[clxii. 172]

1820 May 23

Emancipation Spanish

'. 7. Rulers gainers

4 Rulers gainers

10 Factitious dignity

So much for bad use /uses/, now as to good use /uses/ need of it there is none - there is not any where any need of it

No proof has ever been given - no proof can ever be given that with this sort of inducement of reward in prospect more and better service will be rendered in this or any other time will be evident than where there is no such instrument of reward in prospect.

The English with the new Duke of Wellington at their head and divers others by their side got the better of the French oftener than the French got the better of them. The Duke of Wellington got this Dukedom of his, at a time when under the apprehension of lowering the dignity of it so much as to sink the dignity of the children /men/ of the blood royal when invested with it, it had become a sort of maxim[?] of government to reserve it for this race /caste/ so essentially distinct from and presumably /incomparably/ superior to all others. But by no consideration /evidence/ can it be proved, or so much as in any degree rendered probable, that without any such reward in this shape - or any other factitious shape in propect whatsoever preeminance in skill and [...?] was displayed by this soldier would not have been equally displayed without it. Not to speak of reputation and so forth life itself would have been at stake without it, and as without life no instrument of felicity in any shape can be possessed, in this situation as in every other, the anxiety to preserve life without loss of reputation would have sufficed to call forth all the exertions that could be called forth, and D r Prices globes of solid gold, the produce of a farthing put out at interest could not command any thing more.