[clxiv. 151]

1820 July 4.

Emancipation Spanish

ult o

?.8. Corruptive influence

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Rulers [...?] course

Spaniards In your case, whatsoever is done towards keeping the interest of the leading functionaries from a coincidence with that of the subject many with the universal interest and thereby toward keeping it from a coincidence with their acknowledged duty - whatsoever is done towards enabling them to make sacrifice of to their own private /narrower/ interests the universal interest - it is not by coercive power that, in the first instance it will be done, not by unbridled coercive power to be avowedly exercised over the people, for whatever they propose to themselves to do, neither against the will of the people nor so much as without the cordial[?] support of the people can they hope to do it: for the people have already felt enough of unbridled coercive power, and it is in the hope of keeping themselves secure against it /exempt from it/, in this hope and no other, that they are prepared to continue and with encrease[?] whatsoever support they have given to those who have stood foremost /forward/ for their deliverance from under it.

Remains as the only sort of instrument applicable to the purpose, corruptive influence. And most admirably adapted to the purpose it must be confessed to be. What renders it so admirably adapted to this and every other politically nefarious purpose is the cloud of obscurity in which its nature is involved. This cloud - a cloud which /scarcely/ has never /ever/ yet been compleatly dissipated I will do my best /proceed my friends in my humble/ endeavours to dissipate that you may behold in his true lineaments the subtle fiend - the most formidable, and hitherto in every place but one the too effectual /effective/ enemy of all good government.