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1822 Novr 14 Tripoli - Securities against
1822 Novr 14 Tripoli - Securities against Misrule Preliminary Explanations ?.

Bashaws Inducements 1. Self-regarding

Ch. Inducements by which in the situation of Sovereign of Tripoli a man may be

engaged to concurr and take the lead in Constitutional change. /Ch. The

Sovereigns inducements to concurrence./

?.1. Inducements purely self-regarding inducements applying to him in his

personal capacity applying to his purely self-regarding interest

Person property, reputation domestic relations condition in life - in respect of

one or more of these possessions if in any way, in the situation in question as

in any other will a mans welfare /condition/ be affected whether it be in an

advantageous way or in a disadvantageous way.

1. First as to person. Under the existing form of government, the person of the

Sovereign is in a state of perpetual insecurity. To individuals in an indefinite

number, inducements for attacking his life are continually afforded /presented/

by both branches of human appetite - the irascible and the concupiscible.

Under a form of government /so arbitrary/ such as the arbitrary one still in

existence as in all former times oppression in all its shapes can not but be

matter of continual /continually in/ practice. Of every injury thus sustained,

the Sovereign presents himself to the view of the injured party as being the

author. In most instances this supposition will be an erroneous one: but in a

more or less considerable, it can scarcely fail to have more or less of truth in

it: so imperfectly defined under such a form of government are the boundaries

which separate right and wrong: in particular those by which rightful occupation

is distinguished from depredation: depredation in whatsoever way committed,

whether without consent and by force, as in the way /case/ of taxation, or with

consent and by a sort of fraud, as by taking up goods under the notion of a

purchase, but without ever paying for them.
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    in every well cultivated country actually have been and continue to be extracted

    with considerable profit. Witness the clay extracted for porcelain and other

    pottery.

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    lapse of time past into the mineral kingdom, has in England for centuries past

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    masses superior to any that are to be found in Tripoli, of whatsoever materials

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    precious, although they are capable of existing in such quantities and under

    such circumstances as not to pay for the labour of extraction, yet they are also

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    than any other ingredients in the composition of the earth's interior. Hence it

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    been in all times and in all places, regarded with peculiar avidity.

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