JB_164_246.xml

Title: [1[clxiv. 246] PRIVATE 1820 July 26]

Description: 1[clxiv. 246] PRIVATE

1820 July 26

Emancipation Spanish

Summary?

Corruptive influence Degrees

Quere whether to reverse the order of these degrees?

AA. Corruption - degrees of its efficiency. King Judges etc Self-corrupters.

Corruptive influence has place and effect, wherever and in so far as by means /instruments/ /force/ of the agreable and /or/ profitable class /kind/ /description/ a mans interest /of /he being/ a public functionary/ is, in an effective way in opposition to the universal interest - and thence /thus/ in opposition to his duty.

The value of the instrument of corruption being given It operates with different degrees of force according as for its efficiency it is less dependent on other co-operating causes /forces/, for its efficiency, and less exposed to the opposing action of counter-forces

1. The highest degree of efficiency is where without need of the existence of any individual regarded as desirous of giving to the conduct of the corruptly influenced person /functionary/ the sinister tendency the /direction, the corruptive/ benefit in consequence of an arrangement taken by the law itself drops into /finds its way into/ his pocket as it were of itself in proportion as by the line of conduct he takes on the occasion he sacrifices to that his private interest his own duty and the public interest. Examples

1. The /The situation of/ Judge who reaps a profit proportioned to /rising/ the expence, and thence to /with/ the delay and vexation to which in his judicatory the suitors are subjected

2. The situation of Judge - who, seeing his profit rising /encreasing/ thus with the misery of suitors /litigants/, and with the number of litigations, sees at the same time the number of litigants in his judicature encrease with the distress of the country and thence with the miseries war, and being at the same time a /an influential/ member of the legislative body in which war and peace, derives a mass of emolument rising in proportion to the amount of the misery which he is instrumental /contributory/ to the production of.

JB_164_103.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 103] 1820 June 20 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 103]

1820 June 20

Emancipation Spanish

?. Corruptive influence

3 Persons operating

Note that for the giving to the matter of corruption to the instrument of corruptive influence its full effect, it is not in every case, it scarcely is in any case necessary that by any individual any operation directed to that end should be seen to be performed or should even be actually performed.

Among its properties of this instrument is the being capable of producing its full effect without any need of any hand to work it to make application of it.

It is like those talismanic razors which amongst other rarities were offered to sale to the Califf Vathe: razors which without need of a hand to guide them, performed their function of themselves.

Such is the singular nature of this /the/ political and moral poison which it is the property of this instrument to infuse. It finds its way into the heart of the patient, without the need of any hand to guide /administer/ it.

Of this disastrous property the cause may be seen in the sort of relation which will in the next place come to be brought to view: the sort of relation by means of which it operates. ?

?Gift of living to Parson Hay. Gift of Office to Copley, Warren etc

JB_164_225.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 225] 1820 July 6 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 225]

1820 July 6

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence.

This being admitted If, in the character of an all-embracing principle, this be admitted, note well the consequences.

1 If needless war be a mischief - 2 if exercise of dominion over distant and burthensome dependencies if an exercise of dominion producing net encrease of taxes be a mischief - 3. if hatred well-grounded hatred towards the country in question in the breasts of the subjects and governments of all other nations /countries/ upon earth be a mischief 4. if factitious delay, vexation and expence, having encrease of lawyers profit for its effect and object be a mischief if denial of justice to all the individuals in the community but /with the exception/ a few distinguished by their opulence and thence the systematic oppression of all but those few /nine-tenths of the people of the country/ be a mischief - 5. lastly if the maintenance of a constitution of a form of government having for its effect for its undeniable effect misrule in all these as well as so many other shapes be a mischief, then are the members of the government for the time being - namely in the first place of the executive branch of the government in the next place of the legislative branch guilty of all these mischiefs respectively: then are they - though not in a positive sense, in a negative sense, suborners of all the several misdeeds by which these several mischiefs are produced. Then are they in a moral sense guilty of all these mischiefs by a species of misdeed which bears the same relation to the corresponding positive misdeed as misprision does to treason itself.

[clxiv. 226]

1820 July 6

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Corruption without Corrupter

S. Anglice , Rulers implacable enemies.

In relation to this system of misrule, far however are they from taking /maintaining/ no other than this negative and quiescent part.

Many /Various/ and continually recurring are the occasions on which their utmost activity is employed in the support of a state of things so pernicious to the universal interest so beneficial to the comparatively private and thence sinister interest of themselves their associates in power and confederates.

1. In the first place in the head and front of their offending is the support they give to a political idol of their own manufacture, for whom by a system of the most barefaced /flagrant/ yet hitherto unhappily not sufficiently detected fraud and imposture, they set up in the character of a God upon earth, possessing in a prodigiously preeminent degree all moral worth and in that field superior by a vast height to all men whose station is lower in the scale of power and wealth, knowing /sensible/ as they can not any of them avoid knowing that, by the causes which are so compleatly open to their view, he can not but have been rendered inferior in that scale to the generality of men.

2. In the next place comes the system of coercive measures and arrangements to which they are incessantly and upon every the most trifling and shallow pretence making additions - the measures having for their object the obtaining a remedy against /relief from/ the immense mass carefully imposed and cherished of human suffering or any considerable part of it.

Here enumerate the liberticide measures