1820 Sept. 24

Emancipation Spanish

'. 9. Creole Deputation

' 10 Under the Constitution as it stands, no Ultramarian Deputation can be formed.

All along it has been supposed, as it was but natural it should be supposed, that by

the Constitution a share in the Representation was /is/ given to the Ultramarians to

the intended subjects of this discussion: and if any such share is given to them, its

being a proportionable /an impartially[?]/ one does not admitt of doubt.

But the fact /truth/ is - under the Constitution no such share, no share at all is

given to them. Under the Constitution as it stands they can not have it: and under

the Constitution neither on this point nor on any other can any amendment be made,

until at the end of an unlimited length of time, the termination of which is made to

rest upon a declaration to be made or not made by the Cortes, and the commencement of

which can not take place, till after the Ultramarian Deputation has been formed that

deputation which the Constitution taken as it stands has rendered impossible. Art.

375

Until the number of the inhabitants in Ultramaria has been ascertained and reported

- reported doubtless to the Cortes - to the existing or some future Cortes - the

number of the deputies which - respectively and thence collectively, the Ultramarians

/the provinces in question/ are to send /depute/ to the Cortes can not be

ascertained. For, by Articles 28, 29 and 31, the number of the Deputies to the

Cortes, as well from the Ultramarine as from the Spanish provinces, is to be " one for every 70,000 souls": so that, in the Cortes, until

they know how many souls there are in the Ultramarine

provinces, men /they/ can not know how many deputies from thence they are to receive

- from what provinces they are to receive Deputies - from each /any/ province how

many deputies, consequently from all the Ultramarian provinces taken together how

many deputies they are to receive.