[clxiv. 110]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Mode of operation

King sole suborner as to prize money by droits If without the /these/ special fruits of piracy the war with Spain had been begun, the proof of subornation would not have been so clear.

By droits law not only foreigners were despoiled but his own seamen were defrauded of their rights

Among the profits to an alledged suborner from the /a/ mischief to which by an act of his - by the exercise of /given to/ a power belonging to his situation he has given /been giving/ birth, suppose in ever such great number and variety other effects, good and /as well as/ bad, to have been resulting /flowing/ from the same measure still if there be a single profit /fruit/ that he puts /sweeps/ into his pocket /purse/ though it be no more than a single one to /from/ which no profit can be shewn to accrue to any interest other than his own personal or other individual interest - the act by which in giving exercise to such his power, and thereby to the profit in question a place in his purse, may be, and can not consistently with reason and justice be denied to be, an act of subornation, the act by which he has given birth to all those bad effects, a misdeed - a transgression in the moral sense, howsoever it may be in the legal sense - if destruction of human life be among the consequences /those effects/, an act of murder, and the suborner here in question, how so ever it be in regard to other persons whose acts were contributory to those same effects, a murderer: if destruction to human life by and in the way of war, a murderer upon the largest scale: and to /into/ the list of accessories to the murder and thence of murderers, of suborners of murder for the sake and purpose of the sinister profit thus derived from it, and of the exercisers of corruptive influence one upon another, and /or/ persons yielding to the force of such corruptive influence may with indisputable propriety appertain /be aggregated/ their names and not only of the functionary into whose purse the profits of murder are thus swept /put/ /lodged/ /gathered/ by means of the war, but of all others who, with their eyes open are by their conduct active or passive contributory to the continuance of the state of things in which this destruction and impoverishment to the many with the profits to the few has its rise.