1820. July 25

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Corruptive influence

All those external instruments of human felicity that are or appear

to be in their reach, act /operate/ /in proportion to their quantity act/ on public

functionaries in the character of instruments of corruptive influence. The greater

the proportion is of the whole mass to the whole mass of the national property the

more efficient is their operation in that character. The Spanish Monarchy like all

other Monarchies the which have representative systems combined with them the Spanish

Monarchy teems with useless places, needless places, overpaid places and sinecure

places: it teems with factitious dignities constituted of and kept up by /and no

otherwise kept up than by/ the [...?] of the subject many, constituting one of the

instruments of corruption and operating as bounties upon worthlessness and depravity

/breach of public duty/ in every shape bounties upon depravity in that shape in which

it consists of the sacrifice of the universal interest to the particular interests of

those by whom these instruments of imposture are bestowed Having now in combination

with it a representative democracy the whole mass of the external instruments of

felicity at the disposal of the ruling few representatives of the people and others

/amongst the rest/, will be employed in the exercise /application/ of corruptive

influence to the purpose of engaging them to swell to the utmost possible pitch the

amount of official emolument and thence of official expenditure and of the taxes by

which it is defrayed. Even Setting aside the mass of money power and factitious

dignity attached to the possession or endeavoured acquisition of Spanish American and

the other distant dependencies, the quantity of the matter of corruptive influence in

the hands of the Monarch and his advisers, the Monarch being irremovable, will

suffice, and that to a certainty sooner or later to engage a constant majority of the

Cortes in a constant breach of trust constantly operating in augmentation of the mass

of the external instruments of felicity and corruptive influence shared among the

ruling few