria to Spain.

[clxvii. 277]

1821 July 3 d

Rid Yourselves

4 Supposable resource 4

Emolument from Ultramarian Offices

Strange as it may appear these your distant kinsmen have not quite so blind a partiality for you or your rulers as your rulers reckon upon your having for yourselves. This exportation - this continual exportation - of money or moneys worth, always without an equivalent, and this to an amount so considerable as to be regarded as a national resource - /a resource/ worth contending for, and at such an expence - the inhabitants of the country at whose expence it is to be saved up and sent away - what will they say to it? Vain to this purpose would here be all reference to the abjured despotism. Under that pressure, nothing did they dare say against any thing: nor therefore against this. But, under the new system - the system of equal enjoyment and equal rights - the system of economy and good government - a system under which by Article 368 they would "have liberty to write, print, and publish these and all their other political ideas without harm" &c what would they say of it? They would say - that neither in the one country nor in the others, consistently with the fundamental principle of the Constitutional Code - (Art. 4. 13) namely the greatest happiness of the greatest number can there be any such making of fortunes: that the whole amount of fortunes made in any country out of official emolument, whether spent on it or exported out of it, constitutes a part, though no more than a part, of the booty made by unpunishable because leglalized depredation: that in the Anglo-American United States, it is a principle that no such booty shall ever be made, and that accordingly in that only existing and etablished sort of good government no such booty is ever made:

How should it? when if you except the substitute to a Monarch, with his ,6000 a year Civil list, when in the whole Official Establishment there is no such thing as a lot of Official emolument out of which, were the men to live all the time upon air, any thing that in England could be called a fortune could be made. True (they would say): if by the example of English rulers depredation, only because unpunishable, is capable of being justified, justifications you may have in plenty. But, wheresoever else and under whatsoever /other/ system of law, the example of England may afford a justification for unpunishable depredation, in Spain or any where under the Spanish Constitutional Code it can do no such thing.