JB/012/075/002

Click Here To Edit

1820. July 31. Emancipation Spanish

+ Bronella 2d 20 1

Summary

§.7. The dominion relinquished, the advantage to Spain from a connection with Spanish America, and to great and small peculiar.

Well then, from the dominion in question, whether actually retained, or in vain endeavoured to be retained, what advantages have we seen? none in any shape: none to either hemisphere. On the contrary, suffering in sad plenty: suffering, in every imaginable shape: except always to the ruling few, who, whatsoever enjoyment from the unnatural union advantage they see for themselves from so unnatural a union, know better than to acknowledge it. From Spanish America, kept under the yoke, nothing but suffering on either side. From Spanish America, free from the yoke, what then is to be expected? Turn to the Royal Proclamation — to that very Proclamation by which those immense regions are called upon to submitt to that same yoke; the instrument that gave to this humble representative authority could not have been wished for on the ground of the authority, behold what a constellation of advantages! advantages : a language, religion, laws, customs" — all the same. Here are bands of sympathy! Consider will all these identities. Look, what surges of sympathy! Look, what here are bonds of connection! not to speak of with the exception of religion in which operation of which extends to Catholic nations religion Spain so many advantages not not to speak of ," a topic which in the language of especially Spanish could not be smitten with Not then, with such advantages — in your dealings with these your kinsmen, such matchless and indelible advantages over every other nation under the sun — Spaniards what more could you have? Bad indeed must be your goods, if, by your hundred in the other hemisphere these your kinsmen, in the quality of customers, the preference is not given to them those same goods, above those of all other nations. Bad indeed your goods: not to speak of the persons of those who have them to sell dispose of.

Here than, have advantages in here, than you will have money flowing in to you and without penal laws for conduct to it: conduct which

Here then — these kinsmen of yours you them? advantage, material advantage see the you see the effect of it? the effect you in a tangible shape. in Exports from Britain to this the American Colonies on an average of the years 1771, 1772, 1773 year before the Country

Note

(a) Seybert's Statistical Annals. Philadelphia 1818: 4to: p. 285.

[+]1 and you in that same document you will may see stated — yes and well judiciously and well stated in every respect well stated, the advantages which will can not but accrue to you from that same country, if freed from that yoke same yoke, "Language" (says the Proclamation) between Spain and Spanish America,

[+]2 at large, behold all these instruments of mutual attraction, operating upon that people in favour of Spain, to the exclusion of every other country. To these seats of identity the Proclamation adds "virtues": a topic which in the extract thus made from it I had actually struck out of the list, regarding it as amounting to nothing, and the mention of it as having no better warrant than vanity and rhetorical adulation, when a passage, I accidentally net with in Townsend, at once gave a determinate meaning to it, and shewed to me that on this head silence would not accord with justice. (Townsend II. 353) "Simplicity, "sincerity, generosity, "a high sense of dignity "and strong principles of "honour," are the virtues particularized by him in so many words: but the value of the testimony can not be any thing like adequately appretiated without the entire passage, and thus a little further you shall have.

Identifier: | JB/012/075/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 4
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	075	Info in main headings field	jb to general sn martin protector of peru
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4136
Box Contents