[129a–333]

23 Jan y 1817

Plan Cat

Postscript

Conclusion

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It is but too true the course /track/ in which the government of /in/ this country is engaged /the machine of government/ leads to the abyss of ruin: unless its people interpose to stop it, its arrival there is certain: what we have suffered hitherto, what we are now suffering is but the beginning of source[?]

Such is the effect, and now behold the cause.

In Every community the business of government is a partnership more[?]

In this as in other countries /communities/, the Monarch the managing partner – the Monarch well as every other member has his share in the universal /common/ interest: so far as the course pursued by him is directed and directed with effect to the advancement of such his share so far it is directed to the profit of the partnership

But in this Monarchy as in every other the Monarch has a separate interest of his own: and so far as to the prejudice of and in preference to his share in the partnership: this separate interest is pursued the interest of the partnership, the universal interest of the whole community is sacrificed to it. From the commencement of the Monarch down to the present day to a greater or less extent this sacrifice has constantly been made: and it is by the enormity to which since the commencement of the war made {upon French liberty} upon the dawn of good government in France that the distress /miseries/ of this country has been brought to /to/ its present pitch.

In France {in which the two heads or sources of expenditure are not confounded as here} the distinction may thus be made apparent: personal expence of the sovereign under Bonaparte, 1/ 27 under Lewis the 18 th

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th of the whole sum total of the public expenditure If by cheating the whole partnership together of one pound, it be in the power of the Managing partner to put into his own pocket two pound and without any danger of being obliged to refund it, it may be said to be in this case, in so far as concerns immediate pecuniary interest, his interest so to do so.