1 Jan y 1810

Parl y Reform

+ '.2.

Ch.13. V. Bribe unliquidated.

'.2. Mischief to Bribe taker mind

'.2. Corrupted mind

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Diffusion of scandal their state of mind, see[?]

'.2. Mischief to the mind of the individual corrupted.

Of any considerable mischief of this description the non-entity may already to some eyes appear sufficiently established. But let us endeavour to make sure.

When the shape in which the matter of corruption is applied is pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary consisting of money or money's worth and the amount of it liquidated. Money, as a sum of ,50 or money's worth, as a suit of cloathes, (a) in any such case the matter of corruption so administered receiving in common language the appellation of a bribe, and for a traffic of any kind to receive a bribe is universally understood to be an immoral act: the mind of the agent being therefore in this case conscious of his having committed an immoral act is by such evil consciousness " tainted and contaminated". But even in that case we have seen how slight the taint is, and how easily worked out by approved detersives with which the dispensatory is well provided.

But when /if/, at law the shape in which the matter of corruption is applied in any one of those refined shapes in which in common conception it is not understood to come under the denomination of a bribe, as when of the endeavour to produce the parliamentary result, mischievous or not mischievous, the object or expectation is to serve a friend with or without the expectation of being on some similar occasion served by him in the same way, in this case there being no such evil conscience no "dry or sordid matter" to gall and afflict the conscience[?], there is no such " taint or contamination".

(a) Note about the American Judges bribe in another page. [...?] any such given to a Senator or Representative?