14 Oct r 1809 +

Parl y Reform

B.II. Influence

Ch.1. Explanations

'.5. Matter of corruption

Causes of efficiency

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'.5. Circumstances on /by/ which the efficiency of a mass of the matter of corruption depends /is encreased or diminished/ - - of an efficient cause of dependence is encreased or diminished

Corruption being one operation productive of consequences of the highest political importance, and then by the supposition of the evil and pernicious cast, it is material it becomes an object worthy of enquiry by /from/ what circumstances the efficiency of any such modification of the matter of corruption is liable to receive encrease or diminution.

In this view the following rules are proposed for consideration.

1. The value /force/ /efficiency/ of any portion of the matter of good and evil employable in the character of a portion of /an efficient cause of/ the matter of corruption /dependence {being given} say a sum of money for example being given, a more efficient and forcible power or force of corruption is constituted by the faculty of taking it away than by the faculty of conferring it. +

This rule applies more particularly to the case of pensions and that of lucrative offices.

{And conversely the dependence in which a man is placed by the expectation of being deprived of any such portion of the matter of good, say a sum of money, or a pension is more efficient and coercive than by the expectation of receiving a sum of money /a pension/ to the same amount, the probability of the result in question being the same in both cases supposed the same; as where both are equally and compleatly in the power of the patron in question in the case in question the King.}

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