1820. May 14[?]

Emancipation Spanish

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'.7. Rulers gainers

' Rulers gainers

1. Money direct

2. Money through patronage

This profit may be distinguished into main branches: 1 profit direct is the shape of money; 2 profit in the shape of power /money through the medium/; 3 profit in the shape of power throught the medium of services other than pecuniary 4 profit in the shape of incidental vengeance

1. /As to/ The profit in the shape of money.

This again may be divided into three branches

1. /Pecuniary/ Profit entering directly into the pocket of the individual /person/ /functionary/ in question: profit received by him in the shape of official pay - of official pay to himself, in remuneration /retribution/ for his individual services

Of the whole mass of /correspondent/ expence and profit the advantages entire and without abatement and constantly into the pocket of the individual and the greater the expece of this part is to the people the smaller the profit of the rulers /ruling few/ is not merely correspondent to Cost exactly equal to the expence and correspondent burthen imposed upon the people.

2. Profit entering indirectly into the pockets of the rulers Profit received by that /correspondent/ class of rulers by /from/ whom the receptive subordinates receive their appointments.

Here /is given/ in the case /situation/ of the subordinates the profit to the ruler is not merely correspondent but equal to the loss to the people.

But attached to this profit, which is peculiar to the subordinates, there is another which belongs to the superordinates: namey the pecuniary profit of patronage: that part of the profit of patronage that part which is in the shape of money. This profit may in the instance /case/ of each subordinate this profit may be so high as to be equal, or it may by any amount fall short of being so.