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1821 Sept. 26 + {B} {D} §. 4
To Toreno
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Letter VI
§ 4. Apology for prudence
Sympathy
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In my first Letter, Sir, I took the liberty of representing to you, how incompatible with the only justifiable end of our correspondence would be the keeping it unsubmitted to /in a state of concealment from/ the public eye. In the course of the succeeding Letters many I can not but think are the occasions on which you have seen reason to confirm this notice by your assent. Remarks thus free remarks thus /of a nature so surely/ unwelcome could you consistently with decorum could you consistently with prudence have given utterance to in the Cortes /Assembly/ or in every instance to the Gentlemen in question, even in private?
As it is, while you are eased of so unpleasant a responsibility, the remarks with the benefit if any there be which is derivable from them, will without any such unpleasant adjunct /incident/ be reaped by the illustrious nation which it is my ambition thus to serve.
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Title: [Sheet mainly in Colls’s hand. 1821]Description: Sheet mainly in Colls’s hand. 1821 Aug. 31. §. 4 J.B. to Toreno To Toreno §. 4. Menace to Toreno 25 17 Prepare yourself now, Sir, for a menace: for a menace of the number of those to which in proportion to the deputy of his characters a man is sensible. Prepare yourself now, Sir, for a man[?], it will be of no consequence. Not uncommonly men find in apparent constraint an intrument of real liberty. When, in conformity to inclination or sense of superior duty, a man goes about to give expression to sentiments which he is under the apprehension of of finding to be in contrariety to men to whose good will it is matter of inclination or prudence to him to have regard, it is matter of convenience for him to have some obligation to plead in excuse with the view of softening any irritation that might otherwise be produced. I feel too strongly, Sir, the need I have of your assistance, not to be on the look out for every thing that may give strength /make addition/ to whatever my chance may be of obtaining it. You will, therefore, I make no doubt, forgive me for a menace in which you will see nothing worse than conscious weakness on one part, and confidence in the existence of good principles and generous affections on the other. The existence of a species of Judicatory known by different names the existence of a species of Judicatory known by different names, of which the tribunal of public opinion is one—a tribunal by the judgments /decisions/ of which—by which judgments of approbation and disapprobation are pronounced, and thereby in various proportions good reputation and bad reputation are distributed, is not unknown to you. At Paris, sits one of the most influential sections of this all-embracing Judicatory. In the face of this Judicatory, we shall both of us make our appearance /stand/. Paris, if I am not misinformed, is, on one account or another, no unpleasant residence to you. If I turn aside from this man—if I do not what he asks of me—what will Paris say to me? This is what you will have to ask of your Colleagues, should the requests, with which I have been thus troubling you, produce no better result than silence.
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Title: [[lxxxiv. 97] 1822 Jany. 14]Description: [lxxxiv. 97] 1822 Jany. 14 Codification Offer ?.5. Admission Universal The task ungracious Lamentable /Disheartening/ /Ungracious/ is the task which on this occasion /in this place/ the author of a Proposal such as the present has to go through. Rulers Admitt all persons whatsoever /without exception/ to propose original draughts of the all comprehensive rule of action on which the nation over which you rule is to be dependent for its happiness /the laws by which you are to be governed/ - /on their part of it is/ such is the proposal /the proposition/ And what is the ground on which it is built? In appearance no /little/ less than the relative inaptitude little less than the total inaptitude of the persons thus addressed - their inaptitude in respect of a function /power/ in which all their /other/ functions are comprehended. True it is - that The consummative function, with all that power which is inseparable from it, remains untouched: by no legal tie is that power proposed to be weakened: when the draughts have been given in leave[?] to you must be left the power of dealing with them, and with each one of them as you think fit. Still, that by a moral controul by the fear of a condemnatory judgment /of condemnation/ from the tribunal of public opinion the power it is expected and desired will be subjected to a certain controul /in a certain degree be checked/ is not to be denied. In the [...?] unpleasant [...?] situation of representative of the people the truth /correctness/ of the assumption by which inaptitude in his instance is stated as probable can not consistently with that character be disputed: for on what other ground is it that at the end of the term for which his power was given to him, he is sent back to them to receive a disaffirmance or a confirmation of his aptitude? Still however when not only the general probability of his inaptitude is averred in direct terms, but so likewise is the course of misconduct /mischievous career/ into which it will be sure to engage him are stated in direct terms, not inconsiderable /altogether common[?]/ must be his power over himself of endurance, if he can not only hear it without perturbation but confirm it by his assent.
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Title: [1821 Sept. 26 B To Toreno Letter]Description: 1821 Sept. 26 B To Toreno Letter VI §.2. Code welcome §.3 Conditions 7 3 Permit me then if you can Sir, to unfetter[?] the organ of infallibility and give it to you to keep […?] who[?] […?] it existed[?]; the organ of impeccability will remain all the firmer on their heads. Firm in the supposition that the whole would be found of a piece with the samples which chance in much larger proportion than design has thrown into my hands, such, Sir would be my wishes in favour of the existing work, taken as it stands, and on the supposition that by acclamation the whole was to receive without alteration the force of law. Of course much superior would be my satisfaction upon the supposition of its having first received from your influence and those who think with you those amendments which it would receive by being cleared /disburthened/ of the bad things you allude to and enriched with /improved by/ an additional lot of good ones. Be this as it may, as you can not but have understood from the first, the sort of consent thus given can not be taken to be absolutely pure and simple: one condition to it you can not but have anticipated. It is that whatever other attributes may be found in the work as given to it, that of eternity may not be of the number: that on the contrary a power[?] limited duration be in the first instance given to it: leaving the attribute of eternity to wait the arrival of the appointed instant so appointed, and thereupon to which itself is not attaching itself to the work according to the indication afforded by discussion and experience.
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