[clxvii. 116]

1821 March 31

Rid Yourselves

'10. No Improvement or redress for Ultramaria, none.

'.10. By the Code, Ultramarians stand precluded from all of even subordinate legislation: [...?] from all improvement and all redress, except by resistance /revolt/ by shaking off the yoke.

Improvement and redress for Ultramarians, none.

Spaniards

The position announced to you in this Chapter, /Section/ has already received its proof. Amongst the mischiefs /of the foulest evils inflicted/ done by the claim to the Constitution to the whole frame of government, the one last mentioned, /submitted to you,/ was the consumption of the time employable /applicable/ by the Cortes to the purpose of carrying on the business of the government. Of the sensible mischiefs necessarily resulting to you and your affairs from the deficiency thus produced some conceptions were on that occasion endeavoured to be conveyed to you: a concession necessarily inadequate, since neither to the variety of the forms in which evil might come to be produced by the operation of these causes, nor to the total quantity of it could any hand whatsoever be assigned.