[clxiv. 94] PRIVATE

1820 June 20

Emancipation Spanish

Corruptive influence

1. Persons operated on

1. First then as to the class of persons liable to be operated upon in the way in question.

One general description /denomination/ /Trustees/ will serve for all of them - Trustees.

In the instance in question Trustees for the people

Under every form of government the situation of trustee has place.

In a despotic Monarchy, otherwise called a pure Monarchy, all rulers who are under the Monarch - that is to say all besides himself /others/ by whom any of the functions of Government are exercised or more shortly all his servants are trustees for him: what they hold of power they hold in trust for him, as we phrase it.

He himself is not trustee for any person /body/ but himself: all that are under him all the other members of the community were made for him: this in every such Monarchy is the creed.

In the Mahometan, the Hindoo and other Monarchies of Asia this doctrine is maintained without disguise.

In the European Monarchies at large, though /howsoever/ in practice acted upon, in theory it is not steadily maintained, with perfect uniformity and steadiness