1821 July 15.

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Thus it is that these five products or accompaniments of misrule namely waste,

depredation, oppression corruption, and delusion go hand in hand /are ever

/[...?]/ conjoined/ - birds of the same feather - fruits of the same tree.

In so far as /Wherever [...?]/ by possession or expectation of a part /share/ in

the sweets of government, a man is induced to violate /engaged in the violation

of/ duty in any shape, corruption has place and operates: being in this way set

in opposition to his duty, his interest in the limited sense in which the word

is commonly employed operates and prevails against it. By corruption in the

active sense of the word on the one part, corruption in the passive sense of the

word on the other part is produced: by corruptive influence corrupt

obsequiousness. For the production of corrupt obsequiousness to any amount no

act of corruption on the part of any individual is necessary. Among /On/ the

most efficient and artfully delusive devices of the system of corruption is the

penalizing /penalization/ of acts of corruption and the prosecuting of

individuals for such acts

It is by corruption, as distinct from and superadded to force and intimidation

that every limited Monarchy, as contradistinguished from an absolute Monarchy

works: and of every limited Monarchy corruption - not merely corruption but

corruption established by law is an inseparable accompaniment and ever working

instrument. In proportion as it produces its intended and to a greater or less

degree that its sure effect, it is said to work well: and well is it every where

sure to work. Thus to work it continues until, by its working, the Monarchy,

howsoever limited, has been converted into an absolute one. The rate of dispatch

with which this consummation is accomplished, will depend - partly upon the

stock in hand of the matter of corruption, and thence of delusion, at each given

time, partly upon other circumstances: but, sooner or later, revolution and

regeneration apart, the conversion is as certain, death of the limited Monarchy

in this shape is as certain, as, in the case of the individual, death is

certain.