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Title: [1818 Dec r 9 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 Dec r 9

Parl. Reform Bill

Principles

Beginning

§.1 Misrule when[?] necessary

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In default of all other drains, under every Monarchy an /the/ army – the standing

army would of itself /under any Monarchy/ be sufficient to push /swell/ the quantity

of product of regulated extortion up to the very /utmost/ limit of the capacity of

endurance /supply./ to drain /draw/ from the pocket of the people the utmost quantity

of money capable of being extracted /drawn out/ by taxes.

2. An instrument of defence against aggression from without /abroad/ – an instrument

of aggression abroad – an instrument of oppression at home – a toy to play with – in

all these distinguishable characters is an army an object of universal concupiscence.

Of these four uses /purposes/, the first is of course the only one avowed: and if

this were all the quantity coveted might have its limits. But if so it were that for

this purpose it were the whole of it compleatly unnecessary /needless/ no demand for

it at all, the demand of it /need /desire made[?]/ of it/ for the three other

purposes would not be the less intense: and even for the best of them frivolous as it

is /even for the last one /purpose/, were it even the only one/, the desire would be

insatiable. A play-thing such as now[?] but a Monarch can shew is to a Monarch beyond

all price: and the larger /vaster/ the toy, the more matchless, and the more

matchless the more valuable. An army is a doll magnified. What a doll is to a girl in

leading strings an army is to a prince: Sixpence dresses out the small doll /little

baby/: millions of pounds are bestowed every year upon the great one.

[marginal insertion:] Soldiers are already to be seen, in whose coats the cloth is

not to be seen for the gold that covers it: if all were thus covered with gold, those

who are now covered with nothing better than gold would be covered with diamonds.

In treaties, holy or unholy If the only avowed object, self defence, were the only

real one, the stipulations would have for their subject /object, not armament but

disarmament: not the keeping up of troops, but what is somewhat more easy, the

abstinence[?] from keeping them up.

JB_111_070.xml

Title: [1818 Aug. 25 Things as they are or]

Description: 1818 Aug. 25

Things as they are or First lines &c.

§.4. Instruments in Mixt Monarchy Corruption

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 27 Aug. 1818. Quere as to the need of what follows?

8. In a {pure} Monarchy as the phrase is, {in a Monarchy which is exempt from the obstruction /incumbrance/ opposed by an under-aristocracy, at /especially of/ the still more troublesome obstruction opposed by a democratical representative body} the sole sources of demand for money are purchase of the instruments of sensual and other /consumable and inconsumable/ personal enjoyments /instruments of quick consumption such as meat drink and cloathes instruments of slow consumption such as buildings taken together/, purchase of services of dependent companions exhibiting in all their forms the tokens and pledges of unlimited obsequiousness, purchase of services employed in the business of government that is in getting in the money for the above and all other purposes, and purchase of the services of the members of the standing army together with what is called the materiel of the army the collection of the instruments necessary to give to those personal services the desired effect: in a word purchase of pleasure, purchase of court service, purchase /maintenance/ of services employed in government /maintenance of civil government /part of the establishment//, and maintenance of a standing army i.e. of the military part of the establishment.

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Title: [[clxiv. 216] 1820 July 4 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 216]

1820 July 4

Emancipation Spanish

5 continued. When the army amounted to not so many as 20,000 men, the magnitude of it was the object of a jealousy which even the Kings Ministers themselves did not pretend to say was /venture to speak of as/ ungrounded. It has long been 100,000 or more, the number was within this year augmented to 110,000, and even the professed advocates of the people do not seriously object to it on any other ground than that of the expence: and on this ground not to any more than a small part of it.

A species of occasional force called the Militia though still as well as the standing army under the command of the Monarch used to be cherished by men in opposition under the notion of its being a sort of check to the standing army: cherished on no better ground than that the Officers though appointed and removable by the Monarch were required to be taken from men possessing property to a certain amount in the country for which they served But now even this part of the military force is put aside

The Government is therefore, even by law a military one. All laws and all properties are at the absolute disposal of the Monarch, supposing his army to stand by him: his army together with his navy, which is no other than /but/ another army trained and disposed to act either on water or on land.

By these together with other means, though these of themselves are abundantly sufficient, if so it be that with any propriety he can be said to have a duty, his interest is placed in a state of opposition to his /that/ duty in this mixt monarchy in a state of opposition as point blank /in a state of point blank opposition to the universal interest/ as in a pure monarchy, and with as effectual a power of sacrificing that same universal to his own personal interest.