1820 July 12

Emancipation Spanish

'. People Sufferers

Nay but, says somebody, troops we do not want: from them, nor anything else but money: and this money, in a quantity more or less considerable this money we shall have. Yes: by the very supposition we shall have it. For by the supposition, submitting is the dominion of our rulers, this money they will either of their own accord transmitt to us /deliver us/, or suffer us to take: and as in either case there is not on their part any repugnance, whatsoever money may now be found in the habit of being so regularly raised and expended for the purpose of keeping the government in readiness to use force, may cease to be raised.

Not so indeed. For to this /to the continuance of/ of imagined sincerity two things are necessary: namely that in no one of these distant dependencies any disposition to discontent towards opposition to your rulers should ever have place: the other is that in the part of these same rulers no apprehension of any such disposition should have place. But the more closely the state of this case /things/ is looked to, the more thoroughly /highly/ improbable will the continuance of any such feeling of security be seen to be.

On the contrary, if suffering be and in so far as it is, a cause of discontent and if the a consequent desire of relief by [...?] to every such feeling of satisfaction, will at no long distance of time, succeed a feeling of dissatisfaction and discontent in their own part, thereupon comes in the other part a feeling of or imagination call it what you please, of a correspondent demand for military force, by land or sea, for the eventual crushing of those by whom the discontent is harboured: and to the quantity of the force, and thence of the money for the maintenance of it that will present itself as necessary, will be no bounds but those which will have been set by your ability to supply it