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1821 June 27

'.9. Draughtsman Gratuitous

Set now before the eyes of candidates a mass of factitious reward: put aside for the present the consideration of the particular shapes of which this species of reward is susceptible: assuming only that pecuniary reward /constitutes/, if not the whole constitutes one ingredient in it.

Of the reward naturally attached to the service, the public /people/ at large - the particular individuals indistinguishable, unassignable, are the conferring /adjudicating/ Judges: no offices, no factitious situations no patrons no patronage: no person or persons applying in that quality, designedly or undesignedly to the will and active faculties of the Candidates, the power of corruptive influence, in such sort as /tending/ to produce on the part of the candidates, corrupt obsequiousness: obsequiousness with reference to /as towards/ the particular and thence sinister interests and thence to the wishes rightly or erroneously presumed of these same persons in the character of possessors of the correspondent patronage.

But factitious reward pecuniary reward in a pecuniary shape, factitious reward, to a greater or less amount being held up to view, corruptive influence on the one part, corrupt obsequiousness on the other, comes along with it - comes of necessity - comes of course. It /The boon/ can not be received, but there must be some hand by which it is conferred: here there is patronage: hands of a patron or patrons are the hands by which it is conferred. On the part of the patron on the part of the man of power /on the part of the patron, by means of the dependant/ here is an opportunity of ministering by means of the dependant to whatever may be his separate and sinister interests; on the part of the protege, the dependant protegé inducement - inducement ample - for employing himself in the course of this work, in ministering to that same purpose.