[clxiv. 106]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

? Corruptive influence

5. Mode of operation

The /These/ terms suborner and subornation have not with equal frequency been applied to misdeed in any other shape, to misdeeds bearing any other denomination with so much frequency as to misdeed in the shape of perjury: misdeeds in the shape of perjuries. But whether it for the purpose of prevention and thence of exposure, there is a no less uncontrovertible demand for it in the case of misdeed in any other shape than in the case of misdeed in this shape. Indeed if there be misdeeds the mischief /evil/ of which is greater than the mischief /evil/ from perjury, in the instance /several cases/ of all these several misdeeds the demand for it is greater than in the case of perjury: and the greater the evil the mischief, the more imperative the demand.

As to the sort of misdeed here in question, whatsoever may be its particular nature and effect in particular situations, it comes under /it may be expressed by/ the general denomination of a breach of trust.

The sort of trust here /on this occasion/ considered as liable to be broken is a public trust: a trust in the case of which the trustee is, as above, a person possessing some /a/ share more or less considerable in the mass of power of the aggregate of which the power of government is composed; and the persons for whom he is in trust, the whole body of the people, composed of all the members of the community in question, ruling few and subject many together, are the persons for whom he is in trust.