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1822 March 17.
Rid Yourselves

Next as to that part branch of the evil which hangs over the
Constitution. How, even independently of the poison infused into the
by this dominion – have parts of that how that portion is those parts which in your Constitutional system
which operate in favour of the greatest happiness of the
greatest number should them in any considerable degree that be at the long run productive of that effect, unless their
particular and thence sinister interest of the ruling few are assimilated to it, is (I must confess) more than
I can apprehend comprehend. Be that as it may, whatsoever the
danger this is, which would threaten neither part of the facts the other
in that part of the field of law would hang over you, even were the other
hemisphere no longer in existence, can not but receive
from that source of unexcludible corruption a
boundless encrease, an encrease having no other limits,
than that those of the which of that risk compound of official power, and official
, will the additions of and
factitious dignity, the whole of which, to the profit of your entire on the peninsula, that other world shall remain the remain the looked for source.

: those In particular, I see it would vitiating
your Constitution in four five principal ways:

1. By adding, to the
number of your Agents in the Cortes, others with interests opposite
to yours, and never removable by you:

2. By making, in a great
variety of ways, addition to that mass of the matter of corruptive
influence, which, of itself, and without need of special acts of corruption,
would, at the long run, suffice to secure, on the part of your immediately
deputed Agents, as well as the members of the Executive Government,
the constant sacrifice of your interest to theirs.

by 3. By doubling
the time, during which these your Agents continue unremovable,
in how mischievous a degree soever violators of their trust:

4. by adding to the demand for the time of the Cortes: a time already
insufficient for its proper and indispensable duties: thereby involving keeping
plunging the whole business into entangled plunged into a labyrinth of confusion, into the depth windings of which
no foreseeing eye would be able to penetrate. having an

5. by planting in
those unseen regions,
with or without original
design, a
deputation, by
the hands of an assortment
of Elios, a necessary
despotism, the
reimportation of which
into your Peninsula
would of all your imports
from thence be
the most assured.

Identifier: | JB/008/121/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1822-03-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public		ID Number	3225
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