JB_111_076.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1816] Things as they are]

Description: nd [wm 1816]

Things as they are

§.5. Matter of Corruption

2

Note the case of fees in contradistinction to salaries: how they become public money.

Of the matter of good considered as applicable in the shape of matter of corruption by the hands of the Monarch to the breasts of the representatives of the people the following are the shapes which for the present purpose it may be of use to distinguish.

1. Money worthily /properly and without excess/ employed in consideration of services really useful: producing to the public a net mass of advantage over and above the expences of the purchase. This money will operate as matter of corruption, if and in so far as it tends to the production of services which whether beneficial or no to the interest of the Monarch and his subordinates […?] the ruling few are prejudicial to the universal interest: to the interest of the whole people.

2. Money employed in excess in the purchase of the like services: money employed in the character of overpay attached to overpaid places. Overpay has place alike whether the pay is twice as much as ought to be paid for the whole time, or the pay being sufficient for the whole time, no more than half the time is exacted.

3. Money employed in the purchase of service rendered in virtue of useless places /offices/.

4. Money employed in the purchase of services rendered in virtue of needless places. Needless places that are not useless i.e. useless in themselves, in respect of the nature of the service are useless in respect of the number: useless by being superfluous.

5. Money pretended to be employed in the purchase of service, when no service at all, useful or useless is needed: Many attached to sinecure offices /places/.

Note

For the nature and number of {Sinecure} /overpaid useless, needless and sinecure/ places of which the Church Establishment in England and Ireland is composed, see Church of Englandism examined.

JB_162_098.xml

Title: [1820 April Emancipation Spanish]

Description: 1820 April

Emancipation Spanish

1 Creoles obsequious

Rulers sinister interest

Accordingly in every inept government it ever has been and ever will be among the chief objects of the ruling few /rulers/ to put into their hands as many of these desirable and desired objects /to as great a value as possible/ as possible, and to go on applying them to that corruptive purpose: and to go on giving encrease to the /quantity/ of the matter of corruption in their hands so long as on the part of the subject many the habit of [...?] and the power of endurance continues

Under the British Constitution how fully this observation is verified no man need be told: and under every mixt Constitution under which either Monarchy or Aristocracy or a mixture of both has place, that so long as man is man in all times and in all places has been and will be the case.

Thus under the first French Constitution established under the first National Assembly, ready as they were to put their Monarch to death with or without cause, they were not the less ready to furnish him with an immense mass of pay under the name of Civil list, with an immense mass of patronage of pay attached to subordinate offices to which he was to nominate: that thus in the shape of pay attached to useless offices needless offices and overpaid officers money to the utmost amount possible might continually be forced out of the pockets of the people.

Thus it was under the first French Constitution - thus it was under every other French Constitution thus it is now under the Charter - thus it will be under every Constitution in which a mixture either of Monarchy or Aristocracy has place

JB_160_028.xml

Title: [1819 June 9 Official /National/ /Financial]

Description: 1819 June 9

Official /National/ /Financial/ Economy - Principles of - Rudiments

Title Principles of Official Economy, as applied to Public

Expenditure.

I. Expences not capable of being struck off with advantage

1. Interest of Debt

2. Official Establishment the necessary part of it - Civil - Military

- Maritime

II. Expences capable of being struck off with advantage

1. Emoluments /Pay/ of Sinecure offices

2 Emoluments /Pay/ of useless offices

3 Emoluments /Pay/ of needless Offices

4. Overpay of such as are neither useless nor needless.

5. Pensions of retreat - except those actually granted

6. Bounties for encouragement of literature, Arts and Sciences.

7. Pensions for meritorious services

8. Pensions for support of dignity.

9. Extra pay for buying men off from professional to official service

1. How to judge of the propriety of any article of expenditure:

compare the advantage from it with the mischief of an equal amount of the produce of

the most mischievous tax.

2. How to strike off the overpay of overpaid offices, consistently

with the preservation and encrease of appropriate aptitude.

1. Sale of the Office on Government account.

2. For pecuniary aptitude, Bondsmen.

3. For intellectual aptitude and active talent, examination.

Radical incapacity of men of opulence for apt judgment on the subject

of national /financial/ /official/ economy

Foreign Dependencies - their mischievous effects

I Waste

1. Expence of defraying the official establishment for their

government and defence

2. The whole of the matter of waste operating as matter of corruption

to the deterioration of the government in the governing country

3. Mischief of misrule in each dependency for want of appropriate

interest, /probity,/ information /intellectual aptitude/ and time on the part of the

rulers

4. Mischief to the whole system composed of the governing country and

all its dependencies put together, for want of adquate appropriate information and

time.

5. Danger of war with each dependency in case of discontent

6. Danger of war with foreign independent Sates, by reason of rivalry

and jealousy

N.B. Under the continual danger of needless war, reform out of the question the best

course is to try to pinch the sinking fund as far as possible. Impotence the only

security for peace. The weaker the government the better.