1821. April 13. Codification Offer. '.5. Draughtsman single II Hand single

True it is, that neither between the sacrifices respectively made and received,

nor between the advantages obtained, by the several members, as between member

and member, will any approach to exact equality be often made: of the sacrifices

made of the universal interest by the several Members to their respective

particular interest, prejudices, and weaknesses, the quantities will therefore

not be exactly equal: the sacrifice received by this or that member, will be

comparatively large; by this or that other member, comparatively small. Still,

however, if he finds adequate inducements, to be, to a certain degree,

pertinacious - if the trouble of giving the requisite degree of trouble to his

Colleagues be not grudged - some sacrifice, to a greater or less amount,

(supposing the number of the members not considerably greater than the number of

those who are usually found actg in such Boards, Commissions, Committees, or

Juntas) will to his own use and contentment, be received by each of them. But,

as above, the subject of this sacrifice will always be the universal interest:

that interest, in which every one of them has indeed a share, but such a share

as, in comparison of that particular and sinister interest, which, in virtue of

the commanding situation he possesses, is but as dust in the balance.

One of them - the most influential among them - will frame or procure to be

framed a draught conformable to his views, interests, and prejudices; the others

will, respectively, get into it as much of theirs as may be. Thus will the

aptitude of the work, in each part, be impaired: thus will also the whole

together, in respect of consistency as will be seen below.