JB_164_189.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 189] 1820 June 23 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 189]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests Opposite

Refer to Place and Hobhouse

Sole difference Whigs will perhaps be more anxious about encreasing their own aristocratical share

Under these circumstances the part acted by the two sections changes according to their situations at the time The men who /by whom/ now in the situation of corruptionists in expectancy their labours are employed in the endeavour to give to the quantity of the external matter /this same pretious matter/ of felicity thus employed the utmost possible encrease - of these same men supposing their situation changed from that of corruptionists in possession to that of corruptionists in expectancy the labours would be employed in the endeavour if not to give encrease to it to preserve it from decrease. So again in the opposite case. The men by whom in the situation of corruptionists in expectancy their labours are employed in the endeavour to effect a decrease in the quantity of this pretious matter thus employed - by those same men in the situation of corruptionists in possession their labours will be sure to be employed in the endeavour to give to it every possible encrease

These different parts opposite as they are, they are enabled if not altogether without manifest inconsistency, at any rate with a degree of inconsistency the concealment of which is in no small degree favoured by the nature of the case. For as to the quantity of the pretious matter in question it is naturally and essentially an indeterminate quantity. A man in the one situation may require ever so much of it without its being possible for a man in the other situation who admitts that there must be some of it, to prove by any exclusively applicable /conclusive/ arguments that the quantity so required is too great.

JB_164_152.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 152] 1820 June 2 Emancipation]

Description: [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

JB_164_167.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 167] 1820 June 22 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 167]

1820 June 22

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests opposite?

King worst not best.

F. King, not the best man, but the worst.

All Geography - all History all reasoning deduced from both shews /All History and all Geography concurr in shewing it/ - that the more extensive and uncontrouled a mans power is, the less is his sympathy for other men in general, especially for those who are most immediately subject to such his power, and the more intense and unbridled and exclusive his regard for self for his self-regarding interest. If then by /to the word/ excellence is attached any such meaning as that of the existence of regard for the happiness of others in a larger proportion to regard for self that is commonly found in human breasts, the very last situation in a Monarchy to which it ought in reason to be ascribed is that of the Monarch himself: in that of day-labourer, pauper, or even criminal, in respect of almost any crime would /might/ it with more reason be expected to be found.

In the history of Rome under the Emperors, history presents us with a set of men who with here and there an exception, at least as to degree present /afford/ the most striking exemplification of any we are familiar with of depravity in that shape in which it stands most exactly opposite to excellence as above explained To cut the matter short they are not uncommonly denoted by some mark of strong and unmeasured mark of vituperation /condemnation and abhorrence/ such as is contained in the word monsters. But among the Monarchs /of the Monarchies/ of Asia in general monstrosity not inferior has in all times and places been the predominant character. Of this The style in which the intercourse between them and their subjects is carried on affords of itself sufficient

evidence.