[clxiv. 214]

1820 July 3

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Ends and Means of Governm t

Means

a stone idol is harmless compared to one living

Stone eats nothing oppresses [...? ...?] as when it does not [...?] etc

Every person acquiescing in such imposture is tainted with it

Till you have made application of the matter of reward by fear of matter of punishment alone without defeasible possession or eventual expectation of matter of reward, it is never in your power to know to what perfection the service you wish for is according to the nature of it capable of being rendered. By fear of punishment a Monarch might have made Cabalonia[?] sing or Vestris dance: but had that been the instrument and the only instrument employed, the singing would have been no better than screaming, the dancing than tumbling.

Unless the faces he has surrounded with had now and then spite of all fears a smile upon them, the bearers /wearers/ instead of being play things for the grown baby would be nuisances to him - smiles produced by /of/ agony may be forced, but smiles produced by alacrity must be purchased.

From these and other causes so it is that no Monarch even the most frugal one can do every thing by punishment can do altogether without reward. Not Even Frederic the great of Prussia by whom the whip and the stick were employed upon so many hundred thousand backs with such admirable effect. Four hundred thousand slaves so well fitted for cutting the throats of men would not suffice for his entertainment without four Cooks: four Cooks each the culinary glory /flavour/ of a different empire /nation/: a French, a German, and Italian: let some kind pen or tongue supply the fourth. No one of these artists could have been procured by the bayonet or the whip: nor if he had been would the [...?] have been much the better for him. The ten thousand Invalids so recently added to the 100,000 veterans might serve George the fourth /another Monarch/ to kill radicals, but they would not serve him to build palaces with, nor in another way to kill time with.