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1821 Aug. 5.

Rid Yourselves

Letter 5. Continued Submission impossible

When I have thus given you in the way of enumeration only, /without either proof or/ explanation or proof the last of the circumstances in which this aversion has its causes when I have thus given intimation only and no more of those evil effects in your comfort which have for their source the /that/ aversion, discontent, resistance and hostility, as /which/ to your rulers and in so far as you second their endeavours as to yourselves the claim in question to whatever extent maintenance can not fail to be productive - when I have done this, I shall then proceed to beg your /keep before your/ attention to these evils, which in a more immediate way, and independantly of all such aversion on the part of your kinsmen, apply in an individual way to yourselves.

You have seen a set of supposable resources /sources//channels/ of profit, from which all expectation of pecuniary profit from Spanish Ultramaria to Spain appear to have been derived. You will see that which /although/ in the character of channels or sources of profit in this shape all these circumstances are illusory, /false and delusory/ yet in the character of sources of irritation on their part, and consequent /correspondent/ aversion to the dominion, they are every one of them, but too real and substantial and unavoidable /irremovable/.