1820. Aug. 16

Emancipation Spanish

' 11 Particular Interests adverse

' 8 Interests adverse

Retrenchment

3 Aug 1821 Suppposed superseded by Letter 2

When you have though sufficiently of the sufferings which the dominion would produce

at a distance, and the interests it would have to contend with from without, in a

word from Spanish America,- think of the sufferings - equally incontestable, though

the proportions being as yet so compleatly unascertainable, the not equally obvious

sufferings it would produce, and the correspondently less obvious oppostie interests

it would have to contend with, at home - Think twhether in some quarter or other, ret

renchment must not be made. Think whether in any quarter it cna be made with near so

little suffering - with near so little resistence, national andindividual, as in

this.

Two quantitites - you observe - call at once for your consideration, as being among

the unavoidable results of whatsoever retrenchment came to be made: tow quantities,

the quantity of that suffering which in some quantity or other cna not but be

produced and the quantity of resistence, which in some shape or other and in some

quantity or other in the minds of the persons threatened by it, by the application[?]

that suffering can not fail /but be/ to produce. The first of these considerations

addresses itself to your benevolence; the latter to your prudence.

First is to the necessity of retrenchment, and thw quantum to which that necessity

applies

Of the existance of such a necessity considered in a general point of view, this an

not be more than an opinion.

To the consideration of the quantum belongs the following elements - the following

data that have so lately been furnished, from the most authentic sources.