[clxvii. 243]

1821 Aug. 5.

Rid Yourselves

Lett. 5. Part II

Cause 1. New Lights

Cause 2. Taxes in Spain

Cause 3. Offices to Spaniards

Causes of the aversion on the part of Spanish Ultramaria to the dominion of Spain as claimed to be exercised by the Spanish Cortes under and by virtue of the Constitutional Code.

Cause 1. The new lights diffused /spread/ by the new order of things and the /text of the/ Constitutional Code puts /effectually excludes/ an all-comprehensive exclusion of all submission on the former footing. The greatest happiness of the greatest number - in this one phrase, behold the sun from which all these lights emanate. Priestly "by these hands has /was/ this sun been created". [...?] postpone [...?]? By this cause /This cause/ of aversion to the dominion applies to all the following ones, and secures attention to them /of aversion attention to all the following ones is secured/.

2. Cause 2. In the text /The Articles/ of the Code these arrangements which by which the whole produce of the contribution levied for the use of the public in Ultramaria is placed at the disposal of the Cortes sitting in Spain. See Articles\ZS\.

3. The Articles by which the nomination to all profit yielding Offices of the duty of which is performed in Ultramaria, is left to be shared between the King and of the Council of State at Madrid, a great majority of whom is composed of natives of Spain, no more than 12 out of 40 being required to be natives of Ultramaria. Arts. 232 which by Art. 233 the Members of this body were every one of them to be presented to the King by the Cortes, in which article that universal submission which can never happen, shall have been accomplished, all the Ultramarian Members put together spurious and (if any) genuine together will constitute no more than a small minority.

In This cause of irritation there are three branches, affecting so many different and differently exclusive classes of individuals /persons/; These are

1. The loss upon that saving which would

1. The saving to the rest of the Ultramarians in taxes, if supposing /on the supposition that/ the functionaries in question to be native Ultramarians and accordingly in case of retreat from Office, in consequence of savings made out of official income, would continue in Ultramaria, and live upon the means of the capital thus saved. This applies only to /to nothing but/ the amount of the taxes upon the taxable articles comprized in the expenditure: the class of persons affected by this loss are all the contributors to those taxes.