1818 Dec. 8.

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Prin

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§.1 Misrule when necessary

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The Monarch in whom does he behold his neighbours /a neighbour/? In the first place

his servants, in the next place his rivals, in no place at all his subjects. /the

people./ He looks to Burke, and asks Who are these? Burke for answer says – the

swinish multitude.

Thus it is that under every throne spring up sources of expenditure {in numbers}

/more than one/ each of which if fed as fast as drained would for its supply suffice

to swallow up the whole substance of the people. Personal luxury, civil official

establishment, military official establishment: these during the whole of his life;

war during the greater half of it. These under every Monarchy: to these, under

English Monarchy add a peculiar dream – peculiar at any rate in degree – distant

dependencies. Imposture declares, ignorance believes, these drains to be sources of

supply. /resources./ Without any exception they are more drains: drains /a drain/ as

surely and incontestably so, as any tax is a drain. /as taxes are./ /every one of

them, as any tax is./ In no one instance /were there any who/ had any[?] one industry

/public spirit/ and […?] Oh for the taste[?], would this proposition fail of being

demonstrated in figures. +

The profit is in the first place to the Monarch, to the Monarch in the shape of food

for pride and vanity, in the shape of matter of patronage, then the next place to his

retainers and worshippers, in the capacity /several capacities/ of members of the

Official Establishment, and individually carrying on giving support to and extracting

profit from a course of unpunishable licensed and unpunishable depredation under the

name of trade. Thus that the one with his courtiers

/retainers/ and worshippers may be comforted, {are not only the 50 or 60 by this time

the 100 million in Asia /Hindostan/, but the 17 million in Europe by and for a small

part of /number by/ whom they are ruled,} are the millions tormented. the millions 17

or 18 of them in Europe, with the 50 or 60 perhaps by this time the 100 in Hindostan

alone: but these, their distance and the colour of their skin scarce worth taking

into the account.

+ See Emancipate Your Colonies.