1820 May 20

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers Gainers

'.4. Rulers gainers

5. Power - [...?]

5. Profit by power

People[?] under [...?] &c. have an interest in any thing that can [...?] [...?] government: [...?] [...?]. - [...?] [...?] of [...?] equip polite[?] officers

6. Profit by power, through the medium of personal ease in official situations.

Of every office the value is directly as the profit in all shapes that belong to it, and inversely as the labour - /irksomeness and/ quantity and quality /degree of irksomeness/ considered employed in the exercise of the functions belonging to it. in a word directly in the degree of ease attached to it.

The case in which this profit is at its maximum is the case in which the officer receives the denomination of a sinecure

In the situation of incumbent functionary filling the office in question that the quantity of time and the degree of labour /[...?]/ in so far as exertion is attended with [...?] may be as small as profitable: the situation will in this proportion be be worth the more to him in this direct way.

So in the situation of patron having at his disposal an officer subordinate in this way to his own: the better worth an office is to the incumbent, the better worth it is to the patron.