Can good come from this beginning; which, in matter of civil government, is the fountain-head and the main feeder of all the pure evil upon earth?
Look at the past history of our sister Island for the quality of foreign oppression: turn where you will, it is miserable at best; but, in the case of Spain!--it might be said, engraven upon the rocks of her own Pyrenees, Per me si va nella citta dolente; Per me si va nell' eterno dolore; Per me si va tra la perduta gente.
So much I have thought it necessary to speak upon this subject; with a desire to enlarge the views of the short-sighted, to cheer the desponding, and stimulate the remiss.

I have been treating of duties which the People of Spain feel to be solemn and imperious; and have referred to springs of action (in the sensations of love and hatred, of hope and fear),--for promoting the fulfilment of these duties,--which cannot fail.

The People of Spain, thus animated, will move now; and will be prepared to move, upon a favourable summons, for ages.

And it is consolatory to think that,--even if many of the leading persons of that country, in their resistance to France, should not look beyond the two first objects (viz.

riddance of the enemy, and security of national independence);--it is, I say, consolatory to think that the conduct, which can alone secure either of these ends, leads directly to a free internal Government.