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1820 Aug. 29

§ Representative no Security
Creole Members Corrupt

Creoles unwilling: or Corruptive influence.
1.
By the part given in the
Government to Creoles
their lot (it may be said)
is more favourable than
that of the people in other
distant dependencies.
No: for though detrimental
to subject many in
Spain, this arrangement
is so likewise to Creolia:
in form a security against
misrule: in effect
an instrument for it.

Creoles unwilling
2.
1. As to intellectual aptitude,
while Creolia Members
are unfit for governing
Spain, viz by deficiency
of local information,
so will Spanish for
governing Creolia: in
both parts apt men may
alike be outvoted by unapt.

Creoles unwilling or Corruptive influence
3.
2. As to appropriate probity.
Sympathetic ebullition
subsided, and succeeded
by self-regard,
with its calculations, Creolian
Members, instead of
viligant vigilant Inspectors,
will be creatures
and instruments.

4.
Into Cortes enter men
self stiled Representatives
of the several Ultramarine
provinces,
received as such by
Council of State, by whom
they were got together:
and, thence, by Cortes.
Yet, in no instance have
they been chosen by
those whose Representatives
they are stiled. By
those alone who, at the
time, happened to be on
the spot. The mode of
Election, was it free? Not
unless secret, as per Art 73. If not thus,
they could not but have
they could not but have
entered free of hopes and
fears from Council (or
Junta) from whom their title
to be received cames, their
Spanish Colleagues to whom
they must have owed the being
actually received.

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§ Representative no Security
Creole Members Corrupt

Creoles unwilling
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From a Cortes so composed, no wonder if should the comminatory
clauses in the Proclamation
are entered be . Obedience will
not follow, unless, in Creolia,
feelings are opposite to what
they are in Spain. More
likely, if before disposed to
submission, will they be
rendered averse by it, by
being told they have done
what they have not done:
chosen whom they have not
chosen.

6.
Good in England where
imposture is the basis of
the Constitution: in one
branch, fictitious election;
in the two others, factitious
dignity, and fictitious excellence.
But English impostures
are old: this Spanish,
new – all interests
adverse, all eyes open, all
hearts (and hands) prepared
for resistance.

7.
Yet, on the whole, I condemn
it not: I might myself
have joined in it. Under
the Constitution it
could not but have been
done. For information,
thence intellectual aptitude,
nothing better could
have been: but sharing
in power is different from
furnishing information

8.
In appearance, temporary
only is the arrangement
itself: so, per Constitution
28. to 100: but, in
effect, permanent. For, by
these so stiled representatives
of Creolia, is the fate
of Creolia to be decided.
Not as bearers of wishes
and information, but as
co-legislators, do they act.

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§ Representative no Security
Creole Members Corrupt

Corruptive influence
9.
Suppose these Creole members
all chosen in the best mode –
the matter will not be much
mended. In Spain would
every object of ambition be
disposed of; by some agreement
secretly formed between
influential members
in Council and do. in Cortes
instrument corruptive influence;
victims, Creole
ruling few in Creolia, in
Creolia and Spain, subject many.

As vultures to carcase
place-hunters from Creolia
to Madrid (note
that, for the lucrative offices
in Creolia, some Creoles
would be added to the
Spaniards.

Corruptive influence
10.
At Madrid, Creolian Elections
would be settled
by a secret Committee, composed
of Legislators and Executives.
In Spain, as in
England every thing sham.

Corruptive influence
11.
Thus would Spanish Constitution
be pursued poisoned: Creoles,
howsoever averse, the
pursuers poisoners.

Identifier: | JB/008/023/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1820-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-11
Box	008	Main Headings	emancipation spanish
Folio number	023	Info in main headings field	emancipation spanish
Image	001	Titles	representation no security / creole members corrupt
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	3127
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