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Title: [[clxvii. 51] 1820. July 24.]

Description: [clxvii. 51]

1820. July 24.

Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria

Part 1.

Lett. 6. Rulers gainers

'4. Rulers gainers

'.4. To the ruling few the dominion would be profitable: hence, naturally, the attachment to it.

Spaniards I have shown you that to you the subject many, not only the To the interests of the subject many, considered, as above, in the exercise of such claim to the dominion but the dominion itself would if possessed be in any necessary way, and in the high degree, above indicated be detrimental -, To the particular interests of the ruling few - to the interests of the particular class of men by whom it would be exercised,- I have at the same time admitted the exercise of it would be, in no small degree, benefical, what remains to be shown is - in what several ways the benefit to that class would encrease in proportion to the burthen upon yours beneficial: and the more so, the more highly detrimental to the /Hence you see what ways: [...?] that the greater the detriment to the/ interests of the subject many. It would make a correspondent addition to the stock of external instruments of felicity at their disposal: of those objects of general desire, in all their several shapes - money, money's worth, power, factitious dignity; provision for self, for dependents, for connections.

True it may be, that if in the article of actual felicity, the profit to the ruling few, were equal in quantity to the loss of the subject many, nothing would be to be said against this dominion, or the sacrifices so unavoidably resulting from it.

But, in the article of actual felicity, the inequality, and the loss that results from it to the universal interest - to that all comprehensive interest, which is composed of the interests of both parties - is, in all such cases, enormous.

Not to speak of the misery - the positive misery - produced by actual war - behold three causes, by the conjunct operation of which, the inequality, with the loss attendant on it, is produced.

1. Of the whole quantity, of the money expended by the ruling few as such, it is but a comparatively small part, that, even upon the most predatory plan of management, can be applied to their own use, in augmentation of their own felicity: namely, that part alone, which is composed of official emolument, and extra mercantile profit (a) upon stores furnished.

2. So limited is the capacity for actual

felicity in the human frame, it may be a question whether, into any human breast, by a mass of the external instruments of felicity, in all possible shapes, and to the utmost possible amount, it be possible that a quantity of actual felicity can be condensed, equal to so much as the double of the average quantity enjoyed by an individual of the day labouring class, whose

Note.

(a.) I say extra mercantile profit. For on whatever sort of subject capital were thus employed, ordinary mercantile profit would equally be made, were the capital employed - not upon these but other articles.

JB_162_005.xml

Title: [[clxii. 5] 1820 July 24 Emancipation]

Description: [clxii. 5]

1820 July 24

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

II Creoles repugnance.

II. Much more detrimental would the dominion in question or any attempt to exercise it over Spanish America or any part of that vast country be to the interest of the subject many in Spain upon the supposition of repugnance in the whole of Spanish America or any part of it.

As the repugnance encreased, or was thought to encrease, or was pretended to encrease so would the expence of the preparations made for surmounting it. It would encrease in proportion to the number of the provinces in which the discontent had place, and in proportion to the apparent comparative number and force of the discontented in each province: and so in case of disobedience or revolt, in proportion to the extent of it.

In Spanish America, the probable existence, and in case of its existence, the probable magnitude of the rupugnance, discontent, disobedience and revolt respectively, would of course receive encrease from every distinguishable arrangement, by which relief endeavoured /or benefit were seen to be/ to be afforded to the people of Spain - subject many, ruling few, or both together - at the expence of Spanish America or any part of it.

JB_162_144.xml

Title: [1820 May 17 Emancipation Spanish.]

Description: 1820 May 17

Emancipation Spanish.

'.7 Rulers gainers

'. To the ruling few alone, and at the expence of /you/ the subject many would the dominion be beneficial.

What then says somebody by the splendid dominance thus exercised will nobody be a gainer? will there be no gainers?

Oh yes: that there will; and but too many: and yet be the number what it may, not so many as would be necessary to render the possessor of it elegible beneficial to the people at large.

Without borrowing the exact amount of it, for the bounds to infinity can not be detrimental - we have ascertained thus much in relation to the expence of maintaining or endeavouring to maintain this dominion thus much has /and we have/ been maintained - namely that it amounts to the difference between the expence necessary to the maintaining of the Spanish government free from those burthensome dependencies, and the utmost quantity of money that can /could/ be extracted from the people under the nature of the maintaining this same unprofitable dominion.

Correspondent to the whole of the expence and the whole of the burthen with its suffering imposed upon the people at large, will be the profit received /reaped/ - and the comfort enjoyed by their rulers: by the Kings own advisers under the new free constitution instead of the King's late advisers under the old and the all thus established and firmly /[...?]/ maintained despotism.