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and what contributes to fix it is © that how bad soever as compared with a /the only/ government which has ever had for its actual end in view /object of endeavour/ the greatest happiness of the greatest number namely that of the Anglo American United States, it has been owing to its continual comparative weakness, eminently and incontestably good in comparison of every other government that has ever been in existence: and thus has not only been less bad than any other but by that appetite for distant dependencies which has been a main spring /source/ of that waste and corruption in which it has found its profit has under favourable circumstances this bad government given birth to that only good one.

At this time the quantity of aliment thus converted as above into poison seems to have reached its maximum, and to be even threatened with a decline. But in conjunction with the momentary sinister interest of the ruling few, the ultimate interest of the subject many seems rather to require that it should not decline: but that the endeavours to give encrease to it should continue on the encrease: that to that purpose the correspondent endeavour to give encrease to the force of government should continue on the encrease, until by the strain the whole fabric should burst and fall to pieces, in which case the only good one now so extensively understood would take its place of course

A little more, and no more victims will be thrown into jail because all jails will be filled: no prosecutions before Juries will be instituted because no Juries will convict for any thing /offence against Government/. The readiness of those by whom the abolition of that instrument of salutary weakness has been threatened the readiness to employ the law in execution of that threat is not to be /can not be/ doubted as little can the readiness of the Judges to give to the law execution and effect to the utmost power.