[lxxxiv. 22]

1821 Dec. 6

Codification Proposal

penult¼o

?.5. Draughtsman single

II. Relation between

Monarchs and Aristocrats

interest

In a Monarchy Relation between the interest of the Monarch and the interest of an Aristocracy, the situation of which is subordinate to his.

That of money forced from the people its share may be as large as possible, its interest is that the sources from which or channels through which it is drawn from the people be as numerous and each of them as copious as possible. These are

1. Useful and needful Offices, with masses of emolument as excessive as possible

2. Needless do with do: needless: i.e. of offices in themselves not useless, a number over and above what is sufficient Suppose a hundred Offices occupying each of them no more than the half of a man's time: fifty of them are needless

3. Useless Offices with do, ie actual service /functions/ attached to them but that /these/ service /functions/ useless

4 Sinecure Offices with do. Offices in name only, without any functions attached. Only by impunity and insolence does the Sinecurist differ from the swindler who is punished with ignominious punishment for obtaining money on false pretence.

5. In the case of all Offices, in which /Official functions to the apt discharge of the functions of which/ appropriate aptitude in the articles /respect/ of intellectual aptitude and active talent are necessary, the nature of the case furnishes tests as conclusive as those by which progress in literature /learning/ as taught in Schools and Universities is proved or disproved. His interest is that no such tests be employed: for the effect would be partly to exclude his associates and connections, or to impose upon them the necessity of a quantity of labour, by the burthen of which the value of the official situation will /would/ be diminished.

6. That offices of all sorts may be as abundant as possible, in regard to ”war• his interest is that it be as continual, as extensive and as expensive as possible.

7. For the same reason, in regard to distant dependencies, his interest is that they be as distant extensive, as abundant, and as expensive as possible. His interest is that war may abound were it only that by conquest or cession, distant dependencies may abound. His interest is that distant dependencies may abound, were it only that war may abound: distant dependencies give occasion for war for the defence of the country incidentally against foreign adversaries, and constantly against its inhabitants.

A contract is a sort of temporary office with temporary functions consisting in the furnishing of things or the services of persons to be employed as alledged for the use of the community under the direction of its /the/ rulers.