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19 Dec r 1809
Parl y Reform
Ch. Mischief of Dependence
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A Member of Parliament is a trustee: he is a trustee appointed /nominated/ by his Electors his constituents to watch in a certain way over the interests of themselves {and their fellow subjects for whom they themselves are but in trust}.
If in any point in lieu of his own will guided by his own understanding a trustee accepts for the rule of his conduct the will of another /any other/ person possessing and actuated /directed/ by an interest separate from and opposite in any respect to that of the trust to that of the persons for whom he is in trust, the consequence is to the extent in which such substitution takes place, a sacrifice of the trust, a sacrifice made by him as to so much of the interests and of the persons so committed to his charge.
Then and by this means takes place to the prejudice of the persons whose interests are respectively committed to the care of the perfidious trustee, every mischief that the nature of the case /their respective situations/ are susceptible of.
The trustee is he of a factor? /consigner of goods?/ Entering into a confederacy with the purchaser, he sells them to him at an under value, sharing with him the extra profit.
Is he a land steward? He lets the /his employer's/ land at an under rent, receiving fines from the tenants - fines not for the /use of his/ landlord's use but for his own.
Is he the Guardian of a rich heir or male ward? He finds out dishonest masters and dishonest tradesmen, and shares with them their double profits /and keeps[?] them under contributions[?] allowing them double prices/.
Is he the Guardian of an opulent female a rich heiress for his ward. He sells her to a fortune hunter.
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Title: [21 Sept 1803 Evidence Instructions]Description: 21 Sept 1803 Evidence Instructions Considerations 1. Interests in general Situations If, in the instance of each senior relation, the legal power /authority/ annexed to the condition of Guardian should have cause to be superadded to the natural bond of attachment and partiality constituted by natural relationship, an attachment a partiality which otherwise would otherwise have been the weaker may in virtue of this reinforcement become the stronger. Invested thus with the authority of a father, the /an/ uncle may be a personage of more importance in the eyes of a niece, than was her Grandmother on the same or the other side /either side/: the /an/ aunt to her niece, or even her nephew, than either the grandfather on either side, and so on without end. Even in the case of that source o conjecture /inference/ the conclusions derivable from it amy be disturbed by the circumstance of unity of abode. If the abode /house/ of the guardian relation be the abode of the ward, then the /this/ cause of disturbance has no place. But if the ward has for his or her ordinary abode the house of some other near relation, while the personal intercourse with the guardian relation is infrequent or altogether wanting, the truth of any inference pronouncing superior strength of partiality from the mere circumstance of guardianship must be manifestly precarious.
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Title: [19 Dec r 1809 Parl y Reform]Description: 19 Dec r 1809 Parl y Reform Ch. Mischief of Dependence 2 2 Does the fortune of his ward consist in his personal charms? He sells /consigns/ her to the Seraglio of some "great character" who has learnt in the East to reckon number among the necessaries of life the faculty of combining Oriental lubricity with Oriental despotism. Is he a Member of a British House of Commons /delegate of the people/ /representative /agent/ of a great nation/ joined in commission with his Colleagues /others/ /commissioned to inspect in conjunction with his colleagues/ the conduct of a /the/ Monarch in a monarchy limited by law? He keeps on conniving or applauding, while the King keeps parcelling out among him and his connections the substance /produce of the taxes/ of the people in pensions and sinecures and over paid places /the emoluments/ and useless /needless/ places and jobs - keeping millions of his subjects in a state of misgovernment and degradation that the money wrung from them in pretence of payment /pay/ for spiritual consolation and religious instruction may be appropriated /applied/ to the maintenance of a corps of [...?] flatterers - that the country poor in every thing else may be rich in sinecures. Consuming the blood and treason of {his} subjects in wars upon /after/ wars, engaged in upon the impulse of every sinister interest and every dissocial passion - wars of caprice /pride/ against unoffending powers - wars against subjects for the cause /nations for the sake of/ fellow kings - wars commenced in piracy for the sake of plunder /spoil/ to be divided among royal spendthrifts wars of conquest upon the antipodes - wars made upon subjects to convert them into slaves.
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Title: [10 July 1807 20 Letter V]Description: 10 July 1807 20 Letter V II. Litigat. promot. Remember that in every recourse[?] ought to be your constant study - to blur [...?] eyes of the people and to corrupt their heads[?] as effectively as possible: a more favourable occasion can not present itself. It is impossible for you to abstain altogether from taking all such operations without exception as common sense and common honesty point out as necessary for the furtherance of justice: all you can do is to do what depends upon yourselves, towards destroying their efficacy. So far as concerns common Bail you will encourage sham Bail. Imprisonment you can not avoid subjecting a man to, besides that it is necessary to you for other purposes: what you have to do, and it is all you can do, is so to order matters that it shall not be employed to the compelling the prisoner to give up other people's property: and that it shall be employed to the keeping him where he is to spend what money he can raise that you may have your pickings out of it. Take care that whatever property of other people's he may have in his hands, those who are most dear to him may upon his death enjoy the benefit of it. Remember that the more flagrant the iniquity, the more splendid and triumphant the display you make of your power. When a Guardian in this way makes himself rich, leaving his ward penniless (if a female and she goes upon the town so much the better) this is a proud day for you. Take care that in each instance whether or no and how far it shall be in a man's power to practice cheating with success shall not be too plain: on this occasion as on all others it will be your care to involve in the question as much to the highest degree of complication as possible. Take care that in each case the {practice of decision and consequent rule of law shall} be as repugnant to human reason and consequently as unconjecturable, as possible: a man's body for example being of no use but as means of coming[?] at his money, meaning other people's money in his possession take care that whoever takes a debtors body shall get neither that nor any thing else: but instead of receiving any thing from him, the man shall be at the expence of keeping him.
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