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Title: [4 Feb. y 1817 Plan Cat. Introd. I]

Description: 4 Feb. y 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. I Rudiments

§. Introd.

Members classed.

3

32 or 15 Property

Conceditur; for exercising influence of understanding on

understanding, property affords peculiar means

1 Books

2 Living Dictionaries

3 Experience modern ancient home and foreign.

33 or 16 Property

But | | when property is thus employed with effect, it is not by the property but by

the intellectual aptitude that the effect is produced

34 or 17. Property

With property to any amount no such effect may be produced. with very little property

the maximum of aptitude.

35 or 18 Property

No such aptitude without hard labour: the stimulus to labour is rather inversely than

directly as property –

36 or 19 Idlers

Without the Idlers the Men of all work would be

insufficient for the sinister sacrifice –

Active betrayers of their trust, the men of all work:

passive, the Idlers.

37 or 20 Members classed

1 Number of men of all work compleatly at command about 70. With occasional

assistance from less closely dependant, these suffice for the ordinary business –

38 or 21 Members classed

Other classes are -

2 Distant absentees with commission from Ministry –

3. d o. without commission –

39 or 22 Members classed.

3 Casual attendants on local or other particular business –

4. Placemen in expectancy.

5 Independants who support government i.e {Masters} to save the trouble of thinking

Impropriety of Government vice Administration.

40 or 23 Idlers

Of the Idlers, supposing all to attend there might be such a number of Oppositionists

or honest men, as might Obstruct or | | prevent | | sacrifice have Monarch’s interest

| | the faculty of idlers absentation - p 5.

41 or 24 Idlers

Ministerialists[?] being perfectly under command, Oppositionists not at all, hence

with a Majority inwardly hostile to or indifferent, Ministers work can go on.

42 or 25 Idlers Absentation

At the close of the Session, temptation to absentation encreasing, Ministers | |

hence to this period are postponed the most indefensible measures –

43 or 26 Idlers Absentation

Suppose aptitude sufficient to engage them if present to the right side, the mischief

done by the sinecurists is exceeded by that done by absentee idlers, by whose places thus endowed with shares in supreme power are

sinecurized.

44 or 27 Idlers

Share in the vertically supreme power over 70 millions treated as a Sinecure! –

45 or 28 Idlers

In us civilized nation does the Monarch profess to hold his power so compleatly clear

from obligation as many an English parliamentary Tabler does –

46 or 29 Idlers

Call of the House, inadequate as a remedy, is evidence of

the general notion – viz. that to this power no obligation attachs of course –

47 or 30 Idlers

By habitual absentees abroad, this remedy is rendered constantly inadequate –

JB_128_036.xml

Title: [5 Feb y 1817 Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments]

Description: 5 Feb y 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments

Introd.

1

1

Date of this 1809 – rejected by Times –

2

Till now kept back with others papers by despair of use

3

Long had the necessity and undangerousness of radical reform been apparent.

4

Road[?] to ruin surveyed and afterwards delineated by J.B. as visible in the

principle and economy laid down by Burke and Ken

{ II. Ruin[?]

5

Advantages real & apparent

1 Short of the matter as to demand for Reform – By general acknowledgement, scale[?]

of the advantage possessed by British over other Monarchies, the democratical past:

no other past can be found – }

{ 6

Advantages real and apparent.

Advantage thus possessed is part real, part but apparent. }

Inserendum?

7

English Liberties

Real point, what the point comprised of, what are conveniently /-mmonly/ called English Liberties, viz. possessed de facto to a considerable degree but all precarious.

8

Sinister Sacrifice

{ 2 Imaginary part of the advantage – security against the constant sacrifice made in

every other shape of the universal interest to the partial and associated d o of Monarchy & Aristocracy. }

{ 9

Adverse Interests

Monarchial interest the Tories: Aristocratical, the Whigs.

10

Adverse Interests

In all their differences, without need of consent they have agreed in this viz. that

the aggregate wealth of the people is a fund, out of which to the greatest amount

possible, wealth is to be extracted[?] for selves and

retainers’ fortunes to be made

11.

Adverse Interests

In the instance of Burke, the mouthpiece of the Whigs, this proved already. Soon it

will be in d o of Rose: mouthpiece of Pitt’s Tories. }

12

Adverse Interests

J.B., attentive to the interior[?] of office &c

13

Peculation sources immediate

1 Immediate source of these fortunes –

1. Sources of sudden enrichment, temporary and casual, - contracts.

2 Needless places –

3 Useless d o. –

4 Overpaid d o –

5 Sinecures –

14

Peculation Sources remote

{ Less immediate sources (the immediate not being creatable without pretence) more

copious[?] financial drains[?], viz.

1 Unnecessary wars.

2 Burthensome distant dependencies 3 Arrangements for keeping foreign power dependent

by subsidies –

4 d o by terror

5. Usurpation of dominion over the common highway of nations.

6. Expence for splendor of the crown i.e. excessive personal expence of Monarch

& his retainers i.e. for satiation of appetites Mentally insatiable. }

15

Corruption matter of

Means by which the real advantages are circumscribed within

such narrow hints: matter of corruptive influence possessed by the monarch, and so

situated as to command with irresistible force the conduct of the Members of the

democratical part of the sovereign power –

16

Corruption matter of

Elements of the matter what

17

Corruption matter of

Corruptive influence its omnipotence. Without need or risk of special offer[?], by

the mere existence of the matter of corruption /good/ in such and such shapes,

obtainable on the conditions in question now not otherwise, all the effect aimed at

by bribery is produced on the other members of the sovereignty, in a number

sufficient for the perpetuation of the sacrifice.

Members classed.

6 Feb y 1817. Ordinances[?] proposed

I. State and cause of the Mischief.

II. Nature of the proposed remedy.

III. Objection to the remedy.

1. Anarchy. 2. Democracy.

§.1. English Advantages existing and nonexisting

5. 6. 7.

II. English Liberties. 7.

III. Sinister Sacrifice. 8. 18.

IV. Adverse Interests. 9, 10, 11, 12.

V. Peculation Sources immediate and remote 13. 14.

VI. Corruption – matter of. 15. 16. 17. 59.

VII. Members classed. 19. 20. 21. 37. 38. 39

VIII. Terrorists. 21. 22 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28

IX. Property 30, 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.

X. Idlers. alias truants or Absentees

36. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48 49. 50. 51. 52. 53 54. 55. 56.

Remedy. Dependence and Independence

57. 58. 60.

Mended[?] in its[?] Journals that 154 individuals return a majority of the Members

Elected […?] Reform[?] Monday 7 Feb. in Morn g Chron 10 Feb

1817.

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Title: [4 Feb. y 1817 Feb. 4 Plan Cat. Introd]

Description: 4 Feb. y 1817 Feb. 4

Plan Cat. Introd. II Rudiments

§. Introd.

Members classed.

4

48 or 31 Idlers

Without reproach by no Guardian, Trustee[?] &c can his duty be thus neglected

Unfortunately, the more extensive, thence the more important, the trust, the less

closely the sense of duty presses: till at last in time it vanishes –

49 or 32 Idlers

For these passive betrayers, best excuse that afforded by

the active: viz. hopelessness of outnumbering the

advariance means of influence: or will all in their hands | | in ours –

{ 50 or 33 Idlers

Efficient sinister interest of the active betrayer, love of

money, power, dignity, homage of passive d o., love of ease – }

{ 51 or 34 Idlers

Of both the concurrence is necessary to the sinister sacrifice – }

52 or 35 Idlers

The Mischievousness of the man of all work’s situation is well known, that of the

Idlers d o. is latent: | | it has not, like Boroughmongering, got a name –

53 or 36 - Idlers

The Idlers will be scarcely | | than the men of all work more dissembling | | as

being manifestly public enemies. Among these principally two are the Terrorists viz.

the Vote-compelling Terrorists.

54 or 37 Idlers

Such being the state of their interests, foolish would it be to call upon the Idlers

voluntarily to give up their idleness –

55 or 38. Idlers

Sole possible means annuality of Election: by this means all will either be reclaimed

or extirpated –

56 or 39 Idlers

Give the Idler a three years lease, in his seat, some will idle away all three years:

others all but the last Session: trusting to recent industry for oblivion for former

idleness.

{ 57 or 40 Remedy ag[?] Dependence Alimentation[?]

Sole security for good government, dependance viz - | | on

the people: | | not independance as against Corruptor

General –

58 or 41 Remedy – Dependence

The dependence is certainly effectible The independance certainly ineffectible. }

59 or 42 Corruption do omnipotence

Money, power, dignity, such are the elements of the matter of corruptive influence,

suppose the head man satiated, he is but the center of a circle, in which his

satellite moved: he the greater, the wider his circle: the wider, the more

insatiable.

Independant of himself he is dependant by his dependants

60 or 43 Remedy. Dependence or Independence.

Sole person in whom independance is useful, Electors: sole and indispensible security

for their[?] independance, secresy of suffrage.