1820 May 17

Emancipation Spanish.

'.7 Rulers gainers

'. To the ruling few alone, and at the expence of /you/ the subject many would the dominion be beneficial.

What then says somebody by the splendid dominance thus exercised will nobody be a gainer? will there be no gainers?

Oh yes: that there will; and but too many: and yet be the number what it may, not so many as would be necessary to render the possessor of it elegible beneficial to the people at large.

Without borrowing the exact amount of it, for the bounds to infinity can not be detrimental - we have ascertained thus much in relation to the expence of maintaining or endeavouring to maintain this dominion thus much has /and we have/ been maintained - namely that it amounts to the difference between the expence necessary to the maintaining of the Spanish government free from those burthensome dependencies, and the utmost quantity of money that can /could/ be extracted from the people under the nature of the maintaining this same unprofitable dominion.

Correspondent to the whole of the expence and the whole of the burthen with its suffering imposed upon the people at large, will be the profit received /reaped/ - and the comfort enjoyed by their rulers: by the Kings own advisers under the new free constitution instead of the King's late advisers under the old and the all thus established and firmly /[...?]/ maintained despotism.