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[clxvii. 272] 1820. Aug. 29 Probation
[clxvii. 272]

1820. Aug. 29 Probation

Emancipation Spanish

'.2. Creoles unwilling

2. To subrulers unendurable

'' - to Subrulers unendurable. B.

Whether it remitts to Spain any money or no, the Ultramaria province must /in the first place/ defray the expence of its own establishment: or else, instead of remitting to Spain, it must receive from thence a balance.

This expence - supposing it confined within the bounds of necessity, and the amount of it (including the mass of emolument attached to the several portions of the /provincial and other/ local official establishment) given to natives of the provinces and unless /in so far as a material interchange has place among the province/ to an [...?] this expence - they would have no room for grudging, and would not grudge. Under these conditions, due regard would be paid to the interests of both classes: to that of the subject many by the moderateness of the burthen imposed by the taxes: to that of the ruling few by the equality of the distribution made of the benefit composed of the sweets of office.

Well then:- taking in hand now the interest of the ruling few or rather subruling few in Ultramaria as distinguished from that of all together as above, and by being confined to that which consists in a participation with the ruling few of Spain in the sweets of office, in both countries together let us view how under the Constitutional Code /matters/? what has been done in favour of equality as to this point. The answer is - absolutely nothing: nothing in favour of any such or so much as professed: which only in the violation of it can the class of the ruling few in Spain find in the dominion over Ultramaria that portion of the advantage which forms the patrimony of their class.

Of the functionaries the field of whose duty will be in a is mentioned as being to be found in a province, and thence in every Ultramarian province, I will beg your attention to three distinguishable classes: the mark of distinction I take from the circumstances of these receiving, or, not as far as appears, not receiving official emolument. In Class the first I place those for whom it is certain that emolument in a pecuniary shape is designed: These are The members of the several establishments following

1. The Ecclesiastical establishment

2. The Judicial Establishment

3. The Military Establishment: that branch

which belongs to the armed Service with its Artillery and other stores [?]: that portion of the army the destination of which is to be quartered in the Province.

4. The Naval Establishment with its appendages as above: that part which is destined to remain in or near to the province, sometime in part, some time removing to the neighbourhood.

5. The Financial Establishment: consisting of the Offices named in Article 326 the Intendant, with his host of subordinates.
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