[clxvii. 52]

1820. July 29.

Rid Yourselves of Ultramaria

Summary

'.4. Rulers gainers

Whose earnings afford an adequate supply to his animal wants. In this consideration may be seen the argument for equality: in so far as consistent with security:- the only argument - and is it an insufficient one?

3. Other circumstances equal, the felicity, produced by the acquisition of any given sum, is never so great as the suffering, produced by the involuntary loss of that same sum. Were it not for this, no reason would be to be found for employing the force of government in the endeavour to prevent

depredation - in the endeavour to give security to property, in any of its shapes.

Lay these circumstances together,- and then, calculate who can, at what expence every addition to the emolument of the ruling few, as such, at the expence of the subject many, can not but be purchased.