1822 Novr 15 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations Ch.

Bashaws Inducement ?.2. Extra-regarding

Difference as to security between Mahometan and the worst Frank governments.

So far as regards hope of encrease nothing can be more intimate than the

connection between the interest of the Sovereign and that of his subjects taken

in the aggregate, no one object more strictly dependent on another than is his

opulence upon their opulence.

In the existing state of things under the existing form of government, the

Sovereign has at all times extracted from his subjects as much as was capable of

being extracted from them: in this state of things all ulterior encrease to him

without encrease to them being hopeless, remains as the only source of hope in

regard to encrease to him such encrease whatsoever it may be, as may be derived

from a correspondent encrease to them.

But under the existing form of government any considerable encrease of wealth to

them is impossible: all such encrease is altogether dependent on a sense - a

general sense of security: this dependence will be explained presently. /in the

first /next/ place./ But under the existing form of government such general

sense of security is impossible: this impossibility will be explained in the

next /first/ place.