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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_034_012.xml

Title: [[xxxiv. 12] 1822 July 30 Constitutional]

Description: [xxxiv. 12]

1822 July 30

Constitutional Code - Heads proposed

Ch.I

?.1 Good rule and Misrule their nature Misrule its objects and modifications. 1. 2. 3.

4. 5. 6. 7

?.2. Misrule its causes - Self-preference - Moral aptitude is

inversely as power: its object - the sinister sacrifice -

maximization of the sweets of government.

?.3. - its instruments corporeal - Lawyer, Priest Soldier.

?.4. Its instruments incorporeal. Force - intimidation - corruptive influence -

delusive influence.

Ch. III.

?.5. Securities against Misrule enumerated.

? 6 Securities against Misrule - their relation one to another - Analytical Sketch.

?.7/9/. General plan of operation for the exclusion of Misrule - Observations relative

thereto. Identification of interests

?.7 Corruptive influence - its matter and modes of operation

?.8 Delusive influence - its matter and modes of operation.

Ch.1. First principles on matter of Constitutional Law in regard to Government

? 1. Proper end or object of pursuit communitys greatest happiness Greatest happiness

principle

?.2. Actual sinister end - Rulers greatest happiness Self preference principle

3 Right and proper sacrifice

4. Sinister sacrifice

?.5. Bring the actual pursuit into coincidence with right and proper pursuit Principle

of general direction or say Interest-identification principle.

?.4. Self-preference - its necessary predominance in men. ?.5 in rulers

?.6. General denial of this predominance See Delusion

Ch.2. Of Rule in general including Good Rule and Misrule

?.1. its end or object of pursuit happiness

?.2. Elements of do pleasure and exemptions - Instruments of external felicity -

elements of prosperity - objects of general desire.

?.3. its incorporeal means - or say instruments 1. Force physical. 2. Intimidation /2.

repulsion/. 3 Reward remuneration - attraction

?.3. its corporeal means or say instruments - public functionaries

Ch. 3. Of Good Rule

? 1. Its right and proper end or object of pursuit - greatest happiness

? 2. Elements of do

? 3. its incorporeal means or say instruments Force (physical.) Intimidation. 3.

Remuneration

? 4. Interest corrsponding to its end - right and proper interest viz of greatest

number

?.5. Corporeal means or say instruments public functionaries chosen /located/

immediately or unimmediately by those whose happiness is the right and proper object of

pursuit, whose interest is the universal interest.

Ch.4. Of Misrule

?.1. Actual end or object of pursuit, rulers happiness

?.2. Elements of rulers' happiness. See Ch. Rule in general

?.3 Oppositeness of Rulers' to subjects interests - thence sinister sacrifice

certain.

?.3. Incorporeal means or say instruments, peculiar to it. 1. Corruptive do or say

Corruptive influence. 2. Delusion or say Delusive influence. 3. Fiction.

? 4 Interest corresponding to the actual end, sinister interests

?.5. Effective pursuit of the sinister end at the expence of right and proper end,

sinister sacrifice

?.6 Specific ends of Misrule depredation and oppression.

? 7. Corporeal means or instruments - 1. Soldier (not appointed by those whose interest

is the universal interest) 2. Lawyer. 3. Priest.

?.8. Cause of misrule pursuit of the actual end or object of pursuit and on that

occasion self-preference.

Ch.7. Of appropriate aptitude and corresponding inaptitude on the part of rulers

?.1. Appropriate aptitude what

?.2. Appropriate aptitude its branches

?.3. Relative inaptitude what

?.4. Relative inaptitude its branches

?.5. Mutual Relation and Comparative importance of the several branches

Ch.6. Of the expence of good rule and misrule.

?.1. Pecuniary expence of Good Rule

?.2. Non-pecuniary expence of Good Rule

?.3. Pecuniary expence of Misrule.

?.4. Non-pecuniary expence of Misrule.

Ch.9. Of the Securities against Misrule

1822 Aug. 3

Constitutional Code Heads proposed.

Ch.5. Of Corruption or say Corruptive influence.

Aug 7. Marginals

1. Self-corruption. 2. Corruption bipartite. 3. do tripartite

036_168.xml

Title: [[xxxvi. 168] 1822 July 19 Constitut]

Description: [xxxvi. 168]

1822 July 19

Constitut. Code Rationale

Supreme Operative?

I Monarch

Instruments

Fiction

Fiction.

Consideranda in relation to it

1. Evils produced by it, considered in a general point of view

2. By whom employed.

3. To whose benefit employed.

4 For whose benefit employed

5. At whose expence employed.

6. Occasions on which it has been employed: i.e. Parts of the field of Legislation to which application has been made of it.

?.1. Evils produced by it

1. In general all the evils of Misrule. Falshood is essentially an instrument of evil: an instrument adapted generally to the purposes of all evil-doers as such. When he by whom it is employed is a functionary, especially a Judicial functionary of the highest order, it is a case the evil receives an aggravation: and so does the turpitude of the evil-doer.

2. Debasement of the moral part of the mental frame of all those by whom application is made of it

3. Debasement of the intellectual part of the mental frame of all those upon whom the imposition passes, and by whom the lie uttered in place of a reason is accepted as constituting a reason, and that a sufficient one

4 The several particular evils operated by means of it. These will be determined by the several parts of the field to which application has been made of it

5. In general it may be stated as an instrument of arbitrary power: invented by functionaries invested with limited power for the purpose of breaking through the limits by which was intended to be circumscribed.