[clxiv. 168]

1820 June 22

Emancipation Spanish

?. Interests opposite

King worst, not best

evidence. On the one side it is the more absurdly insolent: on the other more terrified /terror-struck/ and abject than even under the Roman Emperors. The circumstance to which the case of the Roman Emperors is indebted for its prominence /owes its prominence/, is its being the subject of those histories which are so much more read than the histories of those Asiatic Monarchs tyrants of whom and their respective gangs of slaves there is nothing to be said or known except that in each of the two situations men have all been cast in one and the same mould.