JB_128_036.xml

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

Description: 5 Feb y 1817

Plan Cat. Introd. Rudiments

Introd.

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Date of this 1809 – rejected by Times –

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Till now kept back with others papers by despair of use

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

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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[?]

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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 – }

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Advantages real and apparent.

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

Inserendum?

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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.

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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. }

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Adverse Interests

Monarchial interest the Tories: Aristocratical, the Whigs.

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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

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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. }

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Adverse Interests

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

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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 –

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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. }

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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 –

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Corruption matter of

Elements of the matter what

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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.

JB_111_272.xml

Title: [1820 Feb. 18 Radicalism not dangerous]

Description: 1820 Feb. 18

Radicalism not dangerous

III. Experience

II. Ireland

Radicalism its origin

Quantity possessed is no power

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As in the breast of every man to whose conception the objects have presented themselves the desire of possessing in an unlimited quantity the aggregate mass of the reputed instruments of felicity has place, so, in every situation, proportioned to the means belonging to him /at his command/ is the quantity actually possessed by him. In Hindostan, according not to speak of so many other countries, the Monarch while there was one was sole proprietor of all the whole quantity of wealth in the immoveable shape in the whole country: of that wealth to the possessor of which as such, belonged, wherever he could find it all wealth in every other shape. At present that Monarch has for his successor the President of the /an imaginary/ Board of Controul whose throne is in Whitehall: the Directors of the East India Company in Leadenhall Street giving their signature to orders, and on each occasion the Whitehall Monarch either adopting them or substituting what others he pleases. Under the Asiatic Monarch the consequence was on the part of the inhabitants a state of such insecurity and misery as admitted not of any thing beyond it: and under the European Monarch, if ever in the midst of his more important occupations /labours/ or /and/ amusements it has occurred to him to bestow a thought on the subject, his endeavours if any , to improve the /ameliorate that/ condition of the people, of those 60 millions of immediately besides 40 millions of indirectly miserables, have hitherto most notoriously and uncontrovertibly and /not to say/ even confessedly been unsuccessful been productive of little if any success.

In England under its matchless constitution, this same state of things had place during the reign of the founder of it, William the Conqueror, this same state of things had place with relation to by far the greatest portion of the whole mass: and for the doing away of all exceptions, such preparation as could be made by the language of power /by language in the mouth/ was made by the judicial and official instruments of that best of Kings and it is with undissembled satisfaction that that same language is repeated from Blackstone by their existing successors.

JB_128_232.xml

Title: [1818 Dec r 9 Parl. Reform Bill]

Description: 1818 Dec r 9

Parl. Reform Bill

Principles

Beginning

§.1 Misrule when[?] necessary

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In default of all other drains, under every Monarchy an /the/ army – the standing

army would of itself /under any Monarchy/ be sufficient to push /swell/ the quantity

of product of regulated extortion up to the very /utmost/ limit of the capacity of

endurance /supply./ to drain /draw/ from the pocket of the people the utmost quantity

of money capable of being extracted /drawn out/ by taxes.

2. An instrument of defence against aggression from without /abroad/ – an instrument

of aggression abroad – an instrument of oppression at home – a toy to play with – in

all these distinguishable characters is an army an object of universal concupiscence.

Of these four uses /purposes/, the first is of course the only one avowed: and if

this were all the quantity coveted might have its limits. But if so it were that for

this purpose it were the whole of it compleatly unnecessary /needless/ no demand for

it at all, the demand of it /need /desire made[?]/ of it/ for the three other

purposes would not be the less intense: and even for the best of them frivolous as it

is /even for the last one /purpose/, were it even the only one/, the desire would be

insatiable. A play-thing such as now[?] but a Monarch can shew is to a Monarch beyond

all price: and the larger /vaster/ the toy, the more matchless, and the more

matchless the more valuable. An army is a doll magnified. What a doll is to a girl in

leading strings an army is to a prince: Sixpence dresses out the small doll /little

baby/: millions of pounds are bestowed every year upon the great one.

[marginal insertion:] Soldiers are already to be seen, in whose coats the cloth is

not to be seen for the gold that covers it: if all were thus covered with gold, those

who are now covered with nothing better than gold would be covered with diamonds.

In treaties, holy or unholy If the only avowed object, self defence, were the only

real one, the stipulations would have for their subject /object, not armament but

disarmament: not the keeping up of troops, but what is somewhat more easy, the

abstinence[?] from keeping them up.