[clxii. 244]

1821 Jany. 7

Rid Yourselves

Such then is the supposition within a determinate time say six months - you will have heard that in every province Ultramaria has declared her submission to the authority of the /your/ King acting in conjunction with the Cortes according to the terms of the Constitutional Code. See /I say/ in this case whether at the end of the period, thus encreased to two years and a half, even see on the supposition there can be any reasonable expectation of net profit in a pecuniary shape to you in Spain fore the connection can have place.

By Net profit is meant a balance on the side of receipt after all disbursements made.

I will in the first place endeavour to bring to view /shew/ not indeed the quantum for that is impossible, but in large masses the items that will here be stood on the side of disbursements during this period. I mean these disbursements which will have been produced by the Union, and would not have been produced but for the Union, that is by the contemplation and expectation of it.

In the /my/ Introduction - I have done all that in my situation could be done towards, fixing your conception on this land by means of figures +

+ Introd. ' 6. To your Rulers you must apply for the necessary corections. Would you wish to see it correct? Your application must be to your Rulers.