1820. Aug. 15. 1821 April 4

Rid yourselves of Ultramaria

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Lett 14 Relinquishment profitable

Once more, What is it you would have? Advantages in trade? See, in what is above,

causes of them in abundance flowing in upon you in unbounded streams, and without

penal laws for conduits to it: conduits which, on pretence of enlarging the stream,

do but absorb and stop it.

Would you have quantities, proportions, figures? Well then, if what is

possible in this way will content you, even these shall not be wanting to you: yes:

from the Anglo-American Seybert you shall have them. In his observatory stands an

excellent telescope, if patience and self-command will but serve you for a peep into

it. True it is that, in any such glass, you can not exactly see Spain and Spanish America, But, what you may see

is England and English America: and, as to the matter here

in question, two cases, more exactly parallel, need not be wished for. If after the relinquishment of her dominion over that portion

of English America, the quantity of money or money's worth drawn by England from that

same region through the channel of trade - and this too even the very next of [...?]

- was greater than before, - what should render the

advantage less to Spain, in the event of her relinquishing her portion of dominion in that same distant continent? - of so ample was the

advantage, where the emancipation was the result of sad necessity, extorted from

adversary by adversary as the price of peace, - how much more ample may it not be

expected to be, if, as here proposed, it be the result of spontaneous wisdom and

benevolence, given freely and gratuitously, by kinsman to kinsman - by friend to

friend - for hope of mutual encrease?

If, then, this sort of proof will satisfy you, - if, on this occasion, you will be

content with such assurance - with such prophecy - as history can give, behold now

the promised quantities proportions, figures. (a)

In the geographical field of the observation, take Great Britain with those [...?]

of the now four and twenty Independent and United States, which at the first of their

periods in question were Anglo-American Colonies: for the particular subject matter

of the observation, take the aggregate value of the articles imported from the Mother

Country to those same territories at the two different periods.

1. On an average of the [...?] years 1771, 1772, 1773 (being then those years next

before that of the war made upon the children by this under [...?] annual amount no

more than ... , /Pounds Sterling/ 3,064,823: [...?] 306,484,300

2. A o 1784 - being the next year to that in which peace with them

was made and their independence recognized, amount /risen already to/ ,3,359,864:

335, 986, 400

3 On an average of the years 1798, 1799, 1800, namely in 14 years, behold [...?]

nearly doubled: the amount having risen to .... ,6,507,478: 650,747,800.

Note.

(a). Seybert's statistical annals Philadelphia 1818 4. to p.

285.