1822 Decr 16 Tripoli. Securities against Misrule 7o Preliminary Explanation

?.2. Remedy - Publicity Publ. Opin. Tribunal ? Unofficial where inferior its

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Intestine plagues /depredators/ of this class being essential /innate/

accompaniments /inmates/ of the constitution of every political community. They

exist, nor can they ever cease to exist in a representative democracy even

though constituted in the purest form possible: in that form they may be kept

under in such sort as not to [...?] to be productive of any considerable

mischief: but they can not consistently with the security of the whole ever be

altogether extirpated. Thus stands the matter in the only sort of government

which has for its object the greatest happiness of the greatest number: for as

to all others they have for their object the greatest happiness of the smaller

number, at the expence of that of the greater.

In a Monarchy at the head of the essentially /highest/ predatory class is

stationed the arch-depredator - the Monarch: a creature /parasite/ in whose

devouring and consuming maw /one maw/ for the small chance of giving encrease to

the felicity of that one being the sustenance of thousands and ten thousands of

others whose claims are as good as his is consumed

The analogy between this original /innate/ disease of the body politic and one

of the diseases which in the body natural though frequent is but casual can not

have escaped the observing eye: in the class of malefactors so called and

treated as such may be seen the ascarides /[...?]/ by which the lowest parts of

the intestinal canal are occupied and infested: in the higher parts in the

aristocrats may be seen the teretes, the smooth and polished sort as the name

imports: in the Monarch, the solitary worm in French le ver solitaire, no

constitution being equal to the endurance of more than one, the extraction of

which is at once so difficult, so perilous, and yet so necessary. An emblem is

not a proof; accordingly neither is it here meant for such. But if furnished by

the nature of the case and happily chosen, it will contribute clearness and

strength to the conception, and for this purpose alone is it here /on this

occasion/ brought to view.