[lxxxiv. 173]

1822 Feb. 14

Codification Offer.

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V.

2

No sooner is any such mixt system in existence, than the influence of the people and with it the welfare /influence/ of the people is diminished at both ends

The representatives of the people can not by their own single power extract for their own use any of the /those/ instruments of felicity at the expence of the people. But either for their own use or what comes to the same thing for the use of their connections, with the concurrence of the Monarch they through the medium of one or other of the several possessions above mentioned can extract them in any quantity.

Money in particular they can thus obtain in any or all of the four several forms: necessary emolument attached in necessary quantity to Offices and Commissions useful and at the same time needful: money attached to these same possessions in a quantity neither needful nor useful: money /pecuniary emolument/ attached to Offices and Commissions which though not useless in their natures are in respect of their number needless: money attached to Offices which though not without functions annexed are altogether useless: money attached to Offices without functions called in English /England/ where they are so abundant ”Sinecures•.

At the disposal of the Monarch, to a vast amount on the whole are in the least expensive Monarchy, good gifts /things/ in all these several forms. But to place in the hands of any such irremovable and irresponsible functionary in any considerable quantity while the Members of the body of the Representatives of the people whose concurrence is necessary to every law and every considerable measure /exercise/ of the functions of the Executive department are in a condition by their own hands or other hands which are virtually their own to receive them or to establish a fund of corruptive influence /for the corruption of those same Agents and Trustees of the subject many/.