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[clxiv. 102]
1820 June 20
Emancipation Spanish
?. Corruptive influence
3. Persons operating
3. Class of persons operating: operating to the effect of exercising corruptive influence, and thereby producing breach of trust.
On the subject of this topic more or less has already of necessity been already said.
Be the trustees who they may, be the power in respect of which they are in trust what it may, be the breach itself what it may, in the endeavour to produce the /give birth to this same/ breach of trust all persons who are capable of reaping - or who are capable of regarding themselves as capable of reaping from such breach of trust a benefit in any shape ought to be regarded as disposed to endeavour, and if, from the endeavour, no preponderant evil to themselves is regarded as about /likely/ to have place, as actually endeavouring to give birth to the benefit in question and consequently to the corresponding breach. /whensoever from no preponderant evil to themselves is regarded as likely to be produced by the endeavour./
In England the persons who ought to be considered as constantly occupied in the endeavour to produce on the part of the so stiled representatives of the people a constant habit of violating in every part the trust said to be reposed in them are - 1. all the several individuals with whom they themselves have any special connection in the way of interest or sympathy: their wives, their children, their near relations, their friends, their dependents of all sorts
2. The Monarch
3. All the several functionaries who whether appointed by or removable by the Monarch are subject to his orders /coercion/ or in a way to be operated upon by his alluring and corruptive influence
4. The Members of the House of Lords and their connections, as above
5 The other great landowners partakers in the same sinister and all their several connections, as above
6. All other persons who look to receive immediately or more or less unimmediately and remotely from any of the above any portion of the matter of corruption in any shape.
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Title: [[clxiv. 100] 1820 June 20.]Description: [clxiv. 100] 1820 June 20. Emancipation Spanish ?. Corruptive influence 1. Persons operating 3. Persons operated on Thence /Thus/ it is that to a pure Monarchy, the epithet /attribute/ pure belongs /appertains/ in more senses than one: it is pure, if not from all corruption: from all corruption /corruptive influence/ applied by or on behalf of the Monarch on those who are sharers with him in power, for the purpose or with the effect of engaging them to betray in his favour their trust /any trust of theirs/ Why? because his power has none to share in it.
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Title: [[clxiv. 99] 1820 June 20 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 99] 1820 June 20 Emancipation Spanish ?. Corruptive influence ?.1. Persons operated on 3 Persons operating? 1 or 3 In a mixt Monarchy, as above, the function and use of those of the public functionaries that are trustees of and for the people is - to operate as a check and controul upon the power of the Monarch. In this case it is to the prejudice of the people, and of the people only that any breach of trust on the part of this class of functionaries as such, a breach of trust by whatsoever means - corruptive influence or any other can operate. In a pure Monarchy, the people having no trustees no breach of trust operating to the prejudice, or at any rate operating in an immediate way to the prejudice of the people can have place. By persons other than the Monarch, the functionaries under him - his public Servants the functionaries under him may be, and /and every where will naturally be/ continually corrupted. But it is not by him that they can be corrupted. Not by him on them can any influence which can with propriety be called corruptive be exercised. To engage them to support his interest to the prejudice of all other interests, no need can he ever have to apply to their breasts the matter of corruption - the instrument of corruptive influence. Whatsoever it is in their power to do in support of such his interest he has it in his power to engage them to do by means of an instrument much more efficient, namely coercive force. The matter of corruption /the instrument of corruptive influence/ leaves acceptance at the option of the party /individual/ to whom it is offered: and by that option its efficiency is narrowed and rendered precarious: coercive force leaves no option leaves nothing wanting to its efficacy. The matter of corruption is a costly matter: the utmost extent to which it can be applied is limited: and the cost of it is a burthen upon the hand /him/ at whose immediate expence it is applied. Of The /Once composed, the/ instrument of coercive force, when once it is composed the application costs nothing: the extent to which it can be applied is unlimited. Manchester Yeomen's sabres. Parson Hays 2,500 a year Living.
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Title: [[clxiv. 107] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]Description: [clxiv. 107] 1820 June 24 Emancipation Spanish ?. Corruptive influence 5 Mode of operation Corruptive influence is not the only instrument by which the only mode in which, as in the case of other misdeeds so in the case of a breach of trust, the commission of the misdeed and the production /birth/ of the evil with which it is pregnant, are /is/ capable of being brought about; Another, still more forcible, and, generally speaking, more efficient, is coercive power. This other mode is here mentioned as a distinct one because it is so in some cases. But /though/ when the mode /instrument/ in which the subornation is committed or endeavoured to be committed consists in nothing more than the withdrawing of profit in some shape in which either in possession or in expectancy it is an object of regard, this is among the modes in which /not only does/ the force applied comes under the appellation of corruptive influence; and it /this/ is even the most powerful and efficient shape in which corruptive influence can operate.
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