[clxii. 237]

1821 Jany. 6

Rid Yourselves

'. Preliminary distinctions

Such then being on every occasion the contrariety - the irreconcileableness - behold in the present occasion the appplication of the distinction and the consequences of it.

To your interest /the interest of you the subject many/ it is not conducive but repugnant that any such course as that marked out by the Constitutional Code between you and Ultramarians should have place: it would on the contrary be in the highest degree and in every point of view repugnant to your interest that it should have place.

But taken in the aggregate it is perhaps /would perhaps be/ conducive to the interest of the ruling few that such course should have place. For in proportion as according to the terms of the Constitutional Code any such course took place, the dominion over Ultramaria - dominion more or less effective would have place in their hands.

Under those circmstances I will first state to you, and then prove to you in what respects you would be sufferers by this course, and thus /at the same time/ in what respects your rulers would be gainers

Sufferers you would be in two essential points of view the one a pecuniary or financial, the other a constitutional point of view.

If in the pecuniary point of view you were gainers, it would be by saving in taxes: a portion more or less considerable of what you would have to pay on that sum being laid upon and borne by Ultramaria. But all /every/ such expectation you would find compleatly illusory: instead of having less to pay you would have more: more beyond measure or calculation: more yes as much more as by any possibility could be wrung from you, and still the dominion would [...?] remain entire not so much as a year together in to the hands of your rulers of the men whom for their own sinister interest you are thus afflicted /oppressed/