[clxiv. 184]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests opposite

For satiating the appetite of this best of Kings, a quantity of the matter of wealth sufficient for giving /affording/ subsistence to 50,000 individuals was not yet sufficient Continually was he occupied in contracting debts: that is in obtaining in ever encreasing quantities portions of that one of the external instruments of felicity which consists in /is composed of/ the matter of wealth: of the matter of wealth operating at the same time in the character of matter of corruptive influence. under the assurance that corresponding quantities of that pretious matter would for the purpose of indemnifying /reimbursing/ the dealers in these articles with a mercantile profit be obtained by force from men who had no share either in the enjoyment obtained from the consumption or use of the articles, or in the profit made by the furnishing of them. Continually was he thus occupied: and what was the consequence. Nine several times during the course of that one reign was the /that same/ force repeated for that same purpose.