1820 June 9

Emancipation Spanish

'.7. Rulers Gainers

Thus then has been /I have/ shown, and I hope to your conviction[?] that under every head of profit, the word profit being taken in the very largest sense, the ruling few would be gainers by this same dominion, and to an immense amount, at the same time but they and they alone would be the gainers: and that in every instance, in some instances in a less in others in a greater proportion, by the profit then reaped by the ruling few the subject many would in the correspondently complete sense be losers

In speaking of these two correspondent and inseperable [...?] less to the subject many profit to their sometimes acknowledged [...?], the ruling few it was impossible to pass altogether unmentioned, that particular branch of power or say that particular application /the subject of corruptive influence, corruptive influence - that particular/ [...?] in use derived from power in general in hands so situated from the whole catalogue of the [...?] instruments of felicity in such hands. Under this head you will see that in so far as /on this one hand/ the people have representation on the one hand exercising government, on the other hand. those same instruments of felicity and object of general desire have place in and are at the command /to a certain amount [...?] in any shape/ of any set of persons whatsoever - those same instruments of felicity in any shape and in particular in the shape of patronage [...?] power of maintaining /placing men/ to profitable or otherwise desirable situation especially in so far as the power of displacing them is added to it, in so far as in any country this state of things has place, the sacrifice of the universal interest of the subject many to the particular interest of the ruling few, are /is/ regularly, constantly and necesarily made: and they even without any exertion on the part of the corruptors to produce any such effort, much more with the aid of such exertion as in a /any/ situation of that sort never[?] have been, as[?] above are, never can any where be grudged. The profit of these, together with an indication of the effect of which it /will/ be productive upon every thing that is good in the Constitution will from it fail in so far as required fail as necessary to be employed. matter of the head next section. +