[clxvii. 269]

1820 Aug. 30

Emancipation Spanish

.2. Creoles unwilling

2. to Subrulers unendurable

In the case of several of the departments /establishments/ great care /anxiety/ is manifested to confine to nations the objects of desire respectively attached /belonging/ to their great anxiety to shut the door against strangers. Such is the letter: but so far as so far regards the population of the distant Ultramarian provinces, the effect is by no means conformable to the wish /desire/ expressed by it By /From/ the exclusion put in the case of the Ministers of State, the population of the distant Ultramarian provinces can not be stated as desiring any benefit: for small indeed is the probability of there being taken /chosen for the objects of these/ in any considerable proportion by the Council of State the seat of which is fixt in the capital of Spain.

Not much greater benefit can they be considered /stated/ as reaping from the other exclusion which regards offices belonging to the Administration of Justice /Judicial department/. Little or no expectation can any native of any of those distant and [...?] regions of ever being chosen to fill in Spain an office belonging to the establishment in Spain, which on the other hand the inhabitants of those same distant provinces were /can/ not but be in the first place in the continual habit, in the next place in the continual expectation of seeing a part /in a portion/ more or less considerable filled by swarms of Spaniards sent /as before/ in the first place to find subsistence and in the next place if they can to make fortunes at the expense of the subject population of those distant desires subject many and ruling few together but more especially the ruling few whose property will afford the richest prey to the harpies of the law.