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[clviii. 342] 1822 June 14.
[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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    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.

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