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3. That While, if by you the people, the
claim would, , with reference to your own interest,
the claim, unsuccessful although to the utmost it were successful, would be be impolitic and imprudent as above, – considered with
reference to the interest of Ultramarians – of those over on and against whom
the dominion is , it would the claim is made I behold it in a still higher degree be
mischievous, and therefore on your part as towards them injurious.
But, in proportion as towards them it would on
your part be thus injurious, towards yourselves it would on this
additional score be impolitic and imprudent: for, as it is the
never failing effect, tendency, and too often the in too great a degree then of injury, to produce to the utmost of men's
power not only resistance merely self-defence but retaliation also, and to an excessive amount, hence it is that, in
proportion as to them it would be injurious, to yourselves it
would be mischievous. could not fail to be, on this additional account; mischievous.

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6. Anecdot Seated aloft o all this mass of national burthen and national misery, in the ruling few I behold That the persons and the only persons, who,
this allmost universal mischief Beholding this immense mass of misery of their own creation, I behold
in the ruling few the men and the only men who extract from out
would stand any chance of
deriving any personal of it any from doing real benefit, – any benefit to themselves – another ruling few.
On the one hand, I see stand stand⊞ ⊞ foremost the seven Ministers
of the seven departments:
behind them
that impregnable state
fortress – that forty-fold
shield and screen –
interposed between them
Cortes and them, to and the Representatives of
the people, to ease them of all responsibility,
itself the irresponsible religious depository
receptacle of that immense mass
of the matter of corruptive
influence, composed of the patronage
of the whole of Ecclesiastical
and the whole of the Judicial Establishment
patronage and influence
actually operative in one
hemisphere holding in within group
all the offices, the seal of which is in the Peninsulas cried grasping for the with the still fondly
bounti cherished pretence of the boundless addition looked for from Ultramaria.

In the first place, the Ministers and the
Executive be and not of the Government the

On the next place, other hand, I behold, now and at all times, your immediately deputed
Agents in the Cortes, whoever they may be, the functionaries belonging to the Executive
functionaries by means of the money and the power (not to department, I see making their profit of the claim to the extent of your ability to supply
speak supply the means, in the shape of the money and the power (not to speak of factitious dignity) which the pursuit of the claim, with
it, with or without success, must unavoidably keep pouring into their
hands; Your Agents in the legislative department by means & in drawing
of their profit out of that same source, source through the by the shares, which in these sweets of government, I see it would
sooner or later; as surely be in their inclination as it is already in their power to receive,
in consideration of, and in return for, the part borne by
them in the same sinister sacrifice: the provisions made against
such corruption, in and by the tenor of you Constitutional Code being in effect, whatsoever they may have been in intention,
palpably sufficient much worse than useless: operating as I have already had occasion to declare(a) (a) Note (a) See Letters to Count Toreno - Letter not as a bars be against such corruption, but rather as a cloaks to it.

Identifier: | JB/008/122/002 "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	122a "a" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	3226
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