1818 Aug. 26.

Things as they are or First lines &c.

§.4. Instruments in Mixt Monarchy - Corruption

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The burthen, corresponding to the quantity of corruptive money without appendages /et cæteras/ as above, which is exacted for this purpose is a burthen which in this impure Monarchy is so much added to the list of those burthens which are as above common to this impure and those pure Monarchies. True this, and undeniable. But though this is literally true, yet not so would be the inference if it were inferred that supposing this burthen removed the people would from such[?] removal derive any ultimate relief. If the standing army remained without encrease, yes. But the standing army would not remain without encrease. In these islands as on the continent, under the new impure /this/ Monarchy as under the existing pure ones, it would receive encrease to a degree correspondent to the utmost capacity of endurance on the part of the people. What the machine called a doll is to a child, the machine called a soldier is to a Monarch: when it is not employed in cutting throats /as an instrument of murder/, it is /serves him for/ a plaything, taken one by one, he amuses himself with dressing them /they are dressed and undressed/: put together, they form a machine indefinitely large and complex, by which figures upon /after/ /ever variable/ figures are described, and explosions, louder and louder explosions […?].