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4 Feb. y 1817 Plan Cat. Introd. I
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 –
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    §. Introd.

    Members classed.

    2

    Sinister Sacrifice

    { 18 or 1

    Effect – constant sacrifice of community aggregate interest to partial d o of Monarch and his instruments. }

    19 or 2 Members classed

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    1 Men of all work

    2 Idlers

    3 Terrorists: many included in the Idlers –

    20 or 3 Members classed.

    1 Men of all work, placemen: in possession or expectancy:

    sole use of their votes as contradistinguished from their seats engaging them to take a constant & leading part leading part in

    the sacrifice –

    { 21 or 4 Terrorists

    Terrorists who? Classes on whom the term is exercised.

    I Electors – viz – Tenants and other dependants. Vote-compelling Terrorists

    2. Competitors, or would-be d o.

    Competition-repelling Terrorists

    22 or 5 Terrorists

    Instrument of terror.

    1 On Electors, publicity of the suffrage a removal of

    2 on Competitors, overbearing purse: }

    { 23 or 6 Terrorists

    1 Country State.

    Principal Terrorists Great Land holders – viz- Peers and richest Country Gentlemen

    expence of journey and demurrage considered, nothing but terror /compulsion/ (add a

    bribery) could suffice to send the votors to the distance they have to travel (50-

    miles)

    24 or 7 Terrorists

    Here terror and bribery act, one, or both, in various proportions: terror as far as

    it can be employed: in default of it, bribery –

    25 or 8 Terrorists

    1 County seats –

    Persons operated upon by the terror are

    I Country Gentlemen less opulent

    2 d o. less abounding in ready money –

    3 - or in appropriate ambition. }

    26 or 9. Terrorists

    Intellectual aptitude being rather inversely than directly as oppulence, natural

    consequence general in aptitude in these seats

    { 27 or 10 Terrorists

    Competitors excluded by Terrorists – all whose | | surplus of money is in their eyes

    insufficient for a contest i.e the great bulk of those most highly endorsed with the

    several elements of appropriate aptitude. }

    { 28 or 11 Terrorists

    The Money holding Terrorists are less mischievous than the Land-holding d o. for }

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    1 Merchants

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    3 Acting Managers of great Corporation

    4 Men inured[?] to Government in British India

    29 or 12 Terrorists

    2 On Electors they operate less by terror – more by comparatively innoxious bribery –

    { 30 or 13 Property

    So much for the legitimate influence of property: ie aristocratical – not better than

    monarchical legitimacy }

    31 or 14 Property

    Under no one of the elements of aptitude is property

    included: for no one of them does it exclude the demand –

    Part I. The cause of the disorder stated and the cause of it stated

    Part II. The sole possible remedy stated and explained in principle

    Part III. The disorder and its causes explain in detail
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    27 Jan 1817

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    The mischief done by offices of profit converted into sinecures is great enough: but it is as nothing compared with the mischief done by places of power such as these – shares in the supreme power – thus converted into sinecures. In one way, and that in no small degree the money sinecurism is ever of service to reform, viz. by drawing down upon the system of corruption that hatred and contempt in the intensity and extent of which the nation beholds its only hope of safety. In the other case there is no such compensation.

    Think of a man and such are at least two thirds of these men – who being invested with a 658 th share of the supreme power for such it is in effect – in a government which beholds at its feet about 70 millions of subjects in one part of the world or another – beholds at its feet about 70 millions of subjects, and by whom the only place in which any exercise can be made of it is ever visited – or so much as any idea /such conception/ entertained either by himself or any body else for him as that of his being under any obligation of visiting it, if there be any one other place in which he can find a better lounge.

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    Description: 4 Feb. y 1817 Feb. 4

    Plan Cat. Introd. II Rudiments

    §. Introd.

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    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.

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    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

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    { 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.