JB_162_161.xml

Title: [1820 May 21 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 May 21

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers gainers

'.4. Rulers gainers

Power -

6 Profit[?] to impunity[?]

7. Profit by power. throught the medium of the faculty of intruding relative /appropriate/ aptitude into official situations

Of every office the value is as above, directly as the profit in all shapes that belongs to it, and inversly as the relative /appropriate/ aptitude necessary to to the enabling a person to be placed /seated/ in it.

In the situation of the incumbent this faculty is profitable to a man, labour /time and exertion/ which it renders it unnecesary for him to expend. /employ/

In the situation of nominating patron this faculty of nominating men to a subordinate office men to offices subordinate to his notwithstanding the inaptitude of the nominee with relation to these same offices is profitable in his accounts: 1 it renders the office the more valuable to a /each/ nominee; 2. it gives proportionate extension to the number of persons among whom for the purpose in question he is at liberty to choose: thence in as far as personal pecuniary profit is his object, and love of money his determining motive to the quantity of money or moneys worth which he has a chance of obtaining by this means: in so far as social sympathy upon an individual such[?] is his motive and the gratification of the corresponding desire his object, it affords him a correspondently favourable chance of being able to place the profit in the hands of such individuals as are the objects of his strongest sympathies.

JB_162_162.xml

Title: [1820 May 20 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 May 20

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers gainer

'.4. Rulers gainers

7 Power - impunity

8. Profit by power through the medium of impunity for individuals of all sorts for misrule /official misconduct/ in all shapes

State superior in value to profit in the most profitable of all the abovementioned shapes, is the profit of impunity. The utmost suffering of which man is susceptible is much greater than /much more than equivalent to/ the utmost enjoyment of which man is susceptible. Supppose punishment endeavoured to be attached to the enjoyment /[...?]/ is the endeavour to enjoy at the expense of the public[?] /universal/ interest and welfare profit in all in every of the abovementioned three best[?] mentioned[?] shapes - preponderantly mischievous profit undue vengeance - undue ease, /profit by [...?]/ or profit by /in/ respect of relative inaptitude on the part of the incumbent. Suppose punishment attached to any or every such endeavour, and that notwithstanding the punishment it is still the interest of the individual to receive or pursue[?] the profit in these several shapes respectively attached to the office in these several shapes, take away the punishment, the encrease given to the value of the profit in these several shapes is manifest and proportionate and manifestly so.

But the impunity which [...?] in this shape and in this quantity the profit is small indeed in comparison of the whole mass /that of the aggregate amount/ of impunity as measured by the extent and relative profitableness of the /all/ misdeeds which by means of the aggregateness[?] of power in the hands of the body of which the functionary in question is a member is[?] more[?] secured /[...?] in the enjoyment of. See below

JB_162_152.xml

Title: [1820. Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820.

Emancipation Spanish

Ult r

'.7. Rulers gainers

'. Rulers gainers

2. Money through patronage

/If/ In every instance in which by means of the pay attached to this subordinate office he makes provision for a person for whom but for the patronage thus possessed he would have made provision to the same /equal/ amount at his own expence, the profit thus indirectly attached to the superordinatte office is equal to an equal portion of any profit directly attached to that same superordinate office.

Suppose the subordinate office sold by the patron made by the patron an object of sale, the net /indirect/ profit thus indirectly made by the patron will be the amount of the pay in all shapes attachd to the subordinate office, deduction made /after deduction/ of the people made by the purchaser in [...?] of the purchaser, is rather, considered in a more simple point of view it will [...?] in the difference between the amount of the purchase may be obtained and its value which /the patronage of/ the subordinates office would have beeen to him had he dispensed of it as above in favour of a person for whom he would have made provision to the same amount at his own expence.

By the double effect /use/ thus given /produced/ by the same sum of money, if the number and pay of the subordinate offices be not encreased, the /pecuniary/ /immediate suffering of the/ loss to the people in a pecuniary shape is of course neither doubled nor so much as encreased: but in another way and that not the less real and sure because remote, namely in the way of corruption, it is encreased /does receive encrease/ as in the manner that will be presently brought to view /But in this case it is the interest of the patron, that in number and value, and thence in pay these subordinate offices shall receive every possible degree of encrease: and proportioned to this encrease is the profit in the shape of power of corruption, of which under another head/.