[clxii. 228]

1821 Jany. 6

Rid Yourselves

'. Preliminary distinctions

5. Distinction the fifth. On the part of Ultramaria and its several component parts distinction between momentary or temporary submission /acquiescence/ on the one hand, and ultimate and settled submission /acquiescence/ on the other.

8. Distinction between what the framers of your Constitutional Code found it necessary to make as if they had in view as if they took for the object of their endeavour, and what they found it necessary to take in reality for the object of endeavour: in other words distinction between their apparent or professed and their real views.

6. As the union could not be regarded as maintainable without an armed force for both elements every province of /to all parts of/ Ultramaria sent out from Spain and continually recruited from Spain, by this circumstance not to speak of others were it the only one the union between Spain and Ultramaria would as it all along has been the dominion of the rulers of Spain over Ultramaria. Hence comes

6 distinction the sixth - Distinction between the expence of maintaining the dominion in case of submission; and the expence of regaining or attempting /endeavouring/ to regain it. This of course has its seperate application to every one of the at present refactory provinces.

7. Distinction the seventh. In the case of each province distinction between the expence of maintaining the dominion over it on the supposition of voluntary submission, and the expence of maintaining it after resistance surmounted. This distinction too has its application to every one of the provinces. The province which is submissive today may be refactory tomorrow.