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Emancipation Spanish

'.6. J.B.'s Opinion 1792.

My friends, even in those days, I was not altogether unknown in

France, But anything more on this head would lead me too wide from the subject.

By this time you will have heard more or less of my work on Punishments and Rewards, edited in French by Dumont of Geneva first edition in

1802. In the volume on Rewards, is a chapter on Colonies. The matter of it was extracted from my

abovementioned pamphlet. The reasoning applies alike to all other countries holding

remote dependencies: England herself, as it will ere long be seen, forms no

exception.

In various works of other persons, it can not but be, that opinions

to this effect have incidentally been delivered: but I know not of any others, in

which, as applied to distant dependencies in general the question has ever been

argued in form, as in these of mine.

To return to Spain. If the product of the dominion was loss even in those days, what

would it be in these? If such was then the product of the

dominion, what is now the product of the claim?

Spaniards! the enquiry is now in your hands.