[clxvii. 250]

1820 Aug. 17.

Emancipation Spanish

'.2. Creoles unwilling

'.1. Temporary submission impossible

'.2. Still more if averse; as, under the Constitution, they can not but be.

II. Much more detrimental, in this same point of view, would the dominion in question, or any attempt to exercise it over Spanish America, or [...?] any part of that vast country, of course be, to the interest of the subject many in Spain, upon the supposition of repugnance, in any part of the other hemisphere.

As the repugnance encreased, or were thought to encrease, or were foretended to be encreasing, so would the expence, of the preparations made for surmounting it. It would encrease, in proportion to the number of the provinces in which the discontent had place, and in proportion to the apparent comparative number and force of the discontented in each province: and so, in case of disobedience, or revolt, in proportion to the extent of it.

In Spanish America, the probable existence, and, in case of its existence, the probable magnitude, of the repugnance, discontent, disobedience, and revolt respectively, would of course receive encrease from every distinguishable arrangement, by which relief, or benefit, were seen to be endeavoured to be afforded to the people of Spain - to the people of Spain, subject many, ruling few, or both together - at the expence of Spanish America, in general, or of any of that vast expanse.