1820 June 10

Emancipation Spanish

Ult

'.7. Rulers gainers

Of the vastness of the amount of the loss and suffering to the subject many, from this distant disastrous dominion some general conception has, it is hoped, been already given; vast the loss and suffering independently of all war, and even suffering as such war /no war from that cause/ ever to have place. Of the vastness of the profit that could not but be extracted, and in so great a variety of shapes out of that loss, and this in such sort that, to the obtainment of the profit, production of loss in a vast ratio to the profit, is necessary /indispensable/, it remains to convey such conceptions as can be conveyed, under the present head.

In this profit, /you/ the subject many will see the main cause of that propensity, to which as they value and understand and value their own interest, the subject many will have to combat and with all their power: the propensity to [...?] distant dependencies for their own sake and for the sake of war, for the sake of the profit immediately derivable fro them immediately, and for the sake of the profit derivable from them intermediately through the medium of wars and constant preparation for war: and conversely the propensity to engage in war for the purpose of perpetuating /securing/ and encreasing of giving security and encrease to their dominion over distant dependencies.

Immediately or unimmediately the source of their sinister profit that would be derived from this dominion, will be seen to come and is the denomination of power - encrease of power. From the dominion in question vast profit indeed would go to Spain - that the sole source of it being the addition made by it to the profit of the rulers - profit considered /taken/ in the largest [...?] and taken in all shapes - the whole of it would be received and enjoyed by the rulers, and that attendant every particle of it with much much more their equivalent loss to the subject many, and thence to the whole community taken together.