JB_128_017.xml

Title: [2 June 1819 Disfranchising]

Description: 2 June 1819

Disfranchising

Disfranchising

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

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§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

38

But from this cause. In this case unless he pays Debtor can not continue among his

associates without encountering the reproachful visage of Creditors on all others.

Debtors position is on the outside of an inexorable door closed by factitious delay

vexation and expence, by the same men of law in league as above with the

high-stationed swindlers in whose interest he has given himself a share: one | | of

low taxes and low fees.

39.

True: gaming not peculiar to | | opulence: | | to all opulence conjoined with

idleness. But of that the largest and highest part is | |: and that it is which | |

it is conjoined with the vices gnawing out of the abuse made of dogs and horses.

40.

Anti Reformist. Benevolence and beneficence abound in

higher orders. Reformist yes: beneficence which dealing out pence, covers the

veracity that swallows pounds.

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

41.

Fruits of the beneficence see in the donations recorded in the books of philanthropic

societies and trumpeted in periodicals.

42.

Fond of the veracity[?] see and measures on public debt and emoluments of official

Establishm t. add, were it possible the same fetched by the

swindling system and denial of justice by taxes and fees with the delay &c

for making pretence for the fees.

43.

Add the fruit of the regulations: favouring higher at the expence of the lower

orders, so thickly sown in the statute Book: kept for this & other purposes

in an almost boundless state, as is Judge-made law in a state perfectly boundless

burthens from which France is free.

44.

By such to help compose the Monarch’s tax[?], the coats of so many bands of elders

are so daubed with Gold as almost to hide the scarlet, while starving laboures are

calling for banishment as a relief from death.

§.6. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

45.

Hunting and Gaming common to Monarchs, Aristocrats and Savages.

46.

By theory and experience thus proved that the interests of the permanent aristocracy

are in permanent hostility with d o. of the universal interest.

Proportioned to the force of that hostility is the mischief and danger to the

universal interest.

47.

To add to that force is the effect and object of anti reform, which cloaths it self

under the name of Reform, under pretence of extirpating rotten boroughs.

48.

With this compace the commercial class, like every other man’s his propensity is to

advance personal at the expence of every other interest. But he has no such means.

Country Gentlemen a link in a chain of Iron: Mercantile men in a rope of sand.

To no considerable extent have mercantile men a common interest. Each has with

relation to every other an opposite interest.

JB_128_016.xml

Title: [1 June 1819 Disfranchising]

Description: 1 June 1819

Disfranchising

Disfranchising

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members

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§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

30.

In Commons House by Romilly fairly put to them will you continue to support one

another in this swindling.

Answer yes – Discovery made that he was an Utopian Atheist, Jacobin Enemy to English

Constitution.

Propose any thus in favour of Romilly this is the answer made.

Such the fallacies by which every thing lessening the sacrifice of universal to

sinister interest is sure to be opposed.

31.

So long as this abomination continues, propensity to swindling will be the

characteristic of the Lord and Country Gentleman.

32.

The individual unknown, these are the last in whom a man of common prudence would

repose any pecuniary trust.

Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

33.

With these dealings with the subject many compare their dealings with one another:

preference given to gaming debts: debts by which the unfeeling rapacity of both

parties is proved.

These alone debts of honour: unforced by a schism created by this class in the force

of the popular sanction: this posterior mode is not in opposition to the other, and

to the universal interest.

34.

Distinctive character of these debts: they are produced by a contrast noxious to all

interests: to d o. of both contracting parties and their

connection: one party suffer more than the other gains and enjoys: such suffering on

the part of the lenders[?] a sure result, and as towards the | | instead of sympathy

antipathy the result of the power of disappointment.

35.

Better not be paid at all: innoxious and beneficial god that contracts be kept:

pernicious, good they sh d. be broken: generally broken they would

not afterwards be made.

§.5. Evil 4. Multiplying Country Members.

36.

Anti reformist. Natural this preference –

Reformist, yes. Vice is in all shapes natural: natural to

sacrifice the interest of the monied interest of life: to self interest all others.

In this situation particularly to such sacrifice has man a natural propensity.

Natural is it beneficial? No: but Pernicious: in that same proportion it calls for

restraint at all hands. hands of Government; hands by which the hands of Government

are | | in so far as government has the happiness of the whole for its end.

37.

Yes. Natural it is that in those orders in which by | | operating on the model of | |

on empley[?] heads and callous hearts man is peculiarly exposed to vice in this form:

natural that such a tacit compact should have place.

JB_160_364.xml

Title: [[clx. 364] 1822 July 8 Constitut]

Description: [clx. 364]

1822 July 8

Constitut. Code

[...?] for the sake of the references.

Securities

Public Opinion Tribunal

Aristocratical Section notions

Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal Its Notions (a)

1 All sincerity and regard to veracity is treated as ridiculous

2 All regard to Frugality in the expenditure of public money treated as ridiculous Per Under Secretary Wilmot idea of lessening expence of Official Salaries by competition scouted under the name of Dutch Auction. Morn Chron 8 July 1822

3. The sufferings of the lower orders regarded as the subjects and [...?] of contempt "Revered and raptured Ogden" Canning Morn. Chron. 16 July 1822. [...?] by [...? ...?]

4. Pastimes on a Sunday irreprehensible on the part of the rich /higher orders/: reprehensible on the part of the lower orders. Vice-Society etc. v. Bamber, acquittal. Charles Philips for defce. June 1822

7. Gaming irreprehensible on the part of the higher orders: reprehensible on the part of the lower orders only

8. Gaming debts preferred to debts to Tradesmen.

9. Facility of Swindling by obtaining credit and raising sums on the appearance of wealth in a shape protected against Creditors not maintained against all attempts to abolish it

10. Swindling by obtaining and converting to a mans own use articles of property on the pretence of employing it in government service

11. All idea of reform treated as ridiculous

12. The idea that the happiness of the many ought not to be sacrificed to the happiness of the few treated as ridiculous: contempt is due to every man who entertains it or professes to entertain it.

Aristocratical Section of the Public Opinion Tribunal. Its Notions continued

13. The quantity of esteem and respect a man is justly entitled to is as the elevation of the place he occupies in the conjunct scales of opulence political power and factitious dignity

14. Property is either itself merit, or the foundation of merit, or if not when it is unaccompanied by merit gives a man a more indisputable title to regard to respect and favor than can be given to him by merit without property

15. Property i.e. the matter of wealth in large masses is the only substantial and justifiable foundation for power, insomuch that he who has most property ought for that reason to have most power - and in a word the quantity of power a man possesses ought to be in exact proportion to the quantity of property he possesses

16. That in like manner as to factitious honor the quantity a man possesses ought to be as the quantity of property and power taken together which he possesses

17 That accordingly and for example in England, property to a certain amount gives him a just claim to a [...?]: and this whatsoever may have been his endeavour on the ground of morality and politics

Note (a)

(a) These notions will be conformable to those points by which things as they are in the English Government are /stand/ distinguished from Things as they ought to be. Matter for this head may therefore be sought for in matter under that head, morals excepted.

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