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[clxiv. 152]
1820 June 2
Emancipation Spanish?
? Contributive to corruption
King hostile to justice
Love of justice as a separate principle has no place - it is either sympathy for the public or love of reputation: viz. of the reputation of love of justice Love of justice in a person[?] includes an impossibility: [...?] can not but desire a decision in his own favour, just or unjust: he can not desire a decision against himself
A 1. In a King, love of justice is impossible
The greater the power, the less the need, the less therefore the regard for justice
In the heart of no Monarch of nothing that wears a crown, or sits upon a throne, will you ever find any such principle as a regard for justice
By an Eastern despot no such sentiment is so much as professed. The standard of right and wrong the standard of justice itself is the will the everchanging/changeable/ will, governed by the ever changing interest or supposed interest of the despot Where any such sentiment is so much as professed, the entertaining it is spoken of as /brought to view in the character of/ a transcendent virtue, as a matter of favour, by the entertaining of which the Monarch may be admired, but by the withdrawing of which he will not be disgraced, or rendered unworthy of his throne /station/.
If there be a difference, sooner in an unlimited than in a limited Monarch will you find any symptom of a regard for justice: in an Emperor of Russia, than in a King of England In the eyes of the Emperor, the sentiment being matter of merit, transcendent merit - the proof of its influence a manifestation of transcendent virtue, in the character of a work of supererogative vanity may in a well-disposed breast, give birth now and then to a manifestation of it. As it never happens to him to find in the name of /word/ justice any obstacle to his will, there is nothing to set him against it
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