1822 Nov. 15 Tripoli. - Securities against Misrule, Preliminary Explanations

Ch Bashaws Inducements ?.2. Extra-regarding

This impossibility of any considerable encrease of wealth to the nation and

thence to the Sovereign without a correspondent encrease in the article of

security - security against misrule - in consequence of /the fruit of/ the

arbitrary power in the /his/ hands of the Sovereign will appear the more

plainly, in proportion as the several sources from whence the matter of wealth

is capable of being extracted are the more particularly considered /brought to

view/

Capital may be employed in giving encrease to the quantity of growing wealth in

either of two ways /situations/: namely 1. in the hands of individuals acting

singly: each employing his capital on his own single account, and receiving to

his own single use the whole of the return accordingly: 2. in the hands of

individuals acting in associations more or less extensive the capital being

formed /collected/ from a number of hands more or less considerable and

according to the magnitude of the concern employed either by the same hands by

which it is supplied, or by a lesser number of hands chosen and appointed by the

united suffrages of those by whom and for whom it is employed.

With the first of these two states of things let us commence the enquiry

/survey/ as being the more simple - this understood, the other will be

understood from it of course.