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(a) Sections or branches of the Aristocratical interest. Interest of

1. the Legislative Aristocracy. 2. the Executive or say Official Aristocracy.

3. The Lawyer Aristocracy.

4.© the titled Aristocracy constituted by factitious dignity.

5.© the ancestry Aristocracy 6© the moneyed Aristocracy.

7.© the ancestry Aristocracy. 8.© the literary Aristocracy. 9. the Fine©Arts Aristocracy. 10. of the Spiritual Aristocracy.

Under a Monarchy, no one of all these branches of the Aristocratical interest being able to advance itself of itself, all of them cluster round the Monarchical interest, and add their force to the force by which it is enabled to carry on the sinister sacrifice.

(b) 1. Emolument of useless Offices: © of Offices useless in their nature. 2 © of needless Offices: needless because superfluous, 3. and 4. of do Commissions © [...?] the functions temporary: including Contracts for supply of goods or labour. 5. and 6 Sine©cure Offices and Commissions. 6. and 7. Overpay of useful and needful Offices and Commissions. 7. Pensions. 8. Donations © by a sum over [?] paid. 8. Pay, even though not excessive, of Offices and Commissions that are neither useless nor needless. This though it belongs not to the subject matter of waste, is not the less, in so far as by the functionaries in question, looked for at the hands in question, part and parcel of the matter of corruptive influence. 9. Power in all its accompanied or not accompanied with emolument. 10. Factitious dignity in all its shapes

(c) Examples. 1. Ensigns of opulence in all its shapes, as above. 2. Ensigns of power in all their shapes.. 3. Ensigns of factitious dignity; with or without opulence and power respectively: Crowns, Thrones, Septres; Coronets; Ribbons, Stars, Crosses, Armorial bearings /ensigns/: Titles i.e. honorary appellations of all sorts Of all these ensigns the effect or tendency as well as the object is to cause the possessor to be regarded as being in a higher degree than ordinary worthy the affection and respect of all the several members of the community
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