1820 June 6

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

II Reason

II. Now as to power, considered as having for its instruments troops sent for your service in Spain from the Colonies /Spanish America/ this or that part of it.

In the account of profit, I mention this for no other reason than that it may be seen, that no imaginable article that is capable of presenting itself to imagination in that character has been overlooked. For no sooner is any the slightest reflection bestowed on it than it becomes manifest that from this source nothing no advantage to you in any shape can be derived.

If from these distant regions any troops cross the Atlantic not to speak of the Pacific to Spain, it will either be with or without their consent. If with their consent, it must be by money in the shape of bounty that the consent is engaged. But the bounty money necessary to produce this self-banishment to so vast a distance /so distant a quarter of the globe/ would surely not be less than would suffice to engage an equal number of men from that European nation from which they could be obtained with most advantage: suppose for instance, the great man-market /the established man-shop/ Switzerland: and to this would be to be added, the expense of passage.

If it be by Spanish America that the troops thus imported are to be purchased, on this supposition the money must be raised by taxes imposed there, and thus in addition to the power money is extracted.

If they are to be brought against their wills - brought by force, then comes for consideration, I do not say the cruelty, for in there cases that is never regarded as worth considering,- but the difficulty, of obtaining them by such means.