JB_128_008.xml

Title: [13 Sept. 1818 Picture of Misrule:]

Description: 13 Sept. 1818

Picture of Misrule: or

Things as they are, and as they ought not to be:

or {State of Government} /the System of Misrule/ in this Country briefly

Delineated

Introduction

Necessity tendency to Misrule

Misrule – necessity of all predominance under every government but a Representative

Democracy.

§.1. The necessity in every other case.

§.2. Unceasing danger of it even in this case.

§.3. The necessity proved by detached exemplifications.

Operations of Parl

I. Effects of Misrule

1.

Misrule – its principal operations; 1. Oppression in the shape of depredation, and

oppression at large. Effects in case of depredation; to the depredators, profit; to

the public, loss by waste.

Ch. 2.

Immediate sources of waste – 1. Unnecessary wars.

Ch. 3 F P.

- 2. Distant dependencies.

Ch. 4

- 3. Unnecessarily expensive Official Establishments.

Ch. 5. F. P.

- 4. Jobs of all sorts

§.1. Jobs for the profit /money/ of the few

§ 2. Jobs for the amusement of the few.

Part I. Effects

Operations and Effects

 The Chapter in Part I might form so many articles in a National Petition: together

with some of the Chapters or Sections of Part II

Mon.[?] 28 Sept. 1818

Deny the existence of the Constitution in fact: the law being rendered ineffectual by

occasional suspension, constant irresponsibility Dispensing powers exercised by

Treasury. Council &c Arrest and ruin under Libel law by simple[?] Justices

&c

29 Sept. 1818. Add to Instruments of corruption after Words and Phrases Habiliments.

Part I Effects

Ch p 8

Oppression at large. Shapes in which it operates.

1. By various arrangements, the many oppressed for the benefit of the few.

§.1. Publicans licences.

§.2. Game laws

§.3. Real property exempt from debts. M.P.’s d o.

§.4 Proportional taxes – the encreases cut short at the top of the scale

§.5[?]. Select Vestries

Ch. {8} 7. 9

{Under the aggregate name of Common Law, fabrication of

Laws by Judges at pleasure enforcing pretended law as if real.

Ch. 6.

- 3. system of judicial procedure having for its effect and

object the creation, preservation and encrease of factitious delay, vexation and expence, for the profit upon the expence.

Ch. 7

- 4. By taxes and fees on

law-proceedings sale of justice at enormous prices to the few, denial of it to all

besides.

§ 1. Instruments of sale and devise[?] of justice for the benefit of rulers at large

– Law-taxes.

§ 2. – for the benefit of Judges and other lawyers – law-fees.

Ch. 7. continued

§.3. Regulations preventing parties from speaking for themselves: defendants from

defending themselves.

Part I Effects

I Operations and Effects

Ch 8.

Oppression at large &c.

§.1. All but rich landowners excluded from property in wild animals.

§.2. Combination for depressing wages, allowed to Masters, interdicted to /punished

in/ journeymen: yet emigration punished. See Cobbet for Dec. 19. 1818.

§.3. Masters under forced contracts for service allowed to destroy the heaps[?] of

indigent children.

§.4. By taxes and fees pardons denied to the indigent.

§.5. By taxes and fees the indigent excluded from the profit of inventions.

§.6. In case of adultery, remedy by divorce confined to the {extraordinary} opulent

fees

§.7. Oppression of the press by power given to Justices of the Peace, to arrest on

pretence of thus containing libellous matter all distributors of books and pamphlets.

3 Dec r. 1818.

Part III.

Remedilessness of Misrule under the existing system

Ch. 1

Jo[?] delinquents in judicial and all others

ingle[?] Officers with their protegés, assuring security against condign punishment

by the original insufficiency, and virtual abolition, of impeachment.

Ch. 2

To the same, by libel laws, affording security against

condign disrepute.

Ch. 4

Stifling complaint, by interdicting the use of the press in Petitions for redress to

the Commons House.

Part II.

Causes and Instruments of Misrule.

Ch 2.

Instruments of Misrule. 1. in a pure Monarchy, military

force.

Ch. 3.

- 2. in a mixt Monarchy, such as the English, military force, corruption and fiction.

Ch. 4.

Matter of corruption – its elements –

§.1. The pecuniary fruit of depredation, expended in waste.

§.2. Power Hereditary and indefensible, in various useless and needless shapes exempt

from obligation.

§.3. Factitious dignity hereditary or misfeasible[?]

§.4. Groundless, useless and needless privileges.

Ch. 4. continued

§.5. Necessary official pay, in so far as applied to the purpose.

§.6. Pardons, arbitrarily bestowed pardons

Part II. Instruments.

Causes and Instruments

Part II

Causes and Instruments of Misrule

Ch. 1.

Cause of Misrule.

Commons House once a check upon Misrule converted into an instrument of it.

Ch. 3.

{By narrowing the right of Election, and by terrorism and corruption substituting

spurious votes to genuine, converting the alledged /so stiled/ Representatives of the

people from a check upon, into an instrument of Monarchical and Aristocratical

despotism.

Ch. 5. Fictions &c

§.1. Fiction, an instrument for the usurpation of power – Use of it to the purpose of

Misrule.

Ch. 3

§.1. Corruption, the instrument whereby the supposed check is converted into a new

instrument of[?] never[?] peculiar[?] the[?] mixt[?] government

§.2. Fiction – why most congenial to a mixt Government.

Part II. Instruments.

Ch. 5.

Matter of corruption, its application

§.1. – its application to the situation of Representative

of the People.

§.2. 2. to the situation of Member of the House of Lords.

§.3. 3. to judicial situations.

Ch 6

Fiction – application made of it to the purpose of misrule.

§.2. Judicial fictions: - fictions, invented and employed

by Judges {and other lawyers}.

§.3. Parliamentary fictions.

Ch. 7.

Words and phrases employed as

instruments of misrule.

Part III. Remedilessness

Ch. {7}./4/

Terminations of which the as yet uncompleated system of English Misrule is

susceptible.

§.1. Natural Termination, continental despotism.

§.2. its Probable irremediability.

§.3. Sole possible mode of remediation, awakening of the independent few.

Ch. 5.

The only good form of government, why the last established.

Ch. 7. continued.

§.13. Those verbal instruments of misrule classed.

1. Words and phrases tending to blind men to the universal tendency to misrule, and

thus creating ungrounded confidence.

2. d o to the evils that are the effects of Misrule.

3. d o to its causes and instruments

4. d o to the necessity and undangerousness of the only possible

check.

Ch. 6 continued.

Words and phrases &c.

1. Laudative 2. Vituperative

3. Incitative

§.1. Excellent Constitution &c

§.2. Excellent Church

§.3. Most Excellent Majesty.

§.4. King, father of the people

§.5. Attachment to the Constitution

§.6. Attachment to the Monarch – Loyalty.

§.7. Legitimacy

§.8. Splendor, lustre, dignity of the Crown. Noble Nobility

§.9. Dignity of the Peerage

§.10. Honour and Glory.

§.11. Maritime rights.

§.12. Hanover and /as dear as/ Hampshire.

§.13. Paper blockade. Fiction involved in it 17 July 1822

{ §.13. These verbal instruments classed.}

{(1. Laudative. 2. Vituperative. 3. Dazzling. 4. Incitative.}

Appendix. Of the phrases Borough daungerous system – Boroughmongers.

JB_160_020.xml

Title: [1818 Novr. 23 Official Economy]

Description: 1818 Novr. 23

Official Economy

?Waste - effect estimated

Comes now the rule for comparing /Compare now/ the mischief of the

waste with the mischief of the Tax.

To obtain an adequate conception of the quantity of evil produced by

a quantity of Waste to a given amount find and compare with it the quantity of evil

produced by the raising /levying/ of a correspondent and equal portion of the most

mischievous of all the existing Taxes. For, on condition of abstaining from the

commission of the Waste you may relieve the people from the burthen of that portion

of the produce of the Tax - you may abolish so much of the Tax.

Note that to render this rule strictly conformable to the Truth the

quantity of Waste abstained from must be equal to the whole amount of the Tax for in

the case of a Tax there will always be a portion of evil, the quantity of which will

be the same, be the produce ever so great or ever so small. For example a certain

portion of the expence attached to the official establishment employed in the

collection of it.

By the above General principles /observations/ the reader will now have been in some

sort prepared for the observation for the forming a just estimate of the evil

produced in the shape of Waste by various branches of customary expenditure hitherto

very commonly regarded as justifiable either on the ground of absolute necessity, or

at any rate on the ground of utility. Take for example splendor of the Crown -

support of the dignity of the Peerage jobs for the enrichment of the ruling or

influential few - jobs for the amusement of the ruling and influential few.

JB_002_225_001.xml

Title: [22 Sept 1800 + 127 d 3 d Assembly]

Description: 22 Sept 1800 + 127

d 3 d Assembly Ch x. War War

4 From the profit by raising the price of Stock to Loan

Subscribers must be deducted the loss by raising it to the Sinking

Fund

Were it not for the operation of the Sinking

Fund, the profit on this account would be so much char: but, inasmuch as, to the extent of the

Stock purchased

in the year by that Fund, Government loses exactly as much

as it gains on the Stock sold in that same year in

and by the Loan, the amount of the loss by the

purchase

will be always to be deducted, from that of the sale

profit by the sale:

(a)

(a) Note Illustration (a) Note at bottom of this

page

Profit 1 p on £20,

profit a 20,500,00 Loss a 4,500,000 First year

of

with profit

To

Note to p. 127. (a) Money raised by Loan of

1800. +

+ 39 & 40 G.3. c.22 dated 10 th March 1800 contracted for

2 2 d Feb y

1800. #

Times 22 Feb. 1800. . . . .

}£20,500,000

Deduct Income of the Sinking Funds on the 24 th

of March 1800 exclusive of the dividends on

the Stock

put in the hands of the Commissioners by the Sale of the Land Tax ||

Common's Finance recounts 1800 N o v1

dated 24 March 1800. . . . . }£4,649,870

Remains amount of money on the

which the profit by

of the terms of the loan takes place . . . . }15,850,130

Deduct year's dividend

on the

Stock purchased by Sale of Land Tax as above . . . . } 437,659

++ M r Rose's Brief Examination, p.77. 6 th edit. 1800.

£15,412,471

To this account, some corrections might be made; by observations relative to

dates: but the benefit would not be worth the

trouble.