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1820 May 25
§.4. Rulers gainers
§.1. Gainers who Prope, its shapes – 6 Mary street.
1.
Gainers, but too many:
yet not so many as
to render the possession
eligible to the people
at large.
2.
Expence of maintaining
Spanish Dominion
over Creolia
is the difference betn
the expence of Spanish
government without
that incumbrance and
the greatest sum likely to
be levied, i.e. the greatest
leviable, on pretence of
maintaining the dominion
over it.
3.
Correspondent to that
expence, and the suffering
attached to it,
will be the profit received,
and comfort
enjoyed, by King's new,
instead of former, advisers.
4.
Rulers profit – its branches –
1. Money, direct.
2. Money, through power of patronage.
3. Services, through power of patronage.
4. Incidental vengeance, through power.
5. Undue ease.
6. Profit notwithstanding Inaptitude, through power.
7. Impurity, thro' power.
8. Respect &c. through power.
9. Factitious dignity through power.
10. Corruptive influence through power.
5.
1. Profit by money directly
received, as official pay by
functionaries superior &
subordinate.
Here people's loss not greater
than ruler's gain.
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§.4. Rulers gainers
§.2. Money through power
6.
2. Profit of superiors, in
so far as patrons, or the
pay of subordinates in
so far as their nominees
Here, too, people's loss
greater than ruler's
gain.
7.
But, by this patronage,
many profit, so any amot
not great than nominee's
pay.
8.
Case in which patron's
profit is equal to nominees
– where, but for the
patronage, he wd have
provided for him at his
own expence.
9.
Case where less – where
patron sells the office:
there patron's profit is
proportionally less.
10.
Number and value
(including pay) of the
subordinate offices not
increased, loss to people
none: but patrons interest
is to maxiize
it: and the great it
is, the greater the correspondent
power of
corruption. See below.
See corruption.
11.
Profit of patronage correspondent
to vendor's
profit on goods moveable
or immoveable furnished
to government: profit
of patronage in the
case of contracts.
Here as before patron's
profit may be equal,
or short of equal,
to lender's.
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§.4. Rulers gainers
§.2. Money through power
12.
Way in which this indirect
profit, whether
on pay or goods, is apt
to produce more loss
to the public than direct
to the same amount:
the profit being so disguised,
patrons are enabled
to produce to themselves,
in this way, profit which
they could not in a direct
way: yet not without
a loss to people indefinitely
greater than
profit to patrons.
This is peculation pro
rata: which is proportionably
more mischievous
than do. in toto.
13.
Thus, suppose a functionary
able and determined
to obtain, at people's
expence, a certain
sum, loss to the people
is less when he obtains
it directly, than when indirectly,
by patronage.
Hence, in England, one
great cause of War.
13(a.)
Rudiments for Note.
1. Lord Melville. 2.
3. Powel & Bainbridge
4. Eldon. 5. Arden & Sir
Wm Scott. 6 Erskine &
Grant.
14.
3. Profit by power through
the medium of indeterminate
nameless and boundless
services.
Needless to dwell here on
a topic which applies to all
power under every Government,
boundless the
means, of self ingratiation:
boundless as the shapes of
the instruments of felicity.
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