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1822 June 14 Economy etc Ch
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.]
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    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.
  • Title: [1822 June 12 Economy etc Of]
    Description: 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.

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    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
  • Title: [1822 June 16 Economy etc The]
    Description: 1822 June 16

    Economy etc

    The case in which alone it has place is that in which by delegates of theirs in quality of /the character of their/ representatives having in the right as representatives of the people a share in the supreme operative power they in this way exercise with relation to that mass of supreme operative power, the correspondent constitutive power. These possessors of supreme operative power may be either sole possessors of it or sharers in it in conjunction with some other functionary or functionaries. In the case of an ordinary mixt Monarchy supposing that in so far as in the mixture Democracy is included one person /a functionary/ with whom they share it is the Monarch

    In no form of government ? to this bad purpose any more than to any good one can profit in any shape be conveyed for a continuance into individual hands otherwise than through the intervention of an /a Supreme/ Executive, doing or professing to do the will of the Supreme Legislators. When in the highest sphere of government, for the purpose of the sinister sacrifice, the game of corruption is carried on, it is by the hands of the Chief of the Executive Department. In a Monarchy he is the Monarch /Chief of the State to whom this subordinate Office also belongs in addition to whatsoever share it happens to him to possess in the supreme operative, commonly stiled the legislative./ in a representative democracy he is also the Chief of the State by whatsoever appellative distinguished whether it be /such as/ President, Supreme Director, Protector or any other

    In either of these cases there exists a functionary, by who to this purpose without his being recognized, not the less effectually is exercised a function which may be termed that of Corrupter General. For in him /his hands, as will be seen/ from the very necessity of the case is /must be/ the disposal of a multitude of offices: in a greater or less degree these offices can not but be in the eyes of the members of the community be in an indefinite multitude, objects of general desire. Here then we have a functionary acting /operating/ whether he will or no in the character of Corrupter General: and on the other part persons in indefinite number functionaries of all sorts included occupying the situation of persons exposed to corruption, exposed to the being his corruptees.

    ? Note making a salvo in the case of a minute /small/ Democracy.