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[129b-391] 25 Jan y 1817 Introd
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Ask what in this supposed aggregate mass of benefit there is that is imaginary the answer that may be but too truly given is that with the exception of the above mentioned securities of detail of which not a single one can be made the preservation of which is not unless in case of a change altogether precarious every security that can be imagined to exist against the constant /continual/ sacrifice of the universal interest of the whole people to the separate and mutually more or less intimately /wholly/ associated interests of the monarchy and the aristocracy: that the interest principally espoused by the tories is that of the monarchy: that the interest principally espoused by the whigs is that of the aristocracy. But that in one thing the tories considered as a party and the whigs considered as a party have always, and not only without concert but without need of concert, and even under the semblance of opposition been constantly agreed: and that is that in considering the aggregate mass of the property of the people, out of which for the joint benefit of the monarchy and the aristocracy with their respective instruments retainers annuities and dependencies, fortunes to the utmost extent practicable may without just reproach and accordingly without disguise endeavoured to be made. In the case of Edmund Burke who being at the time in question the efficient member of the aristocratical party the Whigs may be considered as the mouthpiece of the Whigs that that principle was not only avowed without disguise but deliberately and with all the force that could be applied to the subject by the most splendid talent, deliberately and in print contended for has /this is what has/ been shewn in that Defence of Economy which is already before the public.
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  • 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 – }

    { 6

    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

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    II. Nature of the proposed remedy.

    III. Objection to the remedy.

    1. Anarchy. 2. Democracy.

    §.1. English Advantages existing and nonexisting

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    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

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  • Title: [[129b-392] 25 Jan y 1817 Plan]
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    In the case /instance/ that by the present M r Rose who at the time in question being Secretary of the Treasury and the chief confidential assistant of the late M r Pitt may to this purpose be considered as the mouthpiece of the Tories, the same principles have with equal frankness, in many parts, for from such quarters and in such a case amidst the constant[?]the tumult of office perfect consistency would be too much to expect been avowed[?] the like proposition will in the next number of that miscellany /in the beginning of April next/ be under equally apparent from the Right Honourable Gentlemans own words.

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    Omitt in praesente?

    But /Meantime/ whatsoever in the breast of a real friend of the people may be opinion /sentiments/ entertained respecting the quantum of public spirit having place in the breasts of the political party in question – in what degree so ever /in that opinion/ it may happen to that quantum to present itself as minute and unfit to be depended upon presenting no assured basis of dependence, by no such estimate should he ever be prevented from the endeavour to turn to the account of the universal interest whatsoever dispositions afford in that quarter a /any sort of/ promise of leading to measures such as shall on any occasion be conducive to that effect to the advancement of that sacred interest. The only essential object is – that good be done: for all places and all times and all occasions suppose the quantity of good done to be a given quantity by what means through what motives good bad or indifferent it were done would be a matter of indifference.

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