[clxvii. 258]

1821 March 20

Rid Yourselves

' Representation no security

To purchase this security, they would have to submitt to be governed on all points this not excepted, by a body of men of whom the majority at least would be strangers to them, /actuated by interests opposite to theirs, and/ acting at various distances, but the least of them of itself an effectual bar to good government acting in a word under those insuperable disadvantages some of which have already been submitted to your view.

Thus, to purchase an alledged benefit of no value, they would have to pay an immense price: the burthen of the price would fall in their view and be felt by them: the beneficialness of the alledged benefit, not being real would not be perceptible.

Under those disadvantages supposing even that the majority of the body of the national representatives sitting in Spain was /were/ composed of men sent by free fair and full election from Ultramaria sent from Ultramaria by universality, secresy, equality and annuality or biannuality of suffrage, even this state of things would not under the Constitution as it stands constitute in favour of to the Ultramarians any adequate or effectual security against misrule.

1. In the first place neither by this nor any other political arrangement could the the irremovable and inflexible physical bar opposed by distance to good government be overcome.