JB_164_182.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 182] 1820 June 23 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 182]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests opposite

In this instance too as in every other, the waste answers the double purpose of misapplied personal gratification, and corruptive influence: the lace work /gold/ with which the coats of /cloath/ of his Musicians Coat is hid from view, may at this or that moment keep the grown baby at quiet, and save him from doing greater mischief. Palaces and Streets of enormous /Egyptian/ dimensions may to him answer the purpose of, may serve him for, /compose for his use a substitute to/ a baby-house.

But it is the interest of the subject many, that of the aggregate these same instruments the quantity obtained by him should be as small as possible; or to speak more plainly and truly that the quantity should be equal to 0 /he should have none of them/. For not any the smallest quantity can he ever obtain that is not obtained at their expence: by not a single atom of it can he ever be the richer but they are the poorer for it.

Note (a) 8

Of the aggregate community composed of of the subject many added to the ruling one it is still the interest that on the supposition that the aggregate of the instruments of felicity could without prejudice to security be divided into equal portions equal in number to that of the individuals in the community so composed, of all these lots he should never have /one indeed, but never/ more than one For, as already observed, if by a thousand portions of the aggregate of the external instruments of felicity, possessed, each of them, by a single individual a thousand portions of felicity itself will be produced, yet /still/, by a thousand portions of that same aggregate possessed by a single individual, so far is it from being true that a thousand portions of felicity itself will be produced, that it will remain a question a disputable point, whether more than one be produced, whether even so much as one.

George the third was continually hailed by the appellation of the best of Kings: and a better it would not perhaps be easy to find any where. Five hundred thousand pounds a year in round numbers was that man in the first instance allowed to spend /expend/ at the expence /charge/ of the subject many in the endeavour to condense into his single person the matter of felicity: five hundred thousand pounds - a sum greater than is found sufficient to afford subsistence to 50,000 of them during the same time: others indeed, and besides the members of his own family, others in multitudes: for, forasmuch as to the capacity of a Monarchs stomach there are the same limits as to that of an ordinary man so neither in the case of any external instrument of felicity is it possible for any individual to derive his felicity in more than a certain quantity, but that whether he will or no, others must have their share

JB_164_223.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 223] 1820 June 27 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 223]

1820 June 27

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Corruption without Corrupter

If the profit thus produced by /to/ the functionaries in question by arrangements productive of a vastly perponderant mass of loss and misery /suffering/ to other men in vast multitudes be not an inducement the inducement by the force of which he is led /determined/ whether it to give creation /existence/ or to give preservation by his sole power or in conjunction with the power of others to those arrangements, and thereby to that loss and suffering, then neither is /has/ the profit which a swindler makes by sale of the valuables, which for the purpose of putting into his pocket the produce of the sale he has obtained by false pretences, operated on his mind an inducement to utter the false pretence, the elaborately /purposely/ prepared lies by means of which he obtained them from the too improvidently confiding proprietor: then neither is /has/ the money which a highway robber receives /has been receiving/ from a passenger been his inducement to committ the robbery: then neither has the money which a murderous highwayman has put into his pocket after murdering /shooting/ the passenger in the first instance to prevent him from saving his money from carrying his money away out of his reach an inducement to committ the murder.

JB_162_121.xml

Title: [1820 June 4 Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 June 4

Emancipation Spanish

'.5. People Sufferers

Thus stands the account of profit, to use the language of the same intelligent and to all appearance correct reporter, "in a direct shape."

Let us now see whether to set against the loss, as brought to account above, there can in the case here in question, any profit any really existing profit accruing from the operation of the same supposed cause dominion exercised by rulers in Spain over the people of the Spanish Colonies, in any indirect shape in any other than the above direct shape.

Particular shapes in which any such indirect profit can accrue /present themselves/ there are but two, money (including moneys worth) and men: men, namely for military service: for all imaginable shapes would be found reducible to these two.

1. As to money money obtained by means of dominion in any such indirect shape, would be obtained by restriction by a sort of indirect taxation: by prohibitions restrictions on bounties having for their object the causing the mercantile men among you the Spanish people to obtain in the way of the mutual exchange of goods money or other commodites from the Spanish Americans at a less /lower/ price than if no such dominion had place, or in exchange for commodities sent to Spanish America obtaining from the Spanish Americans a higher price.