[clxiv. 70]

1820 May 27

Emancipation Spanish

Ult r.

.1. Introduction

So much for what your Representatives could be expected to do independently of all regard for the opinions, and wishes, and affections of their constituents.

But what I am not altogether without hopes of - what I am not altogether without hopes of, or the labour of this would be without a motive - is - that just at this conjuncture if it should appear to them, either that you are already decided on the wish /on an adequate proposition/ or likely sooner or later to be so, they may in that case be prevailed upon or even prevail upon themselves to acquiesce in such your wishes.

What reason so ever there may be in this which I am using my endeavours to submitt to your consideration, all chance of its success will of course depend upon the extent to which it circulates among you /circulates within the field of your observation/. I suppose therefore on their part the absence either of the desire, or else of the ability, of opposing /to oppose/ any official bar to its circulation. If, regarding the tendency of it as adverse to their particular interests they feel no desire to suppress it - if, possessing the ability, they in that case in that case they use no endeavours to suppress it or to narrow the extent to /over/ which it /might/ circulate they differ in this particular from all rulers of the existence of whom I have ever been able to find tokens of.

Consciousness Of the utter absence /want/ of all claim to regard at your hands on the part of any profession I could make, no man can be more fully sensible than myself. Under these /In this/ circumstances, whether in that which follows there be /I have/ any such design /desire/ as that of sowing dissension among you for a mischievous purpose - whether in a word I have any worse design than that which without any exception your rulers can not fail to profess, and which to a very considerable extent I can not doubt of their entertaining - I mean that of promoting your real interest, I shall leave to each of you to answer /pronounce/ for himself entreating him only and that for his own sake, not to form his judgement, till he has heard me to the end. Not that any such consideration is really worth /has any real claim to/ your notice. The thing is what it is. Be the man who says this what he may. But &c.