[clxiv. 247]

1820 July 26

Emancipation Spanish

Summary?

Corruptive influence degrees

The absolute Monarch, universal interest requires his taking no more than necessary subsistence for himself: in Spain he took 1/ 4 of the Government expenditure

2. The next highest degree of efficiency is where, the means of corruption being established /settled/ by legal arrangements as above, the sinister and corruptive benefit requires for its dropping into the lap of the person in question the existence of some public functionary or other person whose interest or whose will would /might/ be served by a breach of duty on his part, but not necessarily any act on the part of the person so existing directed to that end

In this situation is placed every person who beholds in the