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1 April 1817

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§ Exclusion of Placemen

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In the financial department, in the arms of which are embraced every other /all

other/ behold waste, corruption and oppression the triad or

the trinity which so ever M r Attorney

General and M r Wilberforce shall please these three misrule the

one in which they are comprehended the object of worship to the Lords of misrule and

their retainers

Of the worship whence the origin? Answer, in the prevalence and predominance and

prevalence of the duty and interest dissevering[?] principle. That under the

Constitution as it stands between the governed and the governors there exists a

diametrical and inalterable opposition of interests has place has been seen in a

preceding notice: consequence the perpetual[?] sacrifice of the universal interest of

the subject many to the particular interest of the ruling few.

In that branch of the sovereignty /supreme power/ which is exercised by the House of

Commons, the Judico-teipsum principle the reigning[?] principle: seats possessed in

the House in such numbers by the dependent creatures of the Crown an application made

of that most corruptive /essentially corruptive/ of all corruptive principles.

Places with their et cæteras multiplied to facilitate the multiplication of wars:

wars multiplied to facilitate the multiplication of places with all their et cæteras.

Piracy established by law: and the Monarch that he may have an interest in the

commencement of unjust wars in the most unjust manner constituted Arch-pirate. For

the sake of the expected plunder did Charles the second commence one of his Dutch

wars.
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    Opposite to the duty-and-interest identifying principle – behold in the character of

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    judicatory of Cardinals to a delinquent[?] Pope The story is in Blackstone