[clxii. 54]

1820 June 22

Emancipation Spanish

Conclusion

Rulers gainers

Your present rulers - the /your/ Kings present advisers, have rescued you from the dominion of your late rulers, the King's former advisers. True. But from the relief thus given you from the former yoke, it does not follow that they will be disposed to subject you to /keep you subject, in so far as may be/ another Yoke: from their repugnance & abhorrence manifested towards the relief given /obtained/ to you and themselves from a yoke by /under/ which they suffered, it does not follow that the same repugnance /horror/ will on their part be felt for a yoke imposed by themselves and for their own profit. a yoke as profitable to themselves, and in case of need, no less as grievous to you. I do not say they will do so. Individually of myself I know nothing of them, except what I see in public prints. I have no prejudice against them or any of them, any prepossessions in relation to them I have are all in their favour. I do not say then that they will do so. But what /all that/ I say is that in the natural course of things is - that, unless to a certain degree opposed, they should do so , for the natural course of things is that men /in their situation/ any in the situation in which they have been and are placed, men - any man - should if in his power do so.

They have saved you amongst others - you the subject many - from arbitrary and servile[?] imprisonment and torture: they have abolished the Inquisition - that tribunal by which oppression in that shape was inflicted. True. But how came they to do so? Why? to what end /for whose sake/ was it that they did so? I will not say that in so doing your interest was not at any time in the thoughts of any of them: I believe not any such thing: I know no ground I have for the believing /any such belief/any such thought./ But what I do say is that it was principally for their own sake. Why? not only because every man is dearer[?] to himself than any other man is, but because they, and they in a peculiar if not exclusive degree were the class of persons exposed to all such oppressions