[clxvii. 84]

1821 March 22

Rid Yourselves

'7. Anticonstut Evil 2

Corruptive influence

'.2. Second anti constitutional evil - evil working /wrought/ by corruptive influence

Spaniards!

I now come to speak of the last /next/ /a much more mischievous /serious/ /pernicious// branch of the anti constitutional evil produced by the claim: /We come now to the next /a much more serious/ branch of the anti constitutional evil:/ namely the addition made by it to the force of the corruptive influence exercised by it on the probity of the whole number of the Members of the Sovereign Assembly howsoever composed: composed in what proportion so ever of Members chosen and removable by the inhabitants of the peninsular, and as such linked with them by one common and universal interest; and of Members chosen and removable by strangers divided from them by an opposite interest.

Of this corruptive influence the tendency, and to a certainty sooner or later the effect is to give to these representatives of the people on every occasion a particular interest opposite to the universal interest, and to which in consequence of the power attached to it the universal interest will on every occasion of conflict be sure to be sacrificed: to produce in a word on their part the correspondent corrupt obsequiousness.