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1820. Sept. 3. Superseded

Lett. Relinquishmt entire
§ Mode of riddance relinquishment
No half-riddance
No war against anarchy!

1.
No compromise – No
half measure. No retaining
of willing subjects,
if the unwilling are infranchised.

Shewn, at the outset, that no such willingness could
render the dominion otherwise
than mischievous
to both parties.

In this one point alone,
your interests and theirs
are the same: viz, in being
separate.

2.
True, so far and so long
as the willingness extends,
actual war, with its expence,
is saved. But not
expence of preparation
for war. Sole plea of rulers
to you in this case "We
"have not done to you all
"the mischief we might."

3.
By no alledged probability
of anarchy &c. in Creolia
in consequence of emancipation,
could retention be
justified.

4.
By supposition, they are
desirous to receive, at your
hands, whatever service
you can render them.
Two services let your rulers
along refuse to them
1. Governing them.
2. Giving them money at
your expence.

5.
Remedying anarch, by
power force, would be making
war in favour of one of
several parties, or against
all

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Lett. Relinquishmt entire
§ Mode of riddance relinquishment
No war against anarchy!

6 or 1.
No sending of troops for putting
end to anarchy.
Wanting to the dictionary of
the flash language, do. of law
dialect and do. of diplomatic do.:
language of malefactors in high
places, whose crimes are depredation
and murder – both
on the largest scale – the depredation
for the sake of the
murder: and or the murder for the
sake of the depredation.

7. or 2.
In this dialect, murdering
part of the population, to enslave,
plunder, and oppress
the remainder, is restoring order
and putting an end to anarchy.
To put an end to
anarchy was the first partition
of Poland: just after
the receipt of a Constitution,
not so good as English is and
to be supposed to be, but better than
it is: fear, if any, that of seeing
a government, which, by its
subservience to its only legitimate
end, would put the despotisms
to shame, annoy them
by its press, and make subjects
call to their minds the distinction
between men and cattle.

8. or 3.
Anarchy, professed object of
their fear is, or is not, the real
object of their wishes, according
to the scale and quantity of it.
At home, it is wished for in small
quantity, for a pretence for
destroying any undestroyed
remnant of popular security:
abroad, on the largest:
the pretence, it strengthens;
interference, it facilitates.

9. or 4.
Good government, and the
happiness produced by it,
being anarchy – the better the
government, the more anxious
the desire to put down
the anarchy. Anarchy, if
none this moment, the surer
the next. Had not taxation
found its limit, I ohd. have
been taxed to put down your
anarchy, instead of thus taxing
myself to support it.

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Lett. Relinquishmt entire
§ Mode of riddance relinquishment
No war against anarchy!

10 or 5.
Man is man every where.
That which men do with us
because they dare, they will with
you, if and when they dare
Dare, they will not fail to do
if, and as, your vigilance over
your rulers relaxes. On no pretence
suffer them to do to others
that which, if done to themselves,
would be injury.

11. or 6.
Leave to despots of Russia,
Prussia, Austria, and their
Feeder-General, to assume,
that, only by destroying some,
and robbing the rest, a people
can be served: fancy
not that servitude under
despotism, is the only security
for good order, the only
remedy against anarchy.

12. or 7.
Can nothing be done for a
people but forcing their inclinations?
Think what you
have done for Naples without
expence, effort, or thought: giving
them your Constitution,
a boon beyond all price: on
whomsoever forced, among
you or there, – by you it was
not forced there on any body.

With this before your eyes,
say whether it be true that,
only by being governed, and,
if so long as they resist, destroyed, a people
can be served.

Identifier: | JB/008/088/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1820-09-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5, 6 or 1 - 12 or 7
Box	008	Main Headings	emancipation spanish
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	emancipation spanish
Image	001	Titles	relinquishmt entire / no half measures / no war against anarchy!
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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