1820 May 15

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People sufferers

The people of the Anglo-American States are mentioned in like manner; and for the same reason: namely to show that their case has not been forgotten

In the scale of dangerousness - I mean real dangerousness I place them last. The reasons are plain. In that country the world the old world - is turned topsy-turvy: the people govern their rulers. In that country The people are not fond of being taxed: and though in comparison of a King of Englands /Great Britains/ advisers they are an ignorant crew yet by that very ignorance they are led onto an impatience of taxation: ignorant [...?] so they are, /nor yet be[?] they want knowledge enough/ they have still knowledge enough to know that war is not to be carried on without taxes.

In this latter circumstance then may be seen, whatotherwise would be undesirable the cause of that exemplary patience that unexampled patience - that alleged and apparent love of justice, by which for nearly twenty years the rulers of that commonwealth have been kept back from seeking compensation by war at the hands of the Spanish Monarchs late advisers for as long a train of inexcusable injuries