[xxxiv. 81]

1821 Decr 28

Codification Proposal

?.5. Admission Universal

III. Aptitude and Inaptitude

Prejudice

England

In those days the quantity of the matter of wealth continually at the disposal of the Monarch and of itself without need of any endeavours on his part acting as in these hands it does every where /in every country/ in the character of matter of corruption was in comparison of the quantity of that same matter in the same hands so small, that the number of individuals governed by it would not have been sufficient for carrying the sinister sacrifice to the pitch to which it was then carried, would not have been sufficient without the aid of those whose conduct, they not being sharers in the sinister interest, was engaged in that same direction by the correspondent interest©begotten prejudice, as above they not being partakers in the sinister interest. But as matters stand at present so vast has been the accession /addition/ made in the interval to the quantity of the matter of corruption as above, that even without the aid of the corresponding prejudice the sinister interest would suffice for engaging in the sinister sacrifice a number sufficient for the consummation of it.