[clxvii. 268]

1820. August 30.

Emancipation Spanish

.2. Creoles unwilling

2. to Subrulers unendurable

/In relation to this matter /head// An arrangement or at least a practice which on the part of the framers of the Constitution could /can/ scarcely have failed to be in contemplation in the character of an expedient which might eventually come to be resorted to, is - the letting the natives into a participation /share/ to an extent more or less considerable, in the mass of these objects of general desire.

But, in the first place, even suppose this plan of policy generally satisfactory to the class in question in the Ultramarian provinces, no such satisfaction were it even universal would suffice to secure to the ruling few in Spain the undisturbed dominion /possession of the desired/ in those same Ultramarian provinces. The reason has been seen. To the /In the eyes/ subject many in these same provinces this advantage to the class of the ruling few would be as nothing /of no value/; and under the Election system, as above, in the will of the subject many it would depend whether the office of a member of the Provincial Deputation should ever be filled by a person /an individual/ disposed to give her approbation to any such taxes as might be required.

2. In the next place neither does it seem probable that by any such participation /share/ as the ruling few in Spain would be disposed /could bring themselves/ to concede, that same class in the Ultramarian provinces would to any considerable extent be satisfied.

To Spanish American eyes countrymen in name, individuals sent from Spain to fill beneficial /and desirable and deserved/ offices in Spanish America, would not the less present themselves, were they ever so many, were they ever so few, in the character of foreign intruders. The frame being regarded on the same footing /in the same light as, and not more unfavourable than/ foreigners at large, they would naturally present themselves in a light much more unfavourable. Coming as before the change they had uniformly done in the character of masters, now after the changes they would present themselves in the character of angry masters, defrauded by a sort of rebellion of a portion more or less considerable of their accustomed and of old-established rights. Thus Between these remaining children of the old system and the children of the new system there would be a perpetual source of discord. The inhabitants of the Ultramarian provinces to which they were sent to make a profit out of them at their expence would be the persons so sent as were the bulk of the inhabitants of France, to the returned and in part only reinstated children of the Ancien regime.