[clxiv. 98]

1820 June 20.

Emancipation Spanish

?. Corruptive influence

1 Persons operated on

3. Persons operating?

The hurt done to the interest of the people by the veto which their body can, apply, on every occasion, /apply/ to every thing that is for the interest of the people is still but small in comparison of the hurt done to it by the share the Members of it possess individually in the faculty of appointing and at intervals removing those who appear in the character of representatives of the people. A number little less than a majority, and which when joined to those who are partakers in the same particular and sinister interest always capable of /on every occasion sufficient to/ constituting a majority, possess thereby in themselves the whole of the power which in shew and pretence is lodged in and exercised by the House composed of those same Representatives; Thus in effect and operation the House of Commons, (it has been said, and if untruly let any one shew as much) the House of Commons is but another House of Lords.

Thus it is that whichsoever of the three branches be considered into which /amongst which/ under our Constitution such as it is is divided - one individual and two public bodies the subject many are governed, and every thing that is or ought to be done to them on every occasion disposed of at the pleasure of a set of men /hands/ whose interest is in a state of point blank and unchangeable opposition to theirs - to the universal interest

Of all these, together with such other functionaries who under the orders of the Monarch occupy the offices belonging to the department which in contradistinction to the legislative composed as above is termed the Executive, and in which are included and comprized the Administrative and the Judicial, is composed the body of the ruling few