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1822 June 12
Economy etc
Of this process to be at once correct and upon attentive inspection clear thus abstract must be the /any/ description given in words, but nothing can be more frequent, commensurately[?] /perfectly/ practical and familiar, than the exemplifications given of it. For the performance of it, on the part of the individual corrupted no extraordinary degree of intellectual aptitude - no use[?] so much as the most ordinary human intelligence is requisite /necessary/: the degree of intellectual aptitude universally possessed by all domestic animals of an inferior degree is quite sufficient. In any one of the Streets of London observation made of /taking/ the appointed time, behold the sort of commercial intercourse that has place between three parties - the Cats meat barrow woman, the householder and the cats. The hour arrived, the interesting receptacle /vehicle/ makes its appearance, the householder and the cats repair to their respective doors at each door, as the vehicle arrives at that latitude /alongside of it/, the householder sallies forth, pays the purchase money for the ration, and places it within the reach of the four legged domestic functionary. On the mind of this useful functionary whose office is no sinecure, true it is that no such sinister conduct the idea of which is invoked in the import of the word corruption, can with truth and justice be said to have place. But the purpose for which this example is produced is the shewing that to produce the requisite association betwixt conduct in a certain shape on the one part /side/ conduct in a different but correspondent shape on the other, no verbal explanation, no verbal discourse, such as that the proof of which has been required for a mans conviction of the species of offences called bribery is necessary At a certain time of the day, or upon the hearing of a certain sound the sound of the barrow, or upon the sight of that vehicle its directrix and its contents, the watchful functionary on making his /her/ appearance at the door has been in the habit of receiving his ration: no speech affording the assurance that in the event of his making his appearance on the spot the ration will be placed within his reach has unless by accident ever been addressed to him either by his employer or by his purveyor. Yet of his part of the contract, the performance has not been the less punctual, or the less effectual.
[Marginal note]
Far be it from this pen to degrade the ever watchful faithful functionary to the level of an English King, an English House of Right Honorable Lords or an English Member of Honorable House
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Title: [1822 June 14 Economy etc Ch]Description: 1822 June 14 Economy etc Ch. Securities for I Moral Aptitude . Expository matter 16 or 1 Matter of corruption, that by the contemplation of which the sinister sacrifice is produced: the aggregate of the external instruments of felicity at the disposal of Government: every object of human desire receivable immediately or unimmediately, from that source. 17. or 2. Modifications of this matter - two classes. I. At Government's disposal, necessarily viz 1. power (political power.) 2. money including money's worth. II. Do. by abuse: viz 1. Factitious dignity 2. Privileged vengeance. 3. Official ease, undue: i.e. at the expence of Official duty. 18. or 1. Corruptive effect - i.e. sinister sacrifice - how produced. In the event of the sacrifice being performed functionary receives or looks to receive the correspondent sinister profit: otherwise, not: expectation of this profit the temptation - inducement, seductive motive producing the sinister conduct, the sinister act. 19. or 2. To produce this effect, no intercourse - no interchange of sentiments between corrupter and corrupted is necessary. Sole condition necessary, correspondent lines of conduct, on the part of any two parties alike situated. Corruption having made his contribution to the sinister sacrifice which it is the interest of corrupter to make, Corrupter lets drop into his lap, a portion of the aggregate of the objects of desire. 20. or 3. Abstract the general description of this process: comprehensible, practical, practiced, frequent and familiar in the extreme the exemplification of it. For observing the connection between sinister sacrifice and reward given for it, not any the lowest human intelligence is necessary: domestic animals do. suffices. 21. or 4. Example. Cats meats Barrow woman, house holders and cats. Barrow woman arrived: barrow seen or heard: out come Cats with their Mistresses. From habit, cat has learnt to expect that, on the appearance of the barrow, housekeeper will go up to it, take the ration, and place it within cat's reach - cat makes up to barrow accordingly. 22. or 5. Thus in Honorable House. Minister, Barrow Woman; lucrative office, Cats meat. Hon Gentlemen, Cats. Hon Gentleman speaks or votes, nomination to the office for Gentleman or his friend, drops into his pocket. Speak or vote on that side never. Office received, never.
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Title: [[clviii. 342] 1822 June 14.]Description: [clviii. 342] 1822 June 14. Economy etc. 23. or 6. As to intercourse for the conveyance of Office appointed voting functionary's pocket, intercourse by words or other general instruments of discourse, is no more necessary between the one and the other than between Barrow Woman and Cat. 24. or 7. Hence for loading a nation with 600 millions of Debt, and 100,000 soldiers in 30 years no more appropriate aptitude, moral, intellectual or active is necessary on the part of English Statesmen than is possessed by all Cats meat barrow women and all cats. 25. or 1. On what Functionaries the corruption operates, and to whose prejudice, depends on the form of Government. 26. or 2. Case 1. Absolute Monarchy. End of Government, Monarch's greatest happiness: people's happiness no object of regard. Of people, no delegates, Agents, and Trustees Here, sole sinister sacrifice do. of Monarchs interest. 27. or 3. Note here difference between Monarchy and Republic. In both cases, ,5. Corruptors bribe. Suppose received by an Exciseman or other Tax-gathering functionary: loss to revenue ,100. Under a Republic, interest sacrificed is the people's interest: under Monarchy, the Monarch's: unless the defalcation is made up for by more taxes 28. or 4. As to the position that the people do not form in a Monarchy any object of regard, the very fact that the government is a Monarchy suffices for demonstration of it.
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Title: [1822 June 12 Economy etc The]Description: 1822 June 12 Economy etc The manner in which it is productive of the corruptive effect, namely the sinister sacrifice, is this: in the event of his performing or according to his situation contributing to the mischievous effect - to the performance of the sinister sacrifice, the functionary in question receives or looks to receive the correspondent sinister profit: in the opposite event, not; of this profit the contemplation is /constitutes/ the inducement, the temptation, the tempting and seductive motive by the force of which his conduct is in this case determined, and the sinister act produced. To produce this corruptive effect in the mind and conduct of the thus corrupted functionary it is not on any occasion necessary that any discourse /intercourse/, either in the way of discourse or even in the way of purposed deportment should have place between him, and any individual by whose /the contemplation of whose eventually/ expected agency the corruptive effect - the sinister sacrifice - is produced. All that is necessary is - in the two situations, namely that of the corrupting functionary and that of the functionary corrupted that of the corrupter and that of the corrupted /corruptee/ two habitually corresponding lines of conduct: the one contributing to the sinister sacrifice in question in the way in question, the other placing within his reach the portion of the matter of corruption in the shape in question - in a word the sinister profit, and /of which/ the corruptee thereupon the corruptee takes hold /lays his hand/, and makes application of it to his own use and converts it into his own use.
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