1821 May 19 Codification Offer '.4/5/. Draughtsman single

To all instruments of despotism - to all corruptionists - to all whose endeavour

or desire it is to sacrifice or see sacrificed to this or that particular

interest or classes of interests, the greatest happiness of the greatest number

- in a word to evil-doers and evil-wishers of all classes, this system of

concealment, and thence of equalisation, by which ill desert and good desert are

by one and the same curtain kept out of sight, is in the highest degree, and on

a double account, convenient: for, while the authors of evil are themselves are

concealed from the eye of public opinion, they are at the same time secured

against all apprehension of any such unfavourable contrast, which would be

presented to public view, by the spectacle of any such merits as might otherwise

be manifested by the well-disposed or less badly disposed among their

colleagues: by the well-disposed, supposing always the system such as to afford

admittance to any individuals to whom an epithet of so favourable character

could with propriety be applied.