[clxvii. 287]

1820. Aug. 19

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

' Mode of riddance

In particular, in no one of these provinces, until its submission has been perfected and declared can any such Census be made -

Another difficulty. The proportion between /the number of the/ Deputies and /that of/ primary Electors is fixed: but that of the primary Electors themselves will be continually in the change. If in Spanish America the effect be any thing like to what /bear any resemblance to what/ it has been in English America, that change will be a continual and rapid encrease. Spain will encrease likewise: but in Spanish America the rate of encrease will be still greater: for, so it has been as between England and English America. I speak of that part which has emancipated itself so it has been.

In which hemisphere then shall be the seat of the world Empire. In the European it is at present: and to the framers of the /Spanish/ Constitution the possibility of its being any where else seems hardly to have presented itself. But where ought it to be? In Spain says a Spaniard. /Nay:/ But in Spanish America says a Spanish American. If wills can not agree, on what principle shall the preference be established? In which shall be the seat of empire? in the most populous, is the answer given by that principle. Ask the Constitution, the answer is the same: it is of the greatest number (says Art. 13) that the greatest happiness is to be the determining object.