1820. Dec r. 23 d.

Rid Yourselves

Part I.

Lett. 3 Ultramaria Submissive

But if, at the expence of Ultramaria money or money's worth in amount

of the burthen in the Peninsula - and this paid voluntarily and with full

satisfaction on the part of those by whom it is paid, let us see from what sources in

particular it must come.

1. Supposable source the first. Taxation at large.

Upon the first mention, it can scarcely fail to be acknowledged, that,

in the shape, for any such a purpose as that in question, any such contribution as a

voluntary one - voluntary one - voluntary in any such degree as that in which it is

and will be voluntary in Spain - could not, in any part of Ultramaria, be reasonably

be expected to have continuance. In the Constitutional Code, not only in the Article

just mentioned, but from beginning to end, the principle professed is that of equal rights, equal to all citizens of the state, as well on

the one side of the sea as on the other. But, in the way of taxation, not a maravedi

could any where be levied in Ultramaria or Spain for the use of Peninsula Spain - for

the relief of the inhabitants of Peninsula Spain - without a proportionable violation

of that principle. A circumstance that can never be out of view in any part of

Ultramarian Spain is - that it was by the determination not to submitt to any such

imposition, that the yoke of England was cast off by the Anglo-American United

States.

2. Supposable resource the second: Mine-rents or Mine

taxes: Payment of money to Spain, by te occupiers of mines in Spanish America,

submitting to this whether under the name of taxes or under

the name of rents would be considered as submission to

taxation: if levied at all, the contributions, thus levied upon the fruits of the

land and labour of the people in Spanish America, ought to be applied (they would

think) in easement of the taxes borne by the people of the province or state in which

the mines are situated, and not to the enrichment of strangers, at so vast a

distance. (a)