104_101.xml

Title: [1810 July 20 10 Ch Authority]

Description: 1810 July 20 10

Ch Authority

10

| | Lawyers interest Sinister

It is therefore the interest of this and every man of law that so far as concerns matters of law mens conception of right and wrong should be as confused, as contradictory, as unsettled, and in his hands as pliant and obsequious as possible:

1. that thus the same wickedness which if committed by, and for the benefit of, any other man be followed by shame and punishment should /be/ when committed for his benefit be matter not only of permission but obligation, committed by him. by followed not by shame or punishment, but by honour and reward.

2. that thus again on condition of telling a lie it should be in his power to do any thing that he chose: that whatsoever injustice it might suit him to committ on this false pretence, the injustice and the falsehood should by them be regarded with complacency and unabaited reverence.

3. thus again, as often as to put money into this own pocket or for advantage to hismelf or his associates in any other shape it should suit his purose that falsehood should be committed, and that accordingly in the event of its being committed by the person in question /this or that person/, if it should happen to him to hold himself, and to be known to hold himself, in readiness to bestow /follow[?] such/ reward upon such person, such power[?] /reward/ should merely become bestowed by him be regarded as properly bestowed: and moreover if in the event of its /a falsehood/ not being committed by the person in question, he should

hold

hold himself in readiness to apply punishment to that purpose, such punishment should [...?]rily because applied by him be regarded as properly applied.

JB_126_250.xml

Title: [23 Dec r 1809 Parl y Reform]

Description: 23 Dec r 1809

Parl y Reform

Ch.5. Both situations

'.2. Error causes

4

1

'.2. Cause of these errors, sinister interest.

In /On/ this as in /on/ every other part of the field of morals and legislation, it is the interest of those who have an interest in /derive a profit from/ misrule classes of men /influential men/ whose predominant interest is opposite to that of the community at large, that the differences between right and wrong, between virtue and vice should be as indistinguishable as possible: that so, finding no other star /mark/ to steer by /rule to walk by/ men should be generally disposed to accept on each instance /individual occasion/ to look with blind confidence for the standard of right and wrong such notions as on each individual occasion it should suit the convenience of these men of influence to give currency to.

Thus it is for example that Judges inveighing all the while against falshood to gain the praise of virtue, and punishing it in all its several forms wheresoever /in so far as/ they find a convenience in punishing it, not only practise it, but in its most as well as its least flagitious forms, encourage it and even compell it, when /where and in so far as/ they find their conveniences in practising it, encouraging it and compelling it.

Thus it is that official men /statesmen/, inveighing against official corruption all the while to gain the praise of virtue, and contributing each in his place to the punishment /punishing/ of it in so far as they find their convenience in punishing it, not only practise it, but in its most pernicious forms support and defend and support it when and in so far as they find their convenience in thus supporting it and defending it and supporting it.

JB_122_250_001.xml

Title: [6 Aug. 1808 16 To 16 But in copying]

Description: 6 Aug. 1808 16 To 16

But in copying on an occasion like the present the evil habit that has

obtained among the members of 26. 9 This extent led to

the recently established Audit Board.

will in this instance receive their crass and

name. the old established judicatories, the members of this

or any other such judicatory, with I am apt to think find

themselves to have miscalculated, if their they have acted

in

conduct has been grounded in the expectation of the same

indulgence. Set the engine of it a few hundred years back, the abuse,

how pernicious so ever, becomes itself a standard a standard

and of right and wrong:

and by which they are tried and the indignation which if

rightly properly printed would have pointed itself against the

authors of the abuse, is now reserved for the audiences hand that should

to point out a remedy.

Unless therefore it can be shown that the

Board of Commissioners who their existence always

supposing supposed as before them to exist

and have migrated from the office at

Somerset place to an Office at the Adelphi have at no office found,

or a state of migrations and in readiness for

their use the second royal mint in which in the great Hall

of Westminster have been coined in so illustrious an abundance,

any unauthorized imitations of the nature in question will instead of

the much name of be in danger

of finding themselves saluted at the best by the name of untruths, and from

course lips mouths by a much harsher name.