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1820 Sept. 2

§.12 Interests adverse to the dominion
Cause, need of retrenchment

1.
After the sufferings and
contending interests of Creolia,
think of those in
Spain.

2.
Under the demand for
retrenchment.
Quantities to be considered.
1. Suffering: applying to benevolence.
2. Resistance: applying to prudence.

3.
I. As to demand for retrenchment,
1. Of its existence, persuasion
universal.
2. As to quantity, follow
data so lately furnished
from authentic sources.

4.
It will depend on proportion
between demand and supply.
Antecedently to the
consideration of retrenchment,
demand must be
taken to be at least equal
to expenditure, ordinary
(i.e. habitual) and extraordinary.

5.
1. Ordinary, as per Finance
Minister Canga Arguelles,
Cortes sitting 13th
July, 1820 - R. o.V. 680,000,000.
2. Expence of Cortes Elections
This, permanent.
3. Expence of defence agst.
eventual endeavours of the
Despot to put down the Constitution.

5.(a.)
Does the above account
include provision for paying
of the debt? or interest
thereon?

6.
Still more urgent must
these demands be considered,
than that for
the dominion.

7.
Supply, per do., viz Contributions,
R. V. 470,000,000.

8.
Deficit, R. V. – 210,000,000.

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§.12 Interests adverse to the dominion
Cause, need of retrenchment

9.
Sole resources for filling it up,
1. Taxation
2. Retrenchment.

10.
1. Taxation – This, to any
considerable amount, seems
hopeless: the quantity deemed
extractible being, long ago,
deemed exhausted.

11.
Retrenchment. This can
not apply to expenditure, immediately
necessary for security,
ab extra and ab intra:
so long as others less immediately
necessary are assignable.

12.
These are,
1. Payment of principal of
the debt.
2. Interest on do.
3. King's maintenance.
4. Clergy's maintenance.

13.
Correspondent interests
1. Public Creditor's,
2. King's,
3. Clergy's.

14.
4. Remains, the interest, which,
no other parts interested being
to be found for it, must
be called Dæmon of Ambition
interest: unless ruling
few will come forward, and
avow it as theirs.

15.
Here, then, are four conflicting
interests; each contending
against all the rest; endeavouring
to ward off from
itself, and cast off, upon others,
the burthen of retrenchment
– the retrenching scythe.

16.
Alterations are
1. Return to despotism,
2. Anarchy and destruction
3. Sacrifice of one or more
of those interests to universal
interest.
Whatsoever is given or left
to any one is taken from one
or more of the others.

17.
Interests, in alliance with
each other against the Dæmon,
are
1. Public Creditor's
2. King's
3. Clergy's.

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§.12 Interests adverse to the dominion
Cause, need of retrenchment

18.
Not, to this occasion, belongs
to pronounce as between those
three interests. Only to put it
to you to consider whether Dæmon's
interest is tenable against
any of those: whether
it ought, or is likely, to stand
against all. Whether, in so
far as his eyes are open to
his true interest, any of them,
any more than subject many,
can avoid seeing in the
Dæmon an irreconcileable enemy.

19.
5. To those interests all irreconcileable
to the Dæmons,
add, though not on the account
of retrenchment, interest
of the Soldiery: happily
not the least powerful – viz
of all who feel averse to be
banished to pestilential times,
to kill, maim, wound, impoverish
unoffending kinsmen
at such vast distances.

20.
Before the change, their
aversion to this service was
notoriously prevalent. Since
the change, what is there to
remove or lessen it?

21.
Say not, "this is the sowing dissention,
&c. 1. between all Spain
and all Creolia: 2. between
subject many and ruling
few in Spain".
Answer. No otherwise than
indication of injury or danger
of do. from strong to weak
is sowing dissention: if no
such dissention is to be sown, no
injury is to be prevented or made
to cease.

22.
Circumstance by which the
claims of the three other interests
are placed above Dæmon's.
To them, retrenchment can
not apply without producing
suffering: evil, in a positive
shape, to him, yes: viz
if not compleatly.

23.
Example 1. Ammunition.
Per Cortes sitting 13th or 18 July 1820,
none in hand. Forbear, then,
to provide the quantity, which, but
for the Dæmon, you would not
have thought of providing: no suffering
can be produced by such borbearance
(So as to all other Stores.)

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24.
So as to men for every other
branch of the military service.
No suffering if no disbanding:
or, if none are disbanded,
but those desirous.

25.
Follow, example in which,
without caution, proportionable
suffering can not but be
produced, Council of the Indies.
Expence No. 1778 (Townsend II
187. 188.) R. V. 80,000,000.
Disbanded, present Members
will need subsistence.

26.
So possessors of every permanent
fund, extinguished for
supply of more imperious
exigencies.
For this case, Cortes will
have its rules by which the
controversy between the present
and the future will be
decided. To propose such
rules belongs not to this purpose:
(a) only to repeat, Dæmon
of ambition, tho' with do. of
slaughter in his belly, can
better bear fasting than any
human creature: and that,
in fighting him, I have King
&c. on my side.

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Date_1	1820-09-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5, 5a, 6-26
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