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1822 Novr 15 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Novr 15 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations Ch.

Bashaws Inducement ?.2. Extra-regarding

Difference as to security between Mahometan and the worst Frank governments.

So far as regards hope of encrease nothing can be more intimate than the

connection between the interest of the Sovereign and that of his subjects taken

in the aggregate, no one object more strictly dependent on another than is his

opulence upon their opulence.

In the existing state of things under the existing form of government, the

Sovereign has at all times extracted from his subjects as much as was capable of

being extracted from them: in this state of things all ulterior encrease to him

without encrease to them being hopeless, remains as the only source of hope in

regard to encrease to him such encrease whatsoever it may be, as may be derived

from a correspondent encrease to them.

But under the existing form of government any considerable encrease of wealth to

them is impossible: all such encrease is altogether dependent on a sense - a

general sense of security: this dependence will be explained presently. /in the

first /next/ place./ But under the existing form of government such general

sense of security is impossible: this impossibility will be explained in the

next /first/ place.
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    1. First then all encrease of wealth is altogether dependent on sense of

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    wealth can take place but by means of a proportionate encrease of capital. But

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    of growing wealth can take place without a proportionate /correspondent/

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    length of time more or less considerable: say six, eight or ten years: or even

    without hope of reimbursement, on the condition that the returns each year

    though perhaps not more than a twentieth /twentyeth/ or five and twentieth or a

    thirtyeth of the capital advanced shall be perpetual and transferable.

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    him for the current consumption of the year, if he can not obtain this security

    for any return that might otherwise be expected from the employment of, he will

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    of distress by loss or otherwise, or if he employs it, he will employ it

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    to the same thing, in an indirect way, namely by occupying the place of an equal

    quantity which is thereby enabled and caused to be employed in encreasing

    /giving encrease to/ the quantity of national wealth in that same country, as

    above.