1820 June 7

Emancipation Spanish

'.6. Creoles repugnant

These assurances being accompanied with the correspondent profession - these assurances being /containing in/ themselves so many professions it would be impossible /not be possible/ to prevent those /that/ to whom they were made should not now and then be for putting them to the test and comparing profession and practices.

What advantage is it to as to pay taxes in order to save a set of men in Europe just so much as taxes

The rent which the workers can afford to pay for [...?] what advantage is it to us to have it employed in /making or/ improving the roads, canals and harbours in spain rather than /making/ improving the means of commensurable[?] will as in America where the means are.

What advantage is it to our proposition and our produces to have the produce of their labour prohibited partially or compleatly /in part or in the whole/ that the produce raised in Spain may be so much the greater /the more abundant/ /as that our necessity of living should be made less abundant that those of the people in Spain should be rendered more abundant, and their rulers more opulent?/

What advantage is it to us to see strangers imported form such a distance to manage our affairs and help govern us and manage our affairs for us, to make fortunes for themselves at our expence, and carry these fortunes to their own homes to spend among their own communities, instead of suffering /our being suffered/ us to make choice od men for those same /the like/ purposes among ourselves, who will spend the money among and for the benefit of those /neighbours of those/ out of whose pockets it was /got/ extracted.