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1821 Decr 6

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II Aristocrats interest

In regard to the government of these same distant dependencies his interest is that it be as tyrannical as opposite /hostile/ to the greatest happiness of the greatest number of the inhabitants as possible: that by and in proportion to the discontent may be the quantity of /and thence the expence of/ the military force necessary or pretended to be necessary to keep them in subjection.

In regard to power, his interest is that the quantity as well as expensiveness of military force kept up be at all times as great as possible: to the end that /that so/ the subjection in which the great body of the people are kept may be as abject as possible: and the checks /bridles/ whatever they may be that by the Constitution stand opposed /are or are meant to be applied/ to monarchical and aristocratical power may be as ineffectual as possible.

His legitimate interest in respect of security against misdeeds to his prejudice on the part /at the hands/ of the Monarch an interest which belongs to him in common with the body of the people /so far coincides with the universal interest/ at variance with his sinister interest in respect of money power and factitious dignity enjoyed at the expence of the people: according as the one interest or the other is at the moment the greater in his eyes each aristocrat will on each occasion side with the Monarch against the people, or with the people for the people

In regard to the disposal of Offices and lots of factitious dignity his interest is that they be at the disposal of the Monarch to the end /that so/ etc

In regard to factitious dignity it is the interest of the greater number /community/ that there be no such thing in existence: Whatsoever benefit it conveys is conferred at the expence of the people at large imposing upon them a burthen of humiliation more than equivalent: in the character of marks of reward considered as applicable to the procurement of meritorious service to the community at large, it is in a greater degree obstructive than contributory. The only service it is contributory and needful to the procurement of is service rendered to the Monarch at the expence of the people. By It contributes to that aggregate mass of the objects of general desire, by the hope of sharing in which individuals of all classes functionaries and non functionaries together are tempted to side with the Monarch against the people.