[clxiv. 189]

1820 June 23

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests Opposite

Refer to Place and Hobhouse

Sole difference Whigs will perhaps be more anxious about encreasing their own aristocratical share

Under these circumstances the part acted by the two sections changes according to their situations at the time The men who /by whom/ now in the situation of corruptionists in expectancy their labours are employed in the endeavour to give to the quantity of the external matter /this same pretious matter/ of felicity thus employed the utmost possible encrease - of these same men supposing their situation changed from that of corruptionists in possession to that of corruptionists in expectancy the labours would be employed in the endeavour if not to give encrease to it to preserve it from decrease. So again in the opposite case. The men by whom in the situation of corruptionists in expectancy their labours are employed in the endeavour to effect a decrease in the quantity of this pretious matter thus employed - by those same men in the situation of corruptionists in possession their labours will be sure to be employed in the endeavour to give to it every possible encrease

These different parts opposite as they are, they are enabled if not altogether without manifest inconsistency, at any rate with a degree of inconsistency the concealment of which is in no small degree favoured by the nature of the case. For as to the quantity of the pretious matter in question it is naturally and essentially an indeterminate quantity. A man in the one situation may require ever so much of it without its being possible for a man in the other situation who admitts that there must be some of it, to prove by any exclusively applicable /conclusive/ arguments that the quantity so required is too great.