1820 May 21

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers gainers

'.4. Rulers gainers

Power -

6 Profit[?] to impunity[?]

7. Profit by power. throught the medium of the faculty of intruding relative /appropriate/ aptitude into official situations

Of every office the value is as above, directly as the profit in all shapes that belongs to it, and inversly as the relative /appropriate/ aptitude necessary to to the enabling a person to be placed /seated/ in it.

In the situation of the incumbent this faculty is profitable to a man, labour /time and exertion/ which it renders it unnecesary for him to expend. /employ/

In the situation of nominating patron this faculty of nominating men to a subordinate office men to offices subordinate to his notwithstanding the inaptitude of the nominee with relation to these same offices is profitable in his accounts: 1 it renders the office the more valuable to a /each/ nominee; 2. it gives proportionate extension to the number of persons among whom for the purpose in question he is at liberty to choose: thence in as far as personal pecuniary profit is his object, and love of money his determining motive to the quantity of money or moneys worth which he has a chance of obtaining by this means: in so far as social sympathy upon an individual such[?] is his motive and the gratification of the corresponding desire his object, it affords him a correspondently favourable chance of being able to place the profit in the hands of such individuals as are the objects of his strongest sympathies.