JB_164_157.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 157] 1820 June 18 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 157]

1820 June 18

Emancipation Spanish

?. Corruptive [...?...?]

He who in ordinary times saves himself from payment to any of the taxes imposed on the consumption of goods imported, injures the fair trader in these articles - the trader who if he pays the tax while others /his competitors/ evade the paying of it, can derive no profit nor any thing better than loss from his trade. He who in ordinary times thus saves himself from the burthens to which he ought to subject himself, does in so far /both respects/ an immoral act, produces mischief in both shapes in both ways /forms/ does an immoral act violates the obligations of morality. He who in times of corruption and misrule carried to such a pitch as just described thus saves himself from expence still injures the fair trader, and in that respect and to that amount does mischief. But were he not /in so far as he omitts/ thus save himself he would by the amount of his payments contribute to the depredation, to the murder committed upon the largest scale, to the force of the system of corruption and despotism by which the maximum of those enormities is created and preserved: he thus renders himself the author of mischief, and of mischief to a still greater amount than that which in the opposite case is the result of the injury to the fair trader. In this case if it be the duty to prevent as far as may be the greater mischief duty concurrs with self-regarding interest in recommending to him that what in the ordinary state of things would in a /the/ moral as well as a /in the/ legal sense be a crime.

JB_164_110.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 110] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 110]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Mode of operation

King sole suborner as to prize money by droits If without the /these/ special fruits of piracy the war with Spain had been begun, the proof of subornation would not have been so clear.

By droits law not only foreigners were despoiled but his own seamen were defrauded of their rights

Among the profits to an alledged suborner from the /a/ mischief to which by an act of his - by the exercise of /given to/ a power belonging to his situation he has given /been giving/ birth, suppose in ever such great number and variety other effects, good and /as well as/ bad, to have been resulting /flowing/ from the same measure still if there be a single profit /fruit/ that he puts /sweeps/ into his pocket /purse/ though it be no more than a single one to /from/ which no profit can be shewn to accrue to any interest other than his own personal or other individual interest - the act by which in giving exercise to such his power, and thereby to the profit in question a place in his purse, may be, and can not consistently with reason and justice be denied to be, an act of subornation, the act by which he has given birth to all those bad effects, a misdeed - a transgression in the moral sense, howsoever it may be in the legal sense - if destruction of human life be among the consequences /those effects/, an act of murder, and the suborner here in question, how so ever it be in regard to other persons whose acts were contributory to those same effects, a murderer: if destruction to human life by and in the way of war, a murderer upon the largest scale: and to /into/ the list of accessories to the murder and thence of murderers, of suborners of murder for the sake and purpose of the sinister profit thus derived from it, and of the exercisers of corruptive influence one upon another, and /or/ persons yielding to the force of such corruptive influence may with indisputable propriety appertain /be aggregated/ their names and not only of the functionary into whose purse the profits of murder are thus swept /put/ /lodged/ /gathered/ by means of the war, but of all others who, with their eyes open are by their conduct active or passive contributory to the continuance of the state of things in which this destruction and impoverishment to the many with the profits to the few has its rise.

JB_164_109.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 109] 1820 June 24 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 109]

1820 June 24

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive in fluence

5 Mode of operation

Making War, in so far as not necessary for defence of the community against enemies /adversaries/ foreign or domestic, in particular to make war for conquest or for honour and glory, or for continuing dominion over the unwilling inhabitants of distant regions is to committ, in the moral sense of the English word murder, murder upon the largest scale: upon a scale proportioned to the extent of the hostilities.

In England, if in any instance any such war has been made, any such murder committed, an assemblage of men to whom the appellation of suborners of murder and in that sense /way/ murderers belongs /may be seen to belong/ by an indisputable title, are the Monarch, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, composing all together the King in Parliament, the sovereign body of the State the body in which the whole of the paramount power of government is lodged.

They are so as well in the active way as in the passive way - committers of the positive misdeed as well as of the correspondent negative misdeed on the supposition that profit in the shape of conquest, or prize money. Taken together they in that case on that supposition compose have composed a body of suborners, of corruptors of self-corruptors - the matter of corruption being in that case composed of the prize money together with the power in the shape of dominion the prime and preeminent fruit of conquest.