[clxiv. 124]

1820 May 23

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

?.4. Rulers gainers

10 Corruptive influence

trust in such sort as to sacrifice /by sacrificing/ to the particular interest common to themselves and the Corrupter-General the Monarch /Monarch/ who whether he will or no is their constant and perpetual corrupter the /universal/ interest of the whole.

In a word to their primary and universal value as instruments of enjoyment these objects of universal desire add in this case a secondary and particular value - that which belongs to them as instruments of security; instruments of security for securing to the possessors, corrupting and corrupted, their respective shares in the profits of misrule.