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_102_520.xml

Title: [12 Nov r. 1815 Chrestomathia]

Description: 12 Nov r. 1815

Chrestomathia

IV. Nomenclature

Parts of Speech Tabulated

II. Number - Proposition, the import of which is indicated. Objects of the same kind more than one are meant to be indicated by the noun substantive to which the termination in question is attached.

In the same way may be brought to view the propositions respectively indicated by the terminations or other modifications expressive of Tense and Mood or Mode.

Two cases there are in and by the import of which no such adjectitious and accessory idea is necessarily involved. These are 1. The Nominative. 2. The Accusative. In these cases there is not any preposition of the import of which the designation is added to that of the import of the Noun to which[?] the termination or other modification is attached.

Those in the instances of which there is always some preposition, the import of which the designation is always involved in that of the termination in question are, 1. the genitive. 2. the dative. 3. the ablative.

In certain sparingly inflected languages, the import of the genitive is indeed expressed by a termination. But in these same languages it is in every instance expressed also by a preposition.

In every language in which it has place the substitutive mode of terminations[?] or other inseparable modifications to separate words, for example such as prepositions, is on several accounts a great blemish. 1. It is a source of prodigious complication, the whole of it useless. 2. It is a most copious source of ambiguity. One such modification being in these copiously inflected languages applied of necessity to convey indiscriminately [a] multitude of different imports, which being essentially different, present a correspondently urgent demand for these instruments of distinction of which such correct and compleat a stock is afforded by the sparingly inflected languages.

JB_127_422.xml

Title: [1818 Sept. 18. Parl Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 Sept. 18.

Parl Reform Bill

Reasons Note ult o

'.2. Electors Who

Universality

II. Intellectuality

Things as they are

4

4

Ch.6. Falshood - application made of it to the purposes of Misrule.

'.1. Judicial fictions: fictions invented or allowed by Judges.

See, by the author, Scotch Reform

'.2. Parliamentary fictions.

'.3. Forced or lured false oaths, and subscriptions. See by the author, Swear not at all. A o 18.. See also Church of Englandism examined.

Ch.7. Words and Phrases employed as instruments of misrule

'.1. Words and Phrases tending to render men blind to the universal tendency to Misrule. - 1. Excellent Constitution 2. Excellent Church. See Church of Englandism &c examined.

{Marginal note:] See, by the Author, Plan of Parliamentary Reform Introduction

Most excellent Majesty - King the father of the people. Loyalty to the Constitution Loyalty to the King - Legitimacy

'.2. - 2. d o to the evils that are the effects of Misrule. Examples. Dignity Splendor, luster[?], Dignity of the Crown - Dignity of the Peerage.

'.3 - 3: d o the divers causes {and effects} of Misrule - ever to unnecessary wars. 1. Honour and Glory. 2. Maritime rights. 3. Hanover and Hampshire.

'.4. - 4 - d o to the undangerousness of the only possible check popular Elections. Examples. Anarchy - Jacobinism - Utopianism &c.