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1822 Oct. 19 Tripoli. Securities against
1822 Oct. 19

Tripoli. Securities against Musrule

Preliminary Explanations

Chance of Concession

Cautions

6. If the case admitts not of any other supposition than that the Monarch has been misled, let the supposition implied be that it has been by false statements as to matters of fact, than by unwise judgments and advice. The being misled by false reports /statements/ is a misfortune from which no degree of wisdom can always preserve any human being: on the part of the /a/ person thus misled no error in judgment, no intellectual weakness in any shape is implied in the supposition. Not so in the case of being misled by bad advice. Intellectual weakness in some shape or other is in this case necessarily implied. The opinion of another man is looked to by him as a ground for the opinion on which he is to act. Why looked to unless it be because he is not only incompetent to form an opinion of his own for the guidance of his own conduct, but so clearly so, as to be himself sensible /conscious/ of his own incompetance. Thus in the first place, by the consciousness of the weakness of his own judgment he is in a manner compelled to borrow a judgment from another man: in the next place when this judgment is lent to him, though by the supposition it is an erroneous one, his judgment has not enabled him to see in it what it is to discover the real character of it.
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  • Title: [1822 Oct. 19 Tripoli. Securities against]
    Description: 1822 Oct. 19

    Tripoli. Securities against Misrule

    Preliminary Explanations

    Chance of Success

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    2. Avoid as much or may the appearing to proceed upon any such supposition as that of there being any thing amiss in the conduct of the Monarch

    3. If therefore the case be such that without something done towards it by some functionary the act of vexation in question can not have been practiced /committed/ let the supposition be that it has been in pursuit of his own individual or some other particular sinister end that it has been practiced by the functionary and not in the view of benefit in any shape to the Monarch

    4. Even if from the nature of the case it appears plain that by the subordinate functionary in question no particular benefit can have been reaped /accrued/, no effect beneficial to any person other than the Monarch produced, still it will not be necessary to suppose that either the will or the conception /knowledge/ of the Monarch had any part in it. On the part of the subordinate functionary The inducement may have been overzeal in the service of the Monarch: or the desire of affording to himself a gratification from the vexation produced in the breast of some individual regarded by him with the eyes of an enemy.

    5. If the case be such as that without special concurrence on the part of the Monarch himself the vexation can not have been practiced, as above his signature is attached to an order /a mandate/ in execution of which it has been practiced, in this case the supposition proceeded upon must be that of his having been deceived by this or that functionary by means of false representations concerning matters of fact. For in the elevated position /situation/ in which a Monarch stands, this is a mode of deception from which the most consummate wisdom can not in every case preserve[?] a man from being misled. Be the man who he may, in regard to whatsoever matters of fact have not been present to his own senses, if inference from other facts will not suffice his conception must have for its ground statements /reports/ made by others.
  • Title: [1822 Oct. 19 Tripoli. Securities against]
    Description: 1822 Oct. 19

    Tripoli. Securities against Misrule.

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    As to mind frame of mind so far as depends upon the causes /condition/ thus designated, the following are the psychological causes by any one of which supposing the quality adequate the effects may be produced

    1. Timidity fear of popular resentment in case of non-compliance

    2. Facility of yielding to advice, coupled with the favorable accident of being of having for adviser or advisers men who themselves have by whatever causes been disposed to give advice to the effect in question

    Add 3. Love of reputation 4. Sympathy for the people 5.

    Prospect of extending his reputation, his influence, and eventually his dominion among /over/ the neighbouring nations of North Africa.
  • Title: [1822 Oct. 19 Tripoli. Securities against]
    Description: 1822 Oct. 19 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations

    Chance of Concession Cautions

    7. If the nature of the case be such as not to admitt of any such supposition as

    that on the part of the Monarch either misinformation or bad advice from others

    had any part in the business, if at the same time a document purporting to be

    with his signatures has been employed in the production of the vexation, as in

    the case of a signed mandate to tear a female from the arms[?] of a father or a

    husband and bring her to his bed the only avowable supposition remaining is that

    his signature has been forged, or by mistake attached to a wrong paper

    /instrument/. If in any public manner for example in a judicatory or a council

    of any sort he comes forward and avows it in such case there is no other

    alternative but submission or open disobedience. Example French Lit de Justice.

    Note well the period at which these suppositions are /require/ to be brought and

    kept in view. It is that /the period/ of the framing of the laws /arrangements/

    - the period when the Monarch's consent to them is to be endeavoured to be

    obtained: final cause to lessen as much as possible his apprehension of seeing

    his desires restrained, or his misdeeds exposed. But supposing his sanction once

    obtained, the stronger the restraint, and the more entire and extensive the

    exposure so much the better, unless a danger should appear of his being to such

    a degree irritated by the restraint or the exposure as to abrogate the

    securities or openly to infringe them. /or even abrogate the securities./