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Among the services which in these circumstancies[ sic] may naturally be expected at the hands of persons looking up to the source of power or share in these benefits is that of contributing according to their respective situations, means, and opportunities to the giving encrease to the magnitude of the fund employed in the annexation of the elements of felicity in the character of matter of reward, to offices thus created and endowed. But, for as much as, to the mass of the advantages thus attached to patronage, and consequently to the intensity of the correspondent desire, hence it is that in the breast of every person placed in any such commanding situation there exists a perpetually active, and ever insatiable desire of giving increase to the quantity and value of the mass of patronage existing in his hands. But, not a particle of any such mass can ever be created but the expence of the subject many, out of whose pocket the matter of felicity must be extracted. And thus it is, that throughout the whole field of patronage, that is throughout an expance of infinite expence, the interest of the Monarch /ruler/ is in a state of diametrical opposition to the interest of those, who in this respect are subject to his power