1820 May 15

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

Never were probable causes of quarrel so abundant: never were forces so disproportionate.

1. Between /Even/ colony and colony /throughout all the colonies/ the causes of dissension and quarrel are endless: and in the instance of every such quarrel it would be the supposed duty and the inentable and necessary interest of the ruling country to interfere: interfere - not by kind persuasion, for that might be done without exercising dominion but by irresistible force.

2. Not quite so immediately dangerous perhaps, but as in the above former case but still abundently dangerous, pregnant with new and unprecedented dangers, is by situation with relation to foreign states. To the rulers of England the despot and tyrant of the Ocean, the trade with the Spanish American dependencies was always an object of avowed concupiscence /desire[?]/ the dominion over them of not less operative concupiscence. In the year 174 \ZS\, war was made by by England against /upon/ Spain, because the Spanish rulers would not suffer the English smugglers to set the ordinances of the Spanish government at defiance. Of a supposed good which is unexperienced and unknown the desire is not naturally very intense. But to Englnad of late years the trade with these colonies, has in the instance of every one of them a subject of possession and enjoyment. If by the laws of the English are admitted to a participation of the trade with the Spanish Colonies upon equal terms with the Spaniard there is an end of one of the supposed profits however erroneosly supposed of the dominion coveted: if they are excluded, then comes /recommences/ the smuggling facilities[?] never before experienced. If in the midst of their distresses any thing could reconcile the people of England to a war it would be the hope of plunder /the profits of depredation/ of depredation exercised upon and at the expense of the Spanish American provinces.