[clxiv. 91]

Emancipation Spanish

1820 May 4

. Rulers Arguments

Virtue no Security

1. Creoles obsequious

Ever since the death of that English Queen who was the wife of a Spanish Monarch, the same /like/ community of interests has been understood to have place /may be seen to have had place/ between the subjects of Spain in both worlds on the one part, and English pirates licenced and unlicenced on the other. So between the King of Spain and the King of England in his quality of King of Pirates, Most Excellent, most gracious and most religious, for all this he is by Act of Parliament plundering foreigners and his sub pirates taken together as by the hands of his Judges and their accomplices by means of the words Droits of Admiralty.

To a certain degree and in a certain sense, and to a certain degree, in all these and in all other cases the /a/ community of interests has place between the subjects or exaction on the one hand and the authors of it an the other. But with this exception the opposition is active.

In the course of the operations performed upon the subject many by the ruling few for the purpose of the exaction /extraction/, a regard may naturally be expected to this /one/ point, namely that the share left to the subject many in their own property be not so far reduced, that the share extracted out of that same property by and to the use of these the ruling few be reduced along with it. This being a point to which attention is continually called by experience and in practice is accordingly looked to with more or less attention in all taxes.

But attention is labour: and to accomplish its end required discernment. Accordingly the eagerness to produce encrease in the quantity extracted, decrease is no uncommon consequence. The case of the barber who in his haste to go to his dinner cut a finger of his own which to present the cheek the more promptly to the razor he had introduced into the mouth of a customer is not unknown /on record/. Thereupon in words better imagined than repeated comes the censure on lantern jaws. The profaneness of the operative will never be included by Mr. Vansittart. But the suffering has its claim upon his sympathy.