24 Aug 1801

A I

Polit. Economy

1

Method and Leading features for an Institute of Political Economy considered as

an Art.(a)

Objects or Ends in view - 1 Maximum of wealth 2 maximum of population.

I. Sponte Acta Cases in which and measures or operations by which the end is

promoted by individuals, acting of themselves, and without any special

interference {in this view (i:e in the view of the promotion of that end) on the

part of government}(b)

II. Agenda - Cases in which, and measures by which, that end may be promoted by

the hand of government.

III. Non Agenda - Cases in which, and measures by which, that end will not be

promoted by the hand of government.

II. Population

IV, V, VI. The same heads, {as with reference to wealth}.+

VII Finance. III. Wealth and Population together.

viz. matters of fact forming the subject of the [...?] [...?] Statisticks.

VIII. Noscenda - including Data and Danda. {Matters of fact, requisite to be

known as a ground for Agenda and Non-Agenda.} /reporters commissioned or

uncommissioned Government and [...?] furnish facts: if Adam Smith has in most

instances with a superior degree of success, set himself to trace /point/ out

the connection between those facts./ with a reference to the Agenda and

Non-Agenda with relation to which they may respectively be of use:(c) a

reference necessary to justify the expence, trouble and vexation attending the

collection in each instance.

(a) By Adam Smith, it is considered directly and constantly, only as a Science:

indirectly and occasionally only as an Art.

(b) In this is included the cases (actual and possible) for Preventions and

Patents.

(c) of Noscenda The most constructive indication I know of is that given by

Necker:[?] Ashmore[?] - Rex[?] Fin. Town[?] but without reference to particular

uses, as determined by particular Agenda or Non-Agenda. The most instructive

body of Data the world has yet seen is that furnished during Mr Pitt's

Administration principally by the House of Commons Committee of Finance of which

the pretended reimpression is but a mutilated extract.

+ Here, The Budget of Sponte Acta contains not much, but every thing: that of Non

Agenda every thing that the budget of Sponte acta contains. }