[ clxvii. 208] (THis sheet is dated 1820 Aug. 13. It is obviously earlier material which has been incorporated in the 1821 Ms. and J.B. has changed the title, to Rid Yourselves, by pencil; most of it is Colls' copy)

(J.B.) /Defence/ Arguments in favour of their dominion - Example of England - Fallacies - Personalities laudative and vituperative.

[ Coll's hand - J.B.'s corrections insertions]

From the dominion maintained by the example of the colony-holding governments, can any arguments worth regarding in the present case, be afforded? None whatever. /True it is that to Spain, and to Spain alone, and in Spain itself/ only to the subject many, as above, is the present argument expressed addressed. But, with what propriety soever, if with any, it applies to the case of Spain, with similar and equally and equally incontestable propriety it would be found applicable to the case of every other colony-holding, or distant dependency holding, Government. More particularly /would it be found applicable to the case of/ Great Britain: that country which, though vulgarly regarded as a great loser - a loser next in degree to Spain - by her distant dependencies, Hindostan itself not excepted. The hold which her rulers have on that dominion will, however, unless broken by a Revolution, be maintianed by them, to the last: maintained with equal pertinacity by each of the two sections into which the ruling few are divided. /How can it be otherwise considered how on/ this, as on every other point, the interests of these two ever lastingly contending parties are in a state of equally incontestable and irreconcilable opposition to the interests of the subject many, over whom, in respect of the supreme power, they bear a joint and simultaneous sway: and, /whose relation to each other is such, that/ in respect of subordinate and pecuniar profitable power, what the one are in possession the other are in expectancy.