[clxiv. 82]

1820 May 29

Emancipation Spanish

It is the interest of the Arabs who for their share in such of the external instruments of felicity as are over and above what are necessary for bare subsistence trust to the regular contributions or in default of contributions to the plunder they can obtain from Caravans that of the travellers of whom those Caravans are composed the aggregate quantity /amount/ of wealth in all its shapes should be as great as possible. But in this case as in the others, by this common /community/ interest the depredators in question are not barred from the exercise of their depredation /such their faculty/.

It is the interest of pirates, unlicenced or licenced or unlicenced of pirates called /designated by the name of/ pirates when designated by the name of privateers that the wealth possessed by the traders to whose wealth /property/ they mark /look/ out for their prey the amount be as great as possible. But by this community of interest the unlicenced pirates called pirates are not prevented from the exercise of their profession every now and then to a considerable amount nor the pirates called privateers from exercsing it to a vast and unlimited amount, in a word till the profits reaped in that dishonest trade become inferior to those /the greatest/ which can be reaped by the same person in an honest trade.

It is the claim and pride and boast of the English to be the tyrants of the Ocean /all Seas/ and their practice to exercise piracy avowedly and without blush or remorse: and their laws are so framed as to encourage and excite them to the exercise. The man who in virtue of /under the shadow/ all men got most by piracy was George the 3 d, of pious /profuse and rapacious memory/ memory: most excellent and most gracious by the Statute law: most predatory by the common law of those his realms.