1818 Novr. 24

Official Economy.

Ch. Expence minimized

Patriotic Auction.

? Objection - Poor excluded.

1. If by the exclusion thus unavoidably howsoever unintentionally put upon Competitors

whose pecuniry means fall below the proposed Mark, the probability of adequate aptitude

in the shape either of appropriate intellectual aptitude or in that of appropriate

active talent were excluded /to a certain degree diminished/, here indeed would be an

objection the force of which would require to be weighed. But by the supposition no such

diminution has place. For by the supposition pecuniary trustworthiness in the character

of a security of appropriate probity is of the three branches of appropriate probity the

only one for the securing of which any particular provision requires to be made: of the

two other branches respectively no greater measure is required than such as with an

equally well-grounded confidence /assurance/ may be looked for in the one rank in the

scale of affluence as in the other:- in the rank whose station is below the rank in

question as in the rank whose station is above it.