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Title: [1820. Dec r. 26. Rid Yourselves of]

Description: 1820. Dec r. 26.

Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria

Introduction

'. 6. Tables Conclusion

members of the official establishment could have continued alive; and

how it is that the possessors of goods should not rather have destroyed than

furnished them.

To conclude this head - to the present purpose, the material question

os - at this time of day, does the so extensively contested claim of dominion over

Ultramaria, present any better grounded expectation of advantage, than the peaceable

possession of it did in the year 1786? In the opinions that you have seen, even the

peaceable possession was not, at that time, attended with any advantage. If the possession was not then what, in

the eyes of any person who can think,- what, if he can bear to think of it, can be

the advantage, of the claim without the possession, - or

even of the claim with the possession - now?

Thus much upon a view thus general. Presently, we shall come to take

a particular view, of all the several shapes, in which, in the nature of the case, it

would be possible, that, from the source in question, advantage, to any amount,

should accrue.

By these preliminary explanations, you are, I hope, sufficiently

prepared for the view of the Tables themselves.

Whether, the advantage, acquirable from the dominion, supposing it in possession, or

the probability of reacquiring and retaining it were considered, the view thus

presented to you, of the state of your revenue and expenditure at this recent period,

could not, on the present occasion, be omitted. Had it not been for this

confirmation, it might have been supposed by some, that in those accounts

respectively the profit from the dominion was at that

former time underrated, or the expence of supporting and defending it over-rated: or

that, in case of re-possession, the probable net advantage

from the dominion, might, at this time, be greater than it

was at that time: or, in a word, that, somehow or other, so

it is that, neither the opinions, nor the facts, of that

time, are applicable to the present purpose.

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Title: [[wrapper enfolding clxvii.240-56]]

Description: [wrapper enfolding clxvii.240-56]

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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Title: [1821. Jan y. 2 d. Part II Lett. 12.]

Description: 1821. Jan y. 2 d. Part II Lett. 12.

Rid yourselves of Ultramaria

Part II

Lett. 10. Better Ultramaria [...?]

All this while, a question that can scarcely fail to present itself to an impartial observer, is - these and all other imaginable contributions, be they what they may, for what reason should they be exacted from Ultramaria for the profit of Spain, any more than from Spain, for the profit of Ultramaria? On what ground can the reciprocity be refused? But, if it be not refused, contributions from neither would be a much more economical mode than contributions from both: carriage both ways would thus be saved.

Now, if, to the eye of an impartial observer, equality is equity, what chance is ther of its failing for any length of time to be so, to any of those to whose injury the correspondent and opposite inequality would operate?

My friends! by shutting your own eyes, can you (do ye think?) shut, and deep shut for ever, so many millions of other eyes, and at such a distance?

Never, even in a purely self-regarding point of view,- never, to Spaniards, can the feelings, not therefore, the interests, of their Ultramarian kinsmen, be objects of indifference. Even supposing them not to have, on their own account, any claim to consideration on the part of the subject many in Spain they will still be found to possess an incontestable claim to such consideration, on the ground of the effect of the dominion on the interests of those same subject-many in Spain themselves. For, the more strongly adverse, in its very nature, so the interest of the Spanish Americans, is the dominion thus exercised over them, the stronger is the resistance, of which, on their part, in proportion as the opposition of interests is understood and felt, it can not but be expected to be productive.