[clxii. 71]

1820 May 13

Emancipation Spanish

' 6. Rulers arguments

Virtue no security

In the case in question the object to which this virtue was directed was the overthrow of the existing pure despotism tyrannically exercised, and the substituting to it a mixt monarchy the powers of which were under the controul of a set of men in whose election the people at large had had, and wish to continue to have a share, by another set of men such as /among whom of course/ in the first instance would not be any who had not the appprobation of these same representatives of the people, but who /on the nomination of whom/ ultimately, and no one could well say how soon might be such as would have been the choice not only in name and appearance but in reality of the Monarch - of that same Monarch, under whom the so long and lately terminated time of suffering had place.

Well then, by means of those virtues of men of the military class the effect had been the placing the country under the government of those other men of the men of that other class - the functionaries belonging to the legislative department and under them the functionaries belonging to the executive department - the administrative and the judicial included.

Now then to making of the sacrifice in question the pursuing /promoting/ the true interest of the Spanish people at large, namely by the surrender of the burthensome dominion in question what is the sort of virtue which on the part of the functionaries in question would be requisite and necessary? It is no less than the sacrifice of the comparatively private interest the interest of the particular class of the personal interests of the several individuals belonging to it - to the public to the universal interest.