[clxvii. 288]

1820 Aug. 19

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Mode of riddance

Note the difficulty as to the Negroes, Indians, &c.

Now then in which hemisphere is the greatest number to be found. According to all the Authorities, such as they are, in the American (a).

This being admitted, and all controversies as to what shall be the description of the Electors under Articles 27 and 25 set aside, it is not in Spain that the next Cortes will be to be held, but somewhere in Spanish America. Where then in Spanish America? to this question no answer is to be found /does the Constitution/ [...?]: a plain proof that the possibility of its being any where but in Spain had never presented itself.

Well but suppose it settled that it shall be in Spain, and no where else that the next Cortes shall be held /have its sittings/. This can not last for ever. When the time comes /Supposing the time comes/ when the Spanish Americans are to the end [...?] two to one and thence the Spanish American Deputies are to the end two and one and thence the Spanish American Deputies two to one, will it seem /feel pleasant or even/ reasonable to the two that their convenience should give way to the convenience of the one.

There again in lieu or in aid of reason shall precedent will be looked to?

1 As to the original determination there stands the British Empire with its three kingdoms. In which of the three are /and is/ the seat of the Empire? In the most populous. So it was as between /in the original England and Ireland: so it was in the free [...?] by compact when England and Scotland were united into Great Britain: so it was in the other union by compact between Great Britain and Ireland.

There again as to a change in the seat: and in particular as to a change from the old continent to the new. Is there any /inescapable/ difficulty? Ask his Majesty whose seat was for so many centuries in Portugal and is now in the Brazils.