1820 May 15

Emancipation Spanish

'.5.People Sufferers

' 5 People sufferers

II. Next I say - the people will /the Spanish people would/ be positively sufferers

Disburthened of her distant dependencies, of no country in Europe, with the exception of Britain would the situation be in so high a degree as that of Spain be exempt from by foreign aggression from without. Against all political states but one she is defended by the sea. Against Portugal she is amply? defended by the comparitive weakness of that comparitivay small Monarchy now deserted by its Monarch. Against France she is defended by that barrier, which even by the restless ambition of Napoleon would have been regarded as effectual /unsurmountable/, but for the /that/ peacable introduction which he had obtained into the very bowels of the country by the horror which he had inspired into its rulers.

Left to herself, and guarded by the whole body of the people themselves, self-trained and self-commanded as was Ireland[?] in the five years from 1778 to 1783, Spain would be rendered and kept secure against foreign invasion and aggression at a limited and comparitivaly small expense.

Add to her her distant dependencies, expense becomes at once boundless and insufficient; security vanishes.

The causes of quarrel are endless: the means of defence - of defence of that vast and expensive distance must be boundless /would require to be proportionable./