1820

Emancipation Spanish

'. People Sufferers

In this picture /representation/ /statements/ it can scarcely fail to have passed altogether unobserved, with what anxiety the charge of exaggeration been kept clear of. Yet after all it /what/ can not but be seen is that, on the part of the Spanish rulers so long as they persist in exercising dominion over their at present distant dependencies the real demand for constant means of defence if defence against dangers of which that dominion is the cause is far from inconsiderable.

But how inconsiderable so ever in this /every/ case be the real demand, the alledged demand will be sure /can not fail/ greatly to outstrip it.

Notwithstanding the new and hitherto unexampled good advice of which he will have the benefit, the Monarch of Spain being stilla Monarch, to the expense necessary for fiting /adapting/ it to the purposes of defence, must /will be to/ be added the expense of fitting up the appropriate stock allotted to that purpose in the unmonarchical stile, /taste/ in a /the/ taste necessary to enable the royal proprietor to figure /to occupy his station/ among his royal fellows /comrades/ and brothers in the trade. This Monarch who when he had no soldiers to make breeches for, found his solace in embroidering petticoats for the Blessed Virgin, may enter into a royal competition /[...?]/ with a royal brother, and display his taste in cutting out breeches? for well-trained and well-armed scissors.

Now to the advisers of a man with a crown upon his head, neither for these nor for any other purposes is /can/ any quantity of the supply provided at the expense of the people ever be [...?]: what can they have and what will they have - or in one word what can they by any means be made, this is at all times the only question: and this is the question by which and by which alone in the case here supposed practice will be determined: to the utmost stretch of their supposed ability will the quantity /burthen/ extracted from them be screwed up.