1 May 1811

Hints[?] (or Fallacies) (or Necessity of Parl. Reform)

1.II. Arbitrary Patronage

Ch. 4. Uses of Controul

So far as depends upon moral aptitude sole means (in legislature's hands) of

securing good management, and preventing official (or other) transgression,

connecting officer's personal with his public interest: so managing; thrust[?]

the since[?] [...?] of conduct thus conducive to his public shall d\ToT\ to his

personal. Thus alone[?] more adequate motives

Public man to whom probity i.e. sincerity is wanting, or intelligence to

arranagements of the wbove tendency, such to entpolitate[?] preachments

Bad effects of such preachments - 1. Putting end[?], the only true remedy: 2. By

exaggeration raising in the scale of disrepute and infamy the least mischevious

transgressions to a level with the most mischevious - and thus encouraging the

most mischevious where they are the most profitable. 3. Representing them[?],

most and least mischevious together as so odious so justly odious that not the

least danger of falling into any them[?], can be imputed to using person

individually intense[?], nor if the situation be high to any person filling that

situation: thus representing a improbable and thence not worth guarding against

that which in truth is universal, or marly[?] so.