1[clxiv. 246] PRIVATE

1820 July 26

Emancipation Spanish

Summary?

Corruptive influence Degrees

Quere whether to reverse the order of these degrees?

AA. Corruption - degrees of its efficiency. King Judges etc Self-corrupters.

Corruptive influence has place and effect, wherever and in so far as by means /instruments/ /force/ of the agreable and /or/ profitable class /kind/ /description/ a mans interest /of /he being/ a public functionary/ is, in an effective way in opposition to the universal interest - and thence /thus/ in opposition to his duty.

The value of the instrument of corruption being given It operates with different degrees of force according as for its efficiency it is less dependent on other co-operating causes /forces/, for its efficiency, and less exposed to the opposing action of counter-forces

1. The highest degree of efficiency is where without need of the existence of any individual regarded as desirous of giving to the conduct of the corruptly influenced person /functionary/ the sinister tendency the /direction, the corruptive/ benefit in consequence of an arrangement taken by the law itself drops into /finds its way into/ his pocket as it were of itself in proportion as by the line of conduct he takes on the occasion he sacrifices to that his private interest his own duty and the public interest. Examples

1. The /The situation of/ Judge who reaps a profit proportioned to /rising/ the expence, and thence to /with/ the delay and vexation to which in his judicatory the suitors are subjected

2. The situation of Judge - who, seeing his profit rising /encreasing/ thus with the misery of suitors /litigants/, and with the number of litigations, sees at the same time the number of litigants in his judicature encrease with the distress of the country and thence with the miseries war, and being at the same time a /an influential/ member of the legislative body in which war and peace, derives a mass of emolument rising in proportion to the amount of the misery which he is instrumental /contributory/ to the production of.