[clx. 263]

1822 July 9.

Constitut. Code Rationale

Securities

Factitious honor

Expository matter?

Probabilized by it what

5. That as his interests are in alliance with so his affections sympathize with the interests and affections of that portion of the community whose station is thus elevated: and that in so far as between the higher and the lower orders in consequence of such difference of interests and affections a difference of judgment naturally has place, his judgment will on each occasion, side with theirs, his judgment, and in consequence his conduct: in a word that in his character of member of the Public Opinion Tribunal, it is to the aristocratical Section of that judiciary that he belongs.

But the interest, consequently the affection and judgment of the Monarch as such are hostile /adverse/ to the general interest of the community: so are those of the Aristocracy in all its modifications: not contributory but detrimental to the greatest happiness of the greatest number

In relation to these several matters the evidence thus afforded is not conclusive evidence - it is capable of being rebutted and outweighed by other evidence: but in so far as it operates /has any/, such is the tendency of it: whatsoever be the degree of probability in relation to each point, such is the side on which it is situated.