1822 Feb. 20

In Codification Offer Not employed

Here if the space capable of being allotted to the present proposal

permitted - here would be the place for the development of that same sinister

interest by /in/ which the need of this same bridle is produced: of that sinister

interest, and of the urgency of the demand, which in the nature of the case has

place, for the strongest check, which in the nature of things can be applied by this

and all other possible bridles put together.

On this occasion aggregates of various sorts would require to be

analysed and displayed

1. The evil, in all its shapes, which by the genial power of sinister

interest placed in the all-commanding situation in question is liable to be produced:

liable, and, but for appropriate and adequate preventatives, sure to be produced. To

the possible aggregate amount of this evil there are in the present case, no limits

other than those of the entire field of legislation: a field little less extensive

than that of the whole field of human action In it are included all the several

masses of evil capable of being produced by particular laws in any number and extent.

2. The several situations in which political power has place,

together with the several shapes in which in these several situations sinister

interest operates: the several modifications of which the Monarchical interest is

susceptible: the several sections of which the Aristocratical interest is composed:

The Monarchical interest in all its modifications is it not a sinister interest? The

Aristocratical in all its sections is it not a sinister interest? Of these sections

the interest of the Representatives of the people is one: for though derived from the

democratical interest it is not the less in itself an aristocratical one. The Monarch

by whom the subsistence of a hundred thousand human beings is [...?] devoured, does

he not perpetually covet more so long as there is any thing left to covet? the

Aristocrat whose portion amounts to no more than the subsistence of a thousand such

beings is his appetite much less craving?

3. The two main instruments by which in a mixt government this

sinister interest operates towards the accomplishment of its end: namely the matter

of corruptive influence and the aggregate fund composed of the instruments of

delusive influence of corruptive influence exercised on the delegated representatives

of the people: of delusive influence exercised on all the members of the community

without exception: representatives, constituents, people at large: corruptive

influence operating on the will, delusive on the intellectual faculty.

4. The main pipes through which the matter of corruptive influence is

drawn, and the channels through which it is conveyed

5. The course taken by sinister interest in its progress towards the

consummation of the sinister sacrifice the devices which,

during such its progress it may be seen every where employing.