1820 May 29

Emancipation Spanish

'. Creoles willing

Preliminary considerations

'.a. Preliminary considerations continued . [...?] of the dominion shewn from the objective of the conveyance of troops.

2. Troops are they to be convey in time of peace are they and for the purposes of peace are they to be conveyed from the one country to the other, or are they not? /yes or no?/

If not /no/, then Spain has no hold upon the Colonies: power on the one part, dependence on the other, is but nominal.

If yes, are they to be conveyed reciprocally, from Europe to America only, or - from America to Europe only, or indifferently from either to the other, or from each to the other in equal numbers or from either to the other at pleasure

1. If from each to the other in equal numbers exactly equal or nearly equal here will be the very maximum of expence: twice the expence of conveying them from one /alone/ of the two countries, and not from /to the exclusion of/ the other. And in this where will be the advantage or use to counterbalance /compensate for/ the expence

2. If from each to the other at pleasure, and in any proportion still there will be the expence: and if reciprocity be in any point of view the professed object, that object, may unless the usual proportion be fixed by law be eluded.

So far as reciprocity is the object, that object might /would/ be better obtained without any such reciprocity than with it by sending from one to the other no more than the difference. For example instead of sending /conveying/ from Europe to America 10,000, and from America to Europe 10,000, conveying /removing/ none from either or instead of conveying 10,000 from Spain to America and 5000 from America to Spain, sending 5000 from Spain to America, and none from America to Spain: and so in the opposite case.