1820. July 28.

Rid yourselves of Ultramaria.

'.6. Representatives no security

But, suppose the Spanish-american Representatives all chosen by their proper Constituents - all chosen in the best mode. How, in respect of corruption and uncorruption, would the case be bettered? Alas! not much. In the one as in the other hemisphere, every object of ambition being secretly disposed of,- disposed of by some agreement or other, that would be formed between the influential members of the legislative Cortes, and the influential members of the Executive Junta, the Council of State corruptive influence would pervade the whole system of government, would fill it with its poison interests of the greater part of the ruling few in Spanish America as well as the subject many in both countries would be the victims of it. As vultures to a carcase, place-hunters from Spanish America would be perpetually flocking to Madrid. At Madrid, Spanish American Election would be settled by the ruling powers: by a Committee, and that of course an unauthorized and secret one, composed, in some proportion or other, of members of the legislative and those of the Executive. As in England, so in Spain, every thing would be sham, nothing what it professed to be. The Spanish Constitution would be poisoned, and without any advantage to their constituents the hands of the Spanish American Representatives would be the hands of to poison it.