036_200V.xml

Title: [[036-200v] 1821 July 5 Codification]

Description: [036-200v]

1821 July 5

Codification Offer

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

Under such a government therefore, from a stipendiary as well as from a gratuitous draughtsman, might not universally be expected, a work exempt from all deterioration, in so far as sinister interest generated by corruptive influence is the only source from which it can flow: and the hands of a Draughtsman appointed by a Committee of the legislative body being in this case the hands of a single individual, would for the reason above maintained /given/ even though he were a native be more competent /apt/ than the hands of the Committee itself.

Still however this Draughtsman, if a native would /still this native draughtsman single as he is will/ not in respect of aptitude in one shape aptitude in other shapes equal be upon a level with a foreigner. For though in this case error having sinister interest for its cause is not to be apprehended: their remain those errors which have prejudice - local prejudice - for their cause. To the /any/ prejudices of the natives draughtsman or no draughtsman there would be no check: to the /any/ prejudices of the foreigner there would be an assured check: a check composed of such native prejudices as well as of such native reason as have place in the breasts of the natives.

036_202V.xml

Title: [[036-202v] 1821. May 11. Codification]

Description: [036-202v]

1821. May 11.

Codification Offer

'.10 Offer /9 Draughtsman gratuitous/

'.10. Offer relative to a work of the sort above described.

Of the sort of work the demand for which, as above, has place in every nation, and in every nation remains as yet unsatisfied, a /the/ description has now been given. For the service of any nation on the globe, this demand the author of the address is ready and willing to do what depends upon him towards satisfying. Of his readiness for this service, sufficient intimation was, indeed, afforded as long ago as the year 1817, by a publication of his in English intituled "Papers relative to Codification" &c. But, though that publication forms an 8 vo. volume, it contains no more than a part of the testimonials, by which this offer is accompanied. Nor, of the topics touched upon in this address, will any (it is believed) be found there brought on the carpet, with the exception of those which regard all-comprehensiveness and the rationale.

In the publication just mentioned, the anticipated rejection of reward of a pecuniary nature, in any shape, stands announced, and, of the seriousness of the declaration, proof afforded: afforded by the mentioned return of a present from the Emperor Alexander. But, on the subject of the importance of that condition to the usefulness of the service, nothing would in that place, (it is believed) be found. This deficiency has been herein above supplied.

The shape of such reward would either be that of a benefit conferred, the whole at one time, or that of a benefit conferred in parts at different times: viz, as the phrase is, by instalments: in which latter case the simplest and most ordinary form is that of an annuity for life or years. Paid at once, it would naturally be paid, either before the commencement of the service, or not till after the conclusion of it. Paid in the whole before the commencement of the service it would render the whole of the service altogether precarious, and in this way every thing that by improvidence in the arrangement could be done towards giving to uncertainty its utmost degree, would manifestly be done. Paid no part of it till after the completion of the service, it would operate as a reward - a bounty - for precipitation: for precipitation, and thereby for imperfect and unapt performance: while, on the other hand, by the uncertainty manifestly attendant on the event of completion, the value of the reward, to a very considerable degree, and with it the probability of its finding acceptance on the part of any competent hand, would be

subjected

JB_106_314V.xml

Title: [1821 Dec r. 12 1822 March 10 Not employed]

Description: 1821 Dec r. 12 1822 March 10 Not employed

Codification Offer

'9. Draughtsman gratuitous

Recapitulation

'. Argument, /Recapitulation of the matter/ respecting the choice of hands, recapitulation.

Choice of hands - Recapitulation.

Recapitulation

Draughtsman single, Draughtsman foreigner rather than native Draughtsmanship /work/service/ gratuitous - between all these several points /provisions/ the connection it has been seen is most intimate: they tend they tend all of them in concurrence to one common end: an end which has too often been mentioned to need mentioning here

What now remains is - to bring into one comparative view the grounds on which they are respectively advocated and recommended

The work in question is the original draught: nothing beyond it. For the original draught, hand but one - for the amendment of it hands the more the better.

The object is to rid of the sinister influence which the several sinister interests general and local and correspondent interest-begotten prejudices as well as other prejudices tend to exercise on it: sinister interests, by which in proportion to their efficiency the aptitude of the workman and thence of the work considered in a moral as well as an intellectual point of view can not fail to be impaired. To the sinister operation of these causes of inaptitude, the constitution /nature/ of human society offers /presents/ one check, the proposed rationale /the particular nature of the present design/ another. That which the constitution /nature/ of human society offers is the controuling /tutelary/ influence of public opinion: that which the particular plan here in question offers, is the rationale: the obligation of attaching to each distinguishable arrangement the considerations by which the opinion has been produced of its being in a higher degree contributory to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.