[clxiv. 74]

1820 July 12

Emancipation Spanish

Introduction

3. But that aversion, even supposing it universally surmounted and for the moment even changed into desire, by the intelligence of the happy change that has taken place, will revive, and go on encreasing till it becomes general: for that the arrangement will be, and will be generally seen to be, sensibly and irremediably hostile to the interest of the generality in every such province.

4. True it is, that, notwithstanding it were thus ever so repugnant to the interests of both yourselves and the Europeans and Americans that the Americans should be under the dominion of your rulers, it would be for the interest of your rulers, whoever they may be, not only to accept of the submission in so far as it was offered, but even to engage and employ you as long as possible, in the endeavour to procure and maintain it by force.

5. Whatsoever suffering /mischief/ might on the above or any other account /shape/ be produced by the dominion to the interest of you the subject many in Spain it would be a small matter in comparison of the mischief that would be done by it to the Constitution, by means of corruptive influence: by means of that corruptive influence by means of which without need of any actual communication on any individual occasion, the representatives of the people will to a certainty, the majority of them be as in England and in France be engaged in the habit of blind obsequiousness as towards those, who ever they may be at whose /who would have at their/ disposal official power, official emolument and factitious dignity would be placed.