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which it is recorded ; — an intellectual ma- 

 chinery must be formed and set in motion, 

 in order to produce that disposition of 

 mind, which may enable the people at 

 once to enjoy, and carry into effect, the 

 advantages and the principles of a free 

 constitution. Without this, freedom, though 

 it is true it may be to a certain extent 

 possessed by one portion of a popula- 

 tion, will be to the other classes a mere 

 name. 



Much, therefore, remains to be done in 

 Spanish America, and the manner in which 

 it is done is by no means uninteresting to 

 Europe, whose future relations with the 

 American states must be sensibly affected 

 by the modes, the forms, and the characters 

 of their institutions. The commerce between 

 the two continents must, in the nature of 

 things, unless forcibly impeded by arbitrary 

 regulations, be most varied and extensive. 



