1822 May 9

Const. or Economy

. Third subject of expence - respect extracted by factitious dignity.

 Of the so-called Titles of honour and symbols of the like honor.

Efficient causes or evidences of factitious dignity.

Analogous to Offices Honors /Titles/ are efficient causes or sources

of factitious dignity. Analogous to endowed sinecures are efficient causes or sources

of factitious dignity. See now in what they agree, see in what they vary.

In the case of a Sinecure office the money attached to it is money

obtained on false pretences: in one word money obtained by swindling. In one

particular From the common /ordinary/ case of swindling this extraordinary case

differs: swindlers in the ordinary case /and punishable case/ one only, in this

extraordinary case /and unpunishable case/ two First swindler occupying the place

/acting the part/ of the thief, the particular trustee of the people the patron:

Second swindler acting the part of the receiver, the individual patronized

In the case of a Sinecure Office the good obtained is in the shape

/line/ of money: in the case of the so-called title of honour respect: respect the

source of services: of human service in all imaginable shapes but in no instance

liquidated various nameless and uncertain to such a degree as to baffle all

calculation: unsusceptible of calculation and therefore in proportion to such that

incapacity, estimated at so much the higher rate.