nd [wm 1813]

Government 1 Monarchy

Monarch

§1. Private interest

§2. Share in public d o

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We come now to speak of the Monarchs share in the universal interest In his quality of Member of the community at large it is his interest that y e aggregate mass of the matter of felicity possessed and enjoyed by the whole community be as great as possible. This then were his private interest out of the question would be upon the whole his interest. For such in the case of every Member in the community is upon y e whole his interests supposing him to have no such private interest as, being adverse to the universal interest is of more value to him than his share in the Universal interest. But the value of the monarch’s private interest, such is the magnitude of the mass of the matter of felicity always heaped upon that one head, is in a vast degree superior to the value of his share in the universal interest: which being the case, so long as he adds any but the smallest part to the magnitude of that mass of which he has the whole it matters not to him in how large a degree he diminishes the magnitude of that in which he has but a proportionable share.

For the carrying on y e business of government in all its branches