[036-173v]

1821. Nov r. 9th.

Codification Offer

Abridgm t.

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

'.1. Gratuitous what

Reward factitious - natural

'.9. The greatest happiness of the greatest number requires, that the original draught in question be, if possible, drawn up gratuitously: in such sort that no factitious reward, established for the purpose, at the public expence, shall be either received or expected for it: but that, under that restriction, the number of rival works be the greatest obtainable.

So far as life and ability continue, one such hand and that (as per Section 8) a foreigner's the people in question may be assured of. But, obviously, by no such assurance, the uncertainties attached to life and faculties considered, could the demand for other hands for this same work, even on the supposition of a general superiority of aptitude on his part, be superseded.

2. Even at present, by the mere circumstance of his being a foreigner, his appropriate aptitude stands precluded from being, in the sense requisite to the occasion, all-comprehensive: even if entire as to the outline, it could not be so as to the filling up: even if entire as to all generals, it could not to a practical purpose, be so, as to all particulars comprehended under them: were it in other respects ever so consummate, something on the score of local circumstances, something, to an amount more or less considerable, could not fail to be wanting to it.

Even upon the supposition most favourable to any such proposal as the present, - here then will come in the demand, at any rate the eventual demand, for other hands:- for other hands, and those native ones.

What remains, is - that they may be as apt as the nature of the case admitts, and among such as are so, that the number of those, whose works the constituted authorities have to choose out of, be correspondently copious. Of this, more particularly further on.

As to gratuitous, what is here meant by the word may perhaps be considered as being already pretty sufficiently explained. By this explanation, one mode of remuneration will, upon consideration, be found not to stand excluded. This is - the prospect of being, in the event of an adequate display of appropriate aptitude, appointed to fill this or that official situation: this or that situation already in existence, and by the pay and power, or at any rate by the power, attached to it, suited to the importance and dignity of the service.

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