JB_172_095.xml

Title: [1820. Aug. 17 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Aug. 17

Emancipation Spanish

'. 11. Particular interests adverse

' 5. Interests adverse

Retrenchment necessary

As to the three pecuniary interests - the Public Creditor's, the Monarch's and the

Clergy's - to place thse claims at a vast and conspicuous height aboe that of the

Daemon, they have this in common - that retrenchment can not apply to them, without

giving birth to suffering:- to evil in positive shapres. To the demon it may apply

itself - and apply closely - if not withut porducing any such effect, at any rate

without porducing in that shape, any thing like equal effect.

See if this be not the case. Amminition, for example you

have none: @ well then, forbear to provide that quantity, which,

but for the cravings of the demon, you would not have thought of provideing: so

forbearing, yo produce not, in any human breast, any sense of suffering. In like

manner forbear in regard to stores of all sorts; forbear in

regard to men: men for the army,

men for the navy - men for every other branch of the

service, through which the demands of the demon would come.

So much as to the case where retrenchment may be made to a vast amount, yet no

suffering produced.

Now for an example of the case, where unless great caution is used, retrenchment can

not be made but proportioable suffering must be produced.

You have as yet your Council of the Indies. You will want no

council of the Indies when you have no Indies. But, like other men, the Members of

the existing council of the Indies will want subsistence. So will the present

professors of every permanent fund, which to supply the more imperious exigencies of

the state, you extinguish. For all this you will have your rules: rules by which the

great controversy between the present and the future will, somehow or other, be

decided. To touch upon the field calls for those rules, belongs not to the present

purposes. All that at present I need beg you to remember, is - that the demopn can

better bear fasting that any human creature can: the demon of ambition although he

has the demon of slaughter in his belly: and that which with my p[ublic means for the

war I am now waging against the [...?] of [...?], I have King, Clergy, and Public

Creditor and I hope the Soldiery on my side.

@. Cortes. sitting of July 18th 1820. Per Canga Arguelles War

Minister.

JB_172_093.xml

Title: [1820. Aug. 17 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Aug. 17

Emancipation Spanish

'. 11 Particular interests adverse

Retrenchment

To pronounce on the comparative claims of these several /the three intessigible/

interests are compared with each other belongs not to the present occasion. What

belongs to the present occasion is to represent to you how utterly untenable the

interest of the daemon is when compared with any one of those three human interests.

[...? [...?] that whatsoever may be the justice of these claims as compared with each

other, it is incontestable as compared with his and whether the force that belongs

respectively to these several interests is friendly /subservient/ to the universal

interest it is unquestionably subservient to the universal interest in so far as it

stands opposed to whatsoever force the daemon may be capable of acting with in human

breasts. The Public Creditor it has been seen has an enemy in the Daemon - the King

has an enemy in the Daemon - the clergy have an enemy in the Daemon. Not a maravedi

can be sacrificed to him but must be taken from one or other of them. Let but their

eyes be open to this their true and uncontrovertible interest, they will attack him

with united force, and his power will be at an end.

JB_172_092.xml

Title: [1820. Aug. 17 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820. Aug. 17

Emancipation Spanish

'. 11 Particular interests adverse

Interests adverse

Retrenchment

Add to these that other particular interest whicfh is here in question, namely the

interest corresponding to the [...?] of the dominion in question - an interest for

which, unless the ruling few will acknowledge it as their particular interest not

being able to find any one individual whose interest it is, I can find no owner other

than the daemon of ambition, has in trun four conflicting interests, each of them

contending against all the rest, each of then striving to ward off for itself, each

of then consequently striving to direct upon and against all the rest the retrenching

system.

Either the country must be reconsigned to the expelled despotism, or left a prey to

anarchy, and devoted to universal destruction, or a portion of one or more of these

particular intersts must be made sacrificed to the universal interest: whatsoever

money is given or left to each one of the four interests must be taken from one or

more of the three others.

How than are those vast partners /members/ of the community the interest of each of

which stands in a state of direct hostility to that of the daemon: the /namely/

public Creditor, the Monarch Royal favouites /representatives of the Monarch/ and the

whole body of the Clergy. Having this interest in common, all these in so far as they

see, comprehend and perceive each of then has his own interest will concurr in

opposing with all their force the demands of this same daemon, the daemon of blind

ambition with the daemon of slaughter in his belly.