[clxvii. 58]

1822 March 21

Rid Yourselves

' Anti Constitut. Evil

1 Vitiating Cortes Constitution

Not so in the case of Ultramaria. Taken to the extent of the claim, supposing the design declared in the Constitutional Code effected, the effect would be to place in the Assembly of Cortes at present sitting in Spain, and at present composed of Members the majority of whom are natives of the Peninsular chosen by the inhabitants of the Peninsular i.e. in the plain and true /original/ sense of the word Spaniards, a majority composed of or at any rate chosen by Ultramarians.

Would not this be the case?

Look to Art. \ZS\ There you will see that in every part of the United Kingdom peninsular and Ultramarians together the Representatives /members of the supreme governing Assembly/ have to be in a certain proportion to the people namely the proportion of 1 to 70,000. But even at present taking into consideration all such means of information as have been to be found it seems pretty well agreed, that already the Ultramarians are more in number than the peninsulars: by a Census, Peninsulars, say for a round number 12,000,000: Ultramarians a given number greater than 12,000,000 (a).

(a) Add note giving the numbers