[129a–335]

Jan 1817

Plan Cat

Postscript

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Hence the need of distant dependencies and wars: the more of these drains, the greater the numbers and the profit of these places: the greater the number and the profit of these places they greater the facility of adding to the numbers and efficiency /exhaustiveness/ of these drains. Hence in the arithmetic of state policy the contacting[?] repetised[?] and circulate: places beget wars wars beget places: to places succeed wars and to wars places, the foreign dependencies without a single exception universal[?] known to be productive of not less, and yet acquired and retained on the pretence of profit

Hence to put a few hundred thousands into his pocket purse the Monarch is by himself invited, and by his purchased accomplice suffered to turn pirate. Hence we have Admiralty Court Judges and Admiralty Court Clerks who to put thousands of pounds into their own by taking millions out of the pocket of […?] men in this and other countries. Hence under the name of Auditors and Pelles of the Exchequer we have a set of men whose profit has kept a still more exact proportion with the public expenditure this taxing with the public money. Hence we have a man whose profits in the situation of Chancellor and as such Judge in matters of Bankruptcy rise in proportion to the distress which by the dispatch he can contrive to give to waste[?] in his character of leading member of one of the branches of the sovereignty he can contrive to give to waste[?] Hence we have a man who in the situation of Chief Justice by giving encrease to factitious delay, vexation and expence in judicial procedure and with it to denial of justice, can continue to put into his pocket in the shape of fees a mass of emolument which in the shape of salary shares[?] or fees would keep /prevent/ his confederates from indulging his will.